Yesterday was the Trans Day of Remembrance.  That is the day, every year, in which we remember all the trans people who were murdered in the United States.

It trended on Twitter.

It came the day after International Men’s Day.

If you want to understand Leftist Woke intersectionality, unlike #InternationalMensDay, the countless corporations and several US politicians were sure to Tweet their supports for #TransDayOfRemembrance.

The real reason I wanted to bring this day up, was because the focus of the day is on the “epidemic” of trans homicides in this country.

At least 37 transgender or gender-nonconforming people have been murdered in 2020. Most are trans women of color. On #TransDayOfRemembrance, we re-commit to ending this epidemic and the violence, discrimination, and poverty too many transgender Americans experience every day. pic.twitter.com/C3mPUAxY5C

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 20, 2020

All, 37 of them.

I don’t want to seem too flippant about that.  Murder is bad, always.

My point is this:

Take the homicide rate from 2019.  It was, according to the FBI, 16,425 people.

If you extrapolated that to this year, 37 trans homicides amount to 0.22% of all victims.  Studies have suggested that 0.5% of the population is “gender non-conforming.”  That means that the murder rate is disproportionately low for trans people, roughly half the rate for representation.

But, that’s not the only factor to consider.  If you look at the 37 trans homicide victims in this country, the majority were not killed for being trans.  They were the unfortunate victims of everyday crime, mostly robberies.

I must point out that Out is an LGBT magazine, but that article points out when trans people were misgendered or “dead named” by the media.  For local crime stories, the local media generally gets information straight from the police.  If a trans person has ID with their “dead name” and the coroner identifies a body from anatomy, and that is what gets reported, that’s not a hate crime against a transperson.  It’s not the like press goes around and getting personal biographical information for a one-paragraph local crime story.

But I digress…

So most murdered trans people are not murdered for being trans.  That is, as far as murders go, good news.  It seems that the US is not a terribly transphobic place in which citizens go around hunting trans people.

But in 2020, this day really rankled me.

Here is why.

Progressive politics have caused a spike in murders across the country.  Defunding the police, politicians attacking the police, politicians letting criminals out of jail due to COVID, bail reform, every bad progressive idea on law and order has radically increased the homicide rate in just about every major city in this country.

Minneapolis 2020 homicides surpass last year’s total in just 8 months

Chicago murders up in 2020, outpacing national increase: FBI data

LA’s 2020 Murder Rate 25% Above Last Year

Murders and shootings are up in New York City, and it’s not just a ‘spike’, analyst says: ‘We’re in uncharted waters.”

What’s behind Houston, Harris County’s rising homicide rates?

Another killing means St. Louis ties record homicide rate

Detroit homicides up 30%, non-fatal shootings in the city up by nearly 50%

These are just some examples.

Let’s look at Chicago.  Homicides spiked in Chicago in 2016.  In the following three years, homicides decreased substantially.  Then 2020 reversed that and 2020 is going to beat Chicago’s 2016 record.

Last year, Chicago had 472 homicides, so far this year it’s 711.  That is an increase in 239 homicides as of me writing this post.

Progressive policies directly lead to 239 (so far) more homicides this year than last year.  That’s 6.4 times as many trans people murdered.

In Los Angeles, as of October, there were 261 homicides, a 25% increase over the previous year.  That means 53 more homicides this year over last, due to Progressive policies.

In New York City there were 321 between January and September of 2020, compared to 230 in the same time period in 2019.  That is 91 more murders.

Over and over again we have seen cities that have had more murders this year than last year.

Yet the Left only stops to have a day of remembrance for 37 murders, and only because the victims were gender non-conforming.

The Left doesn’t care about murders unless they can use them to advance some political agenda.  In this case, Woke victim status.

This year, it is uniquely disgusting to take mostly random homicides and try to claim victim status from them when these same people are causing hundreds and thousands of more people to be murdered with their policies.

Clearly, some murder victims are more equal than others.

I admit I love a good stunt. That is the main reason I watch Bond movies and Hooper has  a special place in my heart.  I remember watching my first Buster Keaton movie and realize “there are not the same old stunts. These are the dawn of the stunts!”

And yes, there were some before. but he was the Merlin of them all.

My son is doing math equations.  He’s really advanced in math.  He was doing some at the breakfast table this morning.

Son: “Five plus what is eight?”

Me: “What ain’t no number I ever heard of.  Can you count on your fingers to what.”

Son: “What?”

Wife: “Say what one more time, I dare you.”

Daughter: (Meekly) “What.”

I don’t know if this is good parenting or bad parenting, but it came together so beautifully.  This is one of those times that reminds me how much I love my wife, that she can immediately jump into something like this, knowing exactly what I’m doing, and play her role perfectly.

And yes, my son knew the answer was three.

Of course it had to be CNN, what else?

But who is was Orlando Hall and what did he do to deserve the unjustified fury of an obviously racist All White Jury?

Prosecutors said Hall and his accomplices went to the man’s home because they thought he stole their money and instead kidnapped his 16-year-old sister, Lisa Rene, after she refused to let them inside.

Hall then raped the teen — an honors student and aspiring doctor — in a car and later drove her to a hotel in Arkansas, where he and his accomplices bound and repeatedly raped her, prosecutors said.

The following morning, Hall said the teen had known “too much” and took her to a park where he and another man dug a grave earlier that afternoon, but were unable to find the site.

One day later, on Sept. 26, 1994, Hall and two other men took the teen to Byrd Natural Lake Area in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where Hall placed a sheet over her head and whacked her with a shovel, prosecutors said.

“Rene screamed and tried to run away, but the men tackled her and took turns beating her with the shovel,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “After soaking her with gasoline, they dragged her into the grave and buried her alive.”

I am not going to even discuss the exceedingly brutal crime. The poor girl did not deserve that suffering and death in anybody’s book.

Now, if you come to me and say you are against the Death Penalty, I will automatically assume you do so for moral and/or religious reasons which I will disagree to, but will respect fully. Criminals like Hall dod not deserve to die with a lethal injection unless they get the cocktail from “Law Abiding Citizen.”

But when you use an alleged opposition to the Death Penalty as purely Race Card during an attack of Trump Derangement Syndrome, you are just vile scum and even a frigging enemy of the race you think you are defending.  And late & lame excuses and explanations will do little (if nothing) to clear you from the fact that you took sides with a rapist and a murderer.

Dear Keith: If your standing against Death Penalty was true, you would not have tagged it with the Race Card. You abused the memory of that poor child and shat on the suffering of his family because you wanted to be “BLM edgy” and blame another “racist” thing on Trump.

But you are with CNN. Being scum is your default position and basic job description.

Gov Andrew M Cuomo of NY will receive the International Emmy Founders Award in recognition of his leadership during the Covid19 pandemic & his masterful use of TV to inform & calm people around the world. The Emmy will be presented to @NYGovCuomo on Nov 23 https://t.co/dwKIImwYNV pic.twitter.com/1mKkmg6FKW

— International Emmy Awards (@iemmys) November 20, 2020

This is an award for his TV briefings.

Briefings in which he attacked Trump after he (Cuomo) caused the largest loss of life due to COVID of any state in the union by a wide margin.

This is actually worst than his book deal.

This means that other people than Cuomo and his brother thought that he did a good deal.

This demonstrates just how out of touch with reality the Leftist Hollywood bubble really is.

Angry New Yorkers should burst that bubble.  Maybe with a fleet of Killdozers.