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Something to be made clear up front is that the pub long precedes the mosque.

They made a mosque in a building that they knew was next to a pub, then complain that the pub is already there.

Kind of poetic in the meta sense, really. It's England. The British were there first. Yet Muslims invade, fully aware that the British people, culture and nation exist, and yet demand that it all change to accommodate them.

𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓-𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐌𝐀 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐅 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄: 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐅 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐏-𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐒. 𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐎𝐏-𝟏𝟎 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓. 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐒. 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐅’𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐕𝐎𝐓: “𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐒.”

Setup: Marie Harf, former State Department spokesperson under Obama, on Fox’s panel discussion of D.C. crime and the Trump administration’s federal-checkpoint enforcement on 14th Street. Harf opened with the standard left-media framing:

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴, 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮. 𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮∗𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯-𝘭𝘦𝘥.

𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐩-𝟏𝟎 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭: the U.S. cities with the highest m∗rder rates per FBI 2024 UCR data are, in order:

1. New Orleans, LA — Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D)

2. St. Louis, MO — Mayor Tishaura Jones (D)

3. Baltimore, MD — Mayor Brandon Scott (D)

4. Detroit, MI — Mayor Mike Duggan (D)

5. Memphis, TN — Mayor Paul Young (D)

6. Cleveland, OH — Mayor Justin Bibb (D)

7. Birmingham, AL — Mayor Randall Woodfin (D)

8. Milwaukee, WI — Mayor Cavalier Johnson (D)

9. Newark, NJ — Mayor Ras Baraka (D)

10. Kansas City, MO — Mayor Quinton Lucas

(D)

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐫𝐬. 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧.

𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐟’𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞:

𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴, 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 — 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴.

𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐭:

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰’𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺?

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜: Harf’s original claim was factually false. When fact-checked with the actual top-10 list, she pivoted to a different claim (the states are Republican). The state-level claim was also false in some cases (Birmingham, Cleveland are in states Trump won) and in others irrelevant (state law does not control municipal-level policing decisions, mayoral appointments to police commissions, district-attorney charging decisions, or jail-release policies — all of which are the actual mechanisms of municipal crime governance).

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜: the Democratic-leaning think-tank class has been training the cable-news talking-points cohort to deploy the 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯-𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 framing as a deflection from the consistent reality that Democratic-controlled urban governance produces the crime statistics. Harf’s deployment of the framing on Faulkner’s show was the standard playbook. Faulkner refused to accept the deflection.