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Winston’s Dad retweeted
Russian propagandists and MAGA trolls would have you believe Europe is the biggest crime-ridden shithole on Earth. A continent of dangerous streets, collapsing societies and terrifying no-go zones.
Unfortunately for them, the numbers tell a rather different story.
According to Numbeo’s 2026 Crime Index, 12 American cities appear among the world’s 50 worst-ranked cities for perceived crime. Europe has just two.
Memphis ranks ninth, followed by Detroit, Baltimore, Albuquerque, St. Louis, Oakland, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Houston.
Quite an impressive collection for a country whose loudest political commentators spend their days explaining how European civilisation has supposedly collapsed.
And the United States hardly stands out from the rest of the Americas. Much of the continent is heavily represented. Canada, meanwhile, looks like a peaceful little storybook village by comparison, with just one city on the list.
So enjoy Europe. Enjoy the cafés, beautiful cities, magnificent public spaces and the extraordinary quality of life.
And if you happen to visit one of those American cities, perhaps look over your shoulder twice.
The irony is delicious. Some of the loudest people calling Europe a shithole are sitting considerably closer to the places they claim to despise.
Top 50 Most Dangerous Cities in 2026 ⚠️
1. 🇿🇦 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2. 🇿🇦 Pretoria, South Africa
3. 🇻🇪 Caracas, Venezuela
4. 🇵🇬 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
5. 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa
6. 🇿🇦 Durban, South Africa
7. 🇭🇳 San Pedro Sula, Honduras
8. 🇿🇦 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
9. 🇺🇸 Memphis, United States
10. 🇧🇷 Salvador, Brazil
11. 🇹🇹 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
12. 🇧🇷 Fortaleza, Brazil
13. 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14. 🇧🇷 Recife, Brazil
15. 🇪🇨 Guayaquil, Ecuador
16. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
17. 🇺🇸 Detroit, United States
18. 🇨🇴 Cali, Colombia
19. 🇺🇸 Baltimore, United States
20. 🇲🇽 Tijuana, Mexico
21. 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, United States
22. 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Brazil
23. 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru
24. 🇺🇸 St. Louis, United States
25. 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
26. 🇯🇲 Kingston, Jamaica
27. 🇺🇸 Oakland, United States
28. 🇳🇬 Lagos, Nigeria
29. 🇸🇾 Damascus, Syria
30. 🇳🇦 Windhoek, Namibia
31. 🇺🇸 New Orleans, United States
32. 🇵🇷 San Juan, Puerto Rico
33. 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
34. 🇦🇺 Alice Springs, Australia
35. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
36. 🇫🇷 Marseille, France
37. 🇨🇴 Bogotá, Colombia
38. 🇦🇺 Rockhampton, Australia
39. 🇺🇸 Milwaukee, United States
40. 🇧🇷 Campinas, Brazil
41. 🇺🇸 Chicago, United States
42. 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, United States
43. 🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines
44. 🇨🇦 Surrey, Canada
45. 🇵🇭 Quezon City, Philippines
46. 🇨🇱 Santiago, Chile
47. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, United States
48. 🇬🇧 Birmingham, United Kingdom
49. 🇪🇨 Quito, Ecuador
50. 🇺🇸 Houston, United States
📍Crime Index Factors:
- Overall crime perception
- Safety walking alone
- Mugging & robbery risk
- Car theft risk
- Burglary risk
- Physical attack risk
- Harassment risk
- Drug issues
- Property crime level
- Violent crime level
- Corruption & bribery
📊 Source: Numbeo Crime Index 2026.
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Devastating montage from Tucker Carlson called ‘The Great Betrayal’ showing the lies, deception, and false promises of Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Blanche and Lutnick about the war, the economy and Epstein.
Winston’s Dad retweeted
It's been noted, with great interest, how Reform figures are trying to pivot to pretend they actually opposed Trump's Iran war all along.
Never forget, their first reaction was to line up behind Donald Trump & criticise our government for not fully backing him.
Winston’s Dad retweeted
This was you yesterday taking credit for the stock market hitting a record directly following your obliteration in the midterms. Now it dips because of mounting A.I. concerns and you’re blaming it on how people voted & Democrats. You’re not fit to be anywhere near the Oval Office
“The Stock Market suffered one of the Worst Days in History based on the results of the Election. Such a sad thing to watch! It took so much work to get us to a level that no one has ever seen before, and then this. Your 401(k)s have, therefore, dropped. Remember, it wasn’t Republicans, it was Dumocrats...”
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Nigel Farage - Trump's frog-faced errand boy. – at Brighton, England
The Times, Daniel Finkelstein: “Nigel Farage campaigned for Donald Trump. To use an American term, he stumped for him. He spoke at rallies and conventions, calling him “superb” and bigging him up in interviews.
And he did this with sufficient enthusiasm, according it sufficient priority in his schedule, that it is reasonable now to hold him to account for his endorsement.
It was claimed by Farage’s friends that he and Trump were “as close as two people can be in politics”. In 2016, Farage said: “If I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me.” For Farage to assert that there was something he still wouldn’t do even if you paid him suggests a very strong political commitment indeed.”
Superb!
Winston’s Dad retweeted
The Google AI tells me there are currently no major mainstream news stories linking Russell Brand to Russia. That means the MSM is once again completely failing democracy. Russell Brand parroted Russian propaganda, and was defended by Russia's influence network, including Musk, Trump Jr, RFK Jr, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and George Galloway.
Russell Brand has been convicted, so here is a post on his service to Russia and his friends and defenders including Elon Musk, GB News' Bev Turner, George Galloway, Ramaswamy and Trump's Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Russell Brand has been found guilty of raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others. Since the allegations became serious Brand has discovered Christianity and parroted Russian propaganda. Trump's Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is a fan of Brand, as well as being a friend of Russian asset and convicted pedophile Scott Ritter.
Among those who leapt up to defend Brand are Elon Musk, George Galloway, now residing in Moscow, GB News presenter Bev Turner, who has posted plenty of pro-Russian messages on X, Malaysian Putin tool Ian Miles Cheong, whose account has been repeatedly boosted by Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and many others. Indeed Brand's supporters are a pretty good cross-section of Russia's influence network.
George Galloway has had pedophile Scott Ritter on his MOATS show several times. These friends of Russia don't seem to have any problem with pedophilia and sexual crimes. Steve Bannon remained in close contact with Epstein after the latter's 2008 conviction. Farage thanked Bannon for his help winning the Brexit referendum, and of course Farage said that Andrew Tate was an important voice for men.
theguardian.com/culture/2026…
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Americans have totally rejected Trump. UK citizens need to totally reject Farage and Lowe. Three of a kind that nobody needs.
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Come on, my fellow Brits .
Do you bit now and fuck Brexit in its entirety..
The UK politicians need to stop with their pathetic timidity & denial.
The UK *needs* to be a member of the EU.
All need to make it clear to the pusillanimous (compromised) twats holding office
& in opposition.
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Russell Brand has been convicted, so here is a post on his service to Russia and his friends and defenders including Elon Musk, GB News' Bev Turner, George Galloway, Ramaswamy and Trump's Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Russell Brand has been found guilty of raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others. Since the allegations became serious Brand has discovered Christianity and parroted Russian propaganda. Trump's Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is a fan of Brand, as well as being a friend of Russian asset and convicted pedophile Scott Ritter.
Among those who leapt up to defend Brand are Elon Musk, George Galloway, now residing in Moscow, GB News presenter Bev Turner, who has posted plenty of pro-Russian messages on X, Malaysian Putin tool Ian Miles Cheong, whose account has been repeatedly boosted by Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and many others. Indeed Brand's supporters are a pretty good cross-section of Russia's influence network.
George Galloway has had pedophile Scott Ritter on his MOATS show several times. These friends of Russia don't seem to have any problem with pedophilia and sexual crimes. Steve Bannon remained in close contact with Epstein after the latter's 2008 conviction. Farage thanked Bannon for his help winning the Brexit referendum, and of course Farage said that Andrew Tate was an important voice for men.
theguardian.com/culture/2026… – at Hove, England
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Rupert Murdoch - "When I go to Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice."
We need real independence from Murdoch, not fake independence from the EU.
#BBB Brexit Betrays Britain
Winston’s Dad retweeted
After the referendum, the BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for over 2 years, thus grossly biasing the debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy.
radiotimes.com/tv/current-af…
Brexit was won by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. This was just one of them.
#BBB Brexit Betrays Britain – at Brighton, England
Winston’s Dad retweeted
BREAKING: Trump TORPEDOES Republicans at the last second by announcing that he'll "move to Israel" and run for prime minister if Americans "get tired" of him as we head to the polls.
He just said the quiet part out loud...
"Mr. President, I just want to clarify something you said earlier when it comes to Israel aid. We understand we've cut off aid to Israel, that we were giving them $4 billion, and you're no longer going to be giving them $4 billion," Fox's Brian Kilmeade said to Trump during an interview.
"We were giving them $4 billion," said Trump. "We are, but it gets cut off at the end of the year."
"Why?" asked Kilmeade.
"Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them, because they don't need it," said Trump. "And because why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayed when they don't need it? It's a bad talking point, because you say, why don't we give everybody $4 billion? Israel's our number one. We give them more than anybody else. And they no longer need it. We've been doing it for years. I've been doing it. But Israel is a very thriving country."
"They don't need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going. But Bibi Netanyahu, we reached an agreement on that," added Trump. "And can I be honest with you? He brought it up. He brought it up. He said, I think it would be appropriate if we do not receive aid. Because he understands that this is one of their points of contention. Israel's been a great ally, much more reliable than most. I mean, look what happened with Europe, although they did give me Greenland for the United States."
Now, hold on a second.
Cut off aid to Israel?
That sure doesn't sound like Trump, the most rabidly "Israel First" President in American history. This is the same guy who launched a disastrous war of aggression against Iran, with no American interests at stake, just because Netanyahu asked him to. So what's going on here? The answer, you won't be surprised to learn, is not what it seems.
Netanyahu is indeed pushing for an end to formal American financial support for his country, but it's not because he no longer wants American bombs, bullets, and drones to fuel his bloody dreams of conquest. It's because he realizes that Israel's approval in the U.S. has cratered thanks to the slaughter in Gaza. In a few short years, most Americans will likely support ending ALL aid to Israel. Netanyahu is getting ahead of that problem by removing the easy to see (and thus curtail) financial aid in favor of a deeper, more opaque entwining of the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Rather than $4 billion in aid, Israeli officials are proposing a $16 billion joint American-Israeli fund for researching and developing new weapons. In other words, our support wouldn't evaporate, it would shapeshift. The proposed 2027 National Defense Authorization Act would greatly expand these joint-defense initiatives. On top of that, the new arrangement would give Congress less direct control to curtail Israeli aggression.
“But this is a Netanyahu ruse to say, ‘Okay, we don’t want the aid, but let’s just have joint production on the weapons,'" explained Rep. Ro Khanna.
In other words, Trump isn't suddenly deciding to revert to his promises of putting America's interests first, he's simply occluding the ways in which he prioritizes Israel. Which is why it makes sense that he'd fantasize about moving there.
"So I'm the number one, I was so voted, I'm at 99% approval rating in Israel can you believe it?" Trump said during that Fox interview. "In fact, if people ever got tired of me in the U.S. I'll move to Israel and become Prime minister. But I'm at ninety— Think of it! I'm at ninety-nine— I have the highest approval rating of anybody in history, because I've been— You know I've been— They've been a great partner but what we did, we stopped Iran."
While Trump appears to have pulled that 99% number straight out of his diaper-clad rear end, he does indeed enjoy high approval in Israel with a recent Gallup poll showing that 62% of Israelis approve of U.S. leadership.
Of course, that's cold comfort for the American people, who are being forced to pay higher grocery and gas prices because of a war that was started solely to aid in Israel's territorial expansion in the Middle East.
Israel may approve of Trump, but the U.S. does not. And today, we show him that at the polls!
Please ❤️ and share if you wish that Trump WOULD move to Israel!
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Tory MP James Cleverly attempting to argue that we can’t rejoin the largest trading bloc on the planet (that could provide a 6% inc. in growth), because we’d have to leave a trade agreement on the other side of the earth that gives us about a 0.08% boost to GDP
#politicslive
Winston’s Dad retweeted
We got your back, New York!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
arkolith.com/news/news-micr…
therepublic.com/?p=843020
governor.ny.gov/news/safer-str…
Winston’s Dad retweeted
Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.
Please meet the President of the United States:
Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.
Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.
34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges.
Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.
6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.
5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty. He said "not for me" when asked to defend his country.
4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four
.
2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.
2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.
1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.
Even his charity was a grift.
Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.
Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second. A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.
Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.
Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.
Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.
First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point. HE PERSONALLY OWNS 30% OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.
Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.
Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.
ONLY PRESIDENT WITH THREE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS.
Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.
Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.
Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.
Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back. Efficient, if your goal is chaos.
Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.
At least 400 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.
His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.
Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.
Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone. Then bragged about lower crime rates in said states.
His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.
You’re paying for this. Not China. You.
No more foreign wars.
Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One.
Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.
None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.
It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.
So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.
Robert S Warner
Winston’s Dad retweeted
These made me laugh out bloody loud HAHAHAHA
Seems like @Nigel_Farage social media bots are malfunctioning. Same happening with @LeeAndersonMP_ or @RobertJenrick accounts 😂 might have something to do with the fact that Meta backend rolled out a tweak that essentially, for lack of better phrasing, digitally concussed the bots, so they can't completely touch base with the central LLM.
So it's defaulted to absurd nonsensicalisms from the bots.
Just shows that Reform is basically a bot farm. Something that we knew for a long time.
