you're cherry-picking isolated facts and making a claim that isn't even supported by that limited sample. the full data set is here:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/historical.page

Feel free to spin it as you wish..

But the FACTS are that crime has risen in NYC for the past 3 years..

ADD that to the FACT that crime has ALSO risen in other Democrat big cities and a pattern emerges..

The Democrat Party.. The Cop Hate Party... The Pro Criminal Party... The Groomer Party...

Simply CANNOT govern..

No, that would be your newest revised point.

Once again.. I accept your concession..

And once again: peanuts, popcorn, beer...

Typical..

Once again.. I accept your concession..

Or your original point, or my reply, or your reply to my reply...

Of course, the Groomer Party AKA The Democrat Party wants to continue to groom 4 5 and 6 yr olds for their own depraved agenda.. :^/

Crime has risen in NYC the last 3 years..

This is fact... Each year, the rising crime gets worse..

You can tap dance and argue what the definition of 'is' is until yer blue.. Yer a Democrat after all.. It's what you do..

But the fact is crime has risen in NYC the last 3 years..

FACT..

Followed by:

My statement was violent crime has risen the last 3 years in NYC..

That's some serious goal post moving back peddling you got there...

And still does not counter my point that NYC is way way down on the list of crime statistics for American cities.

This is supported by the FACTS...

Once again, I accept your concession Bash.. :D

The FACTS prove this is the case..

Those were the goal posts.. Don't blame me because you keep missing them.. :D

Move those goal posts! Heh...

Thank you.. I accept your concession.. :D

You forgot to specify what concession: peanuts, popcorn beer...

Pro-life activists shared stories of regretted abortions and adoptions of children who survived attempted abortions
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-florida-abortion-ban-15-weeks

Governor DeSantis is doing such an AWESOME job!!! :D

The facts..

I know, I know.. You can't concede the facts.. But they are factual nonetheless...

Major Crimes Increase In 2022 Compared To 2021

Major Crimes Increase In 2021 Compared To 2020

Murder Rose by Almost 30% in 2020. It’s Rising at a Slower Rate in 2021.

Turnaround is fair play...

continue to pollute Weigantia.

With FACTS... And Reality.. If that's your definition of "pollute"... Everyone knows Democrats like to change definitions that don't fit their agenda.. :^/

I'd say shame on you but you don't care about things like honesty and honor.

Democrat "honor" and "honesty" is like Democrat "science"... It doesn't mean what you want people to believe it means..

A Democrat calling me dishonest and dishonorable is actually a badge of honor... Reality and facts wise..

So, you concede that violent crime has RISEN the last 3 years..

AS I STATED..

Thank you.. I accept your concession.. :D

So, you see MC... I actually DID win the bet we had.. :D

I just chose the wrong minority group.. :D So, except for where I was wrong.. I was right!!! :D

You still screwed CW and continue to pollute Weigantia. I'd say shame on you but you don't care about things like honesty and honor.

All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one!

Tony Montaña
SCARFACE

No, a minor uptick is not a "HUGE explosion"...

And has been RISING since then... The last 3 years..

AS I SAID...

The link EXACTLY backs up my argument....

Thank you for pointing that out..

From your link:

Gun violence hit historic lows in 2018 and 2019. Even with recent increases, rates of shootings, felony assaults and overall major crimes are similar to or below the levels of the late 2000s and early 2010s. There have been nine fewer murders this year compared with the same period last year.

That link does not back up your argument...

“The N.Y.P.D. will use every resource and opportunity to secure this city,” Commissioner Sewell said, but “reversing years will not take weeks.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/nyregion/shootings-new-york-city-safety.html

what actual numbers support that assertion?

Yes, if you go back to the late 90s when crime was REALLY low under Guiliani...

But it's a FACT that violent crime stats for the last 3 years have gotten progressively worse...

The last 3 years have seen a HUGE explosion of violent crime in NYC.. Each year MUCH worst than the last..

incorrect, unless you meant to say that the above statement is not factually accurate. NYC felony statistics have all been way down from 184,652 at the turn of the millenium to a low of 95,593 in 2020. it takes some very creative innumeracy to interpret any part of that trend as a "HUGE explosion"

if you want to make a fantastical assertion regarding NYC crime statistics that actually IS supported by those facts, try suggesting that crime in NYC was so LOW specifically because of the brilliant leadership of Donald J. Trump.

JL

Hillary Clinton’s Odd Midterm Counsel

Focus on the Democratic Party’s national record, she and Obama advise. It’s an unpopular record.

Just when you think the midterms couldn’t get worse for Democrats, up pop two of the most useless purveyors of strategic advice you can imagine.

On “Meet The Press” this month, Hillary Clinton said Democrats have “a lot of good accomplishments” that the party’s candidates should “be putting up on the board.” In her opinion, the best thing her party can do to secure a good midterm outcome is to “do a better job of making the case.”

Then there was former President Barack Obama, who returned to the White House last week for the first time in over five years. “We’ve got a story to tell,” Mr. Obama announced. “We’ve just got to tell it.” This came after the former president told House Democrats in early February “to focus on the wins”—these being the wide availability of Covid-19 vaccines, increased access to healthcare, good jobs reports, and the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Keep in mind this comes from the Democrat who somehow managed to lose the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump and the president whose two midterm elections saw his party lose a combined 76 House seats and 15 Senate seats. Republicans can only hope every Democrat internalizes Mrs. Clinton’s and Mr. Obama’s advice and works it into every speech, action, appearance and ad between now and November.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-midterm-barack-obama-advice-record-biden-harris-november-2022-elections-votes-11649880553?st=62cf40l53e7xizu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Yes, Democrats.. Please PLEASE listen to Shrillary and Odumbo!! They can make everything better for Democrats!! :D

Troo... But only the ones that can be used to Democrats' political agenda have any import..

American deaths that are inconvenient or contradict the Democrat agenda are ignored..

NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls out Black Lives Matter after spate of shootings: 'We can't be hypocrites'

NYC suffered six shootings in as many hours Tuesday night
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-eric-adams-black-lives-matter-shootings-hypocrites

The facts show otherwise...

“And I remember driving home from that trip and asking Reverend Brown, ‘How do those young boys get here?’ And he told me it’s not socioeconomic. It’s not racial. It’s not education — none of that. Ninety-five percent of these boys did not grow up with their dad. And that hit me.”
-Tony Dungy

Well said, sir..

If Democrats *REALLY* want to help black Americans..

They can quit trying to destroy the traditional family...

Not every desire deserves to be empowered
https://unherd.com/2022/04/the-rise-of-the-liberal-groomer/

Nobody here wants to go on record as supporting Democrat Party grooming of 4, 5 and 6 year olds??

"Gee!! I wonder why that is!!??"
-Kevin Spacey, THE NEGOTIATOR

:^/

Reading your mind?? Hardly :D

I put up so many facts and fact-based opinions, it's impossible to know what you are referencing without a quote..

Actually, it's not only possible, it's as easy as pie. ;)

Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php

Apparently, it's a wide spread problem.. :D

This is a losing cause for Democrats..

Yet, they persist... Their agenda is more important to them than the American people...

Kentucky legislature overrides Beshear's veto on abortion bill, shuttering abortion facilities for now

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU announced they would sue to block the law
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kentucky-legislature-overrides-veto-on-abortion-bill-shuttering-abortion-facilities-for-now

Nobody listens to a Democrat Gov any more.. :D

BIDEN CAVES!!!

According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott's announcement on April 6.

Joe Biden.. Weak Leader... :^/

The migrants are from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Colombia, one man said
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-texas-bus-migrants-near-us-capitol-washington-dc

So much for Saki's claim that it was nothing but a publicity stunt and it would never actually happen!!! :D

Let Democrats in DC deal with the illegal immigrants..

Twitter has repeatedly censored conservative viewpoints in recent years. The company locked the conservative satire site The Babylon Bee out of its Twitter account for jokingly awarding Biden administration official Dr. Rachel Levine a "Man of the Year" award. Levine is a transgender woman.

Twitter also blocked the sharing of links to a New York Post article revealing the contents of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. While critics derided the story as Russian disinformation at the time, both the New York Times and Washington Post have since acknowledged that the story was accurate.

Every instance of censorship and ban on social media benefits the Democrat Party agenda..

Why is that??

Because these social media assholes are in bed with the Democrat Party..

Social media is not alone in suppressing views unpopular with the left-wing establishment. The liberal press is equally guilty, but we know where the Washington Post or the New York Times stands. They do not pretend to give everyone a voice.

Liberals in academia, too, limit free speech in our country. A tally by the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that last year 111 scholars were targeted by their schools for voicing opinions that were, in most cases, unpopular with the Left.

The facts are ALL there, people...

But there are none so blind as those who will not see... :^/

Of course, of course.. There will be those who claim they don't even read the facts..

What they are REALLY saying is that the wallow in ignorance... And they ENJOY it!!! :^/

Twitter banned Dr. Robert Malone when he raised concerns about the Pfizer vaccine, YouTube banned Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for questioning the efficacy of over-the-counter masks, and when Dr. Simone Gold and her colleagues attested to the success they had treating COVID patients with hydroxychloroquine, she was banned from every major social media site and smeared by the press.?All three can point to research supporting their claims.

Imagine: a brand-new virus kills millions of people across the globe and social media titans dare to shut down discourse about possible treatments. It is an outrage – one that may have cost many lives.

And ya'all think it perfectly hunky dory to ban FACTS from social media.. JUST because the FACTS don't fit the Democrat Party agenda...

How sad is that?? :^/

Democrats are spewing disinformation all the time..

From their Global Warming Con to their COVID BS to their Russia Collusion Delusion to their Hunter Biden Laptop Conspiracy to their 2020 election was fair and legal...

All Democrats HAVE is disinformation.. And very little in the way of actual FACTS...

Musk not only challenges rules, he also questions "conventional wisdom"; indeed, he appears to consider it an oxymoron.

A man after my own heart!! :D

Second, because Musk is an iconoclast willing to challenge liberal orthodoxy; he is also brilliant and can face down his critics with ruthless efficiency. When Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., accuses him of not paying his "fair share" in taxes and calls him a "freeloader," Musk counters that he has just paid the IRS $11 billion in 2021, the most taxes of any individual in history.

When President Joe Biden excluded non-union Tesla from an event celebrating the future of electric vehicles at the White House, and tweeted that "Ford is investing $11B to build electric vehicles—creating 11,000 jobs across the country [and] GM is making the largest investment in its history—$7B to build electric vehicles, creating 4,000 jobs in Michigan," Musk tweeted back: "Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles & is investing more than double GM + Ford combined." Touche.

Musk doesn't have **ANY** problem with bitch-slapping Democrats who push their anti-America crap...

That's what's to love about Elon Musk... :D

Again.. If there are issues with the FACTS.. I'll be happy to address them.. :D

So, she is against rich people controlling channels of communication yet she spews this Democrat crap will working for a .... you guessed it.. a rich person who controls our channels of communication...

What *IS* it about Democrats that they are such hypocrites???

Any problems with the FACTS??? Anyone?? Anyone??

Establishment liberals are not happy, as a recent Washington Post column demonstrates
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/elon-musk-scares-liberals-twitter-free-speech-liz-peek

A scared Democrat is a GOOD thing for this country!! :D

Exactly what are you referring to??

I put up so many facts and fact-based opinions, it's impossible to know what you are referencing without a quote..

Help a brother out, eh? :D

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter, take it private
Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-offer-buy-twitter-take-it-private

Looks like the Democrats' main Propaganda Outlet is going to disappear!! :D

WOOT!!!!!

Ya'all get to have President Trump back on Twitter!!!

Won't that be EXCITING!!!! :D

I know I'm excited!!! :D

The WHO.. They were the ones that said COVID was less serious than the seasonal flu..

OK.. Gotcha.. :D

There are better places to, ah, "dabble", you know.

I disagree..

No other place in this universe has you, JL, or MC.. :D

This is the *ONLY* place to dabble.. :D

There are better places to, ah, "dabble", you know.

Chris's comments on the poor standard of scientific, medical and statistical reporting are spot on.

The last place to check for information on this is the media. The best place is the WHO.

Why Hispanics gave up on the Left

Can conservatives win Latino support without Trump?

For just over a month, America’s first Spanish-language conservative radio station has been trying to win over the country’s most-talked about political demographic: increasingly right-leaning Hispanics. It couldn’t have launched at a better time.

When asked about the inspiration behind Americano last month, two weeks after its first broadcast, CEO Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo cited the 2016 election, in which Trump made massive, surprising gains with Hispanics. Recent polling suggests that the rightward drift of the demographic, on which Trump capitalised, has continued since then. There is a growing audience of conservative Hispanics, Garcia-Hidalgo points out — and what they, and America, needed was a “Fox News in Spanish”.
https://unherd.com/2022/04/why-hispanics-gave-up-on-the-left/

So, you see MC... I actually DID win the bet we had.. :D

I just chose the wrong minority group.. :D So, except for where I was wrong.. I was right!!! :D

And 2022 is going to be even BETTER for the GOP with the hispanic vote.. :D

Hispanic Americans are leaving the Democrat Party by the 10s of millions!!! :D

Ya'all believe that it's PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE that 4, 5 and 6 yr old children be exposed to sexually explicit concepts and content and that they be allowed to choose their own gender..

Due to lack of maturity in making sound decisions, they can't smoke for another 12-14 years and they can't drive for another 10-12 years and they can't drink for another 17-15 years...

But, by gods, ya'all believe that they are mature enough to choose their own gender!!???

Do you see how WHACKED and far off the reservation ya'all Democrats have gone?? :^/

Beware the Ides Of March.... :D

CNN+ BBBWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHHA

What a joke...

Air America Part Duex :D

Democrats’ Political Death Wish

Heading into what increasingly looks to be a tough year for the Democrats in midterm elections, logic would dictate that they should be working hard to stave off unnecessary political liabilities and prevent any further disaster for their party at the ballot box. Instead—at a time when our nation is overrun with crises almost entirely of the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats’ own making—Democrats seem to be going out of their way to reinforce the notion that they are a party of radical elitists who are disconnected from the values, needs, and interests of the American people.

Rather than finding meaningful ways to ease crippling inflation, lower gas prices, or avert yet another disastrous spring on the southern border, Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have evidently decided to double down on progressive culture war issues that are alienating parents, families, and everyday Americans in extraordinary numbers. As the left pushes extreme left-wing policies like sex reassignment surgery for children, allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports, and Critical Race Theory and gender ideology in schools, they continue to generally ignore the cascade of real crises that affect normal Americans. And they are doing so at their own increasing peril.
https://amac.us/democrats-political-death-wish/

It's almost as if Democrats WANT an Uber Nuclear Shellacking Of Biblical Proportions!!

Winter's coming...

What seems closer to certain is that the rule of law and our democratic system are in greater danger when elite institutions work to discredit their outcomes than when self-proclaimed “deplorables” do. Our national press cowards, though, aren’t about to admit how much they strengthened Mr. Trump, almost re-elected him and made “stop the steal” credible to millions of Americans because, starting in 2016-17, they chose to oppose him with lies instead of the truth.

If the problem were one Washington Post editorial, nobody would care. But it’s not. Our media could use a period of intensive cognitive behavioral therapy to help it get back to seeing what’s in front of its eyes and reporting accurately. In those hopefully rare occasions when the press still feels it must lie (say, to defeat Donald Trump), at least it could be honest with itself about what it’s doing.

The facts are clear..

Democrats lied to the American people to defeat President Trump...

Big Media lied to the American people to defeat President Trump...

Big Tech lied to the American people to defeat President Trump...

They all LIED to the American people because they knew that the FACTS and the REALITY would elect President Trump...

Garbage In... Garbage Out...

And gods know that we have PLENTY of garbage when Democrats are in charge...

The FACTS prove this beyond ANY doubt...

Media Bias and Hunter’s Laptop

The press won’t claw back its credibility until it admits why it buried the story.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/media-spin-hunter-biden-laptop-news-trump-free-speech-censorship-stop-the-steal-big-lie-2020-presidential-election-steele-dossier-11649792758?st=5gzrtddf3gx7mkz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I know, I know.. Ya'all wish this would just go away..

But it's not.. Hunter Biden's laptop is going to be gone thru and every little tid bit will be national news!! :D

And what's even better is that it's actually TWO STORIES!!

It's the story of criminality that reaches all the way to Joe Biden his ol' senile and dementia-ridden self...

AND

It's the story of how criminal malfeasance and conspiracy on the part of an unholy trinity of Democrats, Big Media and Big Tech conspired to aid Democrat campaigning by maliciously hiding and burying the FACTS of Hunter Biden's laptop...

It's a toss up as to which will cause MORE damage to Democrats.. :D

But it's all going to be SOOOO EXCITING!!

Played against the backdrop of the upcoming mid-term elections..

Winter's coming...

I LOVE WINTER!! :D

Democrats know the bitter taste of bad midterm results. The party fared dismally during the first midterm elections of President Clinton and President Obama. In 1994, with Clinton in the White House, Democrats lost a net 54 House seats. In 2010, under Obama, they lost 63 seats.

Democrats are USED to being uber nuclear shellacked.. :D

So, chin up.. It's just another huge loss in a Party replete with huge losses.. :D

And we're not even to the tough part yet..

Things will REALLY get bad for Democrats once June rolls around.. :D

“I think this is going to be a biblical disaster. This is the reality we are in as Democrats and no one wants to face it.”
-Democrat Strategist

What *IS* it about Democrats that they can't face inconvenient facts...???

CHEATERS NEVER PROSPER

Betcha'all wish Biden hadn't cheated, eh?? :D

Ya'all are looking at a COMPLETE domination of Congress by the GOP in 2022..

Then, in 2024 the GOP will add to their majority in Congress and President Trump will return triumphantly to the Oval Office...

And the Golden Age of American Ascension will begin anew!! :D

America's future's so bright!! She gots ta wear shades!!! :D

Democrats'?? Meh... Not so much... :D

The Memo: Democrats face nightmare scenario, ‘biblical disaster’
Democrats are facing a nightmare scenario with about six months to go before the midterm elections.

Inflation, immigration, the war in Ukraine and the still-lingering COVID-19 pandemic make for a dreadful political atmosphere for President Biden’s party.

The problems are compounded by Biden’s weak approval numbers and the historical pattern whereby a president’s party typically loses seats in the first midterms of his tenure.

Some Democrats believe a turnaround is still possible, or at least that losses can be kept modest.

But others, granted anonymity to speak candidly, sound a louder alarm.

“I think this is going to be a biblical disaster,” said one such Democratic strategist, who did not wish to be named. “This is the reality we are in as Democrats and no one wants to face it.”
https://thehill.com/news/administration/3265986-the-memo-democrats-face-nightmare-scenario-biblical-disaster/

Ooooo!!! I like that one..

An Uber Nuclear Shellacking Of BIBLICAL Proportions!!!

I like that one a LOT!!! :D

Democrats will vote Democrat.. And GOP will vote Republicans...

It's the Independents and NPAs like me who decide elections..

And things don't look too good for Democrats as far as the Independents and NPAs are concerned.. :D

THE RETURN OF THE JEDI!! :D

Biden's approval craters at 33%

Thirty-nine per cent of Americans said they approved of Biden's handling of the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while another 48 per cent disapprove
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10716929/Bidens-approval-craters-33.html

For those of you who hold out hope that Democrats will be OK in November??

Allow me to dash them to smithereens! :D

Winter's coming...

For example...

Kentucky lawmakers override governor's veto of bill banning transgender athletes from girls' sports

The measure is now law in the state
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kentucky-lawmakers-override-governors-veto-of-bill-banning-transgender-athletes-from-girls-sports

GOOD.. Another win for freedom and fairness in America...

The same Party that gave this country groomers also wants to allow biological men to compete in women's sports..

Thanx to Democrats Womens Swimming is now horribly tainted and it's not worth it for any female to compete in Womens Swimming..

This guy's Womens Swimming records should be stricken from books...

Good for Kentucky....

Remember when "medical science" said that smoking was good for you???

Remember when you were told that masks would actually WORK to stop COVID and that lockdowns were necessary!??

Let's face reality and the facts here..

First off, ya'all aren't listening to science.. Your listening to Democrat "science".. And the ONLY reason you are listening to Democrat "science" is because it suits your political agenda...

This is made obvious by the fact that you are still masking up and taking boosters..

Which is fine.. Personal freedom and all that.. Ya'all can even delude yerselves into thinking it's actually necessary.. Go for it.. :D That's what makes America great..

But don't think for a minute that ya'all are fooling anyone...

COVID is the first political pandemic.. The facts prove this beyond ANY doubt...

And the *ONLY* thing driving Democrat "science" vis a vis COVID are the polls... That's it..

Massive migrant surge expected when Title 42 ends in late May
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-va-border-migrants-title-42-republicans-biden-administration

I am certain the only other veteran here in Weigantia who has worn the uniform will join me in condemning this plan of Biden's to take vital healthcare away from our veterans and use them to treat illegal Democrat voters...

Right??

BBWBBWBWBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Democrats will milk this political pandemic for all it's worth, won't they.. :D

I guess that's what happens when a Party doesn't have any competence to run on... They have to invent crisis so they can be seen doing something.

And even their response to their own crisis is incompetent.. :D

Winter's coming...

That's moronic. Statistically New York City is way, way down the list on all crime categories, violent and property...

Not factually accurate..

The last 3 years have seen a HUGE explosion of violent crime in NYC.. Each year MUCH worst than the last..

A perfect example of Party dogma blinding you to the FACTS and the reality.. :D

Keep being you, Bash.. It's so cute.. :D

There is evidence that the immunity conferred by a first booster starts to wane after about 4-5 months, which is why the recommendation of a 2nd after 6 months. Or possibly this variant evades it somewhat. It seems to have a much shorter exposure time, sometimes just a couple of days. People who had Covid the first time, or one of the other variants, are going down with this variant as well.

Case in point, my OH (pushing 80) contracted this variant a couple of weeks ago, about 5 months after booster 1, along with a lot of other people who had escaped the original covid and first variants. He almost certainly picked it up in a choir rehearsal where everyone was singing unmasked. The good news is that it was no worse than a bad cold and only lasted a few days for him, as for most, but that doesn't mean it isn't dangerous for some. I seem to have escaped this time--I still have about a month to go before booster 2.

(For what it's worth, we both had Covid fairly early on, although because we had the 'wrong' symptoms, no fever in particular, we weren't tested at the time. My OH picked it up at choir or at the last concert before lockdown that time, too; masks weren't generally being worn then. Fortunately, we were not ill enough to need medical care, just go-to-bed ill for a few days. We got confirmation that it was Covid when we took part in a mass test a bit later on which showed we both had disease antibodies.)

And 4 out of 5 Dentists agree that if it bleeds it leads most reliably attracts those eyeballs.