Thursday, October 05, 2023

If These Kids Are Stealing to Eat, How Does It Explain This Behavior at One DC Area CVS?

 

It’s only a matter of time before a CVS in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., joins the fate of so many companies in Democrat-run cities and closes up shop. 

According to the store’s employees, shelves are routinely bare due to dozens of teens who regularly raid the location for food and beverages, and for merchandise to sell to street vendors. 

The 45 or so teens know when the store gets new shipments in, and plan their raids around that time.  

FOX 5 walked down 14th Street passing by street venders and noticed were selling items like toothbrushes, men and women body wash, car fresheners, and laundry and cleaning supplies – which are some of the same items no longer available inside the CVS. However, there is no direct evidence that those goods came from the store. (FOX 5)

Some locals appeared to excuse the behavior. 

“[I]t’s bad to do, but they’re probably doing it for a reason, they need those things, but they shouldn’t just be going in and clearing the shelves because it’s not sustainable for the store," one customer told FOX 5.  

"A lot of people can’t actually afford things in CVS, I’m not saying stealing has to be the solution to that," another DC Resident said, according to the report. "However, I don’t know, maybe, if the city could provide more accessible resources to unhoused or under income folks who can provide them hair care, bodily care, hygiene care – that could be an option."

Not all of them are even stealing to eat or sell for a profit, however. According to the report, some teens are taking the food and drinks and stomping on them, "leaving behind a big mess," which is at odds with how some Democratic lawmakers have dismissed theft as people "stealing bread to feed their children."

The report comes as up to 900 stores are set to close through the end of 2024, part of a pattern of large retailers closing, such as competitors RiteAid and Walgreens, as well as Target, Starbucks, and McDonald's. Rampant theft and local crime have not only hit the companies' bottom lines, but is also affecting the safety of employees and customers.

Mark Levin Unloads on Matt Gaetz Over McCarthy Ouster

 

Conservative radio host and constitutional scholar Mark Levin took to "X" Wednesday morning and unloaded on Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz after he led the charge to oust Congressman Kevin McCarthy from the House Speakership Tuesday night. 

"Let's cut to the chase. Gaetz is a POS demagogue who repeatedly lied during the House floor debate yesterday, and then, of course, simultaneously was fundraising and collecting email lists on behalf of the people. He insisted that the House failed to bring up 12 separate appropriations bills.  The fact is they could not get them out of committee because Democrats wanted to spend a great deal more, which would have blown up the budget further, and conservatives opposed the bills. It had nothing to do with a refusal by McCarthy to oppose regular order. McCarthy refused to go along with a CR that essentially adopted the Senate omnibus spending agreed to, yet again, by McConnell and Schumer," Levin wrote on X. 

"Yet, Gaetz kept insisting otherwise. Gaetz said he's sick and tired of deficit spending and pointed to the $33 trillion debt. I know of few conservatives who disagree. But what has he done about it? He didn't go to the House floor, certainly not on a regular and sustained basis, and hammer away on the outrageous, massive spending for COVID funds, which were used for every imaginable purpose other than COVID and drove the debt through the roof," he said. 

Levin continued by tying Gaetz to far left members of "The Squad." 

"The worst, to me, is Gaetz working with the Marxists in the Democrat Party, who are literally destroying our country politically, culturally, and every other way, then denying it, while accusing the former speaker of being the Democrats' speaker, trashing Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer's investigations, accusing Chip Roy of being a RINO, and not uttering one word against Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, or the rest of the reprobates," he continued. "At the same time, he was frantically fundraising off his anarchy, on behalf of the people and the republic, of course, positioning himself as the David taking on Goliath."

Gaetz is responding to critics and continuing to fundraise.

Laura Ingraham Appeared Aghast at Some of the Reasons Offered for Booting McCarthy

Conservative commentator and Fox News host Laura Ingraham wasn’t buying any explanations for why Kevin McCarthy had to go. She might agree with the spirit of the criticisms, which most Republicans would probably agree. Still, there was no plan to address the concerns over the debt and spending because Democrats control the Senate. 

McCarthy was ousted as House Speaker Tuesday after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) followed through on his motion to vacate. Ingraham had Gaetz on her show Tuesday night, where she pressed the Florida Republican on where things go from here because a Democratic Senate will kill any initiatives Gaetz and others want to pass to fix the ship of state. She flatly told the conservative firebrand that he doesn’t have the votes and never did (via Daily Caller): 

“Congressman, we already established tonight that I have been doing this with all due respect decades longer than you, okay? You are a young guy,” Ingraham told Gaetz. And so I agree… continuing resolutions, the budget, the spending, it’s a total nightmare, but the fact of the matter is y’all don’t have the votes. You don’t have the margin to get from A to B to C.”

“I categorically reject we don’t have the votes,” Gaetz said after he questioned if Ingraham had started working in politics at the age of three as she was asking the question. Ingraham worked in the Reagan administration, according to CBS News Philadelphia.

“How do you get closer to all these things that are legitimate concerns when you still have a Senate that says no can do?” Ingraham asked. “I mean, you have got several senators who are actually completely on the other side on a lot of these issues. You still have that to contend with. How do you get to your nirvana points which are the conservative holy grail points of governance the way we are going?”

Even worse was Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) reasoning behind her decision to join Democrats in booting McCarthy: the former speaker wasn’t moving quickly enough on women’s issues. Ingraham, like most, was aghast: 

Regardless, Gaetz and his posse tossed the grenade into the tent. It went off, and McCarthy’s speakership went up in smoke. Mr. McCarthy announced he would not be seeking the gavel again, with Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Steve Scalise (R-LA) appear as the two frontrunners who could clinch 218 votes and not be subjected to the vote-o-rama we saw with McCarthy earlier this year.

Democrats Have a Plan (five year plan ;-) , Republicans Don’t (they don't their 5 year plan yet)

 

If you are going to be successful, it is good to have a plan and work it.  You want to know exactly what you wish to accomplish and set up means and methods to fulfill those goals.  The Democratic Party has a definite strategy to destroy America as it has existed in the past, and they have been working that plan, virtually to perfection.  The Republicans have no plan, they don’t really know what they want to accomplish, except in perhaps the vaguest and most general terms, and as a result, they rarely accomplish anything noteworthy or beneficial to the nation.  

The Democrats plan centers around gaining as much power as possible, totalitarian power, if possible, because that has always been the goal of every Leftist government.  The more freedom people have, the less power Leftists have, so everything is designed to take away freedoms and enhance the power of the Left.  If the Republicans just had a strategy to stop that, it would be a good start.  But they don’t even have THAT plan.

The Democrats’ goal of obtaining, holding, and exercising as much power as possible is, in a sense, the aim of every politician.  But it is especially true of Leftist politicians because it is inherent in their ideology.  Since there is no God, government becomes the highest authority, thus whoever controls the government, controls power.  And there is no reason, except for personal self-control—of which Leftists never demonstrate any—not to use that power in whatever ways they choose.

This has actually been true of the Democratic Party all through their history.  This is the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, and now it is the party of elitists like Bill Gates and Barack Obama.  The ideological presuppositions have changed, but not the goal—to control and enslave other human beings.  For example, we see it now in their devotion to the man-made climate change hoax.  They are using that lie as an excuse to attack fossil fuels and farmers, to make you drive electric cars and eat whatever they tell you to eat.  Power over you.

It is also clear in their illegal immigration policy—to bring as many people into the country as possible, submissives whom they will be able to control.  And these people (they hope) will eventually become citizens and ensure a Democratic Party monopoly on power for the indefinite future.  There is no concern here for the well-being of the illegals; they are being used, allowed into the country for one reason, and one reason only:  to eventually enhance the power of the Democratic Party.  Well, and maybe to shine Nancy Pelosi’s shoes and pick her fruit.

Crime is another area through which the Democrats believe they can increase their power.  By creating and allowing as much lawbreaking as possible, they produce fear in the populace.  Who will protect the people?  Well, that IS the major purpose of government, to guard the well-being of its citizenry.  The problem is, of course, the Democrats aren’t doing that.  By generating as much societal chaos as possible, Democrats believe most people will turn to the government for security.  Taking away the guns of law-abiding citizens is also part of this scheme.  People who cannot defend themselves will also look to the government for defense.  And, of course, they can’t shoot back if they prove to be troublesome when the Gestapo or Cheka come around to toss them into the gulag.

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Encouraging citizens to be virtuous is the last thing Democrats want to do.  A virtuous, hard-working, self-controlled people don’t need government very much.  It isn’t in the least bit incongruous or surprising that the Americans who most believe in police, law and order, religion, and moral restraints on the populace vote—Republican.  

The Leftists will eventually carry this chaos too far; a civilization can only tolerate so much societal disorder before it either collapses, or the people revolt, often turning to a dictator to set things aright.  When/if this will happen in America—if the Democrats keep getting their way—remains to be seen.  People WILL do desperate things in desperate times.  Americans aren’t immune to that.

But this is Leftist, Democratic Party elitism.  They have a plan to secure power and they are deliberately executing it. They think it is theirs, by right, because they believe they are better and smarter than other people and thus should run other peoples’ lives because they ARE better.  You need to drive an EV and eat bugs because they tell you to.  They know best. You won’t do that voluntarily, of course—there is this nasty thing called “freedom”—so the Democrats have a plan to take as much power into their hands as possible.  To those who know history and understand Leftist ideology, there is absolutely nothing in the least bit surprising about what is happening in America and the Democratic Party today.  The Democrats have a plan.  

Can anybody tell me what the Republican Party’s “plan” is for America?  

Here is the Republican Party:  Interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry, and his RINO cohorts, were incensed over Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from the House Speakership.  These losers aren’t angry at the millions of foreigners illegally entering the country.  They aren’t angry at the US government’s $33 trillion dollar debt.  They aren’t angry at the billions of taxpayer dollars wasted in a useless war 5,000 miles from America’s shores.  They aren’t angry that the Democratic Party “justice” system is trying to take out Joe Biden’s top presidential opponent next year.  They aren’t angry that countless American children are being butchered in the name of a godless, unscientific ideology propagated by sexual perverts and pagans.  

They are angry because some Republicans booted their buddy off his high horse.

That’s some plan, Republicans.   The party is the laughingstock of the country.

Planning.  It’s why Democrats are winning and Republicans are losing.

Maoist Democratic Party = Dictatorship (don't vote Democratic Party)

 

Their Seattle Lenin statue.