Meanwhile, as our liberal overlords exploit the insurrection at the Capitol last Wednesday as a pretext to crush free speech, Antifa and Black Lives Matter continue to enjoy a free hand to dominate public spaces, and not only in dystopian Portland. Yesterday they flexed their muscle in New York City:

A large group of Antifa and Black Lives Matter demonstrators wearing black bloc and carrying shields marched in the streets of Manhattan on Sunday. …

The marchers chanted, “Whose mother-f**king streets? Our mother-f**king streets” …

Here’s how they treat interlopers on their MF’ing streets:

Social-media journalist Tara Szczepanski reported being assaulted by some from the rally. She reported having an egg smashed on the back of her head.

In the video she tweeted, she is assaulted by at least two of the men. One sprayed her with a chemical string and another appeared to strike her with a skateboard.

The mob identified her as “a f**king Nazi” and accused her of supporting the President of the USA. Anyone who fails to embrace Antifa/BLM ideology is a Nazi and will be treated accordingly.

Szczepanski rushed to nearby NYPD police officers and appears to be assaulted again — in view of the cops. She said they “they told me to stay 6 feet from them and let me be attacked.”

What else would you expect in Bill de Blasio’s New York?

Let’s watch some of Szczepanski’s video, since the MSM doesn’t cover stuff like this:

Our progressive future opens before us like the gates of hell.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Prior to the birth of the USA, the British imposed intolerable oppression on Americans. Thanks to Comrade de Blasio, the shoe is now on the other foot:

Speaking of oppression, imagine being in a business that relies on tourism in a place like New York, where visitors are fined $1,000 per day for violating quarantine.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Congratulations to Ted Wheeler, who was reelected Mayor of Portland. He is conspicuously awful at his job — allowing Antifa goons to rule the streets, presiding over more than 100 riots so far this year (and counting), refusing to take sides in the conflict between civilization and the anarchocommunist thugs burning down his city. Only New York’s Bill de Blasio could claim to be a worse mayor. But at least Wheeler isn’t his opponent Sarah Iannarone, who ran on the platform “I am Antifa.”

Maybe the reelected Ted Wheeler will be new and improved, as the Democrats running the region finally take some responsibility for maintaining public safety:

Wheeler may realize that the only reason he is still in office is that sane people who have not yet escaped Portland could not elect anyone better at this point. He is a moonbat, but circumstances have forced him onto the side of those who value law and order. Here’s what his fellow progressives think about him (sorry about the language):

Local media crows that Wheeler will be “the only straight white guy” on the City Council. Moonbats choose their candidates on the ostensible basis of not being straight white guys; this absolves candidates of lacking more meaningful qualifications. Their actual qualification in a place like Portland is that they are barking moonbats:

Looks like “police reform” will top the agenda. Buckle up for more anarchy.

If voter fraud fails to preserve Biden’s slim lead, the violence will be explosive — though only in the short term. Conversely, if Biden or rather Harris takes power, there will be encouragement from DC, so rioting in places like Portland will become the new normal until these cities dry up and die.

On tips from Kate P and Pork_Soda.

We know Trump supporters are motivated. In the video below, Ami Horowitz investigates the opposition.

Young New York City moonbats would do most anything to make the country veer hard left today onto the path Venezuela took when it elected Hugo Chavez and their own declining city took when it elected Bill de Blasio. But would they give up movies for a year? Sex for 4 years? Would they let a puppy drown? Take electricity to their private parts? Punch their own mother in the face?

That last question is the easiest for them:

On a tip from Lyle.

If one story perfectly symbolizes New York City’s decline into moonbattery under leftist misrule, this could be it.

[Leonard] Shoulders was waiting for a bus on 3rd Avenue in the Bronx on Saturday across from Saint Barnabas Hospital at the moment the sidewalk caved in.

According to his mother, Cindy White,

“He was just standing and the sidewalk just — It was like a suction. Like a sinkhole. He just went down.”

He fell almost a dozen feet, concrete debris raining down on his head. He broke and arm and a leg. Then came the horror.

“He was like, ‘Ma, the rats down there were ridiculous.’ He was like, ‘they were like so big.’ He was scared to yell out because he thought they were gonna go in his mouth,” she said.

Comrade Bill de Blasio welcomes you to New York.

On a tip from Bluto.

It is not safe to leave your home in New York — not with Bill de Blasio in charge and a revolution underway. A 40-year-old man was walking his dog near Central Park on Saturday when protesters surrounded him:

Police said the man “engaged the group of protesters in conversation” as they surrounded him.

This did not seem to help.

[O]ne of the protesters punched the man in the head and pushed him to the ground, police said.

While the man was on the ground, two other protesters then punched and stomped on him, police said.

They tried to steal his cellphone, but lacked the follow-through to succeed. Both the victim and his dog suffered minor injuries.

They were lucky. Worse has happened to random people who fall into the hands of mostly peaceful protesters. Worst still will happen if their revolution succeeds.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

George Floyd’s likely fentanyl overdose served as a pretext for lawlessness that has become the new normal in localities run by leftists. In New York City, tony stores are targeted on a regular basis by those greedy for what Black Lives Matter activists call “reparations.”

From the New York Post:

Bands of shoplifters are terrorizing Soho’s high-end boutiques, lifting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of designer merchandise, and in some cases, threatening security guards to keep quiet — or be labeled racist, The Post has learned.

The disturbing pattern began in late May during the riots that rocked the city in the wake of the George Floyd police custody death. High-end Celine was looted of $1.5 million in merchandise then, and the blatant thievery continues “every week” in ritzy stores such as Prada, Moncler, Dior and Balenciaga, one plugged-in local said.

The police have been largely defunded and sidelined by Bill de Blasio. Not that everyone has the guts to call the police anyway. That could get you branded as a “racist.”

“If they [store personnel] stop them and say anything in the store before they’ve left the building then it often gets turned into a racial accusation,” the source said.

“Racists” are targeted by social media campaigns. Their businesses might be firebombed in the name of racial justice. Yelp is happy to help out with this.

NYPD Sgt. Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC, told The Post that investigators are aware that “mobs of young, transient groups” have “bulldozed through aisles grabbing as much as their arms can hold.”

The era of Black Lives Matter is a golden age for criminals.

In the latest incident, thieves twice plundered Moncler on Prince Street — which sells down jackets for nearly $2,000…

In the first incident, two individuals grabbed nearly two dozen down jackets… A few hours later, at 6 p.m., thieves snatched “more than $50,000” in merchandise and sped off in a white Jaguar and a black Audi…

According to the MSM’s narrative, these people are impoverished as a result of systemic racism.

In the near future, all stores will resemble ghetto liquor stores, with the goods secured behind bulletproof glass. A society that reveres criminals like George Floyd, Jacob Blake, et al can expect no better.

On a tip from Sean C.

It is often the innocent who bear the consequences of moonbattery. As mentioned earlier, de facto presidential candidate Kamala Harris has promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, to which at least 13 Biden staffers have donated money. Its purpose is to bail out rioters and other violent criminals so that they can resume their sociopathic activities. Harris is effectively promoting assault on children and the elderly:

A bail fund promoted by Sen. Kamala Harris helped a man accused of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl get out of jail in July, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) also helped post bail in August for a man accused of assaulting a 71-year-old woman as he burglarized her home, court documents show.

Both incidents were horrific. The Daily Caller has details.

Setting people like this loose will result in more of the same behavior, as anyone brighter than Bill de Blasio is likely to agree. For example, Lionel Melaki Timms was bailed out by the MFF after an arrest for violent assault and soon afterward was arrested for fracturing someone’s skull.

The MFF has struggled to spend the $35 million it received following Floyd’s death. The group revealed in early September that only about 6% of the $3,475,000 it has spent since Floyd’s death had gone to help bail out of jail people facing protest-related charges.

Too bad the people behind MFF don’t just pocket the money and disappear. It would all be the same to those who responded to Harris’s pitch. Lefty do-gooders who acquire a perverse thrill of self-rightness from donating to the cause of crime must not care about the actual consequences. Unfortunately, far too much of the money has gone to its implied purpose: unleashing havoc on the streets of Minneapolis.

In an astonishing display of either arrogance or incompetence, Harris’s tweet is still active. It links to a fundraising page with her picture and presidential campaign slogan:

On a tip from R F.

New York City’s tax base is running for its life. The draconian and overextended COVID-19 lockdown accounts for only part of the city’s precipitous demise. Anarchy stemming from leftist ideology has turned the city into a deadly hellscape.

Emptying the jails onto the streets does not make people safer after all, despite Bill de Blasio’s progressive rhetoric. Neither does egging on rioters or hamstringing the police.

Paul Joseph Watson shoulders the sad responsibility of shoveling the first spadeful of dirt onto a formerly great city’s coffin:

If moonbattery can do this to New York, it can do it to your town too. It can do it to the whole country.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Piled on top of COVID-19, Bill de Blasio’s leftist lunacy has been driving businesses and taxpayers out of New York City en masse. This will take a toll. De Blasio warns that 22,000 city workers could lose their jobs by the fall.

This may even cut into his wife Chirlane McCray’s 14-member staff. It includes city employees deputized from other public agencies, like the $70,000 videographer recruited from the Department of Health, who filmed her making ginger snaps during the lockdown.

From Fox News:

Other members of the shadow staff … are a $143,000-a-year public relations director, also from the Department of Health, and a special assistant from the mayor’s office who makes $115,000.

Then there’s the $130,000 “executive program specialist” from the Dept. of Social Services and $65,000 “associate director of advance” to the first lady. …

Despite its ranks and generous salaries, the team hasn’t posted an update to McCray’s public schedule since last year.

Too bad some of them can’t be reassigned to dig parks out from under the garbage that has been piling up or fill the anarchic gaps left by a $1 billion punitive cut to the NYPD.

Frivolous and wasteful as it might seem, Chirlane McCray’s staff is actually crucial in the fight against COVID-19:

Mayor Bill de Blasio said his wife, Chirlane McCray, needs a 14-member staff that costs city taxpayers nearly $2 million a year because they’re helping New Yorkers recover from the coronavirus pandemic. …

“This work is about the needs of the people of this city especially in this crisis,” he said after being asked about the apparent waste of taxpayer funds during a budget crisis. …

“The task force on racial inclusion and equity … has been moving big policy changes literally with the purpose of redistributing resources to the communities that are most affected” by COVID-19, de Blasio said.

It is very important that coronavirus resources be redistributed according to the cultural Marxist pecking order. Chirlane McCray is just the leftist for the job, and she can’t be expected to do it alone. Maybe they could lay off a few extra EMTs and paramedics instead so as to keep her fully staffed.

On tips from R F, Chuck A, ABC of the ANC, and Mr. Freemarket.

A law-abiding New Yorker has actually benefitted from Mayor Bill de Blasio egging on chaos while hobbling the police. His name is Brad Pedell. He sells bullet-proof vests in Midtown.

Business is up 80% compared to last year:

Pedell said customers tell him they need the protection because their “neighborhood is getting dangerous.”

Not long ago, NYC took justified pride in being one of the safest major cities in the world. What it takes years to accomplish can be undone quickly.

Nationwide, guns and ammo sales have also benefitted from the war on police and unrestrained mobs of mostly peaceful protesters.

According to Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting, a research consultancy firm that studies the global firearms and ammo markets, gun sales in June were up 145 percent from the same time in 2019.

Ammo has been hard to find, due both to the coronavirus and to people stocking up. Joe Biden’s hostility to gun rights will not lessen demand.

On tips from Stormfax and Lyle.

Everyone knew when Robert E. Lee was canceled that it was only the beginning. George Washington was also a great man and a Virginian, and also lived back when people had owned slaves throughout the world since before recorded history; therefore, in New York:

The city’s Cultural Affairs Committee has demanded the eviction of George Washington and Christopher Columbus and others from public spaces because of links to slavery, along with the establishment of a reparations task force.

Meanwhile, the city is flat broke, having flushed away $12 billion on being a sanctuary for illegal aliens at the expense of the native population. Ten thousand grasping invaders pour into the declining city every month. No worries; federal taxpayers are sure to bail it out.

The Committee plans to remove any public statue or work of art that ‘depicts a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity’.

From the liberal viewpoint, that means anyone who lived at the time of the nation’s founding.

Dozens of prominent statues across the city are at risk including those depicting Thomas Jefferson and former governor Peter Stuyvesant.

By erasing our history, they erase our identity. Then they can create a new identity as a nation of farm animals content to stay in their pens so long as they are fed free slop until it is time for a trip to the slaughterhouse.

As Todd Starnes jokes,

There are multiple statues and monuments to Washington, including Washington Square Park and the George Washington Bridge. It’s unclear whether the park and bridge will be leveled or just simply renamed.

At this point, maybe they should level the whole city and start over.

After the Father of Our Country has had his hero status revoked, he will be defiled and demonized before he is frog-marched to the memory hole and forgotten. Maybe the authorities will decide he impregnated a slave. That is a favorite liberal calumny against the author of the Declaration of Independence, whose statue leftists have already removed from City Hall.

This is cultural genocide. If we fail to defeat liberalism, Americans will soon cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

Once again, Google rams moonbattery down the Internet’s throat with its doodle for the day:

As liberals systematically cancel our national heroes (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, et al.), they are to be replaced by new ones, like Kiyoshi Kuromiya.

Who was he? Let’s let liberals describe his significance. From way-left Wikipedia:

[C]ivil rights, anti-war, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS activist … Kiyoshi Kuromiya was born on May 9, 1943, in Wyoming at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp…

Note the capitalization, as if FDR’s wartime internment camps literally called themselves concentration camps. The actual name of the place was the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. The purpose of this subtle lie is to equate America with Nazi Germany and the USSR, which had proper concentration camps where people tended not to survive for long. Kuromiya was destined for wokeness, born oppressed by America’s horrific iniquity…

Back to Wikipedia’s hagiography:

Kuromiya came out as gay to his parents when he was roughly 8 or 9 years old living in California and says that he was fairly sexually active.

Mozart started composing at age 4 and performing publicly at age 6. Moonbats answer that with Kuromiya, allegedly active in sexual perversion at age 8.

Here I was thinking that LGBT children existed only in the fetid imaginations of leftists. Given the current emphasis on homosexualizing children, it is no wonder Google wants Kuromiya in the spotlight.

Kuromiya was even arrested precociously, confirming that he was born to be righteously oppressed:

He was arrested in a public park with a 16-year-old boy when he was only 9 or 10 for lewdness and was put in juvenile hall for three days as punishment.

Kuromiya got to attend an Ivy League school on a scholarship. This did not produce notable gratitude.

Kuromiya’s increased involvement in [leftist politics] during the early 1960s stemmed largely from his sexual orientation and his feeling that the University of Pennsylvania was very closeted.

Highlights of his résumé:

In 1965 Kuromiya and other activists took over Independence Hall in Philadelphia…

On October 20 and 21, 1967, Kuromiya joined a large demonstration organized by Abbie Hoffman that attempted to levitate the Pentagon building by joining hands around it in a performance art protest. When the levitation failed, Kiyoshi joined other protesters in taking police barricades to make bonfires all the way around the length of the Pentagon. …

Kuromiya co-founded the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in 1969 following the Stonewall riots in 1969 with Basil O’Brien, who he met later while attending a Homophile Action League meeting in Philadelphia. … [T]he GLF was more radical than some of its peer organizations that formed after Stonewall. Under Kuromiya’s leadership, the GLF recruited a diverse array of people and stood in solidarity with groups such as the Black Panther Party…

After being diagnosed with AIDS himself in 1989, Kuromiya only intensified his advocacy work.

If you don’t want to live in a society where heroes have been replaced by moonbats like Kiyoshi Kuromiya, push back against Google, Wikipedia, and the rest of the liberal establishment with everything you have.

On a tip from Roger in California.

For once, we get some straight talk out of White House spokesmoonbat Jen Psaki. She was characteristically vague regarding official endorsement of the mobs of leftist thugs terrorizing Supreme Court justices in their homes for the explicit purpose of forcing them to change their vote on an opinion. But now she confirms that the Biden Regime encourages it:

The behavior Psaki explicitly advocates in Biden’s name is a violation of federal law.

Urging people to break the law might also be against the law. Someone should ask the Attorney General about it. But unfortunately, that position is now held by a damp little rodent who himself used the FBI to intimidate parents for speaking out at schoolboard meetings against leftism imposed in the classroom.

Merrick Garland is not there to enforce the law, but to advance Democrat objectives. His failure to do anything about the illegal intimidation campaign being waged against conservative justices proves it. If Democrats had succeeded in placing Garland on the Supreme Court, there would have been no need to lay siege to the home of this rubber-stamp leftist.

At no point in American history would rule by the third-rate tyrants currently infesting the White House have been deemed acceptable. No wonder Democrats want to erase American history.

On a tip from Varla.