Protests erupted in cities across the U.S. over the weekend as people hit the streets to voice opposition to President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policies as federal agents ramp up arrests and deportations.
Thousands of people blocked a section of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles as they blasted Mexican music and danced in the streets on Sunday. Protesters waved Mexican and Salvadoran flags, and some carried signs that read, &#8220;MAGA — Mexicans Always Get Across,&#8221; “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” and “I drink my horchata warm because f— I.C.E,” The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-02/thousands-of-protesters-rally-in-downtown-los-angeles-against-trump-deportation-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The L.A. protest lasted throughout the afternoon and evening before police in riot gear began dispersing the crowd around 7:00 p.m. The 101 Freeway was cleared and reopened by 8:00 p.m. The Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol said <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14352897/Thousands-block-LA-freeway-grammys-carrying-Mexican-flags-massive-Trump-protest.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no arrests</a> were made.
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UPDATE: The view from the 101 Freeway overpass on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. The freeway is closed once again as demonstrators poured back into the lanes, after being briefly reopened at about 1:20 p.m.
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More than 1,000 people — many of them displaying Mexican flags — also <a href="https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-02-01/downtown-st-louis-immigration-deportation-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took to the streets</a> in St. Louis on Saturday in response to Trump&#8217;s immigration policies. Hundreds more gathered in Atlanta on Saturday, waving flags from Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/protesters-along-buford-highway-condemn-ice-arrests/U7HJ7PCG7BAV5KTQV3HXDAFXM4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In Dallas, around 2,000 protesters <a href="https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-02-03/protesters-march-in-dallas-to-condemn-deportation-operations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crammed</a> into Dallas City Hall Plaza on Sunday afternoon.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been conducting raids in cities across the country since Trump was sworn into office. In the first two weeks of Trump&#8217;s second term, ICE made more than 7,000 arrests, CBS Austin <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/ice-makes-arrests-on-more-than-7400-illegal-migrants-since-trump-took-office-guantanamo-bay-pete-hegseth-secretary-of-defence-immigration-customs-enforcement-donald-trump-fbi-raids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Last week, the president also directed the Department of Defense to use Guantanamo Bay to hold criminal illegal immigrants before they are repatriated to their home countries. Trump&#8217;s border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/31/administration-access-immigrant-minors-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post that the U.S. government would &#8220;hopefully&#8221; begin using Guantanamo Bay for illegal immigrants “within 30 days.&#8221;
Trump has made immigration a top priority, sending U.S. troops to the southern border and pressuring the country&#8217;s top trading partners — Mexico and Canada — to secure their sides of the border and stop unlawful crossings and drug trafficking. Over the weekend, Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and the two countries quickly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-mexico-slap-tariffs-on-u-s-after-trump-uses-trade-to-force-border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retaliated</a> with 25% tariffs on U.S. goods.

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More than 200 passengers on a Delta flight had to evacuate the plane after an &#8220;engine issue&#8221; forced pilots to avert takeoff at the last second Friday morning.
Photos and videos shared on social media showed people walking away from the Boeing 757-300 on the snow-covered Atlanta tarmac. The plane, which was supposed to fly to Minneapolis, deployed its emergency slides for people to exit, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/travel/delta-evacuation-atlanta-airport/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Four people were injured in the incident.
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About 200 people were evacuated from a Delta plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
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Curtis James, a passenger who spoke to CNN, said that the engine burst into flames as the plane was getting ready to take off, but officials have not said whether the plane&#8217;s engine caught fire. Delta said in a statement, &#8220;Delta’s flight crew followed established procedures to suspend the takeoff of flight 2668 from Atlanta (ATL) to Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) after an indication of an engine issue.”
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One person was transported to a local hospital, and three others were treated for minor injuries at the scene, according to the airport. After the pilots aborted takeoff, passengers were transported from the tarmac to the airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the incident. A ground stop for all Delta flights was issued until at least 2:00 p.m., according to <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/winter-storm/four-injured-atlanta-airport-delta-flight-aborts-takeoff/85-c46be660-4a1a-4f2f-ab4e-3a066c6c0bf7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11 Alive</a>.
Severe winter weather moving across parts of the South on Friday hammered Atlanta, causing hundreds of flight cancellations on Friday morning. As of 11:00 a.m. ET, more than 400 flights at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had been canceled, according to FlightAware.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bruce-springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> is slated to perform at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> rallies in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania in the coming days as the Democratic candidate attempts to pull ahead in the polls.
The <a href="https://variety.com/2024/music/news/bruce-springsteen-to-appear-at-kamala-harris-rallies-georgia-pennsylvania-1236186317/">performances</a> set for Atlanta on Thursday and Philadelphia next Monday are part of a series of concert events called “When We Vote We Win.” Former President Barack Obama will join the 75-year-old recording artist at both rallies. Harris is only scheduled to make a personal appearance at the Atlanta event.
Additional stops are expected to be announced leading up to Election Day.
Springsteen is a longtime Democrat supporter who campaigned for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and campaigned for President Joe Biden in 2020. &#8220;The Boss&#8221; also performed at the Inauguration Day rally for Biden in January 2021.
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The New Jersey native officially endorsed Harris for president in a recorded video message earlier this month. 
“Perhaps not since the Civil War has this great country felt as politically, spiritually, and emotionally divided as it does at this moment,” Springsteen <a href="https://www.instagram.com/springsteen/reel/DArLPGnIJD3/?hl=en">said</a> in the clip, which was filmed at a diner in Freehold, New Jersey, and shared on multiple social media platforms. 
“It doesn’t have to be this way. &#8230; Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are committed to a vision of this country that respects and includes everyone, regardless of class, religion, race, your political point of view, or sexual identity, and they want to grow the economy in a way that benefits all, not just a few like me on top. That’s the vision of America I’ve been consistently writing about for 55 years.”
The Harris campaign has been using celebrity endorsements to their advantage. Rap artist Eminem introduced former President Barack Obama at a Harris rally in Detroit on Tuesday night. The rapper didn’t perform, but he did give some remarks on the upcoming election, saying, “People shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to express their opinions, and I don&#8217;t think anyone wants an America where people are worried about retribution of what people will do if you make your opinion known.&#8221; 
&#8220;I think Vice President Harris supports a future for this country where these freedoms and many others will be protected and upheld,&#8221; Eminem said.
Obama also repeated some of the lyrics from Eminem’s hit single “Lose Yourself” during the event.

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Fox Weather reporter Bob Van Dillen interrupted his live coverage of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/helene-downgraded-to-tropical-storm-after-battering-florida?topStoryPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tropical Storm Helene</a> in Atlanta on Friday morning to help a woman who was stuck in her car as flood waters continued to rise.
Van Dillen, who was in North Atlanta, began his report for &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; just after 7:00 a.m. ET when a woman started crying for help behind him. The trapped woman can be heard screaming for help while Van Dillen is reporting on the scene.
&#8220;You can see right here, this lady drove into the area that&#8217;s flooded out, and she&#8217;s screaming right now. I just called 911,&#8221; Van Dillen said.
&#8220;She is still screaming,&#8221; the reporter added before turning around to tell the woman, &#8220;We got you. 911 [is] coming. You&#8217;re good. You&#8217;re good.&#8221;
After the woman continued to call for help, Van Dillen told the &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; hosts that he would try to help her.
When the show went back to Van Dillen, the meteorologist was seen carrying the woman on his back through chest-high water.
&#8220;Fox Weather&#8217;s Bob Van Dillen saved a woman trapped in a car. Look at that!&#8221; Fox News anchor Steve Doocy said.
&#8220;That guy is a hero!&#8221; Doocy added.
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After rescuing the woman, Van Dillen got back in front of the camera and was asked about his good deed. The reporter said the water level was rising so high that the woman was &#8220;almost neck deep submerged in her own car.&#8221;
&#8220;I realized I&#8217;m with you guys, I&#8217;m on the air, but I can&#8217;t let it go,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I dropped everything, and I took my wallet out of my pants and went in there, waded in about chest deep.&#8221;
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&#8220;She&#8217;s fine. She was in shock, she was cold, shivering, so I gave her one of my shirts,&#8221; Van Dillen added, saying that the woman warmed up in one of the Fox Weather vehicles before her husband picked her up.
&#8220;That&#8217;s the type of guy Bob Van Dillen is. I&#8217;ve known Bob for probably 15 years,&#8221; said &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; host Janice Dean. &#8220;So don&#8217;t be humble, my friend. I was not surprised at all when you took off your gear and on live television said, &#8216;I&#8217;ve got to go do something.'&#8221;
Around 25 people have been rescued from flooding caused by Tropical Storm Helene Thursday night into Friday morning, according to CNN. The storm, which slammed into northern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday night, is moving northward over Georgia as a tropical storm.

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Two Delta Airlines planes collided while taxiing at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Tuesday morning with one plane&#8217;s tail nearly getting ripped off.
A Delta Airbus A350&#8217;s wing tip “came into contact” with a Delta CRJ 900 regional jet&#8217;s tail while both planes were taxiing to get in position for departure, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/10/travel/delta-planes-collide-taxiing-atlanta-airport/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The Delta CRJ 900 was being operated by Endeavor Airlines. No one was injured in the collision, according to Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony Black.
Video and photos taken after the collision show the damage to the CRJ 900&#8217;s tail.
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“While Delta Air Lines Flight 295 was taxiing for departure at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, its wingtip struck the tail of Endeavor Air Flight 5526. The Delta Airbus A350 was headed to Tokyo. The Endeavor Bombardier CRJ900 was headed to Lafayette, Louisiana,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, considered the busiest in the world, also released a <a href="https://x.com/ATLairport/status/1833532469972504960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, saying, &#8220;At 10:07AM, two aircraft made contact at the intersection of taxiways E and H on the north airfield. No injuries are reported. Passengers from one aircraft are being bussed to concourse B; the other aircraft taxied on its own power to its gate. There is minimal impact to ops.&#8221;
According to Delta, there were 221 passengers on the Airbus and 56 passengers on the CRJ 900.
Retired aviation expert Ira Astrachan told The Daily Wire that the collision appears to be the pilots&#8217; fault and not an issue with the ground crew or air traffic control. He said the CRJ 900 turned onto a taxiway and should have pulled up farther to the &#8220;hold short&#8221; line &#8220;so that its nose is as close to that line as possible.&#8221; The CRJ, however, appeared to stop 20 to 30 feet short of the line, meaning its tail was &#8220;still sticking part way into the main taxiway, which is where the Airbus was,&#8221; according to the aviation expert.
&#8220;The co-pilot of the Airbus should have notified the captain, &#8216;Hey, doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;re going to clear the tail of that CRJ. We need to stop and have the CRJ pull up,'&#8221; Astrachan said. &#8220;It&#8217;s too bad. That stuff shouldn&#8217;t happen. It&#8217;s two pilots taxiing airplanes; it&#8217;s on them.&#8221;
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Tuesday&#8217;s collision marks the second accident in the past month involving Delta planes at the Atlanta airport. Last month, a Delta employee and a contractor were killed, and a third person was seriously injured when a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2-killed-after-delta-plane-tire-explodes-at-atlanta-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane tire exploded</a> in a maintenance area.
The workers had removed the tire from the Delta plane and taken it to the wheel and brake shop when the tire exploded, sending a piece of metal “flying like a missile.” The deadly incident is still being investigated.
This article has been updated to provide additional comments and expert analysis.

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A Delta employee and a contractor at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport were killed, and a third person was seriously injured on Tuesday morning when a plane tire exploded, Channel 2 Action News <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/clayton-county/2-dead-1-injured-after-tire-explodes-delta-maintenance-area-near-atlanta-airport/A2WNQFZRIBHJRIXALFKHPTWJDM/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Sources told the local news outlet workers were working on a Delta plane tire in a maintenance area at the airport when it exploded and sent a piece of metal &#8220;flying like a missile.&#8221; Delta Air Lines confirmed that two people were killed in the accident, and another person was injured. It remains unclear what caused the plane&#8217;s tire to explode.
The two victims who were killed have been identified as 58-year-old Mirko Marweg and 37-year-old Luis Aldarondo.
&#8220;The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of two team members and the injury of another following an incident this morning at the Atlanta Technical Operations Maintenance facility (TOC 3). We have extended our full support to family members and colleagues during this incredibly difficult time,&#8221; the airline said in a statement. &#8220;The Delta family is grateful for the quick action of first responders and medical teams on site. We are now working with local authorities and conducting a full investigation to determine what happened.&#8221;
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There was no update on the condition of the injured Delta employee as of Tuesday afternoon.
Channel 2 Action News reported that flight information showed that the airplane landed in Atlanta from Las Vegas on Sunday night. Airport officials confirmed that the deadly incident has not affected any other flights. The Atlanta airport is considered the <a href="https://www.oag.com/busiest-airports-world#:~:text=Which%20is%20the%20Busiest%20AIrport%20in%20the%20World%3F,2%25%20compared%20to%20last%20month." target="_blank" rel="noopener">busiest</a> in the world.
“I offer my deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased Delta employees,&#8221; Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens <a href="https://x.com/andreforatlanta/status/1828435315867967937" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;My thoughts are also with those who were injured, and I hope for their swift and full recovery. AFRD, APD, and HJAIA teams are on the scene, working diligently to address the situation.”
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A black Georgia activist became the center of attention at a rally for former president Donald Trump on Saturday when she riled the crowd in support of Trump and how his policies benefit black Americans.
Trump introduced Conserve the Culture founder Michaelah Montgomery to an audience in Atlanta on Saturday. Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-chick-fil-a-black-voters-d981e8edac067fa8912cc56c92d8b9ab">met</a> Montgomery earlier this year at a campaign stop at a Georgia  Chick-fil-A and called her “so smart, so sharp,” according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-activist-steals-show-introduced-trump-atlanta-rally-incredible" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
“She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss,” Trump said after bringing her on stage. “I said, ‘I think I’m never going back home to the first lady.’”
Montgomery then spoke and, in one portion of her speech, ripped into Vice President Kamala Harris for harming the black community and black families.
“They don&#8217;t want to talk policy. They just want to use propaganda to steal your vote,” Montgomery said, referring to the Democratic Party. “The left is trying to tout this woman as a savior for the black community, but all she&#8217;s done is hurt the black community since she came into the game.”
The conservative activist hit Harris for her past relationship with Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, who helped Harris launch her political career.
“See, the first step in destroying the black community is to dismantle the black family. So, aside from her record as a prosecutor, why don&#8217;t we ask Mrs. Willie Brown if Kamala Harris cares about black families?” Montgomery asked.
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Montgomery went on to defend Trump for earlier remarks questioning Harris’ use of her racial background.
“A few days ago, President Trump said he didn&#8217;t know Vice President Harris was a black woman. I&#8217;m trying to figure out what all the outrage is about because she&#8217;s only black when it&#8217;s time to get elected,” Montgomery said. “The same black people who are mad at Trump for being confused about her race, ethnicity, nationality, whatever are seemingly forgetting that, while you&#8217;re touting her as a savior for black people, she identifies as an Asian woman. She chose her side and it wasn’t ours.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris underwent an obvious vocal metamorphosis over the course of just a few days, taking a very different tone when she addressed a rally crowd in Atlanta, Georgia, than she had when speaking to the drag queens on &#8220;RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race.&#8221;
When speaking with the drag queens in Los Angeles on the day she officially kicked off her presidential campaign, Harris&#8217; tone was crisp and clear — but by the time she took the stage at her Atlanta rally on Tuesday, the de facto Democratic nominee had adopted a slow drawl.
Conservative communications pro Greg Price shared side-by-side videos that showed just how dramatic the change had been, adding the caption, &#8220;Here is Kamala Harris, who was born in California to Jamaican and Indian college professors, talking to drag queens in Los Angeles a week ago vs. black people in Atlanta tonight. Fakest human being that has ever lived.&#8221;
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Here is Kamala Harris, who was born in California to Jamaican and Indian college professors, talking to drag queens in Los Angeles a week ago vs. black people in Atlanta tonight.
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&#8220;&#8216;We ‘gon do it again in twenty twenty-foh.&#8217; What the hell is wrong with this person?&#8221; one posted in response.
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“We ‘gon do it again in twenty twenty-foh”
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&#8220;One wonders if any journalists in Georgia or elsewhere will question Kamala&#8217;s obviously fake southern accent at her highly managed stage performance in Atlanta,&#8221; another added.
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— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1818629929535213948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The video of her affected southern drawl drew immediate comparisons to the Democratic Party&#8217;s last female nominee, Hillary Clinton, from the first of her two failed presidential runs in 2007.
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&#8220;Almost worse than Hillary&#8217;s &#8216;I don&#8217;t feel no ways tired&#8217; weirdness. Maybe worse,&#8221; one said.
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— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) <a href="https://twitter.com/KemberleeKaye/status/1818477472331030733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Kamala Harris’s fake southern accent puts Hillary Clinton to shame,&#8221; another added.
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Kamala Harris’s fake southern accent puts Hillary Clinton to shame. <a href="https://t.co/pXh1F2ljB5">pic.twitter.com/pXh1F2ljB5</a>
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&#8220;The fake Southern/jive accent is such a narcissistic, privileged white liberal compulsion. It never occurs to them how cringe and racist it is. At least Hillary actually lived in the South for a bit; Kamala is a California valley girl raised in Canada,&#8221; another posted.
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The fake Southern/jive accent is such a narcissistic, privileged white liberal compulsion. It never occurs to them how cringe and racist it is.
At least Hillary actually lived in the South for a bit; Kamala is a California valley girl raised in Canada. <a href="https://t.co/be7lK8OLDh">pic.twitter.com/be7lK8OLDh</a>
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chadwick_Moore/status/1818681561656488308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign rally in Atlanta

WATCH: Harris Undergoes Obvious Voice Metamorphosis When Talking To Atlanta Voters

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One of the benefits of our whole federal system, at least in theory, is that it provides some insulation from bad government. If your state is being run into the ground by incompetent politicians, then you can just move to another state. And if a local politician is doing a terrible job, then at least he&#8217;s not wrecking the rest of the country. The damage is contained. 
That&#8217;s the idea, anyway. And there are about a million reasons why that&#8217;s not true anymore. Exhibit A is the series of ongoing and deeply embarrassing disasters that are unfolding at the moment in Atlanta, Georgia and its surrounding metro area. There&#8217;s no other way to say this: Because the principles of federalism are no longer really operative, Atlanta&#8217;s dysfunction poses a direct threat to the entire country. You can&#8217;t get away from it simply by fleeing the state of Georgia. It&#8217;s all encompassing.
We&#8217;re now all very familiar with the catastrophe that is Fulton County, Georgia&#8217;s attempt to prosecute Donald Trump on RICO charges. The lead prosecutor, Fani Willis, saw the trial as an opportunity to promote her boyfriend and shower him with taxpayer money, then she apparently lied about it to the court. She also tried to play the sassy woman when she testified about this conflict of interest, which somehow managed to lower public confidence in her office even further. That&#8217;s all well-documented.
On top of that, just this week, former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler asked why Fulton County officials are reportedly attempting to <a href="https://x.com/KLoeffler/status/1806059124477632788" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroy</a> 2020 election ballots before they can be inspected. This comes after the Georgia Election Board <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/05/07/georgia-oversight-panel-ruminates-on-2020-election-hiccups-as-2024-showdowns-loom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to reprimand Fulton County — and appoint an independent poll monitor for the upcoming election — because of irregularities in the way the county counted ballots in 2020. 
That decision came after testimony like this, where it emerged that hundreds of thousands of &#8220;ballot images&#8221; are apparently missing in Georgia:
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Again, this might be mildly amusing if the impact of all this incompetence were confined to Georgia. But it&#8217;s not. Counting ballots affects national politics. Jailing a presidential candidate affects national politics. So the infestation of incompetent morons in the government of the state of Georgia is, unfortunately, a concern of everyone living in this country. Somehow, the most inept people imaginable are running things in Georgia. It&#8217;s important to figure out how exactly that happened, so we can stop it from getting even worse, if that&#8217;s even possible at this point.
That brings me to the very curious case of a woman who — until recently — was the <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/rookie-probate-judge-could-make-be-highest-paid-judge-in-douglas-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest paid</a> judge in Douglas County: a Democrat by the name of Christina Peterson. Peterson was making somewhere north of $100,000 a year, according to some reports. She became a probate judge in Douglas County, which is right next to Fulton County, back in 2020 after winning a contested primary and running unopposed in a general election. To be clear, Peterson wasn&#8217;t handling the most high-stakes cases in Atlanta. She dealt with things like marriage licenses.
But even so — you&#8217;d hope that a relatively highly paid judge in a metro area like Atlanta would be well-qualified, professional, and competent. At the very least, you might think she&#8217;d have some capacity to control herself in public. But last week, it became clear to everyone that Peterson lacks every single one of those characteristics. She apparently got into a fight outside a nightclub and hit a police officer, and it was all recorded on the officer&#8217;s body camera. Watch:
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Try to imagine arriving here in a time machine from 30 years ago and watching that video. You would assume that the woman in the video is an unemployed welfare recipient. When you found out that this is the kind of person who becomes a judge in the year 2024, you would be shocked. And then you’d get back in your time machine, go back to your own time, and do everything in your power to warn the public about the cursed future you’re heading into. But nobody would believe you. The sad reality is that voters in Douglas County picked this candidate as the best one in a competitive primary. And then, throughout her several years in office, no one decided she was unqualified in any way. 
That all finally changed this week, when the Supreme Court of Georgia removed Christina Peterson from the bench. But they didn&#8217;t remove her because she hit a police officer in that body camera footage. They removed her because of more than four dozen ethics complaints that, in the words of the court, demonstrated her &#8220;flagrant disregard for the law, court rules, and judicial conduct rules.” 
And this is quite a rap sheet we&#8217;re talking about here. The most egregious incident took place in August 2021. I&#8217;m going to describe it in some detail, because it&#8217;s actually hard to believe that such a low-level judge would engage in such obvious, flagrant misconduct. And the fact that this woman did engage in this conduct — and held onto her job for several years — tells us a lot about how the &#8220;justice system&#8221; works in Atlanta, and nationwide.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1396-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
According to the Georgia Supreme Court, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Thailand filed a petition to amend her marriage-license application. She wanted to correct the name she had listed as her father&#8217;s name on the form. Basically, five years earlier, she had originally listed her uncle&#8217;s name because her father wasn&#8217;t involved in her life at the time. And now she wanted to fix that, because &#8220;she was completing emigration documents for her mother and believed she should correct the application so that it would not be inconsistent with her birth certificate.&#8221; To support this application, this petitioner &#8220;attached a copy of her birth certificate, which had been translated from Thai into English.&#8221; There was even a note on the copy that it was a translation, as opposed to an official document.
Hearing all of this, you might conclude that this is not exactly the court case of the century. But in response to this filing, Christina Peterson went to war. She wasn&#8217;t going to let this marriage-license application (from five years ago) get amended without a fight. So she summoned this woman to her court. She didn&#8217;t advise her of her right to have a lawyer or anything. She just demanded that this woman show up. And when the woman showed up, Christina Peterson told her that the copy of the birth certificate was, “fictitious,” “fraudulent,” and “forged.&#8221; She declared that the petitioner was in &#8220;blatant disregard for the laws of the State of Georgia&#8221; and sentenced her to the maximum possible punishment for contempt — 20 days in jail. This is a criminal offense. But, in the alternative, the judge allowed this petitioner the option of serving two days in jail and paying a $500 fine. That&#8217;s ultimately what the woman had to do. She couldn&#8217;t alert her children or arrange childcare services or anything. She just went straight to jail.
Anyway, the ethics panel in Georgia looked into this. They concluded that nothing Christina Peterson did made any sense. They said that the judge “predetermined” that the petitioner committed criminal contempt; &#8220;issued the notice of the hearing without informing the petitioner that the criminal contempt matter would be adjudicated; ambushed the petitioner at the hearing by alleging that she had committed a crime; summarily found the petitioner guilty and sentenced her; and then lied about her actions in her testimony before the Panel.&#8221;
There are a bunch of other violations in addition to this one. For instance, the panel found that the judge let a wedding party into the courthouse &#8220;without ensuring that the party underwent security screening by sheriff&#8217;s deputies.&#8221; And then she tried to cover it up. According to the Georgia Supreme Court, she, &#8220;falsely testified that after the division commander [of the courthouse] told her not to take the wedding party into the courthouse, the sheriff overrode that directive and granted her permission to enter the courthouse to perform the wedding ceremony.&#8221;
There was another incident in which a sheriff&#8217;s deputy who was supposed to escort the judge to the courtroom in May of 2021 didn&#8217;t get there on time. So the judge &#8220;pushed the panic button under her desk,&#8221; which is reserved for emergencies. Then the police swarmed into her office and she pretended to not understand what the panic button was for. And there are dozens of other instances like this. 
They&#8217;re all comical examples of the most petty corruption imaginable — seemingly just for the sake of being petty and corrupt. It&#8217;s not even clear how this judge would personally gain from any of these abuses of power. Even the smallest amount of power can go to a person’s head, after all. I once worked for an assistant manager at a pizza restaurant whose 16 dollar an hour management position had turned him into a power mad tyrant. And now we have a lot of those kinds of people wearing judges robes, working in congress, etc.
This whole story tells us something about how easy it is for useless and corrupt halfwits to infest local governments — which matters for the rest of the country, as I outlined earlier. And incidents like this aren&#8217;t confined to Georgia. 
A couple of years ago in Ohio, a judge named Tracie Hunter had to be dragged out of court after her conviction on corruption charges was upheld. Watch:
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Tracie Hunter was another elected judge. In fact, she was the first woman judge *and* the first black judge ever to serve on Hamilton County&#8217;s Juvenile Court. She broke two glass ceilings at once, only to end up like this. 
But don&#8217;t get too sentimental, because there&#8217;s a lot more where that came from. In fact, just this week, there was another unceremonious fall for yet another pathbreaking black civil servant. I&#8217;m talking of course about Jamaal Bowman, who famously pretended not to understand how fire alarms work so that he could delay a House vote. Bowman just lost his primary, as you might have heard. According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote a <a href="https://x.com/AOC/status/1805996713053696331">teary-eyed tweet</a> to mark the occasion, Bowman was, &#8220;Elected as the 1st Black Congressman for NY-16.&#8221;
Now, that&#8217;s not true, as it turns out. New York&#8217;s 16th Congressional District has had several other black representatives in its history. But more to the point, this was how Bowman and AOC tried to turn out the vote at a rally just before Bowman&#8217;s election defeat. This was a rally that wasn&#8217;t even in his district, by the way. Watch:
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Watching that, you can understand why the school that Bowman &#8220;led&#8221; for a decade is doing about as well as LeBron James&#8217; school. They have reading and math proficiency scores hovering below 30%. In any event, AOC and Bowman are prancing around like they see themselves as superstars. And fortunately for them, those videos are shot at a pretty close angle. But if you take a few steps back, this is what the rally actually looked like:
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No one&#8217;s even there. It&#8217;s a completely dead rally. And indeed, the reason no one was there is that Jamaal Bowman is very unpopular. But somehow, instead of making any effort to win over voters, both Bowman and AOC decided that the best course of action was just to run around on stage and scream.
At the local level, all over the country, we are ruled by people like this. These are people who make a mockery out of politics and the judicial system. They have no regard for any of it. They don&#8217;t even realize how absurd they look to everyone else because they&#8217;re not capable of shame. And yet somehow, at one point or another, all of these people I&#8217;ve mentioned managed to win competitive elections. And they&#8217;ve parlayed those wins, in some cases, into national influence. That&#8217;s why fleeing their jurisdictions isn&#8217;t enough anymore. Instead we must mock them at every opportunity and point out their corruption whenever possible. That worked, to an extent, with Jamaal Bowman. Now there&#8217;s a lot more imbeciles who need to meet the same fate.

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One person is dead after a gunman hijacked a bus and held the 17 people on board hostage in Atlanta on Tuesday, police said. The hijacking came shortly after another gunman wounded three people in a downtown Atlanta food court.
Police said that both suspected gunmen are felons. Joseph Grier, 39, is the suspect in the bus hijacking and has 19 previous convictions, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/us/atlanta-bus-hijacking-how-it-unfolded/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The 34-year-old suspect in the food court shooting is another convicted felon who has 11 previous arrests.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI), Grier got on a Gwinnett County transit bus while it was in downtown Atlanta, which is in Fulton County. Grier allegedly swiped a gun from a passenger before he then threatened other people on the bus.
&#8220;Grier then shot the passenger and ordered the bus driver to flee the scene while threatening passengers with the gun.,&#8221; the GBI said in a <a href="https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2024-06-12/gbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-atlanta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;Numerous law enforcement agencies began pursuing the bus as it traveled north into Gwinnett County and then traveled east into DeKalb County.&#8221;
&#8220;During the pursuit, the bus hit several police vehicles. The bus’s tires were flattened during the pursuit, but the bus continued to flee. A Georgia State Patrol Trooper then fired his patrol rifle into the engine compartment of the bus in order to cause the bus to malfunction and stop running,&#8221; the statement added.
The passenger who was shot was transported to a hospital and later pronounced dead. The victim&#8217;s name is being withheld until authorities notify the family. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said that the family member of one of the passengers called 911, telling police about the hostage situation.
At one point, police had shut down all lanes of I-85 as a massive chase continued, WSB-TV <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/person-found-dead-hijacked-gwinnett-county-bus-after-wild-chase-up-i-85/N3EQQTMRPBF57KPPOSCGRTALPA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Video shows the bus driving through traffic and ramming into vehicles as a trail of police cars follows it.
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After police finally succeeded in getting the bus to stop, the suspect was taken into custody without incident, the GBI said. The bus driver was also taken to the hospital and treated for injuries.
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The suspected food court shooter <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/man-accused-opening-fire-downtown-atlanta-food-court-injuring-3-identified/CFB3RLEKO5BQXL7THYUEAVZNXI/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> got into an argument with someone inside the food court on Tuesday before allegedly pulling out a gun and shooting him along with two other people — a 69-year-old woman and a 70-year-old woman — who were nearby. WSB-TV <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/bus-hijacking-suspect-was-scene-downtown-atlanta-mass-shooting-moments-before/577PF4M3EJHS7PG75AJD5YVV4A/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Grier was caught on camera at the scene of the food court shooting before he allegedly hijacked the bus. Police have not connected Grier to the shooting at the food court.
Atlanta Democratic Mayor Andre Dickens blamed &#8220;gun violence&#8221; for Tuesday&#8217;s crimes.
“Today has been a very active day, but let me be clear, we’re talking about gun violence that is a result of too many people having guns in their hands,” Dickens said. “You’re talking about people that should not have been on the streets with guns.”
“So, this day is not indicative of all the days in the city of Atlanta, but this is a day we’ll never forget,” the mayor added.

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Gunman Allegedly Kills 1 Person In Atlanta Bus Hijacking Hours After Another Opens Fire In Food Court; Both Suspects Are Convicted Felons

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft reportedly called Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank and warned him to not trust former Patriots coach <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-belichick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Belichick</a>.
The January call, reported by <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39955777/how-patriots-legend-bill-belichick-end-nfl-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN</a> on Wednesday, played a major role in why the Falcons decided not to hire Belichick and instead opted to hire Raheem Morris.
Blank and Belichick met just a few days after Belichick was let go by the Patriots after coaching there for nearly a quarter century.
The job interview, which happened on Blank&#8217;s Yacht in the Caribbean, left Blank very impressed, the report said.
Blank&#8217;s view of Belichick changed after Blank decided to call Kraft, who is considered to be his closest friend among NFL owners.
&#8220;Kraft delivered a stark assessment of Belichick&#8217;s character, according to a source who spoke to two people: a close Kraft friend and a longtime Belichick confidant,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;The source quoted the Belichick source as saying, &#8216;Robert called Arthur to warn him not to trust Bill.&#8217; That account was backed up, the source said, by the close Kraft friend.&#8221;
&#8220;One source close to Belichick said Kraft &#8216;was a big part&#8217; of why the Falcons passed on hiring him,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;The sources said Kraft made clear to Blank that &#8216;you&#8217;ll never have a warm conversation with&#8217; Belichick, echoing what Bill Parcells told Kraft in 1996 when he wanted to bust the budget and hire Belichick. &#8216;Blank likes coaches who feel part of a family,&#8217; a Falcons source said, &#8216;and it wasn&#8217;t going to be that way with Bill.'&#8221;
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Kraft had been unhappy with Belichick, who won six Super Bowls with the team, for months and did not trust him because he believed that Belichick was responsible for leaking stories.
&#8220;[Kraft] found Bill to be extremely difficult and obstinate and kind of stubborn and, in the end, not worthy of his trust,&#8221; a source told ESPN. &#8220;And also very, very, very arrogant.&#8221;
The source said that the Kraft family felt &#8220;betrayed&#8221; by Belichick, but did not think that Kraft would try to harm the coach.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;d try to help him either,&#8221; the source added. &#8220;They weren&#8217;t going to try to sink him. He was finished as an effective head coach. Just look at his last four years in New England. A disaster. &#8230; If you&#8217;re Arthur Blank, why do you want the headaches?&#8221;

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Bill Belichick Not Hired By Atlanta Falcons After Patriots Owner Warned Falcons Owner: Report

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One of the most important ideas in the Bill of Rights is that your private property belongs to you.
It wasn&#8217;t exactly a novel concept, but just in case there was any doubt, the Bill of Rights spelled it out: No one can seize your property without due process. And if you take a look at the major court cases in this area over the years, you&#8217;ll find that you have the strongest privacy interests in your home, which makes sense. There are all kinds of exceptions that police can use to search your car, or your locker at work, for example. But for your home, there aren&#8217;t many exceptions. Your home is your castle, as the saying goes. That&#8217;s been true since the common law was created. 
But it&#8217;s not true anymore. It&#8217;s not even remotely true, in fact. 
It turns out that, when you flood the United States with a limitless supply of illegal migrants, while at the same time shipping millions of jobs overseas, then housing becomes a very scarce commodity. Squatters, mostly out of desperation, pop up in every home they can find — even homes that haven&#8217;t been abandoned. And then, when homeowners try to enforce their rights, and kick these criminals out of the property they paid for, they&#8217;re finding out that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution has effectively been suspended. 
As we discussed briefly yesterday, squatters — home invaders — now have more rights than homeowners. The government will assist them in seizing your property. The police, universally, will take the side of the criminal home invader, and kick the homeowner to the curb. Then, nonprofits and law firms rush in to represent the squatter in legal proceedings, should they become necessary. And then, somehow, courts will often still rule in favor of the squatter. 
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1329-squatters-can-now-come-in-and-steal-your-home-with-no-consequences-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
We don&#8217;t have to speculate about any of this. It&#8217;s all well-documented at this point. No reasonable person can dispute it. I&#8217;ll start with an example that&#8217;s gotten a lot of attention recently. 
Watch as a 47-year-old woman in Queens, New York, is dragged away from her own home — in handcuffs — because someone claims to have a lease for her property. This guy can&#8217;t show the lease to anyone, including the police and the media. But because he claims he&#8217;s been living there for around a month, they arrest the woman:
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&#8220;Unlawful eviction&#8221; is what they call it when you call the police because there&#8217;s a home invader in your home. That&#8217;s what you get if you&#8217;re not willing to wait two years (or more) for New York&#8217;s completely overloaded housing court to review your case. And by the way, even once New York&#8217;s housing court does review the case, there&#8217;s no guarantee they&#8217;ll side with the homeowner. This is a city that has outlawed the right of self-defense, after all. Once that&#8217;s gone, good luck getting them to enforce any of your other rights.
This is the norm in Left-wing jurisdictions now. It&#8217;s not just that the police don&#8217;t care about squatters with zero documentation whatsoever. It&#8217;s also the fact that the courts don&#8217;t enforce the law, even when you bring flagrant crimes like this to their attention. In Washington state, a judge just <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/squatter-granted-restraining-order-against-landlord-by-washington-state-judge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> a restraining order against a landlord whose tenant hasn&#8217;t been paying rent for years. The landlord organized a protest to bring attention to the situation, and the judge shut it down. This is a tenant who&#8217;s apparently purchased two cars while refusing to pay rent. And in Washington state, the courts side with him.
But this is not just a problem in New York City and Washington State. It&#8217;s happening all over the United States. 
Consider this recent episode in Atlanta, for example. This is from just four months ago. A woman listed her home for sale — not for rent. Then complete strangers moved in and changed the locks. In response, the police did absolutely nothing. Watch:
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It&#8217;s beyond parody. So the police do eventually show up. But it&#8217;s not to evict the home invaders who are stealing this home. It&#8217;s because they have their own &#8220;parallel investigation&#8221; for some other crimes that one of the squatters — a sex offender — committed in the past. So the cops take one man away in custody. But they allow the other squatter to stay on the property. The cops say the homeowner can ask for her to leave, but &#8220;it might not pan out.&#8221; That&#8217;s what law enforcement means now. You can ask people to stop breaking the law, but it might not pan out.
It needs to be said that these are not close cases. It&#8217;s true that, if it&#8217;s a confusing situation — say, a tenant appears to have legitimate lease documentation — then it&#8217;s probably best that the cops don&#8217;t arrest the tenant. But these are not difficult situations like that. When sex offenders start living in your house, without any valid documentation, the police should remove them. There shouldn&#8217;t be any question about it.
But apparently that isn&#8217;t happening anywhere. A similar scene played out seven months ago in Chicago. This time, a homeowner tries to rent out the property, and squatters show up. But once again, the police don&#8217;t do anything:
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I could spend all day, going from city to city, showing you footage like this. There&#8217;s footage from rural jurisdictions as well that I could show you. It&#8217;s happening all over. These kinds of home invasions are so common that one handyman has opened up a business advising homeowners how to regain access to their own homes, when squatters show up. Basically the idea is that you need to generate your own lease, so that you can show it to the police officers, who are now trained to respect your squatter&#8217;s rights over your rights in your own home. Watch:
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It&#8217;s hard to think of a more humiliating exercise than this. You own a property, and to access it, and to get the police to enforce the law, you need to draw up some fake lease for them. And this idea actually works, by the way. We know that because several years ago, the journalist Charlie LeDuff tried it in Michigan. He out-squatted the squatters. Watch:
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&#8220;Are you stealing power?&#8221; Charlie asks. &#8220;I&#8217;m blessed,&#8221; responds the squatter. At least the woman has a sense of humor.
What&#8217;s funny is that, in this situation, unlike all the other ones, the police actually do take the original squatter to jail. This is the only time they&#8217;ll take action to protect your property. You have to hire a new squatter to kick out the old one. I guess the idea is that the most recent squatter gets dibbs. 
This is a mockery of the idea of private property rights, obviously, and there&#8217;s a reason it&#8217;s happening. It&#8217;s the same reason you see so much mockery of religion. It&#8217;s the same reason BLM goes after the family unit. It&#8217;s why the corporate media pushes transgenderism. Private property rights — like religion and the family unit — is a bulwark against total state control of our lives. As long as we have private property, the state can&#8217;t control us — at least not as easily. 
Without private property, we&#8217;re just renters. And renters can be evicted at will. You&#8217;ll own nothing and be happy.
The Biden administration has done everything it can to normalize the destruction of private property rights. The administration fought to extend the COVID-era eviction moratorium as long as they could — long past the time that there was any plausible argument that ending evictions would somehow &#8220;stop the spread.&#8221; That led, effectively, to the nationalization of private property in this country. Landlords lost the right to evict squatters paying no rent, even when they owned the property outright. Watch:
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The anchor says it&#8217;s a &#8220;loophole.&#8221; But it&#8217;s the opposite of a loophole, the policy was working as intended. The eviction moratorium had nothing to do with a virus. It was intended to do something that&#8217;s never happened in this country since the Civil War, which is the wide-scale suspension of private property rights.
Once you pull off something as unconstitutional as seizing people&#8217;s homes in a time of &#8220;emergency&#8221; (as the Biden administration defined it), then it becomes much easier to seize people&#8217;s homes at any point in the future. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeing now.
That means more homes for the millions of illegal aliens who are entering this country.
It means more humiliation and destruction for American citizens.
And it means we&#8217;re getting closer to some homeowner somewhere snapping and deciding to take back his property, by force. At this point, you have to imagine that&#8217;s exactly what the people running this country want to happen.

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