Posted on 08/12/2025 12:05:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Plus: The National Guard deployed to D.C., the Trump-Putin meeting on Ukraine, Texas Democrats flee the state, and a listener question on free speech in the U.K.
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by special guest Reem Ibrahim, head of media for the Institute of Economic Affairs. They begin with Jim Acosta's AI-generated interview featuring a deceased child urging gun control, using it as a springboard to discuss nationwide declines in violent crime and the political tendency to focus on banning specific tools. The conversation then shifts to the White House's decision to deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and the dangerous precedent this could set for using federal forces to address local crime.
The panel then turns to President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss Ukraine, weighing whether it could lead to peace or embolden authoritarian demands, as well as the role of European nations. From there, they examine the decision by Texas Democrats to flee the state amid redistricting battles and the FBI's efforts to locate them. A listener question from the United Kingdom prompts a conversation about free speech restrictions and the growing use of psychological studies to justify censorship, leading into a discussion of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's (FIRE) lawsuit against the Trump administration over immigrant First Amendment rights.
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Yeah, because some law abiding citizen in d.c. was doing target practice in their backyard. No really don’t like these fidiots.
โAn armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.โ
โ Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon
Good with me.
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The Communists push gun control so that the proletariat will be unable to shoot back.
That was just a talking point from people who otherwise encourage crime.
Did you ever hear the story about the man on the street corner keeping the elephants away?
That works for rational people. Democrats voters are so far removed from rationality they almost never think of consequences. The Demographic with the highest crime stats is one that is mostly Democrat.
Yeah, because the lefties know they faked the data to make it look better, by changing the definitions of crimes.
Horrible people.
DC police commander placed on leave over 'deliberately' falsifying crime data
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