"blames the right’s control of the mainstream press for pushing unfair narratives against the left as soft on crime." This must be the thing the 'journalists' are told to say. I've heard it from several different outlets in the last few weeks. I'm still not sure how you have ONE right leaning TV outlet, the WSJ and NYPost as 'CONTROLLING" the mainstream press vs the multitude of left leaning outlets!
Let's hope your analysis is correct. Remember the American people pit the current crowd in. Also let's remember we need to tell the voters what to expect from us, and what can be done in the next two years if conservatives are back controlling both the house and the senate. Remember that without a clear statement of what can be done for the two years Biden has the veto, 2024 will shape up with the new congress doing nothing. Then what? We would need a veto proof majority to actually get much of anything done. What can Congress do about the border? What can Congress do about returning a sense of morality to the county? What can Congress do to lower inflation? November will get here, let's hope it is not even more a mess by then...but I suspect it will be. May God have mercy on us.
Erick, you need to edit sentence #2 as follows "Bill Ayers (Weather Underground founder, who bombed police stations and the Pentagon resulting in numerous fatalities, and from whom Barack Obama sought advice on launching his political career)"
"Waldman, like much of the left, blames the right’s control of the mainstream press for pushing unfair narratives against the left as soft on crime."
The left's defense is straight up gas lightning.
I don't know how "defund the police" does not equal "soft on crime". Even the "equitable" argument equals soft on crime because we can't have an honest discussion about what culture commits a disproportionate amount of crime; which is a direct result of liberal policies.
Sometimes you get the right answer for the wrong reason. No, California is not suddenly moderate. While the current situation is untenable it will take a lot more to connect it directly to the liberal policies they themselves support.
"Serve the people..." well to the progressives that means doing exactly what San Fransisco is doing. Serving the poor, pitiful people who are just looking for a loaf of bread in Best Buy. Food is a right, housing is a right, a living wage is a right, no one should have to work for these things, no one who needs should be punished for taking from those that have.
"just looking for a loaf of bread in Best Buy" That's priceless! I had a similar conversation with a relative about the poor people during Katrina...but those are large screen TV's on their shoulders not bags of food... weird how that seems to work out that way. "loaf of bread in Best Buy" ... that's awesome!
Unless people work, nothing is produced. Look at the Old Testiment story of Ruth and the laws in Leviticus. The poor (landless) were taken care of. The corners of fields were not to be touched and the reapers could only go once through the fields. Anything left was for the poor. They had to WORK for it by reaping themselves.
Why are people homeless in SF? Was there another earthquake that the media is hiding? Just sarcasm. Address the reasons why they are no longer productive citizens. Not all of us can create great things, but we all can produce something of importance.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
"November is going to be brutal for the left."
My advice to Republicans and/or Conservatives are the immortal words of Han Solo, "Don't get cocky."
Brutal if we don’t let them cheat before, during, and after the election.
"blames the right’s control of the mainstream press for pushing unfair narratives against the left as soft on crime." This must be the thing the 'journalists' are told to say. I've heard it from several different outlets in the last few weeks. I'm still not sure how you have ONE right leaning TV outlet, the WSJ and NYPost as 'CONTROLLING" the mainstream press vs the multitude of left leaning outlets!
Let's hope your analysis is correct. Remember the American people pit the current crowd in. Also let's remember we need to tell the voters what to expect from us, and what can be done in the next two years if conservatives are back controlling both the house and the senate. Remember that without a clear statement of what can be done for the two years Biden has the veto, 2024 will shape up with the new congress doing nothing. Then what? We would need a veto proof majority to actually get much of anything done. What can Congress do about the border? What can Congress do about returning a sense of morality to the county? What can Congress do to lower inflation? November will get here, let's hope it is not even more a mess by then...but I suspect it will be. May God have mercy on us.
Erick, you need to edit sentence #2 as follows "Bill Ayers (Weather Underground founder, who bombed police stations and the Pentagon resulting in numerous fatalities, and from whom Barack Obama sought advice on launching his political career)"
It may be a bit wordy, but its more accurate.
"Waldman, like much of the left, blames the right’s control of the mainstream press for pushing unfair narratives against the left as soft on crime."
The left's defense is straight up gas lightning.
I don't know how "defund the police" does not equal "soft on crime". Even the "equitable" argument equals soft on crime because we can't have an honest discussion about what culture commits a disproportionate amount of crime; which is a direct result of liberal policies.
Sometimes you get the right answer for the wrong reason. No, California is not suddenly moderate. While the current situation is untenable it will take a lot more to connect it directly to the liberal policies they themselves support.
Elect people who will serve the public and not the special interests.
"Serve the people..." well to the progressives that means doing exactly what San Fransisco is doing. Serving the poor, pitiful people who are just looking for a loaf of bread in Best Buy. Food is a right, housing is a right, a living wage is a right, no one should have to work for these things, no one who needs should be punished for taking from those that have.
"just looking for a loaf of bread in Best Buy" That's priceless! I had a similar conversation with a relative about the poor people during Katrina...but those are large screen TV's on their shoulders not bags of food... weird how that seems to work out that way. "loaf of bread in Best Buy" ... that's awesome!
Unless people work, nothing is produced. Look at the Old Testiment story of Ruth and the laws in Leviticus. The poor (landless) were taken care of. The corners of fields were not to be touched and the reapers could only go once through the fields. Anything left was for the poor. They had to WORK for it by reaping themselves.
Why are people homeless in SF? Was there another earthquake that the media is hiding? Just sarcasm. Address the reasons why they are no longer productive citizens. Not all of us can create great things, but we all can produce something of importance.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
— From the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
For what it's worth, Dr. King borrowed some of those words from Douglas Malloch. The full poem is here. https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poet/douglas-malloch/
Lawlessness has become the norm and no action means no life as we know it. Take the gloves off!