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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
I started out my January Diary grumbling about New York, the state of which I am a tax-paying resident. Quote from me: “I love my country but I don’t much like my state.”
Well, as bad as New York State may be, New York City is even worse. That came to mind the other day when I was watching video of New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressing a town hall meeting in Brooklyn at the end of January.
There in the video was Mayor Adams, standing holding a mike, out in front of citizens who’d come to watch him speak.
Eric Adams blames political woes on race, compares himself to Jesus in racially charged video
‘Have you ever seen this much chocolate lead in the city of New York?’ Adams said to an applauding crowd
By Michael Dorgan, Fox News, February 6, 2024
Seated in a long row some way behind him were twenty officers of the city, people Adams had appointed.
Here’s a brief sound clip.
Clip:
Look at this team, folks. Look at this team. Look at my, look at my Deputy Mayors.
First Deputy Mayor: Sheena Wright. Deputy Mayor—Stand up! Stand up! They need to see you.
Deputy Mayor Williams-Isom. Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi. Deputy Mayor Almanzar. Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. (Applause.)
Have you ever seen this much chocolate leading the city of New York? (Applause.)
And then go down the line—look, look who’s here. This is representative of the city! That’s why people are hating on me.
You trying to figure out why they’re hating on me? They’re hating on me because …
How many of you go to church? Man, this is a Matthew 21 and 12 moment. Jesus walked in the temple. He saw them doing wrong in the temple, he did what? (Shouts from the audience.)
I went to City Hall to turn the table over.
The five Deputy Mayors Adams named there comprise four mulattos or quadroons, two of whom are apparently Hispanic, and one light-skinned Indian lady, Meera C. Joshi.
And before proceeding I cannot forbear telling you my favorite name of all the Mayor’s staffers: Tiffany Raspberry[Tweet her], right, his Director of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, another quadroon, or perhaps an octoroon.
Not only did I get a smile from the lady’s name, in fact, I got another one from her job title. “Director of Intergovernmental and External Affairs”: How can anyone acquainted with old British TV sitcoms not think of Sir Humphrey Appleby and his Department of Administrative Affairs?
Anyway, there was Mayor Adams explaining that the low opinion in which he’s held by the people of his city is caused by racism; and then doubling down by comparing himself to Jesus Christ.
So I guess the mayor’s low poll ratings are nothing to do with the squalor and lawlessness he presides over. In particular they are nothing to do with the battalions of illegal aliens crowded into city hotels, parks, and schools, or sleeping on the city streets.
To be perfectly fair to Mayor Adams, not all of what ails New York City is his fault. The illegal aliens, seventy thousand last time I checked, are a gift from Biden and Mayorkas, who show no interest in helping Adams out in any serious way.
The lawlessness is the fruit of legal and judicial reforms driven by other elected officials. Big names here are Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. Both are quite strongly opposed to sending anyone to jail for anything at all—anyone, that is, whose name is not “Donald Trump.”
Governor Hochul proposes to close five state prisons in the next fiscal year[Hochul budget proposal includes language to expedite up to 5 prison closures bt Ryan Whalen, Spectrum Local News, January 16, 2024]. Prisons are bad, bad places, you see, the inmates disproportionately black because of “structural racism.”
Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, whom Governor Hochul could dismiss if she wanted to—which of course she doesn’t—so favors illegality he made no objection to city courts releasing illegal aliens [Alleged migrant attack on NYC police sparks political uproar, BBC, February 2, 2024] —five of them without bail [ At least 7 arrested, accused of attacking police officers outside New York City migrant shelter, CNN, February 2, 2024]—who attacked police officers last month.
Migrant attack on NYC police sparks political uproar https://t.co/mG1x5PJUN0
— CT POLICE LIVE 💙 (@CTPOLICELIVE) February 3, 2024
Biden, Mayorkas, Bragg, and Hochul are just the big names. Adams is also up against 51 little names: the names of New York City Council members, each elected to represent one of the city’s districts.
Paid for by George Soros’ money, with voter turnout for their elections barely in two digits and a mean political inclination slightly to the left of Kim Jong Un, these critters thwart even Mayor Adams’ half-hearted efforts to fix things.
Or to veto their further screwing-up of things. In December the City Council moved two new criminal-justice bills. One bans solitary confinement in city jails; the other requires city cops to complete elaborate paperwork on every interaction with members of the public, no matter how trivial or inconsequential.
Mayor Adams, who was once a city cop himself, vetoed both bills. The City Council has overridden his vetoes [Mayor Adams Loses Showdown Over 2 Criminal Justice Bills, by Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, January 30, 2024]. Adding insult to injury, the police-documentation bill got seven more votes to override Adams’ veto than the original bill got.
This past week we’ve been learning that a lot of the city’s swelling population of illegal-alien criminals, including at least some of those involved in last month’s assault on our police officers, belong to big organized South and Central American gangs. Two of the named gangs are Tren de Aragua of Venezuela and MS-13 of El Salvador.
El Salvador, eh? Just last week I was congratulating Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on his landslide win in that country’s general election, and on having transformed El Salvador from the most violent state in the world to the safest in all of the Americas El Salvador says murders fell 70% in 2023 as it cracked down on gangs, Reuters, January 3, 2024.
How did he do that? I told you. Why don’t you listen? Quote from me:
By massively expanding prison capacity then incarcerating anyone cops tagged as a gang member.
Other Latin American countries are following El Salvador’s example. I expect to see more and more headlines like this one from the New York Times’s Annie Correal, February 7th, headline: Terrorized by Gangs, Ecuador Embraces the Hard-Line ‘Noboa Way’
Daniel Noboa is the new President of Ecuador, elected last November.
Daniel Noboa, I note, is 36 years old. Nayib Bukele, the El Salvador savior, is 42. These two young men are building big new prisons and filling them with gangsters. The people of these countries love it.
It turns out that when you arrest criminals, crime decreases.
Your semi-regular reminder that criminals are terrorizing your cities because that's what your politicians want:
https://t.co/ITlZQbbtGW— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) February 12, 2024
Hence Bukele’s landslide election victory last week.
From Annie Correal’s New York Times story about Ecuador, where the country’s military is helping police with the clean-up:
When people see soldiers pass, many clap or give them a thumbs-up. “We applaud the iron fist, we celebrate it,” said Guayaquil’s mayor, Aquiles Álvarez. “It has helped bring peace.”
If I were a gangbanger in one of those countries, I’d pack up and head elsewhere.
An ideal destination would be some country with elderly clueless leaders that was shutting down prisons and telling its judges to let criminals walk.
Oh, wait…
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
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The country which Tucker Carlson was in culture shock over. Beautiful, orderly, safe, graffiti-free, …
Which coincidentally is the same country Jews hate and want so badly to destroy…
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From stop-and-frisk to stop-and-twerk.
Yes, it comes naturally to blacks. My race-ism was correct.
When it comes to borders and security, US is now becoming like China of the warlord period.
Fuck Noboa, he is a puppet for the Americans, installed after Correa was couped for his support of Assange and pro-Ecuador policy. This is evident by yhe fact that Ecuador has become a weak kleptocracy overran by criminal gangs, that is in a state of emergency.
Embarrassing article ny judeo-latrous Derbyshire!
Get rid of any charge of crimes against the state and you could close most of the prisons. Problem solved.
The gangs of New York are teaching their members how to rob and pillage the police are teaching their members how to dance and eat donuts.
People who live in NYC view the city differently than those of us who live in fly-over country. I can see why they choose to live there.
Manhattan has always been an enjoyable city. No matter where you walk in Midtown, you’ll be within several blocks of outstanding shops/restaurants. New Yorkers, always quite vocal, at least in the past, were never afraid of telling restaurant owners what’s wrong with their food, so the quality kept improving to the point where much of it is simply heavenly. You can’t get that in the Midwest, where people tolerate bad food. The “energy” of the crowds in Times Square is quite memorable, although it is far from a civilized energy. If you can afford it, or are able to schedule it, the nearby Broadway shows used to offer world-class entertainment, but good luck in trying to book something, or seeing anything not tainted by wokey morality. The museums in Uptown, bordering Central Park are among the best that I’ve seen. Downtown Manhattan is drab, except Chinatown and other clusters where street vendors have taken over the sidewalks. You can buy a high quality Versace knockoff for practically nothing. There’s an energy to the City that makes it an enjoyable visit.
For many decades, New Yorkers enjoyed all of this. There is no city like NYC. Their focus wasn’t on the disasters overtaking the City, just immersion in city life. But, that has been changing, as it did in California — paradises attract people until the overcrowding and ensuing problems no longer make it a paradise. I doubt New Yorkers will ever see their voting as a problem. They will simply get fed up with the parasitic masses infecting the City, move somewhere else, and vote the same way.
All that dancing and six out of seven are still fat?
I call BS. Not to mention they don’t appear to have practiced much.
What proportion of female cops are fat, btw?
Yeah, I really enjoyed the theater when I lived in NY, but as time went on show after show became a “woke struggle session” all about how evil white males are. I quit going and eventually I quit NY.
Thanks, HammerJack. The same woke orientation of theatre has displaced traditional theater here in Orange County, California. And, in addition to the wokeness, there is an appeal-to-children aspect. When the new producer/directors took over several years ago, they said that their mission was to appeal to “a wider audience.” It has since become clear what they meant by “a wider audience.” Most of what is shown on the stages of the iconic South Coast Rep theaters is well within the grasp and engagement-level of a 10-year-old child. Imagine, Mr. Derbyshire, you put diwn your philosophy and history books, and your math puzzlers, and go to the theater, and the play is written for children; or worse still, has been written by a 20-something, and he will be instructing you in the meaning of life.
Show me a town or city run by black babbling buffoons or any town or city with 10% or more black population and I’ll show you a modern day crime infested shit hole.
John Derbyshire’s essay “THE TALK” should be mandatory reading form all non blacks around the world.
Between those fat whores doing jelly roll belly moves with their fat asses, and those gangsta niggaz shooting cRap at the pool hall, CQ has come to the conclusion that America is now just another ugly black criminal shitshow where fat bitches with badges enforce dance routines for the benefit of themselves while niggaz snatch ‘n grab everything they want with no accountability.
Code of the west? Wuts dat?
And born in Miami.
“The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency — the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/
He has degrees from New York University, Northwestern University, and George Washington University. (All private institutions, by the way.) That would account for a good chunk of the needed fourteen years.
How soon can we draft him?
Oh, just shoot me.
The Log-Cavin’ or Cravin’ Republicans.
Trump is so used to having his bung donged by Jewish Power that he now identifies with toots.
With the issuing of Executive Order 10730 “greatest generation war hero” Eisenhower forced integration on a White population that didn’t want it. And it was thrust upon them at the barrel of a gun by taking control of the Arkansas national guard and sending 1,000 federal soldiers from the 101st Airborne to Little Rock. How did the Posse Comitatus Act not apply? This was all done to ensure the safety of “nine black students.” As if that wasn’t enough, he signed the 1957 voting rights act, the precursor to the 1965 voting rights act. Just more proof that the destruction of America now taking place has been in the works for a long time.
Is ‘structural racism’ the new term for black dude?
Dat structural racism done eat all my chicken.
Dat structural racism be wearin’ dem jordans.
All ya structural racisms need to listen up. We gonna loot dat joint.
How about a Bad Seed approach to law enforcement?
https://pathwhisperer.info/2011/11/29/criminal-minds-will-testing-the-brain-even-before-birth-separate-the-good-seeds-from-the-bad/
https://pathwhisperer.info/2016/09/06/hey-donald-you-gonna-let-mika-call-you-mentally-ill-call-plouffes-bluff-challenge-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-and-clintons-future-treasury-secretary-gary-gensler-to-the-path-whisperer-dead-child/
A guy sitting next to me at an upscale restaurant’s bar ordered fries that came out cold. My first thought is where’s Steve Sailer when you need him?
https://vdare.com/radio-derb/john-derbyshire-a-special-election-seeking-asylum-from-bukele-riding-the-woke-rails-in-england-and-diverse-worship-etc
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2024-02-16.html
“Just more proof that the destruction of America now taking place has been in the works for a long time”
It could get worse. What if the government gives special privileges to African Americans. What if the government starts saying that White Supremacist are the greatest threat to America. What if the government forces us to associate with Africans. Huh, what then?
“There’s an energy to the City that makes it an enjoyable visit.”
By “City” you’re referring of course to Manhattan, not to the geographic “City”, which includes the outer boroughs like Staten Island (cue in the laugh track). Otherwise, you’re right about the cultural attractions , the energy etc. but to actually LIVE in Manhattan while enjoying all that life has to offer thereds you gotta have lots of $$$s, otherwise you’re left with the aforementioned Staten Island whose main claim to fame is that it’s the second highest point on the Eastern US seacoast behind Cadillac Mountain, Maine.
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Anything about Gaza in this one, minion?
Billiards, Snooker, Pool the origins…our Cultur Incha.
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Of all time?? This is by far the worst thing I’ve ever seen from John Derbyshire. “At long last, sir….”
My plan is to declare war on El Salvador and then immediately surrender.
This seems a bit snippy seeing as we’re all benefitting from free gangrape and murder thanks to the Gangrape and Murder Loan Forgiveness Program and the leadership of President Joe “Goodsex” Biden.
“Is this dress slutty enough? Oh, I knew I should have paid more attention in Spanish class! Chill out, I’ll finish the absentee ballots later.”