This is the worst campaign ad I’ve ever seen
America was an idea. We've never lived up to it but we've never walked away from it before.https://t.co/VRCnKI0rfQ pic.twitter.com/xLuhhGyJVp
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 22, 2020
Who the fuck thought this was a good ad?
This is clearly aimed at the the radical Left’s “America was never great” retort to Trump’s “make America great again.
Are the Democrats so far in the radical Left bubble that they think this is a winning message for Middle America?
Is Biden such a puppet from being so far gone mentality that he didn’t realize what he was saying?
This is a deeply offensive utter garbage ad. I really hope people see it and vomit into their mouths at the idea of President Biden who really dislikes America.
Pandemic Flu Public Service Announcement.
The missus and I are watching Counterpart again in Amazon. Yesterday’s episode contained a PSA that was eerily too close to reality.
If you have not seen it, it is worth the watch just to see J.K. Simmons doing a magnificent dual role as Howard Silk.
And that covers the “Fuel Filter” wink-wink-nudge-nudge legality.
Moran ordered “fuel filters” from an advertisement on Instagram. When the package arrived from China, it had two items that looked more like silencers to him than fuel filters.
Moran went to a friend at NAPA Auto Parts who explained to him that these items were not actually fuel filters, that he knew others who had mistakenly ordered them, and that he should get rid of them.”
and…
However, despite cancelling the order and and telling the postal service that he wanted to refuse delivery of any future packages, 10 days later another parcel showed up at his home. According to Nappen, Moran “immediately put the box in his car” and drove back to the local police station with the intention of handing the contents of the box over to police. Before he could enter the building, however, Moran was stopped by federal and state agents who arrested him.
Can we finally put to rest this “Fuel Filters are legal” BS? Till legislation is changed, you are setting yourself for something like this.
San Francisco City Counsel assumes you are racist for calling the police
From CNN:
It may soon be illegal to make discriminatory, racially biased 911 calls in San Francisco.
The “CAREN Act” (Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies) was introduced in July at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting by Supervisor Shamann Walton.
The ordinance is one step closer to becoming a law. On Tuesday, the board unanimously passed the act on first read. Next week, the bill has to be voted on again by the board, and then it will be sent to Mayor London Breed to sign.
The ordinance’s name is a twist on “Karen,” the name social media gives people making racially biased 911 calls.
“Using 911 as a tool for your prejudice towards marginalized communities is unjust and wrong!” Bonta tweeted.
Racially motivated 911 calls aren’t a new occurrence across the country, in spite of a recent uptick following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in police custody in Minneapolis.
Earlier this summer, a White hotel employee in North Carolina called the police on a guest, a Black woman and her children, who were using the hotel’s swimming pool. And in May, a White woman called 911 on a Black man who was birdwatching in New York’s Central Park.
Except I covered that last incident. Both parties in that incident were in the wrong. The black male victim admitted on social media that he baited dogs that were off-leash in the Ramble. The dishonest media only presented one side of that story so what entered the popular conscience is factually insufficient.
The Guardian broke this story with these examples:
San Francisco’s ‘Caren Act’ makes placing racist 911 calls a hate crime
Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about their lives, San Francisco leaders unanimously approved hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller.
The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, also known as the Caren legislation. It’s a nod to a popular meme using the name “Karen” to describe an entitled white woman whose actions stem from her privilege, such as using police to target people of color.
The “barbeque Becky” story that entered the popular conscience is also factually insufficient. The incident started because the black family was using a charcoal grill in an area of the park not designated as a charcoal-approved grilling zone during a fire advisory. The situation got out of hand, I’m not going to deny that, but when tens of thousands of acres and dozens of people die in wildfires in California every year, fire zones exist and should be obeyed for a reason.
The New York Daily News covers this story:
San Francisco ‘CAREN’ legislation aims to crack down on racist 911 calls about Black people
The San Francisco Human Rights Commission began work on the legislation in 2018, after the Black owner of a high-end lemonade stand had the cops called on him by people who assumed he was breaking into his own store.
NBC Bay Area has details of this story:
According to SFPD, officers were dispatched to the 800 block of Valencia Street around 7:36 a.m. on July 17 “on a call of a possible burglary in progress at a business.”
“The caller stated that the person was removing items from a small, open door,” SFPD said in a statement.
“Four officers responded to the scene and spoke to the person and determined he was the owner of the business. The entire encounter lasted less than three minutes,” the statement added. “While we have no say over who requests our services, we do have a say over how we respond. The men and women of SFPD are committed to providing safety with respect to all of the people of San Francisco. It is the duty of San Francisco Police to respond to calls for service and we believe our officers responded appropriately and with courtesy to this call.”
The body cam video shows an SFPD officer walking up to Stevenson and asking him, “Do you have something that shows that you own this place? Somebody called us saying that you’re breaking in … We’re just here to figure it out.”
Stevenson, dressed in a big jacket, hands over his ID to the officer, who asks him for the address of the storefront. He responds with the address, and the officer then asks him if he has a California ID, which Stevenson then hands over.
The officer also informs the others, “He has a key.” The officers leave the storefront after this exchange.
Property crime in San Franciso is off the charts, the highest in the state of California. If you park your car on a street in San Francisco, you can almost guarantee that a window will be smashed and the items inside stolen.
Some people call the police because they see someone they do not recognize removing items from a storefront before normal business hours. The incident lasts three minutes and nobody was hurt. Clearly, it’s racism and not people concerned about property crime in their city.
This reminds me of another story that I covered a little while ago.
A woman doesn’t know that her neighbors listed their home on AirBNB. She sees three strangers removing luggage from the house, after midnight, and calls the cops to report a suspected burglary.
Three strangers. Removing large items from the house. After midnight.
Again, the only motivation is racism and not a neighbor who did not know the house was an AirBNB thinking strangers coming out of a house while the owners were away after midnight with large items was suspicious.
The assumption in each and every one of these cases has been that to motivation was racism and that there were no mitigating circumstances at all that might have even initially justified a 9-11 call.
One of the key aspects of this bill is covered by USA Today:
The San Francisco legislation gives people the right to sue a 911 caller in civil court, and supporters hope it will make some think twice before turning to police. The discrimination need not be only racial; it can also be due to the person’s sex, age, religion, disability, gender identity, weight or height.
The legislation does not spell out the standards needed to sue. But it notes that qualifying calls are those that caused the person to feel harassed or embarrassed; damaged the person’s reputation or business prospects; or forced the person from an area where they had a lawful right to be.
The person who had 9-11 called on them can sue and the standards for what constitutes a 9-11 hate crime are not spelled out. I guarantee that the default assumption will be on the guilt of the caller.
It is plain as day that the purpose of this legislation is to deter people, especially white people, from calling the police.
We’ve gone from “see something say something” to “see something and you are a bigot who needs to shut the fuck up.”
Just like Prop 47 and San Francisco police being ordered to not respond to non-criminal complaints such as homelessness, vagrancy, and suspected mental illness issues, this bill is just another Progressive tool to hamstring police.
Then again, at the rate at which police are quitting in San Francisco, there it might not be worth calling 9-11 in the first place.
The absolute cruelty of bureaucracy and lockdowns
From the Daily Mail UK:
Four babies have died in Adelaide in the past four weeks after they could not be airlifted to Melbourne due to the city’s coronavirus lockdown.
South Australia does not have a cardiac unit for children meaning seriously ill newborns with heart issues are normally taken to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital – but this option has been ruled out due to the pandemic, an inquiry heard on Tuesday.
Victoria does not currently have any restrictions in place for travellers entering from another Australian state.
Associate Professor John Svigos told the South Australian parliament’s public health services committee that Melbourne’s lockdown meant transfer was not available.
There is no recorded instance of an infant transmitting COVID.
These babies were dying of a heart defect.
The bureacuracy was so intent on enforcing the lockdown in against a hot spot that they callously let four babies die.
100% guaranteed death from heard defects to prefent transmission ofa disease with 99.9% survivability among adults under 60.
That is the math that the bureaucracy did.
These are not the only cases of children dying because of the lockdown.
From the Guardian:
Victorian child deaths spike during Covid lockdown after series of home accidents
Eight young children have died in the past two months across Victoria in a series of incidents experts say have spiked due to the state’s Covid-19 lockdown.
Each year an average of 17 children die from unintentional injuries across the state, according to the Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit. But there have been eight deaths since the beginning of August, the coroner reported. They were all aged under five.
The director of trauma at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Dr Warwick Teague, said children were most commonly injured at home and coronavirus lockdown measures meant they were spending more time in that setting. “It is very concerning that the number of deaths of children has been so high in 2020,” Teague said.
The kids are home 24 hours a day, the parents are trying to work from home, accidents happen.
It’s tragic. People weren’t ment to live this way, but the bureacurts don’t want to be blamed for COVID deaths and the price they are willing to pay for that is an increase if all sorts of non-COVID deaths.
This isn’t about saving lives. This is about politicans and bureacrats trying to cover their asses from COVID deaths which make the nightly talking head panic porn. All other misery and death that goes unreported on is just the cost of doing business.