England isn’t the only country with special ceremonies to celebrate its new population. London has Notting Hill Carnival, an annual Caribbean festival characterized by diversity, crime, and bloodshed. New York has the West Indian Day Parade:

The NYPD released chaotic video Friday of the group attacking the 44-year-old victim at Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights during Monday’s festivities.

The victim was attending the annual celebration around 7 p.m. when 12 people started to punch and kick him in the head and body in an unprovoked attack, police said.

This is what the next generation will get in place of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be canceled because Thanksgiving is racist.

On a tip from Wiggins.

John Adams said,

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

What are the odds that Adams would have thought the Constitution adequate to govern a people characterized by intellectual disability?

Liberal control of education explains ignorance, but other factors were involved to reduce the nation that was first in flight and first on the moon to this:

Congratulations to progressive social engineers. Through their control of pretty much everything, they are fundamentally transforming America into a nation worthy of their rule.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

No one is likely to mistake moonbattery-addled Zoomers for the Greatest Generation. Now Generation Z is embracing the concept of “quiet quitting” by resolving to do the bare minimum at work.

This dynamo defines the mentality:

Post Millennial reports:

According to a Resume Builder survey, 21 percent of Americans are ‘quiet quitting.’ …

USA Today reports that the epidemic of quiet quitting is significantly impacting productivity, and that comes as the Federal Reserve is trying to rein in prices. The result is that the practice is contributing to inflation and companies are turning to job cuts and layoffs.

To quote G. Michael Hopf,

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

In the hard times ahead, people will come to treasure employment.

On a tip from Angel.

Due to moonbat rule, crime is effectively legal in New York City, which is no longer part of the civilized world.

City Journal has the stats to document a great city’s decline:

The city is currently seeing a 42 percent rise in petit larceny, 40 percent rise in robbery, and a nearly 50 percent rise in grand larceny since this time last year. …

Nearly a decade ago, 63 percent of cases disposed by the Manhattan DA’s office resulted in convictions, and only 12 percent ended in dismissals. Those proportions are now flipped: so far this year, only a third of disposed cases ended in convictions, and nearly half were dismissed. …

In 2013 (the earliest data readily available), convictions were secured for 61,762 Manhattan cases. More than halfway through 2022, the county has managed only 6,902 convictions. These decreases are even more astounding for lower-level crimes. In 2013—when the city had about 25 percent fewer violation offenses than today—Manhattan secured 7,528 convictions for disposed infraction/violation cases. This year, it has gotten 16.

It has gotten this bad with pro-criminal Soros-appointed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on the job only since January. Bragg’s mission is to splash gasoline on the flames:

Last January he announced, as his first order of business, that robbing a store with a dangerous weapon would no longer be charged as a felony, only as a misdemeanor—a category of cases for which convictions over the past 11 years fell by over 90 percent.

Rudy Giuliani worked wonders to clean up the mess liberals had made of New York when he took over as mayor in 1994. But the decay is so deep at this point that someone like Giuliani would stand no chance of getting elected. Those who have not had the good sense to escape New York choose tasteless jokes like Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams instead.

At least we can learn from this tragedy. Ever wonder how certain segments of society would behave if not compelled by law to act with civility? Now we know.

Once it’s clear that there are no criminal justice guardrails in effect, those restrained by neither family nor community norms feel emboldened to commit the worst kinds of violent acts for even trivial causes.

If we were all civilized, we would hardly need the police. But we live among savages. When liberals screech about defunding and abolishing police, they are demanding that civilized people to be marginalized in favor of people like these, whose pretext for violence was a $1.75 charge for dipping sauce:

On a tip from seaoh.

When deviance and freakishness are glorified, there is no reason to expect them to stop with the LGBT agenda. Identifying as the opposite sex is getting trite. Why not identify as a different race, or a different species — or maybe a creature from outer space?

Frenchman Anthony Loffredo is known as the Black Alien after having extreme body modifications, such as a split tongue and implants, as well as being heavily tattooed from head to toe – eyeballs included.

Loffredo’s masochistic one-man freak show has drawn 1.2 million Instagram followers. But he weeps that no one will hire him.

Sniffles Loffredo:

“It’s a fight everyday, because everyday you find new people who don’t understand, who want to judge.”

At least he can be happy that he was able to avail himself of medical resources to affirm himself in his identity, so that he could become who he really is, as the transsexual ideologues put it.

To achieve his “project” of looking like an alien, Loffredo has had two fingers on his left hand amputated, as well as his ears and tip of his nose.

But, he insisted he is simply a normal guy who wants to be treated like a normal person.

Hold on, Loffredo. At the rate society is going off the rails, what you have done to yourself will be regarded as normal any year now.

Doctors need to go back to the principle of “First, do no harm.” That would put an end to sex change surgery, abortion, and this:

On tips from Depwavid and Eddie_Valiant.

Kalamazoo, Michigan is helping to advance what Barack Obama called America’s “fundamental transformation” by officially decriminalizing, littering, public urination, and even public defecation.

Local business owners are not happy:

Becky Bil, co-owner of Pop City Popcorn in downtown Kalamazoo, said there are aggressive and unstable panhandlers in the area and she is concerned about people avoiding downtown because of these issues.

“People have to clean up where they have defecated right in front of your door of your business,” Bil said.

Yet the city commission approved the decriminalization unanimously. Under liberal rule, monster corporations like Amazon and Walmart have a prominent seat at the table. Local businesses are not even allowed in the room, as we learned during the campaign to eradicate them during the Covid lockdowns.

Cherri Emery, owner of Cherri’s Chocol’art, said there is a major problem downtown. …

Business owners are dealing with urinating and defecating around their businesses on a daily basis, she said.

“I don’t understand why we would make it easier for them,” Emery said.

Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson explains why. Because equity.

Anderson said he hopes the change will allow police to better use their time related to these issues, and that the effort is part of changing ordinances for equity.

He is of course a Democrat.

As Andrea Widburg observes,

In the name of equity … it’s clear that wokesters in city governments across America are determined to return us to a time of stench, diseases (dysentery, typhoid, plague, etc.), and parasites (you don’t want to know) that many of us foolishly believed had gone forever. In Portland, which was once a sparkling, clean Northwestern city, the homeless have spread across whole neighborhoods…

It isn’t only businessowners who have a problem with public defecation in Portland:

In utopia, every city will smell like San Francisco.

That’s what you vote for when you vote for Democrats. That’s what you tolerate when you tolerate moonbattery.

On tips from R F, Chris Neilson, and Mr. Freemarket.

Corporate America panders obsequiously to the leftist crocodile, each company hoping that by appeasement it will get eaten last. This contemptible strategy has failed once again. Starbucks is as cloyingly self-righteous about its moonbat politics as any corporation, even allowing itself to be bullied into turning its restrooms in public toilets/drug dens. Stores have predictably become too dangerous to operate. Sixteen will close; more will no doubt follow.

CEO Howard Schultz blames politicians. As a Democrat donor, he is in no position to cast stones:

“I must say, in my view at the local, state and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders, mayors and governors, city councils have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental health,” Schultz said in a video posted on Twitter.

The problem is specific to Democrat-governed localities. The store closures are in Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, and Washington.

All four states and the District are run by Democrats — Jay Inslee in Washington, Gavin Newsom in California, Kate Brown in Oregon, Tom Wolf in Pennsylvania, and Muriel Bowser in D.C.

Starbucks has made corporate policy of promoting Black Lives Matter moonbattery, and consequently does not deserve to partake of the blessings of law & order — that is, of civilization.

Schultz calls Starbucks “a window into America.” From across the ocean, people look through that window at America disintegrating under moonbat domination and recoil in horror:

On tips from Blackjack and KirklesWorth.

This isn’t about the availability of guns or the uselessness of local authorities. Uvalde is a symptom of a more serious problem: the engineered collapse of civilization.

For decades, progressives have pumped raw sewage into the cultural water supply. First among their crimes, they have used feminism, the welfare state, the LGBT agenda, and the glorification of moral degeneracy to destroy the nuclear family.

As John Daniel Davidson suggests, Salvador Ramos was a product of his culture:

A broken home, no father or father figure in his life, no church or community of any kind, no real friends except those he met through social media. Here we have, in brief sketch, not just a profile of a school shooter, but an indictment of our entire culture. It was the same in Parkland, and Sandy Hook, and many other places.

Start with lack of family, lack of faith, lack of anything meaningful to believe in because leftists have torn down everything with more depth than political correctness. Add in the increased alienation inflicted in the name of Covid. As Anna Zeigler puts it,

The total disregard for the welfare of children, children who were isolated, ignored, and needlessly masked for two years, is not unrelated to the matter of school shootings.

On top of that, the liberal ruling class has devalued human life to the level of medical waste:

Amid the Texas news updates and hot takes, a stomach-churning TikTok made the rounds on Twitter. In it, a young, pro-abortion mother cradles her infant and says in a sing-song voice to the child, “Hi, I could have killed you, but I chose to let you live,” then likening the killing of babies in utero to killing germs with hand sanitizer.

“Yes, I realize what I just said, and I stand by it,” she concludes.

If Uvalde, Texas, is a tree, this culture of death is the forest.

Applied liberalism. That’s the answer to this mystery:

On tips from Blackjack.

Allowing LGBT militants to forcibly normalize their lifestyle through relentless bullying has had consequences for American culture. These are on display everywhere — not just in morally decayed cities, but even in small towns like Greer, South Carolina. Parents there don’t dare let their children play in Pelham Mill Park because it has become a popular spot to hook up for the anonymous, degenerate sex that defines our age.

“Condoms, porno, lube bottles and not like a few but dozens and dozens,” a witness said.

According to local law enforcement, the assignations are arranged through an app.

The reporter is careful not to mention which app or the nature of the hookups. As with race, readers are left to fill in the gaps on sexuality, lest the allegedly marginalized take offense.

Deputies have been going undercover for months, interested less in arrests and more about stopping the public problem.

Easier said than done.

“It’s big city problems in country nature, right?” a witness said.

Thanks to television and the Internet, everywhere is the big city now. The rot gushing out of New York and Los Angeles seeps into every nook and cranny.

On a tip from Steve T.

Siccing pit bulls on cats and beating up teenagers in the subway are not the worst manifestations of the situation the liberal establishment has created by facilitating black lawlessness. In the Chocolate City, a 73-year-old grandmother had her arm torn off:

Linda Frickey was carjacked by four teens about 1:30 p.m. Monday as she was leaving a business in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood, WWL-TV reported.

Before long, “teens” will be declared a racial slur, and we will have to come up with a new euphemism.

The murder occurred in broad daylight in the middle of town. We are past the point where teens would care about witnesses.

They attacked Linda Frickey while screaming, “You’re about to die!” Caught in the seatbelt, she was dragged almost an entire block as they stole her car. Her clothes were torn off, and her arm was completely severed from her body. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The teens drove the car 13 blocks before abandoning it for some other amusement.

Said witness Leanne Mascar,

“She was laying there naked, and I thought the indignity she just suffered, it was already too much.”

It may be too much, but we will get even more as progressives continue to hamstring local police and apply the concept of racial equity to incarceration.

Looks like the teens are underage, so they will get a wrist slap at most from the liberals in charge. The savages bred by the welfare state know they will not face appropriate punishment, or they might behave differently.

Just ask the survivors of Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar, who was killed during a carjacking by teens in DC. Probably due to public scrutiny, the killers did not get probation. Both the 15-year-old and the 13-year-old (at the time of the murder) received the maximum sentence; they will be held in juvenile detention until they turn 21, at which point they we be unleashed on the public.

What you tolerate, you get more of.

Imagine if Linda Frickey’s story got the coverage of George Floyd’s mischaracterized fentanyl overdose. Maybe there would finally be some pushback. But the media is as complicit in this as the rest of the liberal establishment. The best coverage appears to be by VDare:

Assuming (probably correctly) that Mrs Frickey was targeted for being white, some characterize the murder as a lynching:

Too bad the federal government’s ingenious new idea of making lynching illegal didn’t work.

On tips from Chris Neilson and Archmagos Dominus Krell.

The results are easily predictable, when a segment of society that was already prone to criminality and violence is told by the Powers That Be that it has carte blanche to do whatever it pleases, including looting, setting fire to police stations, defacing and destroying statues of the Founding Fathers, and the various other sociopathic activities comprising “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter “protests.” When evil is unleashed, it tends to stay off the leash:

The ancient Egyptians applied the death penalty to people who killed cats. This was a result of their well-known reverence for felines, but may also reflect how Egypt was able to pull the human race out of savagery by creating the first great civilization. No one who would do that to a cat has a place in a civilized world.

Cats aren’t the only victims of our civilization’s collapse into moonbattery:

A group of males recorded video of themselves ganging up on a lone 14-year-old boy and punching and kicking him repeatedly in a New York City train station just over a week ago — after which they brazenly posted video on social media.

In one clip, a male suspect places his face in the foreground of the shot while the disturbing beatdown is seen in the background — as if he’s treating the brutal attack like a spectacle or video game.

Why not? They know there will be no more consequence for them than there would be in a video game. Nor is there any moral consequence in the godless society bred by the welfare state.

This manifestation of woke politics and criminal justice reform occurred at the Van Siclen Avenue station in Brooklyn, around 4 pm on March 14. The teen did not know his attackers.

Where’s Bernie Goetz when you need him? At this point, we need a whole society of Bernie Goetzes.

On tips from Wiggins and Varla.

Why stop at sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, or at legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana even while it remains a federal felony? Progressives have to progress. New York has progressed into a sanctuary city for crack and heroin:

The city features taxpayer-financed “safe injection sites”:

New York City’s government crackhouses look like libraries with free TVs and places to hang out. Users break off to go into booths like the kind that might house desktop computers or reading spaces in a library. But in government drug dens, they’re places to shoot up, smoke, or do whatever they want. There’s also a private “smoking room” for the bashful junkie.

The addicts enjoy free needles and hot towels that “really bring those veins up.”

Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi described government funded drug dens as a “vital new service to keep New Yorkers healthy.”

In the Orwellian language of liberals, “healthy” means rotting away of disease.

Like gambling used to be, running a crackhouse is illegal unless you are the government. The feds could step in, but ultraliberal Merrick Garland is the Attorney General; he does not want to be distracted from intimidating parents who speak out against what is going on in public schools. According to the Biden’s DOJ, government crackhouses are “part of an overall approach to harm reduction and public safety.”

“Harm reduction” and “public safety” are used in the Orwellian sense.

What do you expect from an administration that passes out free crack pipes?

The government backed drug den in Harlem is a block away from two elementary schools.

Not even nearby crack dens could have a more pernicious effect than the transgender and critical race theory ideology taught instead of the three R’s in government schools.

The public crackhouse policy is promoted by New York Harm Reduction Educators:

NYHRE has already been funded by the CDC and HHS among other federal agencies and boasts corporate partners like Bank of America and Pfizer.

Much like teaching sex to kindergartners or supporting race riots, what was formerly a fringe radical outlier far to the left is now a mainstream government and corporate approved cause.

The liberal establishment is heavily invested in decadence and decay.

On a tip from R F.

As Aeschylus noticed long ago, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” The war in Ukraine has been no exception.

Paul Joseph Watson tries to cut through the misinformation:

Russia’s behavior has been bad enough. There is no need for phony propaganda on behalf of Ukraine. There is also no need for virtue signaling by changing the English version of Ukrainian cities like Kiev, Kharkov, and Lvov to sound less Russian. It just makes us look petty and juvenile.

What we do need to do is keep our eye on the ball. So long as we don’t let fools like Adam Kinzinger and Sean Hannity escalate this into a nuclear war, we have worse problems than Putin — namely, the globalist left, which can be counted on to exploit the Russian invasion the way it exploits every crisis, real or imagined.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Wiggins.

If you aren’t convinced yet to steer clear of New York City until it has been pried loose from liberal rule, maybe this will help:

A man smeared human feces on a woman’s face in an unprovoked rush-hour attack inside a Bronx subway station, sickening new video shows.

The attack occurred as the 43-year-old woman sat on a bench on the platform at Wakefield–241st Street station. The attacker did not say a word.

At least he didn’t use a hammer, as in another recent NYC subway attack.

Whether this was an instance of “racial justice” is unclear.

Mayor Eric Adams responded by honking about mental health issues. Yes, there are a lot of crazy people out there. Some of them are running both the city and state of New York, so psychopaths feel uninhibited, knowing that the police have their hands tied and anything goes.

Fortunately, this happened outside of Manhattan, so fanatically pro-criminal DA Alvin Bragg will not be in a position to let the perp free on the off chance he is ever apprehended. Conceivably, he could serve whole months in prison.

What Giuliani did to make NYC livable, Bill de Blasio completely reversed and then some. Given the local politics, no one is likely to reverse the reversal any time soon.

On a tip from Wiggins.