Trump keeps claiming that the most dangerous cities in America are all run by Democrats. They aren’t.

Washington Post ^ | June 25, 2020 | Philip Bump

[Arones]

With the economy hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic and protesters in the streets targeting America

[Secret Agent Man]

yup

dumpercrats forget that

[dfwgator]

Did East St Louis change its ways?

I bet you'll still wind up with "Honky Lips" spray-painted on your car if you drove through it.

[eastforker]

I don’t think E St Louis can even be considered a city anymore.

[poinq]

Now those graphs do make Trumps point all by themselves. But if you take Chicago, its worse than the graphs show. We haven’t had a republican in city or county political office in quite a while. Sometimes a democrat gets in as a republican. But that is just someone taking the open republican slot. Most times the republican slot just goes empty because the Chicago press won’t allow a republican.

But if you take the west and south sides of Chicago. That 40% of the city produces 90% of the murders. So, if you did one of those per 10,000 adjustments, Chicago’s black community would leap to the top. The black community is responsible for both the democrats in power and most of the crime.

[edwinland]

“Most dangerous” refers to crime per capita.

Otherwise Japan (950 murders in 2019) would be considered almost as dangerous as Jamaica (987 murders in 2019) despite the fact that Japan has 125 million people and Jamaica has only 3 million.

So the first chart is irrelevant.

So the only thing the Post can hang their hat on is that the mayor of Springfield Mo is an independent and every one of the other 19 places in the top 20 are run by Democrats.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Didn’t realize Springfield Missouri was so screwed up.

[Texas Eagle]

...his likely general election opponent and other leaders in the Democratic Party are happy to have social structures collapse into anarchy for some unclear reason.

A) His "likely" opponent? Do es Phillip Bump know something we don't know?

B) President Trump has made it abundantly clear that demonicRATS are willing to endure anarchy so that they can replace it with their own tyrannical agenda.

[centurion316]

No need to read real data, just believe Philip Bump and the Washington Post. That’s all you need to understand what is going on in America. That’s what the Deep State and the rest of the media do.

[Bob434]

“all of them’ is a generalization that means ‘most of them’ or even ‘the vast majority of them’ Wapo- just like saying ‘The Whole world loves Apple Pie’ (Obviously the whole world doesn’t- but a majority of folks probably do, and why folks generalize by saying ‘the Whole World’)-

but you knew this wapo- you obviously just wanna be buttheads-

[rockrr]

The dhimmis are niggling again...

[DoodleBob]

[MrChips]

The WashPost has been banned from the White House for good reason. This article is so laughable, it belongs in the trash can.

[xp38]

I think in this case just the headline lie is enough to allow left to continue to wallow in their smugness.

[reasonisfaith]

I think you’ve nailed it.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If you’re thinking about suicide, don’t. Just walk through the right neighborhood in Memphis with a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt on.

[kaehurowing]

Ok so there’s a game that’s played by Democrats. At a certain point, when you’ve eradicated all the Republicans in the municipality, it becomes clear you’ve created a one-party dictatorship. So to avoid that, they change the titles and make their races “non-partisan.” But they are all members of the same party.

[Sarah Barracuda]

For commies, they cant call out the violence in Chicago, Detroit, etc, because its black on black crime and for that reason its OK to kill, as long as you are the “Right” race

[dfwgator]

Or they let some of their own run as “Republicans” to feed the illusion. That’s why we call it “The Uniparty”.

[ChessExpert]

Jacksonville, Florida did not even make the per capita list.

And I’d like to know more about those so-called independents. Bernie Sanders used to have an S (as in Socialist) by his name. Then the press decided that an I (for Independent) looked better. S or I, he always caucused with the Ds.

Sam Donaldson was once asked if he was a Democrat or a Republican. Neither he said, I’m an independent. American “Independents” remind me somewhat of the “non-aligned” nations that always seemed to vote with the Soviet Union.

[dfwgator]

Communist countries actually did allow several “Non-Communist” parties to exist, to provide cover.