Trump takes control of DC police; Gerrymandering is (D)ifferent when we do it! (08-11-2025--Hour1)

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Local voters by installing those government officials make those choices. This will continue until people decide they have had enough. Donald Trump has decided he has had enough and he is going to show We'll see if it turns out this way, right, Because like everything else with Donald Trump, I always advise, I caution you to give it a minute. Let's see what happens. Right by the way, you've got Democrats out in the streets of DC protesting this, protesting for crime. I guess that the Yeah, apparently, So that's what I mean. It's a choice, like you don't want to enforce law, you don't want to move homeless encampments, you don't want to do any of these things to create an ordered society. You want the chaos because you think it means you are more virtuous than your political opponents who are saying, hey, I think it might be okay to be able to walk down the street, you know, and not get mugged, not get beaten up, not get robbed. There was a saw over the weekend. There's a sub reddit the website reddit dot com, and it's you know, like message boards and stuff. It's been around for a while and over the years, much like a lot of these types of platforms, they've been taken over by the left, and the left is a censorious bunch, and so they remove posts that they don't agree with, and they become more and more hostile as they take more and more control over these platforms. I've given examples of this over the years. I mean Twitter, before Elon bought it was a good example. Blue Sky is a current example. Wikipedia is another. Reddit is obviously the one I was talking about here, which is that somebody posted on the Washington d C. Subreddit message board. So Reddit is the mothership basically, And then they have all these sub reddits. There's one for Charlotte, there's one for you know, every city and whatever. And so somebody posted that it's okay to not want to be the victim of violence in your city, Like you don't need to feel guilty about that, It's okay. That post lasted eleven minutes before it got deleted by the moderators. So I mean, see, this is this is what Trump represents. As much as the left fails to understand this, the media fails to understand this. When Trump says make America great again, he's talking about restoring order, law and order, restoring things to sort of quote normal, which was not theens of this kind of dumb assery like oh, we have to turn loose all of these violent defenders because historic racism or something. No, they are a threat to the society. They are a threat to law abiding citizens. And when the law abiding citizens cannot move about freely, they will cease moving about in your city. They will leave, They will go someplace where they do feel safe. We talked about this last week at length. So Trump announced, quote, our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to let it happen anymore. We're not going to take it right. This is the revenge of the normies. The normies have finally said, no, We've had enough. We're done ignoring your your silliness, your leniency, We're done ignoring this craw And here's the thing. People I think will outwardly project outrage, and you know they will larp as you know, anti Trump, but still law and order Democrat types. But deep down, I suspect many of them are pretty happy about this. I do. I suspect there are going to be quite a few people that hate Donald Trump and will never admit it, maybe not even to themselves, but will enjoy the fruits of this labor. They will enjoy the fact that they are able to walk around their city and not feel like they're going to be attacked when they turn the corner. Lest do you think that this is Donald Trump acting like a dictator tyrant orange hitler as it were. Under the Home Rule Act, Trump can temporarily take control of the district's police department if he determines quote special conditions of an emergency nature exist. So if you don't like what he's doing, it's not that he's a dictator. It's that he's following the law. See, he's following the law. The law allows him to do this, and so he's following it. He's using the law. And that's really what's got Democrats upset. I suspect the President announced this after declaring a public safety emergency in DC. He has the authority to activate the DC National Guard without local approval, though he is restricted in certain other actions by this act. The Home Rule Act, which grants various powers to the local government of the district. National Guard troops will not be able to make arrests, but will support local and federal law enforcement. Trump said he was tapping Terry Cole, the administrator of the DEEA, to serve as the federal government's leader of the Metropolitan Police Department. Trump must provide written notification to Congress within forty eight hours outlining his rationale for taking control of the MPD and crime. Then this is from was this from Reuters? No, the Hill dot com. Crime in DC was down thirty five percent last year, marking a thirty year low. Trump, who addressed reporters from the White House Briefing Room, cast doubt on those numbers. White House officials have cited reports of a DC police commander who was placed on leave over allegations he changed crime statistics. That was an NBC local affiliate story. We covered it last week. They were juicing the stats, They are falsifying the stats. That's the charge, that's that's what the commander has said that they've been told to reduce the charges when you're on the scene, reduce the classification of the crime so it doesn't pop up in the violent crime stats. And then they tout those stats as look, we're safer now, our crime rate is lower. Violent crime is down thirty year low. Meanwhile, we see stories of attacks and lootings, carjackings all over the place. It's like, really thirty year low. That's weird because it doesn't seem like a thirty year low, but maybe it's just anecdotal, and then we find out, oh, actually, no, we've been falsifying the data, so we actually don't even know what the crime stats actually are. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Say there, it's different. They literally did the headline. I always say this, it's different when Democrats do it. And if you're writing that out, by the way, for social media purposes, put the D in different When you're writing it's different, you put the D in parentheses. Capital D always capital D in parentheses. It's different because democrat like that's they wrote this headline. Politico did the headline, Democrats try to separate their tactical use of redistricting from that of Republicans. Right see, because the Democrats we're just acting in a tactical way. Republicans are acting in an Orange hitleresque sort of way. Because we're better people than they are. But now we gotta fight fire with fire. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and former US Attorney General Eric the Wingman Holder are pushing back against the notion that democrats jerrymandering efforts bear any resemblance to Republican plans to extract five new seats in Texas ahead of the twenty six midterm elections, and their main rationale here, their main excuse is it's different when we do it. They literally do not have a better argument. They have no argument. This is why I say sometimes that I'm pretty sympathetic to Democrats when they try to when they try to defend their positions on things, because they can't like when you apply logic and economics and such. When you apply these principles to the policy debates and you know, steer clear of ad hominem attacks, you're not personally attacking people, You're just talking about the issue, it becomes very difficult to defend a lot of these positions with Republicans at the direction of President Donald Trump. With Republicans pushing a rare mid decade redraw of the Texas legislative maps, dozens of lone star state House democrats fled the state to stand up they are standing there ground by running away, they fled for Illinois and other blue states in early August, preventing the Texas legislature from reaching a quorum, which that is the minimum number of people that are required in a legislative body in order to vote to be legitimate. Now the FBI is assisting in efforts to find them, though Pritzker said Texas law on quorums has no validity in Illinois. As for their own parties coming redistricting efforts, national Democrats say, the time is now to fight fire with fire. We see you lighting that fire, and we are going to throw more fire on your fire. That will defeat your fire. My fire defeats your fire. It's like it's like the old kid game fire, Fire Fire. Will you do that thing with your hands? Boom boom boom, fire fire fire, and then everybody wins. It's amazing. Republicans say, oh, that's hypocritical, because Governor Abbott out of Texas said they have no capability. They've already jerrymandered their states in ways which they don't have. Hardly any Republican members of Congress left. It's a joke, and he is correct. By the way, he is correct, there are not many seats Democrats confined because they have jerry mandered the ever loving bajeebus out of their states already. They did it through these sham independent redistricting commissions, which is this is the most hilarious part of all of this, which is the hoisting on your own petard right where the Democrats virtue signaled their moral superiority by implementing independent redistricting commissions in their states. And then this would take the politics out of an inherently political process, which is redistricting. And we are better than Republicans. We are going to have people who have no idea about anything to do with po politics. We don't want any experts, no lobbyists, no elected officials, we don't want anybody that knows what the hell they're doing to draw our maps. But they will be guided by public input, yes, public input. And then of course Democrats stage like these faux grassroots organizations and communities of interest quote unquote that got together and like, oh, we are you know, we are the beachfront community that we and we love the seals, and so we are you know, we are a community of similar interest, so we belong in the same district. And then these people who are running the commission that don't really know what they're doing, they're like, oh, okay, and then they gave them what they asked for, and Democrats Pro Publica did a big expos on this thing like ten fifteen years ago when they first did it, and it's been corrupted ever since. In fact, by the way, the guy who drew the redistricting maps behind closed doors for for the state of California is a guy by the name of Paul Mitchell. Fantastic care products as I understand it. But Paul Mitchell, his wife is the head of Planned Parenthood California and he does all the election data for California Democrats, that's who drew the maps for them, but he didn't jerry mander. See it's different when they do it. But now they did these independent commissions. You know, they stuck it to the GOP for the last ten years or so. New York State just rolled out theres a couple of years ago, and then they tried to get out of the They tried to make a more gerrymandered map and the courts shut him down. I got details on that. But point is they made all this big show about how independent we are. We're not going to jerry mander. We have independent commissions which then made maps favorable to Democrats, and now They're like, we're going to make even more favorable maps now. So you're going back on your promise, right you're saying, Okay, fine, we're not going to follow this morality play. But also, because you actually did Jerrymander, you don't have any seats to find. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life. And our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. The trusted, talented and dedicated team at Creative Video will go over all of the details with you to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. Drop them off in person or mail them. They'll be ready in a week or two. 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You have to repeat the great So I've got some audio clips. Here is Eric the Wingman Holder. I call him that because that's what Barack Obama called him. Obama called him his wingman, Eric Holder, or maybe Eric Holder said he was Obama's wingman. I forget who used it, but that's why he has the names. Because he was perceived as the president's wingman. He was the attorney general, right, and when I know Donald Trump took office, everybody was like, the attorney general doesn't work for you. But see, once again, it's different when it's a Democrat. Okay, they're allowed to be a Democrat president's wingman. But if it's a Republican president, then now it's a separate thing altogether. So Eric Holder, who led the Department of Justice under Obama and now runs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and basically he and Mark Elias, the Democrat super lawyer, also the bagman cut out for the Steele dossier and the DNC, and you know Constant thorn in the side of the Republican Legislature in North Carolina constantly suing overall of our redistricting maps, which is why we redraw the things like every other year. It seems like he was on Meet the Press. Eric Holder was, and listen to his explanation of why it's different. Here we go. Let me ask you, how can jerry mandering both be a threat to democracy and also the way to save it. Well, there's no question that jerry mandering is a threat to our democracy. It allows politicians to pick their voters as opposed to citizens choosing their representatives. But we are now in a situation where we find ourselves where authoritarian moves are being made by the White House through various states, Texas most prominent among them, and there has to be a response to that. What I've said is that we have to protect our democracy now if we ultimately want to be able to save it, and so taking the reasonable steps that have been proposed in California, I think it makes a great deal of sense in this moment, a temporary way in which to respond to that which is happening in Texas, with the thought that after this crisis is p as we get back to the fight against jerry mandering by anybody. Right, So, we're gonna we're going to need to burn this village to save it, but just just a little bit, just temporarily. We're only going to burn it temporarily here. Then we're going to build it right back. We're gonna save it. We're going to save the democracy by acting in an undemocratic fashion. You see, we're gonna have to jerry mander more than we've already been jerry mandering. Then there was New York Governor Kathy Huckel, she's been on the warpath on this issue. This was her on Fox News Sunday. And we didn't intend to do this again until the twenty thirty two elections. But because we're in a different situation altogether, that demands that leaders stand up and say, I'm not going to let our democracy be eroded away because there's a blatant power grab to maintain power in our nation's capital. This is what I call a legal insurrection. Legal insurrection, just let the rules stay the way they are. We'll do it the way we always have. But here we have Texas and now going to other states. Jd Vance, why aren't you looking out for how to lower a cost like you promised? Instead he's going like a lapdog around the country in a different state, saying, hope, can we pick up some here? Can we pick up here? Because they know they're going to lose next year, that's the only reason they're engaging this, and also might be a nice distraction from people asking all of a sudden, this happens when when they refuse to release the Epstein files. So I, along with a lot of people in New York are saying, what's that all about. Is this just another red herring? So no one's buying this, just Texas, knock it off. We'll knock it off. Let's get back to governing. We want to play these games. We're not going to sit on the sidelines. We're in New York because we fight back. Do you know who else is in New Yorker? Somebody pretty prominent? You know who else born and raised New York? Donald Trump. Yeah. So I think this is what it looks like when Republicans don't sit back and take it. By the way, this term legal insurrection, this was hilarious. William Jacobson, he is the founder of the website legal Insurrection Okay, And he said, I came up with the name, which is a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as a legal insurrection. If you look on their website, it literally has the Dictionary pronunciation and definition to explain the thing that cannot be because an insurrection is a rising up against established authority or rebellion or revolt. That's what an insurrection is. Legal means in conformity with or as permitted by law, which is a contradiction to the term insurrection. The name has confounded people ever since he named his blog this. They ask him what does it mean? What does he mean by that? Is it an uprising using the legal system or a non legal uprising that is not criminal? He says, it's not only self contradictory, it's ambiguous. He said, like we shall keep being the thing that doesn't and can't exist legal insurrection. That's why he chose that name, just like Kathy Hockel's legal insurrection boogeyman, which is a person or thing that is widely regarded as an object of fear. 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Indeed, mid decade redistricting was said to have saved the Democratic House majority for the first half of Joe Biden's term in office. Beginning of twenty sixteen, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and North Carolina discarded maps that were favorable to Republicans and replace them with plans that were more generous to Democrats. That's according to the Center for Politics analyst J. Miles Coleman. If no maps changed throughout the decade, Republican would likely now hold a narrow majority. Some of those GOP favoring maps were the result of Republican overreach, and they were not thrown out by Democrats, but the courts. Still, if the old maps had prevailed, there would have been no American Rescue Plan, no Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act, no Inflation Production Act, and probably a lot less inflationary pressure to which all of these big spending bills contributed. History hinges on those maps. Kathy Hackle was on. She's the governor of New York She was on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Breem and Shannon Breem pushed back on the governor of New York. Here's how National Reviews summarized it. They said, it was only three years ago that New York's Democratic legislature drew up a map so brazenly contemptuous of basic rules the governor district's contiguousness, that the state's Democrat dominated Court of Appeals through it out. The New York Times at the time called those maps comically contorted. That's their quote. So your state's highest court at the time, all the judges appointed by democratic governors, they threw the maps out. So fair to say democrats have done what they're now accusing Republicans of doing. No, we followed the rules. We do it every ten years. We based on so that you didn't follow the rules. Correct, Well, we did follow the rules. No, the court was wrong. We followed the rules. So the court was wrong. Well, we followed the rules. No, you followed a rule, which was that you did it once in the decade. That was one rule. You followed. All of the other rules you did not. And now she's going to try to go around the rules. Get some exemptions because they implemented an independent redistricting commission in New York State, which is the rule that they ran a foul love which got them smacked down. And so now they're going to try to take it out of that independent redistricting Commission's hands. We're going to take it back so we can get even more remandering. Then at a rally, here is Betdo O'Rourke aka Francis Robert O'Rourke. Well, here, next time we win power, we're gonna drive that car like we stole it. We're gonna legalize every Dreamer, every dreamer's parents, every hard working American doing backbreaking work that makes this country so goddamn great in the first place, even greater as US citizens. More more cursing, battel more cursing. We need to know that you're gonna fight. I need to hear more cursing. We don't await the punch thrown by these would be fascist to land. We punch first, and we punch harder. We want California and New Jersey and Illinois and Maryland and every other state where the Democrats hold the governor's mansion, the Assembly, and the state Senate to redraw their congressional districts now, not wait for Texas to move first to maximize Democratic Party advantage. Listen, you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules. There are no reps in this game. The rules. We are gonna win whatever it takes. There we go. We're gonna take this to them in every way that we can. So we're gonna punch them first because i know they're gonna punch me. I know they're gonna punch me, and so I'm just gonna punch them first. I'm in a bunch of marter. I'm gonna give them the old what four Look at me. I'm fighting. I'm dropping f bombs all over the stage here people, I'm a fighter. Bet do So there you go. Right, we're gonna and this goes in line with what James Carvill said the other day. We get power, we need to pack the Supreme Court. We need to create two new states and pack and so they'll be blue states, so we'll have a lock on the Senate and we'll be in in you know, governing power in perpetuity for democracy, obviously, that's the whole point. It's for the democracy, because otherwise we lose the democracy. We're gonna have to temporarily do away with the democracy just to preserve that democracy. They're totally going to bring it back. Okay, don't worry. In fact, I don't know who this is from, but it's on the text line. Remember, temporary measures was the code for abuse of power during the pandemic. Right, it's just two weeks to flatten the curve here, people, Okay, we need to flatten the authoritarian curve. So we're going to need to suspend the democracy just for a couple of weeks, maybe a few months, maybe a couple of years, however long it takes, whatever it takes, isn't the democracy worth it? All Right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.