According to the linked video below, the estimated nationwide losses from retail theft and looting in 2022 were pegged at $112 Billion dollars, up from $94 billion dollars in 2021.

(The former Target executive also mentioned the interesting fact that Target expends around $10 million dollars to set up a new Target store.)

So this is no small problem, and it’s obviously growing.

Add this to the other negative quality of life issues–things like the threats of random violent attacks, carjackings, reductions in police forces and policing, light or no prosecution (see current Philly DA Larry Krasner), homeless encampments, crazy people ranting in the streets, open drug use, garbage, needles, graffiti, broken glass, and human feces everywhere–and it seems to me that there should be a general exodus from these cities, if it hasn’t already gotten underway.

At some point, a lot of people are going to decide that these Democrat paradises are simply unlivable, and they’ll vote with their feet.

Hopefully (but, I doubt it) they will have learned a lesson, and will not be contaminating the places they move to with the same political ideas which turned their former domiciles into hell holes.

See this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWdel6uBJ4&t=236s

Be careful what you wish for. RFK could just as easily – or perhaps even more easily – take votes away from Trump or whoever ends up being the GOP nominee as opposed to taking them from Biden. Hard to tell.

Man made diamonds are probably more used in the oil parch for drill bits than for gem stones. Polycrystalline Diamond Compact bits:

https://www.slb.com/products-and-services/innovating-in-oil-and-gas/drilling/bottomhole-assemblies/drill-bits/pdc-bits

The downhole motors used to turn the drill bit also use bearings made from PCD material. Diamonds are a directional driller’s best friend?

My paternal grandparents were rockhounds. Along that line, my grandfather had a tumbler to polish rocks/gems.

My grandparents died 50 years ago.

Does any official have the guts to call in the National Guard? Will tanks end up petrolling the mean streets of Philly?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run

As I mentioned in my first comment on this subject, there have been sporadic reports about groups of “youts” charging into things like WAWA convenience stores and looting and destroying these smaller stores.

In my original comment on this topic I linked to a report which mentioned the looting, a couple of days ago, of three different stores.

According to this, later reporting the looting was far more widespread, and continued for a second day, with dozens of stores in several different parts of Philly hit.*

What an advertisement for locating your store in the “City of Brotherly Love.” No doubt if these stores pull out of Philly there will be loud cries of “racism.”

* See https://www.fox29.com/news/philadelphia-looting-night-2-smash-and-grabs-continue-as-stores-close-police-increase-patrols

Inside India’s lab-grown diamond industry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTUaWnvIOp4

Reporter man, reporter man!

Doing the things a reporter CAN.

When Biden SPEAKS, the reporter CAVES.

Reporter man!