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No, people are tired of you hijacking every thread to talk about Trump. This thread is about democrats. Go talk about Trump in the hundreds of Trump threads. I would've thought a guy with 68,000 understood how a message board works.

More magic from the sorcerer in California. This should bode well for Baghdad by the Bay. As long as we have the same amount of shade trees for blacks and browns as we do for the whites...


Newsom proposes defunding law enforcement, prisons, public safety as California faces massive deficit
'They're in a panic. They're in a freefall,' Florida's CFO told Fox News

By Hannah Grossman Fox News
Published June 6, 2024 5:00am EDT


Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., proposed slashing budgets regarding public safety, such as prisons and law enforcement, as the state simultaneously grapples with a crippling deficit and doubles down on climate goals relating to equity.

The California Democrat's proposed budget, released in May, notes that "difficult decisions" are necessary to address the estimated $27.6 billion deficit, which is projected to continue for years to come. It includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice's Division of Law Enforcement and more than $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

A Newsom spokesperson initially told Fox News Digital that there were "no cuts to law enforcement."

"The budget proposes numerous ways to make government more efficient and reduce costs for taxpayers, including cuts on inmate spending. Since Governor Newsom took office in 2019, the state has made record investments in law enforcement, including $1.1 billion to tackle crime, support police, and hold criminals accountable," the spokesperson said.

However, an official from the Department of Finance acknowledged a 1.6% reduction in the state's Department of Justice's overall proposed budget.

"What's happening in California is just the greatest disrespect of taxpayer's resources in the history of America," Florida's chief financial officer, Jimmy T. Patronis, told Fox News Digital. "They're in a panic. They're in a free fall. They're looking for money to make up this enormous budget deficit they've got right now."

Patronis argued that an exodus from California has helped fuel the budget deficit. The Golden State experienced the largest net loss of one-way movers, according to a United Van Lines study published earlier this year.

Moreover, California’s green energy policies have caused blue-collar businesses to suffer from stagnation and decline, a Chapman University study published in April found. Soaring home prices in California, exacerbated by environmental regulations, are also causing historically White middle class people to join the exodus, according to the study.

Nonetheless, Newsom proposed shifting money from the general fund, offering $1.7 billion for climate goals, particularly those related to "equity programs."

Patronis also said California's deficit was partially due to businesses fleeing the state because of high crime. Newsom's proposal to cut public safety funds will only fuel the "vicious cycle," he added. Florida, on the other hand, has had budget surpluses.

"Ultimately, this vicious cycle where you've got a weaker prison system" will cause "weaker incarceration, which has been kind of the narrative that's been coming out of California now," Patronis said. "San Francisco has been kind of like the poster child for businesses fleeing a once-prosperous city."

Since the beginning of the year, there have been 8,686 thefts in San Francisco, not including 1,962 burglaries and 2,298 motor vehicle thefts, according to the latest available crime stats.

This year alone, retailers such as Aldo, J.Crew and Madewell announced they were closing their stores at the San Francisco Centre. This follows a trend of major stores who have fled the Northern California city, leaving malls with major vacancies, according to a report. The North Face and Macy's also closed down at the beginning of 2024, and Zara is expected to follow suit in 2025.

The governor's office pointed to violent and property crime being down the first quarter of this year when compared to last year.

The $80 million cut from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is intended to eliminate 4,600 beds across 13 prisons. The governor's office said the elimination of beds is "population-driven." Newsom also proposed slashing law enforcement training and cutting $4.4 million from county probation departments.

The California State Legislature, meanwhile, is pushing against some of the proposed cuts regarding public safety, particularly a $15 million decrease from the DOJ, Department of Finance deputy director for external affairs H.D. Palmer told Fox News Digital.

"These proposed reductions are unallocated reductions, meaning that it would be up to the department as to how they would be implemented," Palmer said.

The legislature has until June 15 to approve the budget, which would go into effect in July.

Patronis attributed Florida's financial success, in part, to Newsom's failures as governor to ensure Californians feel safe.

"The one that you have to hold responsible is Gavin Newsom," he said. "When you create a safe environment, people want to relocate their businesses."

"You created an environment [in California] where … you are defunding the police and defunding law enforcement. So look, in the state of Florida, we've taken advantage of their poor governance," Patronis continued. "We have offered incentive bonuses. We've actually recruited law enforcement officers for the state of Florida with a $5,000 recruitment bonus. And we have gotten law enforcement officers from all 50 states."

Patronis also worried about Newsom's future ambitions.

"I think he would love to be president one day … He could just lie straight through his teeth like nobody I've ever seen on camera," he said. "I would hate to ever see somebody with that type of a deliberate mindset to be in charge of our country's economy."


https://www.foxnews.com/media/newso...y-panic-california-faces-massive-deficit

I'm not the one who brought Trump up in this thread. Here is the first time Trump was brought up in this thread. It was a post by Damon.....


Reading is fundamental. If you're going to point the finger at someone for something, at least figure out who to point the finger at. But then that would require more effort than finger pointing. Try again...

Yes, having people working 40 hours and not making a living wage seems to be your answer to this. Shame on anyone who stops that from happening. But then our economy always ran on a sub class that society feels comfortable with treating like second class citizens.

Bravo. It's about time people in the U.S. medical community speak up.

Here comes the leader of the trump brigade in full snowflake mode.

An Anti-Trans Doctor Group Leaked 10,000 Confidential Files

A Google Drive left public on the American College of Pediatricians’ website exposed detailed financial records, sensitive member details, and more.

A doctors’ organization at the center of the ongoing legal fight over the abortion drug mifepristone has suffered a significant data breach. A link to an unsecured Google Drive published on the group’s website pointed users last week to a large cache of sensitive documents, including financial and tax records, membership rolls, and email exchanges spanning over a decade. The more than 10,000 documents lay bare the outsize influence of a small conservative organization working to lend a veneer of medical science to evangelical beliefs on parenting, sex, procreation, and gender.

The American College of Pediatricians, which has fought to deprive gay couples of their parental rights and encouraged public schools to treat LGBTQ youth as if they were mentally ill, is one of a handful of conservative think tanks leading the charge against abortion in the United States. A federal lawsuit filed by the College and its partners against the US Food and Drug Administration seeks to limit nationwide access to what is today the most common form of abortion. The case is now on a trajectory for the US Supreme Court, which not even a year ago declared abortion the purview of America’s elected state representatives.

The leaked records, first reported by WIRED, offer an unprecedented look at the groups and personnel central to that campaign. They also describe an organization that has benefited greatly by exaggerating its own power, even as it has struggled quietly for two decades to grow in size and gain respect. The records show how the College, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes as a hate group, managed to introduce fringe beliefs into the mainstream simply by being, as the founder of Fox News once put it, “the loudest voice in the room.”
The Leak

A WIRED review of the exposed data found that the unsecured Google Drive stored nearly 10,000 files, some of which are compressed zip files containing additional documents. These records detail highly sensitive internal information about the College’s donors and taxes, social security numbers of board members, staff resignation letters, budgetary and fundraising concerns, and the usernames and passwords of more than 100 online accounts. The files include Powerpoint presentations, Quickbooks accounting documents, and at least 388 spreadsheets.

One spreadsheet appears to be an export of an internal database containing information on 1,200 past and current members. It contains intimate personal information about each member, including various contact details, as well as where they were educated, how they heard of the group, and when membership dues were paid. The records show past and current members are mostly male and, on average, over 50 years old. As of spring 2022, the College counted slightly more than 700 members, according to another document reviewed by WIRED.

The breach exposes some material dating back to the group’s origin. It includes mailing lists gathered by the group of thousands of “conservative physicians” across the country. (One document outlining recruitment efforts states in bold, red letters: “TARGET CHRISTIAN MDs.”) The ongoing recruitment of doctors and medical school students seen as holding Christian views has long been its top priority. The leaked records indicate that more than 10,000 mailers were sent to physicians between 2013 and 2017 alone.

While the group’s membership rolls are not public, the leak has outed most if not all of its members. A cursory review of the member lists surfaced one name of note: a recent commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, who after joining in 2019 asked that his membership with the group remain a secret. (WIRED was unable to reach the official for comment in time for publication.)

The SPLC’s “hate group” designation, which the College forcefully disputes, haunted its fundraising efforts, records reveal. A barrage of emails in 2014 show that the label cost the group the chance to benefit from an Amazon program that would eventually distribute $450 million to charities across the globe. Amazon would deny the College’s application, stating that it relied on the SPLC to determine which charities fall into certain ineligible categories.

A strategy document would later refer to a “unified plan” among the College and its allies to “continue discrediting the SPLC,” which included a campaign aimed at lowering its rating at Charity Navigator, one of the web’s most influential nonprofit evaluators. One of the group’s admins noted that despite SPLC’s label, another charity monitor, GuideStar, listed the College as being in “good standing.”

The College’s GuideStar page no longer says this and appears to have been defaced. It now reads, “AMERICAN COLLEGE OF doodoo fartheads,” with a mission statement saying: “we are evil and hate gays :(((”

The Google Drive containing the documents was taken offline soon after WIRED contacted the American College of Pediatricians. The College did not respond to a request for comment.
The Talk

Leaked communications between members of the group and minutes taken at board meetings over the course of several years speak loudly about the challenges the group faced in pursuing its deeply unpopular agenda: returning America to a time when the laws and social mores around family squared neatly with evangelical Christian beliefs.

Many of the College’s most radical views target transgender people, and in particular, transgender youth. The leak, which had been indexed by Google, includes volumes of literature crafted specifically to influence relationships between practicing pediatricians, parents, and their children. It includes reams of marketing material the College aims to distribute widely among public school officials. This includes pushing schools to adopt junk science painting transgender youth as carriers of a pathological disorder, one that’s capable of spontaneously causing others–à la the dancing plague–to adopt similar thoughts and behaviors.

This is one of the group’s most dubious claims. While unsupported by medical science, it is routinely and incuriously propagated through literature targeted at schools and medical offices around the US. The primary source for this claim is a research paper drafted in 2017 by Lisa Littman, a Brown University scholar who, while a medical doctor, was not specialized in mental health. The goal of the paper was to introduce, conceptually, “rapid onset gender dysphoria”—a hypothetical disorder, as was later clarified by the journal that published it. Littman would also clarify personally that her research “does not validate the phenomenon” she’d hypothesized, since no clinicians, nor individuals identifying as trans, had participated in the study.

The paper explains that its subjects were instead all parents who had been recruited from a handful of websites known for opposing gender-affirmative care and “telling parents not to believe their child is transgender.” A review of one of the sites from the period shows parents congregating to foster paranoia about whether there’s a “conspiracy of silence” around “anime culture” brainwashing boys into behaving like girls; insights plucked in some cases straight from another, more insidious forum (widely known for reveling in the suicides of the people it has bullied).

A 2021 prospectus describing the group’s focus, ideology, and lobbying efforts encapsulates a wide range of “educational resources” destined for the inboxes of physicians and medical school students. The materials include links to a website instructing doctors on how to speak to children in a variety of scenarios about a multitude of topics surrounding sex, including in the absence of their parents. Practice scripts of conversations between doctors and patients advise, among other things, ways to elicit a child’s thoughts on sex with the help of an imaginative metaphor.

While the material is not expressly religious, it is clearly aimed at painting same-sex marriage as aberrant and immoral behavior. Physicians lobbied by the group are also told to urge patients to purchase Christian-based parenting guides, including one designed to help parents broach the topic of sex with their 11- and 12-year-old kids. The College suggests telling parents to plan a “special overnight trip,” a pretext for instilling in their children sexual norms in line with evangelical practice. The group suggests telling parents to buy a tool called a “getaway kit,” a series of workbooks that run around $54 online. The workbooks methodically walk the parents through the process of springing the topic, but only after a day-long charade of impromptu gift-giving and play.

These books are full of games and puzzles for the parent and child to cooperatively take on. Throughout the process, the child slowly digests a concept of “sexual purity,” lessons aided by oversimplified scripture and well-trodden Bible school parables.

Another document the group shared with its members contains a script for appointments with pregnant minors. Its purpose is made evidently clear: The advice is engineered specifically to reduce the odds of minors coming into contact with medical professionals not strictly opposed to abortion. A practice script recommends the doctor inform the minor that they “strongly recommend against” abortion, adding “the procedure not only kills the infant you carry, but is also a danger to you.” (Medically, the term “fetus” and “infant” are not interchangeable, the latter referring to a newborn baby less than one year old.)

The doctors are urged to recommend that the minor visit a website that, like others shared with patients, is not expressly religious but will only direct visitors to Catholic-run “crisis pregnancy centers,” which strictly reject abortion. The same site is widely promoted by anti-abortion groups such as National Right to Life, which last year held that it should be illegal to terminate the pregnancy of a 10-year-old rape victim.
The Professionals

The effort to ban mifepristone, which the Supreme Court paused last month pending further review, faces significant legal hurdles but could ultimately benefit from the appellate court’s disproportionately conservative makeup. Most of the legal power in the fight was supplied by a much older and better funded group, the Alliance Defending Freedom, which has established ties to some of the country’s most politically elite—former vice president Mike Pence and Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett among them.

A contract in the leaked documents dated April 2021 shows the ADF agreeing to legally represent the College free of charge. It stipulates that ADF’s ability to subsidize expenses incurred during lawsuits would be limited by ethical guidelines; however, it could still forgive any lingering costs simply by declaring the College “indigent.”

In contrast to the College’s some 700 members, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)–the organization from which the College’s founders split 20 years ago–has roughly 67,000. The rupture between the two groups was a direct result of a statement issued by the AAP in 2002. Modern research, the AAP said, had conclusively shown that the sexual orientation of parents had an imperceptible impact on the well-being of children, so long as they were raised in caring, supportive families.

The College would gain notoriety early on by assailing the positions of the AAP. In 2005, a Boston Globe reporter noted how common it had become for the American College of Pediatricians “to be quoted as a counterpoint” to anything the AAP said. The institution had a rather “august-sounding name,” he wrote, for being run by a “single employee.”

Internal documents show that the group’s directors quickly encountered hurdles operating on the fringe of accepted science. Some claimed to be oppressed. Most of the College’s research had been “written by one person,” according to minutes from a 2006 meeting, which were included in the leak. The College was failing to make a splash. In the future, one director suggested, papers rejected by medical journals “should be published on the web.” The vote to do so was unanimous (though the board decided the term “not published” was nicer than “rejected”).

A second director put forth a motion to create a separate “scientific section” on the group’s website, strictly for linking to articles published in medical journals. The motion was quashed after it dawned on the board that they didn’t “have enough articles” to make the page “look professional.”

The College struggled to identify the root cause of its runtedness. “To get enough clout,” one director said, “it would take substantial numbers, maybe 10,000.” (The College’s recruitment efforts would yield fewer than 7 percent of this goal in the following 17 years.) Yet another said the marketing department advised that “the College needs to pick a fight with the AAP and get on Larry King Live.” Another board member, the notes say, felt the organization was too busy trying to “walk the fence” by neglecting to acknowledge that “we are conservative and religious.”

https://www.wired.com/story/american-college-pediatricians-google-drive-leak/

Certainly no agenda there.

About damned time is right. We're going to need a lot more adults in the room to start turning all these ridiculous agendas around.

Yes, if you wish to present a group that is ant-gay as your talking point I guess that works for you.

Aren’t right wing religious groups peddling conversion therapy on gays? How does that work?

You would have to ask the idiots who think it does work.

Key prosecution witness says he bribed New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez

New Jersey businessman Jose Uribe testified Friday that he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez as part of a scheme to derail the prosecution of an associate and shield Uribe and his close friends and family from being dragged into a related investigation.

Four weeks into the New Jersey Democrat’s corruption trial in Manhattan, prosecutors are attempting to piece together, through Uribe, what they have described as a sprawling scheme to trade Menendez’s influence for cash, gold bars and luxury gifts.

On Friday, Menendez turned in his seat to see Uribe enter the court, then watched attentively as the businessman, who is testifying under a cooperation agreement with the government after pleading guilty in March, told the court he had committed federal crimes, including bribery of a public official.

Uribe named and identified Menendez as the person he bribed before describing in broad terms the template of his deal with the senator that allegedly involved giving Menendez’s wife, Nadine, a Mercedes-Benz C300 convertible.

“I (agreed) with Nadine Menendez and other people to provide a car for Nadine in order to get the power and influence of Mr. Menendez,” Uribe said, in order “to help me get a better resolution for one of my associates who was being charged in a criminal matter and to stop and kill investigations that could lead to my daughter and family members.”

The Menendezes, along with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, are accused of engaging in bribery schemes and acting as foreign agents for the Egyptian government and assisting the government of Qatar. All four have pleaded not guilty. Nadine Menendez will be tried separately this summer.

Uribe’s testimony Friday linked the Mercedes, one of the main alleged bribes, back to Nadine and Bob Menendez and offered insight into Hana’s relationship with the couple. But it is not expected to shed much light on the inner workings of other alleged bribery schemes between Menendez and Hana to benefit the Egyptian and Qatari governments.

Uribe in his testimony described a series of meetings and exchanges, some of them text messages presented to the jury, that connected a vast array of characters who had, before Friday, appeared to operate in separate orbits.

The key initial discussion, though, appears to be one he had with co-defendant Hana – a man Uribe described as being like a brother – in the hallway outside the office of attorney Andy Aslanian in 2018.

Uribe said he was discussing a mess of legal concerns with Aslanian, his lawyer, when Hana, who had been listening in, pulled him aside to offer a simple solution.

“I can make the investigations go away,” Uribe said Hana told him. The particulars, he added, were murky, but Hana insisted that he was close to Menendez and, for between $200,000 and $250,000, could parlay the relationship into an arrangement that would – as he repeatedly said – “stop and kill” an ongoing criminal case that Uribe worried would soon lead investigators to his business and close associates.

Menendez, who has sat impassively throughout four weeks of testimony, appeared to shake his head and shoot a derisive grin at his legal team when Uribe spoke about his yearslong relationship with Hana.

“We considered each other brothers,” Uribe said, before implicating the Egyptian American businessman in a series of federal crimes and describing his friend as an aggressive, sometimes cloying middleman who promised Uribe and his associates more than he could deliver.

Uribe, Hana, and business partners Elvis Parra and Bienvenido Hernandez eventually agreed to meet at a Marriott in Teaneck, New Jersey, where they gathered at the end of a hotel bar to hash out a plan.

“In substance, (Hana) confirmed to all of us that he has a way to make this investigation stop and kill(ed) if he received a sum of somewhere between $200,000 to $250,000,” Uribe testified, adding that Hana namechecked Nadine and Bob Menendez at the meeting but did not specify how they would help.

Uribe ended up arranging a 2018 campaign fundraiser for the senator, at Hana’s suggestion, that he said pulled in about $50,000, $5,000 of which came from his own wallet. Menendez was up for reelection that year, when he won his most recent term. Menendez did not run in the Democratic primary for his seat this year but has filed to appear on the general election ballot on an independent line.

The fundraiser yielded cash for Menendez’s campaign and the kind of good vibes, including drinks and dancing at an afterparty with the senator and his wife, that Uribe said convinced him all was going to plan. He told his family and friends that their legal issues were all but resolved.

“My understanding was that the deal was … in good terms, that what Wael has promised will have a good result,” Uribe said, telling the court he was confident, in that moment, that “this was going to work for all parties.”

But as prosecutors said in their opening statements and a handful of witnesses have testified since, this fast friendship quickly unraveled. A detective for the state Attorney General’s Office who had been poking around Uribe’s business, showed up at one point to interview Ana Peguero, a woman Uribe said he considered – and frequently described on the stand as – his “daughter.” Peguero was the agent of record at his brokerage, he testified. The same detective also traveled to Seattle, Uribe said, to speak to his son, who had moved there to attend law school.

Uribe’s mood, as seen in text messages displayed by prosecutors, soured as the prosecution of Parra and the probe into his own associates continued apace.

“This was not a good time for me,” Uribe said, repeating language from a text message he sent Hana in October 2018 that read “I am f**ked man.”

After a series of failed attempts to jumpstart the arrangement with Hana, including a frustrating lunch with him, Bob and Nadine Menendez in which the deal was never discussed, Uribe said he decided to cut out what he viewed as a feckless middleman and contact Nadine, whose phone number he got from Aslanian.

In their initial phone call in March 2019, Uribe said, “Nadine put a line of complaints about how her life was not going well and that most men that had promised her things in the past never come through.”

Hana was one of them, Uribe said, testifying that Nadine was particularly upset that Hana had not “provided a car that she wanted.” Their concerns now aligned, Uribe said Nadine agreed to an arrangement along the lines he had previously drawn with Hana, now though in exchange for a new Mercedes.

Uribe, who is scheduled to be sentenced later this month, left the courtroom without looking at any of the defendants, keeping his eyes trained on the double doors that marked the exit. Judge Sidney Stein halted the proceedings as business hours came to a close. Uribe will return to the stand and the trial will resume on Monday.

Menendez, seated alone as the court began to clear out, looked down at the table in front of him and shook his head. He then stood up, straightened his coat, and left for the weekend.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/politics/bob-menendez-bribery-trial/index.html

He's cooked. Should have just resigned already.

I hope him dragging this out makes it 10x worse.

I think he was always going to go to trial since the charges were brought. I think this just enables him to cling to power for a little bit longer. I'm sure he had some level of denial about it as well. Whatnot with him throwing his wife under the bus as well. Probably some combination of denial and scapegoating gave him the illusion that he could remain in power.

I think it's pretty clear that Menendez is guilty, I just don't see any way out of it for him. Just like everyone else, if he did it, he needs to pay the price prescribed by law.

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This is the problem with you libtards. You prosecute and imprison your own for breaking the law or doing something immoral/unethical. We righties stand blindly by our guy no matter what despicable acts they commit.

This isn't the first time for him with stuff like this.
Pretty sure it's the last, though.

Influence for sale. The banality of greed/graft. Stupid, greedy people doing stupid things.
Years behind bars is appropriate. Make it so.

At least most of us are willing to stand up to the plate and own it.

This is a good thing


HAPPENING NOW
Analysts break down the guilty verdict in Hunter Biden's federal gun trial. Watch CNN
Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show
Josh Campbell Devan Cole
By Josh Campbell and Devan Cole, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 11:24 PM EDT, Mon June 10, 2024




CNN
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Violent crime dropped by more than 15% in the United States during the first three months of 2024, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI.

The new numbers show violent crime from January to March dropped 15.2% compared to the same period in 2023, while murders fell 26.4% and reported rapes decreased by 25.7%. Aggravated assaults decreased during that period when compared to last year by 12.5%, according to the data, while robberies fell 17.8%.

The numbers released Monday were gathered from 13,719 of the just over 19,000 law enforcement agencies from across the country, according to the bureau.

Meanwhile, property crime went down 15.1% in the first three months of this year. Burglaries dropped 16.7%, while motor vehicle theft decreased by 17.3%. The declines in violent and property crimes were seen in every region of the US.

In a statement Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland stressed the new data “makes clear that last year’s historic decline in violent crime is continuing.”

“This continued historic decline in homicides does not represent abstract statistics. It represents people whose lives were saved — people who are still here to see their children grow up, to work toward fulfilling their dreams, and to contribute to their communities,” Garland said.

US murder rate plunges
The new FBI figures validate a trend identified by some national crime experts: The US murder rate continues to drop at a high rate and could be headed for its largest annual decline ever.

Compared to the first five months of 2023, murders this year have dropped more than 40% in cities including New Orleans, Seattle, Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, according to the research firm AH Datalytics, which analyzes crime figures reported by law enforcement agencies across the nation.

Although more than six months still remain in 2024, “it’s plausible that this will be, by far, the largest one-year decline in American history,” said Jeff Asher, criminal justice analyst and co-founder of consulting firm AH Datalytics.

The firm’s real-time review of 265 cities currently shows a 19% drop in murders nationwide compared to 2023.

Data limitations
The preliminary figures in the FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report do come with important limitations. For one, the bureau relies upon data voluntarily submitted by policing agencies.

Crime analysts also say quarterly data are imprecise, as law enforcement agencies have the remainder of the year to audit and correct any reporting errors before final annual figures are published by the FBI.

“We have other data sources that point to the same trends, but the degree of those declines is probably being overstated due to the methodology being employed by the FBI,” said Asher.

‘Interrupting cycles of violence’
The US murder rate has declined since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it a surge in homicides across the country. FBI figures showed the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019 to 2020 – the largest single-year increase the agency had recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s – and violent crime during the same period increased by 5%.

Criminal justice experts say crime trends are complex, but generally blame the cause in the 2020 surge on vast societal disruptions, including the closure of schools, businesses, childcare and community programs. Others pointed to more stress and more guns along with less policing, less public trust and disruption of social support services.

“These are some of the tools that we would expect to have an effect on reversing or interrupting cycles of violence,” said Asher. “In a normal year these tools would have been available to us in 2020 or 2021, but they weren’t. It’s only now, several years later, that we’re starting to see the level of gun violence, the level of murder fall back to where it was pre-pandemic.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/10/us/us-violent-crime-rates-statistics/index.html

Crime down, illegal border crossings down, 2 years of the unemployment rate at 4% or lower. Inflation down.

Libtards are evil. We want our [censored] grabbing convicted felon back.

unemployment rate in 2019 was 3.7%
border crossings in 2019 that number was less than 500k.
inflation rate was 1.81%


unemployment today, is at 3.9 and it's expected to be at or above 4%
in 2023 almost 2.25 million (no one has current numbers yet)
inflation rate is currently at 3.4%




Border crossing facts
https://www.statista.com/chart/20397/number-of-immigrants-apprehended-at-us-mexico-border/

The past couple of fiscal years have seen new record numbers of migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border, counting both migrants apprehended and those asking to enter legally but deemed inadmissible. Their numbers rose to almost 2.5 million in FY 2023 and stood at 785,000 three months into the new fiscal year (2024), which would constitute another record if extrapolated.
in 2023 almost 2.25 million
in 2023 almost 2.25 million
in 2022 almost 1.75 mill
in 3 years, we have had almost 5.5 million

When Trump took office in January 2017, the U.S. had 145.6 million nonfarm jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ standard measurement for job counting. After Trump’s first 30 months — the same number of months that Biden has been in office — the number of jobs had risen to 150.8 million.

That’s an increase of about 5.2 million jobs, or a bit higher than the 4.9 million Trump described in South Carolina.

Using this methodology, Trump was much further off base with Biden’s numbers.

When Biden took office in January 2021, the U.S had almost 143 million nonfarm jobs. By Biden’s 30th month in office — June 2023 — the number of nonfarm jobs had risen to 156.2 million.

That’s an increase of 13.2 million jobs, or more than six times as big as the 2.1 million jobs Trump referenced in his speech.

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-did-trump-or-biden-create-more-jobs-over-30-months/21012411/

Good grief.....

I believe the numbers, but does that take into account the loss of jobs because of Covid? Even if so, Trump created 5.2 million jobs. Biden got those back and added another 8 million jobs. Still very respectable.

Does that appear correct or am I missing something

So congress can find the AG in contempt for not turning over an audio tape of something they already have a full transcript of yet can't seem to get the goods on "The Biden Crime Family". They've been trying to find something to impeach Biden for since he took office and came up with nada and this is the tripe you're peddling?

I'm sure glad that guy isn't running for president.

Are you saying trump doesn't threaten a huge amount of people who speak out against him? Politicians, judges, prosecutors, the media and so on?

Yes, they are going over the top but let's not pretend that it is totally without merit. The "liberal media" has been something he has attacked and targeted quite often. Maybe it's not them who are crazy?

Thank god we have somebody to keep the conspiracy BS flowing on DT, else Trumpian propaganda may never reach this bastion for brainiacs… .

Just the early years of Hitler....... so far.

One anti-semetic "sqaud" member gone.....hopefully a handful more will follow.