Obama Whines About The Internet Giving News He Doesn’t Like

Speaking at the Fourth Global Opinion Leaders Summit in Japan over the weekend, former President Barack Obama lamented the wide array of news sources that exist now as opposed to the days when three television networks controlled the dispensing of news, opined that his administration had shut the Iranian nuclear program down, and bragged about his “calm” demeanor.

Obama complained about the rise of the internet and the plethora of news sites nowadays:

There’s a viciousness to politics and a polarization – very sharp lines that are drawn that make it more difficult to govern. And some of the reason for that is, I think because of information. It used to be that in the United States that there were three television stations, basically everybody watched the same thing, everybody got their news from the same sources, and so everybody had more or less a similar view of the world. But today because of, first cable television, and then now the internet, people have 500 channels to choose from. And they are able to find the news that fits their views instead of fitting their views to the news, so that they are very biased in terms of how they see things.

Obama somehow claimed that his administration, which confessed it had lied about selling the Iran nuclear deal, had succeeded in shutting the Iranian nuclear program down, saying;

We were able to negotiate with Iran, so that Iran would shut down its nuclear program. We did that through significant sanctions; Japan was a participant in it; Europe, China, India, and eventually Iran said to itself, “We will be better off if we’re able to trade, engage in commerce, sell our oil, import the parts that we need for our airlines, and so there was a way of getting leverage on Iran. And ultimately I think Iran will be better off for not having developed nuclear weapons.

Obama bragged of his even temperament, boasting that his supposed calm demeanor came from him taking a “long view” of history.

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Watch: Dem. Sheriff Candidate Caught on Tape Agreeing To Kill Legal Gun Owners

A Democrat candidate for sheriff in Buncombe County, North Carolina, says that he has no problem killing legal gun owners to confiscate their weapons if the situation arises, according to video posted to social media.

If similar video on R. Daryl Fisher’s Facebook page is labeled accurately, the candidate’s remarks came at a monthly meeting of gun control group and Everytown for Gun Safety subsidiary Moms Demand Action on March 7.

The video, which was posted by The Red Elephants on Twitter, shows Fisher going through a veritable checklist of things he supports, which are the typical gun-grabber items.

You may not be surprised that, for instance, he wants to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21. Or that he thinks that high-capacity magazines are also a bad thing and need to go. Bump stocks? Going, too.

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None of this was a surprise. What was, however, was his proposal on how to deal with legal firearm owners who didn’t want to surrender their weapons.

“You’ve heard people say, ‘You’ll have to pry my gun from my cold, dead hands,’” Fisher said, and then gave a shrug. “OK,” he said to laughter.

In most of North Carolina, Fisher would generally seem to be a poor candidate with that kind of attitude.

Do you think this statement went too far?

However, Buncombe County includes the ultra-liberal enclave of Asheville, a sort of San Francisco for the Tar Heel State.

In fact, Fisher has served as a captain with the Asheville Police Department and is currently the county’s law enforcement training director. (And doesn’t that just make you feel safe?)

There’s not a whole lot of polling out there, but those factors could mean he’s got a legitimate shot.

That probably ought to frighten you, considering there hasn’t been a worse candidate for sheriff that I can remember since Hunter S. Thompson, and at least Thompson believed in the Second Amendment, if just because he liked shooting at things in his backyard while he was outrageously intoxicated.

RELATED: Retired Army Colonel Calls Out Gun-Grabbers — If You Say We’ve Got Blood on Our Hands Then It’s Safe To Say…

Thompson’s candidacy was also kind of a joke. This guy appears to be dead serious and stone sober. While the video is edited, I can’t think of any way in which this comment was taken out of context.

The fact that this guy was able to talk about being willing to kill people over the Second Amendment is a horrible omen. The fact that Moms Demand Action members thought it was funny was worse.

This guy cannot become a sheriff. Buncombe County residents need to mobilize, and they need to mobilize now.

The alternative is simply too grim to imagine.

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Eagles of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes: ‘Disgusting’ Student Gun Control Marchers ‘Insult Memory of Those Killed’

Eagles of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes: ‘Disgusting’ Student Gun Control Marchers ‘Insult Memory of Those Killed’



Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday that the students who marched for gun control across the country over the weekend “insult the memory of those who were killed.”

“The best thing to do to combat chronic abusers and disregarders of the law(like the law against Murder) is to……..pass another Law!…..Genius!!!…..,” Hughes wrote. “But before we pass this law we’re going to denigrate the memory and curse ourselves by exploiting the death of 16 of our fellow students for a few Facebook likes and some media attention….and look how well civil rights abuses as it concerns firearms helped to protect me and my friends in Paris!!!!!”

Jesse Hughes and his bandmates were on stage in Paris on November 13, 2015, when armed terrorists attacked, killing 130 innocents. Following that incident he said, “I don’t go anywhere in America without a gun anymore. That sucks. And I’m not paranoid. I’m not a cowboy … but I wanna be prepared.”

The 45-year-old rocker referenced his Paris experience in responding to the student march for gun control.

“The Whitney Houston song about letting the children lead the way wasn’t actually had operating paradigm for life…..,” Hughes wrote. “And when the truth don’t line up with your bullshit narrative just hold your breath and stamp your feet and refused to except it…. then take multiple days off of school playing hooky at the expense of 16 of your classmates blood….!…. it might be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic and disgusting.”

The Eagles of Death Metal have been barred from music festivals over their support of the Second Amendment.

Jesse Hughes concluded by stressing once more that he survived a mass shooting, and segued from that point to express his disgust with the protesters pushing for gun control.

“As the survivor of a mass shooting I can tell you from first-hand experience that all of you protesting and taking days off from school insult the memory of those who were killed and abuse and insult me and every other lover of liberty by your every action,” he wrote.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

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Thursday Ratings: Even Yuge Playmate Interview Can’t Lift CNN Out of Last Place

Thursday Ratings: Even Yuge Playmate Interview Can’t Lift CNN Out of Last Place



A Thursday night interview with former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal alleging an affair with President Trump could not lift CNN out of last place in the ratings.

Imagine you are CNN chief Jeff Zucker, and you have spent weeks and weeks turning your basement-rated, anti-Trump network into a sensationalist soft porn channel — and when the payoff finally arrives in the form of the McDougal interview, your network still lands in … last place.

Just like he did with his “poop cruise” and missing Malaysian airline flight 370 obsessions, Zucker put all of his chips in the middle of the table with the porn stuff, went all-in with a salacious narrative in the hopes that when the payoff arrived, with it would come a ratings bonanza.

Unfortunately for Zucker and his on-air minions, CNN’s credibility is in such a sinkhole, the payoff did not lift CNN out of the basement, nor did it make much news.

While the McDougal interview did nearly double CNN’s average nightly rating, which barely squeaks over a million viewers, to 1.95 million average primetime viewers, CNN still got walloped by its competition at Fox News and MSNBC, who grabbed 2.6 and 2.4 million viewers, respectively.

Even the CNN show that aired the interview, Anderson Cooper’s 360, lost to the competition. While Cooper’s 8 p.m. hour grabbed 2.2 million viewers, Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. hour at Fox News earned 2.7 million.

Cooper’s 9 p.m. hour grabbed 2.3 million viewers, but he still lost to Rachel Maddow at MSNBC and Sean Hannity at Fox, who both earned 2.9 million viewers.

The only good news for CNN is that Cooper won the night’s most viewers in the 25-54 age demo, but that is all inside baseball stuff related to advertising rates.

The bragging rights in cable news are all about total viewers.

The most dispiriting news for the far-left CNN must be Trump’s job approval ratings, which have steadily climbed throughout CNN’s onslaught of porn. The latest Fox News poll, has Trump sitting at a healthy 45 percent approval rating, and the Real Clear Politics poll of polls shows an upward trend from 39.8 percent approval to 42.1 percent. Trump’s disapproval numbers have also fallen two points. That is a +4, overall.

CNN  has spent 25 years protecting the Clintons from everything from perjury involving sexual liaisons with an intern in the Oval Office to allegations of rape. Watching this same network pretend to freak out over allegations of a 12-year-old consensual affair has only turned this fake news factory into a bigger laughingstock than it already was.

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Sad. One of America’s oldest firearms manufacturers files for Chapter 11

Leah Barkoukis at Townhall brings us the sad but predicted news that Remington Outdoor Company (better known to most of you shooters as Remington Arms) has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A variety of challenges have been bringing down the company’s bottom line for a while now and this move was likely seen as the only way to keep them solvent. They do not anticipate closing and should remain in business through the transition, but control of Remington will pass to its creditors.

Remington Outdoor Company, which is one of the oldest gun manufacturers in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

The move was reportedly to occur last month but the filing was delayed after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, which killed 17 people.

According to The Wall Street Journal, a number of factors have contributed to the Chapter 11 filing, including falling sales, a heavy debt load, and lawsuits from the Sandy Hook school shooting.

Remington probably could have survived any of those challenges individually, but the combination of factors was too much for them. The ironic effect of having a pro-Second Amendment president in office is that people aren’t so worried about having their firearms seized, so they won’t be in as much of a rush to run out and purchase new weapons. Adding to that challenge was the continued legal fees and other drains associated with the endless parade of nuisance lawsuits coming from the Sandy Hook groups following the mass shooting in Connecticut. While the company has prevailed in each instance thus far, the legal fees have surely been adding up over the years and there’s been no move to force the groups suing them to pay for those costs.

Seeing Remington fall on such hard times is particularly tough for me. As I’m sure I’ve mentioned here over the years, I grew up barely five miles from the main, original plant in upstate New York and used to ride my bike past there regularly when the weather was good. They were the biggest employer in Ilion, New York for ages and everyone either had a family member who worked there or was friends with one. It was really the heart of the community. They began moving both their headquarters and many jobs to the south years ago because of the horrible business conditions in New York and the lack of respect for the Second Amendment demonstrated by the state government, but they always remained close to the community.

The first gun I ever received, back when I was just finishing elementary school, was a Remington Arms bolt-action .22 caliber rifle. It had belonged to my Uncle and my dad had a 3x scope fitted on it for me. I used to shoot woodchucks that would get into my grandfather’s farm fields and he’d give all the grandkids a quarter if you brought in a woodchuck. (My brother and I quickly realized that you could bring him a woodchuck you shot miles away and still get the quarter. I’m pretty sure Gramps knew what we were up to, but he paid us anyway.)

The point is, while it was an internationally recognized brand in firearms manufacturing, Remington Arms was always more of a family affair for those who grew up in the shadow of that factory. Even if they continue on under the same name but with different ownership, it’s really never going to be the same name and brand that we grew up with. A sad day, to be sure.

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“BIG WIN JUDGEMENT”: Kim Dotcom Triumphs In Major Legal Battle As U.S. Extradition Fight Drags On

“BIG WIN JUDGEMENT”: Kim Dotcom Triumphs In Major Legal Battle As U.S. Extradition Fight Drags On

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won a major legal battle against New Zealand as the fight to extradite him to the U.S. drags on. 

Reuters reports:

The Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision might be relevant for his high-profile U.S. extradition case, which is with the Court of Appeal. Dotcom says the information he requested in July 2015 and denied one month later could be presented as evidence in that case.

German-born Dotcom faces extradition to the United States relating to his Megaupload site, which was shut down in 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion.

U.S. authorities say Dotcom and three co-accused Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material.

Dotcom hailed the decision on Twitter.

“Big Win JUDGEMENT: Attorney General of New Zealand broke the law by withholding information I’m legally entitled to. The Government & Ministers are ordered to comply with my requests and provide all documents. Damages for loss of benefit and loss of dignity are rewarded to me.”

“Former NZ Attorney General Chris Finlayson is a serial law breaker. His security clearance should be revoked and he should be removed from New Zealand’s Intelligence and Security committee. Mini Napoleon is a reason why the NZ Govt and GCSB got embarrassed in this Dotcom fiasco.”

The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald weighed in on the ruling.

“A New Zealand court ruled yesterday in favor of @KimDotcom in his suit against the New Zealand Government for its refusal to provide him the information it had about him under the Privacy Act. The court awarded Dotcom $ NZD 90,000 (US$ 65,500). Whatever you think of @KimDotcom politically, or the US’s endless attempt to extradite him to a country to which he has no connection, there is no question his rights have been repeatedly violated by the US & NZ Govts – including illegally spying on him.”

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Parkland Anti-Gun Activist’s Next Crusade: Opposing Voter Identification Laws

Most schools require student ID. He also wants to tighten up background checks. And he thinks that voter ID oppresses black people, a typical racist thought.

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The March for Our Lives may have been the Parkland activist students’ magnum opus, but they are by no means done agitating for leftist policies. The only relevant legislation on the horizon, the STOP School Violence Act, passed without their support, and there are few gun regulations likely to pass.

So, at least one Parkland student is seeking to expand his policy agenda; David Hogg is battling voter ID laws.

That’s right: he may believe you should have photo identification in order to exercise your Second Amendment rights, but is iffy on whether you should have similar paperwork to cast a ballot.[…]

Contrary to the stated purpose of Saturday’s March for Our Lives — “preventing gun violence” — the objective appears to be the widespread promotion of a severely leftist agenda, and not just on guns.

Keep reading…

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Trump’s Tough Talk On China Works: China’s Premier Pledges Opening Market To Avert Trade War

Trump’s Tough Talk On China Works: China’s Premier Pledges Opening Market To Avert Trade War

China’s Premier Li Keqiang gestures as he speaks during a news conference, after the closing ceremony of the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, March 13, 2014. REUTERS/Barry Huang (CHINA – Tags: POLITICS)

As reported previously by TGP:

President Trump just announced a new series of tariffs on roughly $50 billion in Chinese imports. These new tariffs are the result of a seven-month investigation into China’s continued theft of US intellectual property. “We have a tremendous intellectual property theft problem. It’s going to make us a much stronger, much richer nation,” President Trump told reporters this morning. “This has been long in the making.”

While President Trump is imposing the harsh tariffs to help correct the current trade imbalance, he remained open and confident with US-Chinese relations calling China a “friend” to the use and stating he had “tremendous respect” President Xi Jinping.

Today, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that Bejing is now pushing for talks to correct Chinese-US trade imbalances, rather than a trade war which he believes will hurt both countries. Speaking at a press conference Mr. Li stated, “With regard to trade imbalances, China and the United States should adopt a pragmatic and rational attitude, promote balancing through expansion of trade, and stick to negotiations to resolve differences and friction.”

Premier Li pledged to make access for American business easier in China and that, going forward, China will treat foreign and domestic companies equally, without pushing US-firms to transfer intellectual property rights as it has done before. The theft of intellectual property and US-developed technologies has long-since been a point of contention for the US.

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The United States asked China in a letter last week to cut a tariff on U.S. autos, buy more U.S.-made semiconductors and give U.S. firms greater access to the Chinese financial sector, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing unidentified sources.

Alarm over a possible trade war between the world’s two largest economies has chilled financial markets as investors anticipated dire consequences should trade barriers go up due to President Donald Trump’s bid to cut the U.S. deficit with China.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer listed steps they want China to take in a letter to Liu He, a newly appointed vice premier who oversees China’s economy, the Journal said, quoting sources with knowledge of the matter.

The newspaper reported that Mnuchin was considering a visit to Beijing to pursue negotiations.

Despite a steady stream of fierce rhetoric from Chinese state media lambasting the United States for being a “bully” and warning of retaliation, Chinese and U.S. officials are busy negotiating behind the scenes.

 

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America doesn’t have a gun violence epidemic. Democrat cities do.

Guns and gun crime are the new climate change: those who know nothing about the subject are suddenly “experts.” 


I call this faux expertise Albert Gore-itis, and I discuss it at length in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a Democrat.



College pottery majors and donkey cheese-eating, Che Guevera T-shirt-wearing trust fund babies fancy themselves firearms gurus (FYI, donkey cheese is the world’s most expensive).  That doesn’t really bother me as much as the lying-by-withholding that the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex) and Redcoat gun-grabbing organizations (funded by millionaires and billionaires, such as former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg) engage in when discussing guns and gun crime.


Democrat policies kill


America does not have a gun crime epidemic.  There are, however, epidemics in many locales and cities.  Who do you think runs the vast majority of those cities?


NRA-funded Republicans?


No.


Lobbyists for firearm manufacturers?


No.


The vast majority of those cities have been run by Democrats for decades upon decades.


Here are the top 20 cities with the highest gun murder rates in the U.S. per capita.  Of these, every city except the last one, Tulsa, has a Democrat majority in the mayoralty and City Council or Board of Aldermen.


Here are the non-fatal shootings top 20 per capita.  Notice the overlap of several cities; the cities on the non-fatal list absent on the murder list are also Democrat-run cities, except for the last one, Jacksonville.


Here’s a sampling of five longtime Democrat empires (all days are consecutive and uninterrupted).  All appear in the top 20 lists:


1. St. Louis: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 15,000 days.


2. Baltimore: only Democrat mayors and only Democrat City Council; 18,000 days.


3. Philadelphia: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 20,000 days.


4. Detroit: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 22,000 days.


5. Chicago: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 30,000 days.


The Democrats have ruled Chicago for longer than Stalin ruled the USSR, the Castros in Cuba, and the Kims in North Korea, and for longer than slavery was legal in the U.S.


Exhausted yet?  There’s more.


These are America’s top 10 most violent cities, according to FBI data.  Violent crimes include homicides, gun violence, gangs, pedophilia, and robberies.


Every city is majority Democrat-controlled.  Several of the cities on the FBI’s list also appear on the aforementioned murder and non-fatal shootings lists.  Because the FBI’s ranking is per capita, several cities such as Chicago and Newark (only Democrat mayors; 90% City Council; 23,000 days) are absent.


Still with me?  St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, and New Orleans crack the top 50 for most dangerous cities on the planet.  New Orleans has elected only Democrat mayors for the last 55,000 consecutive days; the United States as a nation has existed for 88,000 days.  New Orleans’s city council is, in theory, nonpartisan; I’ll let you conclude how nonpartisan it is.


As a side note on Chicago: A report last year estimated that 60% of guns recovered in Chicago came from out of state, with 20% traced back to Indiana and others from Wisconsin.  Though difficult to determine from where exactly, in each state, the guns originated, I believe it’s reasonable to speculate that they came not from rural areas, but from the big cities, such as Indianapolis and Milwaukee (run, of course, by…drum roll…Democrats).  What, you thought Wisconsin and Indiana were red states?  Red states are dead; only blue and pur-blue exist.


Stats don’t lie; Democrats do


Democrats sell local gun crime epidemics as national gun crime epidemics. And listen: their sales pitch is effective.  I rarely hear Republicans, conservatives, or even the NRA effectively combat this pitch.  Data is mixed, depending on the study, but since the ’90s, gun violence and homicides nationally have declined.  But not in Democrat-controlled cities.


Also, Democrats always pad the stat sheet by mixing in gun-related deaths from suicide and suspects shot and killed by police officers.


The old saying “stats don’t lie; statisticians do” can be used in any ideological context.  But when it comes to the DMIC, Democrats and Redcoat gun-grabbers, one of two things is at work:


  1. They’re unaware that the epidemics are largely isolated in Democrat city monopolies, thereby making them dangerously ignorant.
  2. They are aware, thereby making them…well, just dangerous, just like the cities they rule over. 


When it comes to the crème de la crème of cities with gun crime, Democrats control 95% – yes, 95% – of the top 20.  As one moves into the top 50 and 100 cities, the percentage dips, but not by much.


Our rights are under fire


Helping the Democrats’ cause is the fact that they are now overtly and in-your-face exploiting our youths as Redcoat gun control propaganda props.  The Democrats have pitted us against children and created creepy kid activists.  How do we win a battle challenging kids?  Answer: We don’t, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it all the time.  The Democrats are always on offense.  It’s not enough for us to match their intensity; we must exceed it.  Republicans and conservatives usually underestimate the Democrats and fail to understand their tactics.


The way Republicans and conservatives win this narrative war is by talking about the entire story, and one is not telling the entire story without hammering home over and over again the indisputable failures of Democrat gun and crime policies. While statements such as “we’re not Sweden” and “those countries don’t have a Second Amendment” are correct, they render the message incomplete.  Winning this narrative war will not be easy, but it can be done.


Chances are that those of you reading this don’t live in a city with mass gun crime.  Remove the data from municipal Democrat quasi-monarchies, and our gun crime rate is lower than Heaven’s.


If we could just convince Democrats and Tessio Republicans to self-deport, I suspect that our crime rates would significantly decrease in an evening or two.  One can only dream.


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Guns and gun crime are the new climate change: those who know nothing about the subject are suddenly “experts.” 


I call this faux expertise Albert Gore-itis, and I discuss it at length in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a Democrat.


College pottery majors and donkey cheese-eating, Che Guevera T-shirt-wearing trust fund babies fancy themselves firearms gurus (FYI, donkey cheese is the world’s most expensive).  That doesn’t really bother me as much as the lying-by-withholding that the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex) and Redcoat gun-grabbing organizations (funded by millionaires and billionaires, such as former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg) engage in when discussing guns and gun crime.


Democrat policies kill


America does not have a gun crime epidemic.  There are, however, epidemics in many locales and cities.  Who do you think runs the vast majority of those cities?


NRA-funded Republicans?


No.


Lobbyists for firearm manufacturers?


No.


The vast majority of those cities have been run by Democrats for decades upon decades.


Here are the top 20 cities with the highest gun murder rates in the U.S. per capita.  Of these, every city except the last one, Tulsa, has a Democrat majority in the mayoralty and City Council or Board of Aldermen.


Here are the non-fatal shootings top 20 per capita.  Notice the overlap of several cities; the cities on the non-fatal list absent on the murder list are also Democrat-run cities, except for the last one, Jacksonville.


Here’s a sampling of five longtime Democrat empires (all days are consecutive and uninterrupted).  All appear in the top 20 lists:


1. St. Louis: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 15,000 days.


2. Baltimore: only Democrat mayors and only Democrat City Council; 18,000 days.


3. Philadelphia: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 20,000 days.


4. Detroit: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 22,000 days.


5. Chicago: only Democrat mayors; 90% Democrat City Council; 30,000 days.


The Democrats have ruled Chicago for longer than Stalin ruled the USSR, the Castros in Cuba, and the Kims in North Korea, and for longer than slavery was legal in the U.S.


Exhausted yet?  There’s more.


These are America’s top 10 most violent cities, according to FBI data.  Violent crimes include homicides, gun violence, gangs, pedophilia, and robberies.


Every city is majority Democrat-controlled.  Several of the cities on the FBI’s list also appear on the aforementioned murder and non-fatal shootings lists.  Because the FBI’s ranking is per capita, several cities such as Chicago and Newark (only Democrat mayors; 90% City Council; 23,000 days) are absent.


Still with me?  St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, and New Orleans crack the top 50 for most dangerous cities on the planet.  New Orleans has elected only Democrat mayors for the last 55,000 consecutive days; the United States as a nation has existed for 88,000 days.  New Orleans’s city council is, in theory, nonpartisan; I’ll let you conclude how nonpartisan it is.


As a side note on Chicago: A report last year estimated that 60% of guns recovered in Chicago came from out of state, with 20% traced back to Indiana and others from Wisconsin.  Though difficult to determine from where exactly, in each state, the guns originated, I believe it’s reasonable to speculate that they came not from rural areas, but from the big cities, such as Indianapolis and Milwaukee (run, of course, by…drum roll…Democrats).  What, you thought Wisconsin and Indiana were red states?  Red states are dead; only blue and pur-blue exist.


Stats don’t lie; Democrats do


Democrats sell local gun crime epidemics as national gun crime epidemics. And listen: their sales pitch is effective.  I rarely hear Republicans, conservatives, or even the NRA effectively combat this pitch.  Data is mixed, depending on the study, but since the ’90s, gun violence and homicides nationally have declined.  But not in Democrat-controlled cities.


Also, Democrats always pad the stat sheet by mixing in gun-related deaths from suicide and suspects shot and killed by police officers.


The old saying “stats don’t lie; statisticians do” can be used in any ideological context.  But when it comes to the DMIC, Democrats and Redcoat gun-grabbers, one of two things is at work:


  1. They’re unaware that the epidemics are largely isolated in Democrat city monopolies, thereby making them dangerously ignorant.
  2. They are aware, thereby making them…well, just dangerous, just like the cities they rule over. 


When it comes to the crème de la crème of cities with gun crime, Democrats control 95% – yes, 95% – of the top 20.  As one moves into the top 50 and 100 cities, the percentage dips, but not by much.


Our rights are under fire


Helping the Democrats’ cause is the fact that they are now overtly and in-your-face exploiting our youths as Redcoat gun control propaganda props.  The Democrats have pitted us against children and created creepy kid activists.  How do we win a battle challenging kids?  Answer: We don’t, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it all the time.  The Democrats are always on offense.  It’s not enough for us to match their intensity; we must exceed it.  Republicans and conservatives usually underestimate the Democrats and fail to understand their tactics.


The way Republicans and conservatives win this narrative war is by talking about the entire story, and one is not telling the entire story without hammering home over and over again the indisputable failures of Democrat gun and crime policies. While statements such as “we’re not Sweden” and “those countries don’t have a Second Amendment” are correct, they render the message incomplete.  Winning this narrative war will not be easy, but it can be done.


Chances are that those of you reading this don’t live in a city with mass gun crime.  Remove the data from municipal Democrat quasi-monarchies, and our gun crime rate is lower than Heaven’s.


If we could just convince Democrats and Tessio Republicans to self-deport, I suspect that our crime rates would significantly decrease in an evening or two.  One can only dream.


Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show, at TheRichLogisShow.com, and author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a Democrat.  He can be found on Twitter at @RichLogis.





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