August 12, 2025 • 12 mins
When President Trump announced on Monday that he was federalizing the Washington D.C. Police Department while deploying the National Guard, and instituting emergency curfews throughout the city...he acknowledged that there might be backlash but offered up the statement that “Democrats gets mugged too”. And that’s true.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable. It's time for today's top three takeaways. Hey,
they're happy Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Democrats they get mugged too, they do smooth first day
of school and Florida's redistricting. My top three takeaways for
you as we get started, and my top one is
that Democrats get mugged too. This is all related to
the President offering this in regards to Washington, DC yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
This is liberation Day in DC and we're going to
take our capital.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Back there you go?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is liberation day different? We have all kinds of liberation
these days. Doesn't just happen to be about tariffs. This
one doesn't make me as nervous. No, If anything, it
might make you a little bit less nervous. To go
to the nation's capital probably is almost immediately a safer
place than it was.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So let me get into this a little bit here.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When President Trump and now sudden Monday that he was
federalizing the DC Police Department while deploying the National Guard
and instituting emergency curfews throughout the city, he acknowledged there
might be some backlash, but he offered up the statement
(01:28):
that Democrats get mugg to he's right about this, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Who can argue with that? True?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And with over ninety percent of Washington, d C's population
consistently voting for Democrats, will shoot, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Safe to say that this sided.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Like the Deep State's actions against President Trump, Democrats are
mostly the victims of the crimes that are committed within
the nation's capital that the President is seeking to end,
So you might even say that the President is protecting
Democrats mostly so going forward, the DC Metropolitan Police Department
is entering to the Trump administration as opposed to the
(02:06):
city's leadership, which does remain in place. Something I covered
in a Q and A last week. The only way
you could get rid of the mayor and the city
council would be through a law that would have to
be passed.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Can't be through executive.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Action, but anyway, figures would be an interesting dynamic as
the President pledged to clean up the streets and the
city's parks, taking down homeless encampments that have taken hold
throughout the city. In the President's executive order, it says
the local government of the District of Columbia has lost
control of public order and safety in the city, as
(02:40):
evidenced by the two embassy staffers who were murdered in May,
the congressional intern who was fatally shot a short distance
from the White House in June, and the administration staffer
who was mercilessly beaten by a violent mob days ago. Citizens, tourists,
and staff alike are unable to live peacefully in the
(03:01):
nation's capital, which is under siege from violent crime. It's
a point of national disgrace. Now, Washington, d C. As
a violent crime rate that is higher than some of
the most dangerous places in the world. And it is
fascinating to hear some of what you were just you know,
receiving the DC officials the mayor crime is the lowest
(03:24):
it's been in thirty year old What in the what universe?
They just don't report crime. It's like, if you don't
arrest anybody, no crime, right. I guess that's the way
they interpret crime information now, as always, are two sides
of stories and one side of facts. Let's talk facts.
This is updated as of twenty five. Information here Washington,
(03:45):
DC's crime rate is one hundred and twenty eight percent
higher than the average large cities Okay, so you start there,
just in comparable kind of places, you already have a
lot more crime in most large cities than the rest
of the country. The Washington DC's crime rate is one
hundred and twenty eight percent higher than the average ones.
(04:08):
The vehicle theft rate the highest in the country. You
want your car to get stolen, take it to DC.
According to crimegrade dot Org, Washington DC has an F
grade on violent crime and F grade on property crime,
and an F grade on other crime. In other words,
the city demonstrably fails at absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Everything that has to do with public safety. Period.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Anybody who tells you anything differently lying through their teeth,
like the mayor. The cost of crime for residence, and
this is the one to really drive it home, really
drive it home. Yesterday I did an analysis and brought
you the information that the cost per household in Florida
(04:55):
for a crime that is committed and just dealing with
it runs as six hundred forty seven dollars a year
on average, six hundred and forty seven a year in Florida.
So what do you think it is in Washington DC
per household six forty seven in Florida?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What would you say? Joel, probably run nine hundred somewhere
around there. Yeah, that'd be a lot more sounds reasonable.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It runs twenty six hundred and twenty dollars per household
per year, wow, twenty six twenty to six forty seven
in Florida, meaning that the cost of crime, you want
to really know how bad it is in DC, you
really wanted to relate it to what you are accustomed to,
(05:45):
the cost of crime is greater than four times four
times what we're used to. So, yeah, Democrats get mugg
too frequently in DC, but that might be about to
change quickly. A second take for you today, no news
now that happens to be good news, you know, one
of the big changes of course, And back to classroom
(06:08):
yesterday Steve y law that no smartphones during instructional time
unless it's actually part of the course material, and Fox's
Alexandria Hoff talking about some of the most recent research
on this.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
As the school year gets underway, public health officials are
sounding the alarm on excessive screen time. A study published
Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association found
children and young adults who spend more time in their
devices may have a higher risk for certain heart issues,
including high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, not good there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I had so many reasons to keep kids off of
mobile devices as frequently as possible, especially in school.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So a couple things about that and the good news
South the news.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
School year kicked off about as smoothly as could be,
including for the area's two new schools, by fewer teacher vacancies,
more bus drivers, resulting in the Bombach County School District
being fully staffed with drivers for the start of the
school year. This in contrast in the past couple of years,
you have more traffic cameras, fewer classroom distractions.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
All it all.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
First day appeared to have been about the smoothest and
I was trying to find the last time we didn't
really run into any meaningful issues anywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And it looks like you have to go back to
pre pandemic time. You have to go back to around
like twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Or so, and that hopefully sets the stage for improved
performance in the classroom too. Did you know that external stressors,
something as simple as being able to catch a school
bus to be able to make it to school on time,
shown to have a twenty to thirty percent impact on
student performance in K through twelve schools. So often it'll
(07:49):
be like the you know, safety focus, Hey kid was
left at a bus stop or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And you know that's not good.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, it's not just that, like at whatever point they
actually get to school, twenty to thirty percent decline in
performance on average when you have issues like that that
crop up, and students who looked at smartphones while in
the classroom perform an average of five to ten percent
worse than those who don't. So simply having things go
(08:16):
smoothly can improve classroom performance. Getting rid of all that
screen time in the classroom obviously is going to be
helpful too. So you put it all together and hopefully
that all translates into a very successful school year, another
record setting performance throughout our area.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Throughout the state.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
We'll take that my third takeaway today, redistricting gained steam
and a very interesting angle by Florida's Attorney general. Before
we get into the latest in our state, let's take
a look at the Texas situation.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There, Well, they got stakeouts. Now, Fox's Brick Taylor.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
The House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who has issued civil arrest
war and says the Texas Department of Public Safety has
special agents deployed in every region of Texas. Dozens of
officers are set up outside of homes of absent members,
calling them and waiting for them to come back.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, I guess the upshot is they've got some
pretty good security at their house till they get back.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So uh yeah, this is going to be interesting. It's
going to be interesting. You do wonder how long they're
going to you remain?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I mean, they can't do it in perpetuity. Yeah, and theory.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So anyway, last week, big week as far as Florida's
push for midstream redistricting in our safe kevinor DeSantis made
a public push. House Speaker Daniel Prez took the first
formal step in creating the House Select Committee to again
to study the topic of congressional redistricting, and on Monday,
Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeyer voiced the need not just
(09:55):
for Florida to conduct its own redistricting, but for a
new census that President Trump has support for coming to fruition.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
There's a really interesting dynamic to this.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
In a letter said to Commerce Secretary Howard luttnik Othmeier
said this. He said, in addition to skewing the data
by utilizing dubious deferential privacy and irregularity delaying the publication
of state population counts, the twenty twenty national headcount erroneously
overcounted or undercounted the populations of fourteen states. Florida was
(10:32):
among those egregiously undercounted, which deprived Florida of an additional
housing that its citizens deserved to ensure fear representation in
Congress and the electoral College. Not only that, but this
under enumeration also caused Florida financially given the census his
role and allocating federal funds to the states. Okay, this
(10:55):
development matters for two reasons. First, it is quite clear
that Florida is serious about taking out on redistricting prior
to the midterm elections next year.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
This is more than just talk.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Second, as I mentioned last week, in order for a
new federal senses to be ordered, an Act of Congress
must take place, which would be an uphill battle to
say the least. However, what's been introduced formally by Uthmyer
here might introduce a legal.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Component to the dynamic.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
He's alleging that essentially the Biden administration rigged the final
results of the previous census for the benefit of blue
states at the expense of red states. Independent studies have
shown this to be a possibility. Othmyer also mentioned that quote,
these problems are serious, but they are not irreversible. It's
(11:44):
that line in particular that really caught my attention. These
problems are serious, but they're not irreversible. See what he's
arguing is that there's nothing constitutionally that prevents the Commerce
Department from correcting issues made to the previous census prior
to the conducting a new one. That argument is potentially compelling. Would,
(12:06):
for example, it be possible just to correct the previous
census without having to conduct a new one if it
actually was rigged and they just took look at the
data that was there, unless it's all destroyed.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
In the meantime, it's becoming clear that Florida is going
to be moving forward on this issue at both the
state and it appears to the federal level, and redistricting
likely coming to our state sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Either way,
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable. It's time for today's top three takeaways. Hey,
they're happy Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Democrats they get mugged too, they do smooth first day
of school and Florida's redistricting. My top three takeaways for
you as we get started, and my top one is
that Democrats get mugged too. This is all related to
the President offering this in regards to Washington, DC yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
This is liberation Day in DC and we're going to
take our capital.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Back there you go?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is liberation day different? We have all kinds of liberation
these days. Doesn't just happen to be about tariffs. This
one doesn't make me as nervous. No, If anything, it
might make you a little bit less nervous. To go
to the nation's capital probably is almost immediately a safer
place than it was.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So let me get into this a little bit here.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When President Trump and now sudden Monday that he was
federalizing the DC Police Department while deploying the National Guard
and instituting emergency curfews throughout the city, he acknowledged there
might be some backlash, but he offered up the statement
(01:28):
that Democrats get mugg to he's right about this, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Who can argue with that? True?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And with over ninety percent of Washington, d C's population
consistently voting for Democrats, will shoot, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Safe to say that this sided.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Like the Deep State's actions against President Trump, Democrats are
mostly the victims of the crimes that are committed within
the nation's capital that the President is seeking to end,
So you might even say that the President is protecting
Democrats mostly so going forward, the DC Metropolitan Police Department
is entering to the Trump administration as opposed to the
(02:06):
city's leadership, which does remain in place. Something I covered
in a Q and A last week. The only way
you could get rid of the mayor and the city
council would be through a law that would have to
be passed.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Can't be through executive.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Action, but anyway, figures would be an interesting dynamic as
the President pledged to clean up the streets and the
city's parks, taking down homeless encampments that have taken hold
throughout the city. In the President's executive order, it says
the local government of the District of Columbia has lost
control of public order and safety in the city, as
(02:40):
evidenced by the two embassy staffers who were murdered in May,
the congressional intern who was fatally shot a short distance
from the White House in June, and the administration staffer
who was mercilessly beaten by a violent mob days ago. Citizens, tourists,
and staff alike are unable to live peacefully in the
(03:01):
nation's capital, which is under siege from violent crime. It's
a point of national disgrace. Now, Washington, d C. As
a violent crime rate that is higher than some of
the most dangerous places in the world. And it is
fascinating to hear some of what you were just you know,
receiving the DC officials the mayor crime is the lowest
(03:24):
it's been in thirty year old What in the what universe?
They just don't report crime. It's like, if you don't
arrest anybody, no crime, right. I guess that's the way
they interpret crime information now, as always, are two sides
of stories and one side of facts. Let's talk facts.
This is updated as of twenty five. Information here Washington,
(03:45):
DC's crime rate is one hundred and twenty eight percent
higher than the average large cities Okay, so you start there,
just in comparable kind of places, you already have a
lot more crime in most large cities than the rest
of the country. The Washington DC's crime rate is one
hundred and twenty eight percent higher than the average ones.
(04:08):
The vehicle theft rate the highest in the country. You
want your car to get stolen, take it to DC.
According to crimegrade dot Org, Washington DC has an F
grade on violent crime and F grade on property crime,
and an F grade on other crime. In other words,
the city demonstrably fails at absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Everything that has to do with public safety. Period.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Anybody who tells you anything differently lying through their teeth,
like the mayor. The cost of crime for residence, and
this is the one to really drive it home, really
drive it home. Yesterday I did an analysis and brought
you the information that the cost per household in Florida
(04:55):
for a crime that is committed and just dealing with
it runs as six hundred forty seven dollars a year
on average, six hundred and forty seven a year in Florida.
So what do you think it is in Washington DC
per household six forty seven in Florida?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What would you say? Joel, probably run nine hundred somewhere
around there. Yeah, that'd be a lot more sounds reasonable.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It runs twenty six hundred and twenty dollars per household
per year, wow, twenty six twenty to six forty seven
in Florida, meaning that the cost of crime, you want
to really know how bad it is in DC, you
really wanted to relate it to what you are accustomed to,
(05:45):
the cost of crime is greater than four times four
times what we're used to. So, yeah, Democrats get mugg
too frequently in DC, but that might be about to
change quickly. A second take for you today, no news
now that happens to be good news, you know, one
of the big changes of course, And back to classroom
(06:08):
yesterday Steve y law that no smartphones during instructional time
unless it's actually part of the course material, and Fox's
Alexandria Hoff talking about some of the most recent research
on this.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
As the school year gets underway, public health officials are
sounding the alarm on excessive screen time. A study published
Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association found
children and young adults who spend more time in their
devices may have a higher risk for certain heart issues,
including high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, not good there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I had so many reasons to keep kids off of
mobile devices as frequently as possible, especially in school.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So a couple things about that and the good news
South the news.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
School year kicked off about as smoothly as could be,
including for the area's two new schools, by fewer teacher vacancies,
more bus drivers, resulting in the Bombach County School District
being fully staffed with drivers for the start of the
school year. This in contrast in the past couple of years,
you have more traffic cameras, fewer classroom distractions.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
All it all.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
First day appeared to have been about the smoothest and
I was trying to find the last time we didn't
really run into any meaningful issues anywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And it looks like you have to go back to
pre pandemic time. You have to go back to around
like twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Or so, and that hopefully sets the stage for improved
performance in the classroom too. Did you know that external stressors,
something as simple as being able to catch a school
bus to be able to make it to school on time,
shown to have a twenty to thirty percent impact on
student performance in K through twelve schools. So often it'll
(07:49):
be like the you know, safety focus, Hey kid was
left at a bus stop or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And you know that's not good.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, it's not just that, like at whatever point they
actually get to school, twenty to thirty percent decline in
performance on average when you have issues like that that
crop up, and students who looked at smartphones while in
the classroom perform an average of five to ten percent
worse than those who don't. So simply having things go
(08:16):
smoothly can improve classroom performance. Getting rid of all that
screen time in the classroom obviously is going to be
helpful too. So you put it all together and hopefully
that all translates into a very successful school year, another
record setting performance throughout our area.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Throughout the state.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
We'll take that my third takeaway today, redistricting gained steam
and a very interesting angle by Florida's Attorney general. Before
we get into the latest in our state, let's take
a look at the Texas situation.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There, Well, they got stakeouts. Now, Fox's Brick Taylor.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
The House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who has issued civil arrest
war and says the Texas Department of Public Safety has
special agents deployed in every region of Texas. Dozens of
officers are set up outside of homes of absent members,
calling them and waiting for them to come back.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, I guess the upshot is they've got some
pretty good security at their house till they get back.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So uh yeah, this is going to be interesting. It's
going to be interesting. You do wonder how long they're
going to you remain?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I mean, they can't do it in perpetuity. Yeah, and theory.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So anyway, last week, big week as far as Florida's
push for midstream redistricting in our safe kevinor DeSantis made
a public push. House Speaker Daniel Prez took the first
formal step in creating the House Select Committee to again
to study the topic of congressional redistricting, and on Monday,
Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeyer voiced the need not just
(09:55):
for Florida to conduct its own redistricting, but for a
new census that President Trump has support for coming to fruition.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
There's a really interesting dynamic to this.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
In a letter said to Commerce Secretary Howard luttnik Othmeier
said this. He said, in addition to skewing the data
by utilizing dubious deferential privacy and irregularity delaying the publication
of state population counts, the twenty twenty national headcount erroneously
overcounted or undercounted the populations of fourteen states. Florida was
(10:32):
among those egregiously undercounted, which deprived Florida of an additional
housing that its citizens deserved to ensure fear representation in
Congress and the electoral College. Not only that, but this
under enumeration also caused Florida financially given the census his
role and allocating federal funds to the states. Okay, this
(10:55):
development matters for two reasons. First, it is quite clear
that Florida is serious about taking out on redistricting prior
to the midterm elections next year.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
This is more than just talk.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Second, as I mentioned last week, in order for a
new federal senses to be ordered, an Act of Congress
must take place, which would be an uphill battle to
say the least. However, what's been introduced formally by Uthmyer
here might introduce a legal.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Component to the dynamic.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
He's alleging that essentially the Biden administration rigged the final
results of the previous census for the benefit of blue
states at the expense of red states. Independent studies have
shown this to be a possibility. Othmyer also mentioned that quote,
these problems are serious, but they are not irreversible. It's
(11:44):
that line in particular that really caught my attention. These
problems are serious, but they're not irreversible. See what he's
arguing is that there's nothing constitutionally that prevents the Commerce
Department from correcting issues made to the previous census prior
to the conducting a new one. That argument is potentially compelling. Would,
(12:06):
for example, it be possible just to correct the previous
census without having to conduct a new one if it
actually was rigged and they just took look at the
data that was there, unless it's all destroyed.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
In the meantime, it's becoming clear that Florida is going
to be moving forward on this issue at both the
state and it appears to the federal level, and redistricting
likely coming to our state sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Either way,
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