I would rewrite your statement as "It sounds convincing, but still gives you something that’s not practical in the real world."

If you think you agreed with me, then you misunderstood what I meant.

here are two very fun facts. the first is that crime in Washington, DC is at a 30-year-low. the second — and more fun — fact is that the average homeless person on the streets of DC has thirty-four fewer felony convictions than the current president of the United States. nonetheless, United States President Cookedbooks McHushmoney has decided that DC’s homeless population is a ginormous factor in the imaginary crime wave that definitely isn’t a thing, and he’s given them about ten seconds to get the fuck out of his sight. We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter! it’s so easy to solve the world’s problems when you have no clue what you’re talking about. screaming at the homeless to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW will totally work, because everyone knows that the best way to solve the problems caused by late-stage capitalism is to yell really loud until they magically go away. who is Dear Leader thanking for their attention? the homeless? I don’t think the homeless are following Donny on his crappy app. I’m pretty sure that the unhoused are more concerned with figuring out their next meal than in keeping up with the Mad King’s insane social media ravings.

from today's post, on the Mad Kings batshit notions on how to fight imaginary crime —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/3Uo8Qcv
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them. Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000. New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

Hottest crime zone in Washington DC

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Trump is thinking of “taking over” DC.
And all I really was thinking is

I don't know why you're saying "can." That is simply what it does.

I’m becoming convinced that the reason they keep making the White House look like Mar-a-Lago is that he’s slowly losing his memory and they keep trying to put him in places that seem familiar.

D.C. mayor defends capital's crime rates after Trump threatens to take over police Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low but White House crime in DC is at an all-time high.

www.npr.org/2025/08/10/g...

That's my favorite station on there, too! And so conveniently located!

It can't generate usable maps of the real world.

Which one? There are two. And three Slussens!

Since people are posting "AI"-generated maps, here are two diagrams I got from Google Gemini when I asked for a diagram of the Stockholm metro.

You don't have to know anything about Stockholm to see how ridiculous these are.

I'm electing not to add alt-text because I can't really describe these.

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

I cannot believe this is the White House.

Nixon should have gone to prison.

Everything the Rapepublicans have done since then flows from that.

Shout out to the colleagues who ask why I bother studying a settled issue like women’s suffrage.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Two things to note: (1) The Bayh-Dole Act gives universities intellectual property ownership for inventions that are based on federally funded research and (2) any seizure of private property by the government must include just compensation. Neither of these matter in a lawless regime…

Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism.

It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening.

Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.

I see we’re approaching the “federalizing political opponents’ private property by fiat” stage of fascism. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Would you want to invest in a country where the regime expropriates assets from its opponents?

In related news, "personalist regimes are characterized by lower total factor productivity and ... low private investment, poor public-goods provision, and conflict" www.nber.org/system/files...

Someone suggested that these stories are created to promulgate the idea that we don't need a government or any supportive programs because heroic (usually white) people will always rescue (often nonwhite) downtrodden people with acts of artisanal charity, and that suggestion feels true to me.

Guess what vulnerable demographic is most likely to have no immunity to COVID, due to having had no previous exposure to the virus or previous vaccination.

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