The Real timschochet

I don’t excuse ANY crime, especially violent crime. Anyone who commits a violent crime must be punished and is ultimately responsible for that crime. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t look at the underlying factors and try to change them in order to make it less likely. This what some conservatives never seem to understand.

Gavin didn’t start this, Trump and Texas did. Gavin has no choice. He’s the good guy in this fight.

Don’t you have a Biden touches kids video to post? Off with you.

This is going to backfire on Republicans in a big way. And yes Republicans are absolutely the guilty party here and the public will see that.

No idea what your point is here. Most people who live in poverty don’t commit crimes. Even less commit violent crimes. If your family are part of the majority, great. But crime and especially violent crime, while always uncommon, are nonetheless more prevalent among poorer people. This isn’t rocket science. And even MORE prevalent among people who have suffered forced inequity in society due to institutional bigotry.

Whatever stuff was given was chicken feed compared to the stuff they lack form institutional racism. And it was never enough to provide them equal opportunities in our society.

Should I drive through Appalachia? Mississippi? Alabama? Crime is a result of poverty. Not of race. Bigots like Trump will never accept this. And you support him.

It IS true that big cities in this country are mostly Democratic. This is because big cities are filled with minorities and minorities choose liberals to govern them mostly, because conservatives have been historically reluctant to do anything about racism (and sometimes even elect racist politicians like Donald Trump or Woodrow Wilson.) This was true before the Civil Rights era when conservatives were mostly Democrats, and still true today when they are almost all Republicans.

OK what about Democrat run cities? Are you going to make the false assumption that they’re worse on crime because of Demxoratic policies? Because it’s a lie: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/01/whos-softer-on-crime-democrats-or-republicans/

Hey don’t leave it to others. You got some racist crap about black people and crime to tell me, do it yourself. Spell it out big guy.

This sounds oddly like Joe Biden’s infamous remark.

And I’m telling you that if DC was run by Republicans and wasn’t full of black people Trump would have chosen somewhere else, capital or no. This is about politics and race first, crime second.

Well in that case I’m still not wrong because HT claimed millions (which is based on Kristi Noem’s false claim, and there is nothing to back that up. And you admit here that you will quote the Times when it says things you want to hear but continue to reject them when it doesn’t. How convenient for you. I wish I could do the same but unfortunately I try to be honest with myself.

Your interpretation of those stats differs from mine for the reasons I just stated which you failed to respond to.

1. Still not millions of people as HT claimed. 2. Tell you what Strike: I will gladly admit I was wrong about this and you are right, IF from now on you will continue to accept the New York Times as an objective source of facts, as you did here. Do we have a deal?

Yes there actually IS a lot of question. Some of the “facts” you’re citing are quite problematic. Let’s take for example the “no murders in 1 week” claim. The problem with that claim is that we know that, per reporting, the National Guard is NOT patrolling most of the areas in which the highest rate of murders take place, choosing instead to concentrate on heavy tourist areas. And the number of regular police hasn’t increased in those high crime areas. So if there are less murders (and I actually think it’s too early to make this assumption) then it’s not because of the National Guard. If it turns out that crime is down because of this move, I’ll be the first to admit it (though I will still argue that choosing a Democratic city filled with minorities vs red cities even more violent with mostly white people, like Mike Johnson’s district, was done for political and frankly racist reasons), but the sample size is as of now a little bit too early.

But that’s the point. Is crime going down and law and order restored? There’s a lot of question about that. These folks say they feel LESS safe, not more.

Well at least this is a more reasonable explanation than “CNN is lying.” But I still think you’re wrong. Despite the fact that these are Democrats, if they truly believed that Trump’s intent was to fight crime and maintain law and order, they would be in support of it.

I’ve noticed Newsom is becoming more and more a target of the extreme right. A good sign.

If they’re such beneficiaries, do you want to explain why they overwhelmingly oppose this move and consider themselves LESS safe with the National guard there? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/20/politics/washington-dc-police-national-guard-poll

Most of this is nonsense no matter how many times you repeat it.

Of course it’s legal. The voters of California are going to decide whether or not to change the rules. If they decide to do so it’s perfectly legal. Texas refuses to let their voters decide. And as I mentioned Texas is violating the Voters Rights Act as traditionally understood,

Good.

What Texas did is not legal based on the traditional understanding of the Voters Rights Act. Unfortunately activist judges in the Supreme Court have subverted that understanding and continue to violate the Constitution. What Newsom is trying to do is perfectly legal.

I’ve discussed this several times. The main reason that Democrats are doing poorly is because they’re seen as wimpy. The number of liberals in this country hasn’t shrunk; to the contrary, Trump’s idiocies are causing that number to increase. But liberals, especially younger ones, are frustrated with the Democratic Party because they don’t stand up to Trump. In about a months time Chuck Schumer is going to cave on the budget once again and liberals are going to hate that. Liberals want Mamdami and Jasmine Crockett and AOC- not because they’re leftist but because they fight back. This is the same reason Gavin Newsom is likely to be the next Democratic nominee. But make no mistake: despite how terrible Dems are polling now, in November of 2026 there is going to be a huge blue wave. Dems will take back the House and the Senate will be in play. Not because of anything the Dems will do between now and then but because voting Democrat is the only way to express opposition to Trump.