August 15, 2025 • 25 mins
For decades, the people of Washington, DC have voted to turn their city into a crime-ridden third world hellhole. But Trump just took matters into his own hands by deploying the National Guard and federalizing all law enforcement in capital city. Already, scores of violent criminals and vagrants have been removed from the streets, and homeless encampments have literally been bulldozed to the ground. After decades of anarchy, Trump is finally restoring law and order to our capital – and it's glorious. We'll break it down on today's episode of The Conservative Rebel.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Today on The Conservative Rebel, for decades,
the people of Washington, D.C.
have elected and re-elected thesame pro-crime anarcho-tyrants
to city leadership.
By crushing margins, thesepeople have voted to turn their
city into a crime-riddenthird-world hellhole, and
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they've gotten exactly what theyvoted for, which is exactly what
they deserve.
But this week, Trump tookmatters into his own hands by
deploying the National Guard andfederalizing all law enforcement
in the capital city.
Already scores of violentcriminals, vagrants, and drug
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addicts have been removed fromthe streets, and homeless
encampments have literally beenbulldozed to the ground.
After decades of lawlessness andanarchy, Trump is finally
restoring law and order to ourCapitol.
And it's glorious.
We'll talk about all of it ontoday's can't-miss episode of
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The Conservative Rebel.
UNKNOWN (01:08):
The Conservative Rebel
SPEAKER_00 (01:16):
One of the most noticeable, measurable, and
tragic examples of America'sdecline is the slow-motion
destruction of our once greatAmerican cities.
It's also one of the areas ofdecline that's affected our
lives the most, considering thatmost Americans live in or very
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near to a city.
In just a few decades, ourcities have transformed from
safe, clean, well-managed, andmostly pleasant places you could
comfortably raise a family in,to crime-ridden, filthy,
drug-riddled hellholes whereeverything is ugly, everyone is
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nasty, and everywhere reeks oftrash, marijuana, and in some
places even human filth.
For a long time, you could takea pleasant stroll around the
clean and orderly block withoutanything to worry about.
But fast forward a few decadesand that same city block is
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littered with trash and drugneedles and inhabited by
zombified vagrants living undertarps who've dedicated their
entire lives to poisoningthemselves with drugs.
You'd have cause for concerneven in broad daylight, but at
night you'd be insane to go outonto the streets of Seattle or
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LA or Chicago when the vastcriminal underworld comes alive.
At any time, someone could stealyour car when you're not
looking, threaten you and makeoff with your wallet, stalk you,
assault you, stab you, shootyou, kidnap your kids, or, if
you use the New York subwaysystem, literally light you on
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fire and watch you burn todeath.
You may recall that incidentfrom just a few months ago.
Or, if the mood happens tostrike him, some Muslim jihadi
who recently immigrated here maysuddenly decide to flatten a
crowd of innocent people withhis vehicle.
That's actually happened inmajor cities multiple times, as
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you know, most notably in NewOrleans earlier this year.
Every week, it seems, sometimesmultiple times a week, another
horrifically violent big cityincident like this makes
national headlines.
They're always in the cities.
And nowhere is thetransformation of our cities,
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from hubs of prosperity andopportunity to third world
hellscapes, more apparent thanin our nation's capital,
Washington, D.C., which hassuffered from an epidemic of a
violent crime for years.
Just last week, EdwardKorostein, otherwise known as
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Big Balls, the 19-year-old Dogeemployee who liberals have been
hating on ever since Dogestarted, was violently assaulted
and ruthlessly beaten by arandom group of teenage scumbags
trying to do a carjacking.
I don't know if you've seen thepictures, but Big Balls was
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badly injured and bloodied fromthe incident.
And this was just the latest ina series of attacks in
Washington, D.C.
Multiple congressional internshave been killed or assaulted
over just the past two years orso.
including an assistant toSenator Rand Paul, who was
severely injured when somepsychopath brutally stabbed him,
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but who remarkably managed tosurvive.
And those are just thepolitically connected people.
By far, the majority of victimsare just your average Joes
trying to live their lives, whoare assaulted, who are
carjacked, who are murdered.
Every day, in D.C., by criminalswho get little or no punishment
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from the authorities.
They do not fear the law, theydo not fear justice, they do not
fear anything or anyone.
These are the real rulers ofWashington DC.
It's not the government, it'sthe criminals.
And no, this is not normal.
No, this is not acceptable.
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And no, this hasn't just alwaysbeen a part of city life.
This is a choice.
This is 100% a choice.
Allowing these criminals to runrampant and cause as much damage
to life, limb, and property asthey possibly can is a choice.
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It's a choice that the Democratleaders of our big cities,
especially Washington, D.C.,have made.
They've decided to subject theircitizens to this fate by tying
the hands of law enforcement,sometimes even defunding the
police, but mostly by givingviolent criminals who have no
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chance of ever being reformed orever living functional lives
extremely light punishments andreleasing them right back onto
the streets to kill or injuremore people.
They have decided, they havemade the choice to allow
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vagrants to set up encampmentsin public places, to do drugs
out in the open, and to scatterfilth everywhere.
They have decided to be soft ondrugs and soft on all other
forms of crime.
Cities like DC are so terriblethat you're almost tempted to
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feel sorry for the people wholive in them.
Almost.
You're almost tempted to havecompassion and empathy toward
the sorry souls who have to livein such a terrible place.
Almost.
But then you remember that theleaders of Washington, D.C.
didn't decide to let their citygo to hell against the will of
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the people.
Not at all.
The people enthusiasticallyvoted for their city to go to
hell, and they love theirleaders for giving them what
they voted for.
If you've listened to so far ofthis podcast, I have a feeling
you're interested in it.
And if that's true, pleaseconsider leaving a review
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wherever you're listening tothis podcast.
Now let's get back to theepisode.
The people of Washington, D.C.
are, by and large, sooff-the-charts stupid that they
will keep re-electing theseevil, soft-on-crime
anarcho-tyrants to cityleadership by crushing
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majorities.
In 2024, over 80% of D.C.
residents re-elected theirfailed pro-crime mayor to her 18
These people have elected thiswoman 18 times.
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They never learn.
They also, of course, re-electedall their Democrat councilmen
and two independent leftistcouncilmen by crushing margins.
Meanwhile, over 90% of themvoted for Kamala Harris, who ran
on importing as many third-worldcriminals as possible into the
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country, and just 6% voted forTrump, who ran on the Law& Order
platform.
So call me heartless, but I justcan't feel sorry for people who
vote for candidates whoexplicitly promise to make their
lives worse when the candidatesthey voted for inevitably follow
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through and make their livesworse.
I just can't.
This is why Democrat-run citiesare lost causes.
The leaders they elect are soevil that there's almost zero
chance for anything to everchange, ever.
Yeah, your city is a lawlessthird-world cesspool, but you
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know what?
That's what you voted for 18times in a row without any
hesitation at all.
You don't like it?
You don't like how you're beingcarjacked?
You don't like how you're beingassaulted?
Then stop being stupid andvoting for people who promise to
continue that.
Learn some cause and effect.
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You vote for these people, theydo nothing.
They let the criminals runrampant.
Hmm, maybe you should stopvoting for those people.
Ever considered that?
So Washington, D.C.
is totally lost.
Totally a lost cause.
The people are living inanarchy, and they are completely
unwilling to learn any lessonsor to do anything about it.
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So for all these reasons, onMonday...
President Trump finally tookmatters into his own hands.
Newsweek reported at the time,quote, So essentially, Trump
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federalized all law enforcementin Washington, D.C.
The local government wasrefusing to enforce the law, so
Trump's going to enforce the lawfor them.
And, just as Trump promised, theNational Guard was soon deployed
into the streets of D.C.
We got to see Democrats ridingtheir bikes in horror past
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armored vehicles parked by theWashington Monument.
Got to see the pictures of thesoldiers walking through the
streets.
Kash Patel talking to the FBIagents.
Lot of cool things we've got tosee.
And since the federalization,the feds have arrested over 100
of who the DC Police Departmentwould most likely have allowed
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to run free without them.
And just this morning, themorning of this recording, I
mean, there's been a majordevelopment in the story.
Fox News has this.
President Donald Trump said hemay declare a national emergency
to maintain control ofWashington, D.C.''s police force
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if Congress doesn't work withhim to extend the current
federalization plan.
Trump made the statement duringa press conference at the
Kennedy Center in Washington,arguing he can maintain control
over the Metropolitan PoliceDepartment indefinitely if he
declares a national emergency.
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Under the current structure, thefederal government took control
of the MPD for a 30-day periodon Monday.
Trump went on to confirm thathis administration would be
seeking, quote, long-termextensions to the 30-day limit.
Now, a lot of people, includingsome loser Republicans, are
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saying that this is a dangerousexample of government overreach,
a dangerous attack on democracy.
The federal government can'tjust take control of a city,
they say, can't just overturnthe will of the local
population.
This is unconstitutional.
But here's the catch.
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It's actually notunconstitutional.
Washington, D.C., never governeditself until 1973.
Okay, 1973.
50 years ago.
It has only governed itself for50 years.
Until 50 years ago, no one inD.C.
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could vote.
No one in D.C.
could elect local leaders.
The entire thing was controlledby the federal government.
It was only under the Districtof Columbia Home Rule Act of
1973 that the city becameself-governing.
But even then, the federalgovernment still had veto power
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over a lot of major decisions,including overturning whatever
laws it wanted.
So this is totallyconstitutional.
That shouldn't even becontroversial to say anything.
Washington DC is a federaldistrict.
It is the only place in theUnited States that is not part
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of a state.
And we're called the UnitedStates for a reason.
The states elect the president.
The states have theircongressional districts that
they elect their congressmenfor.
The states do all of that.
If you do not live in one of the50 United States...
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and you choose to live in theplace that is not a state, we
don't have any obligation to letyou vote or let you decide how
the place you live in will berun or anything like that.
You've chosen to live in thisplace.
You have chosen to live outsideof a state.
And because the Constitution wasall about protecting the rights
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of the states...
The Constitution has the federalgovernment control Washington,
D.C.
That's the way it has alwaysbeen.
So no, this is not authoritarianoverreach.
No, this is notunconstitutional.
This is a perfectly legitimateuse of presidential authority.
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And it's a decision that we haveneeded for a very long time.
It was insane to let WashingtonD.C.
govern itself in 1973.
It was insane to give it threeelectoral votes, which it still
has.
It should not have electoralvotes.
It's not a state, but it does.
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It's ridiculous.
Ever since we have done this,look what the people of
Washington D.C.
have done.
They have absolutely letcriminals turn the place into a
third-world hellhole.
It literally has a higher crimerate than Baghdad, okay?
That's how bad it is.
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We are at third-world levels ofcrime here.
And it's humiliating.
This is not how the capital of acivilized nation should look.
You should be able to walkaround the streets at night in
the capital of a civilizednation without worrying about
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some schizophrenic shooting youor stealing your car or
assaulting you.
This is just the basic, the mostbasic possible thing.
This isn't Iraq.
This isn't Afghanistan, thisisn't Somalia, this is the
United States of America, and weshould not be putting up with
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this.
The other talking point theDemocrats are using is saying,
oh, this is an attack ondemocracy, an attack on our
sacred, beautiful, gloriousdemocracy.
Which, don't get me wrong, ittotally is an attack on
democracy.
100%.
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The Democrats are completelyright in saying it.
And that's a great thing.
We should be glad about that.
We should celebrate it.
Because clearly, democracydoesn't work in Washington,
D.C., I don't care what youthink about democracy if you
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think democracy is the bestsystem, which I don't, and our
founding fathers didn't either.
They hated democracy, which iswhy they established a
constitutional republic.
Those are two very differentthings, and I explained that in
my previous episode.
If you want more on that, youcan go back and listen to it.
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Even if you think that, look atthe results! For DC in
particular, democracy has failedspectacularly in Washington, DC.
We just ran through the numbers.
These people are unfit fordemocracy, unfit for voting.
They are incapable of governingthemselves.
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Obviously, they keep re-electingthe people who have done this to
their city.
Washington, D.C.
is the single best argumentagainst democracy on the face of
the planet.
Part of the reason I love thisso much is because the Democrats
have been pushing to makeWashington, D.C.
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a state with senators andcongressmen for a long time.
So Trump's essentially saying,oh, you want more influence over
how the government is run.
You want more, huh?
How about I take away the smallamount of influence you already
have instead?
How does that sound?
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How about that?
Which is 100% the right move,and exactly what DC deserves.
So it's obviously very good thatTrump is taking federal control
of DC, but what I like even moreis what he's done with the
federal control he's taken.
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This is again from Fox News.
The White House says thoseliving in homeless encampments
in the nation's capital willhave two choices in the coming
days.
Accept treatment at a homelessshelter or go to jail.
White House Press SecretaryCarolyn Leavitt announced the
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ultimatum during a Tuesday pressconference.
70 homeless encampments...
have been removed by the U.S.
Park Service, Levitt said.
There are only two homelessencampments remaining in D.C.
federal parks, and the removalof those two remaining camps is
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scheduled for this week.
So since Trump took federalcontrol of D.C., already the
quality of life in D.C., hasimproved significantly.
100 criminals have been arrestedwho would have otherwise been
allowed to escape and continueto victimize more people.
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70 homeless encampments havebeen removed.
70.
Tons of drugs taken off thestreets, the source of stench,
the source of litter.
This is phenomenal.
Like, I've been critical ofTrump for a lot of things in the
past, but this is something Ican genuinely be very happy with
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him for.
I am 1000% on his side on this.
This is great.
We are cleaning up the capitalcity.
We are restoring law and orderto Washington, D.C.
In just...
Like, 48, 72 hours, however longit's been since the people of
Washington, D.C.
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have had their authority over itremoved, already their lives
have gotten way better.
Way better.
Against their will, their liveshave gotten way better.
So yeah, Trump's attackingdemocracy in Washington, D.C.,
but he's protecting liberty.
He is restoring liberty to thiscity against the will of the
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people who live there, andthat's great.
He is liberating our capitalcity from the tyranny of
violence and crime.
And those 6% of people who livethere who voted for Trump, they
definitely feel freer thanthey've ever been before.
So unquestionably, on itsmerits, these moves are great
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for this country, very healthyfor this country.
They dramatically improve ourstanding with the world, because
the world can do nothing butlaugh at us if our capital city
continues like it is.
But a lot of people have beenworried about the optics of the
whole thing, because, of course,People think that seeing the
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tanks and the armored carsdriving through the streets kind
of reeks of authoritarianism orsomething like that.
The Democrats have certainlygone wild with this talking
point that Trump's anauthoritarian, deploying the
military on a civilianpopulation, destroying
democracy, all of this stuff.
But I think in the long run,this is actually...
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This is great politics.
Because you may face initialopposition if you're really,
really tough on crime like this,but in the end, you will become
extremely popular for it.
There is nothing that can unifya country more than being tough
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on crime.
A lot of people will be toostupid to realize it at first,
but once the results come in,once their lives improve, once
they feel safe at night again,they will thank you for it.
Just look at what happened withEl Salvador, with Nayab Bukele.
When he took office, it was themurder capital of the world.
Now it's one of the lowestmurder rate countries in the
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world.
He imprisoned 2% of hispopulation, 1 in 50 people, in
mega prisons with terribleconditions, which is exactly
what they deserve.
And...
Did he lose his election?
Did everyone say, this guy's anauthoritarian, we don't like
this guy?
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Did everyone get...
Turned off by him because theconditions in the prison made
their tummy hurt?
No, his approval rating is over90% right now.
That's what happened.
He's one of the most popularelected leaders in the world.
Because the people of ElSalvador are thrilled that they
can actually live normal liveswithout worrying about MS-13
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killing them.
So this is great politics.
This will be great politics inthe end.
And yes, force Democrats to cryabout this.
Force Democrats to be againstthis.
Just like you forced them to cryabout the wife-beating MS-13
terrorists you deported to ElSalvador.
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Force them to cry that you'retaking the vagrants off the
streets.
Force them to cry that you'relowering the murder rate.
Force them to cry that you'rerestoring law and order.
This is a great politicalstrategy in addition to being a
very common sense move.
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We don't often end this show ona positive note, but today,
remarkably, we are.
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people.
Thanks again.
Today on The Conservative Rebel, for decades,
the people of Washington, D.C.
have elected and re-elected thesame pro-crime anarcho-tyrants
to city leadership.
By crushing margins, thesepeople have voted to turn their
city into a crime-riddenthird-world hellhole, and
(00:21):
they've gotten exactly what theyvoted for, which is exactly what
they deserve.
But this week, Trump tookmatters into his own hands by
deploying the National Guard andfederalizing all law enforcement
in the capital city.
Already scores of violentcriminals, vagrants, and drug
(00:43):
addicts have been removed fromthe streets, and homeless
encampments have literally beenbulldozed to the ground.
After decades of lawlessness andanarchy, Trump is finally
restoring law and order to ourCapitol.
And it's glorious.
We'll talk about all of it ontoday's can't-miss episode of
(01:05):
The Conservative Rebel.
UNKNOWN (01:08):
The Conservative Rebel
SPEAKER_00 (01:16):
One of the most noticeable, measurable, and
tragic examples of America'sdecline is the slow-motion
destruction of our once greatAmerican cities.
It's also one of the areas ofdecline that's affected our
lives the most, considering thatmost Americans live in or very
(01:39):
near to a city.
In just a few decades, ourcities have transformed from
safe, clean, well-managed, andmostly pleasant places you could
comfortably raise a family in,to crime-ridden, filthy,
drug-riddled hellholes whereeverything is ugly, everyone is
(02:00):
nasty, and everywhere reeks oftrash, marijuana, and in some
places even human filth.
For a long time, you could takea pleasant stroll around the
clean and orderly block withoutanything to worry about.
But fast forward a few decadesand that same city block is
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littered with trash and drugneedles and inhabited by
zombified vagrants living undertarps who've dedicated their
entire lives to poisoningthemselves with drugs.
You'd have cause for concerneven in broad daylight, but at
night you'd be insane to go outonto the streets of Seattle or
(02:43):
LA or Chicago when the vastcriminal underworld comes alive.
At any time, someone could stealyour car when you're not
looking, threaten you and makeoff with your wallet, stalk you,
assault you, stab you, shootyou, kidnap your kids, or, if
you use the New York subwaysystem, literally light you on
(03:05):
fire and watch you burn todeath.
You may recall that incidentfrom just a few months ago.
Or, if the mood happens tostrike him, some Muslim jihadi
who recently immigrated here maysuddenly decide to flatten a
crowd of innocent people withhis vehicle.
That's actually happened inmajor cities multiple times, as
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you know, most notably in NewOrleans earlier this year.
Every week, it seems, sometimesmultiple times a week, another
horrifically violent big cityincident like this makes
national headlines.
They're always in the cities.
And nowhere is thetransformation of our cities,
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from hubs of prosperity andopportunity to third world
hellscapes, more apparent thanin our nation's capital,
Washington, D.C., which hassuffered from an epidemic of a
violent crime for years.
Just last week, EdwardKorostein, otherwise known as
(04:09):
Big Balls, the 19-year-old Dogeemployee who liberals have been
hating on ever since Dogestarted, was violently assaulted
and ruthlessly beaten by arandom group of teenage scumbags
trying to do a carjacking.
I don't know if you've seen thepictures, but Big Balls was
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badly injured and bloodied fromthe incident.
And this was just the latest ina series of attacks in
Washington, D.C.
Multiple congressional internshave been killed or assaulted
over just the past two years orso.
including an assistant toSenator Rand Paul, who was
severely injured when somepsychopath brutally stabbed him,
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but who remarkably managed tosurvive.
And those are just thepolitically connected people.
By far, the majority of victimsare just your average Joes
trying to live their lives, whoare assaulted, who are
carjacked, who are murdered.
Every day, in D.C., by criminalswho get little or no punishment
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from the authorities.
They do not fear the law, theydo not fear justice, they do not
fear anything or anyone.
These are the real rulers ofWashington DC.
It's not the government, it'sthe criminals.
And no, this is not normal.
No, this is not acceptable.
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And no, this hasn't just alwaysbeen a part of city life.
This is a choice.
This is 100% a choice.
Allowing these criminals to runrampant and cause as much damage
to life, limb, and property asthey possibly can is a choice.
(06:02):
It's a choice that the Democratleaders of our big cities,
especially Washington, D.C.,have made.
They've decided to subject theircitizens to this fate by tying
the hands of law enforcement,sometimes even defunding the
police, but mostly by givingviolent criminals who have no
(06:26):
chance of ever being reformed orever living functional lives
extremely light punishments andreleasing them right back onto
the streets to kill or injuremore people.
They have decided, they havemade the choice to allow
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vagrants to set up encampmentsin public places, to do drugs
out in the open, and to scatterfilth everywhere.
They have decided to be soft ondrugs and soft on all other
forms of crime.
Cities like DC are so terriblethat you're almost tempted to
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feel sorry for the people wholive in them.
Almost.
You're almost tempted to havecompassion and empathy toward
the sorry souls who have to livein such a terrible place.
Almost.
But then you remember that theleaders of Washington, D.C.
didn't decide to let their citygo to hell against the will of
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the people.
Not at all.
The people enthusiasticallyvoted for their city to go to
hell, and they love theirleaders for giving them what
they voted for.
If you've listened to so far ofthis podcast, I have a feeling
you're interested in it.
And if that's true, pleaseconsider leaving a review
(07:54):
wherever you're listening tothis podcast.
Now let's get back to theepisode.
The people of Washington, D.C.
are, by and large, sooff-the-charts stupid that they
will keep re-electing theseevil, soft-on-crime
anarcho-tyrants to cityleadership by crushing
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majorities.
In 2024, over 80% of D.C.
residents re-elected theirfailed pro-crime mayor to her 18
These people have elected thiswoman 18 times.
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They never learn.
They also, of course, re-electedall their Democrat councilmen
and two independent leftistcouncilmen by crushing margins.
Meanwhile, over 90% of themvoted for Kamala Harris, who ran
on importing as many third-worldcriminals as possible into the
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country, and just 6% voted forTrump, who ran on the Law& Order
platform.
So call me heartless, but I justcan't feel sorry for people who
vote for candidates whoexplicitly promise to make their
lives worse when the candidatesthey voted for inevitably follow
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through and make their livesworse.
I just can't.
This is why Democrat-run citiesare lost causes.
The leaders they elect are soevil that there's almost zero
chance for anything to everchange, ever.
Yeah, your city is a lawlessthird-world cesspool, but you
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know what?
That's what you voted for 18times in a row without any
hesitation at all.
You don't like it?
You don't like how you're beingcarjacked?
You don't like how you're beingassaulted?
Then stop being stupid andvoting for people who promise to
continue that.
Learn some cause and effect.
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You vote for these people, theydo nothing.
They let the criminals runrampant.
Hmm, maybe you should stopvoting for those people.
Ever considered that?
So Washington, D.C.
is totally lost.
Totally a lost cause.
The people are living inanarchy, and they are completely
unwilling to learn any lessonsor to do anything about it.
(10:29):
So for all these reasons, onMonday...
President Trump finally tookmatters into his own hands.
Newsweek reported at the time,quote, So essentially, Trump
(11:13):
federalized all law enforcementin Washington, D.C.
The local government wasrefusing to enforce the law, so
Trump's going to enforce the lawfor them.
And, just as Trump promised, theNational Guard was soon deployed
into the streets of D.C.
We got to see Democrats ridingtheir bikes in horror past
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armored vehicles parked by theWashington Monument.
Got to see the pictures of thesoldiers walking through the
streets.
Kash Patel talking to the FBIagents.
Lot of cool things we've got tosee.
And since the federalization,the feds have arrested over 100
of who the DC Police Departmentwould most likely have allowed
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to run free without them.
And just this morning, themorning of this recording, I
mean, there's been a majordevelopment in the story.
Fox News has this.
President Donald Trump said hemay declare a national emergency
to maintain control ofWashington, D.C.''s police force
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if Congress doesn't work withhim to extend the current
federalization plan.
Trump made the statement duringa press conference at the
Kennedy Center in Washington,arguing he can maintain control
over the Metropolitan PoliceDepartment indefinitely if he
declares a national emergency.
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Under the current structure, thefederal government took control
of the MPD for a 30-day periodon Monday.
Trump went on to confirm thathis administration would be
seeking, quote, long-termextensions to the 30-day limit.
Now, a lot of people, includingsome loser Republicans, are
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saying that this is a dangerousexample of government overreach,
a dangerous attack on democracy.
The federal government can'tjust take control of a city,
they say, can't just overturnthe will of the local
population.
This is unconstitutional.
But here's the catch.
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It's actually notunconstitutional.
Washington, D.C., never governeditself until 1973.
Okay, 1973.
50 years ago.
It has only governed itself for50 years.
Until 50 years ago, no one inD.C.
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could vote.
No one in D.C.
could elect local leaders.
The entire thing was controlledby the federal government.
It was only under the Districtof Columbia Home Rule Act of
1973 that the city becameself-governing.
But even then, the federalgovernment still had veto power
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over a lot of major decisions,including overturning whatever
laws it wanted.
So this is totallyconstitutional.
That shouldn't even becontroversial to say anything.
Washington DC is a federaldistrict.
It is the only place in theUnited States that is not part
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of a state.
And we're called the UnitedStates for a reason.
The states elect the president.
The states have theircongressional districts that
they elect their congressmenfor.
The states do all of that.
If you do not live in one of the50 United States...
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and you choose to live in theplace that is not a state, we
don't have any obligation to letyou vote or let you decide how
the place you live in will berun or anything like that.
You've chosen to live in thisplace.
You have chosen to live outsideof a state.
And because the Constitution wasall about protecting the rights
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of the states...
The Constitution has the federalgovernment control Washington,
D.C.
That's the way it has alwaysbeen.
So no, this is not authoritarianoverreach.
No, this is notunconstitutional.
This is a perfectly legitimateuse of presidential authority.
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And it's a decision that we haveneeded for a very long time.
It was insane to let WashingtonD.C.
govern itself in 1973.
It was insane to give it threeelectoral votes, which it still
has.
It should not have electoralvotes.
It's not a state, but it does.
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It's ridiculous.
Ever since we have done this,look what the people of
Washington D.C.
have done.
They have absolutely letcriminals turn the place into a
third-world hellhole.
It literally has a higher crimerate than Baghdad, okay?
That's how bad it is.
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We are at third-world levels ofcrime here.
And it's humiliating.
This is not how the capital of acivilized nation should look.
You should be able to walkaround the streets at night in
the capital of a civilizednation without worrying about
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some schizophrenic shooting youor stealing your car or
assaulting you.
This is just the basic, the mostbasic possible thing.
This isn't Iraq.
This isn't Afghanistan, thisisn't Somalia, this is the
United States of America, and weshould not be putting up with
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this.
The other talking point theDemocrats are using is saying,
oh, this is an attack ondemocracy, an attack on our
sacred, beautiful, gloriousdemocracy.
Which, don't get me wrong, ittotally is an attack on
democracy.
100%.
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The Democrats are completelyright in saying it.
And that's a great thing.
We should be glad about that.
We should celebrate it.
Because clearly, democracydoesn't work in Washington,
D.C., I don't care what youthink about democracy if you
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think democracy is the bestsystem, which I don't, and our
founding fathers didn't either.
They hated democracy, which iswhy they established a
constitutional republic.
Those are two very differentthings, and I explained that in
my previous episode.
If you want more on that, youcan go back and listen to it.
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Even if you think that, look atthe results! For DC in
particular, democracy has failedspectacularly in Washington, DC.
We just ran through the numbers.
These people are unfit fordemocracy, unfit for voting.
They are incapable of governingthemselves.
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Obviously, they keep re-electingthe people who have done this to
their city.
Washington, D.C.
is the single best argumentagainst democracy on the face of
the planet.
Part of the reason I love thisso much is because the Democrats
have been pushing to makeWashington, D.C.
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a state with senators andcongressmen for a long time.
So Trump's essentially saying,oh, you want more influence over
how the government is run.
You want more, huh?
How about I take away the smallamount of influence you already
have instead?
How does that sound?
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How about that?
Which is 100% the right move,and exactly what DC deserves.
So it's obviously very good thatTrump is taking federal control
of DC, but what I like even moreis what he's done with the
federal control he's taken.
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This is again from Fox News.
The White House says thoseliving in homeless encampments
in the nation's capital willhave two choices in the coming
days.
Accept treatment at a homelessshelter or go to jail.
White House Press SecretaryCarolyn Leavitt announced the
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ultimatum during a Tuesday pressconference.
70 homeless encampments...
have been removed by the U.S.
Park Service, Levitt said.
There are only two homelessencampments remaining in D.C.
federal parks, and the removalof those two remaining camps is
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scheduled for this week.
So since Trump took federalcontrol of D.C., already the
quality of life in D.C., hasimproved significantly.
100 criminals have been arrestedwho would have otherwise been
allowed to escape and continueto victimize more people.
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70 homeless encampments havebeen removed.
70.
Tons of drugs taken off thestreets, the source of stench,
the source of litter.
This is phenomenal.
Like, I've been critical ofTrump for a lot of things in the
past, but this is something Ican genuinely be very happy with
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him for.
I am 1000% on his side on this.
This is great.
We are cleaning up the capitalcity.
We are restoring law and orderto Washington, D.C.
In just...
Like, 48, 72 hours, however longit's been since the people of
Washington, D.C.
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have had their authority over itremoved, already their lives
have gotten way better.
Way better.
Against their will, their liveshave gotten way better.
So yeah, Trump's attackingdemocracy in Washington, D.C.,
but he's protecting liberty.
He is restoring liberty to thiscity against the will of the
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people who live there, andthat's great.
He is liberating our capitalcity from the tyranny of
violence and crime.
And those 6% of people who livethere who voted for Trump, they
definitely feel freer thanthey've ever been before.
So unquestionably, on itsmerits, these moves are great
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for this country, very healthyfor this country.
They dramatically improve ourstanding with the world, because
the world can do nothing butlaugh at us if our capital city
continues like it is.
But a lot of people have beenworried about the optics of the
whole thing, because, of course,People think that seeing the
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tanks and the armored carsdriving through the streets kind
of reeks of authoritarianism orsomething like that.
The Democrats have certainlygone wild with this talking
point that Trump's anauthoritarian, deploying the
military on a civilianpopulation, destroying
democracy, all of this stuff.
But I think in the long run,this is actually...
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This is great politics.
Because you may face initialopposition if you're really,
really tough on crime like this,but in the end, you will become
extremely popular for it.
There is nothing that can unifya country more than being tough
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on crime.
A lot of people will be toostupid to realize it at first,
but once the results come in,once their lives improve, once
they feel safe at night again,they will thank you for it.
Just look at what happened withEl Salvador, with Nayab Bukele.
When he took office, it was themurder capital of the world.
Now it's one of the lowestmurder rate countries in the
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world.
He imprisoned 2% of hispopulation, 1 in 50 people, in
mega prisons with terribleconditions, which is exactly
what they deserve.
And...
Did he lose his election?
Did everyone say, this guy's anauthoritarian, we don't like
this guy?
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Did everyone get...
Turned off by him because theconditions in the prison made
their tummy hurt?
No, his approval rating is over90% right now.
That's what happened.
He's one of the most popularelected leaders in the world.
Because the people of ElSalvador are thrilled that they
can actually live normal liveswithout worrying about MS-13
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killing them.
So this is great politics.
This will be great politics inthe end.
And yes, force Democrats to cryabout this.
Force Democrats to be againstthis.
Just like you forced them to cryabout the wife-beating MS-13
terrorists you deported to ElSalvador.
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Force them to cry that you'retaking the vagrants off the
streets.
Force them to cry that you'relowering the murder rate.
Force them to cry that you'rerestoring law and order.
This is a great politicalstrategy in addition to being a
very common sense move.
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We don't often end this show ona positive note, but today,
remarkably, we are.
Thanks for listening to thisepisode of The Conservative
Rebel.
If you liked it, please leave areview wherever you're listening
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