Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told MSNBC this week that his party supports the Senate&#8217;s controversial border bill because it prioritizes the people that Democrats care the most about: illegal aliens.
Murphy made the admission during an interview on the far-left network&#8217;s &#8220;All In With Chris Hayes&#8221; on Wednesday night while talking about the border bill that was unveiled this week in the Senate.
Hayes asked Murphy about why the bill did not have a pathway to citizenship for millions of migrants who illegally came to the United States and suggested that Republicans were to blame.
&#8220;Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,” Murphy said. “This is also not 2013 any longer. When we ran that play last back then, there were a couple hundred people showing up every day applying for asylum. Today, on some days, there are 8,000. And the reality is, is that the bulk of this country does not think that that’s right or sustainable and wants us to change the reality at the border.&#8221;
&#8220;So I know there’s a temptation for Democrats, and I know you weren’t looking for this argument, but I think there is a temptation to just run the same play we always run because we know how to run it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But when it hasn’t worked and when the country is actually demanding that we do something to make the border more manageable, I do think we have a right and a responsibility to adjust to that reality. Now, this bill still had in it some really important things for migrant rights, including a right to representation and earlier work permits and the biggest expansion of visas in 30 years. It’s not a pathway to citizenship, but it is something substantial for people that actually care about migrants.&#8221;
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WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy admits Democrats&#39; &quot;strategy&quot; on immigration &quot;has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,&quot; so they&#39;re adjusting it. 
Dems are destroying the concept of “citizen.” <a href="https://t.co/6vOmrmioQU">pic.twitter.com/6vOmrmioQU</a>
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Senator Murphy On Democrats’ Priorities: ‘People We Care About Most’ Are ‘Undocumented Americans’

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-fetterman-clearly-struggles-through-questions-at-senate-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) delivered a nasty insult to House Republicans during a Monday interview, leaving MSNBC host Chris Hayes apparently shocked and struggling to redirect the conversation.
Hayes asked Fetterman to weigh in on the looming potential <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-congressman-makes-case-for-why-we-should-not-fear-a-government-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government shutdown</a> – and ongoing battles among House Republicans over whether to work out a compromise or push for more spending concessions from their Democratic counterparts — and the Pennsylvania senator lashed out at the ones who were choosing to fight.
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Fetterman: &quot;The House, the whatever they call themselves Team America or whatever they call themselves, bring your vote otherwise they need to go hump a different leg.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Hh6DGO8mfi">pic.twitter.com/Hh6DGO8mfi</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1703943080938807441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;How things have operated since that deal was – a bipartisan deal was struck for certain topline spending numbers for all of the funding bill that have to be passed to make the budget, keep the government running,&#8221; Hayes began.
&#8220;The Senate has basically been delivering those, and passing them by big, 91-7 bipartisan majorities,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The House today looks like it&#8217;s falling apart, you&#8217;ve already got 17 no votes in that House Republican Caucus saying we&#8217;re not passing anything — what do you think&#8217;s happening here?&#8221;
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Fetterman responded by praising his colleagues in the Senate, saying that they were &#8220;really about governance&#8221; and that he was proud to work alongside them.
&#8220;The House, the whatever they call themselves Team America or whatever they call themselves, I am just like – hey, I am just like, bring your vote, you know, otherwise they need to go hump a different leg,&#8221; Fetterman said, apparently referencing the House Freedom Caucus.
For a moment, Hayes said nothing at all — and then he appeared to have a hard time redirecting the conversation. &#8220;Um — the – you were in – uh — you drove your — I think it was a Ford &#8230;&#8221;
Fetterman has been the topic of a number of discussions of late, particularly since his penchant for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fetterman-rule-senate-cuts-dress-code-enforcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hoodies and athletic shorts</a> recently inspired Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to sign off on a relaxation of the Senate&#8217;s longstanding dress code.

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John Fetterman Delivers Nasty Insult To GOP, Leaves MSNBC Host Stammering

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Congressman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/raskin-channels-schiff-insists-to-cnn-he-has-evidence-republicans-begged-trump-for-january-6-pardons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamie Raskin</a> (D-MD) took issue on Friday with the constitutionally-mandated manner in which presidents are elected, calling the Electoral College &#8220;an accident waiting to happen.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/next-question-democrat-rep-refuses-to-say-how-inflation-reduction-act-will-lower-inflation-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raskin</a>, who was a constitutional law professor prior to his time in Congress, told MSNBC host Chris Hayes that the system as a whole was &#8220;vulnerable&#8221; and that the Electoral College had allowed room for &#8220;strategic bad faith actors&#8221; like former President Donald Trump.
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Former Constitutional law professor and sitting congressman has a problem with the constitutional manner in which presidents are elected: &quot;The Electoral College is *an accident waiting to happen* and we have to deal with that at some point in American history.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/pF5scFAuiU">pic.twitter.com/pF5scFAuiU</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1569067830653378565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Final question for you. You were a constitutional law professor before you were a United States Congressman. I wanted to hear you talk about these different aspects of an inquiry or making the case here,&#8221; Todd began, noting that the January 6th Committee — of which Raskin is part — did not have the power to prosecute former President Trump.
&#8220;Your committee doesn’t have criminal prosecutorial power, and nor should it, it’s a congressional committee,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There’s a difference between what I would call the great crime of Donald Trump, which was a frontal assault on the core of American democracy, and whatever statutory violation of the U.S. code he may have committed. Sometimes, it can feel a little bit like a mismatch there, and I wanna know what you think about those two lanes.&#8221;
&#8220;Obviously, we’re gonna need some legislative changes to the criminal code, to account for, now the possibility of presidents taking a headlong rush at seizing the Presidency,&#8221; Raskin replied. &#8220;But there are federal statutes out there that will do the job. We have course have seditious conspiracy. We have conspiracy to interfere with the federal proceeding, which I think everybody can agree took place here. After, all the whole chant was &#8216;stop the steal.'&#8221;
Raskin went on to insist that the riot that took place on Capitol Hill had been planned out beforehand.
&#8220;So, yeah, I think that we will have to look at some new federal statutory changes,&#8221; Raskin continued. &#8220;And we have to look at the way that the electoral system itself is vulnerable to strategic bad faith actors like Donald Trump. The Electoral College is an accident waiting to happen and we have to deal with that at some point in American history. Why not now?&#8221;

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Sitting Congressman Jamie Raskin Says U.S. Constitution Is 'An Accident Waiting To Happen'

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Have you ever wondered what planet the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/leftists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left</a> lives on? The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic Party&#8217;s</a> most ardent defenders display plenty of cognitive dissonances to fuel that question.
For example, the latest story dealing with money in politics shows yet again that America&#8217;s leftist faction spends its time in some sort of Bizarroland. The Left lives there either blissfully unaware of politics or willfully obtuse as to how much cash its side throws around in politics each election cycle.
Barre Seid, an ultra-successful billionaire conservative, recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/republican-dark-money.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> $1.6 billion to the conservative non-profit The Marble Freedom Trust, according to a report. That is a huge chunk of change and will undoubtedly allow The Marble Freedom Trust to influence politics across the country.
For that reason, Seid is earning the ire of folks like MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes and countless others.
&#8220;This is nuts,&#8221; Hayes said in reaction to the news. He also took a potshot at the non-profit leader, attorney Leonard Leo, an influential conservative who has spent decades in the D.C. non-profit world working to elect conservative justices.
&#8220;Neat how Leo helped engineer a SCOTUS that guts campaign finance restrictions and opens the floodgates to unprecedented dark money and then raises hundreds of millions in said dark money,&#8221; Hayes said sarcastically.
Based on the MSNBC anchor&#8217;s reaction, you would think American politics has never seen this kind of money before in one election cycle.
Due to laws protecting donors’ anonymity (the so-called dark money laws mentioned by Hayes), it is unclear if an individual has ever donated $1.6 billion during one election, but the Left has constantly thrown around billions of dollars through numerous organizations and individuals.
That makes the outcry against the $1.6 billion donation all the more weak.
Matt Whitlock, a Republican staffer, <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1561723168133287936?s=20&amp;t=36bGK3_ZGh6mk3QCeUz7JQ">responded</a> to Hayes, saying, &#8220;Have to wonder if liberals who are shocked at this are genuinely unaware that their own side has been at this scale for years now and the right is just starting to catch up.&#8221;
&#8220;Or if they are fully aware and this is all Sheldon Whitehouse style performance art,&#8221; he said in reference to the Rhode Island Democratic senator who has often expressed outrage at big money in politics despite his party often benefiting from it.
Whitlock pointed out that the same New York Times article shared by Hayes <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1561725323196018689?s=20&amp;t=36bGK3_ZGh6mk3QCeUz7JQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that, &#8220;Democrats spent $1.5B in dark money in the 2020 election cycle alone — most of which linked back to Arabella Advisors.&#8221;
The New York Times has previously <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/republican-dark-money.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">reported</a> that &#8220;dark money&#8221; helped President Joe Biden defeat former President Donald J. Trump. Yet Hayes had no qualms with that reporting.
Hayes has also defended George Soros from criticism. Soros, of course, is a Jewish Hungarian billionaire who consistently donates millions to left-wing causes and candidates every election cycle.
For instance, in 2019, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, &#8220;And for those who don’t know who Adam Schiff is, he is not just a radical liberal, he is someone who has been hand-picked and supported by George Soros,&#8221; in reference to the Democratic California congressman.
&#8220;Shifty Schiff the Soros-picked Congressman! No tropes here. No sir,&#8221; Hayes <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1179588965038465026?s=20&amp;t=36bGK3_ZGh6mk3QCeUz7JQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, implying that Trump Jr. was engaging in anti-Semitic behavior.
Absent from Hayes&#8217; critique was any mention of the funds given by Soros. Soros is quite proud of his donations. He even <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441">wrote</a> a recent Wall Street Journal opinion column explaining why he would continue to use his bank account to push prosecutors who agree with his legal philosophy. Again — crickets from the Left regarding that supposedly untoward financial influence.
Yet, when Seid — who is also of Jewish descent — uses his cash to advance causes he sees fit, it seems that criticism of his actions is fully encouraged.
Nor does it seem that big unions — which often support Democratic causes — deserve any scrutiny for throwing their weight around. In 2020, unions <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://nrtwc.org/big-labor-bosses-spent-1-8-billion-in-2020-election-demand-end-to-right-to-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://nrtwc.org/big-labor-bosses-spent-1-8-billion-in-2020-election-demand-end-to-right-to-work/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">pumped</a> a collective $1.8 billion into politics, according to the National Right To Work Committee.
It was barely a blip in the news when Democratic billionaire and crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried threw out the idea that he might donate upwards of $1 billion in the 2024 election cycle.
&#8220;I would guess north of $100 million,&#8221; Bankman-Fried <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/crypto-billionaire-says-spend-record-breaking-1-billion-2024-election-rcna30351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time, regarding how much he would put toward the Democratic Party in 2024. &#8220;As for how much more than that, I don’t know. It really does depend on what happens. It’s really dependent on exactly who’s running where for what.&#8221;
&#8220;[$1 billion] is a decent thing to look at as a — I would hate to say hard ceiling, because who knows what’s going to happen between now and then — but at least sort of as a soft ceiling,&#8221; he added.
And then are folks like Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who has <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/inside-swiss-billionaire-hansjorg-wyss-dark-money-dem-donations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> hundreds of millions in dark money. Not only is he using his wealth to push American politics leftward — he isn&#8217;t even American.
Of course, money in politics is not actually the problem.
The issue for the Left is that if conservative billionaires actually start using their money effectively to win political battles, then the Left will start losing power and elections. That reality would be tantamount to an &#8220;assault on democracy,&#8221; or whatever the latest smear is these days.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Left Doesn’t Hate Big Money In Politics. They Just Hate When Conservatives Win

The Left Doesn't Hate Big Money In Politics. They Just Hate When Conservatives Win

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Liberal politicians and media pundits have suggested that America should defund Russia’s energy industry — by purchasing oil from Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism that calls America “the great Satan.” A Biden administration Cabinet official, multiple MSNBC hosts, and America’s taxpayer-subsidized public radio network have all suggested this novel solution in less than a week.
“Could the president possibly consider authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline, working something out with Iran?” MSNBC’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-chief-corrects-msnbc-host-live-on-air-after-she-says-defunding-the-police-wont-hurt-law-enforcement">Stephanie Ruhle</a> asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday night’s episode of “The 11thHour.”
&#8220;Look, the president has said that all options are on the table,” replied Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. “But we also need to make sure we&#8217;re not galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short-term problems,&#8221; he said, possibly out of concern that reviving the U.S. energy sector may retard the Biden administration’s attempt to force Americans into relying on renewable energy sources.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/claudiatenney/status/1499425918300958727">blasted</a> Buttigieg’s response as “a word salad of bureaucratic BS. The left wing in Washington is doubling down on energy illiteracy instead of learning more about real energy security solutions.”
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What a word salad of bureaucratic BS. The left wing in Washington is doubling down on energy illiteracy instead of learning more about real energy security solutions. <a href="https://t.co/qJhBKuOrXb">https://t.co/qJhBKuOrXb</a>
&mdash; Claudia Tenney (@claudiatenney) <a href="https://twitter.com/claudiatenney/status/1499425918300958727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, the idea was repeated by Ruhle’s MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes, the host of “All In,” which airs at 8 p.m. Eastern, opposite “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Hayes retweeted a <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1499446638062018571">message</a> from Ryan Cooper, editor of the left-wing magazine The American Prospect, who said, “Iran has 103 million barrels of oil loaded up on tankers and ready to go.” Cooper then tagged President Joe Biden. Hayes amplified the message, adding, “If you’re a) devoted to cutting off Russia’s oil revenues and b) worried about inflation and spiking oil prices, this is one possible solution…”
Cooper later <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1499447477317033987">replied</a> to Hayes by noting that his plan would see Iran “sticking it to the [U.S.-based] private equity frackers who are raking in fat profits!”
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If you’re a) devoted to cutting off Russia’s oil revenues and b) worried about inflation and spiking oil prices, this is one possible solution… <a href="https://t.co/kmgIGFBQs5">https://t.co/kmgIGFBQs5</a>
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1499447156800999427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Actually, giving billions to American-murdering terrorists is a really bad idea,” <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1499501957316239363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1499501957316239363%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt-3136%2F2022%2F03%2F03%2Fmsnbcs-chris-hayes-has-found-a-solution-to-sanctioning-russia-but-keeping-gas-prices-low-buy-oil-from-iran%2F">retorted</a> Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Another commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/LegalBeagle78/status/1499460773516558340">asked</a> Cooper, “Is not having a soul a prerequisite for shilling for the leading terrorist state in the world?”
The State Department, which designated Iran as a <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2020/iran/">state sponsor of terrorism</a> in 1984, said the fundamentalist Islamic theocracy “continued its terrorist-related activity in 2020, including support for Hizballah, Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and various terrorist and militant groups in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere throughout the Middle East.”
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Actually, giving billions to American-murdering terrorists is a really bad idea. <a href="https://t.co/zzUuaHN5wP">https://t.co/zzUuaHN5wP</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1499501957316239363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Is not having a soul a prerequisite for shilling for the leading terrorist state in the world?
&mdash; My4HoosierGirls (@LegalBeagle78) <a href="https://twitter.com/LegalBeagle78/status/1499460773516558340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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These comments follow a statement from a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-announces-journalists-will-now-be-allowed-to-openly-engage-in-political-activism">National Public Radio</a> (NPR) reporter, which <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/27/1083379270/biden-sanctions-spare-russias-energy-sector-what-that-means-for-opec-talks">promoted</a> the idea of purchasing oil from Iran (at your expense). After mentioning ways U.S. oil companies could increase the production of domestic crude on Sunday’s “All Things Considered,” reporter Camila Domonoske said, “Last but not least, there&#8217;s the possibility of a new nuclear deal with Iran. Iran&#8217;s a major oil producer that&#8217;s been under U.S. sanctions. If there&#8217;s a breakthrough and all that oil comes back on markets, prices could come down.”
Although these comments were couched as ways to deflate Moscow’s aims, reports surfaced this week that Iran and China have allegedly helped Iranian mullahs evade U.S. sanctions.
Two Russian tankers, Pegas and Linda, “have been ferrying illicit Iranian crude oil in recent months, a move experts see as a scheme to evade U.S. sanctions and signal an increase in Tehran-Moscow relations,” <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-involved-in-plot-to-help-iran-bust-us-oil-sanctions/">reported</a> the Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo on Thursday, relying on information provided by United Against Nuclear Iran. “Illicit Iranian oil shipments <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/illegal-iranian-oil-shipments-to-china-skyrocketed-in-2021/">jumped by 40</a> percent in 2021, with China, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Venezuela, and Russia being the largest importers.”
Russia “has joined its ally China in participating in Iranian sanctions-busting schemes to smuggle crude oil and gas,&#8221; said UANI, implying that purchasing Iranian oil would reward Russia’s geostrategic aims, not punish them.
The notion of having Americans become more dependent on Iranian oil conflicts sharply with Republican proposals to secure U.S. energy independence by increasing fossil fuel exploration. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) counseled Buttigieg that “[u]sing North American oil to decouple economic dependency on the resources of hostile nations is a long term solution.”
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Using North American oil to decouple economic dependency on the resources of hostile nations is a long-term solution. <a href="https://t.co/mhpcrzV1Ze">https://t.co/mhpcrzV1Ze</a>
&mdash; Rep. Ralph Norman (@RepRalphNorman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRalphNorman/status/1499449703859163141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Energy security is national security,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joni-ernst-biden-oil-production-russia-ukraine">said</a> Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Fox News earlier this week. “We should be ramping it up here, and ratcheting down on President Putin and Russia, and yet this administration refuses to do that.”

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‘A Word Salad Of Bureaucratic BS’: Democrats Say To Fight Russia, Buy Oil From Iran

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The media are on the verge of declaring smash-and-grab robberies “mostly peaceful looting.”
In response to viral video footage of mobs demolishing store display cases and calmly walking out with armloads of merchandise, a growing number of media outlets claim the whole phenomenon has been exaggerated by “right-wing media” looking to create a “moral panic,” retailers angling to hoodwink the public, and “law enforcement lobbyists” desperate for an excuse to increase police funding. But these conspiratorial allegations are often refuted by the stories’ own reporting — not to mention numerous independent sources.
In recent weeks, the media seem to have created a new genre of coverage: smash-and-grab denialism. Outlets from The Atlantic, to NBC News, to the Los Angeles Times have dabbled in the narrative, which MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tied together during a December 29 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crAEOKfV1P0">segment</a> titled “Debunking The Right-Wing’s Shoplifting Freak-Out.” Hayes admitted the nation’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twelve-major-cities-with-new-homicide-records-in-2021-all-led-by-democrats">skyrocketing homicide rate</a> is “real, and really bad.” But he claimed without proof that “right-wing media is [sic] constantly peddling … a completely propagandistic story, specifically about out-of-control retail theft,” which has “basically no evidence to actually support it.” Hayes also, predictably, played the race card. “Like, there is nothing that Fox [News] loves more than surveillance footage of, particularly, black people stealing a thing, and they will run that 24/7 if they can,” Hayes asserted.
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Coverage of smash-and-grab crimes is far from limited to “right-wing” sources. Last November 24, CNN ran a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/smash-and-grab-thefts-explainer-cec/index.html">story</a> by Faith Karimi titled “Why some US cities are facing a spree of &#8216;smash-and-grab&#8217; crimes.” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/business/theft-retail-crime-robbery.html">followed suit</a> two days later. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/03/retail-theft-organized-crime/">reported</a> in December that “large-scale ‘smash-and-grabs’ have been on the rise this year.” Even Hayes noted the “narrative that America is awash in crime” has appeared in “a lot” of “local news, as well,” although he ignored the fact that coverage of the same story across media outlets from every part of the political spectrum — conservative (Fox News, Newsmax), liberal (CNN, NYT, WaPo), and nonpartisan (local news) — increases the likelihood that the story is true.
That is the problem. Few things destroy a politician’s chances at reelection like a crime surge, especially one spread throughout cities controlled by the same party — so the same media that spent 2020 whitewashing “mostly peaceful protests” and 2021 denying the existence of CRT in public school curricula must now insist that spooked consumers collectively hallucinated a crime spree.
One of Hayes’ guests, Amanda Mull, got the revisionist ball rolling with <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/shoplifting-holiday-theft-panic/621108/">an essay</a> in The Atlantic accusing stores and retailers of fomenting a “moral panic” and of backing measures that “encourage people to see even the pettiest property crime as a mortal sin.” (<a href="https://stjohndc.org/en/orthodoxy-foundation/thou-shalt-not-steal">Deliberate</a> <a href="http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/eng/Orthodox_Catechism_of_Philaret.htm">theft</a> is a <a href="//3278F4FC-404C-4F4B-9C84-0A92E90D0713/encourage%20people%20to%20see%20even%20the%20pettiest%20property%20crime%20as%20a%20mortal%20sin,">mortal sin</a>; Mull should mull over staying in her own lane.) But she admitted that in San Francisco’s “central district, where expensive fashion boutiques and other kinds of retail outlets are clustered together, larceny theft was up 88 percent from 2020 as of early December.”
Mull essentially makes two arguments: She rightly notes the difficulty of finding accurate crime statistics about smash-and-grab crimes; and she claims, while shoplifting may be up from 2020, it is down long-term. Unfortunately, numerous measures say otherwise. New York City had seen “more than 26,000 shoplifting cases through September alone, the most to that point in the 26 years the numbers have been tracked,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/25/spike-in-smash-and-grab-attacks-means-bad-news-for-shoppers/">according</a> to the New York Post. On the other side of the continent, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-15/organized-retail-theft-crime-rate?_ga=2.165026233.70388755.1641382615-1964586632.1641382615">admitted</a> that statistics show a 56% increase in organized retail crime nationwide between 2015 and 2020, with store owners experiencing “losses to organized retail crime at $2.1 billion nationwide.”
Hayes diverted his viewers’ attention to a December 27 NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lapd-warn-crime-wave-data-show-theft-robberies-rcna9236">report</a> that tried to downplay the reality of smash-and-grab robberies in Los Angeles: “LAPD warn of crime wave, but data shows theft, robberies down.” Yet 20 paragraphs into the story, NBC admitted, “Robbery is up 5.2 percent this year compared to this point in 2020 … and theft is up 0.7 percent, recent LAPD data shows.” The story added, “the department says coordinated thefts are on the rise … the recent wave has been unprecedented and overwhelmed retail workers and shoppers with a sense of helplessness.”
Much of the problem in finding accurate statistics stems from the fact that too many perpetrators are never arrested in the first place. (More on this later.) Thus, the only statistics available are those collected by the shopkeepers and their representatives. The National Retail Federation noted in its <a href="https://cdn.nrf.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/2021%20National%20Retail%20Security%20Survey%20updated.pdf">annual report</a> that their respondents’ biggest complaint since 2015 is the increase in “store-related violence” and organized retail crime. Half of all stores suffered more shoplifting in 2020 than in 2019, and 57% of stores said they experienced more organized retail crime during the pandemic, with 22% calling it a “significant increase.” Despite the spike, shoplifting prosecutions fell by 22% between 2019 and 2020 — and 83% since 2015. Meanwhile, the robberies have become more costly. “The average retail robbery netted more than $7,500,” an increase of more than $4,700, or 163%, since 2019.
Not only are organized attacks on businesses increasing, but criminals appear to be becoming more violent. A gang of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/03/retail-theft-organized-crime/">80 people</a> mobbed shoppers, spraying bear spray on one victim inside a Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek, California, on November 20. Four days later, the perpetrators of another smash-and-grab <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-mall-guard-spray">used bear spray</a> on a security guard in Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles before making off with $25,000 worth of goods. A robber <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/25/smash-grab-robbers-strike-in-takoma-park/">used a firearm</a> to shoot open a display case during a Christmas Eve robbery in Takoma Park, Maryland. The escalation goes both ways. Last Thursday, four men tried to use bear spray on a jewelry store owner in Upland, California, but he banished the robbers by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/legally-armed-citizen-thwarts-california-smash-and-grab-attempted-robbery">pulling a gun</a>.
Yet the Los Angeles Times tried to call the retailers liars. A December 15 story titled “Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise” blamed the perception of increased smash-and-grab robberies on “retail and law enforcement lobbyists” and asserted “there is reason to doubt the problem is anywhere near as large or widespread as they say.” Then, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-blames-retailers-smash-grab-thefts">like</a> Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the Times essentially blamed the victims. The increase in mass shoplifting “is, in some part, traceable to decisions made by the retailers themselves,” it said, citing an industry analyst’s statement that security guards can no longer aggressively pursue shoplifters, “because of safety concerns and liability issues.” That is, storeowners fear they will be sued if anyone is injured in the chase and, absent <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/tort-reform-the-right-way">tort reform</a>, the legal process could cost them more than the illegal robbery.
The Los Angeles Times also attempted to dismiss the allegations by citing the FBI’s national statistics, which show a decline in shoplifting arrests nationwide — but the problem is not a national problem. It’s very much one focused in certain cities suffering the malign neglect of a certain breed of district attorney. For instance, Chicago-area State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s “policy to prosecute felony shoplifting only for thefts of more than $1,000 led to a steep decline in charges, from 300 per month to about 70,” <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/10/24/the-kim-foxx-effect-how-prosecutions-have-changed-in-cook-county">according</a> to The Marshall Project. “Not only is Foxx charging a smaller share of shoplifting cases, but police are bringing fewer arrests for felony review.” George Gascon of Los Angeles, and Chesa Boudin of San Francisco implemented similar policies — with similar results. Fewer arrests lead to a decrease in crime on paper, even as the problem worsens.
That lends more credence to besieged storeowners, who argue precisely that this is not a problem captured by arrest and prosecution statistics. They specifically state that district attorneys refuse to prosecute crimes, leading police to shrug their shoulders and wonder why they should make an arrest — leaving stores, and the customers inside them, on their own. Liberal DAs’ obsession with theoretical concerns about how prosecuting lawbreakers of color might impact “equity” has left law-abiding people of all races abandoned, unprotected, and at the mercy of gangs with crowbars and bear spray.
Mull insinuated that all of this is OK, because a professor told her so:
<blockquote>[A]ccording to Jay Kennedy, a criminologist at Michigan State University, police declining to get involved in low-level offenses doesn’t necessarily signal a crisis. Kennedy echoed Hayes’s explanation for the sometimes scant police response to small thefts, but told me that his research has found that people tend to be fine with police and prosecutors prioritizing more serious or violent crimes over petty offenses.</blockquote>
Neither Mull nor Kennedy appeared to consult the American people: 80% of Americans see this form of theft as a national problem; 63% think sentencing guidelines are too lax; and 79% say prosecutors should stop releasing smash-and-grab perpetrators without bail. These organized crime events terrorize ordinary shoppers: 48% of Americans said they now feel less safe shopping in person, according to <a href="https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/holiday-smash-and-grabs-fuel-anxiety-among-americans-poll-finds/">a poll</a> commissioned by NewsNation.
“There&#8217;s no political will to prosecute the people in this climate. Why should a police officer waste time getting into an altercation when the person is not going to jail?” asked Pete Eliadis, a former law enforcement officer who founded a security company, Intelligence Consulting Partners. “The takeaway is we need the political will, more prosecution and backing of law enforcement.” At a time when criminals have shot and killed more police officers than any time in U.S. history, and <a href="https://fop.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/study-2017-FBI-Assailant-Mindset-Behavior.pdf">the FBI</a> acknowledges many of these shootings <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-stories-the-legacy-media-ignored-last-week">stem from</a> “what they heard and read in the media,” a change in media focus would seem to be in order. Yet rather than goad prosecutors into doing their jobs, some in the legacy media have now decided to close out 2021 by covering  up their nonfeasance and accusing police and crime victims of pulling America’s collective leg.
The legacy media has spent much of the last year accusing conservatives of enabling an insurrection by trying to downplay or “erase” the harms of the one-day riot last January 6. What should we make of liberal media outlets that deny, minimize, and obfuscate the impact of daily assaults — perpetrated, not against the most elite elements of society, but in middle- and working-class neighborhoods — especially when they seem willing to lie in the process?
The media’s crime advocacy posing as journalism puts every American in greater danger.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Readers-Pass—Johnson—Media-Say-Conservatives-Invented-‘Right-Wing-Shoplifting-Freak-Out.’-Here-Are-The-Facts

Media Say Conservatives Invented ‘Right-Wing Shoplifting Freak-Out.’ Here Are The Facts

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MSNBC, which frequently accuses its critics of spreading foreign propaganda, saw one of its own prime time hosts share a Chinese government “news” agency’s image intended to denigrate the U.S. as it celebrated Independence Day.
Chris Hayes, who anchors “All In” during the 8 p.m. Eastern time slot opposite Tucker Carlson, <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1412455421076557826">retweeted</a> an image from Xinhua News Agency that presented American constitutional liberties as the gateways to mass violence.
Xinhua tweeted a message on July 5, the legal observance of Independence Day this year, saying, “How a gun-happy nation spends its #FourthofJuly weekend.” The accompanying editorial cartoon shows two well-to-do men toasting while a wild-eyed street thug stands on a blood-spattered grave firing an AR-15 with one hand and a semiautomatic pistol with the other. The caption reads, “To Freedom … Of Shooting!”
Hayes seemed to take that example of state-run media at face value, indicating that it could help Americans understand what the rest of the world genuinely believes about the U.S.
“Continue to be grimly fascinated by how much America’s truly exceptional levels of gun violence figure in the perception of the country around the world,” he commented.
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Continue to be grimly fascinated by how much America’s truly exceptional levels of gun violence figure in the perception of the country around the world. <a href="https://t.co/axcW21Pp18">https://t.co/axcW21Pp18</a>
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1412455421076557826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Twitter users immediately reacted with outrage. Matt Whitlock of the National Republican Senatorial Committee <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1412477620520902657">replied</a>, “Respectfully I’m not entirely sure the CCP’s propaganda arm is a great representation of what the rest of the world thinks of us. But I imagine having American journalists amplify their efforts without criticism or qualification is quite a coup.”
Progressive journalist Zaid Jilani <a href="https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1412483211188387840">said</a>, “We have too much violence&#8230;but this is state propaganda from China. It is not an honest perception of the United States, it is a crude attack.” And Daily Wire editor Ian Haworth <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1412458386294284294">quipped</a>, “Of course, Chinese officials wouldn’t have any incentive to misrepresent reality when it concerns their greatest adversary…”
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Of course, Chinese officials wouldn’t have any incentive to misrepresent reality when it concerns their greatest adversary…
&mdash; Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1412458386294284294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Hayes’ regurgitation of Chinese propaganda conflicts with his voluble concern that his political opponents have become puppets of hostile foreign powers. Just last month, he <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-all-chris-hayes-6-16-21-n1271111">lamented</a> the “way that we’re watching propaganda shape the sense of reality among, you know, half our fellow citizens.” His guest, New York University history professor and authoritarian scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat, described alleged areas “where the GOP, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/opinion-the-american-media-has-spread-russian-propaganda-more-effectively-than-russia-itself">Russian propaganda</a> and the far-Right, are converging.”
Authoritarian disinformation campaigns seek to portray freedom as creating civil strife, unrest, perhaps even violence, she said. “One of them is that liberal democracy is a failed system. It brings chaos and anarchy, and so you’re trying to build an appetite for authoritarian rule,” she told Hayes. The same logic likely applies to totalitarian regimes opposed to the Second Amendment, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-checking-joe-bidens-gun-control-rhetoric-7-false-claims-the-president-has-made-on-firearms">guarantees the right to private gun ownership</a>.
The sharing of official CCP-produced images also leaves his network looking embarrassed. The lead-in to Hayes’ show, “The ReidOut,” <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-reidout-5-21-21-n1268296">named</a> Senator Ted Cruz “the absolute worst” last month because he “shared a Russian propaganda recruitment video on his Twitter account.” Cruz <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1395394254969753601">retweeted</a> a montage created by a U.S. citizen which compared uber-masculine Russian military recruitment ads with a Woke feminist U.S. military advertisement rolled out by the Biden administration.
But Hayes shared an anti-American caricature, on the nation’s birthday, produced by an official Chinese Communist propaganda organ. The Chinese Communist Party, which established the Xinhua News Agency in the 1930s, expanded its reach as Beijing’s global mouthpiece. “Like most of the news media in China, it operates under governmental control, and its releases reflect official policies and promote state programs,” <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Xinhua-News-Agency">according</a> to the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
As China continues double-digit increases to military spending every year and its economy threatens to eclipse that of the United States, disinformation campaigns have helped play a vital role in its emergence as a rival superpower. “The facts are indisputable,” Heritage Foundation expert Lee Edwards <a href="//1FA35A1B-ED44-4CED-B473-C578AA7D1CB1/Heritage%20Foundation%20expert%20Lee%20Edwards">explained</a>, “Communist China is waging a sophisticated ‘soft’ war against America with a two-fold goal: to challenge the United States as the world’s leading superpower and to supplant its dominant position in China’s neighborhood. Communist China’s strategy touches every aspect of our society—economic, technological, educational, political, even cultural.”
Chris Hayes played a small role in promoting the CCP’s global propaganda strategy because it advanced his own anti-gun agenda. When Chinese Communists and MSNBC hosts repeat the same talking points, who is exploiting whom?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The Build Series Presents Christopher Hayes

MSNBC Host Shares Chinese Anti-American Propaganda

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On Thursday night, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, mocking the Republican Party, tweeted that some GOP 2022 congressional candidates would feature campaign slogans with “some version of ‘Storm the Capitol.’”
Hayes wrote, “Pin this tweet: There will be GOP congressional candidates in 2022 whose campaign slogan will be some version of ‘Storm the Capitol.’”
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Pin this tweet: There will be GOP congressional candidates in 2022 whose campaign slogan will be some version of &quot;Storm the Capitol&quot;
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1354945496377421829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Hayes was echoed by MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who tweeted, “I don’t doubt it.”
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I don’t doubt it. <a href="https://t.co/ZNA6Dy1HgH">https://t.co/ZNA6Dy1HgH</a>
&mdash; Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷) (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1355045013915369473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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While Hayes&#8217; tweet makes light of the prospect of Republican 2022 congressional candidates, others have highlighted the GOP&#8217;s promising prospects for the 2022 midterms. Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report recently posted:
<blockquote>Republicans may not be as dominant as they were in 2011 when they redrew as many as five times as many congressional seats as Democrats. But they still hold far more raw power. They fared well in 2020’s state legislative elections and maintained control of several huge prizes: Texas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, which are collectively poised to gain six seats from the Census.</blockquote>
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Five big differences vs. 2011 redistricting cycle: 
&#8211; Dems much better prepared and GOP less dominant &#8211; New commissions in CO/MI/VA and to lesser extent NY/OH/UT &#8211; New post-Shelby VRA implications &#8211; Heightened public/court scrutiny &#8211; Voters even more geographically pre-sorted <a href="https://t.co/U8Z2Fva7nU">pic.twitter.com/U8Z2Fva7nU</a>
&mdash; Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1354105127817388033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Only days after the November 2020 presidential election, FiveThirtyEight.com looked ahead to the 2022 midterms and saw &#8220;<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-2020-gains-in-the-house-set-them-up-well-for-2022/">a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House</a>&#8220;:
<blockquote>We can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party that’s not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election (<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-did-the-house-get-bluer-and-the-senate-get-redder/">the Senate is a more complicated story</a>).
Since the end of World War II, the presidential party <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2-4-Full.pdf">has lost an average of 27 House seats</a> in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020’s election — at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s — a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House. …
The GOP is set <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPRedistrict/status/1325813957773447170">to fully control</a> redistricting for about two-fifths of all House seats, while Democrats will only hold sway over one-tenth of them, with the remaining seats are in states with divided governments or where redistricting is done by a commission system.</blockquote>
The current makeup of the House is comprised of 221 Democrats and 211 Republicans, with three seats still vacant. In Louisiana, Julia Letlow, the widow of GOP Representative-elect Luke Letlow, who died of complications from Covid-19 only days before he was to be sworn in, will run in a special election on March 10.
“Ms. Letlow has been active in Louisiana Republican politics for years and was selected for her university job, in part, to provide ‘insight into strategies and alliances’ that would be helpful for the school during its interactions with elected officials, her online biography said,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/julia-letlow-congress-luke.html">reported</a>. Letlow issued a statement saying, “I am running to continue the mission Luke started — to stand up for our Christian values, to fight for our rural agricultural communities and to deliver real results to move our state forward.”
In New York’s 22nd congressional district, Republican Claudia Tenney unofficially won the election by 29 votes over Democrat Anthony Brindisi. “The final ruling from state Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte in the judicial review of contested ballots in New York’s 22nd Congressional District will come today,” the <a href="https://www.uticaod.com/story/news/local/2021/01/29/anthony-brindisi-claudia-tenney-ny-22-judge-rule-ballots-friday/4292725001/">Observer-Dispatch</a> reported Friday.
Democratic Rep. Cedrick Richmond of Louisiana resigned on Jan. 15, 2021, to join the Biden administration; his seat will likely be filled by a Democrat.
Thus, if Letlow and Tenney win their seats, the GOP will trail in the House, 222-213, a difference of just nine votes. That would mean they would only need to win a difference of five seats in 2022 to take over the House.

‘Storm The Capitol’: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Mocks GOP 2022 Congressional Candidates

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Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Saturday called for the creation of a truth and reconciliation commission to &#8220;erase Trump&#8217;s lies&#8221; and expose those who &#8220;enabled&#8221; them.
&#8220;When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,&#8221; Reich tweeted. &#8220;It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.&#8221;
After <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1317614803704115200/retweets/with_comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he took flak</a> from those accusing him of promoting totalitarianism, Reich appended a link to an article from <a href="https://theconversation.com/do-truth-and-reconciliation-commissions-heal-divided-nations-109925" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Conversation</a> explaining the history of truth and reconciliation commissions and how they are supposedly intended to rectify historical injustices and heal the wounds of division.
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I love the people responding to this tweet as if it&#39;s a radical, undemocratic idea. <a href="https://t.co/39Bef6JMIy">https://t.co/39Bef6JMIy</a>
&mdash; Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1317854244586901504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The article said in part, &#8220;The goal of a truth commission — in some forms also called a truth and reconciliation commission, as it is in Canada — is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice, typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond the painful past.&#8221;
Going on to list examples in more than 40 countries where truth and reconciliation commissions were used, the article said, &#8220;The hope has been that restorative justice would provide greater healing than the retributive justice modelled most memorably by the Nuremberg Trials after the Second World War.&#8221; It concluded by claiming the United States needs a truth and reconciliation commission because of its &#8220;centuries of enslavement, state-sponsored racism, denial of civil rights and ongoing economic and social disparity.&#8221;
Reich&#8217;s idea echoed that of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who earlier this month also called for a truth and reconciliation commission to &#8220;deal with&#8221; those who question COVID-19 protocols.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hayes-floats-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-to-deal-with-those-who-question-covid-19-protocols" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>:
<blockquote>MSNBC host Chris Hayes raised eyebrows when he floated the idea of a “truth and reconciliation commission” as “the most humane and reasonable way to deal” with those who seemingly question the received wisdom regarding how best to protect against COVID-19.
Hayes’ comment came in response to a tweet from American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, who was himself responding to a tweet from NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who said, “Why is a sick President riding in an SUV waving to supporters outside Walter Reed, jeopardizing the Secret Service agents inside the car with him?”
Beschloss was referring to President Donald Trump’s brief drive on Sunday past supporters who had assembled outside Walter Reed Medical Center during his convalescence there. Some criticized the move as “reckless,” and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/04/trump-hospital-drive-criticism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> reported that “current and former Secret Service agents and medical professionals were aghast” the president would lock himself inside a hermetically sealed car with others while having the coronavirus. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-requests-briefing-on-trumps-joyride-outside-walter-reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demanded that the Secret Service brief Congress</a> on the incident.
Referencing the fact that Trump was masked and his Secret Service agents decked out in necessary PPE, Schlapp tweeted in response, “So masks don’t work? I’m confused.”
Quote-tweeting Schlapp, Hayes wrote, “The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hayes-floats-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-to-deal-with-those-who-question-covid-19-protocols" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Hayes Floats ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Deal With’ Those Who Question COVID-19 Protocols</a>

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Robert Reich Calls For ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Erase Trump’s Lies,’ Expose Enablers

MSNBC host Chris Hayes raised eyebrows when he floated the idea of a &#8220;truth and reconciliation commission&#8221; as &#8220;the most humane and reasonable way to deal&#8221; with those who seemingly question the received wisdom regarding how best to protect against COVID-19.
Hayes&#8217; comment came in response to a tweet from American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, who was himself responding to a tweet from NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who said, &#8220;Why is a sick President riding in an SUV waving to supporters outside Walter Reed, jeopardizing the Secret Service agents inside the car with him?&#8221;
Beschloss was referring to President Donald Trump&#8217;s brief drive on Sunday past supporters who had assembled outside Walter Reed Medical Center during his convalescence there. Some criticized the move as &#8220;reckless,&#8221; and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/04/trump-hospital-drive-criticism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> reported that “current and former Secret Service agents and medical professionals were aghast” the president would lock himself inside a hermetically sealed car with others while having the coronavirus. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-requests-briefing-on-trumps-joyride-outside-walter-reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demanded that the Secret Service brief Congress</a> on the incident.
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Why is a sick President riding in an SUV waving to supporters outside Walter Reed, jeopardizing the Secret Service agents inside the car with him?
&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1312870897674588166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Referencing the fact that Trump was masked and his Secret Service agents decked out in necessary PPE, Schlapp tweeted in response, &#8220;So masks don&#8217;t work? I&#8217;m confused.&#8221;
Quote-tweeting Schlapp, Hayes wrote, &#8220;The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission.&#8221;
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The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission. <a href="https://t.co/PopsRhmKvz">https://t.co/PopsRhmKvz</a>
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1313291524629770242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Twitter users responded to Hayes&#8217; tweet with both praise and denunciation.
Writer, producer, and self-described &#8220;passionate libtard&#8221; Gerry Conway tweeted, &#8220;I’d settle for marching them off a pier. That’s the truth and reconciliation they deserve. (But, seriously, in our reality-denying country, would any of Trump’s people *acknowledge* the truth, never mind reconcile to it?)&#8221;
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I’d settle for marching them off a pier. That’s the truth and reconciliation they deserve. (But, seriously, in our reality-denying country, would any of Trump’s people *acknowledge* the truth, never mind reconcile to it?)
&mdash; Gerry Conway Stands With Ukraine (@gerryconway) <a href="https://twitter.com/gerryconway/status/1313512186954706944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Editor-at-large of The Bulwark Bill Kristol tweeted, &#8220;How about truth and no reconciliation?&#8221;
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How about truth and no reconciliation?
&mdash; Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1313292792102359041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Comedian Jeremy McLellan wrote, &#8220;I agree but only if I run it&#8221;.
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I agree but only if I run it <a href="https://t.co/9HiSZCjCrx">https://t.co/9HiSZCjCrx</a>
&mdash; Jeremy McLellan (@JeremyMcLellan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/1313437124960702465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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One user tweeted, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a better idea,&#8221; to which was appended an image of a noose.
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Here’s a better idea <a href="https://t.co/MimjCXiCZV">pic.twitter.com/MimjCXiCZV</a>
&mdash; Kona Olelo (@konaolelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/konaolelo/status/1313505970501246976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Among those who pushed back against Hayes&#8217; tweet, National Review podcaster Jeff Blehar wrote, &#8220;The idea of putting your political enemies up before a political tribunal after they have lost an election (as opposed to, say, a civil war) is neither humane nor reasonable and to suggest otherwise is mind-boggling.&#8221;
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The idea of putting your political enemies up before a political tribunal after they have lost an election (as opposed to, say, a civil war) is neither humane nor reasonable and to suggest otherwise is mind-boggling. <a href="https://t.co/z3GBdRa8u0">https://t.co/z3GBdRa8u0</a>
&mdash; Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1313521029004906497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Townhall senior columnist Kurt Schlichter quote-tweeted Hayes several times, his most recent being, &#8220;I cannot strongly enough warn the liberals against trying to make a norm out of sanctioning political opponents.&#8221;
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I cannot strongly enough warn the liberals against trying to make a norm out of sanctioning political opponents. <a href="https://t.co/DX1aOotGGW">https://t.co/DX1aOotGGW</a>
&mdash; Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href="https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1313603010270953473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Radio host Sebastian Gorka mocked Hayes, tweeting, &#8220;He broke you.&#8221;
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He broke you. <a href="https://t.co/wO4Jyhw7Zw">https://t.co/wO4Jyhw7Zw</a>
&mdash; Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1313450719979147267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Caller&#8217;s Greg Price tweeted a screenshot of Hayes claiming amid conflicting information about Trump&#8217;s health on Saturday, &#8220;This all has a deeply Soviet feel.&#8221;
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<a href="https://t.co/aRZ4dlVl3M">https://t.co/aRZ4dlVl3M</a> <a href="https://t.co/fGs2u3Gu7W">pic.twitter.com/fGs2u3Gu7W</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1313495115416186880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fox News contributor Dan Bongino blasted Hayes, writing, &#8220;This is a real tweet. Their total inability to see themselves, as sane people see them, is their greatest weakness.&#8221;
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This is a real tweet. Their total inability to see themselves, as sane people see them, is their greatest weakness. 👇🏻 <a href="https://t.co/s3Pd0JtaGJ">https://t.co/s3Pd0JtaGJ</a>
&mdash; Dan Bongino (@dbongino) <a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1313588431654735873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Spectator USA editor Amber Athey wrote, &#8220;Welp, see ya&#8217;ll in the camps!&#8221;
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Welp, see y’all in the camps! <a href="https://t.co/mnCLsXDKko">https://t.co/mnCLsXDKko</a>
&mdash; Amber Athey (@amber_athey) <a href="https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/1313477873794256896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-requests-briefing-on-trumps-joyride-outside-walter-reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Democrat Congressman Requests Briefing On Trump’s ‘Joyride’ Outside Walter Reed</a>

Chris Hayes Floats ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Deal With’ Those Who Question COVID-19 Protocols

COVID

On Sunday evening, engaging with Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel on Twitter, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes made abundantly clear what he thinks of President Trump&#8217;s voter base, sneering that they are &#8220;white men without a four-year degree, and disposable income enough to buy a boat.&#8221;
Weigel precipitated Hayes&#8217; condescending remark by tweeting, &#8220;All those years scouring diners for Trump voters when longform writers could have been chilling on boats.&#8221;
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All those years scouring diners for Trump voters when longform writers could have been chilling on boats.
&mdash; Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1295205165025419269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hayes laughed, &#8220;no but actually! It&#8217;s a better representation of the base, for real.&#8221;
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no but actually! It&#39;s a better representation of the base, for real.
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1295205350325530627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Weigel followed: &#8220;I keep trying to make this point but don’t want to be patronizing. The Florida man with a HS degree and a pile of disposable income really is a perfect Trump supporter.&#8221;
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I keep trying to make this point but don’t want to be patronizing. The Florida man with a HS degree and a pile of disposable income really is a perfect Trump supporter.
&mdash; Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1295205827343679488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hayes summed up: &#8220;correct: white men without a four-year degree, and disposable income enough to buy a boat are genuinely the Trump base.&#8221;
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correct: white men without a four-year degree, and disposable income enough to buy a boat are genuinely the Trump base.
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1295206285655396352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In August 2019, after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio">two mass shootings</a>, one in Dayton, Ohio, and another in El Paso, Texas, killed over 30 people,  Hayes <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/emma-fantuzzo/2019/08/06/msnbcs-chris-hayes-president-poses-existential-threat-america">attacked Trump</a>, saying he had cultivated a &#8220;racist ideology&#8221;:
<blockquote>Even before the mass murders this weekend, even before this white supremacist committed what is being treated as an act of domestic terrorism, it has been clear from the first moment that Donald Trump came down that escalator four years ago, and particularly clear in the last few weeks as Donald Trump stood idly by as a crowd at his rally chanted &#8220;send her back,&#8221; the President’s cultivation of racist ideology and his racist definition of what the U.S. is for, pose an existential threat to what the country&#8217;s nature should be.</blockquote>
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Also in August 2019, after a guest on his show called for people to show up with “pitchforks and torches” at the home of wealthy Trump donor Stephen Ross, who had held a fundraiser for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, Hayes agreed.
Ross, the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, which owns Equinox and SoulCycle fitness centers, was brought up by Elie Mystal, the executive editor for the “Above The Law” legal blog, who <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-contributor-calls-for-pitchforks-and-torches-outside-of-trump-supporting-billionaires-house/">told Hayes</a>:
<blockquote>People of color are already targets under this administration. I have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I go farther; I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.</blockquote>
“I’ve been to the Hamptons; it’s very nice, but there’s no reason why it has to be,” he continued. “There’s no reason why he should be having his nice, little party. There is no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood that they reject this stuff.”
“Totally,” Hayes responded. “There have been peaceful protests outside [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s house and I imagine there will be peaceful protests outside [Ross’s house]. Again, it’s all speech.”
“Trump is a bigoted demagogue and we all kind of know that. These people should be ashamed of supporting him. Right? Like, at this point you should basically only be able to contribute to the Trump campaign with bitcoin,” Mystal said. “But Equinox man is holding an ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ party and he’s surprised the people are getting up in his grill. We know that there is no constitutional way to put pressure on these people’s exercise of their money as speech, but there’s darn sure social pressure that we have barely tried. It’s time for us to start trying at least.”
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MSNBC Contributor Calls For ‘Pitchforks And Torches’ Outside of Trump Supporting Billionaire’s House<a href="https://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a">https://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a</a> <a href="https://t.co/gTjcd7CTB0">pic.twitter.com/gTjcd7CTB0</a>
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MSNBC’s Hayes On Trump’s Base: ‘White Men Without A Four-Year Degree, And Disposable Income Enough To Buy A Boat’

Trump Voters

Perhaps the stupidest development to come out of the protests and riots is the Left&#8217;s bizarre announcement that lawful arrests are now &#8220;kidnapping.&#8221; Recent videos of law enforcement officials arresting wanted criminals and putting them in unmarked vehicles have provoked this sudden redefinition of terms. The latest such incident went viral when a &#8220;counterculture journalist&#8221; (who seems oddly to be completely in line with the culture, not counter to it at all) posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleLhooq/status/1288253381883113475">video</a> with the caption:
&#8220;NYC is taking after Portland — a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest — this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street.&#8221;
This video has been shared all over social media, with people like MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes and Rep. Jerry Nadler describing it as &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; and &#8220;terrifying,&#8221; respectively. Nadler declared that police officers using unmarked vehicles during an arrest somehow amounts to a violation of the Constitution. Many on the Left have echoed this claim.
Meanwhile, back in the solid world of reality, the &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; victim was actually a wanted criminal who had allegedly vandalized and destroyed government property on five separate occasions. The people carrying out the arrest were members of the city&#8217;s warrant squad, and I know that because they were wearing shirts that said &#8220;Warrant Squad.&#8221; They were assisted by uniformed police wearing bright neon outfits that said &#8220;Police.&#8221; Yes, the van was unmarked, but that is nothing strange or innovative.
This will come as a shock to Rep. Nadler, who is shocked and scandalized by the concept of unmarked cars, but police have been using them for decades. The reason is rather logical. Most people, it turns out, don&#8217;t want to be arrested. People who don&#8217;t want to be arrested will tend to run away if they see a police car approach the scene. This is why police don&#8217;t always like to announce their presence with blaring sirens. None of this is new, weird, disturbing, or, for God&#8217;s sake, unconstitutional.
Of course, these days police have a whole host of additional reasons to use a lower profile. One obvious reason is that marked police cars are routinely targeted for arson attacks by &#8220;peaceful protesters.&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/lapd-cars-damaged-during-protests-cost-80000-each/2385560/">In the city of Los Angeles</a>, for example, 156 LAPD patrol cars had been damaged by the end of June, each costing about $80,000 to repair. The protesters are destroying cop cars and then getting angry and screaming about fascism when cops must resort to using different kinds of vehicles.
All of this ridiculous &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; stuff is part of a larger, and just as ridiculous, narrative about our nation&#8217;s slide into &#8220;fascism.&#8221; It is hard to believe that anyone could look at the government&#8217;s paltry response to months of rioting, looting, and chaos, and come away convinced that we live under a fascist dictatorship. I have never lived under a fascist dictatorship — and I don&#8217;t now, and neither do you — but I feel pretty confident that a little bit of tear gas and a few rubber bullets would be the least of your worries if you behaved this way in such a country. But, as we have seen, the Left is never slowed down by facts or reality when constructing their narratives.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activist-teachers-say-its-not-safe-to-go-back-to-work">Activist Teachers Say It’s Not Safe To Go Back To Work, While Many Attend Mass Protests</a>

Portland Protests Continue Unabated Despite Federal Law Enforcement Presence

WALSH: No, Police Are Not ‘Kidnapping’ People Off The Street. Stop Being Hysterical. 

Jerrold Nadler

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