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Texas Democrats protesting, no shock there. It was for nothing. Their whole little stunt was for nothing,

is they're about to now approve the new maps in Texas and the fruitfulness, fruitlessness of this,

and then of course in D.C., you have the vice president and the secretary defense trying to keep the place safe.

And for that, they have protesters, screaming at them and spitting at them.

And his royal ruggedness, King Philip the Unaccountable, wants you to know what you can do and can't do, as he gives you privileges, peasants, privileges.

But let's begin, shall we, with Vice President Vance at Washington, D.C.,'s Union Station. As they talk about crime, this is cut number one. Take a listen.

Mr. Vice President, why are Truth Station, Spirit Union Station, on the National Mall, instead of areas in D.C., where crime is statistically highest? Well, if you've ever been to Union Station in the National Mall instead of areas in the D.C. where crime is statistically highest.

Well, if you've ever been to Union Station in the last few years with your family, you know the crime is actually extremely high right here in Union Station.

You have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless, you have the mentally ill, who harassed, who threaten violence, who attack families, and they've done it for far too long.

This should be a monument to American greatness.

This should be a place.

We can come and share a meal or go shopping with your family.

It should not be a place where parents of small children are afraid to bring them,

because to Stephen's point, we have empowered criminals over the people who actually need public safety in the city.

So I think Ewing Station is a great example of what's possible when you actually have the political willpower to bring law and order and common decency back to the public spaces of the United States of America.

So many Americans live in cities. They occupy these spaces. They know how unsafe they are,

and they would love to be able to just live their life in places like Union Station

without violent criminals making it impossible.

We have changed so much in nine days, and I thought it important to highlight how great the space

this could be, how easy it could be, to actually enjoy something like Union Station if you just

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