My dog Cosmo gets mirrors. He looks into them and knows that the dog he sees is him. Not a threat, and incredibly handsome. He knows this. This awareness does not always translate to windows or shadows.
He will bark at his shadow on a fence until it goes away. He’s funny like that. Reflections in windows are different from mirrors. Not as clear. This sometimes confuses him, and Austin City Councilor and now Congressman Greg Casar is like that, too.
Confused.
He barked a lot when it was fashionable on the left to hate the police (more than usual, summer of love, you may recall) and defunded them in Austin. He helped cut 100 million from the budget, which he said were resources that could be reinvested in the “community’s safety and well-being.” More barking. Greg moved on (politically) to Congress, where he is known to yap with the brain trust lovingly referred to as The Squad, which explains why he has asked the police to increase patrols around his Austin home.
He defunded them to make Austin safer, and I guess his community is not safer.
‘It’s come to our attention that Anti police king of the defund movement in Austin @GregCasar who only last week called APD an agency with racist practices has requested enhanced patrols around his house for the next week,’ the association wrote.
‘Maybe he should hire private security like his fellow squad members do. Sure seems like he wants the police in his neighborhood, just not yours.’
Would it be racist to refuse his request?
Racism is a lot like my dog looking at his reflection in a window. Sometimes, it seems like a mirror, and other times, it looks like a dog outside in the yard. It is confusing. The racist Austin PD (APD) doesn’t get to decide. They had better start doing more to protect his ass if it can find the resources, but that will mean fewer of them to protect the rest of The Community. That would be – at least in theory, the gerrymandered 35th in Texas.
The 35 runs down I 35 from Austin to San Antonio by no work of the left – but it has been a Democrat district for the ten years that it has existed and will likely remain one given that it begins in Austin and ends in San Antonio.
That squiggle is not Cesar’s fault. Still, he is on the hook for his defund antics, his ongoing disrespect for Peace Officers, his choice of congressional friends (Sandy Cortez has his back), and this recent request for heightened diligence from the racists he defunded to keep him safe.
His support for showing no support for the APD resulted in a slew of retirements on top of the defunding because smart cops who’ve put in the time knew their city was more interested in making them into the next viral political smear than having their back—a problem duplicated in nearly every (probably every) Democrat-run urban area from sea to rising sea.
Since the summer of Love and Defund Mania, homicide rates have risen an average of 10% across 45 US cities. According to FOX7, Austin ranked 15th on that list. I couldn’t find Austin on the list of 40 cities at the link FOX7 provided, but a general search for crime data showed a rise in homicides and property crime consistent with other urban areas post-defund, and there are more than 45.
It is less safe because they have fewer resources. Greg Casar is directly responsible for that in his community, and now he wants the APD to divert more of what is left to ensure the area around him is safer.
Greg Casar is an assh*le, and he’s barking mad (as in crazy) if he doesn’t see that.
