One of the math problems high schoolers have to solve is translating a triangle from one set of coordinates (three points on a graph) to another set. Typically, the problem shows the triangle with labels for the points where each of its three angles lies on the graph. Here's a sample translation problem: Move each point by, say, 2, 2 [on the y and x axes], if you remember). To solve the problem of translation, the student then adds or subtracts the given change from the labeled coordinates of the given triangle on the graph. It’s not, as they say, rocket surgery. A point, or triangle vertex, lying at 5, 1, then moves, or translates, to point lying at 7, 3. And so on for the other two vertices. The triangle stays the same; it just moves on the graph as each vertex translates by 2, 2.
The Drug Problem
So, let’s take the triangle of druggies, free drug paraphernalia in vending machines, and homelessness. If you move the second coordinate point in that triangle, you will move the other two. “Look, see it’s simple,” as POTUS might say, “I’m not kidding.” So, Brooklyn now has a vending machine that provides addicts “free access to Naloxone, drug-test strips that detect fentanyl, and ‘Safer Smoking’ kits that come with a pipe, mouthpiece and lip balm for smoking crack and crystal meth.” * Now, if you are an addict who currently has your homeless “home” on a sidewalk a few blocks away from the coordinates with the free drug paraphernalia, what do you think you might do? Yep, translate. And if in your drug-induced stupor, you use the vending machine, which product are you most likely to select? I’m guessing the crack pipe, but hey, what do I know. Obviously, the authorities know what they are doing in offering a new set of coordinates. Why else would New York City see an increase in overdose deaths?
The Homeless Problem
Remember the kerfuffle over Super Bowl LVI held in Los Angeles? Yep, coordinates of the homeless were translated so that visitors would not see them. ** Translation: The Left’s solution to almost every problem. Simply move it. Who’s going to notice? Problem solved, right?
The Migrant Problem
And translation seems to be working well for the influx of unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border. Some 200,000+ of them have been “translated.” But in this instance, no government official seems to know their coordinates. One possibility is that they have been translated into the coordinates of child labor, drug trade, and sex trafficking. Now there’s a new triangle, and its one that continuously moves!
Or take the New York mayor’s solution to the migrant influx. Eric Adams has put them in schools, hotels, and now homes. Yes, the mayor wants one of those coordinate points to be someone’s home—and he’ll even come up with some money for the translation.
Ah! Modern Liberals
What can I say? Apparently, a moved problem is a solved problem.
*Chris Pandolfo, NYC unveils vending machine for drug users, with free crack pipes and Narcan for ODs. Fox News online at https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-unveils-vending-machine-drug-users-free-crack-pipes-narcan-ods Accessed June 17, 2023.
Patrick Hauf, https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-county-free-pipes-smoke-crack-meth-opioids-report LA County handing out free pipes to smoke crack, meth, opioids: report. Fox News online at Accessed June 17, 2023.
Molly Line, Boston’s crack pipe distribution strategy sparks backlash as ‘methadone mile’ crisis persists. Fox News online at https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bostons-crack-pipe-distribution-strategy-sparks-backlash-methadone-mile-crisis-persists Accessed June 17, 2023.
**Cfraig Graziosi, Outrage over homeless encampment cleared to make way for Super Bowl in Los Angeles: ‘Shameful’. Independent online Thursday, 27 January, 2022. Online at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/super-bowl-homeless-camp-outrage-b2002118.html. Accessed June 17, 2023.
***Haley Brown, Bernadette Hogan, and Emily Crane, Adams floats idea of New Yorkers housing migrants in ‘private residences’. New York Post online at https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/adams-wants-new-yorkers-to-house-migrants-in-private-residences/ Accessed June 17, 2023.
The Drug Problem
So, let’s take the triangle of druggies, free drug paraphernalia in vending machines, and homelessness. If you move the second coordinate point in that triangle, you will move the other two. “Look, see it’s simple,” as POTUS might say, “I’m not kidding.” So, Brooklyn now has a vending machine that provides addicts “free access to Naloxone, drug-test strips that detect fentanyl, and ‘Safer Smoking’ kits that come with a pipe, mouthpiece and lip balm for smoking crack and crystal meth.” * Now, if you are an addict who currently has your homeless “home” on a sidewalk a few blocks away from the coordinates with the free drug paraphernalia, what do you think you might do? Yep, translate. And if in your drug-induced stupor, you use the vending machine, which product are you most likely to select? I’m guessing the crack pipe, but hey, what do I know. Obviously, the authorities know what they are doing in offering a new set of coordinates. Why else would New York City see an increase in overdose deaths?
The Homeless Problem
Remember the kerfuffle over Super Bowl LVI held in Los Angeles? Yep, coordinates of the homeless were translated so that visitors would not see them. ** Translation: The Left’s solution to almost every problem. Simply move it. Who’s going to notice? Problem solved, right?
The Migrant Problem
And translation seems to be working well for the influx of unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border. Some 200,000+ of them have been “translated.” But in this instance, no government official seems to know their coordinates. One possibility is that they have been translated into the coordinates of child labor, drug trade, and sex trafficking. Now there’s a new triangle, and its one that continuously moves!
Or take the New York mayor’s solution to the migrant influx. Eric Adams has put them in schools, hotels, and now homes. Yes, the mayor wants one of those coordinate points to be someone’s home—and he’ll even come up with some money for the translation.
Ah! Modern Liberals
What can I say? Apparently, a moved problem is a solved problem.
*Chris Pandolfo, NYC unveils vending machine for drug users, with free crack pipes and Narcan for ODs. Fox News online at https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-unveils-vending-machine-drug-users-free-crack-pipes-narcan-ods Accessed June 17, 2023.
Patrick Hauf, https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-county-free-pipes-smoke-crack-meth-opioids-report LA County handing out free pipes to smoke crack, meth, opioids: report. Fox News online at Accessed June 17, 2023.
Molly Line, Boston’s crack pipe distribution strategy sparks backlash as ‘methadone mile’ crisis persists. Fox News online at https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bostons-crack-pipe-distribution-strategy-sparks-backlash-methadone-mile-crisis-persists Accessed June 17, 2023.
**Cfraig Graziosi, Outrage over homeless encampment cleared to make way for Super Bowl in Los Angeles: ‘Shameful’. Independent online Thursday, 27 January, 2022. Online at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/super-bowl-homeless-camp-outrage-b2002118.html. Accessed June 17, 2023.
***Haley Brown, Bernadette Hogan, and Emily Crane, Adams floats idea of New Yorkers housing migrants in ‘private residences’. New York Post online at https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/adams-wants-new-yorkers-to-house-migrants-in-private-residences/ Accessed June 17, 2023.
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