True. Thank God for the internet and constant updates.

Nearly 2,000 people called for the termination of a New York City professor after she reportedly fell asleep during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom.

Patricia Simon, a theater arts associate professor at Marymount Manhattan College, is facing requests for her removal after a June 29 Zoom meeting to discuss the adoption of an “anti-racist framework.”

The Change.org petition reached 1,902 supporters before being closed.

“This is a petition that is demanding the removal a faculty member who does not align with the anti-racist views and actions that were promised to be adopted by the department earlier this week at the Town Hall meetings,” wrote Marymount student Caitlin Gagnon, who started the petition two weeks ago.

Petition to Fire NYC Professor Accused of Sleeping During Anti-Racist Meeting Gathers 2,000 Signatures

Tovarisch, in the era of BLM, any idiot is a commissar. Any little idiot with a little thirst for membership in the Club Of The Racially Righteous and Totally Woke.

The only reason that corporate America invests heavily in the purchase of coffee and its related equipment is because of endless boring meetings that require heavy intakes of the stimulant to remain awake, and still then many fail and the eventual doze off happens. But other than the embarrassing waking up while everybody is staring at you and the disgusted gaze of the boss, nothing else hap[pens. But for another Zoom meeting dealing with fake outrage? You must hang or at least lose your means of subsistence.

We are now living under the watch of a Heterodoxy Patrol just like the Mutawa (Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice ) in Saudi Arabia whose only function is to seek and to immediately punish anybody who stray even the slightest from Islamic law.

We need a readjustment in idiotic attitudes soon, if only to avoid tragedy. They eventually going to attack the wrong person, the one that will take and return the favor one thousand percent and I don’t meant a simple counter-signature campaign in the net but something more permanent in Real Life.

Actually, it will have to happen so a deeper-lasting lesson is taught.

March and then June of this year broke records on gun sales.  March had 3.7 million NICS checks and June had 3.9 million NICS checks.

Those are good numbers, but I am hoping to see Americans break the 4 million mark later this year.  That would be a watershed.

The raw numbers don’t tell the whole story.

From NPR:

Sales Of Guns To First Time Owners Rise Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Gun sales have hit new records as the country grapples with a pandemic and protests. But unlike previous spikes, it’s not gun enthusiasts driving sales, but rather first time gun owners. 

Americans are buying more guns than ever before. People worried about the pandemic sometimes buy guns. People worried about protests in this country sometimes buy guns. And by one estimate, people have bought 3 million more guns than normal since March. Almost half of all those sales are to first-time gun owners. NPR’s Chris Arnold reports.

Gun store owners interviewed across the country are anecdotally reporting even higher rates of first-time buyers.

Gun sales rising in 2020, especially among first time buyers

Empty cases and hooks with no displays have become Jeff Anderson’s new reality.

“I fill the shelves, and I can’t get them out here no quicker than that, and they’re gone,” Anderson said.

Since March, sales at Anderson’s shop, Gunz Inc., have been higher than ever. Anderson told WAVE 3 News a majority of the purchases are coming from first-time gun buyers.

“Sixty to seventy percent are first time [buyers],” Anderson said. “A lot of them tell us without asking that they’re scared.”

Gun shops see surge in gun and ammunition sales during COVID-19 pandemic

“It’s been quite dramatic as far as sales, there’s been a huge uptick,” said Steve Ou, sales manager at Guns Warehouse, which was packed with customers.

Ou said at their shop, they are noticing a spike in first-time buyers. “I think since we started around late March with covid I think 60% to 70% are first time buyers,” he said.

The stated half of gun sales to first-time buyers that the NSSF is claiming may be a national average or a more conservative estimate, but in some places, retailers are claiming 60-70% of sales are to first-time gun owners.

Not just that, but the demographic of first-time buyers is changing too.

Gun sales up, more first-time buyers, many women

Gun shops across the country are staying busy, including shops on the Gulf Coast.

“The way gun sales normally work is we go into the holiday season and people are buying gifts, that type of thing. We roll into tax season, that’s usually a good time, then it kind of drops off,” said Josh South, owner of South’s Outpost.

But this year is different.

He believes more people are just putting more thought into personal protection these days.

He said, “I think the pandemic started it, but I think people are just becoming more aware of their surroundings and want to be able to protect themselves and their family.”

And it sounds like he’s exactly right! People who have never owned a gun before are buying them now, particularly females.

“I’ve been wanting to do this for a while but this is the tipping point and I need to protect myself,” said Innessa Solovyev, first-time gun buyer.

A surge in first-time gun-owning women.

In dark Blue cities and states across the country, mayors and governors have let violent and destructive riots happen.  Sometimes they support them tacitly, other times the government supports the riots openly.

The way the Left has turned on police has lead to a massive spike in crime.  Shootings are up 130% in NYC, 67% in Philadelphia, 87% in Buffalo, 71% in Fresno, 78% in Chicago,  and so on.  Whenever the news covers the violence, it’s rising.

Violence up, cops down, 24/7 coverage of “peaceful protesters” looting, burning, and beating people in the streets.

You are on your own and nobody is coming to save you.

It might have taken a confluence of horrible circumstances to do this, but a lot of eyes are being opened to that reality.

The Left just dumped a bunch of red pills into the water supply.

A whole pint? Dear little baby gators!

More chaos for the Big Rotten Apple.

NYS troopers want off NYC streets as cops face new criminal, civil liability on the job

The president of a union representing New York State troopers is calling for members to be pulled from any posts in New York City, citing concerns about police legislation slated to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday afternoon.

“I am demanding that New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett immediately remove all uniformed State Troopers currently stationed within New York City and cease any law enforcement activities within that jurisdiction,” wrote PBA President Thomas Mungeer in a Wednesday press release.

The legislation, which was scheduled to be signed by de Blasio during a 2:30 p.m. event, “puts an undue burden upon our Troopers,” Mungeer wrote. “It opens them up to criminal and civil liability for restraining a person during a lawful arrest in a manner that is consistent with their training and is legal throughout the rest of the State. Furthermore, this legislation will prevent Troopers from safely and effectively arresting resistant subjects.”

Administrative Code section 10-18, makes it a misdemeanor crime for an arresting officer to restrain someone “in a manner that restricts the flow of air or blood by compressing the windpipe or the carotid arteries on each side of the neck, or sitting, kneeling, or standing on the chest or back in a manner that compresses the diaphragm, in the course of effecting or attempting to effect an arrest,” according to the bill.

There are about 200 state troopers assigned to New York City on a given day.

So not just are NYPD officers retiring at 400% the normal rate, but state law enforcement wants out of the city too.

The spike in violence we are seeing now is only the beginning.  It is going to keep going up the more and more as the police, quite visibly, stop patrolling the city.

I have a buddy on Wall Street who has been telling me about the layoffs on Wall Street.  The banking sector has discovered AI is better at investing than a small army of brokers, so more and more, finance is being consolidated into a smaller pool of people.  These people just spent the last few months discovering that they are more than capable of working remotely.

As New York decays under crime and businesses that died under the lockdown stayed closed, the tax base that pays for NYC is going to flee at an ever-increasing rate, squeezing the NYC budget even harder.

Combine these shortfalls with rampant progressivism and I have no idea how NYC is going to turn this around.

We may very well be watching the beginning of NYC’s descent into becoming Detroit on the Hudson, with vacant and dilapidated skyscrapers instead of vacant and dilapidated factories.

History is going to show that de Blasio killed more New Yorkers and did more damage to that city than Osama Bin Laden.

Safer?

DE BLASIO: “We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since WW2 and we are safer for it and better for it” pic.twitter.com/isOM3P8yZ4

— Poso (@JackPosobiec) July 16, 2020

At least 17 people were shot in New York City on Monday — a tally that would be considered high for a weekend day, but is “astronomical” for early in the week, law enforcement sources said.

No borough was spared from the gunplay, but Brooklyn saw the most violence with 10 shooting incidents and a total of 12 victims, sources said.

“Those numbers would be high for a Friday or Saturday, but for a Monday they are astronomical,” said one high-ranking Brooklyn cop.

At least 17 people shot in NYC on Monday as gun violence continues to soar

Where does de Blasio comes with that load of … never mind. Not even political pandering is that cynically stupid.

From NPR:

Amid Protests And Virus Fears, Firearm Background Checks Hit All-Time High

The FBI reported that Americans set a new record of 3.9 million background checks to purchase or possess firearms in June. That eclipsed the previous record set in March of 3.7 million background checks.

The actual number is 3,931,607.

That’s a lot of guns.

To put that in perspective,the two largest militaries in the world are China (2 million) and India (1.4 million).

Last month Americans bought more guns than it would take to provide a firearm to two largest militaries on Earth, combined.

Good job America.