Comments by "Christopher Conard" (@christopherconard2831) on "News For Reasonable People" channel.

  1. Imagine gas getting so expensive that peaceful protesters can't even afford to make Molotov cocktails.
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  2. It's almost as if doing something for purely emotional immediate reasons might have negative long term effects. Well, I'm sure they'll lean not to do it again. Or maybe not, they haven't learned from any of their other bad decisions.
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  3. You gave access to property to a group of people who don't believe in property rights and are now surprised they won't leave. Face it, you gave your property away.
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  4. Speeding up work permits is a disaster for the locals who work in lower tier jobs. Suddenly putting that many into an economy even as large as New York will drive wages into the basement.
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  5. A few months ago I used self checkout at Walmart. The jeans I bought rang up as $3. I double checked and that's what the screen said they were. When finished the paper receipt said the same thing. I dropped my stuff off at my car and went back in and bought 6 more. A human cashier might have caught it the first time, definitely when I went back. But if they're going to make me do do the checkout, it's their responsibility to have the right codes in the computer.
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  6. It makes you miss the days when Vinnie and Guido would stop by to explain the health benefits of moving to a different location.
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  7. We had to break state law. What did you want us to do, provide evidence that we were conspiring to break federal law?
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  8. ​ @terryfrit3749  There's a reason the California DMV is referred to as the Department of Mexican Voters.
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  9. As Nike, and the other retailers, who gave money to BLM how well it protected them.
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  10. Give them a moment to figure out the demographics or political alignment of those involved.
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  11. CHAZ/CHOP Hero "Okay guys, this is what we trained for. Remember, resist!" Turns around "Guys? Um, hello? Where'd everyone go?"
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  12. I'm unimpressed. As a male Floridian I read "Man stabs himself while urinating and watches his car burn." as another Tuesday. C'mon Seattle, step up your game if you want to compete with Florida Man. Be warned though, we are very competitive when it comes to random crazy. We train for it like an Olympic event.
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  13. How to tell what a perspective neighborhood is like before moving in. Check the nearest grocery store and look at what's locked up. Or do they have armed security.
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  14. In the woods near my place there's a homeless camp. After sunset you can see them trickling in. Lately they've begun sleeping behind nearby businesses. Tonight, while walking my dog I saw two tents were set up along the sidewalk. It's expanding. Unfortunately our city council has probably proclaimed us the Berkeley of the East. So I can assume more will be moving in, and eventually there will be the usual suspects passing out more tents as the weather gets cooler. If you see something similar near where you live do what you can to stop it early. Like rust or mold, these groups only expand, never contract.
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  15. In the early 2000's had finally cleared my credit card debt (My fault), and was being bombarded with loan offers. I could understand credit card companies wanting me to sign up, I paid my debts with huge extra interest (eventually). But the real estate loan offers were ridiculous. $500K for a cook at Cracker Barrel? Who in their right mind makes that kind of offer? Unfortunately a lot of people did take the offer. In a couple of years they were walking away from homes they could never afford. Of course, the banks put on their best shocked look when it all blew up.
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  16. Next step will be offering immunity and a pardon for all POC who interpret this as "Black Chicago residents don't have to pay tickets".
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  17. Before the audit comes out I'll take bets. 50:1 odds that reduction in prosecutions is not found to be a cause. For those that want to double down I'm also betting they'll claim there's actually been a reduction in crime. While completely ignoring the fact that the numbers are down because no one is being arrested and most retailers have given up calling the police.
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  18. Oakland failed to apply or looked at the conditions and realized they might actually have to be accountable for how the money is spent? This happened in Detroit (I believe) when they refused some HUD and other federal grants because they would come with an audit and there was no way they were going to open their books.
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  19. Baltimore "Five times? How dare you even count the number of felonies by those sweet babies."
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  20. If the city demands that they be moved, show them an application for a remodel work permit. Tell them you aren't blocking off parking, you are reserving space for the dumpster the construction crew will need. A Seattle version of the NY perpetual scaffolding trick.
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  21. ​ @michaelmaroney1660  You joke, but the majority who receive a conviction will be facing the equivalent of a speeding ticket.
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  22. Non violent crime doesn't affect restaurants? After you get a reputation as the place to go to get your car broken into (non violent) business tends to drop off. And that assumes you don't have to park a couple blocks away and walk through a homeless city to get there.
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  23. And global warming.
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  24. ​ @dankelly5150  Don't worry, they will. Detroit did it for over 40 years.
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  25. They're going to be upset when the overtime disappears. Hopefully enough that they'll testify against her in court.
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  26. Breaking into businesses is ok, the BLM people said so. That's what they have insurance for. Besides, their stealing shoes. Why would you deny poor people shoes?
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  27. If I had units available in Portland I'd consider it if: 1) 72 hour eviction notice. No more of this 6 months without rent and you still can't even begin proceedings against a tenant. 2) The city assumes ALL liability. If other renters come after me with a lawsuit tied to one of the homeless I let in, I point them at the city and their checkbook. This includes fixing the place up for the next person I rent to. 3) Rules. If I, as the landlord, say no loud noises after 9 PM or no drugs for example, I can kick them out.
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  28. Look at the companies moving out of Chicago. Some are moving further out, some are leaving Illinois completely. I live in Florida. We have a division of the Governor's office who's sole purpose is to poach companies from other states. They have a counterpart in Texas. Both have been very successful over the past decade.
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  29. ​ @freddieh5539  My former mother in law was from Minnesota. Her unofficial motto was "40 below keeps the riff raff out". Fortunately for her she passed away before she saw what Minneapolis turned into.
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  30. I had to carry a $1 million policy for my business back in the late 90's. A city their size should have $25-30 million at least. We live in a litigious society, high (often insanely so) settlements aren't that rare.
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  31. My car was broken into over the weekend. Nothing was taken, just the middle console and glove box opened and a stuff scattered. I didn't bother to report it to the police, they really don't care about minor theft anymore. I told a few neighbors and the property manager so others in my complex could be warned. The YMCA excuse of recording over sounds like Sgt Shultz "Nothing! I see nothing." That may have worked 30 years ago when cameras recorded to VHS tapes that were regularly recycled. But who uses that today? Where i work every camera is digital and uploads nightly. If necessary I could call up video from a year ago.
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  32. When you have a person in charge they can make the call to relax the rules. They are responsible for decisions made. When you have a group in charge (I'm guessing the group was picked for political affiliation and diversity), no one is responsible, no one is in charge.
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  33. Last month they announced three stores around Chicago were closing. Same line, "Not meeting expectations".
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  34. Pursued for his protection. My guess. He, or someone close to him reported making statements about self deletion. Sounds like he chose an oncoming semi as the way out.
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  35. I'd be happy if we just went back to arresting them, then actually putting them in jail, in some cities.
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  36. I won't say never, but it will take a generation. Even if San Francisco reversed all their woke policies from the last 15-20 years today it would take around a decade to bring things back.
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  37. Very old laws that haven't been updated. Now abused by a new generation of thieves. It was only a few years ago one of the states got rid of the law requiring motor vehicles be proceeded by a person with a lamp at night. Despite the invention of headlights, no one bothered to take it off the books. Squatting made sense when we were a more agrarian based society and homesteading was still a thing. There was a resurgence during the Great Depression when thousands of farms, homes, and businesses were abandoned. Eventually states figured out that they could seize abandoned property for non payment of taxes and sell them off so squatting dropped off.
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  38.  @spankynater4242  The rate of increase did slow in areas where clean needles were being distributed. But the overall rate was also curving down, so how much it was influenced by is questionable. I helped with a needle exchange program for a short time in the '80s. The differences between then and now were that we were privately, not taxpayer, funded. Also we gave only one or two more kits out then a person turned in. We didn't pass them out by the box to anyone who walked up.
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  39. If I went down the full list of everything the state of Florida recommends I have I, and the entire population of the state, would be classified as prepers. After you've been in an area that's shut down because of a hurricane once, you learn to be prepared. Also to have a Plan B, C, and maybe D ready.
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  40. Remember when NYC decided to house the homeless in hotels that didn't normally take them (In more upscale neighborhoods) because of the Coof. The locals, who probably supported every taxpayer funded housing project were absolutely shocked by the behavior. Nimbyism kicked into overdrive. They demanded the new neighbors be moved out. They claimed it was because they needed to be closer to the various "support facilities" that many of the addicts and street crazies used. You know, for their own good. It had nothing to do with suddenly having to deal with what they had foisted on other neighborhoods around the city.
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  41. Several years ago someone pointed out that in NYC if they had just given every person "helped" by one of the housing programs $100K in cash it would have cost less. Of course if you gave them a check for that much, many would have blown it within a month and ended up right back where they started. But at least the city could say "We tried. Not our problem." and not be responsible for future payments.
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  42. Once upon a time we hung horse thieves. Maybe a bit too much today, but catch and release damn sure isn't working.
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  43. 1) People kept buying weed the old fashioned way. So no tax revenue. 2) Expenses far outweighed income. 3) Actual costs of dealing with the problem turned out to be higher than expected. But that, I'm sure, has nothing to do with decriminalizing all other drugs. 4) Absolutely none of this came as a surprise to anyone who can put three brain cells together. Unfortunately the west coast states screwing things up so bad has set the marijuana legalization attempts back for everywhere else. A few years back there was a reasonably sane system proposed here in Florida. It was based similar to alcohol laws. License wholesale production, growers. Separate license for sale to public, limited to X number per county. Small amounts (5-6 plants I think) could be grown for personal use. Local municipal laws could control if and where public sales were allowed. Increased penalties for sale of alcohol or any drugs to minors. Rules against using by employers or as a condition of probation would still remain in effect. Now, after looking at San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, etc there's a big pushback against legalization. As an addendum, I don't smoke pot, haven't for many years. I just think making something that I can easily grow in my yard illegal is silly.
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  44. Target "Wait. Isn't that the beer you just stole from us?"
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  45. Many countries have warnings against traveling to San Francisco.
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  46. They were shut down in large part because of all or nothing thinking. A lot of those were hell holes. If you weren't crazy when you went in, you soon would be. But instead of increasing the requirements to be placed in one, they kicked almost everyone out. This unfortunately included people who genuinely needed regular monitoring, not just a note reminding them when to take which drugs.
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  47. Said by people who've never filed an insurance claim. Probably lots of lawsuits though.
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  48. A cellphone video or picture can at least give a description.
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  49. Nearest storm drain. You or I would get hit with a huge fine if we tried it. But it's cruel and inhumane to expect certain groups to follow the rules.
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  50. My notable memory of Philadelphia is seeing my first street crazy. Some guy yelling at turn signal or light pole. I don't know what set him off, but he definitely didn't like that pole.
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