Posted on 09/02/2025 7:06:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“I want to present some facts to the president of the United States, and I imagine this is alarming to the president to learn these facts.” – California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he’s serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California.
Newsom’s attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor up on his offer.
“Absolutely,” she said on “Face the Nation,” when asked if the Trump administration would send National Guard troops into cities or states run by Republicans. “Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer.”
But even if Trump were to follow up on this, he’d likely still end up sending National Guard troops almost exclusively into Democratic strongholds.
Not for political reasons. But because the most crime-infested parts of the country are almost entirely run by Democrats.
Here are some facts about crime that might be alarming to the governor of California.
Are you listening Gavin?
- Of the 20 cities with the highest homicide rates in the country, 14 are located in blue or purple states.
- Just one of the remaining six currently has a Republican mayor – Dallas’ Eric Johnson – and he was twice elected as a Democrat, and switched to become a Republican in his second term.
- The remaining five cities, despite being in red states, have been under Democratic control for years, if not decades.
- It’s been 12 years since Greensboro, N.C., last had a Republican mayor.
- The last time there was a Republican mayor in St. Louis, Mo., was 1949.
- Atlanta hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1879; New Orleans, hasn’t seen one since 1872.
- In Indianapolis, the homicide rate has been elevated ever since Democrats gained control of the mayorship in 2017. From 2010 through 2016, the annual number of homicides in the city averaged around 120. Since then, it’s averaged 201.
Well, you might ask, what does it matter who the mayor is? The reason it matters is that crime is local. And local law enforcement is what matters.
“Your public safety as a resident is dramatically impacted by your district attorney, by your police department, and by whether the local politicians support and adequately fund the police and prosecutor’s offices,” noted a Heritage Foundation research paper from 2022.
It doesn’t matter where these cities are located. If Democrats run them, it’s more likely than not that residents are stuck with local prosecutors who won’t prosecute crimes, police departments that are understaffed and demoralized, criminals who, if they are caught at all, get released on cashless bail, and political machines that keep these Democrats in power, decade after miserable decade.
Dallas’ Mayor Johnson said it best when he switched to the GOP. “The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism. Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”
These are the facts, Gavin. And they are, indeed, alarming. They are an alarming indictment of those who, for far too long, have maintained an iron grip on our once great cities.
This is why we lose. We have cold, hard facts and evidence that cannot be presented in 30 seconds or less. With few exceptions, the average voter doesn’t care to sit and listen to us drone on and on about cold hard facts. Meanwhile, the anti-American leftist marxists reduce their emotional arguments down to a soundbite that resonates with voters, such as “It’s for the children...” and “Tax breaks for the rich on the backs of the poor.” - Doesn’t matter if its true or not.
From https://www.bucksafa11.org/2024/05/08/leading-up-to-may-8-in-philadelphia/
...The Rockefeller influence, publicly shapeless as always, permeates Philadelphia’s City Hall. Philadelphia’s Republican Party corruption during the early decades of the 20th Century gave way to the more pernicious cancerous offspring of the mitochondrial sourced extract of 19th century Salem Massachusetts’ Puritan based Progressivism that was hiding in the 1940’s and ‘50’s under the increasingly popular term ‘reform’. That previous sentence translates into the Rockefeller women were the social influencers of the Rockefeller family
. From https://rockarch.issuelab.org/resources/27781/27781.pdf
…His wife, Laura Spelman, who came from evangelical Puritan stock and was a founding member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), likely intensified those instincts. Rockefeller’s involvement with the WCTU and other temperance groups dates back to 1880, shortly after Laura helped found the WCTU...
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/45595/45316 is The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. CXXVII, No. 1 (January 2003) account of the post-WW2 political history of Philadelphia’s reformers, Joseph Clark and Richardson Dilworth who fought the Republican party machine and won. They demolished the Philadelphia Republican Party so effectively no Republican has held the mayor’s office since. That’s seventy-two years and counting and as unlikely an event as the Biden come-from-behind victory happening without powerful back up.
Providing help to extended family is not unusual. Accounts of cousins reaching out to support a family branch member have been a human trait throughout history. In this instance, it was Joseph Clark’s good fortune to have a cousin, Mary Todhunter Clark marry Nelson Rockefeller in 1930.
When Richardson Dilworth was elected Philadelphia mayor and took office on January 2, 1956 who could claim at this point that his nephew, J. Richardson Dilworth’s appointment as the Rockefeller Family financial advisor the year before influenced his uncle’s success? On the other hand, who knew?
The concern here is not the help the wealthy share amongst their family, that’s a long accepted human trait and the Rockefellers are known for their generous benevolence unto the world, but when that power is used against US in their quest to right mankind’s (especially USA’s mankind) cruelty to all manners of Life by applying the Rockefeller’s democrat version of the karmic balancing rod, that must be addressed; and understanding why I am accusing the Rockefeller organizations of working against US requires a trip back into Rockefeller history.
https://rockarch.org/resources/about-the-rockefellers/john-d-rockefeller-jr/
The cruelest modern acts in the Twentieth century directed against US and all humanity have all its humanist connected roots in one family.
From https://www.bucksafa11.org/2022/03/02/smell-the-sulfur/
Same for Nashville and Memphis
This list is cock-eyed. How is Philadelphia not on it? Philly should be in the top 10, if not the top 5.
And the up and coming crime cities of Birmingham and Montgomery aren’t far behind. Thugs can’t control thugs.
Yup. Create a screenshot of the table and keep it handy as needed.
Very interesting...
Circle City comes in #6!!!
bingo
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