More Great News on Other Fronts (posted 5/4/26)

On Friday I wrote about all the good things that have been happening in our courts lately. But several other groups of feel-good stories are happening, the first of which revolve around bad people doing bad things, and reaping what they sow.

For example, three members of an ultra-creepy, bullying family in Minneapolis were behaving like thuggish creeps at an anti-ICE coven meeting — er, protest — last month. Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez was reporting on the Satanic goings on, so the unholy trio – dad Christopher Ostroushko, mom Deyanna and daughter Paige – attacked her.

The daughter blasted away with a whistle inches from Hernandez’s ears, while a mob began shoving and hitting her, knocking her to the ground and screaming obscenities. Conveniently, video showed all three Ostroushkos at the front of the pack, doing the assaulting.

Or, as the left calls it, “peacefully protesting.”

In past years, these kind of crimes happened in great numbers in lawless blue cities and states – you may remember the months of antifa riots, BLM riots, Michael Brown riots, George Floyd riots, etc. – and the perpetrators were generally given slaps on the wrist, in the rare case that they faced any consequences at all.

But this time, the FBI opened an investigation within hours of the videos surfacing, and last Wednesday a grand jury handed down indictments against all three on a variety of charges. And their reactions were textbook violent lefty cry-bully: they lied their arses off, and whined that they are the real victims.

Dad – a bald guy with a permanent sneer which makes him look like a large, angry thumb — said that he was only defending his wife and daughter, and claimed that Hernandez was the aggressive one that day. You know, the way that a lone, petite woman will often become very aggressive when surrounded by a frothing mob of dozens of screaming leftists. It’s a tale as old as time.

He said, with a straight thumb-face, “We are absolutely not violent people. In fact, we tend to shy away from it.”

Unfortunately for him, the video showed the opposite. So now dad is complaining about the “non-stop backlash” his family has experience since being smeared by that lying video; they’ve gotten hundreds of calls, texts and social media messages every day, and they’ve lost their jobs.

It’s gotten so bad that he says, “It’s a little overwhelming and makes me second-guess even living in this country, to be honest with you.”

To which the only compassionate response has to be, “HA! HA HA! HAHAHAHAHA!!”

I hope his family will stay in this country…for long enough to serve a federal sentence. After which they should definitely get the hell out.

Speaking of terrible people unexpectedly facing accountability, six thugs who were peacefully protesting in LA last year – by trapping cops in a patrol car under an overpass and homicidally raining rocks and bricks down on it – just pled guilty to a raft of federal charges.

They had the stunned and stupid looks on their faces that you’d expect to see on the faces of stupid people who had been watching hundreds of thousands of leftist co-religionists get away with similar crimes for years, and are only now realizing that the Cadaver in Chief has been replaced by the Orange Man.

And Orange-y don’t play.

I imagine the same realization started sinking in for many in the Somali community as a series of coordinated raids were carried out on the Learing Center and dozens of other pirate-adjacent fraud centers throughout Minnesota last week. And for hundreds of others in LA, where dozens of phony hospice-care, Medicaid-draining scams were apparently operating out of every strip mall, store-front, outhouse and dog house within a 50-mile radius.

After years of watching a soul-crushing parade of open, systematic flouting of the law in blue cities from coast to coast, it is SO refreshing to see a wave of accountability starting to sweep across the Augean Stables of corruption that Democrats – and corrupt Republicans too – have set up, and profited from!

The final group of stories that I hope will cheer you up this Monday morning revolve around the theme of dysfunctional, wrong-headed leftist policies collapsing in hugely satisfying ways.

Where better to start than in NYC, where Mamdani is 100 days in, and already his socialist promises are blowing up in his face on a daily basis? First the “warmth of collectivism” resulted in a bunch of homeless people (whom Mamdani had promised to allow to remain on the streets) freezing to death. Then the free buses had to be put on hold, because: duh! Then he announced the first “free” government grocery story will take three years to build, and will cost 10 times what a comparable Whole Foods or other grocery store would cost.

Then he made the creepy ad for tax day – the one where he walked up to the camera, tapped the glass and smirked, saying, “We’re taxing the rich!” and then announced a new tax on rich guys with unoccupied luxury apartments. He specifically called out billionaire investor Ken Griffin, whose apartment he stood in front of, so that the mobs with pitchforks will know where to meet for the lynching.

Annnnddddd… Griffin announced that he might not go ahead with a planned $6 billion NYC building project.

It’s all so stupid! During his time in New York, Griffin has paid the city around $3 billion ($2.3 billion in taxes, and $700 million in charitable giving), with all of the new jobs and downstream spending and tax revenue that goes along with that kind of economic activity. And Griffin had already moved himself and his company to Florida from another failing blue city (Chicago) in 2022.

All of which makes the optics of Mamdani’s gleeful stunt so perversely self-defeating. It’s telling that the smug leftist mantra is, “Tax the rich!” rather than, “Help the poor!” Because they are motivated by envy, and are clearly willing to hurt the poor, if doing so will allow them to hurt the rich.

Ironically, their policies only succeed at the former. Because Griffin – and many other financially successful people – clearly don’t need greedy leftist cities as much as those cities need them. As we can see from the capital and population flight from CA, NY and IL to red states in recent years.

Which brings us to Mamdani’s humiliating press conference last week, where he announced that NYC is in a catastrophic financial crisis. Unexpectedly!

NYC has a 3.88% income tax (added to NY state’s top income tax rate of 10.9%), and a 8.8% sales tax. The city’s budget for 2026 is $119.7 billion – more than the entire state budget of Florida! – and it is STILL not enough. Mamdani’s socialist schemes are going to require billions more from the state – a demand which even Kathy “Wicked Witch of Albany” Hochul is smart enough to greet with, “How about NO!” – as well as billions more in taxes from the richest New Yorkers.

When those people leave – in about 5…4…3… — that money is going to be gouged out of the middle class saps, many of whom voted for Mamdani, thus buying a ticket for FO-ville.

In other words, New York has a metastatic spending problem, which they’ve idiotically misdiagnosed as a revenue problem.

And that condition is similarly afflicting Seattle and their far-left, professional useless person mayor. Katie Wilson speaks like a teenage girl (multiple “likes” riddle every paragraph), and was still being financially supported by her parents when she was elected last November at age 43. She supports government-run grocery stores, and she recently walked picket lines with Starbucks workers and urged people to boycott the company. Coincidentally, Starbucks has been closing stores and shrinking their presence in Seattle, while they just announced a $200 million investment (and 2000 new jobs) in Tennessee.

So naturally, when Wilson was asked last month to respond to the flight of successful people from her city, her answer was AOC-esque: “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if – the ones that leave, like, bye.”

Yes. Two “likes” and one “super” in that deep answer, which was given (to cheers and laughter) at a local university. Because of course it was.

Overall, we have reason to be optimistic. In addition to the short-term edification to be gained from watching these leftist experiments work themselves out – if by “work themselves out” I mean “unravel” (which I do) – longer-term gains should follow.

Whether they’re in New York, LA, Chicago, Seattle or Portland, leftist economic plans don’t work. And they’re not going to start working now…so conservative alternatives should become more attractive as leftist failures compound.

Now if we can just manage to hold onto the House in the mid-terms…

Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!

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