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The Democrats are right it IS a Trap but not the one They Think

Posted: August 18, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, crime, politics
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Suddenly a few Democrats are arguing that the reflexive opposition to Trump’s move to clean up DC is a trap for them from Mika Brzezinski and Chris Matthews:

To Maureen Dowd:

“I have no doubt that Trump enjoys targeting Democratic-controlled cities for embarrassment,” Powell writes. “I also have little doubt that a mother in Ward 8 might draw comfort from a National Guard soldier standing watch near her child’s school.”

The diva of distraction is putting on a show. (They’re eating the cats and the dogs!) But progressives should not fall into Trump’s trap and play down crime, once more getting on the wrong side of an inflammatory issue. As with inflation, they should remember that personal experiences can count more than sanguine statistics.

Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend everything is fine here. Because it’s not.

The truth is they are half right, this IS a trap for the Democrats but NOT the one they think.

They think the trap is to try and get them to object to Trump’s actions while they are taking place and that is a bit of a trap making them look pro-criminal but that’s not the real trap.

The REAL trap is the vote on extending Trump’s DC time beyond 30 days and what happens next.

You see the Democrats are not likely to extend Trump’s time in DC when they keep calling him another “Hitler” or a “Totalitarian” etc etc etc so it seems unlikely that they will allow him to keep up the job and/or finish it.

What follows after they reject it IS the trap.

You see if I was a criminal in DC and I had the ability to go to ground for a month or so that’s what I’d be doing now. I’d keep a low profile and head for the hill until Trump’s folks are gone or until I couldn’t afford to do so or relocate.

But once the regular crowd is back in DC then it’s business as usual, that’s the trap:

  • What happens in DC, particularly in the black areas once Trump people leave the the Democrats who run this city go back to not policing the gangs?
  • What happens to DC once the graffiti goes back up on the monuments?
  • What happens to DC when the addicts and the homeless camps and the needles are back?
  • What happens to DC when the subways are once again not safe?
  • What happens the first time a tourist is mugged or beaten or killed after Trump goes away?

You see it was one thing when the residents were resigned to this situation and convinced it could not change, but what happens when they’ve had a full month of feeling safe in their city for the first time in years thank to Trump and then have it taken away thanks to the Democrats? What happens when they KNOW their city can be safe and the Democrats just won’t make it safe?

That’s the trap. It’s the kind of trap that changes votes and political alignments.

Now the Democrats have two ways to solve this dilemma:

  1. Extend Trump’s time in DC
  2. Actually crack down on crime.

If they do the first the wacko base will punish them severely for it, if they do the second then at best the people ask: “Why weren’t you doing this before?” and at worst they don’t get paid by the criminals or can’t use them for political purposes (which is what I think is actually the reason for what was going on).

It will be very interesting to see which path they choose to take. Let me give them this clue:

The right thing is generally the smart thing.

Under the Fedora: New Rules, Old Rules, New Risks, No Risks and Walking Away

Posted: September 14, 2023 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, crime, culture, medicine
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The left is shocked SHOCKED that the House should open up an impeachment inquiry without a house vote.

This is of course how Trump was treated.

Once again the left acts and is shocked SHOCKED that the tables are turned.

Of course given the polling for Biden it might be a welcome development to ease him out.

It appears parts of the Susanna Gibson story are being suppressed on twitter.

But not the endorsement of the former democrat governor and her membership in mom’s demand action has not been suppressed. Of course given her side business her membership in “Mom’s Demand Action” gets an entirely new meaning.

Perhaps like Bill Clinton the left can put her up for mother of the year.

Apparently the St. Louis Children’s hospital has decided that due to a new Missouri law the risk / reward business of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors has shifted to the point where they now decline to do such things.

I suspect that as laws change and lawsuits progress this type of decision will be more common.

Alas the gravy train might have ended but there are still plenty of kids whose lives have been ruined to keep psychologists in clover for decades

The risk reward ratio however has also shifted in DC and New York at least for kids and crimes.

The decision not to go after juvenile crime has had rather nasty consequences, both in DC and NY for the citizens, but not yet to the point where it’s has had political consequences for those who have decided to go soft.

They have other priorities, unexpectedly of course.

Finally Mitt Romney has announced he will not run for re-election to the US senate thus avoiding an embarrassing loss for his senate seat in the primary.

I’ve never forgotten that Romney inaction as MA gov was instrumental in killing a state vote on gay marriage when the Massachusetts SC by one vote began the slippery slope that got us where we are, however he was also quietly active in the Scott Brown campaign which really launched the Tea Party as a successful group.

His despicable enabling of the left’s attempts to destroy Trump has caused many to say they regret their vote for him in 2012. I don’t regret mine in the least, because the alternative was Barack Obama whose third term under Joe Biden has been even worse than his first two.

School lockdowns lead to urban carjacking spike

Posted: April 11, 2021 by John Ruberry in crime, culture, News/opinion
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By John Ruberry

The COVID-19 school lockdown continues in America’s biggest cities, despite clear evidence that children are unlikely to become seriously ill from that virus.

One unintended consquence of the closing of public schools to all but remote learning is more crime–and especially more carjackings. 

It is no longer just conservative media calling attention to the link to the school lockdowns and carjackings in big cities. Although CBS was artful in its report in a story last week. “Investigators say the trend is driven by 12 to 15 year olds with time on their hands during the pandemic,” CBS News said. These kids have more time on their hands because their schooling consists of Zoom instruction something CBS omitted in its story.

Last month a 66-year-old UberEats driver, Mohammad Anwar, a Pakistani immigrant, died while clinging to his vehicle in Washington DC after being tased in a carjacking by two girls, a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old. A bystander took video of the crime–which has gone viral. 

“You know, idle minds are the devil’s playground. And a lot of these kids, they’ve been idle for a year and a half now without going to school. And that’s been a big problem,” Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo told Fox News last week.

In that CBS story referenced earlier it was also reported, “The number of carjackings has exploded during the pandemic. Carjackings have increased by more than 100% in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. They are up more than 343% in Washington, D.C.”

Let’s look at Chicago. The pusillanimous nature of the local media creates an opening for straightforward sources. One of those news sites is Hey Jackass! and it reports the raw numbers of carjackings. Well sort of. Stick with me on this one. In 2019 there were 603 reported carjackings and 1,396 last year. So far in 2021 there have been 404. But here’s the kicker. “Carjacking data comes directly from the CPD’s own data set,” Hey Jackass! warns, “so add 20% to obtain the true number.” 

There’s a lot of speculation about why carjackers commit their crimes. Thrill is probably one of them, but also often vehicles are carjacked to aid other crimes. Perhaps it’s a mix of the two. Just last night, another great local crime site, CWB Chicago, told us of a 55-year-old woman who was pushed to the ground inside a Target parking lot as her Audi was carjacked. The criminals drove away with her car and the one they arrived in, a Kia, which was likely carjacked near the University of Chicago a couple of hours prior. Percentage-wise since 2017 the arrest rate for Chicago carjackings has been in the single digits, according to Hey Jackass!

On April 19 Chicago’s public high schools are scheduled to re-open, although how that occurs varies from school to school. Of course the recalcitrant Chicago Teachers Union, citing new COVID-19 numbers, is opposed.

Mental health among students has suffered during the lockdown. 

Once the school lockdowns end–and I believe they will one day–don’t expect the carjackers to give up their horrible hobby. 

Businesses in Chicago, already suffering from 13 months of lockdowns, rioting, and looting, are receiving another hit. Suburbanites, for good reason, are afraid to travel to the city. And the carjackings occur in all neighborhoods, rich, poor, and in between.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.