As a preface to this monologue, I want to address the recent ruling by a judge—a Biden-appointed District Judge, April Perry—that places a temporary hold on the President’s deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago. In her ruling, which will not hold up on appeal, she said she has seen “no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois.” Her ruling is a willful suspension of reality, as evidenced by the videos coming out of Chicago showing mobs attacking law enforcement in their discharge of codified immigration law. Perry is an embarrassment to the judiciary and should be removed by Congress.
That said, Congressional Republicans are grossly negligent in reigning in; in narrowing the scope of purview—as is their authority under the US Constitution—of activist judges whose rulings have resulted in facilitating insurrection and death in our city streets. God knows what the hell they are waiting for.
In the grand architecture of the US Constitution, the Supremacy Clause stands as an unyielding pillar, declaring in Article VI that the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties “shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” This isn’t hyperbole; it’s the law. When state and local wanna-be potentates prioritize ideological posturing over public safety, the federal government holds the high ground to intervene. Paired with the Insurrection Act of 1807, which empowers the President to deploy federal forces to suppress domestic violence or rebellion when states abdicate their duties, it paints a clear picture: Washington doesn’t just oversee the nation—it owns the authority to restore order when governors and mayors play footsie with anarchy for votes and virtue signals.
Consider the festering sores in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, where self-righteous buffoonish officials like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson; opportunistic charlatans like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass; and intellectually stunted virtue-signalers like Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson have turned urban cores into ideological playgrounds. Their grandstanding—sanctuary edicts, police defunding echoes, and open defiance of federal immigration enforcement—hasn’t quelled uprisings; it’s enabled them. From anti-ICE riots to gang-fueled terror, these leaders’ failures scream for federal override. The Supremacy Clause doesn’t tolerate such ideological sabotage; it demands restoration of order, lest the Republic fracture into fiefdoms ruled by performative artist progressive politicians and activists.
Take Chicago, where Pritzker and Johnson embody the nadir of elected irresponsibility. Johnson’s fresh executive order, inked just days ago, brazenly carves out “ICE-free zones” across city properties like schools and parks, barring federal agents from civil immigration enforcement without warrants. It’s a red-carpet invitation for chaos, shielding undocumented felons while law-abiding citizens dodge bullets and used needles. Pritzker, ever the enabler, has thumbed his nose at President Trump’s National Guard deployments, vowing “resistance” that borders on sedition. Their defiant idiocy peaked amid reports of Latin Kings gang members slapping a $10,000 bounty on US Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, part of a 1,000% surge in assaults on ICE officers. To that end, federal prosecutors nabbed alleged Latin Kings kingpin Juan Espinoza Martinez for the murder-for-hire plot, a direct fallout from sanctuary coddling that lets gangs operate with impunity.
And the “rampant crime” they downplay? It’s a slaughterhouse reality that no spin can mask. With 356 innocents gunned down year-to-date as of October 6, Chicago’s streets pulse with the blood of the forsaken—the US murder capital for the 13th straight year, a toll that shames any notion of a civilized city. Shootings? A relentless barrage claiming 1,589 victims through the same date, turning playgrounds into kill zones and ambulances into grim shuttles for the maimed— an epidemic of lead that demands reckoning. Fueling this nightmare? An estimated 150,000 gang members—more than in any other American city—locked in perpetual vendettas, their arsenals unchecked by Johnson’s pathetic virtue-signaling zones and Pritzker’s limp-wristed oversight. Summer murders tallied 123 in June through August, a quarterly body count that would make any drug cartel take notice. These ideologues grandstand for applause from open-borders crowds, safe in their northshore gated communities, but their policies scream neglect—prioritizing migrant optics over Midwestern lives, while 150,000 gangbangers carve up the city like a birthday cake.
Shift west to California, where Newsom and Bass helm a state of shattered illusions. Newsom’s sanctuary empire, cemented since 2017, has ballooned fentanyl deaths from 200 annually to thousands, as border chaos spills into L.A.’s veins. His recent signing of laws shielding immigrants from “Trump’s secret police” ignores a 1,000% spike in ICE attacks, framing federal crackdowns as “fear tactics” while the city reels from 160 homicides year-to-date through early October, alongside hundreds of shooting victims that leave neighborhoods devastated.
Bass, once a defund-the-police cheerleader, now funnels $1.89 billion to LAPD amid hiring woes, but her executive directives that attempt to accelerate recruitment ring hollow against a city still plagued by smash-and-grabs and homeless encampments that devour sidewalks. Their joint rhetoric, touting CHP “crime suppression teams” as sufficient, wilts under scrutiny: Newsom’s policies hobble federal partners, letting violent illegals slip through while he spars with Red-state rivals over murder rates.
It’s theater—Bass shielding LAPD budgets from layoffs while Newsom deploys over-taxed state troopers in a futile shadow pseudo-might. Their ideological fealty to sanctuary sanctimony invites the very uprisings they decry, from ICE facility clashes to unchecked gang turf wars.
Portland’s tableau is perhaps the most grotesque, a post-2020 riot scar tissue torn open by Kotek and Wilson. The mayor, a trucking scion turned constitutionally illiterate, political infidel, condemns federal “tactics” as “deeply disturbing” and “unconstitutional,” even as anti-ICE Antifa mobs hurl projectiles at the South Waterfront facility, with hundreds of violence calls since June.
Kotek, architect of 2020’s police-reform follies like HB 3164 that hamstrings officers from intervening in riots, now sues to block National Guard arrivals, claiming “facts on the ground” vindicate her laxity. Response times to 911 calls have tripled since 2019, per a Kotek-commissioned report, yet the city grapples with scores of homicides through the first eight months of the year, plus dozens of shooting incidents that terrorize residents.
Wilson’s “sanctuary city” affirmation and Kotek’s plywood bans on storefronts—yes, plywood bans to prevent shop owners from protecting their property—prioritize optics over order, fostering the “war-ravaged” hellscape Trump rightly decries.
So, the question begs: In a time when blue-city mayors and their governors whine about the lack of funds for their police departments, why would they oppose free manpower from the federal government? The answer is simple and quite clear to those Americans with more than a handful of brain cells.
The federal government’s purview? Total and absolute. The Supremacy Clause subsumes Chicago’s Loop, L.A.’s sprawl, and Portland’s bridges under national sovereignty; no city ordinance or gubernatorial fiat can eclipse immigration law or the duty to quell insurrections. These hotspots aren’t sovereign enclaves—they’re American soil, where uprisings against federal agents (riots at ICE outposts, bounties on officers) trigger Insurrection Act invocation. Trump’s threats of jail for Pritzker and deployments to Oregon underscore this.
Worse, these officials have teed up their own downfall. By obstructing federal enforcement—Johnson’s zones, Newsom’s shields, Kotek’s suits—they court 18 USC § 372 charges for conspiracy against federal authority, or even insurrection under 18 USC § 2383 for levying war against the US. Impeachment looms for state-level betrayal: Pritzker’s defiance mocks his oath, Bass’s flip-flops erode trust, Wilson’s naivety invites federal overrides. Their grandstanding isn’t leadership; it’s liability, opening floodgates to DOJ probes, arrests, and recalls.
The Supremacy Clause isn’t optional—it’s the federal fist ready to smash adolescent, ideologically-based, local delusions. When ideologues like these fail, Washington must intervene, not out of spite, but salvation. Public safety is the first obligation of government, anywhere and everywhere.
Restore law, indict the enablers, and remind Blue-city political robber barons: the nation endures because federal authority does. Anything less invites collapse.
When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.
In Closing…
As the echoes of gunfire fade into Chicago’s 1,589-shot hellscape, and in L.A.’s gang-rotten streets and Portland’s riot-scarred neighborhoods, one truth thunders: the Supremacy Clause isn’t a suggestion—it’s the federal sledgehammer smashing idiotic Blue-city progressive delusions.
When ideologues like Pritzker, Johnson, Newsom, Bass, Kotek, and Wilson grandstand for open borders, refuse calls for aid from law enforcement under fire, shrug at bounties being placed on ICE agents, and allow 150,000 gangbangers to reign, they’ve begged for intervention.
Why spurn free federal muscle while whining for police funds? You know why.
Washington must deploy, indict the saboteurs, and reclaim our cities. The nation bends to no fiefdoms—only to law.
Until next time…
