Elections; 2024
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Quote:You won't understand not being afraid to die, would you? Trumptards are fearful but that is not a good strategy . . . unless you see yourself as a fat rodent in a barn full of thin and hungry cats:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you.
Why Do People Think Crime Is Worse Than It Actually Is?
In 2022, according to F.B.I. numbers, there were 370 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 Americans. Even allowing for some underreporting, this likely means there was less than one violent crime for every 200 people. So the great majority of Americans haven’t been victims lately, or probably ever. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate
-in-the-usa-since-1990/
What this implies is that public views about crime needn’t have much to do with personal experience. They may instead be shaped by impressions people pick up from media, both news and social, and from politicians.
In other words, perceptions about crime are like perceptions about the economy — perhaps more so: They don’t necessarily bear much relationship to reality.
Now, sometimes popular impressions are more or less right. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, when Hollywood was producing vigilante thrillers like “Death Wish” and dystopian sagas like “Escape From New York,” violent crime really was surging.
However, violent crime began falling rapidly in the early 1990s, for reasons that remain unclear. Whatever the source of the good news, there were two remarkable things about this decline. First, it was truly epic; as someone who has lived in New York since 2015 but visited it many times over previous decades, I can attest that the city feels infinitely safer than it did in the bad old days. Second, most Americans didn’t notice.
Donald Trump devoted his 2017 inaugural address to the theme of “American carnage” — a supposed wave of violence sweeping our cities. At the time, actual urban violence was near a generational low point. But his rhetoric nonetheless resonated with many Americans. After all, throughout the epic decline in crime, voters kept telling pollsters that crime was rising nationally (although they were more sanguine about crime in their own areas, about which they may have had more personal knowledge):
And like views about the economy, perceptions about crime have a strong partisan element, with Republicans generally more likely to say that crime is rising, especially when a Democrat is president.
In 2020 and 2021, it briefly looked as if Trump’s dark vision might retroactively be coming true. There was in fact a surge in crime beginning in 2020, especially in murders.
Unlike the somewhat mysterious decline in crime in previous decades, this crime wave wasn’t too hard to explain. The Covid-19 pandemic led to a lot of isolation and disruption, plus a lot of psychological stress, making it plausible that some Americans became disconnected from the social bonds that usually keep most of us law-abiding.
The big question was whether the post-Covid surge in crime would, like the post-Covid surge in inflation, prove transitory. Would crime keep rising, or would it subside back to relatively low levels?
Well, the answer appears to be in, and it’s encouraging. Murders dropped significantly in 2022, and so far seem to be falling even faster this year. Take the example of New York City, which had 319 murders in 2019 — down from 2,262 in 1990! — but saw that total rise to 488 in 2021. If trends this year continue, the number of murders in 2023 will probably be under 400, much of the way back to the low crime rates of the 2010s. https://jasher.substack.com/p/murder-fell-6-percent-in-2022-and
I should acknowledge that while violent crime is clearly on the downswing, some forms of property crime are still running high. Many pharmacies in New York and other cities, concerned about theft, now keep their products locked
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Quote:Dream about Trumptards running America:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.
I'll be napping.
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” — Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-rebuked-for-call-to-termin
ate-constitution-over-2020-election-results
Former Republican strategist raises alarms about GOP in 'The Conspiracy to End America'
Stuart Stevens has spent the majority of his decades-long career getting Republicans elected to political office. But his latest book is a warning to the country about the current state of the GOP and its threat to America’s democracy. Amna Nawas spoke with Stevens about the book titled, "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy."
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Had you asked me that morning if Republicans would accept defeat if Joe Biden won by over 8 million votes and north of 300 electoral college votes, my answer would have been simple: What else could they do? They wouldn’t like it, but when you walk off the field of the Super Bowl, the score is the score. Endless hours would be spent by the despondent losing fans analyzing what could have been done differently, but none of it would matter. The final scoreboard was never wrong.
I should have known better. Any faint hope I had that the Republican Party might seize on a Trump defeat as an impetus to self-correct was quickly destroyed. I watched Republican senators and congressmen I’d help elect, men and women I knew to be sane and decent, refuse to acknowledge what grade-school children knew to be true: Donald Trump had lost the 2020 race. When I spoke to a few, I heard variations of “We’re just humoring him. What harm can it do?”
Soon their answer would come as they ran for their lives from domestic terrorists their leader had called to action and their complicity had emboldened.
Download Stuart Stevens’ free books from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Stuart+Stevens+America
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You won't understand not being afraid to die, would you? Trumptards are fearful but that is not a good strategy . . . unless you see yourself as a fat rodent in a barn full of thin and hungry cats:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you.
Then Second completely moves his own goalposts again.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Trump Scrambles to Return More Than $200 Million in Donor Money as His 'Truth' Network Fails Amid Legal Battles
The litigations stacking up on Donald Trump’s doorstep are starting to have a significant impact on his businesses. Some of his donors and investors are rethinking their commitment and withdrawing initially invested funds.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-scrambles-to-return-mo
re-than-200-million-in-donor-money-as-his-truth-network-fails-amid-legal-battles/ss-AA1iOVnV?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=73d03114dda7428d9742f08d794403ad&ei=63
Oh no trolls, oh no. Too funny...
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Yep...
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Petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballot heads to court
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The Whig Party of the 19th century collapsed in spectacular fashion due to its internal divisions over slavery. Like the Whigs, Republicans today seem divided among those who wish to govern and those who wish merely to make noise. If the Republicans of today remain deadlocked, they will suffer a similar fate. A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party.
https://www.rawstory.com/house-republican-chaos-2666052999/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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More Texas counties are trying to prevent people from using roads to get an abortion
Mark Lee Dickson, a Texas pastor who has led the efforts, praised the vote.
"Guys, I long for the day (when), coast to coast, abortion is considered a great moral, social and political wrong and is outlawed in every single state," Dickson told commissioners.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/nation-world/government-politics/texas-a
bortion-travel-ban/article_f27056ab-d7c5-50bb-b66d-4fc75179b349.html
It is another story about Trumptards being enormous assholes.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by THG:
Yep...
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Petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballot heads to court
Please do it. Don't back off. Make it happen.
Joe Biden* loses 1,000 times out of 1,000 if they strip Trump off the ballot of a single state.
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Meanwhile, in clown world...
Joe Biden* strips himself off the New Hampshire primary ballot.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-new-hampshire-primary-ballot/
You stupid fuck. You were warned about that months ago. You had plenty of time to avoid this.
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