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I’m Enjoying the Ratios of Media Figures Pretending DC Is Safe – HotAir

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Hot Air is not Twitchy, but I spend so much time on X that I can see the attraction of writing for our sister site. 

Twitchy’s shtick is, for the most part, doing the 2020s equivalent of what bloggers used to call “Fisking.” The term “Fisking” is named after the journalist Robert Fisk, a writer so noted for being fast and loose with the truth that an entire genre of blogging was dedicated to systematically tearing apart everything he ever said. 





He was that wrong, and taking his arguments apart was so entertaining that readers often looked forward to the takedowns. 

While Twitchy specializes in an updated version–highlighting an absurd post by a liberal and then collating all the brilliant takedowns–it can never capture the full scope of some “ratios.” A “ratio,” in internet-speak, is when a post generates so many negative responses that the ratio of positive to negative reactions is so one-sided that it becomes humorous. 

The Pravda/Democrat defense of DC’s safety is generating a whole lotta ratios. When a “journalist” claims that DC is the Oz of the East Coast, they are just begging to be taken down. 

Before I get to some of the most ratioed posts, though, I want to highlight another, emerging genre–the over-the-top hyperbole that ridicules the breathless cries of “fascism” and “invasion.”

The way Democrats and Pravda folks are talking, it’s as if Trump is sending in the SS to round up the Joos, or at least every person with skin darker than Trump’s soothing shade of Orange.





Of course, that is hardly the case. What Trump is doing is federalizing the DC police–a move that the actual, on-the-ground police heartily welcome–and sending in about the number of National Guard troops it would take to fully staff the DC police force if the powers-that-be in the city actually employed the authorized number. 

The city is short 800 officers because many have left and moved to greener pastures. 

As liberals work up their outrage about Donald Trump wanting the city to be as safe as, maybe, Mexico City or Bogota–a stretch goal, I know–ordinary people wonder what the heck they are talking about. Washington, D.C., is literally less safe than Chicago here in the United States, and is one of the least safe capital cities in the world. Washington’s murder rate is 6x that of Kyiv, although as PBS helpfully notes, Washington is safer than Cape Town, South Africa, and Caracas, proving that Trump was lying when he said Washington was the least safe capital city in the world. 





At least we have that going for us. We are better than Caracas! Trump is such a liar…

One of my favorite ratios is that of a post by the X feed “Washington Problems”-a site, ironically, dedicated to highlighting public safety issues in the capital. Washington Problems is offended that people outside the District are hearing bad things about its beloved city, so he asked readers to list positive things about DC. 

Whoa. Bad idea. The ratio got so bad that the feed stopped accepting responses. 





There are over 400 similar replies, so you can understand why Washington Problems shut off responses. The original post zipped around the world a few times, proving that the Streisand effect is very real. 

Then there is the DC City Councilman, who is all-in on police “reform,” who wrote a screed about Trump’s trying to clean up his city. Hundreds of people flooded into his thread, bashing him, not Trump, pointing out that he is one of the authors of DC’s crime problem. 

The best response came from the DC Police Union, which pointed out the obvious. 





Then there are the “journalists” who live outside DC, lecturing everybody about how crime is a fake issue. My favorite is from a reporter who lives in Arlington, and his argument is–literally–that there is no crime problem in DC because he has yet to be carjacked. 

It never even occurred to an actual journalist to look into what happens in the real world. The problem doesn’t effect him, so it doesn’t exist. 

Moral rot is right. 





Only Democrats would think DC murders dropping from 183 to 170 is something to celebrate:

“If you want an idea of how bad crime is in D.C., two summers ago, an Afghan interpreter who worked with U.S. special forces and escaped after Biden’s disastrous Afghan withdrawal was shot and killed in a carjacking.This is a guy who survived the Taliban but couldn’t survive working as a Lyft driver in our nation’s capital.

“Congressman Henry Cuellar was carjacked. You had an aide to Senator Rand Paul who was stabbed four times trying to get a burrito bowl. You’ve got a congressional intern who was shot and killed near the White House. You have two embassy staffers from the Israeli embassy who were just murdered. You had a DOGE staffer who was beaten within an inch of his life during a carjacking.”

You have to ask yourself, why would Democrats oppose federal assistance in making DC safer for them and their staff?

There are many, many more examples of the divide between The Narrative™ pushers and the people who are experiencing reality on the ground. You can find countless examples of journalists and politicians making absurd claims about Washington’s safety getting trashed by real, live people whose lives have been turned upside-down by crime in the nation’s capital. 





It is fascinating to watch, in a car crash sort of way. While most Narratives can be sustained by dirtying up the facts–false statistics, repetition of propaganda–some things cannot be swept under the rug. Rising prices, crime, supply chain shortages, and similar issues that are directly experienced by people are hard to paper over with pretty words. 

The “inflation is transitory” narrative never worked because the money came out of everybody’s pocket. No amount of gaslighting in 2021 could convince moms that baby formula was on the shelves, and nobody who is worried about carjackings because 3 of his neighbors were assaulted can be told that crime is no big deal. 

But the “journalists” and politicians are doing their best. It’s just not working. 


  • Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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