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To: longnshort who wrote (1117336)2/13/2019 9:09:02 PM
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Almost every major city rapidly collapsing into 3rd World malaise is also a hard left controlled Sanctuary. Disarmed except for illegal criminal drug and human trafficking gangs and other criminals who increasingly prey on the public because they outgun and outnumber Police they'll soon be "Killing Fields" for all but the most wealthy who can afford private security squads. First and foremost this incoming flood of illegals must be stopped before there's any realistic hope of rebuilding our cities.

If that can be accomplished with Trump's 200 mile wall PLUS more technology in the gaps between and r larger law enforcement numbers to deal with incursions on those gaps? We can begin to estimate the astronomical costs to rebuild these decayed, misery infested, urban areas. Those costs only get larger the longer it takes to cut off the continuing flood of illegals.

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<Rats, Public Defecation And Open Drug Use: Our Major Western Cities Are Becoming Uninhabitable Hellholes

February 12, 2019

by Michael Snyder

Almost everyone that goes out to visit one of our major cities on the west coast has a similar reaction. Those that must live among the escalating decay are often numb to it, but most of those that are just in town for a visit are absolutely shocked by all of the trash, human defecation, crime and public drug use that they encounter. Once upon a time, our beautiful western cities were the envy of the rest of the world, but now they serve as shining examples of America’s accelerating decline. The worst parts of our major western cities literally look like post-apocalyptic wastelands, and the hordes of zombified homeless people that live in those areas are too drugged-out to care. The ironic thing is that these cities are not poor. In fact, San Francisco and Seattle are among the wealthiest cities in the entire nation. So if things are falling apart this dramatically now, how bad will things get when economic conditions really start to deteriorate?

Let’s start our discussion by looking at the rat epidemic in Los Angeles. Thanks to extremely poor public sanitation, rats are breeding like mad, and at this point they have even conquered Los Angeles City Hall

Officials at Los Angeles’ City Hall are considering ripping all of the building’s carpets up, as rats and fleas are said to be running riot in its halls.

A motion was filed by Council President Herb Wesson on Wednesday to enact the much needed makeover amid a typhus outbreak in the downtown area.

Wesson said a city employee had contracted the deadly bacterial disease at work, and now he’s urging officials to investigate the ‘scope’ of the long-running pest problem at the council building.

People from all over the world are drawn to Los Angeles because of what they have seen on television, but it is truly a filthy, filthy place. The number of homeless has been rising about 20 percent a year, public drug use is seemingly everywhere, and there are mountains of trash all over the place. Needless to say, rats thrive in such an environment, and the epic battle that one L.A. journalist is having with rats was recently featured in the L.A. Times

Eastside, Westside, north and south, they’re everywhere. If you’re a rat, the California housing crisis has not hit you yet and it never will.

At our house, it sounded like the rats were having relay races in the ceiling, and they don’t wear sneakers. Your eyes blink and your leg twitches as you drift off to sleep knowing that if the plague comes back, you are living at ground zero.

In our garden, they devoured entire heads of lettuce. They destroyed my squash just before it was ripe and ready to eat. They stole my tomatoes, cilantro and Anaheim chili peppers. Were they bottling their own salsa?

But let’s not be too hard on Los Angeles, because the same things that are going on there are happening in major cities all over the western portion of the country.

For example, a massive rat infestation recently forced authorities to close a shockingly filthy homeless encampment under a bridge in Salem, Oregon

Amid the trash, human despair and anguish, one weeping woman prepared to leave the most recent place she knows as home without any real inkling of where she’ll go next.

Terry Balow, an outreach worker with the Salvation Army, has been here for the darker moments of living life under a bridge — anger, mental illness, drug use and human frustration boiling over at times everywhere one looks.

Yet it was a rat infestation and concern about human health that prompted the city of Salem to move the campers out.

“It just grew and grew and got worse,” Balow said. “It’s badder than people can imagine.”

Yes, there have always been homeless encampments in this country, but in modern times we have never faced anything on the scale that we are facing now.

More than half a million Americans are homeless right now, and that number continues to grow. And as it grows, communities will increasingly be forced to make some tough decisions.

I am quite eager to talk about San Francisco, but before we get to the City by the Bay, let’s take note of something that just happened in Denver.

If you are into public defecation, you will be very happy to learn that Denver just made it legal

First, the obvious: The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to decriminalize a number of offenses, including defecating in public. Also, urinating in public. Camping on public or private land without permission. Panhandling. And lying across public rights-of-way, such as sidewalks.

Democrat Mayor Michael Hancock and city officials explained the new ordinances are designed to protect immigrants — legal and the other kind — from “unintended consequences.” These consequences were fines and longer jail terms, as has been customary in most places for violating the behavioral norms of civilized American society.

If only America’s founders could see us now.

They would be so proud.

Speaking of public defecation, San Francisco has become world famous for the piles of human poop that constantly litter their streets. During one seven day stretch last summer, a total of 16,000 official complaints were submitted to the city about human feces.

Blessed with such beautiful natural surroundings and so much wealth, San Francisco should be a great place to visit, but that definitely is not the case.

When reporter John Stossel recently visited San Francisco, he was stunned by what he found

San Francisco is a pretty good place to “hang out with a sign.” People are rarely arrested for vagrancy, aggressive panhandling or going to the bathroom in front of people’s homes. In 2015, there were 60,491 complaints to police, but only 125 people were arrested.

Public drug use is generally ignored. One woman told us, “It’s nasty seeing people shoot up — right in front of you. Police don’t do anything about it! They’ll get somebody for drinking a beer but walk right past people using needles.”

In San Francisco they actually give out free syringes to drug addicts, and it is being reported that they handed out a total of 5.8 million free syringes in 2018.

That is a lot of syringes.

They also try to get the syringes back in order to prevent the spread of disease, but that hasn’t been too successful

There’s just one problem – well, more than one – despite spending an extra $1.8 million last year in an effort to retrieve needles, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the department handed out about 2 million more syringes than it got back… many of which are now washing around the streets of one of the richest cities in America (along with the feces of their users).

And with so much public drug use going on, it should be no surprise that crime is completely and totally out of control. Here is more from John Stossel

Each day in San Francisco, an average of 85 cars are broken into.

“Inside Edition” ran a test to see how long stereo equipment would last in a parked car. Their test car was quickly broken into. Then the camera crew discovered that their own car had been busted into as well.

It has been said that “as goes California, so goes the country”, and if this is where the rest of the nation is headed then we are in serious trouble.

When Bill Blain recently visited San Francisco, he was so horrified by what he encountered that he felt he must write about it

I hope my American hosts will forgive me for raising this, but the squalor we saw in The City was frightful. San Francisco has always been one of favourite US cities, but the degree of homelessness, mental illness and drug abuse we saw on this trip was truly shocking. Walking round SF on a Sunday Morning and we saw sights we couldn’t believe. This must be one of the richest cities in the world – home to 4 of the 10 richest people on the planet according to Wiki. I asked friends about it, and they shrugged it off.. “The City has always attracted the homeless because of the mild weather,”.. “It’s a drug thing”.. “its too difficult”… “you get used to it..”

Well, I didn’t.

I found it quite shocking the number of folk sleeping rough on the sidewalks, the smell of weed and drug impedimenta everywhere, the filth, mental illness and degradation on view just a few meters from the financial centre driving Silicon Valley. It’s a city where the destitute seem to have become invisible to the Uber hailing elites. We found ourselves hopping on one of the beautiful F-Route Trolley Buses to find nearly every seat occupied by someone lugging around their worldly possessions around in a plastic bag. It was desperately sad.

San Francisco has a new mayor, and they are going to spend millions upon millions of dollars to try to clean up the streets.>

endoftheamericandream.com

But it won’t be easy to turn things around, because more drug users and homeless people are moving into the city every single day

And San Francisco is generous. It offers street people food stamps, free shelter, train tickets and $70 a month in cash.

“They’re always offering resources,” one man dressed as Santa told us. “San Francisco’s just a good place to hang out.”

So, every week, new people arrive.

We like to think that we are setting a positive example to the rest of the world, but the truth is that they are laughing at us.

America is in an advanced state of decay, and it is getting worse with each passing year.

If we keep doing the same things we will keep getting the same results, and right now there are no signs that the overall direction of this nation will change any time soon.>

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/rats-public-defecation-and-open-drug-use-our-major-western-cities-are-becoming-uninhabitable-hellholes



To: longnshort who wrote (1117336)2/13/2019 9:27:24 PM
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Pelosi is not the POTUS. Moron, FatRump has been the ONLY President in modern history that hasn’t released them. I’m heartened that you would call for McConnel’s also.



To: longnshort who wrote (1117336)2/13/2019 10:51:40 PM
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Another FatRumpLicker bites the dust!

Wife, stepson charged in murder of KKK leader
By Joshua Rhett Miller

February 13, 2017 | 11:57am | Updated

Frank AnconaFacebook

The wife and stepson of a Ku Klux Klan leader who was found fatally shot over the weekend have been charged in his murder, it was reported Monday.

Malissa Ann Ancona, 44, and Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., 24, were charged with first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse in connection with the death of Frank Ancona, 51, whose body was found Saturday near the Big River by a family fishing near Belgrade, about 70 miles southwest of St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Jinkerson, according to a probable cause statement, shot Frank Ancona on Thursday in his bedroom as he slept before dumping Ancona’s body in a wooded area near Belgrade.

Investigators found “extensive blood evidence” in Ancona’s home in Leadwood on Saturday. St. Francois County Sheriff’s Detective Matt Wampler wrote in a probable cause statement that Malissa Ancona told police she shot her husband and attempted to cover up the crime, the Post-Dispatch reports.

St. Francois County Prosecuting Attorney Jerrod Mahurin declined to discuss a motive for the killing.

“I don’t believe for a second that he did it,” said attorney Eric Barnhart, who represents Jinkerson in an unrelated property damage and attempted theft case.

An autopsy conducted Sunday found Ancona died as a result of a gunshot wound to the head. He had been interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other outlets for his role as an “imperial wizard” in the hate group, his local leafletting efforts — and being depicted wearing a white hood and robe in front of a burning cross on the website for the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

“The media will tell you the KKK is dead, gone, irrelevant,” the website reads. “They have tried since the birth of the Klan to downplay the influence and power of the KKK … We cannot allow this. The time has come to awaken from our hypnotic sleep before we and our children wake up to a hell we can never escape from.”

Washington County Sheriff Zach Jacobsen said a US Forest Service employee found Ancona’s car outside Potosi on Thursday, but he wasn’t reported missing until a day later. Co-workers were concerned because he had missed two days of work, which was out of character for him, the Park Hills Daily Journal reports.

Malissa AnconaSt. Francis County JailOfficers interviewed Ancona’s wife and his stepson at his home in Leadwood — where “all indications” showed Ancona had been killed, according to the

Frank’s son, Frank Ancona Jr., told police that other relatives said they had not heard from Ancona and a call to his employer verified that he wasn’t sent across Missouri to deliver a part, the newspaper reports.

Officers then entered Ancona’s house, where they found an empty safe. Malissa Ancona told police that Frank Ancona said earlier that he was traveling out of state and intended to file for divorce when he returned, claiming he took all of his guns from the safe except the one he carried regularly as a concealed carry permit holder.

Malissa Ancona told police the threat of divorce prompted her to write a Facebook post seeking a roommate, but other relatives living nearby said Ancona would never have taken all of the firearms with him, the newspaper reports.

Ancona was identified in a 2014 story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as an imperial wizard with the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a group at the center of a legal fight over a gathering of members at the Fort Davidson State Historic Site, a Civil War battlefield in Missouri.

Leadwood Police Chief William Dickey said Ancona was last seen by Malissa Ancona early Wednesday. On Saturday, authorities found evidence of a burn pile near Ancona’s vehicle and later executed two search warrants, arresting one man on an unrelated drug charge. While officers were waiting for the warrant to be issued, Ancona’s body was found, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.



To: longnshort who wrote (1117336)2/14/2019 5:53:10 AM
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Fox News tells Americans to stop complaining about their shrunken tax refunds

SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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To: longnshort who wrote (1117336)2/14/2019 12:42:50 PM
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Atlanta Fed slashes U.S. 4th-quarter GDP forecast to 1.5% from 2.7%

recession coming????????