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Freedom has a price, runt. It's called law and order.

WHY do you not want that, Drag Queen lover?

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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:53:08 -0700,  Lou Bricano says...  

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> https://reason.com/2025/08/15/d-c-residents-are-right-to-protest-unconstitutional-police-roadblocks/
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> 100% unconstitutional.

So?

Taking our guns by force, which IS what Democrats want, is unconstitutional, so...

What Trump's doing is probably cutting down on crime.

Why do you WANT more crime in D.C.? You only disagree, because you're an angry little midget hate machine.

If Obama of Biden had to do this, you'd be cheering them on.

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From Crime To Tariffs, Trump Challenges The Unacceptable

It's What Good Leaders Do

Progressives have been consistently wrong about the consequences of President Donald Trump's actions. Their overreaction to Trump's 
decision to establish law and order in Washington, DC, is the most recent example.

On Aug. 11, Trump described our nation's capital as full of "bloodshed, bedlam and squalor." He then deployed National Guard troops 
and vowed to take over the Metropolitan Police Department to "help reestablish law, order and public safety" in the city.

I lived in the DMV area - DC, Maryland, Virginia - for about a decade. Many of us have our own anecdotes, supported by data, about 
the decline of our nation's capital.

Trump's order prompted a wave of fact-checking in mainstream media. The New York Times, for example, wrote about fact-checking 
Trump's "false and misleading claims" about crime. Progressive leaders insisted that the president was not only wrong but also 
acting like a bully.

Did Trump exaggerate about the level of crime in Washington? Perhaps. But the reality is that the crime rate in the capital city is 
far above an acceptable level. See for yourself:
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In 2024, the DC homicide rate was 27.3 per 100,000 residents, the fourth highest rate in the country. The homicide rate did drop 
more than 30% from the previous year, as Trump's critics keep shouting, but fourth worst in the nation isn't something anyone 
should defend.
The Metropolitan Police Department's data shows that the average number of carjackings has declined since a huge spike in 2023, but 
remains above 2019 and 2018 levels. More than 70% of carjackings in the city involve the use of guns to terrorize the victims.
The juvenile arrest rate in DC from was almost double the national average from 2016 to 2022.

Maybe people don't read those statistics and think Washington is filled with mayhem and squalor, but the city isn't just about 
midnight strolls beside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, either.
Charles Wilson of Washington, DC, shows where a running gun battle took place before President Donald Trump's August 2025 takeover 
of policing in the city. Wilson said he's seen zero extra police or federal agents in his Anacostia neighborhood since Trump's vow 
to stop violent crime in the nation's capital.

The president's order raises important questions: Just how much violence should we accept in our cities? Is there really no viable 
way to help more Americans feel safer in their homes and neighborhoods?

Trump is challenging an unacceptable status quo, which is what good leaders should do.
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Progressives' meltdown over Trump sending 800 National Guard troops to assist in making Washington streets safe is another example 
of how wrong they've been about the consequences of the president's actions.
Liberals were wrong about Trump's tariffs

For months, liberals screamed that Trump was destroying the U.S. economy with his tariffs. Inflation would spike. Unemployment 
would skyrocket. The public would revolt because of the financial pain he was so ruthlessly inflicting on them.

None of it has happened.
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According to the latest consumer price index data released Aug. 12, prices rose 0.2% in July, with the annual inflation rate at 
2.7%. This spring, grocery prices fell at the fastest rate in five years. Gas prices were down nearly 10% in July from a year ago.

The stock markets also have shaken off their fear of tariffs. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ have set multiple record highs in recent 
weeks, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged almost 2% in the five-day period ending Aug. 13. That's fantastic news for the 
tens of millions of Americans who have retirement and other investment accounts.

The doomsday predictions about tariffs from only four months ago turned out to be drastically overblown. But I have yet to hear any 
progressives publicly admit they were wrong.
Trump's wins expose the left's disturbing pattern
From left, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi brief reporters on their plans for 
Washington, DC, on Aug. 11,2025.

This pattern has happened on other issues, like border security.

Under President Joe Biden, migrants crossed the border illegally in record numbers. Trump, after returning to the White House in 
January, quickly regained control. In fact, Customs and Border Protection reported that the agency released zero illegal immigrants 
into the United States in May. That was an incredible feat. Yet, it was hardly recognized in the news media.
Opinion: Democrats have devolved into a clown show. No wonder polls show voters prefer GOP.

The left has developed a pattern in overreacting to Trump that will ensure the Democratic Party's continued decline. It goes like 
this: Trump proposes a policy change or issues an executive order. Democrats and their allies in the media predict imminent doom. 
Trump's policy decisions turn out to be correct. Then progressives ignore the results and simply move on to shouting about 
something else.

Progressives are so anti-Trump that they're now anti-common sense too. Democrats will pay a heavy price for traveling down such a 
self-destructive path.

In 2028, voters will have to choose between a conservative candidate who stands for less crime, border security and balanced trade 
policies that promote prosperity and a Democratic candidate who rejects commonsense solutions for ideological reasons.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."