Kimmie

"Blue cities are radical hellscapes that can't fix crime." Counterpoint: Baltimore. Baltimore had 334 murders in 2022. Last year it had 133, the lowest since 1977. The turning point was that voters defenestrated a Soros-backed prosecutor Marilyn Mosby who averaged 333 homicides a year across eight years and declined to use mandatory minimum sentences. (She was later convicted of mortgage fraud, so there's that too.) Her replacement, Ivan Bates, ran on the Democratic ticket with a simple message: repeat violent offenders belong in prison. Maryland law already allowed five years with no parole for convicted felons caught carrying a gun, but Mosby never used it. Bates used it a lot. In just two years, his office sent more than 2K repeat violent offenders to prison, double his predecessor's TOTAL. The city paired that with a precision intervention program that identified the small number of people driving most of the violence, which led to 631 arrests (94% haven't reoffended). Police also seized 2,480 firearms last year alone, including hundreds of ghost guns, while maintaining a 64% homicide clearance rate. When shooters know they'll get caught and actually prosecuted, behavior changes. Sandtown-Winchester, once the most violent neighborhoods in the city, just went a year without a killing! Carjackings (-51%) and robberies (-24%) are also down. Baltimore didn't change demographics, or its culture, its rules, or much of anything else in those years. It simply voted in a new Democratic prosecutor, who decided the city needed to finally put violent criminals in prison.

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

‼️The Democratic Downfall of Portland and Oregon… -Second worst place in America to invest -6.5 million square feet of commercial vacancy -The top 20 office towers have lost 57% of their combined value in 5 years -6,700 jobs lost… 25,000 in population loss -Ranked 80 out of 81 in real estate attractiveness -Over 2000+ overdose deaths in the past few years -Homelessness grew from 4,500+ in 2020 to 11,400+ in 2024 -The overall crime rate is higher or nearly double on specific crimes than the national average -Portland’s combined tax rate for top earners is the second highest in the nation at 13.9% -Oregon’s current fifth graders posted bottom-of-the-barrel math scores that were measurably worse than those in 45 other states -CNBC reports Oregon is one of the worst states for business -Oregon is listed as the fourth-worst place to move to -Office buildings are 30% empty… The iconic U.S. Bancorp Tower just sold for $45 million—80% less than it sold for in 2015 -Major employers like Wells Fargo, Standard Insurance, and Unitus Community Credit Union have fled downtown or left entirely -Portland City Council was proposing defunding the police in favor of park funding just last year -The state’s economists say Oregon is in a growth recession or near-stagnation 👉🏻 Just a reminder that Oregon has a Democrat Supermajority and they have filed so many lawsuits against Trump that we have lost count, so any policies that have ruined this state or Portland should land squarely on them. But yet they still blame Trump?! 🤔😵‍💫

You can travel to Italy, but you’ll never be an Italian. You can travel to France but you’ll never be a Frenchman. You can live in Germany but you’ll never be a German. You can pack your bags and live the rest of your life in China or Japan, but you’ll never be Chinese or Japanese. Yet you can come from any one of those countries to the United States of America, and you can still be an American – so long as you work hard, you play by the rules, you make your contributions, wait your turn, pledge allegiance to the flag, and obtain your citizenship.

About 54% of U.S. adults (ages 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why does nobody talk about this?