A Little Too Cunning 🤔

Trump: "The biggest issue right now is crime. Stopping crime in the cities, and the Democrats are fighting the stopping of crime. So I think that's like men playing in women's sports is okay, or transgender for everybody ... it's rampant in our blue-run cities." pic.twitter.com/uEa6Eke4Fp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 14, 2025

I didn’t realize playing sports could be a criminal act. I wonder what crime that is? 🤔

We are told Democrats lose on this issue because everybody hates “crime.”  Indeed, it’s a “trap” Trump has cleverly sprung (more of that “feral cunning). I remember when NYC had a reputation for being crime ridden. It too years to establish, but TV shows and movies helped. A city unfit for human habitation was a great backdrop for heroic cop shows. You never ran out of crimes to solve. By the time I visited NYC in the early ‘80’s, I honestly expected mayhem and muggings wherever I went. I visited my brother for a week and had a perfectly lovely time. My mother, on the other hand, got mugged in New Orleans, a place nobody compared to the evils of NYC.

I saw real life crime on TV, in my childhood, including police beating civil rights marchers, turning water cannons on them, attacking them with German Shepherds trained to attack black men (yes, that was a thing). I remember the police riot at the Convention in Chicago, pictures of the shooting at Kent State. The latter two were widely accepted because the victims deserved it. But fears of urban crime were fanned by the civil rights movement and the noisy anti-war movement and then by the political violence of the ‘70’s. And what really drove the fear was TV and movies, which made it all much worse than it was because “drama.”

IOW, it took years to get that scared of places where “we” didn’t live. It didn’t happen because the President had a need to say so. Trump still declares LA would be a hellscape if not for the military he sent in. Nobody’s taking “Escape from L.A.” as an example of what Trump saved us from. And nobody’s seeing images of D.C. burning. What we’re seeing is a drunk white guy throw a sandwich and comically run away, and a thousand officers and agents swarming a fender bender, or performing random traffic checkpoints because they need something to do.

And we’re promised this is coming to the major city we, or our families, live in. What we’re seeing see is inconvenience and nonsense, and police overkill (felony assault? Really? A drunk with a sandwich?)

But it’s okay, because “crime”? You gotta convince us of that, first. Especially when Ghislaine Maxwell is wandering the streets of Bryan, Texas. Does she even have to tell people she’s a convicted pedophile?  Does she have to stay away from children and schools? That’s a serious crime issue. Why is that happening?

So get back to me when NYC is once again seen as a dystopian hellholle (Remember the “I❤️NY” campaign? That’s why it started.). Until then, quit telling me “crime” is Trump’s superpower. At best, it’s his “Hail Mary” to get everyone to forget about Epstein.

Focusing on crime to distract from a relationship with a criminal. That’s feral cunning, isn’t it? Don’t you think?🤔 

As Schooley said:

"Actually I am concerned about crime so the only possible solution is to have a bunch of people not trained in crime prevention stand around looking bored until someone throws a sandwich at one and all hell breaks loose."

Let this be our battle flag.