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   Who could have guessed that prices have anything to do with supply and   
   demand?   
      
   Not me. I used to think so, but after I got into an argument with a   
   liberal friend of mine after I suggested that the housing crisis was   
   related to the surge in illegal immigration, and he exploded at me, I   
   changed my mind. His emotional response was very convincing.   
      
   Well, it turns out that reality really doesn't respond as one would expect   
   to emotional outbursts, and when demand drops due to fewer people seeking   
   limited resources, prices really do fall.   
      
   Los Angeles is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country,   
   and local renters have been enduring price increases for years. Suddenly,   
   after Trump's surge in deportations, the price of rent is slowly going   
   down.   
      
      
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   If Americans knew how much they actually paid for the 50 million   
   foreigners here, there would have been a revolt years ago.   
      
   Deport them all.   
      
      
   Project for Immigration Reform   
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   From the @latimes: “L.A. rent prices drop to four-year low”   
      
   Buried inside is a quiet admission that deportations have raised   
   vacancies, forcing landlords to compete and cut deals. This is the story   
   @JDVance and the administration should be highlighting.   
      
   https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_1WQmjW0AEy8An?format=jpg&name=large   
      
   Liberals, for years, have told us that the flood of illegal immigrants   
   (ahem/ undocumented workers /ahem) was a boon to our economy and to the   
   American middle class. They do the jobs Americans won't do, pay taxes, and   
   make our lives more affordable.   
      
   Some of us noticed that with the steady flow and the recent flood of   
   illegal immigrants, certain necessities became ever more expensive. While   
   the cost of maids and lawn care services for the upper classes was kept   
   down, housing costs exploded. It's almost as if there was a correlation   
   between these things.   
      
   Similarly, a shocking thing happened to the murder rate. During the surge   
   in immigration and the corresponding increase in the "criminal justice   
   reform" and "defund the police" movement, the murder rate (and other   
   crimes) soared dramatically, but under Trump, even with those liberals   
   running major cities, the murder rate dropped like a rock.   
      
   To the lowest level in over a hundred years.   
      
   Ben Williamson   
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   Jan 22, 2026   
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   I appreciate that these two things dropped on the same morning.   
      
   Left: NYT - “Kash’s Patel’s FBI has made America less safe”   
      
   Right: Axios - “U.S. murder rate hits lowest level since 1900, report   
   says”   
      
      
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   Fixed it. ????   
      
   https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_TDKJzXwAIpKRZ?format=jpg&name=large   
      
   What a shock! Those policies that all the liberals assure us are fascist   
   and cruel—you know, the ones Americans of most ideological stripes adopted   
   after the crime surge of the 1970s—have made America fantastically safer.   
   At least if you are not attacking federal law enforcement officers who are   
   arresting pedophiles and rapists.   
      
   In another surprise, Trump's escalating war on the cartels, which we have   
   been assured is downright evil, has somehow led to a significant decline   
   in fentanyl overdose deaths. As liberals scream in rage at Trump for being   
   so cruel to cartel members and the Venezuelan gangs, the number of   
   Americans dying keeps dropping.   
      
      
   ONDCP   
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   One year. Real Results. Under the Trump administration, ONDCP focused on   
   dismantling cartels, cutting off fentanyl at the border, and saving lives   
   - with major increases and seizures, and the significant decline in   
   overdose deaths. This is what action looks like. #drugczar   
      
   So let me get this straight. Easing pressure on the housing market that   
   has been impoverishing the young, cracking down on crime and criminal   
   aliens, and dismantling cartels and gangs here and abroad, is unbelievably   
   cruel. Trump is victimizing the oppressed.   
      
   Better than Americans die, see their dreams crushed, as a form of   
   reparations to people none of us harmed in the first place. If Somalis   
   loot half of Medicaid funding, it's only because they deserve it. They are   
   victims, and we are the victimizers.   
      
   I get why the insurgency on the left has been happy about the way things   
   were before Trump, but I still shake my head at the liberals who ignore   
   the cruelty of their policies. They revel in how "kind" they are to the   
   oppressed, but as they walk through the s**thole cities they created and   
   the crushing of the dreams of America's youth, they think to themselves:   
   "We need to double down on our 'kindness.'"   
      
   It never occurs to them that the skyrocketing housing costs are their   
   fault. It never occurs to them that the homelessness crisis is subsidized   
   by them. It never occurs to them that "criminal justice reform" is killing   
   people. They step over the poop in the streets, talk about "food deserts"   
   as supermarkets flee crime, avoid the homeless who are everywhere in their   
   cities, and think: "We need to elect another radical socialist."   
      
      
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   When leftist fantasies clash with reality, they get VERY violent.   
      
   https://twitter.com/i/status/2016942331400786014   
      
   Most of them are not stupid. In fact, many of them are extremely smart and   
   well-read. But they are blinded by an ideology, brainwashed by Pravda, and   
   burn with hatred for the "cruelty" of those of us forced to clean up their   
   messes as they call us Nazis.   
      
   Liberals are now talking about civil war. Tim Walz has referenced Fort   
   Sumter and Gettysburg, and Edward Markey just called the anarchists   
   attacking law enforcement "Minutemen" and "Minutewomen."   
      
      
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   Democrat Ed Markey compares the far-Left mob attacking law enforcement   
   officers in Minneapolis to the Minutemen of the Revolutionary War.   
      
   MARKEY: “It actually goes back 250 years when the Minutemen and the   
   Minutewomen rose up…”   
      
   They want to be Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Vladimir Lenin. They refer   
   back to the American Revolution and Civil War (and think the good guys   
   were the Confederacy, it seems), but their goals and tactics are straight   
   out of the French Revolution.   
      
   I think that most liberals honestly don't understand the harm they are   
   doing and the type of people they are celebrating, but they are now   
   electing literal communists who talk about "seizing the means of   
   production" and opening up the jails.   
      
   They expect a utopia to come; what they will get, if they succeed, is The   
   Terror.   
      
   https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/30/la-rent-prices-dropping-because-   
   n3811387   
      
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