.@NYCMayor: I’m laying off 22,000 city workers if the feds don’t give us a bailout pic.twitter.com/iWkSh4N8yJ

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 4, 2020

I have a bit of bad news for the Mayor: We don’t give a damn. Whatever fountain of kindness Americans had for Gotham after 9/11 it has been dry long ago and by now we are kinda sick of hearing about your self-inflicted problems. Time to grow a pair and solve your own shit.

And you would be laying off only 6.75% out of the bloated 350,000 of your city workers payroll. Now you can be edgy, raise taxes and hashtag it with something like #DefundNYC or #DefundRedTapeNYC or #ICantMayorForShit or something imaginative other than #BlameTrumpBecauseISuck

Hat Tip PaulTheK

Roko is another reader who loves to see my blood pressure require a medicinal adjustment.

It’s come to this: Kindergarten Cop, a banal 1990 comedy-action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a police detective who masquerades as a teacher, has been canceled and likened to the explicitly racist silent film Birth of a Nation.

Kindergarten Cop was slated to kick off Portland’s Northwest Film Center’s Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater on August 6 until critics led by local author Lois Leveen said the PG-13 movie promoted a “school-to-prison pipeline,” according to the Willamette Week.

Kindergarten Cop Is Canceled, Likened to Birth of a Nation

Oh yes, you read the headline right.

In an email to Willamette Week, Leveen likened the Schwarzenegger vehicle to Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind:

“It’s true Kindergarten Cop is only a movie. So are Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind, but we recognize films like those are not ‘good family fun.’…They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions. Because despite what the movie shows…in reality, schools don’t transform cops. Cops transform schools, and in an extremely detrimental way.”

Having seen both films, you need to have hit your daily limit of Xanax and boxed wine to come up with this comparison. If anything Kindergarten Cop is a small tribute to teachers within an action/humor movie.  But leave it to a Cancel Commissar  to come up with a slanted opinion formed possibly in the haze of chemical influence (because otherwise reasonable can’t see how) and kick the movie out of the festival.

In the meantime, people voting with their TV remotes have murdered two of  the wokest shows that graced the small screen this last season. You guys already know about Deputy being given the cancellation axe, but I just found out that the reboot of Party of Five (AKA Undocumented Alien Blues) has been also sent to the TV graveyard. At the end of the day, TV companies cannot justify wasting money on shows nobody watch.

Or you can blame it all in the country’s systemic racism or some other idiotic excuse.

Update: Eli over in Facebook made the following comment that needs to be taking in consideration:

I’m shocked that they didn’t “cancel” Kindergarten Cop simply because of the boy who said “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.”.

Damn, he might be right

Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz held a hearing on the threat Antifa and anarchist violence posed to this country.

Cruz noted that not one Democrat senator at the hearing condemned any of the violence carried out by Antifa, blaming the federal government and right win provocateurs.

I will cover this hearing more in the future.

One of the things that stood out to me was this bit of testimony:

.@HomelandKen says that out of 277 injuries to law enforcement officers from rioters, 113 have been eye injuries from lasers. pic.twitter.com/ez2MC0YmTr

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 4, 2020

That is 40% of all officer injuries were laser eye injuries.

Laser eye injuries are permanent.  The laser burns the retina, causing partial to total vision loss.  A laser pointer of only a couple of hundred mW can cause permanent eye damage in fractions of a second.

Quite often this sort of quick exposure results in the victim having a scotoma, a spot of vision loss inside their normal field of vision.

These are debilitating injuries.  Victims may lose the ability to drive or do other tasks, and they may cost law enforcement officers their jobs.

This is a major problem for law enforcement.

There are two things that need to be done.

First, officers must immediately be issued laser safety glasses as part of their PPE.

(I recommend adding some to your kit at well.  These are the ones that I want because they are also ballistic rated.)

Second, lethal force must be authorized to combat blinding laser weapons.

I should remind you at this point that blinding laser weapons are prohibited on the battlefield by the 1995 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons.

The general standard for the use of legal force is to defend against “death or grave bodily harm.”

I would absolutely consider permanent blindness by having your retinas burned with a 500 mW laser to be grave bodily harm.

The fortunate thing for LE is that lasers are line-of-sight weapons, so it’s easy to trace back to the source.

It needs to become SOP that when a bright green laser is shined in an officer’s face, overwatch puts a bullet through the rioter with the laser pointer.

Watch the threat of blinding laser weapons vanish as soon as Antifa learns that law enforcement doesn’t fuck around with people who try to blind them.

In Arabic, Inshallah means “Allah wills it.”

This idea of people being submissive to the will of Allah has lead to a dangerous fatalism in Islam.

I’ve seen it where Islamic workers don’t bother wearing PPE because if it’s Allah’s plan for them to lose their toes in an accident, who are they to question it.

Back in November of last year, I wrote a post about this phenomenon causing ammunition depots in Islamic countries to explode.

Again, I will quote the great text “Why Arabs Lose Wars.

Indifference to Safety:
In terms of safety measures, there is a general laxness, a seeming carelessness and indifference to training accidents, many of which could have been prevented by minimal efforts. To the (perhaps overly) safety-conscious Americans, Arab societies appear indifferent to casualties and show a seemingly lackadaisical approach to training safety.

So it is no shock to me what I read on CNN.

Ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse linked to catastrophic Beirut explosion

A warehouse storing thousands of tons of unsecured highly explosive material has emerged as a possible source of the massive blast that ripped through the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people, injuring 4,000 and sending a shock wave across the city that damaged buildings and blew out windows up to 10 kilometers (6 miles) away.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which is typically used as an agricultural fertilizer, had been stored for six years at a port warehouse without safety measures, “endangering the safety of citizens,” according to a statement.

Initial reports in state media blamed the blast on a major fire at a firecrackers warehouse near the port, that likely spread to nearby buildings. However, the Prime Minister’s account appeared to be backed by Lebanon’s General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who said a “highly explosive material” had been confiscated years earlier and stored in the warehouse, just minutes’ walk from Beirut’s shopping and nightlife districts.

A Muslim country improperly storing over 3,000 tons of explosives for six years in a warehouse adjacent to a shopping district?

Inshallah.

New York City health commissioner Oxiris Barbot resigned on Tuesday, after clashing with Mayor Bill de Blasio for months over the city’s coronavirus response.

“I leave my post today with deep disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis in our lifetime, that the Health Department’s incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been,” Barbot wrote in her resignation letter. “Our experts are world renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance and response work. The city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response not in the background.”

At a Tuesday press conference, de Blasio did not directly say whether Barbot was fired.

NYC Health Commissioner Resigns with ‘Deep Disappointment’ after Clashing with De Blasio

If the name sounds familiar to our readers, is because this lady has been in our posts before. Now she was the leader of NYC Health and she moans bitterly about the expertise going to waste. What expertise? Maybe this one from February 9, 2020?

What was the misinformation this health expert was denouncing? The “racist” and “dangerously” racist decision by President Trump to ban travelers from China on January 31st.

Almost 4 months later and de Blasio finally gets rid of this dangerous quack, but probably for something political rather than health-wise.

New York City has seen over 23,000 deaths and 231,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. More than 2.5 percent of the city’s population has been infected.

Oh yes, so much for that “incomparable disease control expertise.”

I saw this clip from the Axios interview with President Trump about the coronavirus.

.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?” pic.twitter.com/MStySfkV39

— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020

I really don’t give much of a shit about it except that the interviewer brought up South Korea.

Now I’m mad.

There are some good articles from Business Insider and National Geographic about what South Korea did to curb the spread of COVID as well as it did.

Some things were technical in nature such as rapid testing and contact tracing.

There are other factors such as the cultural norm of wearing a mask during sickness that is common in Korea, as well as Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other Asian countries.

Public cleanliness is also a cultural norm that is different than in the US, such as Korea’s speed to disinfect public transportation vs. the NYC subway which is a sewer.

But much of the success of Korea has to do with it not being the United States.

Contact tracing like done in Korea could not be done in the US because we have HIPAA and value patient privacy.

The US is also a huge country.  Korea is one-seventh the size of Texas.  Half the Korean population lives in nine major cities.  They have less than one-sixth our population and are used to a central government as opposed to our federalist system.

But perhaps the biggest difference is the Korea and Japan were not afflicted with TDS.

The Coronavirus first broke during the impeachment of Trump in the House and absolutely nobody in the media or Democratic party gave a fuck about anything but impeachment and if Trump actually pissed on a bed that Obama sleeps in or whatever provably false bullshit some hack FBI informant pulled out of his ass.

Then when Trump ended flights from China the Democrats called him a racist and a xenophobe and said everyone should go to Chinatown for a fucking party.

This was the MS-13 bullshit all over again.  Trump called a gang that has the motto “kill, rape, control” animals, so Pelosi had to call them lambs of God.

Then came the battle over hydroxuchloroquine.  Does it work?  Under what conditions does it work? What needs to be taken with it for it to be effective?  What are the risks?

Who the fuck knows.  Probably a few doctors but the media and Democrats had to destroy any hope of it working because Trump put his faith in it.

Then governors banned doctors from giving it off label, which is fucking obscene.

The Democrats for decades screamed “the government shouldn’t get between a woman and her doctor” when it comes to abortion but when it comes to the COVID, you’re God damned right thr government is going to get between a patient and their doctor.  A governor can decide you can’t take a drug that your doctor might give you even though you are dying and have no other hope because TDS.

Fuck you and your right to go to church, you have to social distance and be on lockdown.

But you can form a mob and riot in the streets as long as you scream “fuck Trump.”

Other countries have had a single l, unified vision for controlling the spread of COVID.  Their leaders were honest and transparent with them.  The virus was the enemy and it was defeated.

In the US, the popular vision driven by  politics  and the media was “whatever Trump says is wrong.”  Trump was the enemy.  All we were told was politicized bullshit.

The Democrats engaged in nothing but naysaying.  I still don’t have an idea of what their plan is or as other than everyone stay home until were all bankrupt and nobody dies of COVID ever again, which is absolutely infeasible.

If Trump said something factually wrong then give me the data and provide alternative solutions.  But the gross overreactions to Trump are so gross and such overreactions that I can’t trust that what they say is anything other than TDS.

COVID might be the immediate cause of death but politics and TDS are the proximate cause of death.

It has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that winning elections and making the President look bad was more important than saving American lives and they don’t care a out the 158,000 COVID deaths as anything more than a stick they can beat Trump with.

I have reached the point where I am ready to take every elected Democrat politician at the state and federal level, for all 50 states, and pass them through the Decapatron.