It makes no sense for Democrats to capitulate to Right Wing Framing on immigration, the idea that immigrants are bringing in crime and drugs are straight up lies. I don’t know why they are, the Pro-immigration messaging in 2016 was popular too

People love clicking on crime articles and the news organizations are well aware of that. I noticed my mood changed a bit since leaving reddit, my local regional sub must have been half crime posts.

I was checking out Kurzweil’s latest book and he made a decent point about how good news tends to get overlooked. For specific examples, he was talking about how not only is violent crime trending down, so has property crime.

There’s a few factors. The news reports more events from further away, so there’s always crime to report on. Stats mostly focus on violent crime, someone breaking the window of every car on a street isn’t violent crime. Smaller property crimes only get reported if the police know about them, less people are contacting the police because they won’t respond anyway. Drug use leaves a bigger impression than the actual crime, it doesn’t take many people to litter an area with needles or other paraphernalia.

People also remember negative events more, you remember replacing your catalytic converter a lot more than all the days you didn’t have to replace it

I had to laugh about how quickly those disappeared when gas prices went back down. I was at one gas station where someone had desperately tried to scratch it off - after it had been there for some time. I’m assuming that since no one touched it when gas prices were hitting a high in their cycle, the person that tried to scratch it off now that they were low was someone suffering BDS.

Say…where are all the doom n’ gloom people, anyway? Inflation - down. Border crossings - down. Crime is down. Gas prices down. Oil extraction is way up, the stock market is hitting all-time-highs. Interest rates were just cut.

I thought life under Biden was supposed to be some kind of miserable hellscape?

Yeah! What about pet murder? What are the stats on pet murder?!

Okay, folks, listen, listen, it’s, it’s very simple, okay? People are talking, they’re saying, ‘Mr. Trump, the murder rate, it’s too low, it’s not what it used to be.’ And you know what? I agree. We used to have, back in the day — oh, the 70s, maybe the 80s, beautiful times, really tremendous times — we had so much, so much happening, people, and now… now, it’s just… nothing! Boring! What happened? Where did the murders go? I don’t know. Nobody knows. But when I’m elected, folks, let me tell you, we’re gonna bring them back. Big time.

Now, now, people say, ‘Oh, Mr. Trump, why do you want more murders?’ And let me tell you something: it’s about jobs, okay? People don’t think about that. Murders? They need investigation. Cops? Gotta hire more cops. Jobs! Economy! It’s all connected, folks. Big brain stuff. Nobody thinks like me. And, and the murderers, some of them, very fine people, they need work too. They’re out of work. We’re gonna put 'em back in business, folks. You’ll see.

So vote for me, we’re gonna do some, some tremendous things. More murders, more greatness, everyone wins. Except the people who get, uh, you know, but that’s okay, that’s okay. It’ll be, um, it’ll be something.

So when you go to vote, remember: a vote for me is a vote for… well, let’s just say you’ll want to lock your doors. But it’ll be huge.

Thank you, good night, and God bless hamburgers!