Trump keeps claiming that the most dangerous cities in America are all run by Democrats. They aren’t.

Washington Post ^ | June 25, 2020 | Philip Bump

[Arones]

Psst. Independent Mayors are Democrats, pass it on.

Independent = Democrat.

Always.

[Arones]

I’d like to thank the corrupt idiots at the Amazon Post for bringing a lot more attention to this issue.

Exactly. WAPO would never run that graphic without being nudged.

[Ken H]

E St Louis murder rate - 86/100k
US average - 5/100k

https://www.city-data.com/city/East-St.-Louis-Illinois.html

[Arones]

Did East St Louis change its ways? It seems to be missing from the list.

Good question. Maybe St L proper has taken its place.

[Rockingham]

Jacksonville, Florida, is unusual in that it is the largest city in the US by land area because the city and county governments were consolidated decades ago. Thus Jacksonville is (just barely) Republican because it includes GOP leaning suburbs that would otherwise be outside the city limits. The net effect a relatively low crime rate in a narrowly Republican large city. The Jacksonville urban core though fits the larger pattern: a Democratic enclave, meaning heavily Black and crime-ridden.

[joma89]

This article is just another example of leftist media lying.

JoMa

[sauropod]

WaPoo lies.

Everyday. All the time.

[Verginius Rufus]

Stalin had Yugoslavia kicked out of the Comintern in 1948 because he thought he could replace Tito with someone more subservient. Tito had been a zealous imitator of Stalin up to that point but occasionally put his own country's interests ahead of the Soviet Union's. He spent the next few years trying to prove it was all a mistake and that he was a true Communist. Later he did relax things more than in other Communist countries (people could emigrate if they wanted to) and had a partial reconciliation with the Soviets after Stalin's death.

Tito was one of the three major figures at the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement. His last major action before his death was to oppose Castro at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Cuba in 1979--Castro was pushing for it to be more closely aligned to the Soviet Union. (Why Cuba was considered "non-aligned" is another matter.) I would agree that the Non-Aligned Movement in practice was often against the US, but I don't think they totally followed Soviet policy.

I was in Yugoslavia at the time of the 1979 meeting. On Yugoslav TV, everything Tito did was wonderful. It was a lot like how the mainstream media in the US treated Obama when he was President.

[Alas Babylon!]

Oh, Lord, yes!

And did you hear the mob burned down the Quickie Mart? Poor Apu was sat on by Chief Wiggum, who was so busy munching his doughnut that he didn’t hear Apu’s frantic calls of “I can’t breathe!”

Now his widow and 8 orphans have NOTHING. And the elephant god statue Apu told Homer not to feed peanuts to? They search the ashes and cannot find it!

and Comic Book Guy has started the Comic Book Guy Autonomous Zone, CBGPAZ, pronounced Chi-bag-paz. Lisa is out front, demanding everyone go vegan.

Bart was last seen carrying off a 65 inch television.

Homer had a newly looted satellite dish and receiver in Wiggum’s firebombed cop car. Believe it or not, it still runs.

Marge was at home going hmmmm..., and deciding to vote for Trump, for little Maggie’s sake..

[dfwgator]

I think some of that was indeed Kabuki Theater between Tito and the USSR, although of course, with Stalin, eventually he wanted everybody dead.

[OKSooner]

Not much more than a semantic point.

[Verginius Rufus]

In 1944 the Red Army helped liberate Belgrade from the Germans. During the short time they were there the Russians killed or raped a lot of the locals. Djilas, one of Tito's closest advisers, complained about that to the Russians, which made Stalin very angry. I think that was one of his grudges against Tito, that he had not done anything to punish Djilas. (Djilas became famous later as a dissident--wrote The New Class about the realities of Communist rule.)

Tito was eager to industrialize Yugoslavia, following the Soviet model, but Stalin saw it primarily as a source of raw materials for Soviet industry. Tito knew how ruthless Stalin was so when he was "invited" to visit the Soviet Union during the early stages of the breach he refused to go.

Nikita Khrushchev talked about how Stalin thought he could easily get rid of Tito in his famous speech to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956.

[Lisbon1940]

Bump believes Trump can’t knock cities because he will be speaking from Jacksonville, where Curry is mayor. I don’t see where that makes a difference.

[MrChips]

LOL!!!

[Perseverando]

Bump

[Captainpaintball]

I also heard the producers of the simpsons fired all of their voice actors and are asking voice over artists with jaundice and /or hepatitis to audition.

[SunkenCiv]

• WaPo Tries - and FAILS - to Debunk Trump's Claim That America's Most Dangerous Cities Are Run By Dems