Republicans have extended blamed crime on Democrat-run towns, and now (MTG-run) Kevin McCarthy’s Congress is attempting to intervene in Washington D.C. nearby politics with a bill that would dictate penalties on crime. But in fiery remarks built on the floor yesterday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–MD) reminded us which city is among the most criminal offense-ridden of all: Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield, California.
“It turns out that Bakersfield, California has 1 of the best criminal offense rates in The united states, recently explained as one of the major 10 deadliest metropolitan areas in The usa for its size, and its crime level is bigger than that of Washington D.C.,” he stated (see movie underneath). “And however we are going to get this option to kick all around the persons of Washington D.C.?”
Under no circumstances one particular to mince words, he then factors out the disgraceful “imaginary, faux, counterfeit grievance” of MAGA lawmakers against the genuine patriots — D.C. citizens who get the job done for the Capitol and D.C. police — who fought to protect them on Jan. 6, summing his statements up by describing how the Republican Property “indulge the follies and the fantasies and the pathologies of Donald Trump,” whilst they “kick all over the people today of Washington D.C., who defended us, as patriots, on that day [Jan. 6].”
And in Raskin’s closing remarks, he holds up a mirror to the hypocritical MAGA Residence in the most gratifying way:
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