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Working To Distract From Epstein, Rising Prices, His Traitorous Fealty To Putin, Trump Starts Terrorizing Another American City

Stuarts Stevens Joins Hopium Live Today at 130pm ET (Note new time) - Join Us!

Simon Rosenberg

Aug 11

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Morning all. Yes, today, the crazy old man running the country is going to focus on CRIME. I think we know why, don’t we? Here’s the lead story on The Hill’s website right now:

Or stories like this about Putin using the tariffs to drive other nations away from the US:

Or this:

I’ve lived in Washington, DC since 1992. I raised three kids here. I can tell you that like many American cities DC is far safer today than it was, and has like many of our cities seen an extraordinary revival. So as Trump gets ready to do whatever he needs to do today to feel STRONG, POWERFUL, MANLY, here are a few stats to consider:

The US has seen a dramatic decline in crime of all kinds since the early 1990s (via Pew):

Washington, DC does not even rank in the top 25 in murder or violent crime rates:

Violent crime rates plummeted in DC last year:

Here is a graph of this data from the Washington Post:

Of course while waving his arms in the air Trump has cut funding to combat crime in the District more than any other city in the US; and DC already has more police per person and spends more on policing than any other major US city.

Police per 100,000 residents (data from 2022):

Washington DC: 542.91 per 100,000 residents
Chicago, IL: 454.61
Las Vegas, NV: 444.05
New York City, NY: 440.26
Detroit, MI: 393.23
Philadelphia, PA: 384.74
Memphis, TN: 313.37
Boston, MA: 301.31
Miami, FL: 299.17
Los Angeles, CA: 236.86

Spending on police per resident, 2022:

Washington DC: $751.62 per person
San Francisco, CA: $748.39
Chicago, IL: $667.58
New York City, NY: $662.83
Miami, FL: $593.61
Boston, MA: $573.92
Jacksonville, FL: $541.06
Detroit, MI: $515.74
Anaheim, CA: $501.48
Stockton, CA: $484.10

Trump cares about Washington, the city? Why he has levied these ruinous tariffs that will disproportionately hurt the middle class and working poor here? Or cut the ACA and Medicaid, which will among other things increase the homeless population here and across the country? Our fired tens of thousands of people who work here with little regard to their welfare or that of the city's? Or forced 5 days back to work which has made our traffic the worst in the US? Or cut funding to our law enforcement more than any other city? Or lead the single most dangerous moment in the modern history of the city, the armed and lawless attack on the Capitol:

Stuart Stevens is coming by today at 130pm ET (note new time) to talk about this latest Trumpian I AM IMPORTANT AND STRONG escapade along with all the other stuff in front of us now - the tariffs, the bending of the knee to Putin, his rejection by the American people, his dangerous descent in madness and authoritarianism.

As a resident of DC I am not making light of what Trump is going to do my city and home but there is also something so inherently ridiculous and outrageous about what’s happening here - and I don’t want to lose sight of that for one moment…..

Click on this link a few minutes before 130pm to join us live. Stuart is one the smartest guys I know and am sure this is going to be a great discussion today…….

Now, Let’s Get To Work People!

Support Hopium’s Priority Candidates And Party Committees - A reminder that Election Day, 2025 is a little less than three months away and early voting starts in Virginia in less than six weeks - September 19th!

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1 - Call Your Senators and Member Of The House And Demand They Act Upon Our Four-Part Agenda - While it is recess we need to be loud this week, very, very loud. Make the case for our our emerging four part agenda, and demand they 1) Stand with Ukraine and work to block Trump’s selling out of the West to Putin 2) Roll back Trump’s terrible tariffs 3) Block the expansion of ICE 4) End the war on science, higher education and the public health of the American people.

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Keep working hard all. Proud to be in this fight with all of you, and a fight it truly is - Simon