Guests: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative.......The trial in Minneapolis and the future of US cities.....the latest from the US-Mexico border.............and other stories....click to listen:
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
The trial in Minneapolis plus US-Mexico border with George Rodriguez
The trial in Minneapolis plus US-Mexico border with George Rodriguez 04/21 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics:
Wednesday’s video: Raul Castro stepping down
Wednesday’s video:
Raul Castro stepping down
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The Democrats created the mess
No matter how the jury decides the Chauvin case, it's interesting to hear Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota say this:
"We can’t live like this," he said. "We simply can’t. But we can’t have thousands of businesses burned and people put at risk."
The governor is correct but nine months late. Imagine if had said that last May when the police station was destroyed? Maybe businesses would not have been burned or many people put a risk?
What we are watching is the direct consequence of Democrat politicians who exploited the riots to hurt President Trump.
Many of us saw the riots in Minneapolis and did not understand why Walz waited as long as he did or tolerated so much violence. We saw buildings burn and Democrats making excuses for the looters.
Now, Walz and the mayors of these blue cities are living with the consequences, as Kyle Smith wrote:
The balance of cities, already hit by a fiscal hurricane because of the duration of the lockdown, will tip toward heavy consumers of government services and away from high earners. Cities will be forced to raise taxes. The taxes on high earners and corporations will seem punitive. Even more of them will flee as taxes go up. The things successful people like about cities, such as high-end restaurants and culture, will follow them out to the suburbs. Corporate office parks in the suburbs will see a resurgence.
People who stop commuting into cities will lose interest in them and their institutions. They will lose interest in funding cities. This will worsen the fiscal problems for the cities.
Cities will lose congressional seats. Federal funding will be steered away accordingly.
Voters left behind in cities will be a combination of the indigent, immigrants working in low-end jobs, the young, and the woke. These people will vote for a hard-left agenda focusing on aid to the poor, forgiveness for criminals, hatred of the rich, and boutique woke issues such as global warming that will push the Democratic Party well to the left.
In other words, the demonstrators and rioters are going to remake the cities in their own image. And it’s going to be disastrous for those cities.
Yes, the "donut hole" will get bigger. It will be almost impossible for these city governments to attract business relocations because the new arrivals would rather live in Frisco than Dallas, as we see here in Texas. The middle class will get out and the poor left behind will attend worse and worse schools. The streets will look like the surface of the moon, exactly as I felt driving in Dallas with potholes so big that I was afraid of losing my car. Last, but not least, it will be impossible to attract new recruits to the police force.
So thank you Governor Walz for realizing that "we can't live this." It would have been a lot better if you had said that the night that the first fire bomb was thrown in Minneapolis.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The Chauvin trial plus COVID in Texas & Mariel 1980
The Chauvin trial plus COVID in Texas & Mariel 1980 04/20 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics:
The Chauvin verdict......Texas and COVID cases low and stable.....Former President Bush speaks about borders and Afghanistan.......Mariel 1980.....Spanish-American War 1898............
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What law would have stopped the shooting in Chicago?
It happens every weekend in Chicago, as we see in this report:
A McDonald's employee who asked not to be named told the Chicago Sun-Times that two people got out of a gray car in the drive-thru and started shooting at Adams' car.
And a little girl was unfortunately in the middle of it! In other words, two groups settled their scores on the streets of Chicago and innocent people get killed.
This is what used to happen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, every weekend: . Gang A vs Gang B for drug routes to the US. In Chicago, one gang fights the other gang at a McDonalds or anywhere else. The net result is that innocent people get killed in the shootout.
What do we hear from the Democrats who run Chicago and tolerate this?
First, they tell us that we need more gun control. What law is going to stop people who don't obey the laws already on the books?
Second, they say that the guns come from the outside. So they blame the other states. Once again, it reminds me of what they used to say in Mexico about guns coming from the US.
Nobody blames the criminals. Nobody calls on the feckless Governor and demands troops on the streets to stop the gangs. No one in the political class does a darn thing except to blame guns and call for more laws. To make betters worse, the voters in Chicago keep re-electing these people!
So what can I say? Get ready because another girl will be shot next weekend. And get ready to hear that we need another law to stop this.
Monday, April 19, 2021
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda 04/19 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics:
Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.......Are parents finally fed up with schools?......Gun control and mass shootings.......Our cities burning.........Maxine Waters goes irresponsible again........The border crisis and the VP is off to Guatemala......Court packing and Democrats.....President Biden's infrastructure plan not getting much GOP support.........and more stories....click to listen:
Monday’s video: Maxine Waters is a problem
Monday’s video:
Maxine Waters is a problem
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It's time for a serious Democrat to call for Waters' resignation
Once upon a time, there was Senator Joe Lieberman speaking out against President Clinton on the floor of the U.S. Senate. It was 23 years ago but it seems a lot longer than that. Or what about that incident from 1992 known now as Bill Clinton's Sister Souljah moment. In both instances, a Democrat was willing to challenge his party.
No one in today's Democrat Party has the backbone or the willingness to take on another Democrat, especially Representative Maxine Waters. The lady from California took recklessness and irresponsibility to another zone with her latest remarks:
Asked about the Chauvin murder trial in nearby Minneapolis, Waters told reporters if the former police officer isn't found guilty of murdering Floyd, "We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business."
Waters said she was "hopeful" Chauvin would be convicted of murder, but if he isn't, "we cannot go away."
I remember when remarks like that would have at least prompted her hometown's newspaper to call for a resignation. Furthermore, the party leadership would have told her to cut it out and get back to work. What we have here is a member of Congress threatening a jury or inspiring the mob if they don't like the verdict.
I guess that was then and this is now. Today's Democrat Party is run by people who think that everything is about race or whining about the police. They don't seem to understand that people will get hurt when you speak this way.
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
Can you blame Raúl for leaving?
According to news reports, Cuba's chief, Raúl Castro, is resigning and passing the ball to the younger generation. This is from NBC News:
Raul Castro confirmed Friday he is stepping down as the head of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most powerful position on the island.
During a speech on the first day of the Communist Party's eighth congress, he said he would hand over power to a younger generation that is "full of passion and anti-imperialist spirit."
"I believe fervently in the strength and exemplary nature and comprehension of my compatriots, and as long as I live, I will be ready with my foot in the stirrups to defend the fatherland, the revolution and socialism," Castro told party delegates at the closed-door meeting at a convention center in Havana. He was retiring, Castro said, with the sense of having "fulfilled his mission and confident in the future of the fatherland."
And so he will step down.
Some in the media are treating this as some "Washington moment," or when President Washington decided not to seek a third term in 1796. Well, not really. President Washington retired after being elected for two terms. Raúl Castro was never elected to anything, unless you think running unopposed for head of the Communist Party is some kind of model election.
So what's going on?
Let's cut him a little slack and say he is old. Yes, he will be 90 in a few months. Let's accept that the absence of a Castro is historic.
My guess is that Raúl Castro knows that this is a good time to get out because the island is facing some difficult times.
COVID has hit Cuba hard and cut into tourism, the only thing the island has to bring in dollars. Once upon a time, Cuba had a private economy. It doesn't anymore, so tourism is about all they have. COVID stopped those flights full of tourists, and the economy shrank 11% last year. Thanks to President Trump, U.S. sanctions have made it more difficult for Cuba's regime. And finally, long food lines and shortages are back, reminding my mother of those days when she stood in line to buy milk.
To make matters worse, the new leaders want to reform, but the Cuban version of Perestroika will probably work as well as the Soviet one from the late 1980s.
So Raul is handing the keys to the new generation. The problem is that the engine does not run, the gas tank is empty, the car needs new tires, and there are still lots of payments due on that note.
Do you understand now why Raúl wants out?
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