The 2024 Omnibus Political Memes Thread

That's not how that works, statistics are a real thing no matter how long you deny they exist.

Wait, aren't you one of those MRAs that bitches about female privilege and mothers privilege screwing over men? How come that doesn't need to be proven over and over at an individual level?

Speaking of statistics versus feelings, Wonkette has an interesting article on what's actually happening with crime rates, versus what people have been convinced is happening.

Recent polling has shown that “crime” is one of voters’ top concerns in this upcoming election. That’s hardly surprising, given that the GOP and conservative media have been working overtime for the past several years, pushing the idea that we are in the midst of a terrifying crime wave from which only Donald Trump, currently on trial for his own crimes, can save us.

And yet! Recent data from the FBI shows that crime is, in fact, very much on a downward trajectory — especially from where it was in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. Feel free to take a moment to recall who the president was at that time.

According to a preliminary report cited in USA Today, in 2023 there was a “4% drop in property crime, 6% drop in violent crime and 13% decrease in murders from 2022.” Despite this, a Gallup poll published this past November found that 77 percent of people believe that the crime rate actually increased. This is on track with previous polls on the subject. While crime has plunged dramatically from where it was in 1993, over 60 percent of the participants in 23 out of 27 Gallup polls taken since then have said they believe that crime is increasing.

It’s almost as if we are not actually very good judges of whether or not there is more crime!

According to Jeff Asher, a New Orleans-based crime data analyst cited by USA Today, “Murder plummeted in the United States in 2023, likely at one of the fastest rates of decline ever recorded.” He also previously stated, in an interview with NPR, that 2023 had one of the lowest violent crime rates in 50 years.

These are the facts, and yet Republicans like RNC spokeswoman Anna Kelly insist they cannot possibly be true. Who are you going to believe? Her or your lying eyes, looking at the FBI statistics?

Via USA Today:

RNC spokeswoman Anna Kelly said USA TODAY was "trying to gaslight Americans into believing that their lived experiences are wrong" and noted "families are rightfully concerned" about crime.

"Biden’s weakness has made Americans less safe, and his policies have failed," Kelly added.​

Yet while the Gallup survey showed that 77 percent of people do erroneously believe that there is more crime than there was a year ago, only 17 percent of them say that “crime is a big problem where they live.” So these are not “lived experiences” so much as they are lived vibes.​

Reminds me of a poll from a couple weeks back the woke commie libtards at the WSJ conducted of swing state voters:

Statistics have their uses. Setting terms for an individual isn't one of them.

That is a contributing factor to much larger topics, but people being people, it gets reduced to "Hurr hurr Basement dwelling CHUD neckband hates teh wimminz "

Keep admitting you can't take your own medicine, snowflake.

The cognitive dissonance on the crime statistics reminds me of a conversation I once had with a guy who told me he lost his business because of the “Obama recession.”

Your side sucks at rigging elections.

My “side” doesn’t even win elections.

Because there's no such thing as a typo.

Suuuuuuuure.

Please defend your assertion.

How convenient of an excuse to say it was a typo after the fact that they aired the numbers. Plenty of people saw things like that on election night of 2020 then the next morning it was called for Biden when things were looking like Trump was going to win. Then you had mail in ballots that came in and were counted after Election Day.

I know you know the only reported voter fraud in the last 20 years have been republicans. But, here’s your opportunity to prove me wrong.

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

Read that and get back to me.

I didn’t read it. So, I couldn’t tell you what the conclusion is. Read the article and tell me most of those cases were democrats.

Right wing memes are so clever and funny.

I was going to quote this and add something ridiculous trump has said. So, I googled “stupid things trump has said” and OMG, the most hilarious response. People have actually written books on all the stupid shit he has said.

it'd be in my top 10, but the true champion is Cap'n Quaker Harvest Crunch

sounds nuanced to me...

Is that the Canadian version of captain crunch?

nope, it's when you mix cap'n crunch with this superficially healthy stuff:

What, so Crunch Berries aren't healthy now?

I'm sure it does.

not really... we know it's all about your convenience

There goes his memory again.

Just because the GPT algorithm trained on Libertarian screeds that comprises you only needs 64K of RAM...