Over and over, Trump has shared that terse phrase with his tens of millions of Twitter followers, including on Wednesday and Thursday. And over and over, he has tried to imply that Democrats broadly and former vice president Joe Biden specifically are soft on crime. That his likely general election opponent and other leaders in the Democratic Party are happy to have social structures collapse into anarchy for some unclear reason.
To make that case, Trump has repeatedly lifted up a statistical factoid, as he did during an event at the White House on Wednesday.
“You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all Democrat run,” he said. “Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”
This is factually incorrect and the Washington Post is going to hammer Trump because of it.
What is the information they are going to use?
Oh, 17 out of the 20 are and the top 10 absolute most violent are Democrat-run.
Let’s dig deeper. The mayor of Las Vegas is Carolyn Goodman, the wife of the former mayor Oscar Goodman. They are independents but were registered Democrats until 2009. Oscar Goodman was the Democrat mayor of Las Vegas for the first 10 years of his three terms in office.
The mayor of San Antonio is Ron Nirenberg, and while he is registered as an independent, he is a Progressive. He’s so Progressive that he is not a Democrat because he is Left of the Democrats (if that is even possible at this point).
The one I have no history for is Springfield Mayor, Ken McClure.
So while only 17 out of the 20 are Democrats, 19 out of the 20 are either Democrats, former Democrats, or Leftist/Progressives.
Jacksonville seems to be the odd one out.
When it comes to per-capita violence, the Republican drops off, and 19 of the 20 are Democrat.
For the Washington Post, Trump is completely wrong because only 95% of our most violent cities are Democrat-run instead of 100%.
From a statistical standpoint, it is possible to reject the null hypothesis with more than a 95% confidence interval, but it’s dodgy.
A few days ago I wrote a post about how the protesters wanting to destroy the Emancipation monument were ignorant vandals and savages.
The situation at the monumnet has gotten worse.
An elderly black historian tried to explain to the protesters why they were wrong and had shit for brains.
Anyway, here’s Don Folden, a DC tour guide, making a case for keeping the statue. Glenn wouldn’t let him speak because he’s “old.” pic.twitter.com/7FiiXYXOwD
This follows on the heels of another black historian and reenactor who tried to explain to the public on the news why the monument shouldn’t be torn down.
“That man is not kneeling on two knees with his head bowed. He’s in the act of getting up… looking forward to a future of freedom.” pic.twitter.com/40OHSzQzvy
These protesters and activists are the most supremely ignorant people in history.
They literally have the entire wealth of recorded human knowledge at their fingertips. It’s all available online and immediately accessible through the smartphones that they all have.
I can only believe that they have to be willfully ignorant because they should have at least accidentally stumbled onto some bit of knowledge by know.
This is who is leading the Left around by the nose.
As I posted yesterday, H.L. Mencken said:
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
The moral certainty that these people have that they are right despite the total factual inaccuracy of their core assumptions is proof of their uncivilized nature.
They cannot learn because they don’t want to learn. Knowlege will destabilize the moral certainty that they have.
At the core, these people are savages, in the strictest definition of that word.
They will continue to destroy what they don’t know and refuse to know until it is all gone.
There is no reasoning with them. That is abundantly clear.
As they used to say “civilize ’em with a Krag.” I have a feeling it will come to that.
It works as advertised. I guess you have also noticed the use of umbrellas asa shield for pepper spray and low-vel less lethal ammunition. Watch till the end, lower left side and see how well umbrellas fare against flash-bangs.
ENOUGH…The moment the Seattle Police take back control – refusing the BLM protesters any surrender to their Police Department …it’s happening pic.twitter.com/mla9hEkCTz
Coronavirus pandemic or not, an investment advisory company is leaving the cultural unrest in Seattle and moving its headquarters to Phoenix’s Camelback Corridor.
” … The unrest that has taken place in the city of Seattle … there is really is not a downtown business community today,” Smead Capital Management, President and CEO Cole Smead told KTAR News 92.3 FM.
“We’re hearing rumors of 40-story buildings that will be only 20-percent occupied by October,” Smead said.
“My biggest concern for Seattle was what the business community is going to come back to, and what kind of businesses are going to come back for customers.”
This is going to be the first of what will be many large corporate exoduses.
Numerous Seattle businesses – including an auto repair shop, a tattoo parlor and a property management company – sued the city Wednesday, alleging city officials were complicit in allowing an “occupied protest” that has made them feel unsafe in their neighborhood, according to reports.
“(T)his lawsuit is about the constitutional and other legal rights of plaintiffs – businesses, employees and residents in and around CHOP – which have been overrun by the city of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services and inaccessible to the public at large,” the lawsuit says, Q13 FOX reported.
The plaintiffs allege that city leaders provided the demonstrators with barriers, public restrooms and medical supplies – in effect supporting the occupation of the neighborhood and hindering the efforts of local businesspeople, employees and residents to reach their buildings, receive deliveries and provide services, the Seattle Times reported.
“The result of the City’s actions has been lawlessness,” Calfo Eakes LLP, the law firm representing the plaintiffs, told the Times in a statement. “There is no public safety presence. Police officers will not enter the area unless it is a life-or-death situation, and even in those situations, the response is delayed and muted, if it comes at all.”
Small business owners are leaving too.
One local business owner, Joey Rodolfo of Buki clothing, told “Fox & Friends” this week that he plans to move out of state because of what he described as Seattle’s lack of governmental leadership.
“Since we have no leadership and we have a city council that’s so socialist, there really is very, very little support for businesses,” Rodolfo said. “As far as the city reaching out to small businesses like ourselves, or any business, there has been zero.”
The Mayor of Seattle announced that she would have the CHOP removed.
Protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone confronted construction workers as they attempted to remove roadblocks on Friday morning.
Employees from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6.00am with trucks and heavy machinery to haul away the concrete and wooden barriers in an effort to reduce CHOP’s size.
Video taken by Converge Media showed Sam Zimbabwe, head of SDOT, and a representative from Mayor Jenny Durkan speaking to demonstrators, with the representative assuring that no protesters would be removed.
Several marchers stood in front of a bulldozer while others lay down n the middle of the street. Others sat on top of the wooden barricades.
At around 7.30am, SDOT began driving its construction vehicles out of the area without having removed any of the barricades. Police were also briefly on site but had dispersed by 8.30am.
You can watch a video of that attempted dismantling here:
This is what happens when you can’t use force at all, the protesters win.
The police can’t arrest them or use force to disperse them.
DOT can’t run over them, so one asshole lying in the street will stop an entire DOT crew is stopped and turned away.
CHOP is driving businesses away and is prompting what I can only imagine being a billion-dollar lawsuit against the city, and the city can’t muster up the testicular fortitude to do more than ask the CHOP to go away, nicely.
A city cannot exist like this.
Seattle is dead, it’s just going to take a while for the corpse to rot away into nothing.
The Biden campaign invited KDKA to Lancaster for a brief interview with the presumptive Democratic nominee. After he wrapped up a campaign event, we came no closer than 8 feet apart and wore masks.
Biden says we need to see more of that.
“I would go back to making sure that everybody had masks, that you had PPE lined up, making sure we stockpile all the things that we need and we don’t have now. The one thing we do know, these masks make a gigantic difference. I would insist that everybody in public be wearing that mask. Anyone to reopen, it would have to make sure that they walked into a business that had masks.”
Rice: Couldn’t you use your federal leverage to mandate that?
Biden: Yes.
Rice: Would you?
Biden: Yes, I would from an executive standpoint, yes I would.
Rice: So you would, in effect, mandate the wearing of masks?
Biden: I would do everything possible to make it required the people had to wear masks in public.”
Exactly where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that the President of the United States has the authority to make us cover our faces with a worthless piece of cloth in order to go outside in public or engage in private business with others?
If I go out without a mask on under the Biden Administration, can I be charged with a Federal crime?
If I repeatedly defy the mask executive order, can I be sent to Federal prison for it?
Who will enforce this? Will the FBI investigate me for not wearing a mask?
This is such over-the-top tyrannical bullshit but that’s what the Democrats want.
