Shot in the Dark

I Wanna See Some History

The DFL is waking up to the fact that people don’t like crime, and they don’t see law and order as a “privilege”.

I was going to write out the last couple years of history, but the Twitter embed seems to have added that for me.

DFL policies pretty much negate the DFL’s proposals:

You can boil these “proposals” down to “trying to fix the damage they’ve wrought into a couple of categories:

Transferring more taxpayer money to the state’s political class and the non-profit/industrial complex.

“Innovation” and “Local Community Policing” grants might be well described as “greasing the right palms”.

Paying to undo the DFL’s damage

Body cameras? Training investigators?

We had investigators. They quit when the county attorneys stopped prosecuting repeat criminals.

Trying to blame Republicans

Which, as long as the DFL runs both cities, is really what it’s all about.

I shudder to imagine who’s convinced by this.

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19 responses to “I Wanna See Some History”

  1. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    Shorter DFL (although you essentially say the same thing): damn, all our policies really suck, and crime is through the roof!

    Double damn, the Republicans are pointing out the truth again! Damn them.

    “”I shudder to imagine who’s convinced by this.””: suburban wine cat ladies.

  2. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I just noticed that the DFL is intending to deliver proven public safety solutions. So, if they’re proven, why weren’t they “delivered” before now?

  3. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    One could hope there has never been a better opportunity for the MN GOP in the next election.

  4. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    None of the DFL’s “proven solutions” have been proven to have worked — if by “work” you mean reducing crime.
    Maybe what they will do is change the way that they report crime statistics.

  5. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    You’re so negative, MP. That document above indicates that things like Innovation in Public Safety and Opiate Epidemic Response Grants *are*, in fact, proven public safety solutions. I’m just asking – without regard to the veracity of the claim – why they weren’t delivered before now.

  6. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    The target audience is the people who read headlines, the crawl on CNN, or the pop-up news and then think, “Oh, good, the Democrats will solve a problem.”

    That’s it – that’s the depth of their analysis. It never occurs to them to think, “Hey, wait a minute, the Democrats are the ones who caused the problem.”

    They have no memory of how the problem was caused, no wonder about the consequences of the proposed solution, no willingness to look beyond the spoon that’s feeding them.

  7. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    The DFL is going to solve the problems. And Joe Biden is going to fix D.C.

  8. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Maybe what they will do is change the way that they report crime statistics.

    But of course! They’ve learned well from Wuhan Flu brainwashing. So it is not a riot, it is a peaceful demonstration, nevermind the burning buildings in the shot. Move along sheople through the goalposts whaaaay over there…

  9. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Stephen Breyer stepping down screams “The Democrats are as fucked as fucked can be!”

    10/10 Biden is told to nominate an 80IQ black woman to bookend the nitwit equal opportunity selections of the SCOTUS with “the Wise Latina”.

    I’m sure she will be a real piece of work, too.

    Thankfully, she can have no more deleterious effect on the court’s decisions than they stand now, so a bit of minstrel humor won’t hurt anything.

  10. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    threadjack. but, it will indeed be 80IQ cameltoe – kills two birds with one stone.

  11. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Regarding DFL/Democratic Party anti-crime initiatives “working”, one would figure that even they might “do the math” and realize that all of the most dangerous cities in the country are run by Democrats.

    Nah.

  12. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    She’s dumb enough, but not quite not black, or angry enough, JPA.

    Personally, I’d love to see her on the court. She’d prove my point every time she opened her pie hole.

  13. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    She’d prove my point every time she opened her pie hole

    ¿La pinche tonta latina no es suficiente?

  14. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    We know what works to reduce crime — locking up criminals. The wider a net you cast, the more crime decreases. The intelligent debate is about how wide of a net to cast.
    Then you have the radical left who now control a lot of the DA’s and the media.
    They believe the opposite of what empirical evidence and reason tells us. They believe that policing, arresting criminals, and prosecuting criminals does not reduce crime. They believe that policing, arresting criminals, and prosecuting criminals increases crime.
    This is because they are insane.

  15. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    MP, like I wrote (well, forwarded) on a different post/thread, maybe they’re not insane, maybe they’re cold-blooded and it’s all intentional. How would a guy tell the difference?

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  17. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    jdm: Hanlon’s razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

    I stopped accepting that in 2012 when Obama was re-elected.

    Don’t give them the out of “they don’t know better, they’re ignorant” or “they’re insane”. Granted, there are lots and lots of micro pinpoint cases of crazy and/or stupid, but none of what has happened in the last 6 (12? 20?) years has been without intent on a macro scale.

    Does that make me a conspiracy theorist? I’m comfortable with that.

  18. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    How can this NOT be intentional? From Hot Air:

    Leaked audio: Sec. Mayorkas says border situation is the worst it has been in 20 years ‘if not ever’
    JOHN SEXTON Jan 27, 2022 1:20 PM ET

    Yet the administration tries to downplay everything, and they sneak in busloads and planeloads of illegal immigrants, in the dead of night.

    Intentionally.

  19. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    The evidence is everywhere, BillC. I wish they were just insane.

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