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your support. All righty, so, I'm not sure how Donald
Trump is able to do it except simply benefiting from
the TDS, the Trump derangement syndrome that has afflicted so
many people in the Democrat Party in the media. But
I repeat myself now, for some reason, they are defending crime.
I'm as shocked as you. I did not see this
one coming. Yeah, apparently now they are coming out as
pro crime and thanks to the placing of federal authorities
troops if you will, from the National Guard in Washington,
d C. Yesterday we talked about the sub attack. It's
a sandwich. It was a sandwich that was thrown at
a federal agent and the guy who did the sub
chucking was quickly apprehended. And slapped with a felony charge.
A judge let him go on personal recognizance and suggested
that the felony may be too high of a charge.
But we'll see how that one turns out. But what's
interesting is the political dynamics going on now around this issue,
right and at the beginning of it, I was watching
Mark Halpern and he does a podcast now called Next Up,
and he was talking about this, and I think he's
correct in that the Oh, hang on a second, No,
it might have actually been Rich Lowry from National Review
appearing on Megan Kelly's podcast. Anyway, it doesn't matter either
Rich Lowry or Mark Alburn. Now I'm thinking this actually
was Rich that the original approach by the mayor of Washington,
d C. Seemed to be sort of a more politically
savvy approach, which was initially it was, hey, you know what,
you know, we are still trying to fight crime. The
numbers have come down, you know, citing these stats. I'm
going to get into that a little bit more today.
But the the stats, you know, the crime numbers have
come down, and but you know, look there's still work
to be done, and so we welcome any support, any help,
that we can get and so that's fine. And so
that was a more sort of politically savvy, but more
moderate approach rather than the god, get out of here
fascist you know. So the National Guard started actually ramping
up its presence yesterday. Okay, so the troops have been
deployed now to the National Mall and to metro stations
as President Trump's takeover of city crime fighting begins to
take shape. This is according to a piece at The
Hill dot com. I saw somebody posting onto the Twitter
machine you can follow me there at Pete Callaner, and
they have a picture of these two young women standing
outside of Union station. They've got some luggage that they
were obviously traveling, and they got off of the train
and they're outside, I guess, you know, on their phones
and they're i'll be charitable say they're not just checking
TikTok and messages, but probably you know, maybe getting an uber,
waiting for an uber or something. And as they're standing there,
you see behind them rolling past in the video are
a bunch of these, you know, large National Guard armored
vehicles rolling past. And they're like, oh my gosh, I
can't believe this scene. I'm like well, would you prefer
like video of them, you know, being physically attacked or
their phones swiped from their hands or something, because that's
that's the point, is you got to make you got
you show the strength and force, and that then leads
to the criminals not going into those areas because they
don't want to be confronted with that level of force, Right,
that's the point. Overnight, the first signs of on the
ground resistance to federal forces popped up in response to
a checkpoint that halted traffic on one of the city's
main streets. There was also a video, by the way
I saw of a woman. She posted it onto the TikTok,
the Chikom's agit prop platform that is infecting the minds
of way too many Americans. But anyway, this is not
about TikTok. But she posted a video talking about how
it's her inner car driving through DC and she's celebrating.
She's so happy. She's like, I'm able to drive through
with my windows down. Think about that. She could not
drive through Washington, d C. With her windows down before
last night because she didn't want to get robbed or carjacked.
The White House said more than sixteen hundred personnel were
involved in operations across the city yesterday or sorry Wednesday,
making forty five arrests, mostly of immigrants who lacked permanent
legal status. While the Guard had a relatively small footprint
earlier this week, by yesterday all of the roughly eight
hundred Army and Air National Guard troops that Trump ordered
to the streets had now mobilized for duty. That's according
to the Pentagon. The Defense Department of Defense Press Secretary
Kingsley Wilson said that the Guard members will assist the
DC Metro Police Department and federal law enforcement officers with
quote community safety patrols, protecting monuments, federal facilities, and traffic
control posts, as well as area beautification. Not really sure
what that means, but National Guard Bureau spokesperson Major Micah
Maxwell said the Guard members were part of two teams
sent to the National Mall and nearby Metro stations for
a continuous presence of twenty four hours, with plans to
increase locations in the days ahead. So this is important
to keep in mind. These people are on these guards,
the guardsmen and the troops, and what they are on
usually like a twelve hour rotation or something like that,
And so just a heads up. If you're a lefty
and you're in like a local market and somebody in
camouflage walks in, you know, first off, you probably can't
see them because they're camo. But if you do see them,
probably not a great idea to try to publicly shame
them with a TikTok video as they buy their twelve
pack of you know, white claws, saying why are they
buying alcohol at ten am? What's up with that? Like, yeah,
they probably just got done with a twelve hour shift.
You know, that's not the own that you think it is,
Lefty Anyway, back to the Hill. Part of the National
Guard's mission is to support law enforcement, which has also
been expanding its presence across the district. Though they will
not be armed and cannot make arrests, the troops are
allowed to detain people temporarily in certain circumstances until federal
agents arrive, much like the Guard members who were deployed
to Los Angeles in June to help quell the protests
over the immigration rates. Right, so similar mission. Now about
that protest, A mix of federal officers set up a
vehicle checkpoint on fourteenth Street Northwest Corridor in downtown DC
Wednesday night, drawing some of the first public protests since
the announcement from Trump on Monday. A group of protesters
shout it out or held up signs with phrases such
as go home, fascists, and get off our streets. Okay,
so first off, they are home. The District of Columbia
is all of our homes. That's our property, right, That's
a district of the federal government. It is under federal control.
So that is all Americans property. Number one. Number two
when you say get off our streets again, not just
your streets. You do not own that street alone. It's
communal property, which is odd because I thought leftists were
all about communal property. See. And the thing about communal
property or public property is that whoever is in charge
of that property, do you know, through elections and such,
they get to make those types of decisions under the law.
That's how that works. So if you don't like political
decisions being made, then reduce the size of the government
and then politics doesn't really factor so much into it.
Right if this, because one thing we could do is
just get rid of the District of Columbia altogether. And
just recede instead of sised, but recede it back to Maryland, Virginia,
give them you carve it up, give it back to
those states and let them deal with it. That I mean,
we could do that. The group also encouraged drivers to
take other routes to avoid the officers. But the National
Guard actually was not involved in that checkpoint at all,
So your protest was wrong. Guys, Yeah, you're targeting the
wrong people, but really, when as that ever stopped the left?
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by saying Donald Trump has managed to turn the Democrats
into a pro crime. They've taken the pro crime position
here because of him putting the troops into DC to
combat crime. And so now Democrats are like, crime's not
a problem. You're talking about Crime's not a problem. Meanwhile, like,
I've got a list of like simply government workers who
have been attacked and or killed just in the last
few months. So yeah, it's a problem. And when when
someone says, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna surge some personnel
to the area in order to tamp down on the crime,
and you say, no, we don't want your troops here
to help us tamp down the crime, then yes, you
are positioning yourself as the this is all fine position
pro crime. Look, I don't make these rules. This is
your This is your standard, lefties, your standard. I'm sorry
if you don't like it being applied to you. But
you know, when all these years people say, hey, you
know what, maybe we need to reform social security, and
your response is you want to kill old people? Or hey,
you know we need to reform these entitlements like medicare,
then you want to kill grandma Like okay, So if
you're going to ascribe me motives for a different policy approach,
then I too shall ascribe your motives. Again, I don't
make the rules, but I do play by them. The
text goes on to say, remember, if it weren't for disingenuousness,
Republicans wouldn't have a leg to stand on in an argument.
Thanks for confirming this. Dude, You are free, or lady,
you are free to call in, and I'm happy to
have the discussion with you. We can talk policy positions,
we can talk about that kind of topic, or if
you would prefer to just do the name calling, I'm
perfectly willing and able to get down to that level
with you as well. So you can call in. You
know the number because you texted it, so you can
call that number and I can have this debate with you.
Happy to. In fact, I prefer taking those phone calls
as yesterday's hour two and hour three should should be indicative, right,
like you should understand like I actually enjoy those conversations
more so, again, your choice if you would like to
have the argument and find out whether or not this
actually unaffiliated voter has a leg to stand on in this,
I'm happy to have it out with you, or you
can just text and you know, scream into the void.
Todd says, Oh, hang on a second, No, let me
go to Danny because this is related. Trump's non traditional
approach has so many positive ripple effects TDS. Trump derangement
syndrome has resulted in the left's insistence on an either
or position on everything. You're either against Trump no matter
what the issue, or you're for him in total. Case
in point is the Washington crime issue. Most normal Americans,
regardless of party, recognize this as insane and well will
help greatly with their undoing Thank you, TDS. That's from
Danny and Waxhaw. Yes, and that's exactly right. When you
view everything through the prism of Donald Trump, you are
going to see things in a warped way. And by
the way, that's not just for people who are on
the left and hate Trump. It's also people who are
so far in Trump's camp that anything he does or
says warps their vision. Right, if you're viewing everything through
him as a person, right, then you're going to see
things in a warped way. And I've been advising people
on this for the last decade. Right, just look at
the issue itself, right, what is the issue itself? And
the the issue itself is crime has gotten out of control,
and Donald Trump is sick of it. And this is
one area where he has the power to actually try
to make a difference. And who he's making a difference
for predominantly working in, middle class people, because those are
the people that are usually the most affected by crime.
I've been talking about this since Trump made the announcement.
We've been talking about it for years at the local
level here in Charlotte, right, national examples as well. I've
talked about the high trust society that we all enjoy,
but like fish, we don't know, we're wet. And so
when people think like, oh, we should just you know,
have a more coddling approach to criminals and such. You
fray that trust. And when a society loses that high trust,
now it can no longer engage in the very commerce
that is used to lift all the boats in a
free market. Right. That's why you don't get business investment
into areas with high crime. Business is flee. Residents flee
no economic activity except for drug dealing and prostitution. Like
that's not where people want to live. And when you,
as a local government, when you sentence a population to
live like that, I don't find that to be a
morally superior position for you to take. And so Trump
is going to give us an example now of whether
his approach works, which I kind of think, by the way,
just judging by history and the Rudy Giuliani, the New
York miracle turning around that city, I think the broken
windows theory has been proven. I think it does work
to a large extent. Just think of it as community policing,
just with different uniforms. If that makes you feel better.
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Let's head over to the phone lines and chat with James.
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: James, Hey, good morning, Thanks for taking my call. Sure,
I really, I really like what I'm really with you
with what you're saying today. And I think this is
bigger than DC because if Trump is able to think
about it and in a short order, if he improves
things in DC and turns things around and has a
sustainable plan to keep it going, look at the pressure
it puts on all these other cities with high crime rates.
And if Trump offers the same National Guard and federal
agents to come in and clean up, you know.
Speaker 3: Pick a city. There's plenty to choose from. You know,
the leaders in those cities are gonna look really stupid
if they don't say yes, and maybe they'll set themselves
up to get voted out. I really think Trump is
thinking about beyond DC on this because it's really gonna
put the spot on city leaders and other cities to
do the same thing, or to at least accept the
government help in turning their own cities around. And if
they don't do it, they're really going to look bad.
Speaker 1: So, and part of this is that, like I don't
know how much of the political calculation he is making
on any given topic, he just I think has a
has a sense, a very good sense of where people
are on things. Remember Donald Trump is a lifelong Democrat,
and these are issues that Democrats used to agree with
Republicans on until about, I don't know, ten years ago, right,
And so the crime problem most effects people in the
lower income brackets and then the middle income brackets because
they can't afford to have the private security and the
gates around their compounds and stuff. And so I think
he talks to people all the time, regular people all
the time, and he listens to them as they talk
to him, and I think he gets a sense of
these issues that are affecting them. And I think this
is why he says, like this is crazy, this is
out of control crime. And being from New York from
the time period he was in New York and working
in New York, he saw how bad it can get
and he saw what work to fix it and to
clean it up. And it's just a common sense approach,
which is you put more law enforcement on the ground
and you prevent these people from feeling like they have
the run of the roost and like this is again
like community policing is based on this same idea that
you show people that the cops are out on the
beat and they are walking around, and it then creates
this sense of security and criminals are less likely to
be active in an area where there's law enforcement. And
Yet to your point, if you hate Trump so much
that you're like, no, we don't want any help, well
then you're saying that you're satisfied with this status quo
and just give us more time and somehow or another
will you know, will drive down the crime in some
other way. Now, there's another component here, which is the
judicial aspect, which is are these judges letting the criminals go?
Like that's the other component here.
Speaker 3: That's a big one. And I think liberals have got
to stop feeling guilty about locking up bad guys. They
got to get over that because it just it has
such horrible consequences for everyone else. Yeah, and no, no
one wants to see an the human being locked up.
But I mean, given the choice of living with them
or locking them up, I'm taking the letter.
Speaker 1: Right and right. If they are destroying a high trust society,
and not allowing the free movement of people and commerce.
Then you are destroying your society by allowing them to
victimize the law abiding population. Yeah, this is civilization one
oh one type stuff.
Speaker 3: Yep, you're spot on.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, James, I appreciate the call, Buddy, good
hear from you. I did get a text, did you
from this? I almost started to read it before, but
I'll read it now. Todd says, did you know that
demand for paid crowds has gone up four hundred percent
in the DC area since the since the FED control happened.
It's not a grassroots protest. A company called Crowds on
Demand was talking about it. I saw it on Fox News. Indeed,
I have that story. It's in the stack of stuff
right here, so I will do it right now. A
crowd rental company has seen a massive uptick in inquiries
regarding its services in DC. This is after Trump's move
to federalize the police force. Quote right now, DC inquiries
are up roughly four hundred percent compared to the same
period in twenty twenty four. According to Crowds on Demand
CEO Adam Swart, the company always sees a spike in
requests during what he calls high stakes political moments. He says,
quote A large share are focused on opposing Trump's policies
in Washington and raising alarms about government overreach. We are
weighing those offers carefully because while there's truth in saying
DC's local government has been an abject failure in keeping
citizens safe, there's also a real danger in putting too
much power in federal hands. That balance of power matters,
he said. The vast majority of people at political or
advocacy events in Washington are paid. The vast majority are paid,
he said, quote most people don't know this, but many
protesters are literally on the payroll. And he goes on
to note Capitol Hill staffers from both parties are often
expected to show up at rallies and protests on their
own time. So yes, most attendees are being paid or
are there because it's part of their job. That doesn't
mean they don't support the cause, but it does mean
these crowds are not as organic as they may appear
on TV. No, something I saw on television isn't correct,
My goodness, what's next? Is the internet lying to me
as well? So Trump has already said that he intends
to extend the federal takeover of DC police, setting up
a fight in Congress, which has to authorize any extension
beyond thirty days. So in so, what like in another
three and a half weeks or so, Congress is going
to have to authorize this if it's going to continue.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schuma on Wednesday declared Democrats will
not go along with that request, no bleeping way. Schumer said,
we'll fight him tooth and nail. So good to hear
Schumer dropping the F bomb in there, because that's how
you prove to your base that you're you're down to fight.
You know that you're that you're not going to just
cave in. Look at me, I'm cussing, you know. Still,
according to the Hill dot com, the vote could put
vulnerable Democrats in an awkward spot on the cry issue,
which has this is what they say has long been
a bugaboo for the party, which is definitely one way
to characterize that it's a bugaboo. Crime is a bugaboo
for the party. Yeah, because they suck at it. They do.
They're terrible on crime. Trump has also teased an expansion
of his federal interventions into major US cities, and, as
the Hill notes, particularly those governed by black Democrats, including Chicago, Oakland,
New York City, and Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: Yes, the proverbial race card now being played. All right,
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message from Russ. It's a Pete tweet. Russ says, Pete,
my DC resident sister in law will tell me that
this takeover of her town is unnecessary and fascist. But
she also carries a mini bat in her car when driving,
and she carries knitting needles when she bikes, walks, or
takes public transit, which is the perfect illustration another Pete tweet.
Your analysis is right on point, and that is why
Chuck Schumer ranting and gaslighting of the public that he
feels safe as he walks around DC is way beyond
the pail as he walks with his four armed guards.
Give everybody armed guards and let him walk alone. And
let's see, that's a tweet from dead Hey Dad. The
Hill has this story that I've been reading from and
now it goes to the race card, because of course
there's going to be a racial component wherever the left
or the media can find one or make one up.
And that's what they're now doing is quoting the Baltimore
mayor Brandon Scott telling CNN quote, I think it's very
notable that each and every one of the cities called
out by the President has a black mayor, and most
of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime.
The President could learn from us instead of throwing things
at us like sandwiches. Okay, the black leadership in cities
is a result of Democrat Party demographics. Okay, that's not
racial targeting. Virtually all of the major American cities with
crime problems are I mean, all of the major cities
are run and controlled by Democrats and have been for decades,
and because of the Democrat Party demographics and because of
their politics, right, you have a lot of black representatives
in those offices. The only one that is somehow suggesting
that black leadership is responsible for high crime are people
on the left. Okay, I don't care who's in charge.
If you're a Democrat and Democrat controlled city, chances are
you've got high crime. You drive up the crime rates
and the numbers for all the rest of the state
that is by and large rural, suburban, and Republican like.
Those are facts, that's the data. So yeah, the problem
is in the urban areas. It doesn't matter to me
what the racial demographic makeup of the representation is. It
doesn't matter. What matters is the crime. That's all. Do
what you need to do to get the crime down
and this goes away. This issue goes away for you,
but it's not going away in DC I mentioned earlier.
This is from John Hassen at National Review. He says
the fears of crime are hardly unfounded in Washington, and
then he gives the following list. March twenty twenty three,
Philip Todd, a staffer for Senator Ran Paul, stabbed in
broad daylight by Glenn Neil, a repeat offender who was
hearing voices in his head. Neil was released from prison
one day before he attacked Todd, who suffered a punctured
lung and suspected brain bleed. A couple months later, June
twenty twenty three, a staffer for Congressman Brad Finstead from Minnesota,
Republican is attacked at gunpoint by two hooded suspects after
the annual Congressional charity baseball game. October twenty twenty three,
Representative Henry Quaar, Democrat from Texas, is carjacked at gunpoint
outside his Navy Yard home. November twenty three, Naomi Biden's
Secret Service detail opens fire at three people trying to
break into a secret Service suv parked in front of
her home in Georgetown. January twenty four, Congressman Eric Swalwell, Democrat,
representative of Fangfeng tweets that he and his wife rehearse
carjacking scenarios with their young kids to ensure that his
kids are not abducted. February twenty four, carjacker shoots and
kills Mike Gill, a former Trump official, killed him in
broad daylight on K Street. September twenty four. A homeless
man armed with a razor lunges at three female congressional
staffers at midday on Capitol Hill. June twenty four. A
staffer for Representative Mike Collins, Republican from Georgia, as well
as an intern or sorry, she's also an intern. She's
a staffer and an intern. Robbed at gunpoint in Navy
Yard December twenty twenty four. Secret Service agents shoot at
several carjackers outside the home of Biden. Energy Secretary Janet
Yellen April twenty twenty five to illegal immigrants Steel Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes purse while she dines
at the Capitol Burger in downtown DC. This past May,
a gunman murdered to Israeli embassy staffers. This past June,
Eric Tarpinian Jachim, a college student and congressional intern, is
gunned down at the Mount Vernon Square metro stop. And
then just this month, a group of teenagers attacks Edward Korstein,
a former DOGE staffer, in an attempted carjacking. That's just
over the course of what two years. This is why
people in the government at the federal level believe there
is a crime problem. It's because they are being targeted too. See,
crime does not really care. Criminals do not care. If
you're going to allow criminals to run the streets with impunity,
mugging people, carjacking people, murdering people, if you are going
to incentivize that kind of behavior with little punishment and
little investigation, then you're going to get more of it,
and it's going to spread beyond the lower income neighborhoods
where it's much easier for you to ignore this stuff
because you're over here in the high class Navy yard
part of town. You're in Georgetown. I have no crime
in Georgetown. I don't know where they're talking about this
crime problem. The lesson here, according to Hassen, is not
that government workers' lives are more valuable than others, but
he points out a lot of government work is critical
and DC's crime rate threatens that work. In the example
of Henry Quaar, he was serving on subcommittees for Defense
and Homeland Security when carjackers stole his iPhone and iPad
and like that has a lot of important information on it,
so probably not a great idea to have a lot
of rampant All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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