Author: photog

I was watching some news stories today.  In both cases a white woman was assaulted by a black man.  Now if the ethnicities were reversed and a black woman was assaulted by a white man it would not be less criminal but it would be astonishingly more unlikely.  And the two assaults had very different outcomes.  In the first instance a middle-aged woman working in Chicago was knocked unconscious by a thug who has made a criminal career of doing this exact thing.  In the other case, a dangerously deranged homeless man took a knife and plunged it into a young Ukrainian woman who was sitting in front of him on a light rail train in Charlotte NC.  She died from the attack.

So very different details, but the same cause.  These two women were attacked because in 2020 George Floyd died of a drug overdose and the people of Minnesota decided to export their white guilt to overrun all the Democrat run cities with black rioting.  And during the rioting they forced the police to stand aside while crime was normalized and dysfunction became the rule.  Democrat district attorneys and judges eliminated bail and just let the offenders out of jail almost as quickly as the police brought them in.  They even decriminalized theft (less than a thousand dollars) in places like California.  Slowly some cities have tried to end the madness.  But criminals get used to running amok.  So, levels of crime have never returned to pre-2020 (pre-George Floyd) levels.

So, these two women were attacked because two dangerous repeat-offending criminals were on the streets instead of in prison because, post-George-Floyd, black criminals are not incarcerated as they should be.  And, of course, the largest victims of these repeat offenders are other black people living around them.  But black voters keep returning Democrat politicians to office regardless of how much crime they allow to flourish in their cities.  So, the present tsunami of urban crime continues unabated.

But somebody finally decided to “notice.”  And that somebody is Donald Trump.  As his ICE agents descend on the various Democrat run “sanctuary cities” he has decided to use the National Guard to protect the ICE agents from Antifa and while they’re there he has the soldiers preventing street crime just by their presence.  And of course, when this happens, it’s a revelation to the residents of these cities.  People start walking down streets without fear of being robbed or assaulted and cities feel like they did five years ago.  Even the Democrat mayor of Washington DC was excited by the change in her city.  Shocking!

And according to the pollsters it’s popular with normal people.  So, here’s another 80/20 issue that Trump can beat the blue mayors and governors over the head with; urban crime.  And of course, places like Chicago and Portland are so impossibly blue that no permanent solution is possible.  But blue cities in red states like Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City and many others can benefit from a partnership between the governors and the federal government to show these cities what it’s like when crime isn’t tolerated.  Even the most corrupt mayors and city officials will be affected by their operations coming under scrutiny from the Department of Justice.  After all, abandoning Americans to the mercy of street thugs is a form of civil rights violation.  Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can’t exist in a crime ridden hellhole created by lawlessness that’s sponsored by the local government that’s supposed to be preventing it.

So, Trump is once again attacking every American problem simultaneously and kudos to him for it.  Now how do I get him to clean up Dunwich?  First Selectman Cthulhu is a tough nut to crack.