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The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey caused wailing and gnashing of teeth in the liberal TV studios. The most ridiculous argument came from anyone arguing that suddenly the nonpartisanship of our government prosecutors has come to an unprecedented end, as if Biden didn't weaponize the Justice Department, and Democrat prosecutors never sought to ruin Trump. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino join the show to discuss Comey and Antifa. On Meet the Press, New Yorker editor David Remnick warned about Comey's indictment, demanded by Trump: “The first term was filled with impulses and the second term is efficient, ruthless and it's happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously.” In his 2010 book The Bridge, Remnick happily forwarded top Obama sycophant Valerie Jarrett claiming Barack Obama was so brilliant that "I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually....He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.” So when Remnick paints Trump as an ignorant tyrant, everyone should just know that’s another badly disguised Democrat trying to ruin the Republicans.  On State of the Union, CNN host Jake Tapper pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson to share his objection to Donald Trump over the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey: “Don't you have any qualms about the -- any president telling an attorney general, go after these three political opponents?” Johnson kept telling Tapper that Comey personified the weaponization of the Justice Department against Trump. PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg mourned the Comey indictment by bizarrely claiming the Justice Department has always upheld “the dispassion and impartiality that we've always held up to the rest of the world as a gift,” Steve Hayes of the anti-Trump website The Dispatch actually made the conservative point that this is nothing new historically and that Democratic administrations have previously weaponized the Justice Department. The New York Times reported on the death of convicted cop killer Assata Shakur, but remembered her now as a "Convicted Revolutionary." But the prize for praising a cop killer went to….National “Public” Radio. Their obituary/appreciation on Friday night's All Things Considered was headlined "Black liberation activist Assata Shakur has died at 78." They called her a "towering figure." Critics were not considered. Bill put together a video on "The Corporate Media’s Inexcusably Cozy Relationship with Antifa," which emerged again after President Trump moved to designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Chuck Todd pretended he knew nothing about Antifa, somehow forgetting he promoted Antifa "historian" Mark Bray in two interviews back in the first Trump administration. Watch the podcast below, or click on the audio here. 

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California loves to pretend its problems don’t exist. Power shortages, housing shortages, suffocating regulation, wildfires, polluted waterways, and the nation’s largest homeless population all make the Golden State look less like a paradise and more like a failed state.Yet, its politicians keep picking fights with Donald Trump while ignoring the rot at home.Once an issue becomes symbolic in California, solutions no longer matter. Every crisis becomes a stage for politicians to declare themselves protectors of the people. That’s why Bed Bath & Beyond executive chairman Marcus Lemonis made waves in August. “We will not open retail stores in California,” Lemonis said. “This isn’t about politics — it’s about reality. California’s system makes it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won’t put our company, our employees, or our customers in that position.”Unlike the political class, Lemonis acknowledged what business leaders see clearly: The state’s promises don’t match its reality.California’s theater of wasteTake the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in northwest Los Angeles County. In operation since the early 1970s, it stopped taking trash on Dec. 31, 2024, and formally closed in January. Regulators had blocked expansion a year earlier, citing odor and earthquake risks. Residents and politicians then piled on with lawsuits, claiming health harms and price gouging in new waste contracts.Now, a federal judge is hinting at a preliminary injunction — against a landfill that’s already closed. The legal circus has little to do with waste management and everything to do with California’s political theater. The real waste that needs to be disposed of is the state’s broken system of governance.California masks its failures with glossy headlines about “protecting communities” while courts and agencies bankrupt operators with lawsuits. That’s not stewardship. It’s damage control dressed up as virtue.I’ve worked for decades as an investor with a focus on sustainability. Real stewardship balances safety, markets, and management. When the state cripples businesses caught in its crosshairs, it destroys the very resources needed for remediation. Mining provides a clear example: If regulators bury companies in red tape after they scar mountainsides, no one has the money left to restore the land.But California prefers to bankrupt operators, create thousands of plaintiffs, and unleash a regulatory swarm. At Chiquita alone, more than 9,000 plaintiffs are attached to multiple lawsuits, and at least 10 agencies — from the EPA to the California Air Resources Board — have swarmed the site. With that many bureaucrats involved, solving problems takes a back seat to turf wars and political maneuvering for credit.Image over impactI saw this dynamic firsthand in 2015, when I led takeover attempts of American Apparel, then one of the nation’s largest manufacturers. Regulators in Los Angeles didn’t care about managing waste or energy use. They cared about projecting the right social image. Meanwhile, toxic dyes, chemical runoff, and hazardous waste poured into the basin.RELATED: DHS has a fiery message for Newsom after he bans masks for ICE: 'We will NOT comply!' Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe pattern repeats. Los Angeles “fixed” diversity in its fire department just before wildfires swept the city. San Francisco “fixed” homelessness just in time for a visit by China’s Xi Jinping. And Gavin Newsom is scrambling to “fix” his reputation by backtracking on Medicaid for illegal immigrants.Once an issue becomes symbolic in California, solutions no longer matter. Every crisis — from wildfires to homelessness to waste management — becomes a stage for politicians to declare themselves protectors of the people. The real beneficiaries are trial lawyers, regulators, and politicians themselves.Lemonis is not alone in seeing through the charade. Californians deserve better than endless lawsuits and performative fixes. Until the state values results over theater, it will keep hemorrhaging businesses, people, and trust.

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