President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

There was a repeal of the background checks in 2007. It spiked right away, then dropped to 6.6 in 2014. It was 6.5 in 2007 when the law was passed.

The murder rate spiked after 2014 - 6.6 in 2014 to 8.3 in 2015. It's grown since. A 2016 law allowed permitless conceal and carry.

I'm all for stricter gun laws, understand. Bring em on. But stricter gun laws mean enforcement of said laws. That means cops enforcing those laws. That may mean, you know, more encounters.

The 1994 crime bill gave us stricter laws. The murder rate went down, too. Way down. California went from 9.1 in 1996 to 6.0 3 years later. Now, 25 years later, we're told the package was unfair, hideous and racist.

I mean, we're going to have to make a choice soon enough. A crime control model leads us in one direction. A due process model leads us in another.

 

Methinks that's a doctored image.



Trump is standing upright.

 

Initially, I wondered why the ownership of the Walgreens would partner with ownership of a team all the way across the country as its AAA affiliate. Now it makes sense. Walgreens ownership and Grizzlies ownership appear to be in political lockstep.

 

super job voting

 

$19 billion disaster aid bill blocked again in the House by GOP dissenter

 

So maybe the uptick in crime wasn't entirely attributable to "Ferguson."

 

Nobody told these guys:

U.S. says all North Korea's weapons of mass destruction violate U.N. resolutions - Reuters

 

They were the only ones left after last fall's development contract roulette. For the most part, when I lived out there, the franchise has been well run and usually is highly ranked in MILB when it comes to promotions, like renaming the team (and the Twitter account) the Fresno Tacos on Tuesdays at home and holding a "Taco Truck Throwdown" toward the end of the season (not a political statement, just a tribute to the area's many street vendors).

It was affiliated with the Giants from the start, but had been with the Astros the last few seasons, so we all got a sneak peek at some of the players who won the World Searies. Biggest problem is when there all callups, they don't have a lot of direct flights anywhere, so it's a puddle-jumper to SFO or LAX, then to your destination.

And imagine this ... a sports threadjack in a politics thread!

 

They did the MAGAt patches for Trump's visit. He probably got one to sew on his flight jacket.

 

I'd heard of the Great Flood of 1927, but no more details than a couple of Randy Newman songs, really. I also didn't realize that the current flooding is on a similar scale. At least this is a Hundred Year storm that really is nearly a hundred years later.

Mississippi River flood is longest-lasting in over 90 years, since 'Great Flood' of 1927

"Anytime a modern flood can be mentioned in the same breath as the Great Flood is newsworthy: During that historic flood, hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes as millions of acres of land and towns went underwater.

At one point in 1927, along the Tennessee border, the Mississippi rose an astonishing 56.5 feet above flood stage, and in Arkansas, the river ballooned to 80 miles wide, according to the book Extreme Weather by Christopher Burt.

Hundreds of people died in the flooding.

That flood "was the seminal event that led to the federal flood-control program and gave the Army Corps of Engineers the job of controlling the nation's rivers via the erection of dams, dikes and other measures of flood abatement," Burt wrote. "

There are miles and miles of levees that are washed away, from the mid-west down through Mississippi and Lousiana. You'd think that there might be an infrastructure bill in there somewhere.

 

I'm pretty much absolving Republican voters as being responsible for this President from here on out.

No, his continued horrors are fully on Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership's shoulders, for not pressing at every turn and every moment for his removal by impeachment.