Dem darling learns irony
Democratic darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a candidate for the U.S. House from New York and an advocate of a much higher minimum wage, got a dose of real life thrown at her last week when the owner of a coffee shop where she was formerly employed said he would have to close because of higher minimum wages.
“This is [an] example of what happens, what damage can accompany our society when you’ve got a $15 an hour minimum wage,” Fox Business show host Stuart Varney said on “Fox & Friends.” “There are going to be fewer jobs, and this is a classic example of that.
“Ms. Ocasio-Cortez goes back to the coffee shop…and found that it’s about to close. Why is it about to close? Because it’s going to $15 an hour minimum wage. And the manager can’t afford to run that business with that kind of pricing structure for his labor.”
“It’s ironic, isn’t it,” Varney said. “That Ms. Ocasio-Cortez supports $15 an hour minimum wage, goes back to where she…started out in life in the workplace and finds it’s closing because of the policies she supports. That’s irony.”
Ocasio-Cortez once was an entry level employee at The Coffee Shop, which is located at New York City’s Union Square.
San Francisco treat
In seeking to be fully accommodating to its homeless population, which took full advantage, San Francisco decriminalized public urination and seems to look the other way at public defecation. Now that’s going to cost the liberal haven, and it’s not cheap.
The city has recorded nearly 15,000 calls about the problem since the beginning of the year and already lost a major medical convention over it. When new Mayor London Breed finally took a walk through the town recently, she was shocked.
Result? An $830,977 professional poop patrol, which will have five staffers and a supervisor who will be flush after each earns $184,678 annually in salary and benefits. The patrol also will have access to a special vehicle with a steam cleaner and disinfectant.
The goal, according to Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, is to find the, er, offending material before the complaints are registered. “We’re actually out there looking for it,” he said.
The patrol is just a drop in the bucket of the city’s $11.5 billion budget, which is built on gobs of taxes (transfer taxes, sales taxes, soda taxes and parcel taxes, among others). The budget also covers $12 million per year for housekeeping services for homeless encampments, $2.8 million for a crew to wash down the homeless camps and remove biohazards, $3.1 million for portable toilets, $700,000 for a 10-member needle cleanup squad (with its own minivan) and $364,000 for a four-member needle team.
Tasteless ice cream
The newest flavor of ice cream at Portland, Oregon’s, What the Scoop ice cream shop is Rocky Roe v. Wade. And nothing says ice cream like the image of babies being aborted.
The promotion is to help fund abortion promoter NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, which says, “Order yours now and help defend reproductive freedom.” The organization isn’t saying, but it’s hoping liberal ice cream fans will see a connection between the promotion and the effort to stop the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
In addition to Roe v. Wade flavor, the organization is to receive half the proceeds from sales of brown butter almond brittle, vegan chocolate sorbet and vanilla.
Further, What’s the Scoop in recent weeks also has hosted pro-abortion ice cream socials, where NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon members did the scooping, according to media reports.
“What have we come to when aborting 8-month pre-born babies or aborting babies because they’re little girls, is, one, acceptable, but worse, two, is celebrated!” Jonathan Lockwood, a Portland-based political consultant, wrote on a local blog. “I thought I was pro-choice when I came to Oregon, but after seeing first-hand how insidious this far-left agenda has become, I am embarrassed to call myself pro-choice.”
DNC walk-back
Democrats were quick to leap to conclusions last week when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) claimed it had thwarted a hacking attempt on its database that contains information about millions of voters.
“This attempt,” said Bob Lord, the organization’s chief security officer, “is further proof that there are constant threats as we head into midterm elections, and we must remain vigilant in order to prevent future attacks.”
He followed that up by saying President Donald Trump wasn’t doing enough to protect democracy and that “we can’t do this alone.”
The threat? Uh, well, it was an unauthorized test by a third party – the Michigan Democratic Party, to be specific – and not an attempt to steal voter data, according to Axios.
“We, along with the partners who reported the site, now believe it was built by a third party” and “was not authorized by the DNC, VoteBuilder nor any of our vendors,” Lord later admitted.
He did not apologize for implicating Trump.
In 2016, the DNC and its congressional campaign committee were victims of cyberattacks, thought by some to be perpetrated by Russia. The Republican National Committee also was attacked, but its apparatus was secure and did not permit breaches.