Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana recently appeared on FOX News and was asked to respond to liberal criticisms of Trump’s crackdown on crime.

Kennedy pointed out the obvious, that crime in Washington, DC is way down because of Trump’s actions. He also notes that this is not a difficult issue. No one like crime, except maybe criminals.

Finally, Kennedy took a shot at Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who is vowing to fight Trump’s efforts to curb crime in Chicago, suggesting that ‘even the mafia is leaving Chicago’ because of crime.

Transcript via RedState:

Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m against crime. I think most Americans are, unless they happen to be a criminal or they happen to be like a rock, only dumber. It’s also a fact that over the last five or ten years, many of our major cities in America are worse. If you measure it in terms of crime and violence and education, poverty, family formation, it’s easiest, not easy, but it’s easiest of the problems I’ve just mentioned to deal with crime.

And it’s working. We’ve sent in law enforcement officials to Washington. Crime violence is down. I don’t understand Governor Pritzker’s pushback. He’s got a crime problem in Chicago. I mean, even the mafia is leaving Chicago because of the crime. I suspect Governor Pritzker, he seems to view random violence as preferable to having help from federal officials coming in.

And I think it’s probably because of his animosity toward President Trump. If President Trump came out in favor of breathing to survive, Governor Pritzker would probably hold his breath.

Watch the video below:

Gov. JB Pritzker seems to view random violence as preferable to getting help from federal officials. That’s because of his animosity toward President Trump.

If President Trump came out in favor of breathing, Gov. Pritzker would probably hold his breath. pic.twitter.com/QPjg7bgY5s

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) August 28, 2025

Senator Kennedy always has a way with words! The point he makes is correct as well. Chicago crime is out of control and the city would benefit from any help Trump could give through the federal government.

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New York City is poised to spend an eye-popping $42,000 per student this school year, the highest figure in the country.

Some people might think this is a reasonable figure if New York City schools were also the top performing schools in the country, but they are not, not even close in fact. The city’s schools get terrible grades for reading and math.

How many parents in the NYC area do you suppose could do better by taking that $42,000 and spending it on a private school for their children, or even a full time home tutor? Don’t you think many parents would choose one of those options if they were available?

The New York Post reports:

NYC DOE projected to spend $42k per student this school year — the most in the country

The city Department of Education will spend a staggering $42,168 per student this school year, budget experts project, even as enrollment declines and student achievement stalls.

The record sum is nearly $2,000 per student more than the DOE spent last year, according to the nonprofit think tank Citizens Budget Commission. Students report to class Sept. 4.

The stunning figure is 36% more than the $31,119 the city spent per pupil just five years ago…

Despite the vast sums poured into the nation’s largest school system, student proficiency in English language arts and math continues to lag behind the rest of the state and country.

The “Nation’s Report Card” released by the National Center for Education Statistics in January revealed that just 33% of Big Apple fourth graders scored proficiency in math and 28% in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress last year.

Older students’ results were worse – 23% of city eighth graders met the national standards in math and 29% in reading.

This is one of the reasons why school choice is growing as a hot issue in the United States right now. There has to come a certain point where failing public schools just don’t make sense anymore, especially when you consider the cost versus the results.

If you’re spending $42,000 per student and they end up being unable to read at grade level, what are we even doing here?

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Abigal Spanberger, the Democrat candidate for governor of Virginia, recently appeared on a liberal podcast and had a meltdown about the redistricting issue that is unfolding in multiple states right now.

Spanberger appeared to be lamenting the fact that Virginia cannot do much about this issue, as it would have to go through a multi-election process there and it would be 2028 by the time anything took effect.

She emphasized the need for her to win and for Democrats to win the 2026 midterms, saying that the left’s only option is to ‘win those f**king seats.’

Transcript via Blue Virginia:

“I think that it’s important that we do fight fire with fire. But I’m also recognizing that in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the process that we have to make constitutional amendments, right? So, it was just a couple years ago that we went through a multi-year process to put a redistricting commission process within our state constitution.

We have to have an election…there has to be a vote in the General Assembly, then there has to be elections, then there has to be another election, then they vote again, and then it goes to the people. So, you know, even in the looking at this, if someone says, ‘OK, Virginia might be a possibility,’ that’s not till 2028 where there would actually be an impact on congressional elections. And I’m unwilling in Virginia to wait for 2028.

And so, it is the harder route, I’m not denying that, to say we’re going to fucking win those seats in the midterms by working hard and doing it. But in Virginia, that’s our only option. And frankly, like I think Democrats need to fight more and win more and actually ensure that people know what we are for because Republicans have to depend on redistricting and stealing votes and taking seats like they did in North Carolina in order to actually be able to win elections.

See the video below:

Video: Pressed About Virginia Redistricting, Abigail Spanberger Says “I’m unwilling in Virginia to wait for 2028”; “only option” Is “to…fucking win those seats in the midterms by working hard and doing it!” https://t.co/W2okYqun5l h/t @JamesAbrenio @briantylercohen pic.twitter.com/1Qd0IAVT9v

— Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia) August 30, 2025

Spanberger is probably under tremendous pressure from her party to win the VA governor race in November. For weeks, it looked like it was her race but Republican Winsome Sears has surged in polling over the last ten days and the race is now nearly even.

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