Democrats in DC Demonstrate Definite Disconnect

CJ Pearson in today;s HOTAIR:

Look at the crowds in Waashington DC protesting Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime.  Who do you see? Not the mothers from Anacostia who’ve lost their sons to street violence. Not the churchgoers in Southeast who just want to walk home without fear. No—what you see are aging white hippies with protest signs, desperate to relive their glory days of the 1960s.

Oh, this is already good. But he goes on from there:

Black families don’t want lectures. We don’t want platitudes about “equity” from people who retreat to million-dollar condos after the rally ends. We want safety. We want to know that kids can play outside without dodging bullets. We want to know our grandparents can ride the bus without being attacked. Safety is the ultimate form of justice and white liberals pretending otherwise are lying. Not just to themselves, but to us.

I’m going to have to start paying more attention to CJ here.

As Miranda Devine from the NY Post notes, the disconnect mentioned by CJ…

…puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking?
Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is a “major problem,” according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week.

The other 19% must be either criminals or blue-city politicians — or both.

The president’s approval rating has shot up from 40% in July to 45%, likely as a result of his deployment of the National Guard to DC and his promise to replicate the model in crime-ridden cities from Chicago to Baltimore and New York.

In DC, the crime rate has plummeted across the board, with violent crime down 30% since federal troops were deployed on Aug. 7, according to the White House.

Now obviously, just as with such folks and Justice Thomas, Byron Daniels, Thomas Sowell and so many others, the blue hair hippies will disregard these writings as not being “sufficiently black”. (Translation: Sufficiently leftist.)

But in the doing they eliminate the only viable reason for why the Democrat approval ratings are lower than Bud Light or the Cracker Barrel rebrand and only slightly more popular than chlamydia. I must wonder, though once they finally catch on, what form their response will take. And will anyone trust them once they DO catch on.

In a related story this morning, Nicole Silverio has noticed that even Morning Joe has reached the international “enough” line.

Panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday called for Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to work with President Donald Trump to stop crime in his state after more violence occurred in Chicago.

At least 54 people were shot and seven people died in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, according to NBC 5 Chicago. While Trump has floated the idea of sending National Guard troops to Chicago, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough criticized Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Pritzker for doing nothing about the persistent violent crime that has taken place in the city for years.

Now, I’m quite sure the usual suspects will claim that MSNBC even airing this angle is due to their impending ownership change. To these I reply that absent their (until now) blind devotion to the leftist agendae, the sale wouldn’t have been necessary.  There’s an object lesson for the Democrats, I think.  But if the meeting they held in what’s left of Minneapolis this past week is of any indication, they’ll never learn from it.  Andrew Klavan has some fine comments on this, I’ll be posting later.

So much for the Democrat chant on this issue.

https://youtu.be/1HhGzLcns1Y?si=8sYZPxzB2F1_HGwA

Stephen Miller on Ingraham, via RCP:

The single greatest abuse of voting in any democracy in the world today is the Democrat Party’s policy of mass, anonymous, unverified mail in ballots. I mean, just think about this for a second. Any one in California can drop off a ballot where they don’t verify the citizenship of who submits it, the residency, the age, the criminal history, the eligibility or the signature, completely anonymous vote by mail, voting by cellphone would be vastly more secure than a system of tens of millions of unverified, unsolicited, unregistered mail in ballots with no identity verification, including of course, no citizenship verification.

On top of that, Laura, as we know, California has outright stolen House seats just by counting illegal aliens in the census. There are entire members of Congress from California whose districts only exist because their constituents are illegal aliens. There’s — you’ll never find an example of a more direct theft of American franchise and civil rights than creating Democrat House seats comprised of illegal alien constituents.

For all that the left likes to accuse everyone else of being Fascists, are these not Fascist tactics they’re using, here? And let’s recall, please, the way they changed voting rules supposedly to protect us from Covid. The fact is, they’re not protecting democracy (small d) they’re ATTACKING it, in order to save Democrats…(Big D).

In my feed this morning:

WTH are these people smoking?

So, here we have liberals are now complaining that President Trump has made Washington DC *TOO* safe, with one reporting that Lincoln Park was filled with families, kids on scooters, and kids playing on the sidewalk – along with the National Guard, like it’s a bad thing?  Whose interests are they actually fighting for, anyway? Certainly, not yours and mine.

Just in: Jerry Nadler, after 34 years in Congress has decided to waddle off… in my view some 30 years too late.His commentary suggests he’s picking up on the idea. He says Biden’s decline has convinced him that it’s time for a generational change, as he calls it.

Laura Ingraham in noting the story, says:

When even Nadler admits the Democrats are stuck in the past, you know the party is in serious trouble.

Indeed. The rats are deserting the ship.

I’ll have more on this tomorrow, I think.

this:

This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.

Watch for the part of my interview that @CBS tried to… pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 31, 2025

From The Manhattan Contrarian the other day…(Yeah, I’m just getting caught up on my reading):

You have probably seen that last week an appellate court in New York (Appellate Division, First Department) reversed the civil judgment against President Trump where he had been ordered to pay a fine in excess of $450 million to the state of New York. This case originated during Trump’s first term, as part of then newly-elected New York Attorney General Letitia James’s campaign promise to take down the President.
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The Appellate Division’s decision was finally issued last week. It is a highly unusual document, and you can see why it took so long to write. First of all, there is no majority opinion. That is close to unheard of from any court, although there are small numbers of examples. (The most famous case of all time without a majority opinion is the 1977 Bakke decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of affirmative action in university admissions, a case which screwed up the law of university admissions for decades.). I am unaware of any prior decision of the First Department Appellate Division without a majority opinion, although there may be one somewhere. Instead of any majority opinion, the panel of five judges split 2, 2 and 1, with the various opinions dissecting and criticizing each other.

Second, the whole thing aggregates some 323 pages. Afficionados of the First Department will recognize how crazy this is: this court processes a huge volume of business, between 2000 and 3000 cases per year, and the large majority of its decisions are one-paragraph summary affirmances of the court below. Only a small minority of this court’s cases get a decision of as much as ten pages.

While the decision is fractured, all five judges agreed on one thing: the $450+ million fine (now exceeding $500 million with ongoing interest accruals), is vacated in its entirety. The fine is not reduced to some smaller amount, such as $1 million or even $1000, which was an option the judges could have adopted, but rather it is eliminated entirely. And they also unanimously agree on a rationale: the amount constitutes an “excessive fine” under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Because of the unanimity on this issue, and because the rationale is based in the U.S. Constitution rather than New York law, it is highly unlikely for any large fine against Trump to be imposed in subsequent appeals. The case can be appealed to New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. But for that court to reverse and re-instate a large fine, it would need to overrule a unanimous five-judge court below on this point. And then, because this is an issue of U.S. constitutional law, such a decision would be subject to review by the U.S. Supreme Court, which would be highly unlikely to affirm a large civil fine in this absurd and made-up case. The last thing the New York Court of Appeals would want is to get slapped down by the Supremes in this case, particularly trying to impose a large fine on an absurd basis upon the sitting President of the United States. So I see almost no likelihood of any fine against Trump in this case getting re-instated in subsequent appeals.

Without the fine, the case is no longer of any particular significance in the grand scheme of things. Letitia James’s signature effort, the thing on which she based her claim for office, has come to nothing.

But in fact it’s worse than that. Of the five judges, three would reverse not just the fine, but the whole thing. Two of those would reverse various of the decisions of the highly partisan Justice Engoron and then send the case back for a new trial; and the third, Justice David Friedman, argues that the case should be thrown out entirely.

That would have been the proper outcome, here… and frankly, James should be disbarred over the matter. But there’s the rub:

And how about our two big bar associations, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association? I have looked many times, and I can find no statement from either criticizing Ms. James for misusing her office to try to take out a political adversary.

James openly promised in her campaign to misuse the power of the office she was seeking. Her law license should be pulled for that. And more, since this is an issue of public trust, she should be jailed for her actions and were this a fair world, she most certainly would have been.  James in chains, mopping floors at Albion (A state Women’s correctional facility) seems appropriate to me. As things are, we doubtless will see her claim the ruling is biased, (Racist, of course) ) I further point up that it’s only humiliation is SHE and her fellow Democrats believe it to be.

That said, all is not lost, here. That’s because in truth, the larger story here is the damage both short and long term to the Democrat party. As one of the commenters says:

Watching the Democrats pull back the curtain on the NY legal system has been enlightening indeed. I doubt they realize the immeasurable damage they have done to their own institutions. Companies and wealthy institutions continue to flee the state in pursuit of apolitical rule of law elsewhere, and Democrats have no idea why. The entire nation has seen how they were fine with Donald Trump until he put an (R) after his name, at which point they immediately tried to destroy him. In fact, nearly all of his most important allies are former Democrats, an interesting dynamic. But I’m sure that dying party will continue to disintegrate by taking this and other issues up for inevitable losses at the Supreme Court. If that doesn’t put them in a hurt locker for decades to come, electing a socialist Hamas mayor surely will. At this point it’s difficult not to burst into laughter every time the Party of Science claims they’re the smart ones.

And I think it fair to remind my readers of the left spending the last 6 months screaming about Trump supposedly weaponizing government against his political opponents Consider the current fraud cases being mounted against James, Cook and Pencilneck Shiff.  I’ve said it a thousand times…. when Democrats make an accusation against someone, it is invariably what they themselves are doing.

The New York Post yesterday has bad news for Democrats…. he’s not dead.

WASHINGTON — Online rumors of President Trump’s demise were greatly exaggerated — much to the dismay of creepy leftist critics.

The president took a brief hiatus from public appearances this week, sparking morbid theories and social media posts speculating he had died.

But the haters had their hopes dashed Saturday morning when Trump appeared alive and well at the White House.

So, in answer to the question “Are they really that desperate?”
Yes, apparently they are.

Just a few points to ponder:

• As a matter of documented history, the two biggest destroyers of life and of civilization have been Islam and Communism. The Democrats, therefore have embraced the two most deadly and destructive ideologies we’ve ever known.
• The Democrats and their supposed economists said Trump’s tarrifs would put us into a recession, crash the stock market, and cause unbridled inflation.  Of course the opposite is true; we now have all time high tariff revenue which the CBO says is lowering our national debt by four trillion dollars, we have record highs in the stock market, and historical inflationary lows.
• It strikes me as a solid positive that All Green and Jasmine Crockett are both losing their congressional seats. Other states should be using this as a model.
• It pleases me no end that the weaponized justice brought on by the Democrats against the President has mostly blown up in their faces.  The process will be complete when we see Latisha James, for example, disbarred and outfitted in bright ornage and frogmarched off to Albion.
• Minneapolis proves yet again that when you affirm and reinforce mental illnesses like transgenderism instead of treating it as the dangerous problem it is, people get hurt and die.
• Those defending illegals never cease to amuse me. The lawyer for “Maryland Dad” Kilmar Abrego Garcia got up on his hind legs the other day and stated flatly it was “preposterous” to deport Garcia to Uganda, since he doesn’t speak the language there…. ignoring the fact he doesn’t speak english, either.
• Must be a real problem being a Democrat these days…. To be a good Democrat you have to be against good health, support and defend corruption, campaign for endless wars, oppose free speech, promote confiscatory tax rates support gun control and open borders.
• Finally, I observe once again that nothing, and I mean nothing gets a mass shooter off the news channels like everyone finding out they’re a transexual Democrat.

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I’m going to start this out with a rather extensive bit of text. See if you can remember this. Look at the picture below. Do you recognize this animal?

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Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?

Did you know his trial is over?

Did you know he was sentenced?

Did you see/hear any of the judge’s comments on TV or Radio?

Didn’t think so.!!!

Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.

Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his ‘allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,’ defiantly

stating, ‘I think I will not apologize for my actions,’ and told the court ‘I am at war with your country.’

Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:

Judge Young: “Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.

On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That’s 80 years.)

On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years, again to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000, that’s an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government’s recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.

The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you, five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.

This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.

Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.

You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it, or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not—–, you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.

So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You’re no warrior. I’ve known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were, and he said:

‘You’re no big deal. ‘

You are no big deal.

What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have, as honestly as I know how, tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?

I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty, and admit you are guilty, of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.

It seems to me, you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom’s sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.

We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.

Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America , the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice, is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers, will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.

See that flag, Mr. Reid? That’s the flag of the United States of America . That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down.”

So, how much of this Judge’s comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young. Pass this around. Everyone should, and needs to, hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.

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Look, don’t feel bad if you don’t know this situation. A lot of you readiere not even alive when this went down.  But now,with that passed on to you, I’ll put a question to you: What is the difference between this animal and the one in Minneapolis the other day?

Apparently there’s a reason why the usual suspect have not been gloating much about Bolton being under the microscope:

This info comes by way of Glenn Greenwald, of whom I wrote frequently years ago as the least honest blogger in the ‘Sphere. His change in more recent times is nothing short of astonishing… and yet, it makes sense. Here is someone who I now hold his as an example of someone who hit the international “enough” line, and could no longer stomach his now former position on things. Leftists can adjust their beliefs with exposure to real data….

In any event, the Democrats would not gain anything politically from this investigation, and thus they’re keeping all but silent.

I wrote, the other day on Joe Sanberg. Here’s the DOJ case.

As the text of that document indicates, the next step is a plea deal, to be held September 15th, But the more interesting part of this will be the Conferral session, to be held on the 9th, when victim will have their chance to speak.

Well, here’s a good reason… from the always worth a read Twitchy:

Not only does Johnson not want help with his violent city, where roughly 78 people are victims of a violent crime EVERY DAY, but he claims he and his people will RIOT if Trump tries to help his citizens.

Can’t embed the vid, but if you’d like to see for yourself, here’s the link to MSNBC’s coverage of this stupidity. (Of course it’s MSNBC…. LOL)

The problem for the Democrats comes down to this: It’s a little hard to convince the American voter that MAGA is the problem in our communities when Democrats are the ones threatening to burn down those same communities if they don’t get their way…. particularly when “their way” involves citizens being the targets of violent crimes….. to the tune of nearly 80 per day on average in Chicago alone. Law enforcement , and protecting the population is “tyranny”?

As Twichy says…

And Democrats wonder why their approval rating sits at 19%.

Honestly, we’re shocked it’s still that high. 

Indeed…. and it raises the question about that 19%. As dumb a move as the Mayor pulled here, consider the question of “Who is the real issue…. the Democrats, or the ones who vote for them?”

Addendum: After I posted this, I noted this in my feed… It is perfect for this topic.