I feel like I'm preaching to the choir here when I say that Trump is pointing to rampant violent crime in "blue" cities based on zero evidence to obfuscate the real financial and war crimes he and his corrupt administration commit on a regular basis. They're barely trying to hide evidence of their wrongdoing, and yet we'll still get mostly complicity from mass media.
Successfully painting Blue-run major metro areas as crime-infested hellholes, reflects the power and sophistication of long-term conservative messaging. A nexus of RW media mis- and dis-information, and on-point daily reinforcement by GOP politicians, have convinced voters that it must be so.
The Republican "Media-Congressional Complex" has successfully persuaded voters of all stripes to disregard the evidence that Red-run states and counties have less crime. When the exact opposite is true.
No matter how hard they lie, right wingers can't change the fact that murder rates are lower in blue states and blue cities than in red states and red cities. And no matter how hard they lie the problem is not video games or mental health or race, the problem is guns. A country awash in guns, no more so than in red states that value guns over children.
I believe that most Democrats are compassionate, well educated, and cognizant of the permanent damage that happens to any child who is treated as if they were an unwelcome problem of no value. Lack of nurturance produces brutish behavior.
Poverty and hopelessness produces desperate people who will do anything to survive.
The lack of education, nurturance and options for impoverished people causes crime, imo.
Democrats create more social support which relieves the worst effects of poverty and thus the despair that causes crime.
Red leaders disparage the poor and reduce social supports. So people do what they can to live. Uneducated, impoverished and untrained, they are prey to criminals and criminal behaviors.
We are a 3-class society: the impoverished, the employed who are at least partially educated and employed, and the wealthy.
Bottom line, my opinion is that poverty creates crime. The wealthy create poverty.
His lies are amplified by the right-wing-owned “news” sources like Sinclair that have taken control of messaging. The once-proud Baltimore Sun is now a dump of bashing of the governor and mayor.
Can you do a comparison of 5 comparable blue and red cities? I would like to have a fact based response when someone tells me one of our places is crime ridden.
Where Rebecca uses crime statistics, Twump measures "decline" by the color of the faces in the cities. In a heavily Black city like Oakland, it's all but "gone" according to the racist-in-chief. For NYC, it is all those Asians, Hispanics, Blacks, ohmygod, the not-whites, that cause Twump to sputter. Anyone living in New York knows it is the greatest city in the world. As for Chicago, home of Obama: well, nuff said.
His filter is racism, his measure is hatred, his numbers are lies, always always always lies.
Thanks very much for publishing this article. Meanwhile the real crime in another sense is what Trump and the US Postal Service are currently doing to allow anyone to ship a handgun without the involvement of a licensed gun dealer. For almost 100 years this has been barred by federal law. Now Trump has issued an opinion that the statute is unconstitutional. That supports gun rights groups challenging the statute in court. On April 2, 2026, our nation’s postal service “published a proposed rule to conform with this opinion even though the Trump Administration cannot unilaterally direct the USPS to violate a federal law,” according to news from the California Attorney General’s office. Anyone being able to ship guns by mail…It’s madness!
WH called a reporter who shared an image of the President’s eyes drooping a “moron.”
Just as with Trump Mobile, the clock is running out & Trump self promotion is #Blinking.
Millions have bought, sold, worn, posted 86 47, but after 11 months of intense “investigation”, Kash & his FBI have cracked the hidden felony intent behind the photo. But the national security threat posed by its disclosure may require trial to be dispensed with & Comey summarily executed by firing squad or drone strike.
I feel like I'm preaching to the choir here when I say that Trump is pointing to rampant violent crime in "blue" cities based on zero evidence to obfuscate the real financial and war crimes he and his corrupt administration commit on a regular basis. They're barely trying to hide evidence of their wrongdoing, and yet we'll still get mostly complicity from mass media.
Successfully painting Blue-run major metro areas as crime-infested hellholes, reflects the power and sophistication of long-term conservative messaging. A nexus of RW media mis- and dis-information, and on-point daily reinforcement by GOP politicians, have convinced voters that it must be so.
The Republican "Media-Congressional Complex" has successfully persuaded voters of all stripes to disregard the evidence that Red-run states and counties have less crime. When the exact opposite is true.
No matter how hard they lie, right wingers can't change the fact that murder rates are lower in blue states and blue cities than in red states and red cities. And no matter how hard they lie the problem is not video games or mental health or race, the problem is guns. A country awash in guns, no more so than in red states that value guns over children.
Just want to put my opinion out there…
I believe that most Democrats are compassionate, well educated, and cognizant of the permanent damage that happens to any child who is treated as if they were an unwelcome problem of no value. Lack of nurturance produces brutish behavior.
Poverty and hopelessness produces desperate people who will do anything to survive.
The lack of education, nurturance and options for impoverished people causes crime, imo.
Democrats create more social support which relieves the worst effects of poverty and thus the despair that causes crime.
Red leaders disparage the poor and reduce social supports. So people do what they can to live. Uneducated, impoverished and untrained, they are prey to criminals and criminal behaviors.
We are a 3-class society: the impoverished, the employed who are at least partially educated and employed, and the wealthy.
Bottom line, my opinion is that poverty creates crime. The wealthy create poverty.
His lies are amplified by the right-wing-owned “news” sources like Sinclair that have taken control of messaging. The once-proud Baltimore Sun is now a dump of bashing of the governor and mayor.
Can you do a comparison of 5 comparable blue and red cities? I would like to have a fact based response when someone tells me one of our places is crime ridden.
Where Rebecca uses crime statistics, Twump measures "decline" by the color of the faces in the cities. In a heavily Black city like Oakland, it's all but "gone" according to the racist-in-chief. For NYC, it is all those Asians, Hispanics, Blacks, ohmygod, the not-whites, that cause Twump to sputter. Anyone living in New York knows it is the greatest city in the world. As for Chicago, home of Obama: well, nuff said.
His filter is racism, his measure is hatred, his numbers are lies, always always always lies.
Thanks very much for publishing this article. Meanwhile the real crime in another sense is what Trump and the US Postal Service are currently doing to allow anyone to ship a handgun without the involvement of a licensed gun dealer. For almost 100 years this has been barred by federal law. Now Trump has issued an opinion that the statute is unconstitutional. That supports gun rights groups challenging the statute in court. On April 2, 2026, our nation’s postal service “published a proposed rule to conform with this opinion even though the Trump Administration cannot unilaterally direct the USPS to violate a federal law,” according to news from the California Attorney General’s office. Anyone being able to ship guns by mail…It’s madness!
WH called a reporter who shared an image of the President’s eyes drooping a “moron.”
Just as with Trump Mobile, the clock is running out & Trump self promotion is #Blinking.
Millions have bought, sold, worn, posted 86 47, but after 11 months of intense “investigation”, Kash & his FBI have cracked the hidden felony intent behind the photo. But the national security threat posed by its disclosure may require trial to be dispensed with & Comey summarily executed by firing squad or drone strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh2UsoImM3o
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