JD Vance would disagree with you. Otherwise he would have remained a never trumper but now had him at a political rally endorsing his run for senate.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
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JD Vance would disagree with you. Otherwise he would have remained a never trumper but now had him at a political rally endorsing his run for senate.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
It is true that JD Vance did an about face about DJT and that is too bad. But then I’m not sure that JD Vance is the best choice for Ohio anyway. Fortunately I don’t have to decide. Neither do you.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
The voters in Wyoming also disagree with you Iris. Otherwise they would have voted for Liz Cheney in the primary.
If the voters in Ohio want to support someone who sought the endorsement of a traitor that says a lot about the state of the Republican Party and who heads it. Kind of like how the voters in Wisconsin seem jazzed about supporting a senate candidate who isn’t just part of the sedition party but actually actively participated in the sedition effort.
We have a president who gives shout-outs to dead people and mumbles about Armageddon at fundraisers. We have the worst inflation in a couple of generations. We have an incoherent border policy and a self-destructive fiscal policy. We have a party in power that regards the Constitution as merely a suggestion. We have a seventies-style crime problem and a hobbled energy industry. If you were a Democrat, what would you want to talk about?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Can you provide stats to support the theory that crime is as bad as the ‘70’s?
They’re not there yet, but they’re working on it. We just need a few more of those reformist prosecutors.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
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https://www.kmov.com/video/2022/10/0...ith-large-gun/
I know I know, anecdotes do not equal objective stats. But this thing was taking place and was discussed near my formerneighborhood on Nextdoor several days before the local mainstream media decided to cover the story. Thing is, this gang of kids has been terrorizing my neighbors for months now. Clearly getting bolder. That young chappie carrying the long gun is as much of a danger to himself as to anyone else.
Crime concerns are local. I am not much interested in what is happening in Coastal West lala land, except as a harbinger for whatever is heading my way.
Here is a clean summary of homicide rates over a 5 year period in City of St.Louis. You can see it is pretty much the same, except for the giant spike in 2020. Gosh what was happening in 2020? Lockdowns, closures, rioting in the street, and other activities dear to the hearts of our Democratic overlords in city government.
https://www.slmpd.org/images/Homicid...or_Website.pdf
But to be honest, I have no idea how that all affected our homicide rate. In some years a high homicide rate is as simple as two gangs banging away at each other in a turf war.
More importantly than homicide stats, prosecution and effectiveness of our city prosecutor has impact. Her stats are beyond dismal.
Since we’re sharing anecdotes I suppose now is the time to note that in California the county with the highest murder rate last year was kern county at the south end of the Central Valley. (Bakersfield is the county seat). It’s run by republicans. San Francisco’s murder rate was half as high. I don’t know but perhaps what this shows is that being ‘tough in crime’ is not an effective method of reducing crime.