Number one:

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – City of Miami Beach officials declared a state of emergency on Monday and an upcoming curfew, bidding to curb violent incidents at spring break that saw five people wounded in two separate shootings.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and City Manager Alina Hudak announced the emergency order at an afternoon news conference. It includes a curfew for the South Beach area that starts early Thursday after midnight and runs through the weekend.
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The mayor said about 100 guns have been seized over the past four weeks, and several police officers have been injured while controlling the crowds.

“We can’t endure this anymore. We just simply can’t,” Gelber said. “This isn’t your father or your mother’s spring break. This is something wholly different.”
Gelber noted that the five people were shot over the weekend despite 371 police officers being deployed.
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At the urging of some residents, city officials have been working in recent years to crack down on unruly behavior in South Beach. But efforts to curb the excessive drinking and violence have raised complaints about racism, classism and business practices.

Spring break shootings: Miami Beach emergency brings curfew (local10.com)

Number two:

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale has been pretty clam so far this year, especially when compared to the scene in Miami Beach.

So far during Spring Break, police officers in Fort Lauderdale have only made 14 arrests.

“Spring break. I’m here to have fun with my friends, chill, settle down,” said Hermish Adarkwaah, who is visiting South Florida from New York.

Restaurants were busy on Monday night, but even with the larger crowds, locals say it’s been pretty tame this year.

Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale has been very chill, especially when compared to Miami Beach (local10.com)

Some of the older readers might be remembering that years and years back, it was Ft Lauderdale the one city who had the reputation for wild Spring Breaks. Movies were made about the wild times and loads of fun being had alcohol to be consumed and being the times before AIDS, unlimited and unprotected sex.

So, what brought the change? The influence of Residents in both cases. Ft Lauderdale residents (over 400K of them) had enough of the craziness, elected like-minded people and put the screws on businesses catering to the wild kids while rolling out the red carpet to couples and families who just wanted to have a nice vacation time. That, of course did not stop the party crowd immediately and there was a transition period where hotels would overtly warn anybody who looked like students that they would be evicted at the first violation without any refunds to be had. As fare as I know, this is still the way they run during Spring Break and Lord knows I did my share of evictions when I worked in the area with the full backing of the corporation.

What happened in Miami Beach? My guess is that not enough people Pop 90K) cared initially at switching the city’s image from a vacation sport for old folks, Gay Clubs and Jewish Seniors warehousing to an Urban Music destination for certain weekends of the year which eventually extended to an almost 24/7/365 before they knew what was happening. And by the time things started to get out of control, the voice of the people simply could not match the taxable income from the invading crowds and thus the city council leaned heavy on the business side of the problem.

Now imagine having bought a very expensive apartment nearby Ocean Drive (Everything in Mimi Beach is near Ocean Drive) and having to live with this in different sizes all year long? And then realizing that unless you find an idiot or some corporate Rapper, you cannot move out because no sane person will want to live in that chaos.

I saw J Kb’s post Winning parents’ hearts and minds and I can’t stop laughing at the stupid behind this.

I guess they don’t understand Floridians are ornery, especially when a bunch of carpetbaggers come tell us how retarded we are. Last time a bunch of morons used banner and signs to push their progressive agenda, it did not go well either.

We laugh, we take pictures and then go 180 degrees from your intended direction.

Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans have pissed us all off. So this week we are going to cover the state of Florida in these in response. pic.twitter.com/VjCMP6fVFW

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 21, 2022

According to the last poll data, the majority of people support the Parental Rights in Education bill.Bill.

What’s more, the majority supported it AFTER the media’s biased reporting on it.

I can just imagine how parents will feel driving their kids to school and camp and passing these billboards.

So I am left with two conflicting thoughts.

One: These people are remarkably stupid, thinking this will do anything but turn moderates against them. They must be suicidally stupid.  This is a Darwin Award winner of political campaigns.

Two: These people are know stupid, this will turn moderates against them and they don’t care because they have something up their sleeve on election day that will deliver a win regardless.

I’m hoping it’s number one but I’m afraid it’s number two.

Adam Kinzinger is a piece of shit.

He was one of the more ardent anti-Trump Republicans.

After the 2020 census, his district was slated to be eliminated for 2022 by the Illinois Democrat Machine.  In a last ditch effort to save his sorry ass, he has given himself over to the Left.

Apparently that now includes Leftist antisemitism.

This is what he decided to Tweey in his hawkishness on Ukraine.

Really good questions of #Israel: https://t.co/Q78VdvKJML

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 20, 2022

Israel’s reaction to #Ukraine will have bearing on future aid from the US to #Israel. Pay it forward

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 20, 2022

That’s only a pretty significant threat to Israel.

To be fair to Israel, Israel has opened its doors to Ukrainian Jews claiming right of return as well as temporary shelter to non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees.

So why would Israel not support Ukraine more fully.

Anyone with any basic understanding of the Middle East would get it.

The Russians are supporting the Syrian government in the Syrian civil war.

The Russians are deeply embedded in Iran.

Israel is wedged between Syria and Iran and both Muslim nations have declared war on Israel in the past.

If Israel were to openly support Ukraine militarily, the likelihood that Russia would use Syria and/or Iran to attack Israel by proxy becomes absolute.

It’s in Israel’s security interest to only provide humanitarian aid and refugee assistance.

Kinzinger should understand this but he’s a dipshit hawk who stoked anti-Israel taking points, e.g., Israel takes our money but doesn’t support us.

He doubled down.

Thread on Israel: so i grabbed the third rail of foreign policy today, as I said Israel needs to pick a side, and that future aid could be at stake.

I want to double down on this, let me explain.

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 21, 2022

Oh yes, more anti-Israel conspiracy bullshit, e.g., Israel is the untouchable, unquestionable third rail of American politics (because the Jews control America is the implied and sometimes stated reason).

2) I deeply support our relationship with Israel. But supporting friends doesn’t mean we look past differences. We have stood with Israel and will continue to do so. But at the moment there is a battle between Good and Evil, between a world based on raw power or…

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 21, 2022

3) one based one the post WW2 rules. Everyone must pick a side. The outcome of this fight will impact the world my son grows up in, and now is the time to call anyone to the carpet who does not do their utmost.

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 21, 2022

4) if we don’t want to directly attack Russia, then our leverage is in the world uniting in sanctions and assistance for the people of Ukraine. This includes everyone, and Israel doesn’t have a special exemption. Hopefully they will do the right thing. /end

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 21, 2022

No, this us not WWII, and treating it this way will insure it becomes WWIII.

Not everyone needs to pick a side then line up to fight and die on that side.

I severely doubt Israel feels like being friendly to Russia, a nation that supports Israel’s enemies and votes against it in the UN.

Israel most likely doesn’t want to take up arms against Russia for the sane reason I don’t want America to take up arms against Russia: the potential for a high casualty war, possibly involving nuclear weapons.

But this is Kinzinger’s asshole position, you either go to war with Russia or you support Russia.

It’s a ridiculously shallow and stupid position to take and slathering a layer of anti-Israel bullshit on top of it is even worse.

Kinzinger is a Lt Col with the Air National Guard.  If he wanted to be anything but a loudmouth fuck-head he could go to Ukraine and pilot a jet against Russian aircraft as a private citizen.

But he won’t.  He’ll get a job as the token “good Republican” on some news network to demand everyone else due fighting the Russians while he cashes out.

Fuck him.

Barbarism.

Nearly half the country requires no permit to carry a concealed weapon — and it’s a growing trend https://t.co/KM6Rxdw95s

— The Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) March 19, 2022

Barbarism is defined as:

1a: a barbarian or barbarous social or intellectual condition : BACKWARDNESS
b: the practice or display of barbarian acts, attitudes, or ideas

2: an idea, act, or expression that in form or use offends against contemporary standards of good taste or acceptability

I would consider barbarism what we’ve seen in places like New York City and California, where criminals prey on disarmed citizens freely without meaningful ramifications.

I covered a recent incident where a man beat a woman in the head with a hammer to steal her purse.

Miguel covered an attack on a woman who was punched 125 times by a single assailant.

That is barbarism.

States giving law abiding citizens the right to possess the weapons best to repel barbarians is not barbarism.  It’s literally anti-barbarism.

Clearly the Editorial Board believes that civilization is law abiding citizens having to beg and jump through hoops to be allowed to carry the tools to defend themselves.

Of course, all other things being equal, locales that have more burdensome and onerous obstacles to concealed carry have higher rates of crime and victimhood of law abiding citizens.

Barbarians take advantage of unarmed victims, preying on the weak and helpless.

The barbarian in Texas or Florida has no idea if his victim is capable of fighting back.

The barbarian in NYC, LA, or San Francisco is almost guaranteed that their victim is unable to defend themselves adequately.

The quoted article bemoans that now 23 states allow permitless concealed carry.

This is not backwardness but progress in expanding civil rights.

I hope for a day when all 50 states and DC have permitless concealed carry without preemption.

Which is more barbarous: a mugger with dozens of prior convictions bludgeoning a woman with a hammer for her purse or a mugger having his recidivism terminated by a law abiding citizens in self-defence?

As a man who believes that a decent civilization prioritizes the safety of the law abiding above the safety of criminals, I prefer the latter.