Climate change works like that: Government needs to spend money to avert climate catastrophe because the government pays people to study climate catastrophe and those people say there’s a climate catastrophe.
If you ever happen to venture over to Reddit, the circlejerk subs are gold. r/Doomercirclejerk is great, but r/Austincirclejerk is full of satirical gems such as this:
"...does anyone have a couch my they/them and furry (full suit, 92 degrees, absolute hero) cis white male (transitioning) partner (currently howling protests songs as I type) and i can crash on tonight? preferably one directly in the middle of their HOA president’s rose garden. calling all fellow allies (you can check my 400gb folder of lesbian porn to confirm) to help before they throw me in the back of the cruiser as i’m trying to finish my oat milk latte!"
I can't help but notice that the people saying well ackshually, crime is down, trust the numbers and not your feelings, are largely the same who relentlessly use emotional arguments to push gun control, trends and stats be damned. It matters not to them that crime fell dramatically from the 90s while guns proliferated, that CCW holders are more law abiding than cops, and that knives, blunt objects, and human limbs are used to kill more people than any sort of rifle. The 4th circuit even previously upheld MD's scary looking rifle ban partly on the grounds that if it makes people feel safe, that's enough to make it constitutional. So while I agree that people should look at things rationally & quantitatively rather than emotionally, the libs are the last people who can make that point since they don't actually believe it.
So at a press conference in DC the new Chief of Police ( her prior position was a DEI post, so she slid into the Chief position - of course) was asked what is the chain of command now that the feds are involved? Her response was “what does that mean? “. The mayor quickly stepped in front of her to answer the question.
Another tragicomic DEI story: a “chief” unfamiliar with a term central to *any* job! Since the vibe shift and the election, we can criticize leftist failures like this and not have internet cancel mobs trying to hunt us down and end careers for “hate” or “misinformation” or “racism.” Funny how Trump defunded USAID, Biden's censorship-industrial complex got exposed, and then cancel campaigns shrank to insignificance, as if they’d been part of a government-funded psyop all along.
The root crisis is lying liars lie. It’s what they do, in all ways at all times. They would rather see it all burn down to the ground, lie to us the entire time it was burning, just so they could rule over the ashes. If anyone ever needed to see the perfect example of humans with “seared consciences,” these lying liars give us one.
This is as simple as going to the District's official crime data page, https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime, and reading the numbers there.
The table on the home page shows the 2024 homicide count was 187, higher than any year from 2006 through 2019, and double the recent low of 88 in 2012.
You know, as a child I was genuinely puzzled as to how China and Japan could possibly go to war with each other, as they all looked the same on the battlefield.
When the police union complains about corruption in it's ranks,you KNOW it's bad.
It's so bad that even though they aren't prosecuting crimes( which lowers the crime rate, duh) they STILL need to fudge the numbers, just to have higher murder rates than third world countries.
Can you imagine hating someone you never even met so much you would defend ANYTHING they are in favor of? Like child rape?? I thought child rape was THE ONE thing everyone could agree is wrong.
Not anymore. If Trump says pedophilia is wrong, the left says you're an intolerant, bigoted pedo hating,right wing nut job Nazi worse than Hitler.
Have you noticed how often Trump uses that to his advantage? He’ll take a common sense and majority-popular position and the Democrats will reflexively oppose it. After all, you can’t ever agree with Hitler! Taking anti-common sense positions makes it hard to win national elections, but somehow the Democrats haven’t yet figured that out.
The 20% part is full of well-off liberal white women, the most important demographic in the Democratic party...or at least the one that has the loudest voice and sets up almost every national "conversation" the DNC pushes out via its media proxies.
It’s strange because at least the top people should get it by now. Scott Adams was writing about Trump’s techniques even before his first election. Parties spend millions on opposition research, so it’s hard to imagine they didn’t read a bestseller by a big name about how Trump persuades people, puts himself in win-win positions, and puts his opponents in lose-lose positions.
It’s more likely some sort of internal split in the DNC prevents them from responding better. Maybe the Trump = Hitler faction is overruling the more sensible types.
"Can you imagine hating someone you never even met so much you would defend ANYTHING they are in favor of? Like child rape?? I thought child rape was THE ONE thing everyone could agree is wrong."
Have you ever argued with feminists and homos defending islam and moslems?
Because they will defend genital mutliation, "marriage" of adult men and nine year old girls, and bacha bazi and so on to their last breath if they identify you as a "right-wing bla bla bla".
Every blue city is on its way to becoming Shitholeville, if it’s not there already. Adam Schiff said on Mahr that they were “going to have to start doing something” about the crime. Why START now? How the hell can anyone vote for that bloated weasel?
I dunno, Alison…but I figure the clowns who chose him must all be bloated weasels. Or perhaps they’re just morons. Either that or the institutionalized electoral fraud in Californicaty is bigger and more deeply entrenched than it already was before that pustulent purveyor of prevarication managed to swindle his way into the Senate.
Oh, wait…is that too unkind?
Too bad. I have no rational, moral, or spiritual obligation to be kind to corrupt vermin who hate my nation and the principles on which it was founded. He’s a traitor to those principles.
Speaking just for me, I don't think many people are voting for this. I think the people counting the votes are the ones, who are putting these useless, good for nothing, dirty, filthy, stinking ,rotten, pieces of human garbage .in positions of power.
"right now, the narrative compliant chanting that Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life"
Great quote, from a brilliant movie. They're all Manchurian Candidates now. What's the social media equivalent of the Queen of Diamonds?
If you’ll forgive the Seinfeld reference, I’m reminded of the episode “The Gum,” where Lloyd Braun orders a hot dog that has been sitting in the theater concession stand for decades: “This is a perfectly sane food to eat.”
The willful ignorance is galling, but what if it’s really a self-own? On these 80/20 issues, even the 20 know they are wrong, but because they are still dumb (or performative) enough to put up a fight they end up adding energy to the debate they are already losing!
Just last weekend, I was in the company of a woman wailing about not being able to watch Big Bird with her grandchildren on NPR. I overlooked her confusing NPR with PBS to inform her that Sesame Street is now on HBO. “What? I’d have to pay for that,” she whined. I was soooo very happy to let her know that Children’s Television Workshop, the longtime producers of Sesame Street, have been VERY highly paid in that transaction.
It did seem that escalated her angst, because she soon erupted that “Someone needs to kill him!” And repeated it that day and the next.
The second time around, I told her not to say that again, that more political violence would be terrible for the country. So perhaps one 68-year-old woman wielding an engraving tool will not accomplish what I have come to learn that many other deranged persons are calling out.
In the “olden days,” when I actually wanted to watch a British whodunnit, say, I had to subscribe (pay) to my local PBS affiliate. I went back to the original—books. Oh and for the record, there’s three shelves of books for my grands. And we read them together!
“Blow up the TV/Throw away the papers/Eat a lot of peaches/Build you a home…”
The "It is a safe city but I want to remain anonymous for my safety" will make my heralded list of same-sentence contradictions, that the elite love to chant to announce their status.
It is one of the great ones, worthy of its own hashtag. Top Billion for sure.
Seriously though, we are talking past 2 different audiences. One that wants truth, no matter the cost. the other who wants to avoid truth, no matter the cost.
I used to use that one on the do-gooders 7th booster crowd when they tried to Vax shame me. Actually I used to use, "if you're up on your vaxxes, then you should have nothing to worry about."
Funny thing, I didn't get covid until last fall. I've had colds that were worse. Some of the do-gooders I know have had it 3-4 times.
In my world, all in the "7th booster crowd," as you put it so aptly, since 2021 they're constantly sick with one thing or another plus a debilitating chronic health issue of some sort. Of those I know personally who didn't take the jab, NOT ONE SINGLE ONE regrets not taking the shot.
The "7th booster crowd," so ready to virtue signal, went around parroting what they heard on TV, that the unvaxxed were selfish because they would get sick and be burden to others. Well, isn't that turning out rather differently than they'd anticipated. It was all a con of djinn-like cruelty.
You really should resent the empty noise. I’ve been sitting on this for over two weeks waiting to appropriately post it. The NBC affiliate (NBC!) in D.C. exposed the crime statistic problem there, along with the suspension of a police commander, for systematically reducing the reported severity of crimes the police responded to. If it’s happening there, it’s happening in all blue cities.
Left-wing people always cite themselves.
Want to pretend crime is low? Take control of the reporting mechanism and disregard nearly all reports.
Then cite yourselves.
Climate change works like that: Government needs to spend money to avert climate catastrophe because the government pays people to study climate catastrophe and those people say there’s a climate catastrophe.
Insert my favorite Upton Sinclair quote here
"it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
keep using it. It's never been more relevant.
We have become a society of circle jerks.
If you ever happen to venture over to Reddit, the circlejerk subs are gold. r/Doomercirclejerk is great, but r/Austincirclejerk is full of satirical gems such as this:
"...does anyone have a couch my they/them and furry (full suit, 92 degrees, absolute hero) cis white male (transitioning) partner (currently howling protests songs as I type) and i can crash on tonight? preferably one directly in the middle of their HOA president’s rose garden. calling all fellow allies (you can check my 400gb folder of lesbian porn to confirm) to help before they throw me in the back of the cruiser as i’m trying to finish my oat milk latte!"
😂😂😂
I can't help but notice that the people saying well ackshually, crime is down, trust the numbers and not your feelings, are largely the same who relentlessly use emotional arguments to push gun control, trends and stats be damned. It matters not to them that crime fell dramatically from the 90s while guns proliferated, that CCW holders are more law abiding than cops, and that knives, blunt objects, and human limbs are used to kill more people than any sort of rifle. The 4th circuit even previously upheld MD's scary looking rifle ban partly on the grounds that if it makes people feel safe, that's enough to make it constitutional. So while I agree that people should look at things rationally & quantitatively rather than emotionally, the libs are the last people who can make that point since they don't actually believe it.
You have a great insult-comeback right there: "Then cite yourselves"
"Hey MSM, go cite yourselves!"
Too vague, or does it work?
I’d think that there would be some kind of DIE style guide to quote on that …
Inflation and cost of living increases were great under the Biden admin when they took the cost of fuel and food out of their reporting stats!
And specifically coffee…
Plus DC police have been caught fudging the crime stats.
Of course crime is down.
The biggest criminals in DC just went on summer recess...;)
It is "down" because they stopped reporting it. The police official responsible for the crime stats was put on leave because he was fudging them.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
In terms of dollar value, absolutely.
^^This!^^
😂😁 so true!
Nicely played!
bsn
The guy was out on leave In April? Left out of the msm stories, as well as the DC Police Union supports the Fed help.
Police have no incentive to fudge crime stats until the political leadership tell them to.
Whistle-blower!
So at a press conference in DC the new Chief of Police ( her prior position was a DEI post, so she slid into the Chief position - of course) was asked what is the chain of command now that the feds are involved? Her response was “what does that mean? “. The mayor quickly stepped in front of her to answer the question.
Another tragicomic DEI story: a “chief” unfamiliar with a term central to *any* job! Since the vibe shift and the election, we can criticize leftist failures like this and not have internet cancel mobs trying to hunt us down and end careers for “hate” or “misinformation” or “racism.” Funny how Trump defunded USAID, Biden's censorship-industrial complex got exposed, and then cancel campaigns shrank to insignificance, as if they’d been part of a government-funded psyop all along.
I saw that NYC and LA don't even report, along with 40% of states.
Derp, of course crime is down, it's the Democrat way.
Yea, didn't someone get fired over that?
Suspended.
The root crisis is lying liars lie. It’s what they do, in all ways at all times. They would rather see it all burn down to the ground, lie to us the entire time it was burning, just so they could rule over the ashes. If anyone ever needed to see the perfect example of humans with “seared consciences,” these lying liars give us one.
This is as simple as going to the District's official crime data page, https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime, and reading the numbers there.
The table on the home page shows the 2024 homicide count was 187, higher than any year from 2006 through 2019, and double the recent low of 88 in 2012.
Thanks Arne. Here's how DC compares to other cities:
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1955023365304955303
I haven't checked the numbers myself but neither did the media when they reported their bullshit.
Good point. Homicide is a bit harder to sweep under the rug by making it more difficult to report than it's worth.
true, except for the political ones that are deemed "suicide"
Eric Swalwelll, may, however, take Fang Fang to MacArthur Park and hope for the best.
The thing that Eric and Fang Fang did happens quite a lot in the alley across the street from MacArthur Park, so they'd fit right in.
Compromise American National Security??
Is that what they’re calling that these days?
Some of the denizens get used in exchange for crack. Swallwell gets used for campaign contributions LOL.
Tell me that Fang Fang is not a Panda.
No, a pander. "Oh, Ewick, you so big!"
Do you think she charges extra for the exchange of state secrets?
Do you mean loudly expel flatulence?
I looked upon the Great Wall of Denial, and saw a chink.
Ooo, funny!
You know, as a child I was genuinely puzzled as to how China and Japan could possibly go to war with each other, as they all looked the same on the battlefield.
Groan
Yours is precisely the attitude of my elementary school teachers, in regard to my childish imagination. Having married well, I hold no grudges.
haha
When the police union complains about corruption in it's ranks,you KNOW it's bad.
It's so bad that even though they aren't prosecuting crimes( which lowers the crime rate, duh) they STILL need to fudge the numbers, just to have higher murder rates than third world countries.
Can you imagine hating someone you never even met so much you would defend ANYTHING they are in favor of? Like child rape?? I thought child rape was THE ONE thing everyone could agree is wrong.
Not anymore. If Trump says pedophilia is wrong, the left says you're an intolerant, bigoted pedo hating,right wing nut job Nazi worse than Hitler.
This is mental illness of the highest order.
Have you noticed how often Trump uses that to his advantage? He’ll take a common sense and majority-popular position and the Democrats will reflexively oppose it. After all, you can’t ever agree with Hitler! Taking anti-common sense positions makes it hard to win national elections, but somehow the Democrats haven’t yet figured that out.
Trump always manages to get Democrats to eagerly embrace the 20% part of an 80/20 issue. It really is a superpower
The 20% part is full of well-off liberal white women, the most important demographic in the Democratic party...or at least the one that has the loudest voice and sets up almost every national "conversation" the DNC pushes out via its media proxies.
It seems he's playing those fools like a marimba.
Problem is, they don't even know he's playing them and neither does their audience.
It’s strange because at least the top people should get it by now. Scott Adams was writing about Trump’s techniques even before his first election. Parties spend millions on opposition research, so it’s hard to imagine they didn’t read a bestseller by a big name about how Trump persuades people, puts himself in win-win positions, and puts his opponents in lose-lose positions.
It’s more likely some sort of internal split in the DNC prevents them from responding better. Maybe the Trump = Hitler faction is overruling the more sensible types.
"Can you imagine hating someone you never even met so much you would defend ANYTHING they are in favor of? Like child rape?? I thought child rape was THE ONE thing everyone could agree is wrong."
Have you ever argued with feminists and homos defending islam and moslems?
Because they will defend genital mutliation, "marriage" of adult men and nine year old girls, and bacha bazi and so on to their last breath if they identify you as a "right-wing bla bla bla".
It’s nothing but juvenile knee-jeek contrarianism. Their intellect hasn’t advanced beyond their adolescence. And they’re peoud of it
Many are smart, but as the saying goes, politics is the mind-killer.
Every blue city is on its way to becoming Shitholeville, if it’s not there already. Adam Schiff said on Mahr that they were “going to have to start doing something” about the crime. Why START now? How the hell can anyone vote for that bloated weasel?
I dunno, Alison…but I figure the clowns who chose him must all be bloated weasels. Or perhaps they’re just morons. Either that or the institutionalized electoral fraud in Californicaty is bigger and more deeply entrenched than it already was before that pustulent purveyor of prevarication managed to swindle his way into the Senate.
Oh, wait…is that too unkind?
Too bad. I have no rational, moral, or spiritual obligation to be kind to corrupt vermin who hate my nation and the principles on which it was founded. He’s a traitor to those principles.
The 3 P’s! Excellent!
Speaking just for me, I don't think many people are voting for this. I think the people counting the votes are the ones, who are putting these useless, good for nothing, dirty, filthy, stinking ,rotten, pieces of human garbage .in positions of power.
He must be developing a conscious now that he's been subpoenaed to appear in front of Congress for his role in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Nah! Pencilneck doesn't have conscious, gotta have a functioning brain for that.
"right now, the narrative compliant chanting that Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life"
Great quote, from a brilliant movie. They're all Manchurian Candidates now. What's the social media equivalent of the Queen of Diamonds?
Margaret Brennan? Accepting other nominations.
Kinda glad I didn’t know who Margaret was , Face the nation 🫤 Meh
Deface The Nation, is what it’s called in these parts.
Any they/them/her on MSNBC…
I’m still voting for the Mac Arthur park field trip for politicians. No security allowed. Women must carry purses and wear high heels. 👠
Or for DC locals, a wander through Navy Yard some time after dark
A start up tourism venture in the making
If you’ll forgive the Seinfeld reference, I’m reminded of the episode “The Gum,” where Lloyd Braun orders a hot dog that has been sitting in the theater concession stand for decades: “This is a perfectly sane food to eat.”
The willful ignorance is galling, but what if it’s really a self-own? On these 80/20 issues, even the 20 know they are wrong, but because they are still dumb (or performative) enough to put up a fight they end up adding energy to the debate they are already losing!
“We love our public radio.” Actual quote from one of them, on a different, but related issue, ie Trump touched it.
Just last weekend, I was in the company of a woman wailing about not being able to watch Big Bird with her grandchildren on NPR. I overlooked her confusing NPR with PBS to inform her that Sesame Street is now on HBO. “What? I’d have to pay for that,” she whined. I was soooo very happy to let her know that Children’s Television Workshop, the longtime producers of Sesame Street, have been VERY highly paid in that transaction.
It did seem that escalated her angst, because she soon erupted that “Someone needs to kill him!” And repeated it that day and the next.
The second time around, I told her not to say that again, that more political violence would be terrible for the country. So perhaps one 68-year-old woman wielding an engraving tool will not accomplish what I have come to learn that many other deranged persons are calling out.
To the left assassination of the POTUS is warranted when a children's show they like changes channels.
In the “olden days,” when I actually wanted to watch a British whodunnit, say, I had to subscribe (pay) to my local PBS affiliate. I went back to the original—books. Oh and for the record, there’s three shelves of books for my grands. And we read them together!
“Blow up the TV/Throw away the papers/Eat a lot of peaches/Build you a home…”
That noise is a death rattle. You won't be listening to it that much longer.
Praise be!
The "It is a safe city but I want to remain anonymous for my safety" will make my heralded list of same-sentence contradictions, that the elite love to chant to announce their status.
It is one of the great ones, worthy of its own hashtag. Top Billion for sure.
Seriously though, we are talking past 2 different audiences. One that wants truth, no matter the cost. the other who wants to avoid truth, no matter the cost.
Hmmm, kinda in line with, like, my vaccination won't work unless you get vaccinated too.
I used to use that one on the do-gooders 7th booster crowd when they tried to Vax shame me. Actually I used to use, "if you're up on your vaxxes, then you should have nothing to worry about."
Funny thing, I didn't get covid until last fall. I've had colds that were worse. Some of the do-gooders I know have had it 3-4 times.
In my world, all in the "7th booster crowd," as you put it so aptly, since 2021 they're constantly sick with one thing or another plus a debilitating chronic health issue of some sort. Of those I know personally who didn't take the jab, NOT ONE SINGLE ONE regrets not taking the shot.
The "7th booster crowd," so ready to virtue signal, went around parroting what they heard on TV, that the unvaxxed were selfish because they would get sick and be burden to others. Well, isn't that turning out rather differently than they'd anticipated. It was all a con of djinn-like cruelty.
100% safe and effective! That is why I am on my seventh booster!
You really should resent the empty noise. I’ve been sitting on this for over two weeks waiting to appropriately post it. The NBC affiliate (NBC!) in D.C. exposed the crime statistic problem there, along with the suspension of a police commander, for systematically reducing the reported severity of crimes the police responded to. If it’s happening there, it’s happening in all blue cities.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/
Another amazing post Chris. I always feel like I’m eating crazy pills. And meanwhile, it’s them.
And in Canada, the CBC mainlines whatever the MSNBC types say direct into the arteries of Canadian misinformation, so TDS here is out of control.
Reality is literally irrelevant.
And millions of sensible Canadians take the CBC, NYT, Wapo headlines as truth, then vote for Mark Carney. Without an iota of critical thinking.
JFC, what a shithole our country is.