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Aug. 11, 2025 - Louder with Crowder
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🔴 BREAKING: Trump Declares Federal Control of DC 2025-08-11 18:08
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Insuring this IP, it's almost an act of war if they do that, right?
It is.
And so you're right.
They don't like IP, but then you've got people like Elon Musk and a couple of other guys trying to say that we should basically get rid of IP laws.
Right.
Jack from X was saying the same thing.
This maybe strengthens that case just a little bit.
I just don't trust the Chinese enough to think that they won't try and steal whatever they can get their hands on.
But if it's good for the United States economy, keeping these jobs here, keeping the technology here, keeping the advantage, great.
You need to know this.
AI is the game, period.
Okay.
They win or lose on that.
All right.
I think that's, let's go right now.
They're fact-checking Donald Trump right now, saying violent crime in D.C. is down 35% and 26%.
Now they're saying that carjackings are down in D.C. Is that after he took office?
What is that 2023 to 2024 is what they're saying.
So let me see what they're saying right now.
More than five years in D.C., down more than 87% from the same month in 2023.
So look, we know crime is an issue.
By using the highest month of violent crime is a shame, a tragedy, of course, not excusing any of them.
But this isn't an ongoing crime spike like President Trump suggested.
And he said it's rising even in the text of the executive order.
I went through it.
The first section says crime is rising in the Capitol.
That is just not true.
Daniel, thank you so much.
Can you guys help me fact check that?
Because I'm pretty sure that they're also just not registering certain crimes as violent crime.
Hold on, right?
Two things.
So you can see it right there in the camera.
Trump says crime in Washington is out of control, but crime says so violent crime is down.
So they picked, he said crime in general.
They said violent crime.
I don't know if that's the well, they also changed, I don't know what it is in D.C., they've changed the definition of violent crime in many cases.
Yes.
Right?
Like where they're saying where that, who was that gal that goes like, do you want me to speak?
Who's that girl?
What?
Yeah, yeah.
LAD.
I forget her name.
Piro or Judge Cheney.
Oh, you're talking about the conference?
Yeah.
She's like, well, we can't charge if they fire a gun and doesn't hit anybody.
Yeah, they say that.
That might have been previously considered a violent crime.
Yeah.
But it's now not because it didn't hit.
Because it gets wiped from the record because they're a minor.
And that too.
And getting wiped from the record.
So that's the problem.
You have a 17-year-old who could be involved in a gang shooting and then the next year it no longer is.
So yeah, if you're removing all the crimes committed by people under the age of 18 recently, it's going to have significant effect on the rates.
Well, they constantly tweak and massage crime statistics.
I mean, we saw that during COVID, right, where they tried to say, oh, actually, you're like, wait a second, wait a second.
We realized.
And then the same thing was that the DOJ stopped recording the race of the perpetrator and the victim, or was it the FBI?
They used to record those, I mean, up until I believe it was the year 2016 or 2017, where you would know the race of the perpetrator, the race of the victim, and then they stopped if it was interracial crimes.
Basically, interracial crime is no longer a thing.
So we had to use studies, for example, that came from the Bay Area, where it was, I think, 83% of all physical crimes were black against Asian, of all physical crimes in the Bay Area.
So you have to take these sort of micro studies because you can't get these numbers nationally.
I'd be willing to bet you have the same problem with DC.
You have a lot of problems with these cities.
Are they really making the argument?
Like, is Daniel Dale basically just making the argument that some crime is acceptable?
Like some high level of crime, even though it's lower than the higher level of crime the year before is acceptable and we're fine with that.
Like, what point are they really trying to make here?
Like, and listen, if he's playing ADHS on this, then great, because he's basically putting Democrats in the position of saying, well, the violent crime is fine.
Right.
It's just, you know, we don't, it's going down.
It went down by a percentage point.
Well, hold on.
If I go back to the year where it was like five times higher than it ever was before, I can say, yeah, we're coming down.
That's what he just did.
Right.
With the 2023 numbers, like, it's down 87% since 2023.
I'm like, well, yeah, every other year was in line plus or minus five.
Right.
That one year it went way up.
Yeah, it spiked.
Like, what the heck?
And that graph also is only car theft, I think.
He showed one as far as carjackings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
2023, D.C. had the largest spike in violent crime of any city, three times the percentage increase of second place Memphis.
We talked about that.
Yeah, and they still haven't returned to pre-COVID levels.
They're still higher than they were pre-COVID.
So basically what he's saying is maybe we're starting to come down.
Fans starting to level off since the spike in COVID.
Yeah.
And what else happened during COVID, by the way, guys?
Remember Black Lives Matter protests?
Remember Summer of Love?
Remember that?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's true.
Which were also underreported, by the way.
$2 billion worth in recorded property damage, damages, thousands, many, many, many, many, many thousands of casualties, including both deaths and serious injuries.
Businesses shuttered, right?
Arson, Property damage.
I mean, the list goes on.
So, yeah, of course, you would hope to see a decrease since then.
By the way, it was underreported at that moment in time.
So, yeah, their numbers are still higher than pre-COVID levels.
And again, it doesn't exist in a vacuum.
You can compare D.C. to other cities.
It was bad everywhere.
It was worse in D.C. Why?
Okay, well, they're telling you no reason.
Yeah.
By the way, if it were a state, D.C. would have the highest homicide rate in the United States.
Right.
What else do you need?
But it's better than it was during COVID.
Homicide's not violent crime.
Well, it's only violent on one side.
Well, I guess it could be both violent if you're defending yourself and you lose.
Hey, I wonder if carjackings tend to go down after giant spikes in crime so fewer people are driving into the city.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, that's what happened in Detroit.
You saw the murder rate go down.
You know why?
Because there are fewer people left to kill.
Well, the carjacking thing, that's, I mean, that's notoriously a young man's game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And if they really are altering the numbers based on age, then that would really explain a drop-off.
Yeah, they give themselves, and I can tell you, I can't carjack like I used to.
No.
It's something I've had to accept in my 30s.
No, it's a young man's game.
You got to be hip.
You got to be cool.
You got to know how these things are wired.
I'm never going to have the same zest for carjacking as I did in my early 20s.
Do you want to hear what these guys are saying about it?
They're talking nonstop.
I'm wondering if they're just how do you defend not trying to do something?
Well, I guess they will.
Let's watch Pugsley Adams defend it.
Another attempt to change the subject.
We don't know, but that hypothesis certainly has to be thought about as we consider why now.
And one of the things that was striking in that very long press conference was something that the FBI director said.
Standing there at the podium with the president as he's making this big monumental change to law enforcement, federalizing law enforcement in D.C. and saying it's because of rampant crime rates.
Listen to what the FBI director said.
And the murder rates are plummeting.
We are now able to report that the murder rate is on track to be the lowest in U.S. history, in modern recorded U.S. history, thanks to this team behind me in President Trump's priorities.
That's great news.
Isn't that natural?
It's a little off topic from what the president is.
I think he was talking about D.C. since they've taken office.
Of course, that's great news.
Yes, but I mean, this gets back to the- See, this is the thing that that judge is trying to make the point of, is the point that the leftists are making them, they're controlling them to where they can't press charges if it wasn't a bullet hitting somebody.
They can't press charges if it wasn't somebody dying.
It's like, just because someone didn't die doesn't mean somebody didn't get fucked.
Yeah, no, exactly right.
Yeah.
And they also changed.
Yeah.
They massaged the story.
Oh, we didn't die.
You're fine.
Look, you're not dead.
What do we need to press charges for?
You're not dead.
Yeah.
Why do we need to bail?
You didn't kill anybody.
Right.
You tried to, you missed.
You sucked.
You're fine.
Get out.
Didn't they also change in certain cities of Mission Control theft?
It was no longer a violent crime.
I mean, I've got to imagine in a place like San Francisco when you're allowed to steal up to $999.
It's true.
That's not a store.
Yeah.
Not from a person.
That would no longer be registered as a violent crime because it was a misdemeanor, right?
So that couldn't possibly be a violent crime.
I can imagine.
They've changed the definition of violent crime, and then they go, well, murders are down.
That's great.
What do you mean violent crime's up?
Well, because here's the thing, because no violence took place when they robbed your store because you didn't fight to defend it.
Right.
You just let them have it.
You let them have it.
You didn't want a violent confrontation where you might lose your life.
Right.
So you thought, you know what?
And one may argue, if they were so inclined that the people robbing your store in the Bay Area to the tune of $923, whatever it is, feels emboldened and knows that the shopkeeper won't do anything.
As a matter of fact, it's doing so under the threat of violence, right?
If you try and stop me, I'm going to get violent.
So, hey, good news.
If you allow people to be robbed, you've reduced the chance for violence.
That is a good point.
Crimes go down when you make something not a crime anymore.
Yeah.
That's just logic.
They were probably robbed at gunpoint.
So.
But they robbed, but I won't shoot you and get violent if you let me go.
Well, it's not a gun, it's the implication.
That's what it is.
It's the implication that you could at some point be held at gunpoint if you were to try and stop me or just let me steal the $995 worth of stuff.
Yeah, just let it go.
You know, razor bump cream.
Yeah.
I like the guy that literally priced everything in his store at $1,000 and he got a discount at the register.
Yeah.
So no matter what you stole.
I think he got sued or something.
Yeah, but you know what?
Good for him.
I don't care.
I mean, hopefully he won.
At least he knew that you were going to have to face him if you're going to rob him.
Yeah.
Well, in this whole scenario right now, he's federalizing the D.C. police.
Okay, you can maybe take issue with that, but ultimately, look at you know, maybe there's a process legally that they have to go through with this.
Maybe there's some legitimate questions and concerns there.
That's fine.
But look at what he's basically saying: like, I'm going to employ the National Guard to help kind of clean this city up and make this a safer place.
I'm going to federalize the police to make sure that we can take steps to get around what Judge Perino said.
Like, she's saying, like, guys, you're hamstrung here.
We're hamstrung.
We can't really do anything about this.
I would draw a line, though, at going and doing this in Chicago, in LA, in San Francisco.
That's different from D.C. Provide opportunities if governors want to.
And they kind of mentioned that.
They said they would work with governors to deploy the National Guard if requested or if necessary.
And that's fine.
But D.C. for me is a different thing because, like most people, when we did the segment, they didn't realize how D.C. was governed.
It's basically Congress that has most of the power.
Yeah.
And essentially, whoever the leader is in the White House, if they control Congress as well, that's the person that you want to do business with because he's going to tell Congress what to do.
Right.
I think our capital should be a beacon for the world.
I don't think it should be a Potimkin city necessarily.
I don't think you should get rid of every single rough edge that it has, but I think it should be a beautiful, safe, wonderful place for people to come.
And look, if you want to be homeless, you got to be homeless somewhere else.
Yeah, right.
You got to go to prison or commit crimes somewhere else.
I'm not saying make it somebody else's problem necessarily, but it is certainly not going to be how we represent ourselves to the world.
Yeah.
Because it sucks.
They can change your slogan to Washington, D.C. It's more than just hobo piss.
But only a little more.
I remember, you know, where I saw it with people, they'll say, oh, crime is down.
The first time in my life that I saw was in Louisville, Kentucky, when we did a show there at the club, went to several like Walgreens, CBS.
Everything was behind glass.
Socks, athletic socks.
Yeah.
Yeah, everything.
Everything was behind glass.
Usually, you know, it's like the razors or some expensive items, right?
Like I think nicotine gum.
Everything.
Socks, soap, body wash, everything was behind glass.
Yeah.
And that was pretty much everywhere in the city.
That was not a common thing.
That's insane.
And some of these weren't, by the way, they would be in the nice area.
I use that term loosely in the nice area of Louisville.
And then I started noticing that when I would go to other cities during those COVID and post-COVID years.
So you can tell us not to believe our lying eyes and lion ears and the statistics when you actually try and pull the accurate ones.
But again, what's the solution coming from the left?
They're going, hey, murder is down after COVID.
So great.
Don't do anything.
Don't try to make it better.
About D.C. Why do they, what's the bar they're shooting for?
Like, tell me, I know you're never going to get rid of it completely, but where is good for you?
Because I don't think our goods would be the same.
It's just another example of the left, and you see it with teenagers and you see it with young adults and you see it with them and you see it with the government.
This goes back to Jordan Peterson saying, make your bed.
The left, these same people who believe or want to sell you that they can fix the world's climate problem.
That includes China and India, by the way, by signing on to an agreement and implementing green car, electric cart, and let's not talk about the batteries, policy and renewable resources, things that have proven not to, they want you to believe that they can affect that, but they throw their hands up in their own actual city with a physical problem.
People who are committing physical acts of violence, vagrancy, destroying the cities, that's just something that progress can't be made.
But carbon offsets for your flight, but no big gulps, but making sure you can't get an SUV, right?
But a giant welfare state.
Well, hold on a second.
What about your city?
Chicago?
What about your city?
New York?
You don't need to sort of do some quasi-math and figure out the emissions and CFCs.
You go, how many homeless people did we have?
How many do we have now?
Is there something we can do physically with these people?
And they never have an answer.
It's the same thing with leftists if you're in college, right?
The conservative is usually working their way through college or going to a trade school or studying an apprenticeship or going to law school.
The feminist liberal is going to talk about how they need to fix the patriarchy and systemic discrimination, but can't solve their own personal issue of student loans that they took out themselves.
It always absolves, the left always absolves themselves of the personal accountability, the things they could actually do something about.
They never have an answer for that.
They always have an answer for someone that would require an international agreement and everyone else live in a utopia, of course, of the exact same ideological stripes.
And I mean it, think about it.
Think about the liberal in your life.
How are they solving their life?
How are they solving their community?
Or is it a problem at large?
It just shows you they don't mean it.
It's all it's really easy to say this should be fixed.
This should be fixed when you know that you'll never have skin in that game.
No, and I mean, you can put band-aids on things.
Every policy that you, or problem that we've talked about that you just listed and the things that are running through my head, every solution is essentially just a band-aid on the problem, right?
So homelessness, let's give everybody a home.
Okay, well, what keeps people from becoming homeless?
What policies make sure that this stops?
By the way, that doesn't even work in the first place.
Let's say it did.
Let's say it worked tomorrow.
Everybody off the streets.
Boom.
Fantastic.
In 10 years, you'll have homeless again because you didn't stop the problem to begin with.
You go through every single rent forgiveness.
What keeps people from needing it in the first place?
Having to have their tuition paid for because they can't pay for it anymore.
Like their student debt.
What keeps people from getting into student debt too far, too deep, too fast?
Like they never try to solve the problem.
They only try to put a band-aid on it currently just to get votes because every time we're going to have to pay for it every single year.
Yeah.
Every year.
And I keep going back to, by the way, the guardrails to be set.
It's really easy to do with liberty.
It doesn't have to be.
Let me walk you through an example here.
Let's take a poor, let's take a poor single mother living in D.C., okay?
All right.
Obese eats crap.
Okay?
Could be a man, could be a woman.
I'm just taking an example.
So a poor person in D.C. Who lives on Snap and EBT is obese and eats crap.
All right.
There's nothing fascist.
There's no removal of your rights.
I'm saying, oh, can't eat junk food on Snap or EBT anymore.
Well, I got, I want to.
So the right solution, conservative solution is, yeah, well, you can't.
So if you want that, you have to go work.
Problem now solved, right?
The left goes, no, no, no, we need to be able to allow Coca-Cola and Fanta and Skittles on Snap and EBT.
And if they don't get that, this person goes, okay, I don't want to work.
I'll steal it.
The policy from the right is, you can't, you'll go to jail.
The left is, as long as it's under $999, we get it.
You've had some tough breaks.
So again, it's liberty.
You have the right to eat what you want, drink what you want, work for it.
You don't have the right to steal.
You'll go to jail.
The left says, you have the right to never work and take from the taxpayer, and you have the right to steal, provided it's not too much.
Why would anyone ever improve under policy of the left?
They're required to because they get to live the consequences of their own liberty in the conservative.
It doesn't require more regulations.
No.
It requires enforcing basic regulations and not giving a handout.
Well, we're going to enforce the law.
You can't steal.
That's a crime.
As it has been in every respectable society since modern Christendom.
And we're not going to give you a handout for junk food.
There you go.
Problem solved.
They work or they lose weight or go to jail.
It's not my problem.
Who does it hurt to when the Democrats get their policies enacted the way they want them to?
It's us.
Like we have to, and listen, I'm not bemoaning the fact that there's somebody asking for something on a street corner for a handout.
What I'm bemoaning the fact is when I turn under the bridge, I see an encampment that is now a very unsafe place to be for those very people.
Yep.
Because guess what?
If you're another homeless person, you don't have to go sit on on a street corner and beg for money.
You just have to beat the crap out of the person who did it later when they're trying to go back to whatever place they call home that night.
I mean, that's not even that dangerous place.
Going under a bridge and an overpass and they're under there in the encampment.
That's nothing.
I mean, in some places in this country, like where I lived in Tacoma, I lived next to a park.
My backyard fence was right up against a park.
And that's, I mean, they had a bathroom with a shower.
What do you expect?
They were all there.
I had them lined up in like old RVs and old beated down cars and trucks just living there all the time and did nothing about it.
There's a street in Portland.
I can't remember which street it is in Portland.
Very affluent neighborhood.
I mean, multi-million dollar homes, which is this beautiful neighborhood.
And then the homes stop.
The street keeps going.
There's a park in the middle, two streets, and it's just all encampment.
It's now all these people who have, you know, who have built a nice life for themselves, put their kids into a neighborhood that, you know, has a higher tax, not tax break, but a higher tax levy on for the schools.
They're in nicer schools.
They're in a nicer neighborhood.
They think they're going to be safe.
They think it's going to be clean.
And all of a sudden, you've got guys screaming at each other at three in the morning, banging on your door.
I mean, it happened at my house.
Yeah.
Banging on my door.
I mean, there was snow on my porch one day.
Bare footprints of somebody banging on my door when I was on the road.
Yeah.
Banging on my door.
My German shepherd's going nuts.
Didn't phase the guy at all.
My wife is behind the door with the gun saying, I will shoot through the door.
Didn't phase the guy at all.
Yeah.
Just banging, trying to get in my house.
Yeah.
Yep.
And that's a very, that's a that's not, that's not homeless people under a bridge.
No.
That's not homeless people building a community for themselves and self-sustaining.
That is just delinquent degenerates doing whatever they want whenever they want because you can't call the police for it.
And you know what?
Until they do something, until they've actually murdered you in your house, you can't call the police.
And that harrowing experience, and it would be for a woman with a homeless man who's undoubtedly larger than her and probably on drugs, that wouldn't be registered as any kind of a violent crime.
That was not a violent crime.
We called the police.
They said, is he still there?
She said, no, he finally left.
They go, okay, thanks.
We'll check it.
We'll have.
We'll look into it.
Yeah, we'll look into it.
I don't remember exactly what they said, but then I had these guys that were lined up on my street corner, big, big open area for them to park next to the park.
And multiple times I called them, and they're like, you have to call city services.
You have to call not 411, but 611 or whatever the social social.
It was like the whole defund the police have the social workers do.
This is like 2022 with 2021.
And so I'm like, okay, so I call them and I go, yeah, there's people out here.
They're in cars that they have license plates on the street that are not registered, which should be, it is a crime.
It should be enough for a police officer to come out and give a ticket or at least check out the Switch situation.
Nothing.
It says they're not going to do anything about that.
I say, I found a bag of drugs in my backyard.
Okay, well, that might be yours.
Okay, fair enough.
Fine.
Yeah, self-report.
Yeah, sure.
You should say it is.
We hear a couple having a domestic dispute.
This is what finally broke it up.
A couple was having a domestic dispute in their little old camper that was being pulled by a truck.
And I went out, there was like two or three in the morning, and I went out there to tell them to shut the hell up.
Turn it into Swiss cheese.
Yeah.
So I go out there and I'm on the phone.
I call the police.
They think they can't do anything.
Has anybody been hit?
I go, I don't know.
It sounds like it, yada, yada.
Well, you know, if they call, if the victim calls them, then we'll do something, yada, yada.
So you got to call these other people.
So I called the other people the next day.
I'm on the phone with them.
My plan was to go out there with a gun and try to get the police to come.
It worked.
I went out there with a gun, banged on the door, didn't have it out, didn't brandish it.
It's just on my, you know, open carry on my hip.
And I knock on the door.
The guy comes out and I confront him.
I'm on the phone with the social workers.
And I'm confronting him.
And he starts yelling at me.
I start yelling at him.
And then he goes, what are you going to do?
You're going to fucking shoot me with that gun.
And then as soon as the word gun was mentioned, dispatcher sent police out.
Good.
To come get me.
Come get you.
Yeah.
But the police officers get there and they're tired of this shit.
So they get out there and they go, okay, what's going on?
I go, tell them the situation.
They go over.
They talk to the guy.
It turns out warrants on both of them.
Both of them get arrested.
Car gets towed.
Truck gets towed.
Gotcha, bitch.
Yeah.
You know, it's similar to.
I had to do a huge workaround to get these people out of my neighborhood.
Literally, if you did not have a gun, you were completely at their mercy.
I had, I think this, I had a neighbor who was the worst of the worst.
I lived in a very nice area of Western Michigan.
My neighbor was not allowed within whatever, 100 yards of a school because he had a background as a sex offender, lived with his 70-something-year-old mom who used to wave her shaman stick around my backyard.
Yeah.
And he was like 60-something.
So she had him young, but she was in her 70s and he was in his 60s.
And he would sit out there on the front porch, Shirtless, greasy, up until three or four in the morning, playing his guitar.
He didn't know how to play guitar, screaming, drinking bush ice.
He had been banned from the right aid.
He had been banned from the DNW, which was like a local grocery store.
He'd been banned from the Starbucks.
He'd been banned from two or three restaurants.
The police knew about him.
He would be taken to jail sometimes around like in the drunk tank to sleep it off.
I get questioned one time about a special needs neighbor who lives two houses down if I saw anything if this guy had molested this young adult, I should say.
He was like 17.
You remember that?
And then his mom was a huge lib.
They would scream at us, scream at me when I would walk down the street, just scream, just scream the cops, like, ah, you know, leave him alone.
And then one night at 2, 3 in the morning, he's screaming my name at the top of his lungs, drunk at 4.
And when I came out and said, hey, you know, you need to kind of calm down, stop this.
The next morning, I woke up with a brick thrown through my car window and him leering at me.
And I went to the cops.
Not violent.
It's not violent.
Yeah.
I went to the cops and they knew about it.
And I told them, like, look, when he's doing this at three, something in the morning and he's kind of pacing up and down the street.
They said, well, do you have a firearm?
I said, yes, I do.
They said, well, if he at all tries to, you know, get into your property here, he'd be well within your rights to defend yourself.
But yeah, we've had a lot of run-ins with him.
And they were the ones who told me where he was.
They're like, there's not much else we can do unless we catch him sexually molesting another kid.
Right.
No, I know.
Unless we catch him throwing the brick.
I'm like, disturbing the peace night after night after night after night?
Is that not enough?
I mean, you can't look at the cumulative, the total of banned from it's one street, right?
That main street.
And when right aid bans you, that's bad.
Yes.
When right aide bans you, he was banned.
I would see his mom, his 77-year-old mom, walking back with the bush ice for him.
He would drink on the porch.
The enabler.
Good.
Yeah.
Well, you know why they had that place?
It was a Unitarian church.
Unitarian church.
We're helping these people who are down on their luck.
It was a Tinderbox waiting to light everybody else, is what you're doing.
Speaking of a church, there was one guy parked out outside my house who was playing some kind of children's music from his RV.
Really?
Yeah.
Like towards the park.
Which I was like, what are you trying to entice kids?
Of course.
I talked about it.
I was the one when I was new to the show.
I came on.
I said, I walked to him.
He was like, hey, are you trying to fuck these kids?
It was that guy.
Yeah.
And he was all mad.
He's like, hey, you know, I'm about to, how dare you accuse me of it?
I'm like, what else are you doing then?
He's like, I just thought that maybe the kids would like it.
But I'm like, get out of here.
He's like, you don't know who I am.
I'm a good guy.
And, you know, I donate money and I work for this church down the street.
I go, well, then go stay there.
You can go their kids.
Yeah.
It's like, what are you doing?
You play the music and the kids come say, hey, what are you playing?
How do you follow?
What's the rest of that conversation?
What happens next?
Come inside my RV.
Yeah.
What's the, yeah, exactly.
What is the progression?
Like, ask this guy.
Like, I would ask, do you at least understand?
Give me something here.
That the optics are not good.
Yeah.
For a fully grown man to be blaring, I love you by Barney for like a moment.
And the police can't do anything about it.
They go, yeah, dude, that's creepy.
I wouldn't live there.
So here's, Josh, this is my entire point.
The reason that I started with the homeless people under the bridge or asking for money because it was the most benign thing that I could think of in this conversation that leads to your experience.
You don't typically start with encampments.
You start with a policy of, oh, these people are down on their luck.
Yeah, they need to be able to ask people to maybe get some money, you know, to do this.
And then I've seen this happen.
When you start allowing it, you start to see more people doing it.
And then they continue to creep up because they're looking for money.
They're looking for an opportunity to make money.
And when they see that, they're just going to move to that area and start having a lot of people there.
These areas go downhill so fast.
I'm not like, oh, it's bad to look at.
I'm like, I'm thanking God that through no benefit of my own or nothing that I've done, he has blessed me to not be in a situation where I have to raise my kids around that.
That's what I'm thinking about.
Because at what point do I have a right as a father, as a as just a person to live in a society where I don't have to worry about going through those areas because we pay taxes.
We want this as a community.
We have the ability to affect this.
But it's these bad policies that just turn out horribly every single time and end up with situations like yours that most Americans right now listening to this go, what?
How's that even possible?
That is the Pacific Northwest.
That is the Pacific Northwest around the major cities, Portland, Seattle.
Josh knows this better than anybody.
And Francisco, like, gosh, these places, and you can see their fall.
It's the same thing in the Midwest.
It's cities, too.
So Detroit, Chicago.
I mean, but it's this, like, when I was going to San Francisco in 2008, 2009 to kind of go to Napa Valley, we'd always stay there.
Everybody used to tell me, like, oh, it's gotten bad.
And it was still very nice then.
Now, compared to when the first time I went there to now, when I didn't even know Newsom at the time, Newsom was governor in 2011.
We were right.
That place is just, it's a hellscape.
You don't want to be anywhere in that city anymore.
And it's a beautiful place.
Like, you take a gorgeous area and go, here, here, I'm just going to give you this beautiful, wonderful looking place here.
It's got great weather, a little chilly sometimes in San Francisco.
And you're going to turn it into like the biggest outdoor poop market in the world.
By the way, look it up.
It's a fact other than India, I should say.
It's not really a market, though.
No one's buying it.
Nobody's buying.
They're tracking.
They used to, at least.
The poop tracker had to go off.
It's not really a market red heat dot.
There's one park that's more like right by a school.
And it's just, it's just like a, it was like, not protected.
I don't know the words for it, but it wasn't like a secret encampment.
It's like in the downtown area of Tacoma, and there's this big park.
I can't remember the name of the park.
Somebody in Tacoma can probably let me know if they're in chat.
But there's a big park and it's like either across the street from school or right down the street from a school.
It's within 500 feet of a school and it's just an encampment of homeless people in this one park that are just allowed to be there.
It's just insane.
It's just the park's gone.
You can't use the park anymore.
No, no.
Like, it's not like, oh, I can't bring my kids because there's because the homeless people are looking at.
No, no, they are there.
You can't get on the playground because you'd have to walk over tents.
You have to get their tents in the playground.
Like, it's unusable.
People's Park?
Yeah, People's Park.
I think that's it.
People's Park?
I don't know.
When I was the first time, I was in Spokane.
I saw a guy, I saw a homeless guy smoking crack in front of the officer.
Because I thought it was a tire pressure dictionary.
That's it.
No freaking way.
Good.
Hold on.
Listen, listen.
At what point do the citizens around there go, you know what?
Everybody's packing.
Let's go.
We're taking a walk.
Like, at what point would you not go, that makes sense to me.
If I bought a house, I mean, buying a house, think about that.
Think about what we talk about people having to go through right now to be able to get their first home or get a home in general.
And then the city allows that to happen.
What bothers me.
That's part of the problem trying to sell my house too.
That's why I was one of the reasons why I was so obviously there's the whole want to be safe thing.
Wow.
But that was one of the reasons.
I'm like, we got to sell this house.
I was, these stories were coming up when I was first coming on the show because I was like, I'm going to move to Texas.
Yeah.
Probably going to move to Texas.
I want to sell this house.
And I'm like, I can't sell this house because who's going to buy a house when there's literal meth labs on wheels next to my driveway?
Yeah.
Nobody.
They'll solve it.
Just, you know, just legalize all drugs.
They got to legalize all homelessness.
What really bothers me is when you see that and then we have a permit to do a change of mind.
They go, can't block the sidewalk.
You're like, are you shitting me?
Right.
It's not even a tripod.
It's a monopoly.
It's a shoulder rake.
Can't you?
Can't do it.
I'm not doing a show.
I'm homeless.
Yeah.
Can't block the sidewalk.
This is not a show where actually this is a show teaching people how to inject safely.
Yes, exactly.
How do you think if you didn't have plates that were registered and driving on a suspended license?
But they just know, like, hey, these people fear no consequences.
They're just going to be, why waste your time?
They'll be caught.
They'll be released.
This happens all the time when you see cops.
You have cops like in Michigan.
I remember one time like, you can't sit.
It was a, it was a hammock that I'd like ties.
Like, I'm going to go do a picnic and just set up one of those, you know, one of those basic nylon hammocks.
Like, oh, you can't do that there in the public.
I'm like, it's two trees and it's a tie.
Like, this is, it's like God said, put a hammock here.
Have a picnic.
I'm like, there's a homeless guy in a tent taking his shit, like literally 50 feet from here.
Yeah, but that's his house.
Oh, God.
Oh, yeah.
Well, so my problem is that it's temporary.
This is not entirely hammocks.
Yeah, you got to actually establish a residence there.
I just take a stick and poke it through.
So see?
No, it's not a hammock.
It's a tent.
You got it time served.
Ah, son of a bitch.
This is insane.
I don't understand.
It's two standards of justice.
It's not just, I don't understand how we allow this.
South Park is the park that I lived that I lived in, South Park.
There's a guy, there's like a little community, it's like an Asian heritage community center thing where they do all kinds of stuff, not Asian stuff, but it is primarily run by, I think, South Pacific Asians.
And they have a little cute little gazebo outside.
And it's just been taken over by a homeless guy.
So I was walking my dog, and I don't care.
I'll walk my dog regardless.
But it's like, Catherine, you can't go walk the dog by yourself.
This guy, every time I come by, he chirps something.
Yeah.
And that's at me.
Chirp something yelling something at me every Single time, and it probably wasn't directed at me, probably going through some kind of mental crisis.
Right.
But at what point do you go, hey, the guy took the gazebo of the Asian American Cultural Center?
Like, they want to use that too?
Yeah.
I mean, shit, they own it.
Yeah.
My thing.
Why is this guy just allowed to just set up shop there and then just yell at people, everybody walking by?
I never understood squatters' rights as a kid.
Yeah.
As a kid, they're like, Squatter.
I was like, wait, what?
Wait.
It can be your house, but if someone just breaks in, you can't kick them out.
I'm like.
That's a law?
Yeah, that's I couldn't comprehend that.
That doesn't make any sense.
Oh, it's really bad in San Francisco.
But are there any updates or shit?
Well, the only thing I wanted to do is trying to get some context on the media is going to run with this, that your officers are empowered to do whatever the hell they want.
And I wanted to try to get some context so I don't pull the clip.
So if you guys want to see that real quick, or we can wait until tomorrow.
No, let's watch the clip.
Let's see.
Here we go.
I don't know what to expect.
For three, four years, I've watched them.
The police are standing, and they're told, don't do anything under any such so this, and you can see they want to get at it.
And they're standing there, and people are spitting in their face, and they're not allowed to do anything.
But now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.
This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership.
Got it.
That's pretty much straightforward in this.
They're going to say to break the law.
No, no, they're supposed to be law enforcement.
So in enforcing the law, within the bound of the law, spitting on a cop, that's assault of an officer.
Now they can take them to jail.
They can cuff them.
The context is they're being essentially threatened or spit on or they're doing something to the police officers, not police officers just randomly going and picking people out to be a target of a baton.
No, the CNN picked whatever the hell they want and they go, oh, now cops are allowed to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want.
Yeah.
For whatever reason.
No.
He said I'm removing the red tape.
That's all he said.
Yes.
Well, they're going to actually be able to enforce the law.
That's all he said.
Remember how we were all sold that once police had body cams, like you'd see all the videos of police brutality.
I've not seen one.
My dad said he prefers it.
Yeah.
He said because all the times that he'd arrest somebody and bring them in and they'd go, oh, he did this to me.
He did that to me.
And it was just, it was easier to believe, I guess, for a judge or jury, it was easier for them to believe that an officer was being too aggressive or abusing them than it would be to they just were a piece of shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Remember what we were told?
Like, hey, where's the one where it's just, you know, 10 and two, black got being pulled over?
Yes, officer, was I going five over?
Here's my license.
No, no, we've not seen any of them.
We've seen some where, like, it's a gray area, you know, where he tells the officer that he's a fat piece of shit and to go screw his mother.
Like, okay, but that doesn't necessarily work getting out of the car.
But we've never seen what we have been told, like a law-abiding citizen's entire life, top of his class, valedictorian, pulled over and nut stomped for the crime of being black.
We've never seen it.
We've never seen anything close to it.
And as I understand, pretty much all major municipalities have body cams.
You know what I have seen?
I have seen way more of this.
Somebody coming out and saying that they were done wrong.
Yeah.
And then the police releasing the body cam footage, and we find out, now, wait a minute.
Yeah, it's a beating coming right there because you tried to grab the officer's gun or whatever it was.
Yeah, we'll see the cell phone video.
That's what we see.
We see the cell phone video taken by a bystander, usually a friend or an accomplice of said criminal or suspect.
And then we see, like you said, the body cam comes out and goes, hey, we had to wait for an investigation.
Yeah.
Investigation's complete.
Now we can release this body cam footage.
Here's the part where they swung a weed whacker at my face.
Right.
Yeah.
I see many more offensive examples of abuses of power where it's like, you know, someone cycling or something in the wrong lane, like writing up a ticket, you know what I mean?
Or something for like someone who clearly doesn't deserve it and the cop is on a power trip.
But I haven't seen the police brutality.
No.
I haven't seen the police brutality.
All right.
Let's grab some chats.
All right.
First chat from Zhao, one, two, three.
If the management and courts of D.C. have failed, should the residential areas be returned to the respective states and the D.C. courts dissolved?
Hey, fantastic idea.
We carved it out once.
We can throw it back at them.
I like it.
But then Maryland's going to be in control of some stuff, and we don't really want that.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a bad idea.
A place that, you know, I didn't think this through.
A place that has a city named Chevy Chase, I don't trust.
That's not the worst thing.
It's Baltimore.
Baltimore is the worst thing about Maryland.
What are you talking about?
Baltimore is one of the worst.
It was the worst city with probably one of the best hotels when we did a last gig there.
I was like, oh, this is great.
This is a nice hotel.
And then I walk out.
I'm like, is there any place I can go like right back in the lobby?
Yeah, but they sent Ramon Lauriano and Ryan O'Hearn to San Diego, so they're good for something.
Thank you.
I don't know what that is, but okay.
Sounds good.
Good for you, Baltimore.
Do I have a bridge yet?
Do y'all build the bridge back?
I don't know.
It's looking up, according to Josh.
Well, it's great.
Things are looking up.
He's not talking about Britain.
They sent their best baseball players somewhere else.
Things are looking up.
Oh, oh, you were there?
I see.
I didn't know.
They sent some where?
San Diego.
Oh, all right.
Good.
That's the only thing I like about so burn Baltimore to the ground.
Next chat.
They pronounce it Baltimore.
Well, I don't care.
What?
Yeah, they're.
I don't care what they pronounce it.
And by the way, The Wire is overrated crap.
The fact that Seinfeld got knocked out as top show of all time for the wire.
I tried to watch it.
I did too.
I tried to watch it.
I'm like, eh.
Yeah.
It's fine.
It's fine.
But I don't know why people love The Wire.
Can someone explain to me why The Wire is the most brilliant show of all time?
Was it gritty when things weren't gritty?
I guess, I guess.
That was the key word.
I know what I thought.
Let's take it, make it gritty.
All right.
You did it.
You hopped up a beer.
Good for you.
Good for you.
Next chat.
All right.
Next chat from Silverback, 1968.
Question for Stephen.
Why isn't DC under federal control already?
It doesn't have statehood.
It's a federal district.
Am I missing something?
Yes, 1973.
You're missing an entire year.
That's when they did the, what is it, the Home Rule Act?
That was a question for Stephen.
Mr. Morgan?
But that's...
No, that was a good answer.
That was a good answer.
Yeah, but he covered it in a previous segment.
So I agree with you in principle.
But yeah, he was just talking about the Homer Act and they can do it.
But of course, it needs to go through Congress.
But I agree with you.
If I could wave my magic wand, I'd be like, nah, you're under my control.
And you're gone and you're gone and you're gone and you're gone.
Yeah, that was last week.
I think like Thursday, maybe Wednesday, but I think Thursday.
I'm just being snarky.
Sorry.
I mean, this is the thing.
This is how you end up with people talk about strong men.
This is how you end up with them.
And you make people feel powerless.
And all they're doing is empowering a force, if it ends up being a federal force or a force, in some cases, you know, state troopers, a force National Guard to enforce the law that already exists.
You have one side that creates loophole after loophole after loophole, not for you, but for the serial offenders.
And one side is going, low, look, we're going to enforce the law.
That's it.
I'm sorry.
I'm totally fine.
I'm not going to be told that I'm callous and go, no, you don't get Coca-Cola and you don't get Fritos on Snap and EBT.
I'm sorry.
That is a total violation of the spirit of this country.
You want to get some milk, eggs, meat, fruit for a temporary period of time.
When you get back on your feet, okay, I think a lot of people are on board with that.
I think there's an argument to be made, but still.
But the idea that you should get whatever you want because it's what you prefer to eat, no.
No.
The idea that, oh, you've had some tough breaks, so you should be allowed to be homeless for years of pun.
No.
The idea that, oh, where are these people going to go?
The people who are taking over a park that was meant to be enjoyed by families.
No.
You don't get to do it.
Okay.
In all of these scenarios, you get to work and become a contributing, functional member of society or institution or jail.
That's it.
That's it.
We should expect of everybody.
You need to work and you need to provide.
Why do we live in a country where people can just go, I'm just going to have kids.
You have people who have children without ever having the intention of providing to them.
You have an entire class.
Think about what baby mama is.
Think about how perverse that actually is.
And it's a term that we laugh about.
Ha ha, baby mama.
They did a movie called a baby mama.
You know what that means?
That means someone who knowingly has children and knowingly doesn't get married so that they can collect more checks and does so with the full premeditated plan of never working.
I'm just going to have kids, no husband, no dad for them, and never work.
And I'm going to be on Easy Street.
That's what baby mama means.
But those kids have great work ethics.
Right.
I don't want a country that enables that at any step of the way.
If they took a bulldozer through that park and gave them a 10-minute warning, I'd be fine with whatever happened afterwards.
Yep.
I'm not even kidding.
At some point, you're just like, listen, I'm just, I'm going to do this.
And then, hey, everybody that lives around here, yeah.
You guys have guns, right?
Okay.
Make sure it stays this way.
Okay.
Yeah.
Done.
At a certain point.
I know it's more complicated than that, Josh.
Yeah, I know.
Just the idea of that.
One in Tacoma and two just ever happening.
I know.
You just get a snowplow.
You just call it a people plow.
Yeah.
You know what?
If I see one tent anywhere near, no, I'm going to, I'll be the guy that goes and takes it down every single time.
Hey, why don't you send the social workers there?
Let's let's use the social workers.
You see a tent in a park?
All right.
You go up and you're the first wave.
You're the Marines of social work.
You go and you tell them, hey, look, here's the work program and the whatever, the homeless shelter where you can go and we'll put you in a drug rehabilitation program.
And if their answer is no, all right, you step aside and the cop comes forward and handcuffs them.
I agree.
Every single time.
Jail.
Josh, you're right.
That problem would keep happening.
Jail every time.
Jail.
Keep jailing.
Build bigger jails.
We need more alligator Alcatraz.
It's fine.
Build it.
You can't.
Otherwise, you don't have a city anymore.
You don't have a civilization anymore.
Yeah.
You just don't.
You lose it.
And at some point, you have to take drastic measures.
I'm trying to do that beforehand and say, hey, let's not get to drastic steps.
Let's just put them in jail every single time in your situation because that seems like not extreme, but that seems on the extreme end.
You know what I mean?
Well, when there's a guy beating up a lady in a tweaker van, I think.
Just don't let the van ever stop there.
Don't let the van ever be there.
Don't let the tents ever happen there.
Nothing.
Jail every single time.
Get out of here.
No, jail.
By the way, there was a dude.
There was a car that there was tweakers that flipped a car to my front yard.
That's right.
That's right, Bob.
I was posting pictures of them.
Yeah, they hit this roundabout.
They flipped their car to my front yard in the middle of the night.
They ran.
Dude, I got out so fast.
I was so proud of myself.
I heard a bang and I was out.
I got my gun.
I was out.
I didn't need the gun because it was a car crash.
I didn't know what it was, but I ran out within like 90 seconds, dude.
I was from hearing it to downstairs outside 90 seconds, gone.
They were completely gone.
And then the next day, some guy was cruising by.
My wife's out front cleaning up glass, sweeping up glass off the sidewalk because the city didn't get it.
And this guy goes, hey, was there a car flipped over right here?
And she goes, yeah, how'd you know?
He goes, I was just at 7-Eleven.
These two tweakers came up to me and asked me for a ride.
I said, what do you guys need a ride for?
And then I started calling the cops and put it on speakerphone.
And he said, yeah, they told me that they were driving last, you know, it was last night that it happened.
He said they were driving and they flipped their car into a yard and then they walked here and looking for a ride.
And so I kept him there and I was talking to him for a little while, you know, leading him on and then the cop showed up and took him.
Good.
I was like, what a great closure that is.
The next day, this guy's cruising around the neighborhood trying to find where they did it.
Nice.
That's awesome.
And who knows?
Then they could have been released immediately.
Most likely were.
Yeah.
Flipping the camera.
Most likely were already repeat violators and living their best life.
All right.
Let's go another chat.
All right.
Next chat from Camaro Z2813.
Could the federal government take over a city like Detroit since it has declared bankruptcy?
It can then rehab some of the houses, send all the countless homeless there.
Did Detroit officially declare bankruptcy?
I don't know.
I think that has to be a just default to state then if that was how that worked.
I don't know.
I don't know how that works at all, so I don't want to talk out of turn here.
Say that we put it up again.
Well, I do know.
I do know when they had the Detroit riots, for example, my dad sat on his mailbox and watched the tanks go down his road into the city.
So that would have been, I think probably that would be state.
State National Guard is state reservoirs.
Every state has their own National Guard.
So State National Guard.
State Reserve.
But my grandfather ran, he was in the Air Force, and they had him running reconnaissance planes over the roof because there were so many snipers in the rooftops.
So I think if it's an actual situation of unrest, obviously you can send in some kind of federal forces if it's like a riot.
As far as a city declaring bankruptcy, you can't.
It's not the same as DC.
You just can't do it.
And here's the thing.
It's just got to be, it's got to be the failure that it deserves to be.
And then hopefully people can see it as an example.
I mean, that's the best you can really hope for at that point.
Example for a change.
Yeah.
I mean, Detroit, you always have, that's why you always have these hipsters.
You go like, no, it's coming back.
Is there the coffee house?
And some people staple dockers to a willow tree, whatever the hell.
And you're like, no, no, no.
That doesn't fix this.
What is this about a willow tree?
I did a whole, the art district.
Like, man, look, it's a resurgence of art in Detroit.
There's an area where literally people just like tape and staple clothes to trees.
Like, fucking blind certain doctors.
Fuck it's art.
It's like, okay.
All right.
So like, it's a whole area.
And the day I went there, there was a meth lab that was, or a crack house.
I don't know what it was.
That was hard to tell.
They're making drugs.
Yeah.
Inflamed.
So that sounds like that's a happy ending to your story.
The day, sorry, in 2013, they did file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
In 2013, I didn't realize that.
When you said it, I was like, no, I would have heard about that.
Well, it's 2013.
I don't know if I was paying as much attention.
Whose responsibility is that?
Would that be the state of Michigan's responsibility?
If they declare bankruptcy?
What do you mean?
I mean, you just, it basically goes to a bankruptcy court.
You're just discharging debt and figuring out what people that you owe money to, whatever vendors.
Did they change how they voted after that?
Oh, no, of course not.
Come on.
They probably blamed it on some five Republicans that did something.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In Michigan, that's what they did.
Sure, sure.
My father's house sold for, was it $7,000, his childhood home in Detroit?
Yeah, and it's a part of my collection.
Strong.
Detroit's strong, Stephen.
Yeah.
Detroit, the backbone of America.
Just shut up.
You know what they did?
They went out and got a football coach that actually doesn't practice any nonsense at all with his team, and they're doing better now.
Maybe apply that to your city.
Go get somebody who knows what they're doing from somewhere else, not from Detroit.
No one wants to do what needs to be done with Detroit.
Here's what you need to be done with Detroit.
They kind of did it with Pittsburgh.
It's half the city gone and is now green space that you don't allow homeless encampments to be set up in.
That's what you need because the population is they try and say it's 700,000.
I would be very surprised if it's half a million.
This is a city that was a couple million people.
The population's been cut to less than half.
It cannot sustain it, but everyone's so busy trying to say, it's coming back and some new government program and program, program, program, program.
It's only made the city worse.
You need to start, you need to start designing this city, planning it around the actual population.
There's so many empty houses that are a fire hazard.
Just mow it all, bulldoze it all down, and the city needs to be half of its size, create some green space, earn farming.
There you go.
Dude, I was doing some, I was doing some fantasy house hunting after talking with you guys a couple months ago about Chicago, and I was finding just like mansions, dude.
Yeah.
Just, oh, dude, six bedrooms, seven bedrooms.
Chicago, Detroit.
Three, four thousand.
Oh, just outside Detroit.
So like in the suburbs of Detroit, but not actual Detroit.
Yeah.
And it's just like 4,000 square feet, and it's like 300 grand, 350.
Yeah.
And I'm like, oh, God.
Yeah, but your neighbor is a pack of coyotes.
Hey, I know how to deal with coyotes.
You need like a turret system with automatic systems.
Yeah, I guess in Claymore's out there.
It's the only city where I have a major U.S. city where I saw packs of roving wild dogs, not even coyotes.
How fun.
And I mean, actual Detroit, not Southern Department.
That's exciting.
That's like Oliver and Company.
I guess.
Add a Billy Joel song and you got a kids movie.
Yeah, I guess you do.
But, you know, it's kind of sad because they're very skinny.
And it looks like India.
Final chat.
All right.
Final chat from anti-federalist payne.
How do you justify supporting martial law from an administration that has not enforced second, fourth, and fifth amendment rights to self-defense and defense of property in these same cities?
When did we say martial law was cool?
They're calling, they're saying this is, I think there's federalizing forces in the US.
I think it's a little bit dramatic, but that's not martial law.
It's not martial law.
Be clear about that.
It's a little dramatic, but I think the National Guard coming in and stuff like that, I think maybe is what you're...
And this is different burdens that you would have to meet because of, again, civil unrest.
In this case, it's just empowering a police force to enforce the laws that are actually on the books and are being violated because of a corrupt system.
I think you're referring to the National Guard coming in, but that I don't know exactly.
But the president has the right to be able to call the National Guard in, but is that necessarily declaring martial law?
I don't necessarily know what they're doing either.
Like, I know in California they call the National Guard to protect the ICE buildings.
Right.
So that's not martial law.
That's just them standing outside an ice building saying, hey, you're not coming through this.
Martial law needs to be a new set of laws for the contributing citizen.
In other words, for the law-abiding citizen.
Martial law means you are now either there's a curfew or there are checkpoints in other words if you are a law-abiding citizen you're not a homeless vagrant in D.C. This affects your life.
It affects you zero.
It changes nothing.
I think there's extra helping hands.
I think that that's really all the National Guard is doing is just being strong, healthy, helping hands.
Excuse me.
Do you mean to say that they don't have the right to do this because they haven't been able to, when you say not enforcing the Second Amendment, you mean not by mandate constitutional carry?
Is that what you mean in D.C.?
Because again, you understand that that is different.
You would just have to supersede the Supreme Court.
All state, like that would be worse.
So I guess I don't really understand.
It sounds to me like you're kind of creating a wish list of the things that you want that they haven't done and saying therefore they don't have the authority that they actually have been constitutionally granted.
And there's a long-standing precedent.
Now, I agree with you.
I would support constitutional carry.
I think there should be.
Unfortunately, that's not where we are right now.
The courts have allowed states to set their certain laws, which I do think violate the Second Amendment.
But you think that it would be less of a violation of the constitutional authorities or checks and balances that exist right now for Donald Trump to just go constitutional carry, regardless of what the states and Supreme Court have said.
You think that would be less of a violation than enabling a police force to enforce the laws in a federally controlled municipality?
Do I have that right?
I just don't, I don't, maybe, maybe, maybe they can clarify the question.
Genuinely, maybe you could clarify the question because I see this a lot.
And I see it where Donald Trump isn't perfect.
This administration isn't perfect.
And so then it's just like, it's hopeless.
Why even vote?
Well, hold on a second.
I think there's a big difference.
I think there's a big difference.
And I think this is a good thing.
If you think this is martial law, maybe you can make the case as to why that is.
So let's grab one more chat.
Maybe there'll be a follow-up.
All right.
Let's see.
Next chat from Landshark 0087.
There are plenty of jobs that need to be filled by the city.
Timeout.
Timeout.
Cool.
Leave it up.
Leave it up.
You're telling me that Landshark 007 was already taken and you had to do 0087?
Yes.
There were 80 in between.
Landshark 007.
I think that's a choice, actually.
I think they wanted to be a bad person.
Maybe it's a birthday.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Okay.
Sorry, continue.
Sorry.
Those are the favorite roulette numbers.
There are plenty of jobs that need to be filled by the city.
Those that are homeless can work those jobs.
Obviously, some would qualify and others would not.
But put them to work, solved.
I think that should be the case for any and all welfare recipients.
Yes.
Sweep streets if you have to.
Whatever it is.
Pick up cans.
Liberals love this idea.
They call it a co-op.
Yeah.
But it's not mandatory.
It's just that they love the idea of it when it's their idea.
Right.
Yeah.
I went to a co-op once.
I didn't fully understand it.
And I was like, oh, wait, I got to make stuff crappier.
I go to co-op.
Every time I go to Kroger, I got to check myself out.
I know.
It's terrible.
I'm fine with it.
The only exception is Sprouts around here, where they always have someone to check you out.
Well, hey, YoPlay can be scanned as Kroger brand.
Yes, it can.
Wow.
They made their bed.
99 cents.
Everything I buy there, 99 cents.
Everything is the president's choice or whatever.
I heard my friend's comedian who said everything.
A lot of things look like bananas.
Sorry, what was the question?
No, no, I agree with you.
I completely agree with you.
Put them to work.
Like, here's the thing.
If you look at the left, okay, and this is why I say don't let them move the Overton window.
We talk about our giant welfare state.
We're like, well, we need to help people and you don't care about all right, okay.
How about a jobs program?
Oh, no, that's shameful.
How about drug testing?
They shouldn't have to.
Why?
All right.
How about single, young, unmarried, childless, able-bodied, how about 20 hours a week?
Why should they have to work at all?
Okay, all right.
How about if they're committing crimes that they shouldn't be able to?
Well, they're tough on the, okay, so they should still be able to collect it.
What do we do here?
Okay.
Hey, funyuns from SNAP.
Why do you want to shame them?
Oh, all right.
So you just don't believe in any type of incentive for people to better life.
And you don't believe in any type of limitations.
You believe that serial criminals currently doing drugs, untested, not working, not seeking any kind of gainful employment, should be able to live on the streets if they so choose and have the taxpayer pay for their Fanta and funions and Doritos in perpetuity for the rest of their life.
Do I have that right?
Why are we trying to find common ground with these people at all?
Like, I just, it just, to me, I just don't, like, people say, both gone, like, no, we haven't both gone left.
Wait a second, wait a second.
Let's go to immigration.
All right.
So, wait, what does he believe?
Okay, anyone born here?
Anyone born here, if their parents were, but if they're born here, they should be able to stay here.
Okay.
Wait, wait.
Okay, you also believe anyone who came here, but if they were a minor, okay, student visa, I mean, I guess, wait, wait, what was that?
Oh, you also believe if they were brought here as a minor by parents who weren't, that their parents should also get citizenship.
Okay?
Well, okay, so, so, so, anyone who comes here is granted citizenship.
All right, I understand that pretty much.
Like, there's no way that you can't grant, but what about the deportation policies?
Is it criminals?
No.
In prison currently?
No.
Okay, well, then maybe the solution is: let's get, I don't know, okay.
We're just going to let them all stay.
They're already here.
Bygons, we've gotgons.
Let's let them all stay.
We're not going to deport anyone, but we know we can't have like another 20 million like every three, four years.
So how would we slow down the, let's, let's slow down the new cross?
No wall.
What about visa over a path to citizenship?
There's nothing even resembling a solution that takes into account the American citizen who is working and paying taxes.
Ever.
Ever.
They only care about you when it comes time to fund some new bullshit pet project.
Carbon offsets, an electric car credits, a new park that'll be filled with homeless people.
That's what they come to you.
But when it comes to you asking, what is it you get for your money?
There's never an answer.
Ever.
Ever.
Like, that's, I just, honestly, if we just said no to all their policies, just think about it.
Forgive student loans.
No.
Let the homeless live.
No.
Cashless bail?
No.
Summer beloved?
No.
COVID mandate backs?
No.
Lockdowns?
No.
Credit for electric cars?
No.
Like, I mean, that is genuinely my stance on most issues at this point.
Whatever it is they're saying, I pretty much just, my set point is the exact opposite.
Because there used to be a point, if you look at Bill Clinton, for example, okay, and you could argue about Newt Gingrich, but there was some balancing the budget, right?
There was some fiscal response, but there were some parts that were tougher on crime.
We don't see any of that anymore.
Nothing.
And we sit here, we go back and forth on what's that pathetic.
And then you talk about that frog in the boiling water in the pot.
Sometimes we just wake up and go, wait a second, wait a second.
Wait, we didn't fucking have a candidate for president who believed in funding violent transgender inmate sex surgeries, did we?
Did I dream that?
How do you think you got there?
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