How funny is this? California passes a law that makes it illegal to make fun of Progressives. Not making this up. Here’s the official language.
Newsom this week signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to ‘knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content, including deepfakes. Watch.
The Governor’s response.
Here’s the Babylon Bee’s response.
Data backs up Trump on crime increase, violence up under Biden-Harris administration.
Crime rates remained elevated last year under President Biden, according to Justice Department data released Thursday that challenges a prevailing media and White House narrative.
The data comes from a massive annual government-run survey of crime victims.
It found 22.5 of every 1,000 residents reported being the victim of a violent crime in 2023, and 102.2 per 1,000 reported facing a property crime.
“Violent crime increased by 37% under the Biden administration, compared to a drop of 17% under the Trump administration,” he said.
Mr. Trump’s campaign said the data showed “crime rates remain WAY UP under Kamala Harris — throwing a dagger straight through the heart of claims to the contrary by Democrats and their Fake News allies.”
The Washington Times has reached out to the White House and Ms. Harris’ campaign for response.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics runs the National Crime Victimization Survey, which annually reaches nearly a quarter-million people in 150,000 households.
It is one of two primary national tallies of overall crime rates. The FBI’s national crime reporting database compiles crimes reported to local police departments.
The FBI data suggested that crime reports had dropped over the past couple of years, but the victimization data suggests this is false.
The issue played out during the presidential debate Tuesday when Mr. Trump made crime rates a theme of attack on Ms. Harris.
“Crime is through the roof,” Mr. Trump said.
At that point, David Muir, the moderator for debate host ABC, stepped in to fact-check Mr. Trump using FBI data.
“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country,” he said.
Mr. Trump said the FBI’s data was suspect, and Mr. Lott said he is right to be skeptical.
In 2020, 97% of police departments reported their data to the FBI, though 10% reported incomplete data. By 2022, 31% weren’t reporting data at all and another 24% were reporting incomplete data.
That means less than half of police departments were reporting complete data to the FBI, Mr. Lott said. A further issue is how often people report crimes to police.
ABC didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics data released Thursday says overall crime reporting rates remained the same from 2022 to 2023 but dropped significantly in some categories, such as robberies and motor vehicle thefts.
Mr. Lott said the victimization data showed significant improvements in several major crimes during the Trump administration. He said aggravated assaults fell by 24% under Mr. Trump but rose 55% under Mr. Biden, according to the data for 2023.
Robbery, which fell 6% under Mr. Trump, is up 63% under Mr. Biden. Rape, which was flat under Mr. Trump, is up 42% under Mr. Biden.
The FBI has better data for one crime: homicide. It is almost always reported, and the victimization survey has no way to measure it.
The latest full-year FBI data, covering 2022, showed a 6.1% drop in homicides from 2021.
Some experts said they don’t think either survey alone is a proper indicator of crime rates and said aggregating the numbers for a national picture doesn’t make sense. Those experts argue that there are too many regional factors.
Looking over a longer horizon, crime rates under Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are much lower than in the early 1990s, when violent crime victimization neared 80 per 1,000 residents, or more than three times their current rate.
Both are statistically unchanged from 2022 but are significantly
higher than in 2020, the last year under President Trump.
The data said Americans aren’t reporting some of the most common crimes to police as often. Just 44% of self-reported robbery victims said they filed a police report last year, down substantially from 64% in 2022.
The numbers indicate that crime has risen under Mr. Biden and fell during the Trump administration, said John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who has tracked the data over the years.
He said the new data undercuts claims by the Biden White House, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and news media figures that crime rates are falling. Their claims are based on FBI data.
Another day another mass shooting.
Yesterday we had another tragic mass shooting. Four dead and nine wounded. This time it was a fourteen-year-old boy who did the killing. So, I’m sure we will see another call for gun bans and new strict laws.
I looked at the numbers from Statista from 1982 to June of 2024. California by far leads all states with 26. As a matter of fact, looking at the top 13 states (four states are tied) here’s the breakdown.
Blue states 55 mass shootings. Purple states 13 mass shootings. Red states 30. So how are those strict gun laws working out?
Speaking of California, when you look at mass shootings that kill or injure? Between 2015 and 2023, California saw about one mass shooting per week. Around 400 hundred incidents. This according to The Public Policy Institute of California.
On Camera: Attorney Who Defended FDA in Court Admits Anti-Ivermectin Campaign was a ‘Mistake’ and an ‘Abuse of Authority’
A Department of Justice attorney has been caught admitting in an undercover video that the FDA’s campaign against the use of ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment was not only misguided but also an overreach of its authority.
In December 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a stern warning to Americans: “Never use medications intended for animals on yourself or other people. Animal ivermectin products are very different from those approved for humans. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous.”
This statement, which came during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was not only controversial but also deeply flawed, as the FDA had previously praised the drug in other contexts.
Ivermectin, a drug that had been safely used in humans since 1966, had been vilified by the FDA during the pandemic, despite its earlier successes in treating various diseases and even being administered to African migrants by the agency itself back in 2015.
Yet, in the face of mounting evidence—105 controlled studies showing a 61% lower risk in early COVID-19 treatment—the FDA clung to its erroneous position, interested in promoting its agenda than in protecting public health.
A group of courageous doctors, refusing to be silenced, filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FDA, challenging the agencies’ unlawful attempts to block ivermectin’s use in treating COVID-19.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas in Galveston, asserts that the FDA overstepped its authority and interfered unjustifiably with medical practice.
Among the plaintiffs were Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul E. Marik, and Robert L. Apter, who accused the FDA of launching a campaign of misinformation. The doctors pointed out that while the FDA had approved ivermectin for human use long before the pandemic, the agency suddenly began spreading falsehoods about its safety when COVID-19 struck.
They argued that this shift in narrative was part of a broader strategy to promote unproven vaccines while suppressing effective treatments.
During the court proceedings, the FDA’s lawyers shockingly admitted that the agency’s recommendations against Ivermectin were only advice and were not mandatory when they told people to “stop” taking Ivermectin for COVID-19.
Isaac Belfer, a lawyer representing the FDA, said, “The cited statements were not directives,” said Isaac Belfer, one of the lawyers. “They were not mandatory. They were recommendations. They said what parties should do. They said, for example, why you should not take ivermectin to treat COVID-19. They did not say you may not do it, you must not do it. They did not say it’s prohibited or it’s unlawful. They also did not say that doctors may not prescribe ivermectin.”
“They use informal language, that is true… It’s conversational but not mandatory,” he continued.
The lawsuit resulted in a significant victory for the doctors, with the FDA being forced to remove its social media posts and consumer advisories against the use of ivermectin for COVID-19.
Belfer, caught on undercover camera by Project Veritas, confessed that the FDA’s actions were an overreach.
“So, what the agency has done… [is] unquestionably beyond its authority. Making a recommendation of what drugs to take or not to take, that’s the practice of medicine. And FDA can’t practice medicine,” Belfer told Project Veritas.
“I think going forward they’ll [FDA] probably be a bit more careful. They [the doctors] got an opinion that was good for them. That kind of limited FDA’s authority. It’s not okay to… actually tell people, ‘You should not take this drug,’” he added.
Drs Apter and Bowden told Project Veritas that suppression of ivermectin led to a prolonged pandemic, and potentially millions in excess COVID deaths.
Apter: “It’s not unreasonable to think that there have been a million unnecessary deaths from COVID in the United States because of the public health agency suppression of effective early treatment with repurposed inexpensive medications.”
Bowden: “If more people had access to early treatment in the form of ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, hydroxychloroquine… we could have nipped the pandemic in the bud.”
Awesome recent court rulings. Including one on a good shoot.
Let’s look at some recent court rulings that show justice is not dead.
A U.S. District Judge has officially dropped key federal charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and Former Sgt. Kyle Meany regarding their alleged ‘involvement’ in Breonna Taylor’s death, which occurred back in 2020. Good Shoot.
This week, U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson ruled that the officers in the case were not responsible for Taylor’s death, instead laying the blame at the feet of her criminal boyfriend, who opened fire on police the night of the raid.
Federal Judge rules RFK Jr. can sue Biden administration over alleged censorship of charity that questions vaccines.
A judge has temporarily halted enforcement of a Colorado ban on what experts consider unproven treatments to reverse medical abortions at a religious clinic that alleged in a lawsuit that the newly signed law violated its Constitutional rights.
Judge Daniel Domenico, who noted that Colorado is the only state to ban the treatment, issued the temporary restraining order over the weekend after Bella Health and Wellness argued that barring them from prescribing the so-called “abortion pill reversal” treatment violates their First Amendment right to free speech and religious exercise.
Supreme Court Allows Arizona to Enforce, for Now, Law Tightening New Voter Registrations.
Yes, Virginia Crime is up. You just don’t know where to look. Your large cities. The MSM and white progressive supremacists love to quote statistics from a survey that leaves out 30% of the country, and major cities like NY, Chicago, LA, Philadelphia, etc. So, to that survey crime is down.
Citing preliminary data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) — a different independent analysis finds that violent crime is actually up in 66 major U.S. cities.
According to the Coalition for Law, Order, and Safety (CLOS), there has been a 9.6 percent increase in total violent crime from January-June 2019 to January-June 2024.
Fact checking the final day of racism, bigotry, and hate speech.
After watching the adults and hearing uplifting speeches and human event stories in Milwaukee, the children in Chicago were something else. All that screaming and yelling was typical for children, but seeing so called grownups doing it was both funny and sad.
So, let’s do some fact checking and see what they got wrong. Now I’ve been using left wing media because even they spotted out the lies. What’s that tell you when MSM calls you a liar?
Vice President Kamala Harris: “[Trump] intends to enact what in effect is a national sales tax, call it a Trump tax, that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.”
Details: Harris is citing an estimate of potential costs if former President Donald Trump were to implement tariffs on imported goods. Trump has advocated for a tariff of at least 10% on most imports and a tariff of at least 60% on Chinese imports. No mention of the national sales tax the Biden Harris administration put in place.
Misleading.
Trump has proposed broad-based tax cuts during his presidential campaign, to high earners and other taxpayers.
Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 that permanently cut corporate tax rates and lowered individual tax rates for most households.
Estimates from the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and the Tax Policy Center found that the majority of people would benefit from these tax cuts.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania: “When Big Pharma jacked up the cost of insulin, we passed a bill to stop them. Now, for millions of Americans, it’s capped at $35 a month.”
Previously, the Trump administration introduced a more limited voluntary program that allowed some Medicare Part D plans to cap out-of-pocket costs for certain insulin products at $35 per month. There were over 800,000 insulin users who had access to the $35 insulin cap under the Trump-era program.
Kamala Harris mentioned the Supreme Court’s July decision on presidential immunity while warning about the “consequences” of giving former President Donald Trump another term.
“Consider the power he will have – especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution,” Harris said. “Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.”
Facts First: The Supreme Court ruling last month did not grant Trump or former presidents in general total immunity from criminal prosecution, though it did grant them immunity for many of their activities in office.
Harris said that if Trump were to become president again, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion; enact a nationwide abortion ban; force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions “with or without Congress”; and create a national anti-abortion coordinator. “Simply put,” she said, “they are out of their minds.”
Facts First: Harris is making a prediction that we cannot definitively fact check, but Trump himself has not, during this campaign, endorsed these policies she said he would implement as president.
Harris on Thursday said Trump fights for the wealthy, not the middle class.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, one of Trump’s key achievements in office, reduced taxes for most people. 65% went to those making less than $400,000. Biden Harris always mention.
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey highlighted Harris’ recently announced plan to put in place anti-price gouging laws in an effort to lower the cost of food, saying Thursday at the Democratic National Convention, “Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.”
Research published by the San Francisco Fed earlier this year reached a conclusion: that alleged corporate price gouging was not a primary catalyst for the inflation surge that occurred in 2021 and 2022.
Ultimately, the inflation Americans have had to contend with over the past few years is the product of a confluence of events, including the war in Ukraine, government spending and pandemic-related disruptions across the economy.
Harris: Trump “plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.”
Mostly False.
What Harris describes is Project 2025. Although the 900-page policy manual makes such recommendations, it isn’t Trump’s plan.
Harris: “As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress.”
Harris’ predictive, multipart claim exaggerates Trump’s abortion agenda by tying him to Project 2025 “allies” and misleading about some of the document’s scope.
• Birth control: After a May interview in which he said he was “looking at” birth control restrictions, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “I have never and will never advocate for imposing restrictions on birth control.” Medication abortion: Trump is on record against Project 2025’s position on this issue.
Enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress: Trump said this year he would not sign a national ban, even though he endorsed a 20-week cutoff as president. Since April, Trump has said abortion should be left to the states.
Harris: “I … helped pass a homeowner bill of rights, one of the first of its kind in the nation.”
As California’s attorney general, Harris was part of a multistate settlement that won debt relief for homeowners affected by the 2007-10 housing crisis. She initially withdrew from settlement talks in 2011.
A bonus feature from day 3.
How stupid is he? ‘Children of people who look like me run to the police, others have to run from [the police].’
Hey Tim, maybe they ran because they were caught committing a crime. Here’s this clown justifying the burning and rioting. People of color who obey our laws and don’t commit crimes have no need to fear the police. People of color who support this team run because of the crimes they commit or are about to commit.
Mr. Walz’s skin color bore on his legitimacy as a decision-maker, he said: “I will not patronize you as a white male without living those experiences of how difficult” it is to have a police force occupying one’s neighborhood. He described the riots themselves as a manifestation of systemic racism: “What the world has witnessed since the killing of George Floyd on Monday has been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand who we are and where we go from here.” Mr. Walz imputed a sacramental quality to the looted and torched buildings: “The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard.”
So a criminal was put down with excessive force, and that justified the looting, rioting, and burning down a section of a city?
In 2022 Mr. Walz declared May 25 “George Floyd Remembrance Day”… Mr. Walz signed legislation in 2023 to lessen criminal penalties, expunge convictions and reopen felony murder sentences ….
Progressives hate towards Jews.
According to the College Fix, here’s a list of the ten most disturbing acts of antisemitism of the school year,
1. ‘Scholar-activist’ allegedly firebombed police car at UC Berkeley – The man charged in the incident is a recent doctoral graduate of African American studies from Northwestern University. Allegedly, he targeted a police car and several university buildings to show support for pro-Palestinian protesters.
2. Columbia University admin caught mocking antisemitism panel – Three of them are now on leave after the texts, discovered by The Washington Free Beacon, “dismiss[ed] claims of anti-Semitism and suggest[ed] … that Jewish figures on campus were exploiting the moment for ‘fundraising potential.’”
3. Jewish students prevented from attending classes at MIT – In a November post on X, Professor Retsef Levi said Jewish students “were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students.”
4. Graduation ceremonies disrupted by anti-Israel protesters – Yale and George Washington university students disrupted commencement ceremonies to show their support for the pro-Palestinian cause.
At McGill University, a graduating pro-Palestinian student made what appeared to be “spitting motions” at faculty members and then unfurled a banner that read “Divest from Death” as she walked across the stage.
Meanwhile, Harvard’s commencement speaker was accused of making antisemitic remarks.
5. Cornell student charged with threatening to slaughter Jewish students – New York student Patrick Dai pleaded guilty in April, after admitting he posted threatening messages online in October. The posts included threats to shoot Jewish students and slit their throats.
6. ‘Hitler was right,’ ‘gas the Jews,’ ‘death to kikes,’: Messages seen at NYU – These were just a sample of the graffiti and other threatening messages Jewish students and employees reported seeing at campuses across the country. In another case, the words “Holocaust 2.0” were found written on the ground after a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Maryland.
7. UCLA accused of allowing ‘Jewish exclusion’ zone – The California university is being sued for discrimination. In the lawsuit, Jewish students allege pro-Palestinian protesters restricted their access to campus, and UCLA administrators did nothing to stop them.
8. Jewish student’s door set on fire at Drexel University – The student’s dorm room door was targeted just three days after the Hamas attack. The student said she believed her outspoken support of Israel was the reason.
9. University of Michigan regent’s office vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti – Regent Jordan Acker, who is Jewish, described the crime as an act of “antisemitism” after noting none of the other regents were targeted.
10. More than 1,000 complaints against anti-Israel protesters documented at just one university – Among the many reports to DePaul University, a student told campus Public Safety that “she was followed through the Quad where she overheard ‘I want to kill her’ and ‘I want to rape her;’” and “told ‘You’re Jewish scum.’”
How could this be? Democratic Candidate Arrested on Multiple Felony Voter Fraud Charges.
Every time I see an article on voter fraud I think about this loon in California who claimed to have checked all fifty states for voter fraud and only found one case. And supposedly a Republican.
Well, I haven’t checked all fifty states, but it seems as if every time there is an article on voter fraud, it’s a Democrat. A Democratic Party candidate is being charged with a bevy of felony counts, all related to alleged voter fraud.
Terry Andrew Heflin, the 45-year old candidate for a commission seat in Clay County, Alabama, was arrested Tuesday on seven counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots, according to a news release from the Alabama Attorney General’s office. Each unlawful use of the ballots comes with a punishment ranging from one to 10 years in prison.
