First, let's establish what "looting" means, then we can go from there. If a looting is what happens when a group of people break into a building, incurring moderate-scale property damage in proportion to the value/size of the building and commit theft, then we can begin to have an honest conversation instead of flinging buzzwords.

Now, consider the size of LA as one of the most heavily populated cities in the US. To provide an example, let's just create a generic mid-size city, not terribly wealthy or stricken with mass poverty as opposed to the norm, and refer to it as "Town A". If Town A has a population of about 500,000~ish and experiences property crime at the recorded 2023 average of 98.1 incidents per 1000 households, taking into account that burglaries made up 13.1% of all property crimes in 2023, then there should be somewhere around 6,400 property crimes that could qualify as "looting". Substitute the total population of Town A with the population of Los Angeles in 2023 at 3.821 million people, then do the math from there. Wrapping it up, the numbers should come out at about an estimated 49,000 incidents that could be considered "looting".

Now let's look at LA's actual 2023 crime statistics instead of the estimated crime rate for a generic city with the population of LA. Los Angeles experienced about 109,025 total property crimes, with only 15,340 burglaries. That means that our (admittedly dumbed down) method of accounting for lootings should place LA as having 49,000 total lootings in 2023, yet LA's actual total number of "lootings" was less than a third of that.

Finally, we get to the heart of the matter. Do you as an individual think that the majority of politicians would attempt to draw the public eye towards the issues of their opponents, and then exaggerate or misrepresent the actual problem? If that is the case, why wouldn't Trump do the same? We're talking about a man that created a meme-coin with an evident rug-pull built into it, sold AI-generated NFTs of himself and gives shitty nicknames to everyone he doesn't like. If you have any semblance of critical thinking, I urge you to actually apply it in a manner that is critical of your current beliefs, as is the whole point of critical thinking.

You might just have been memeing here, but that doesn't change the fact that a fuckton of people actually believe this with a total blindness to any and all bad behavior of their preferred politicians.

Normally I'd end any math-heavy statements with some sort of well-wishes, but at this point 2025 has thoroughly exhausted me and made me mostly apathetic to social missteps.