▪️This meme uses the canard of “red state cities” and “blue state cities” when that’s largely irrelevant as almost all major cities are run by democrats and thus are “blue,” regardless of the makeup of the broader state.
▪️Looking at the top 20 cities by homicide rate (not “gun homicide rate,” another canard as who cares how people are murdered):
🔹St. Louis
🔹Baltimore
🔹Detroit
🔹New Orleans
🔹Baton Rouge
🔹Kansas City
🔹Cleveland
🔹Memphis
🔹Newark
🔹Cincinnati
🔹Mobile, AL
🔹Philadelphia
🔹Milwaukee
🔹Chicago
🔹Pittsburgh
🔹Indianapolis
🔹Stockton, CA
🔹Tulsa
🔹Washington, D.C.
🔹Atlanta
▪️Would anyone consider St. Louis a “red” area because Missouri is a red state? No. Ditto with Kansas City, which along with St. Louis are basically the only 2 blue areas in Missouri. Same with New Orleans, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Memphis and Atlanta. All islands of blue within red states.
▪️Of the top 20 cities, only Mobile, Tulsa and Indianapolis could be considered remotely red (Indianapolis is mostly controlled by Dems but redder than most big cities).
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
