“Crime is so bad in DC that Congress is distributing tips to avoid being carjacked in capital
The District of Columbia is currently struggling to contend with a surge in criminal activity that has many questioning the safety of living in the city at all. Compared to this point in 2022, homicides are up 28% and on pace to reach their highest levels in more than 20 years.”
“House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, (R-Wis.) on Monday warned would-be visitors to Washington, D.C. of rising crime in the nation’s capital and advised people how to respond to criminal acts and to minimize the risk of being victimized by violence like carjackings.
The District of Columbia is currently struggling to contend with increased criminal activity that has many questioning the safety of living in the city at all. Compared to this point in 2022, data from the D.C. Metropolitan Police shows that homicides are up 28% and on pace to reach their highest levels in more than 20 years. Robberies, meanwhile, are up 67%. Residents have testified to increasingly driving for short distances due to fear of going outside.
Amid the crime wave, the Mexican consulate in Washington, D.C., has warned its citizens that “The city of Washington, D.C. is experiencing a significant increase in crime in areas previously considered safe. Take precautions. In an emergency, call 911.”
In response to the troubling trend, Steil convened a safety meeting on Monday with both Capitol and Metropolitan Police in attendance. During the proceedings, a pair of Capitol Hill staffers recounted an instance in which they were mugged.. The meeting produced a litany of recommendations for staffers to contend with the jump in crime.
Recommendations included not wearing jewelry on public transportation and leaving no valuables visible within one’s parked car to avoid attracting thieves.
To limit more aggressive incidents such as carjacking and armed robbery, some suggested leaving space between cars at red lights should one need to flee. Minimizing time using a mobile phone while walking to limit distractions was also suggested.
“It’s so concerning… to think in a city of just over 500,000 people that 5,000 cars have been stolen already this year,” Steil said during a Monday appearance on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. “[T]hat’s 20 to 25 a day. Seven hundred of those have been the result of carjackings, where people are viciously thrown out of their cars and thrown out into the streets as the criminals drive away.”
“It’s unfortunate, but it’s also true that the advice that was given today included telling people to give space between their car and the car in front of them when they pull up to a stop sign or a stoplight so they can make an evasive maneuver if they have to,” he added. “That’s how out of control crime is in Washington, D.C., and it’s not only carjackings, and car thefts, but we’re seeing it with assault with burglary, robbery, murder.”
The congressman said the crime wave is forcing Capitol police to protect against street crimes instead of guarding the home of Congress.
“There’s no sign that this crime is slowing down. If you want to know what happens in our nation’s largest cities under complete Democratic control, look no further than your nation’s capital, crime is spiking,” Steil said.”
In NYC? Please, that’s nothing compared to what Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico have been dealing with for years, since the Clown King Biden took control.
“It’s time for Joe Biden to ‘address’ the migrant problem in NYC”
“Someone once said that a Catholic bishop never hears the truth or has a bad meal.
That also perfectly describes Joe Biden’s visit to New York.
The clear-the-streets edict for the president’s motorcade caused the usual traffic jams for ordinary schlubs as he headed off to dinner Sunday at Il Cantinori, a pricey Italian restaurant popular with celebrities.
It’s good to be king.
At later fund-raising events, where the only questions were polite and paying customers laughed at his jokes, Biden claimed his age isn’t a problem, which is hilarious.
His purpose in coming to New York was his Tuesday address at the United Nations General Assembly.
His speech there didn’t just seem to be divorced from reality, it actually was.
All the grand talk of united democracies, climate change, artificial intelligence and, again, climate change felt disconnected at a time when the global order is fraying and chaos reigns at home.
If there was a sense of urgency about the turmoil, I missed it.
The UN itself is searching for relevance, as evidenced by the fact that key world leaders found better things to do with their time than listen to each other spout cliches.
The heads of China, Russia, India, France, the UK and others stayed away, their delegations replaced with the sort of extras Hollywood uses to fill seats, lest the cameras catch a vacancy.
The result was that Biden looked trapped in a world view that time has passed by. ”
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“Border bedlam
Meanwhile, if Biden wanted a dose of reality closer to home, he could have shown even a bare interest in the migrant mobs swallowing New York.
After all, his border policies made the mayhem possible, with more than 110,000 new arrivals living in the five boroughs.
More than half are living on the taxpayers’ dole, pushing the three-year projected tab to $12 billion.
About 6 million more asylum-seekers and other illegal crossers are scattered from sea to shining sea.
Many are in solidly blue cities, and if Biden cared about what his policies have done to Democratic strongholds and how that might affect next year’s election, he could have made a small detour from the UN to stop at the Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue and East 45th Street.
Even allowing for the tidying up that precedes a presidential visit, there is no escaping the impact of the hundreds of new arrivals on any given day, often from scores of countries.
Some are regularly forced to sleep on the streets when there is no room inside the already-jammed intake facility.
Biden’s refusal to witness the crisis he created extends to Mayor Adams, who had the nerve — the nerve! — to refuse to remain silently obedient to party orthodoxy.
For speaking up, even gently, Adams was iced out and made persona non grata by the president.
See, because the White House never, ever talks about the border, the throngs of people who cross every day, the deaths on the trek, the child trafficking or how the cartels are getting fabulously wealthy as their drugs flood American cities, the problem doesn’t exist.
In the real world, New York has suffered more than any other non-border destination, in part because it’s New York and in part because it has a unique “right to shelter” policy enforced by the courts.
Initially, Adams foolishly welcomed thousands of the new arrivals before it gradually dawned on him that the numbers would soon outstrip the city’s ability to handle them and that the costs would wreck the budget.
In the most polite terms at first, the mayor sought federal aid, being careful never to criticize Biden personally or even fault the open-border policies.
He was willing to have New York carry the load, he just wanted Washington and Albany to share the costs.
But his tip-toeing got him nothing and the implied criticism of the president burned the White House, which feared that Dem mayors and governors would unite with Republican leaders to demand border security.
And if the feds started taking responsibility for the costs in New York, they would face similar demands across the nation.
So Adams was frozen out and is planning to, from all appearances, return the favor during Biden’s visit.
He was scheduled to meet the Swedish prime minister, the president of Sierra Leone and the mayor of Seoul, South Korea, but not the president of the United States.
Childish politics
Even Gov. Hochul got a cold shoulder from the Oval Office when she went hat-in-hand, though she did get the promise of a tad more aid.
But playing childish politics won’t make the problem go away or bring the dead back to life.
The heart-breaking death of an infant in a Bronx day care that also served as a dealers’ distribution point underscores how insidious the drug trade has become.
Police found a kilogram of fentanyl hidden near where the tots napped, and three young children fell ill and a 1-year-old boy died.
If past is prelude, we can assume many of the ingredients of the deadly drug were manufactured in China and came across the Mexican border.
It’s an act of war against our own country, but Biden can’t be bothered.
The war in Europe is very important, but so is the one at home.”
““It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” – George Washington”
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“It’s not hard to notice the universal whining about the inevitable rematch between Trump and Biden. Biden is too old, they say, as if that’s the worst thing about his presidency.
Those who hate Trump and see him as an existential threat (yes, still) have never devised any concrete plan to get us out of it, beyond forcing us all to participate in their ongoing mass delusion that Trump is second only to Hitler as the Greatest Threat Facing Humankind in All of History.
We’re at a crossroads with two different options on the table. One leads to totalitarian rule of the 1984 kind; the other is a more nationalist approach to preserving our country’s identity and uniqueness, resisting the urge to become part of a global community like Oceana.
Running for president now means diving in and having an online presence, like Barack Obama did, like Donald Trump did. Biden didn’t have to bother since he’s really just a placeholder for the Obama administration, and everyone knows it.
Who will claim this powerful new leviathan we’ve built over the past 20 years that has every step we take, every move we make, every post we like, everything we buy, and everything we watch tracked, traced, and stored in a digital file that will now be part of our permanent record?
The Democrats got there first. They amassed an extraordinary amount of power to shape our perception of reality just by controlling Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, and most importantly, the mainstream media narrative which now completely belongs to them as their own state propaganda tool. If you want to be part of this thriving new economy, you have to obey the rules of their Habitus.
Sociologists call our perception of reality the Habitus, explained here in this video about the Truman Show (minute 5):”
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“Our Habitus is a whole separate reality from the rest of this country. I know because I was once inside of it. I thought it was the only reality. I was shocked to discover that it wasn’t. It was an insulated, isolated utopia where we all saw life exactly the same way. We followed the same rules of language. We knew which words we couldn’t say. We were trying to build a pristine new world inspired by Obama’s goodness, or so we thought.
What is “normal” life to most Americans? Well, it depends on what news you watch, who your friends are on social media, and what comedians you find funny.
Trump punctured the sanctity of our Habitus in 2016, which is why it felt like the world was ending for most us. It kind of was. In the years that followed, we saw what happens to a society when the Habitus is disrupted. It felt like an invasion, a kind of war.
Naturally, all cultural and corporate institutions that wanted to participate in the new economy online had no choice but to side with the Left. Then came the purges and persecutions as the citizens of the Habitus were forced to become authoritarians to hold on to their way of life.
Who wore a mask, and who didn’t? Who was vaxxed, and who wasn’t? Who uses preferred pronouns, and who doesn’t? Who supports Ukraine, and who doesn’t? These were all subtle ways the citizens of the Habitus used to ferret out the non-compliant and purge them from the Habitus.
At its most extreme it was 2+2=5, 1984 style, which had us all mandated to accept people can be born in the wrong body and change their genders, and we’re all supposed to pretend this is a biological reality.
Until it became official policy, “Cancel Culture” was limited to institutions and corporations. Now, it’s in government wielded freely by the Biden Justice Department that feels emboldened to persecute and prosecute not just his political enemies, but enemies of the Habitus.
Bit by bit, these authoritarians are eroding our rights as Americans. Think about everything we’ve lost at the hands of the left—the right to due process, or the Presumption of Innocence.
The prosecutors going after Trump have already convicted him as a “rapist” and a “racist” and assumed everything he did on January 6th was due to his need to wrestle the country back to its “White Supremacist” roots. The media freely refers to MAGA as a movement based on “white rage,” which is why none of the January 6th protesters have gotten a fair trial and why Trump won’t either.
Justice Kavanaugh was a convicted rapist with almost zero evidence, all because at that time, we were all conditioned to #believewomen no matter what. Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd because he was a “racist.” Kyle Rittenhouse was a “white supremacist who crossed state lines to kill Black and Brown people.”
They’ve even found a way to eliminate fair representation. Michael Teter and the 65 Project threatened and intimidated any lawyers who might dare to represent Trump in 2020 on his cases against the laws changed to help the Democrats win. Now, they’re doing the same thing, with the 65 Project charging Alan Dershowitz to block him from helping to advise any of the accused in the four indictments against Trump.
The Democrats hate the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. They’ve now abused their power in several states by citing the 14th Amendment to have Trump removed from the ballot because, to them, he committed an act of insurrection against the government. That’s yet more proof that due process no longer matters to them, but we knew that already.
I hate it to break to the Democrats, but protesting their abuse of power in 2020 to fundamentally alter our elections, along with the gathering in DC, and even the violent riot were not attacks against the United States of America. They were protests against the alignment of power that has now overtaken the United States of America and threatened our Democracy.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was the most revolutionary act in the history of the internet. Musk’s rebrand of Twitter to X shows us the alternative to the totalitarian state when he decided to fight for free speech and allow the previously banned dissidents to return. The horror, the evil!
Musk became a target and a threat. But guess what? Twitter/X survived just fine. The pearl-clutchers learned how to tolerate sharing space with people who disagree with them. And so it must go with America.
And wouldn’t you know, Musk himself has now become a target of the government and its puppet press? This is our new normal if we don’t vote them out of power and deliver the kind of shock and awe at the polls they so badly have coming.”
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“I hate it to break to the Democrats, but protesting their abuse of power in 2020 to fundamentally alter our elections, along with the gathering in DC, and even the violent riot were not attacks against the United States of America. They were protests against the alignment of power that has now overtaken the United States of America and threatened our Democracy.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was the most revolutionary act in the history of the internet. Musk’s rebrand of Twitter to X shows us the alternative to the totalitarian state when he decided to fight for free speech and allow the previously banned dissidents to return. The horror, the evil!
Musk became a target and a threat. But guess what? Twitter/X survived just fine. The pearl-clutchers learned how to tolerate sharing space with people who disagree with them. And so it must go with America.
And wouldn’t you know, Musk himself has now become a target of the government and its puppet press? This is our new normal if we don’t vote them out of power and deliver the kind of shock and awe at the polls they so badly have coming.”
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“Most importantly, Trump offers so many people in this country who have been abandoned, ignored, and exiled from the Habitus in the New America online the one thing Biden can’t: hope.
Hope for a free America. Hope for a prosperous America. Hope for an escape from the madness of the Left.
The MAGA energy is unstoppable, especially if they’re mobilizing to clear their names, which is what they should be doing, and all of us who still believe in the presumption of innocence and who reject convicting people on “spectral evidence,” what we believe exists in their minds and hearts instead of the reality of who they are.
Here is the reality of the MAGA I know. They aren’t violent. January 6th was the only time, conveniently, they were ever seen throwing the kinds of violent riots the Left routinely does. They are patriots. They love this country more than anything. They believe in its founding principles. They seek to protect all of us in this country. And trust me, if there is ever a hot war with Russia, they are going to be the first sent to die for this country.
That their patriotism has been distorted, that they’ve been discarded as terrorists and extremists by the most corrupt administration in my lifetime, is unacceptable.
But none of this can win the election for Trump. There is only one thing that can. It’s the economy, stupid. I told you so, 2024.”
“Remember all those fights about removing historical statues?
Of course you do, since the battles continue to this day. The issue flares up every once in a while, particularly when Democrats want to get their voters fired up against the evil American system of government, which is almost always.
One big battle took place during the Trump administration, and Trump dismissed the (largely successful) movement to remove statues and building names that glorified members of the Confederacy.
Trump had a simple argument: wiping away these statues and references to the Confederacy had nothing to do with confronting America’s racist past, and everything to do with wiping away American history as a whole. Trump predicted that Washington and Jefferson were next on the chopping block because they, too, were slaveholders.
Liberals screamed bloody murder, denying that they were engaged in such a nefarious plot. Washington and Jefferson weren’t comparable to Confederates (they aren’t, either), so no worries.
As is so often the case, Trump lost the battle but proved to be right.”
remember when trump predicted exactly this would happen and the entire narrative industry published articles in unison assuring us it definitely wouldn’t happen? https://t.co/2OvpFYbuHqpic.twitter.com/XKhCn038B3
“Yeah, well, we all knew that the real target was undermining American history. WTF did you think they meant when they kept on babbling about “systemic racism?” That the Constitution is A-OK, and we just need a few tweaks in society?
As New York City cripples under monumental budget cuts due to a migrant crisis straining public resources, the city council is planning to consider a series of measures that would, among other things, remove statues of major historical figures like George Washington and create a reparations task force.
The items are included in New York City’s council agenda for Tuesday, September 19, 2023. The council’s Cultural Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on a measure to remove works of art on city property that “depict a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity.”
Nobody believed that all of America’s heroes weren’t on the chopping block, and it wasn’t the activists who claimed they weren’t coming after all of American history–it was their so-called “moderate” supporters who cleared the political path. The communists leading the pack on rewriting American history are pretty clear about their goals; it is the politicians and MSM figures who lie to the American people who do their dirty work.
America’s history is filled with injustice, and American history courses should unflinchingly explore the who, what, when, where, and how of both the good and the bad in our history. It is also the case that no country has done more to spread the gospel of democracy and liberty than the US and that there is a reason that the majority of the world’s population when asked, would love to live here. Have you noticed what is happening at our borders?
The flow of humanity is toward the US, not outward. And they aren’t coming here to be enslaved.
The fatal flaw in the “critical theory” school of interpreting history is its blindness to human nature and genuine history; it tells a political/ideological story instead of exploring the complexity of historical realities.”
Gender ideology is just one of the denominations along with the other critical theories.
Until everyone recognizes these as religions, or more precisely cults, they will continue to ravage the fabric of society and the lives of our children.
Transgender Ideology is by design intended to be nihilistic, and to devolve society into chaos and savagery. I have been doing the research, and Transgender Ideology is based on Queer Theory, which is based on Post-Modernism. The Post-Modernist concepts are preserved…
“Transgender Ideology is by design intended to be nihilistic, and to devolve society into chaos and savagery. I have been doing the research, and Transgender Ideology is based on Queer Theory, which is based on Post-Modernism. The Post-Modernist concepts are preserved throughout the evolution of this Ideology.
Post-Modernists see every human association, every organization, every tradition, and every norm as being about power – political in nature. The Post-Modernist calls societal structures, traditions, and norms “social constructs” (sound familiar?).
From Stanford University’s website on Post-Modernism:
“That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning.”
This means Post-Modernism’s intent is to destroy (they call it “deconstruct”) every connection to nation, ethnicity, culture, profession, vocation, and so on. This ideology seeks to destroy the significance of history, the shared meaning of words, and cause you to be uncertain of any thought you might have.
Post-Modernism is entirely destructive with no intention of building or rebuilding anything to replace what it desconstrcts. This is logical, as much of the thinking of early queer theorist has to do with removing all social and legal consequences for pedophilia, rape, and incest (including with minors).”
"You came after our children. You seek to suck them into your suicide cult just to make yourself feel better. You want my children to share in your confusion so that you can feel better. And you wonder why that makes me angry." pic.twitter.com/Tdfkw54b8W
Like the Jan6 Farce, it’s all made for TV fiction.
Whenever I'd ask left-liberal colleagues and friends what Trump did worse than Bush/Cheney or justified Nazi claims, they'd say: treatment of migrants at the border.
That AOC did this, then never once bothered even to pretend by visiting the border under Biden, is gross: pic.twitter.com/woY0rx5cmh
This is one of the worst aspects of US left-liberal culture: so much is performative, accusatory, theatrical. It's all about denouncing others while never assuming any personal risk, cost, or obligation beyond hashtag posting.
The least relevant metric is actions in one's life.
But it’s not, and let’s hope so, because it needs to be done.
"If Donald Trump wins, thousands of his appointees will come into office and they will strip bare the federal government. They will disassemble the government of the United States."
But it is the sly wolves among more faithful churches who can convincingly twist and turn or even discount some scriptures (because of the times we’re in, they will sometimes say — “Did God really say?”), leading people astray in much less obvious ways.
Those are much more likely to make us stumble and they are a clear and present danger we need to look for in all circumstances.
~ … False teachers abound on many of the so-called Christian television networks, and books by false teachers fill the shelves of many so-called Christian bookstores. And while many Christians are rightly concerned about the growth of religions such as Islam, the greatest threat to orthodox Christianity is not other religions but false teachers who creep into the church unnoticed. … ~ – Burk Parsons, Ligonier Ministries
Rep. @RepThomasMassie questions Merrick Garland on Ray Epps: "You indicted him on a misdemeanors and meanwhile you're sending grandmas to prison. You're putting people away for 20 years for merely filming. Some weren't even there but you got the guy on video saying go into the… pic.twitter.com/iCoDCIl0fQ
“Yes, I protect him and his family from investigation of their influence peddling scheme and I destroy norms by aggressively attempting to bankrupt and imprison his entire opposition party, but I wouldn’t say I’m his personal attorney, no.” https://t.co/0RFbb9Fyvt
The House can stop this latest idiocy, after all, they control the purse.
But once again…. #USELESSGOP
This is how Biden pays them back for their loyalty and lies on his behalf.
BREAKING — The Biden administration has appointed James Clapper, John Brennan, and Paul Kolbe, former intelligence officials, to a DHS "Homeland Intelligence Experts Group" handling national security issues.
BREAKING — The Biden administration has appointed James Clapper, John Brennan, and Paul Kolbe, former intelligence officials, to a DHS "Homeland Intelligence Experts Group" handling national security issues.
~ Hakeem Jeffries probably can’t believe his luck. As House minority leader for less than a year, he gets to watch the Republican majority implode without having to do a thing.
That’s the story in Congress as House Republicans form a circular firing squad over the most basic of duties—passing an annual budget. As Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, a former Navy Seal, put it in a visit to our offices on Monday: It’s hard to govern “when you have snipers inside the perimeter.” He means fellow Republicans.
The details of the internecine feuding are too boring to relate to busy readers. But the essence of the problem is that too many Republicans have forgotten the reality of the current Beltway balance of power. Their only hold on power is a four-vote majority in the House, one of the narrowest in history. They don’t hold the Senate or the White House.
This means that the only way House Republicans can accomplish anything is by sticking together. If they can rally 218 votes to pass something, they have a chance to win policy victories. If they can’t, they give the advantage to Democrats. It really is that simple.
… But House Republicans have so far managed to pass only one of the 12 appropriations bills to fund the government, the one on veterans and military construction. Thus Congress is careening toward a possible government shutdown at the end of this month when the current fiscal year ends.
House Republicans can’t even pass the defense or homeland security spending bills, which should be the easiest and contain many GOP priorities on military spending and border security. Recalcitrant Members—“snipers inside the perimeter”—are demanding that somehow the House cut even more spending than the debt-ceiling bill stipulated.
They’re willing to shut down the government to make their point, which is the equivalent of holding your breath until you pass out. Conservative and moderate factions worked out a spending stop-gap bill that cuts overall non-defense spending by 1% from 2023 levels to keep the government running through Oct. 31, but even that seems to lack the votes.
We’d be happy to support spending brinkmanship if it served some achievable goal. But taking responsibility for shutting down the government is a sure political loser. The party that seeks a shutdown is always blamed. The result in this case would likely be even more spending as Republicans need Democratic votes to reopen the government—and Democrats will demand something for it. The GOP will get few if any policy victories.
This is all so obvious—so Civics 101—that it’s amazing to watch men and women who ran for Congress refuse to get it. Too many Republicans apparently come to Washington these days mainly to blow things up and count their TikTok followers. …
… Republicans narrowly won the House in 2022 promising to rein in Democratic spending excesses, and they have. But they lack the votes to significantly change the direction of policy. To do that they need bigger majorities and control of the Senate.
On their current path, however, and if they shut down the government in a stupid, futile gesture, all they’ll do is make it easier to turn the gavel over to Speaker Jeffries. ~
Let the government shut down. The US national debt is over $33,045, 430,000,000!!! More money that we don’t have (borrowed from China) for the Ukraine? Where is the accountability for the over $113, 000, 000, 000 already sent? Ridiculous!
Wandering Views 
Biden’s America.
This is what Democrat rule does to cities.
“Crime is so bad in DC that Congress is distributing tips to avoid being carjacked in capital
The District of Columbia is currently struggling to contend with a surge in criminal activity that has many questioning the safety of living in the city at all. Compared to this point in 2022, homicides are up 28% and on pace to reach their highest levels in more than 20 years.”
https://justthenews.com/government/local/holdlawmakers-warn-staffers-dc-crime-surge
“House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, (R-Wis.) on Monday warned would-be visitors to Washington, D.C. of rising crime in the nation’s capital and advised people how to respond to criminal acts and to minimize the risk of being victimized by violence like carjackings.
The District of Columbia is currently struggling to contend with increased criminal activity that has many questioning the safety of living in the city at all. Compared to this point in 2022, data from the D.C. Metropolitan Police shows that homicides are up 28% and on pace to reach their highest levels in more than 20 years. Robberies, meanwhile, are up 67%. Residents have testified to increasingly driving for short distances due to fear of going outside.
Amid the crime wave, the Mexican consulate in Washington, D.C., has warned its citizens that “The city of Washington, D.C. is experiencing a significant increase in crime in areas previously considered safe. Take precautions. In an emergency, call 911.”
In response to the troubling trend, Steil convened a safety meeting on Monday with both Capitol and Metropolitan Police in attendance. During the proceedings, a pair of Capitol Hill staffers recounted an instance in which they were mugged.. The meeting produced a litany of recommendations for staffers to contend with the jump in crime.
Recommendations included not wearing jewelry on public transportation and leaving no valuables visible within one’s parked car to avoid attracting thieves.
To limit more aggressive incidents such as carjacking and armed robbery, some suggested leaving space between cars at red lights should one need to flee. Minimizing time using a mobile phone while walking to limit distractions was also suggested.
“It’s so concerning… to think in a city of just over 500,000 people that 5,000 cars have been stolen already this year,” Steil said during a Monday appearance on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. “[T]hat’s 20 to 25 a day. Seven hundred of those have been the result of carjackings, where people are viciously thrown out of their cars and thrown out into the streets as the criminals drive away.”
“It’s unfortunate, but it’s also true that the advice that was given today included telling people to give space between their car and the car in front of them when they pull up to a stop sign or a stoplight so they can make an evasive maneuver if they have to,” he added. “That’s how out of control crime is in Washington, D.C., and it’s not only carjackings, and car thefts, but we’re seeing it with assault with burglary, robbery, murder.”
The congressman said the crime wave is forcing Capitol police to protect against street crimes instead of guarding the home of Congress.
“There’s no sign that this crime is slowing down. If you want to know what happens in our nation’s largest cities under complete Democratic control, look no further than your nation’s capital, crime is spiking,” Steil said.”
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In NYC? Please, that’s nothing compared to what Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico have been dealing with for years, since the Clown King Biden took control.
“It’s time for Joe Biden to ‘address’ the migrant problem in NYC”
https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/its-time-for-joe-biden-to-address-the-migrant-problem-in-nyc/
“Someone once said that a Catholic bishop never hears the truth or has a bad meal.
That also perfectly describes Joe Biden’s visit to New York.
The clear-the-streets edict for the president’s motorcade caused the usual traffic jams for ordinary schlubs as he headed off to dinner Sunday at Il Cantinori, a pricey Italian restaurant popular with celebrities.
It’s good to be king.
At later fund-raising events, where the only questions were polite and paying customers laughed at his jokes, Biden claimed his age isn’t a problem, which is hilarious.
His purpose in coming to New York was his Tuesday address at the United Nations General Assembly.
His speech there didn’t just seem to be divorced from reality, it actually was.
All the grand talk of united democracies, climate change, artificial intelligence and, again, climate change felt disconnected at a time when the global order is fraying and chaos reigns at home.
If there was a sense of urgency about the turmoil, I missed it.
The UN itself is searching for relevance, as evidenced by the fact that key world leaders found better things to do with their time than listen to each other spout cliches.
The heads of China, Russia, India, France, the UK and others stayed away, their delegations replaced with the sort of extras Hollywood uses to fill seats, lest the cameras catch a vacancy.
The result was that Biden looked trapped in a world view that time has passed by. ”
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“Border bedlam
Meanwhile, if Biden wanted a dose of reality closer to home, he could have shown even a bare interest in the migrant mobs swallowing New York.
After all, his border policies made the mayhem possible, with more than 110,000 new arrivals living in the five boroughs.
More than half are living on the taxpayers’ dole, pushing the three-year projected tab to $12 billion.
About 6 million more asylum-seekers and other illegal crossers are scattered from sea to shining sea.
Many are in solidly blue cities, and if Biden cared about what his policies have done to Democratic strongholds and how that might affect next year’s election, he could have made a small detour from the UN to stop at the Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue and East 45th Street.
Even allowing for the tidying up that precedes a presidential visit, there is no escaping the impact of the hundreds of new arrivals on any given day, often from scores of countries.
Some are regularly forced to sleep on the streets when there is no room inside the already-jammed intake facility.
Biden’s refusal to witness the crisis he created extends to Mayor Adams, who had the nerve — the nerve! — to refuse to remain silently obedient to party orthodoxy.
For speaking up, even gently, Adams was iced out and made persona non grata by the president.
See, because the White House never, ever talks about the border, the throngs of people who cross every day, the deaths on the trek, the child trafficking or how the cartels are getting fabulously wealthy as their drugs flood American cities, the problem doesn’t exist.
In the real world, New York has suffered more than any other non-border destination, in part because it’s New York and in part because it has a unique “right to shelter” policy enforced by the courts.
Initially, Adams foolishly welcomed thousands of the new arrivals before it gradually dawned on him that the numbers would soon outstrip the city’s ability to handle them and that the costs would wreck the budget.
In the most polite terms at first, the mayor sought federal aid, being careful never to criticize Biden personally or even fault the open-border policies.
He was willing to have New York carry the load, he just wanted Washington and Albany to share the costs.
But his tip-toeing got him nothing and the implied criticism of the president burned the White House, which feared that Dem mayors and governors would unite with Republican leaders to demand border security.
And if the feds started taking responsibility for the costs in New York, they would face similar demands across the nation.
So Adams was frozen out and is planning to, from all appearances, return the favor during Biden’s visit.
He was scheduled to meet the Swedish prime minister, the president of Sierra Leone and the mayor of Seoul, South Korea, but not the president of the United States.
Childish politics
Even Gov. Hochul got a cold shoulder from the Oval Office when she went hat-in-hand, though she did get the promise of a tad more aid.
But playing childish politics won’t make the problem go away or bring the dead back to life.
The heart-breaking death of an infant in a Bronx day care that also served as a dealers’ distribution point underscores how insidious the drug trade has become.
Police found a kilogram of fentanyl hidden near where the tots napped, and three young children fell ill and a 1-year-old boy died.
If past is prelude, we can assume many of the ingredients of the deadly drug were manufactured in China and came across the Mexican border.
It’s an act of war against our own country, but Biden can’t be bothered.
The war in Europe is very important, but so is the one at home.”
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“Why Trump, Why Now
“I Told You So 2024”
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/why-trump-why-now#details
““It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” – George Washington”
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“It’s not hard to notice the universal whining about the inevitable rematch between Trump and Biden. Biden is too old, they say, as if that’s the worst thing about his presidency.
Those who hate Trump and see him as an existential threat (yes, still) have never devised any concrete plan to get us out of it, beyond forcing us all to participate in their ongoing mass delusion that Trump is second only to Hitler as the Greatest Threat Facing Humankind in All of History.
We’re at a crossroads with two different options on the table. One leads to totalitarian rule of the 1984 kind; the other is a more nationalist approach to preserving our country’s identity and uniqueness, resisting the urge to become part of a global community like Oceana.
Running for president now means diving in and having an online presence, like Barack Obama did, like Donald Trump did. Biden didn’t have to bother since he’s really just a placeholder for the Obama administration, and everyone knows it.
Who will claim this powerful new leviathan we’ve built over the past 20 years that has every step we take, every move we make, every post we like, everything we buy, and everything we watch tracked, traced, and stored in a digital file that will now be part of our permanent record?
The Democrats got there first. They amassed an extraordinary amount of power to shape our perception of reality just by controlling Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, and most importantly, the mainstream media narrative which now completely belongs to them as their own state propaganda tool. If you want to be part of this thriving new economy, you have to obey the rules of their Habitus.
Sociologists call our perception of reality the Habitus, explained here in this video about the Truman Show (minute 5):”
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“Our Habitus is a whole separate reality from the rest of this country. I know because I was once inside of it. I thought it was the only reality. I was shocked to discover that it wasn’t. It was an insulated, isolated utopia where we all saw life exactly the same way. We followed the same rules of language. We knew which words we couldn’t say. We were trying to build a pristine new world inspired by Obama’s goodness, or so we thought.
What is “normal” life to most Americans? Well, it depends on what news you watch, who your friends are on social media, and what comedians you find funny.
Trump punctured the sanctity of our Habitus in 2016, which is why it felt like the world was ending for most us. It kind of was. In the years that followed, we saw what happens to a society when the Habitus is disrupted. It felt like an invasion, a kind of war.
Naturally, all cultural and corporate institutions that wanted to participate in the new economy online had no choice but to side with the Left. Then came the purges and persecutions as the citizens of the Habitus were forced to become authoritarians to hold on to their way of life.
Who wore a mask, and who didn’t? Who was vaxxed, and who wasn’t? Who uses preferred pronouns, and who doesn’t? Who supports Ukraine, and who doesn’t? These were all subtle ways the citizens of the Habitus used to ferret out the non-compliant and purge them from the Habitus.
At its most extreme it was 2+2=5, 1984 style, which had us all mandated to accept people can be born in the wrong body and change their genders, and we’re all supposed to pretend this is a biological reality.
Until it became official policy, “Cancel Culture” was limited to institutions and corporations. Now, it’s in government wielded freely by the Biden Justice Department that feels emboldened to persecute and prosecute not just his political enemies, but enemies of the Habitus.
Bit by bit, these authoritarians are eroding our rights as Americans. Think about everything we’ve lost at the hands of the left—the right to due process, or the Presumption of Innocence.
The prosecutors going after Trump have already convicted him as a “rapist” and a “racist” and assumed everything he did on January 6th was due to his need to wrestle the country back to its “White Supremacist” roots. The media freely refers to MAGA as a movement based on “white rage,” which is why none of the January 6th protesters have gotten a fair trial and why Trump won’t either.
Justice Kavanaugh was a convicted rapist with almost zero evidence, all because at that time, we were all conditioned to #believewomen no matter what. Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd because he was a “racist.” Kyle Rittenhouse was a “white supremacist who crossed state lines to kill Black and Brown people.”
They’ve even found a way to eliminate fair representation. Michael Teter and the 65 Project threatened and intimidated any lawyers who might dare to represent Trump in 2020 on his cases against the laws changed to help the Democrats win. Now, they’re doing the same thing, with the 65 Project charging Alan Dershowitz to block him from helping to advise any of the accused in the four indictments against Trump.
The Democrats hate the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. They’ve now abused their power in several states by citing the 14th Amendment to have Trump removed from the ballot because, to them, he committed an act of insurrection against the government. That’s yet more proof that due process no longer matters to them, but we knew that already.
I hate it to break to the Democrats, but protesting their abuse of power in 2020 to fundamentally alter our elections, along with the gathering in DC, and even the violent riot were not attacks against the United States of America. They were protests against the alignment of power that has now overtaken the United States of America and threatened our Democracy.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was the most revolutionary act in the history of the internet. Musk’s rebrand of Twitter to X shows us the alternative to the totalitarian state when he decided to fight for free speech and allow the previously banned dissidents to return. The horror, the evil!
Musk became a target and a threat. But guess what? Twitter/X survived just fine. The pearl-clutchers learned how to tolerate sharing space with people who disagree with them. And so it must go with America.
And wouldn’t you know, Musk himself has now become a target of the government and its puppet press? This is our new normal if we don’t vote them out of power and deliver the kind of shock and awe at the polls they so badly have coming.”
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“I hate it to break to the Democrats, but protesting their abuse of power in 2020 to fundamentally alter our elections, along with the gathering in DC, and even the violent riot were not attacks against the United States of America. They were protests against the alignment of power that has now overtaken the United States of America and threatened our Democracy.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was the most revolutionary act in the history of the internet. Musk’s rebrand of Twitter to X shows us the alternative to the totalitarian state when he decided to fight for free speech and allow the previously banned dissidents to return. The horror, the evil!
Musk became a target and a threat. But guess what? Twitter/X survived just fine. The pearl-clutchers learned how to tolerate sharing space with people who disagree with them. And so it must go with America.
And wouldn’t you know, Musk himself has now become a target of the government and its puppet press? This is our new normal if we don’t vote them out of power and deliver the kind of shock and awe at the polls they so badly have coming.”
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“Most importantly, Trump offers so many people in this country who have been abandoned, ignored, and exiled from the Habitus in the New America online the one thing Biden can’t: hope.
Hope for a free America. Hope for a prosperous America. Hope for an escape from the madness of the Left.
The MAGA energy is unstoppable, especially if they’re mobilizing to clear their names, which is what they should be doing, and all of us who still believe in the presumption of innocence and who reject convicting people on “spectral evidence,” what we believe exists in their minds and hearts instead of the reality of who they are.
Here is the reality of the MAGA I know. They aren’t violent. January 6th was the only time, conveniently, they were ever seen throwing the kinds of violent riots the Left routinely does. They are patriots. They love this country more than anything. They believe in its founding principles. They seek to protect all of us in this country. And trust me, if there is ever a hot war with Russia, they are going to be the first sent to die for this country.
That their patriotism has been distorted, that they’ve been discarded as terrorists and extremists by the most corrupt administration in my lifetime, is unacceptable.
But none of this can win the election for Trump. There is only one thing that can. It’s the economy, stupid. I told you so, 2024.”
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Told you so….
“As Trump predicted, Washington and Jefferson are next”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/20/as-trump-predicted-washington-and-jefferson-are-next-n579151
“Remember all those fights about removing historical statues?
Of course you do, since the battles continue to this day. The issue flares up every once in a while, particularly when Democrats want to get their voters fired up against the evil American system of government, which is almost always.
One big battle took place during the Trump administration, and Trump dismissed the (largely successful) movement to remove statues and building names that glorified members of the Confederacy.
Trump had a simple argument: wiping away these statues and references to the Confederacy had nothing to do with confronting America’s racist past, and everything to do with wiping away American history as a whole. Trump predicted that Washington and Jefferson were next on the chopping block because they, too, were slaveholders.
Liberals screamed bloody murder, denying that they were engaged in such a nefarious plot. Washington and Jefferson weren’t comparable to Confederates (they aren’t, either), so no worries.
As is so often the case, Trump lost the battle but proved to be right.”
“Yeah, well, we all knew that the real target was undermining American history. WTF did you think they meant when they kept on babbling about “systemic racism?” That the Constitution is A-OK, and we just need a few tweaks in society?
As New York City cripples under monumental budget cuts due to a migrant crisis straining public resources, the city council is planning to consider a series of measures that would, among other things, remove statues of major historical figures like George Washington and create a reparations task force.
The items are included in New York City’s council agenda for Tuesday, September 19, 2023. The council’s Cultural Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on a measure to remove works of art on city property that “depict a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity.”
Nobody believed that all of America’s heroes weren’t on the chopping block, and it wasn’t the activists who claimed they weren’t coming after all of American history–it was their so-called “moderate” supporters who cleared the political path. The communists leading the pack on rewriting American history are pretty clear about their goals; it is the politicians and MSM figures who lie to the American people who do their dirty work.
America’s history is filled with injustice, and American history courses should unflinchingly explore the who, what, when, where, and how of both the good and the bad in our history. It is also the case that no country has done more to spread the gospel of democracy and liberty than the US and that there is a reason that the majority of the world’s population when asked, would love to live here. Have you noticed what is happening at our borders?
The flow of humanity is toward the US, not outward. And they aren’t coming here to be enslaved.
The fatal flaw in the “critical theory” school of interpreting history is its blindness to human nature and genuine history; it tells a political/ideological story instead of exploring the complexity of historical realities.”
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What a joke.
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Nailed it.
https://twitter.com/GAG_Arizona/status/1704172311556018665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1704172311556018665%7Ctwgr%5E9b228aa868107c4718a1442b21347e4dcdf1a8a3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fchad-felix-greene%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Fit-is-a-religion-without-a-god-watch-scarlett-johnson-rip-apart-the-insanity-of-the-gender-cult-n2387475
“Transgender Ideology is by design intended to be nihilistic, and to devolve society into chaos and savagery. I have been doing the research, and Transgender Ideology is based on Queer Theory, which is based on Post-Modernism. The Post-Modernist concepts are preserved throughout the evolution of this Ideology.
Post-Modernists see every human association, every organization, every tradition, and every norm as being about power – political in nature. The Post-Modernist calls societal structures, traditions, and norms “social constructs” (sound familiar?).
From Stanford University’s website on Post-Modernism:
“That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning.”
This means Post-Modernism’s intent is to destroy (they call it “deconstruct”) every connection to nation, ethnicity, culture, profession, vocation, and so on. This ideology seeks to destroy the significance of history, the shared meaning of words, and cause you to be uncertain of any thought you might have.
Post-Modernism is entirely destructive with no intention of building or rebuilding anything to replace what it desconstrcts. This is logical, as much of the thinking of early queer theorist has to do with removing all social and legal consequences for pedophilia, rape, and incest (including with minors).”
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He’s not wrong either.
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Like the Jan6 Farce, it’s all made for TV fiction.
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He says it like it’s a bad thing.
But it’s not, and let’s hope so, because it needs to be done.
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There are wolves among the sheep here.
Just gross.
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@7:38 – the obvious ones are easy to spot.
But it is the sly wolves among more faithful churches who can convincingly twist and turn or even discount some scriptures (because of the times we’re in, they will sometimes say — “Did God really say?”), leading people astray in much less obvious ways.
Those are much more likely to make us stumble and they are a clear and present danger we need to look for in all circumstances.
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They “creep in unnoticed”
~ … False teachers abound on many of the so-called Christian television networks, and books by false teachers fill the shelves of many so-called Christian bookstores. And while many Christians are rightly concerned about the growth of religions such as Islam, the greatest threat to orthodox Christianity is not other religions but false teachers who creep into the church unnoticed. … ~ – Burk Parsons, Ligonier Ministries
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R’s will do nothing but posture.
#USELESSGOP
https://twitter.com/MillennialOther/status/1704525313080762638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1704525313080762638%7Ctwgr%5Eccd0159f2e13f7d707b1cc12846ee885256f7c79%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp%2F2023%2F09%2F20%2Fag-garland-cant-explain-ray-epps-j6-misdemeanor-vs-sending-grandmas-to-prison-n2387499
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Yep.
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He will continue to lie under oath until the #USELESSGOP actually holds him accountable.
And they refuse to.
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The House can stop this latest idiocy, after all, they control the purse.
But once again…. #USELESSGOP
This is how Biden pays them back for their loyalty and lies on his behalf.
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WSJ editorial:
~ Hakeem Jeffries probably can’t believe his luck. As House minority leader for less than a year, he gets to watch the Republican majority implode without having to do a thing.
That’s the story in Congress as House Republicans form a circular firing squad over the most basic of duties—passing an annual budget. As Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, a former Navy Seal, put it in a visit to our offices on Monday: It’s hard to govern “when you have snipers inside the perimeter.” He means fellow Republicans.
The details of the internecine feuding are too boring to relate to busy readers. But the essence of the problem is that too many Republicans have forgotten the reality of the current Beltway balance of power. Their only hold on power is a four-vote majority in the House, one of the narrowest in history. They don’t hold the Senate or the White House.
This means that the only way House Republicans can accomplish anything is by sticking together. If they can rally 218 votes to pass something, they have a chance to win policy victories. If they can’t, they give the advantage to Democrats. It really is that simple.
… But House Republicans have so far managed to pass only one of the 12 appropriations bills to fund the government, the one on veterans and military construction. Thus Congress is careening toward a possible government shutdown at the end of this month when the current fiscal year ends.
House Republicans can’t even pass the defense or homeland security spending bills, which should be the easiest and contain many GOP priorities on military spending and border security. Recalcitrant Members—“snipers inside the perimeter”—are demanding that somehow the House cut even more spending than the debt-ceiling bill stipulated.
They’re willing to shut down the government to make their point, which is the equivalent of holding your breath until you pass out. Conservative and moderate factions worked out a spending stop-gap bill that cuts overall non-defense spending by 1% from 2023 levels to keep the government running through Oct. 31, but even that seems to lack the votes.
We’d be happy to support spending brinkmanship if it served some achievable goal. But taking responsibility for shutting down the government is a sure political loser. The party that seeks a shutdown is always blamed. The result in this case would likely be even more spending as Republicans need Democratic votes to reopen the government—and Democrats will demand something for it. The GOP will get few if any policy victories.
This is all so obvious—so Civics 101—that it’s amazing to watch men and women who ran for Congress refuse to get it. Too many Republicans apparently come to Washington these days mainly to blow things up and count their TikTok followers. …
… Republicans narrowly won the House in 2022 promising to rein in Democratic spending excesses, and they have. But they lack the votes to significantly change the direction of policy. To do that they need bigger majorities and control of the Senate.
On their current path, however, and if they shut down the government in a stupid, futile gesture, all they’ll do is make it easier to turn the gavel over to Speaker Jeffries. ~
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What DJ and Parsons said.
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Let the government shut down. The US national debt is over $33,045, 430,000,000!!! More money that we don’t have (borrowed from China) for the Ukraine? Where is the accountability for the over $113, 000, 000, 000 already sent? Ridiculous!
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Sen. Rand Paul:
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