Crime Festers in Republican States

Tuesday, September 02, 2025

The image of red-state governors mustering uniformed troops for duty in blue-state cities has left many Americans with the foreboding sense of a nation dangerously divided, perhaps even drifting toward open conflict.

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No sane man would choose to live in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, or Oklahoma over California.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-01 09:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

In 2026, Dummkopf Trumpf's Medicare AI Death Panel Pilot Program will begin killing patients for profits in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington, two of the Republican states mentioned above.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-01 10:06 AM | Reply

FSU football player shot. Send the National Guard already.

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#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-01 10:32 AM | Reply

#3: FSU football player shot. Send the National Guard already.

"Argh! There's no gun violence epidemic in the US! Stupid gun-hating lib-rul communists! Blargh! Vote Libertarian! Argh!"

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-01 10:41 AM | Reply

The KCMO PD isnt controlled locally. It's run by commissioners appointed by the GOP Governor in Jeff City. The GOP complains about crime and the police department they run can't even control it. Repubs have a 'guns for all' mentality, have passed laws to prevent local police from working with the feds, and wonder why things are bad.

#5 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-09-01 01:08 PM | Reply

*sigh*

again, the secondary source regurgitating the Timesaganda.

archive.is

and of course the room elephant-

"high-crime cities in Republican-led states."

"There are that many: Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Memphis and Nashville; Houston; Little Rock, Ark.; Salt Lake City; and Shreveport La., all have crime rates comparable to Washington's, according to F.B.I. statistics."

...which are ALL 'BLUE-LED' cities that simply happen to be infecting "Republican-led states."

*it's all so tiresome*

#6 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-02 05:37 PM | Reply

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#7 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-02 05:50 PM | Reply

Time to ban EATSMYMEAT for commercial spamming the Retort.

#8 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-09-02 06:06 PM | Reply

...which are ALL 'BLUE-LED' cities that simply happen to be infecting "Republican-led states."

#6 | Posted by easy_meat

Outside of Miami and Fort Worth, can you name a major city run by a Republican? (Is Fort Worth really a city? It feels more like a Dallas suburb.)

Maybe you can explain why Blue states tend to have lower violent crime rates?

#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-02 07:20 PM | Reply

Easy Meat should have come up with something original and not pilfered his wife's nickname, but I digress. The GOP runs KCs police dept from Jefferson City... and do a crappy job of it. The mayor has very little, say in what goes on with the police department.

#10 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-09-02 09:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1