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9. While Trump is responsible for letting racists be open about...

Reply to Calista241 (Original post)

Tue Sep 28, 2021, 06:52 AM

Sep 2021

…this isn’t all Trumpers. 2020 had people locked up in their homes for long periods of time. The divorce rate went up as people realized their relationships worked when they only saw each other a few hours a day in a normal week.

Anger, resentment and rage went way up as people were in their homes, jobless and scrapping for food. The human mind and its flaws and the entire year of 2020 is a good blame on why crime and murder and divorce went up.

Though, the reason people were locked up, was because Trump’s pandemic response. But not all the ones that murdered or went into rages were Trumpers.

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FBI data show surge in murders in 2020 [View all] Calista241 Sep 2021 OP

Let me think... BlueIdaho Sep 2021 #1

Who was President at the time? tenderfoot Sep 2021 #2

According to Kayleigh "Kay-Lay McNinny" McEnany, it was Joe Biden. Grokenstein Sep 2021 #4

The MSM will let the RW'rs pretend it was Biden TheRealNorth Sep 2021 #5

Wasn't that the purpose for the OP? tenderfoot Sep 2021 #16

People have lost their minds IronLionZion Sep 2021 #3

republicans did it for obama - unload cheap guns in black neighborhoods and blame the crime on certainot Sep 2021 #6

good point. only this time they had y'all queda all fired up and ready to go. mopinko Sep 2021 #14

Thanks Trump. ZonkerHarris Sep 2021 #7

Of the 5,000 additional murder victims at least 1,200 were white, while at least 2,400 were black cinematicdiversions Sep 2021 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author scipan Sep 2021 #17

The numbers are from that Guardian article. cinematicdiversions Sep 2021 #18

My bad. I couldn't figure out how only a 4% scipan Sep 2021 #19

While Trump is responsible for letting racists be open about... LiberatedUSA Sep 2021 #9

saw it w my own eyes. mopinko Sep 2021 #15

Im quite sure it has nothing to do with the mountain of guns bought buy sposed responsibles KG Sep 2021 #10

Another correlation: the huge increase in gun purchases. Guns are also classified as durable goods. ancianita Sep 2021 #11

Gundemic ... BlueWavePsych Sep 2021 #12

Yep. Gundemics produce herd immunity against the new democratic majority. ancianita Sep 2021 #13