SqueezeYourBrain

Will willingly listen to George Michael. I heart traveling, music, food, news, dog parks, satire, and a good PNW brew. Politically homeless/trans-political.

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@GovPressOffice Third world level excellence.

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@jacobsoboroff It should not take more than a few days. Period.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

California's inability to confirm the outcome of an election for weeks speaks volumes about the low expectations of citizens on the performance of their government in basic functions... https://t.co/kkMRCfYeLG

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@mikehtrujillo Hope to see her run for mayor. She’s great for CD11 after the wreck Bonin created. Still lots to do but she’s fighting the city on still getting things fixed up.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

There’s a reason “Dog” is just “God”, backwards; they share an unconditional love for mankind. Both Nithya and Karen Bass ignore these poor animals being killed on Skid Row and in their city shelters. They don’t care. I will put an end to this horror. VOTE to save these animals.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

It’s astounding that there are countless stories like these and yet some people still insist that the public sector should run even more of the economy.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

One of the most California posts ever

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spencer Pratt must be doing something right, because the whole LA industrial complex from journalists to washed up comedians is crawling out to attack him.

Funny thing with stats. You can pull numbers and bend them to whatever story your heart wants. Any real stats guy will tell you that’s not insight but bias. Garbage in, headline out.

So let’s look at LA.

Nobody feels safe. Crime everywhere. People are packing up and leaving. But the spreadsheet at the LA Times says everything’s great.

Crime is just a bunch of four digit codes in a system. A robbery’s a code. A stabbing’s a code. You don’t have to lie about anything.

You just pick the softer code. Aggravated assault quietly becomes “simple assault.”
Off the books that matter. The guy still got stabbed.

This isn’t a theory btw.

The LAPD’s Inspector General audited the department and found 25K aggravated assaults downgraded to “minor incidents.” From 2008-2014.

Stabbings. Beatings that put people in the hospital. All shoved into a column where they vanish. Real violence ran 36% higher than what they reported.

And the best part? The LA Times KNOWS all this. Their own reporters broke the stories.

Then Prop 47 shows up in 2014 and hands them a bigger eraser. Anything under $950 stops being a felony. Now it’s “shoplifting.” A ticket. Guy strolls out of CVS with both arms full and legally that’s about as serious as jaywalking.

Stores stopped bothering to report it. So guess what, crime went down.

Oh, and the cops? They left too. 10,000 to 8,600, lowest in 30 years.

Fewer cops means fewer reports get written. Not sure we should call that win.

And god help you if you actually call 911. Last year LAPD answered barely half their calls in the time they’re supposed to. You wait forty minutes for a non emergency, and eventually you stop calling.

Here’s the best part: when you stop calling, the city gets to say crime went down.

Now I’ll be straight, because I’m not gonna lie to make a point. Murders did drop. 230 last year, lowest since the 1960s.

But “fewer murders” and “safest in decades” are not the same sentence, and they’re betting you won’t notice the swap.

A dead body is the one thing you can’t code away.

Everything below it, the assaults, the break ins, the smashed car windows, the stuff that actually decides whether you feel safe walking to your own door, all of it runs on reporting they’ve been caught rigging for years to push a narrative.

They even juiced the trophy number.

“101 percent homicide clearance rate.” Sounds like a miracle till you read the fine print: they’re counting decade old cold cases and dead suspects who never saw a courtroom.

So I’ll ask the LA Times. Safer for whom?

[r!go @back4wood]

George Michael cruising the Will Rogers State Park in Los Angeles, 1997

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@therossg Oh god. He was always a no but anyone associated with Bonin is a hell no.

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@JoanO294743 @UnrigLA ? Anyone in LA is tired of living in filth. At least Spencer is talking about how to fix it.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

The “radical plan” is to put them in rehab and give them a job instead of money to buy drugs.

[Kenneth Schrupp @kennethschrupp]

@DyingVenice @christopherrufo @CityJournal Venice results:
79% were not from the City of LA
56% were from other states
19% were from other cities in LA County
4% were from other counties in California

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@runners_brain @cwebbonline She was also an addict so he’s got even more experience needed.

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@cwebbonline She was a drug addict. Take it with a grain of salt. Makes him more experienced to deal with this mess Base and Gavin created.

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

44 arrests. 24 formal charges. 0 jury trials.

lol

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I’ve had to move into my parents’ house, and I’m getting attacked for that? This is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything. God help you if you try to make things right for your community…if you lose your entire town, “journalists” mock you for not making your kids sleep in the toxic dirt on your burned out lot. Who raised you, dude?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I joined up with Amanda McCants and 3 special survivors to speak up for the voiceless victims of this unimaginable animal abuse being ignored in our city. This ENDS when I'm Mayor. Vote for the dogs. Vote for Pratt.

[SqueezeYourBrain @funkefunk]

@CBSNews He’s not preaching at me that he’s poor. He is not spending taxpayer dollars. His home was burned down by the state incompetence. Nothing else matters. This is the dumbest story right now.