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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.


Jesse Kelly
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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: oL.A. rent prices drop to four-year lowo

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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I appreciate that these two things dropped on the same morning.

Left: NYT - oKashAs PatelAs FBI has made America less safeo

Right: Axios - oU.S. murder rate hits lowest level since 1900, report
sayso


FreeThinkerRN ???? ??
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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 crueluyou know, the ones Americans of most ideological stripes adopted after the crime surge of the 1970suhave 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."


Rothmus ??

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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."


RNC Research

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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: oIt actually goes back 250 years when the Minutemen and the Minutewomen rose upao

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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