Offthemat

It’s like accompanying a headline about hurricane damage with a picture of a football cheerleader.

Just like Seattle.

Keep it up, you know where you go for lying.

Okay, if you hold the flag in your mouth, like it’s a cigarette, you can burn it.

If there are children starving in Gaza, why don’t they show actual pictures of them instead of using these fake pictures?

SCARBOROUGH: So let me ask you, Mr. Mayor, those all sound like great programs. I’m curious, would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5000 more cops on the street in Chicago? Would that help drive down crime? JOHNSON: Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy. SCARBOROUGH [INTERRUPTING]: No, I understand that. You’ve talked about the other things you want. And I said those are good and important programs. But I’m asking also, would 5000 more police officers on the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all of those social programs that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with? JOHNSON: Well, look, here’s the best way I can put it, Joe, is that in the 90s, when I was in high school, we had 3000 more police officers, and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago. It’s just not policing alone. Of course we want more detectives. SCARBOROUGH: Of course I know policing alone, but, of course it’s not policing alone. You’ve told me everything else you want. I’m curious, and this does come down to an ideological difference between people: do you believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago? JOHNSON: I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing. Look, I’m not saying – SCARBOROUGH: That not the question I asked. My question is, and I just need a yes or no. Do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, which do have a history of being successful, if that’s complimented by having 5000 more cops on the streets of Chicago. JOHNSON: I don’t believe that we should narrow it down to just police officers is what I’m saying – SCARBOROUGH: I’m not – JOHNSON [CONT’D]: – that is an antiquated approach. I’m saying we’ve invested in detectives. SCARBOROUGH: Are you hearing what I’m saying? I’m agreeing with you that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important. I just need a yes or a no. And then this will be the last time I ask if you get all of those other social programs that $800 million that New York City does, Los Angeles, other people do with great success? Would an additional 5000 cops on the streets in Chicago help compliment those programs to make Chicago safer? JOHNSON: Look, we are working hard to make sure that our police department is fully supported. I don’t believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is the answer. What I’m saying is policing and affordable housing. It’s policing and mental and behavioral health care services. It’s policing and youth employment. It’s a full package. Of course, we want to make sure that our police department is fully supported.

Naw, we’d see that you haven’t been lmfatao.

Socrates?

Does it go back as far as Lindbergh? Or are we limited to your lifetime?

Your libelous lies are insignificant, impotent, and irrelevant.

Yeah well, my advice to you is just keep the faith.

Your memory seems okay, it’s thinking that’s not your forte.

He’s lying about burning flags. There’s no way he’s smart to light one without burning himself.

You mean the Epstein Files that Biden had for four years and couldn’t find anything in them that would be damaging to Trump? I don’t know anything about them.

Those conditions are transitory.

They did it again: And got caught.

They are a law enforcement agency, it’s in their name. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They have badges and weapons, my advice would be: don’t interfere with them.

Trump 2044!

What it means is that the chart you linked is irrelevant.

Before you can understand, you’ll have to realize that 1% in California is more than 10% in Oklahoma.

And it’s meaningless. 10% of California’s delegation is larger than 100% of Oklahoma’s.

Nope, no link. But advice: beware those who come bearing data. In your linked chart, the author omits states with three or fewer reps, supposedly because of some distortion they’d make , yet he has no problem comparing Oklahoma’s delegation of five reps as 100%, while California has about twice as many Republican delegates as 28%. Some may find that chart interesting, but if you stop and think, it’s meaningless information.

That’s the problem you have when you argue stupidly like you’ve done here. You might convince yourself that you’re right, but everyone else can read it and reach their own conclusions.