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Christ before the Sanhedrin (Wikipedia commons)

The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his doctrine. Jesus answered him saying:

“I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple area where the Jews gather and in secret I have said nothing. Why ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said.”

When he said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck him and said: “Is this the way you answer the High Priest?” Jesus answered him:

If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong, but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”

John 18:19-23

As everyone knows Charlie Kirk was a follower of Jesus Christ and it seems they had one thing in common.

Jesus was accused of all sorts of wrong by the Sanhedrin but despite speaking publicly in front of multitudes they were unable to find testimony that showed him guilty of anything.

Likewise we see Democrats from AOC to Ilan Omar along with multiple celebs and activists on the left claim that Charlie Kirk was a racist, a fascist, a homophobe and a white supremacist, they call him head of the modern Hitler youth, when they’re not cheering his murder that is or booing the idea of praying for him & his family.

But there is one thing that they DON’T do. They never link to video to back up these claims.

This is rather odd if you think about it. Charlie Kirk like Christ, spoke openly, he was at campus’ all over the nation and was interviewed all over the world. There are literally hundreds of videos showing him taking questions and answering them going back years. You don’t have to ask the people who heard him as Christ suggested, you can literally see what he said.

Yet none of these leftist calling Kirk all these names do so, why?

Well the answer comes from Catholic Cardinal who had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.


Here is the quote:

Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Charlie Kirk – “The more I learned about him, I thought this guy is a modern-day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, an evangelist, a hero.”

You see not knowing who Charlie was and not being familiar with his work he went online and checked out the videos and came to the conclusion that he was a hero.

And THAT’S why the left doesn’t dare link to any video to support their charges, because a person seeing the videos, the questions and the answers will see for themselves that their charges are unsubstantiated by the facts and that they are in fact liars.

The irony here is that Charlie, being very familiar with scripture would expect nothing less because as a servant of Christ he would remember the warning given to his disciples during the last supper discourses:

If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

Remember the word I spoke to you,  ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates my Father.

John 15:18-23

The world hated Charlie Kirk, because the world is loyal to the prince of the world. That’s why those loyal to the prince of this world cheered his death loudly and publicly.

Me today at 6:22 AM EST via Twitter X or whatever you want to call it:

In case you can’t read the tweet:

PREDICTION: Sometime today

@realDonaldTrump will make a public statement about the Murder in #charlotte on video and the MSM will suddenly discover the story of Iryna Zarutska’s murder under the heading: “Republicans pounce” #unexpectedly of course #IrynaZarutska

Trump today:

Axos today via Instapundit:

AXIOS GOES INTO FULL REPUBLICANS POUNCE MODE TO TUT-TUT ZARUTSKA MURDER: Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.

MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.

  • Shocking video of the fatal Aug. 22 knife attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversation on Trump-friendly social media.

The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte’s light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.

  • The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.

Glenn opines:

“Since the number one rule for the legacy media is ‘thou shalt not support anything Trump does,’ naturally the Zarutska murder can’t be covered. And it won’t be, unless they can find — or manufacture — some alternative angle that will make Trump look bad. So far, they’ve come up a dry hole. So nothing.”

And that’s why Axios started off Monday by blaming the video of Zarutska’s murder, and Republicans’ response to it. It’s adjacent to their fellow leftists originally demanding omnipresent police body cams, and then being shocked that almost invariably, they show the police responding competently to violent crimes being committed:

In fairness this was easier to predict than the questions Joe Biden was getting at press conferences.

Suddenly a few Democrats are arguing that the reflexive opposition to Trump’s move to clean up DC is a trap for them from Mika Brzezinski and Chris Matthews:

To Maureen Dowd:

“I have no doubt that Trump enjoys targeting Democratic-controlled cities for embarrassment,” Powell writes. “I also have little doubt that a mother in Ward 8 might draw comfort from a National Guard soldier standing watch near her child’s school.”

The diva of distraction is putting on a show. (They’re eating the cats and the dogs!) But progressives should not fall into Trump’s trap and play down crime, once more getting on the wrong side of an inflammatory issue. As with inflation, they should remember that personal experiences can count more than sanguine statistics.

Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend everything is fine here. Because it’s not.

The truth is they are half right, this IS a trap for the Democrats but NOT the one they think.

They think the trap is to try and get them to object to Trump’s actions while they are taking place and that is a bit of a trap making them look pro-criminal but that’s not the real trap.

The REAL trap is the vote on extending Trump’s DC time beyond 30 days and what happens next.

You see the Democrats are not likely to extend Trump’s time in DC when they keep calling him another “Hitler” or a “Totalitarian” etc etc etc so it seems unlikely that they will allow him to keep up the job and/or finish it.

What follows after they reject it IS the trap.

You see if I was a criminal in DC and I had the ability to go to ground for a month or so that’s what I’d be doing now. I’d keep a low profile and head for the hill until Trump’s folks are gone or until I couldn’t afford to do so or relocate.

But once the regular crowd is back in DC then it’s business as usual, that’s the trap:

  • What happens in DC, particularly in the black areas once Trump people leave the the Democrats who run this city go back to not policing the gangs?
  • What happens to DC once the graffiti goes back up on the monuments?
  • What happens to DC when the addicts and the homeless camps and the needles are back?
  • What happens to DC when the subways are once again not safe?
  • What happens the first time a tourist is mugged or beaten or killed after Trump goes away?

You see it was one thing when the residents were resigned to this situation and convinced it could not change, but what happens when they’ve had a full month of feeling safe in their city for the first time in years thank to Trump and then have it taken away thanks to the Democrats? What happens when they KNOW their city can be safe and the Democrats just won’t make it safe?

That’s the trap. It’s the kind of trap that changes votes and political alignments.

Now the Democrats have two ways to solve this dilemma:

  1. Extend Trump’s time in DC
  2. Actually crack down on crime.

If they do the first the wacko base will punish them severely for it, if they do the second then at best the people ask: “Why weren’t you doing this before?” and at worst they don’t get paid by the criminals or can’t use them for political purposes (which is what I think is actually the reason for what was going on).

It will be very interesting to see which path they choose to take. Let me give them this clue:

The right thing is generally the smart thing.

Are the Democrats Owned by BIG CRIME?

Posted: August 13, 2025 by datechguy in crime
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Don Corleone: It’s true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn’t be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice. But drugs, that’s a dirty business.The Godfather 1972

(Image vis Wikipedia)

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Since my teenage years whenever the GOP backed the US military the Democrats & media cried: “The GOP is owned by the Defense industry.” or BIG DEFENSE

For as long as I can remember whenever the GOP pushed for oil exploration and more leases to drill the Democrats and the media cried: “The GOP is owned by Big Oil!”

All my life whenever the GOP pushed to drop regulations to help US business’ grow or opposed foolish minimum wage hikes the Democrats and the media cried “The GOP is owned by Big Business.”

All my life whenever a republican president made any move favorable to the drug companies the Democrats and the Media cried “The GOP is owned by Big Pharma!”

Now over the last 10 years we see in city after city controlled by Democrats the coddling of criminals, letting dangerous people off, or giving them light sentences or releasing them early. We see them defending illegal aliens, gang members, those who vandalize and take over colleges and when things get so bad that Trump activates troops in LA and then uses his power to call out the national guard to help police DC, a federal area we see the entire Democrat party and media cry fowl.

So we have an obvious question to ask:

By their own standards should we be crying: “The Democrats are owned by Big Crime?”

Or to put it more bluntly:

Why Should we not assume that the Democrat party in general and local Democrat officials in particular are not being paid off by the Cartels and/or local criminal elements to protect them?

Maybe Don Corleone would have been Sollozzo a different answer if he lived today.