The MAGA chant in 2016 onwards was: “Drain the swamp.”

Then, in 2020, Trump handed Fauci and the swamp the keys to the country.

Trump and MAGA ceaselessly accuse DeSantis of being a RINO in bed with the swamp.

At the sane time, DeSantis is draining Florida’s proverbial swamp.

DeSantis suspends another elected prosecutor in move derided as ‘politically motivated’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday once again suspended an elected Florida prosecutor from office, this time removing a central Florida Democrat that the Republican governor contended was too lenient with criminals and was endangering the public.

The move drew sharp criticism from the target of the suspension — State Attorney Monique Worrell — as well as Democrats, who called DeSantis a “dictator” and said his actions were designed to draw attention to his struggling presidential campaign.

DeSantis, during an early morning press conference from the state Capitol where he announced the suspension, cited several examples of where he contended Worrell had failed to pursue minimum mandatory sentences for criminals or did not fully prosecute both adults and juveniles who later went on to commit other crimes. One of those the governor highlighted was a 17-year-old who allegedly shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend just months after he had been initially charged with gun crimes.

“We had a duty to act to prevent this dereliction of duty,” DeSantis said. “Prosecutors do have a certain amount of discretion about which charges to bring. What this state attorney has done is abuse that discretion and has effectively nullified certain laws in the state of Florida.”

But why now?

What was the tipping point?

A name that should be all over the news but isn’t: Daton Viel.

Just a few days ago, Daton Viel shot two Orlando police officers and put them in the hospital in critical condition.

That’s bad.  The whole story is worse.

Why was gunman Daton Viel on the streets?

The man who Orlando Police said shot and critically wounded two of their officers Friday night could have potentially been taken off the streets months before the violent attack, court records reviewed by News 6 suggest.

Daton Viel, 28, was killed during a shootout with the Orlando Police SWAT team early Saturday morning.

Viel had an extensive criminal history, records show, with his most recent arrest occurring a little more than four months before the police shooting.

Authorities arrested Viel on March 27 after investigators said DNA evidence linked him to the December 2022 rape of a 14-year-old girl in Orange County.

Viel posted a $125,250 bond and was released from the Orange County jail on April 14 to await trial on charges of sexual battery and molestation, records show.

At the time of the alleged rape in December 2022, Viel was under the supervision of the Florida Department of Corrections while serving probation for crimes he committed in Georgia, including aggravated battery and arson, state records show.

At the time Viel was released from jail in April, court records show the Florida Department of Corrections placed him on electronic monitoring that included a GPS bracelet.

On June 13, six weeks after a Georgia judge issued an arrest warrant for Viel, Florida Department of Corrections officials learned Viel had cut off his electronic monitoring device and moved out of his aunt’s Apopka home without notifying his probation officer.

During a news conference discussing Viel’s criminal history, Worrell placed full responsibility for the shooting of the two Orlando police officers on Viel, and avoided blaming other public servants.

“All of our agencies are doing the very best they can to handle a lot of cases with very limited resources,” said Worrell. “Hindsight is 20-20. There are any number of things that can be done on any given day that could make an outcome different. In this case, those things weren’t done. And here we are today.”

Then there is this:

Man accused of shooting 2 Orlando officers had previous run-ins with law enforcement, records show

Records show the man accused of shooting and critically injuring two Orlando police officers has a history of run-ins with law enforcement.

Daton Viel, 28, led Orlando police on an overnight pursuit.

Leading up to his death, Viel had been running from law enforcement under several other charges.

According to court records, he had a run-in with police on campus at the University of Central Florida.

This man was a known violent offender, sex offender, on parole with a cut-off ankle monitor, and still was allowed on the streets where he shot two cops.

Then the prosecutor who let him out on bond had the fucking audacity to blame the cops for getting shot.

It’s telling that Orange County Sheriff John Mina and Osceola County Sheriff Marco Lopez both supported DeSantis’ actions.

Upon Worrell’s removal, Mina released this statement:

“Our focus at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office is to protect our community from violent criminals. We rely on our partnership with the State Attorney’s Office to ensure those offenders are held to account and kept off our streets. We look forward to working with Judge Andrew Bain in his new role as State Attorney,” Mina said in a statement.

And from Osceola County Sheriff Marco Lopez:

“The criminal justice system only works when law enforcement investigates and arrests those who commit crime and the State Attorney’s Office prosecutes those offenders. We welcome Judge Andrew Bain as the new State Attorney and look forward to our offices working together for justice. The victims of crime in Osceola County will always come first,” Lopez said in a statement.

The politics here are that Worrell was a Leftist who was soft on crime that allowed a known offender with a repeat history of violence to shoot two cops, who she then blamed for getting shot.

She deserved to get fired for making Florida more dangerous.

That’s draining the swamp.

I am very much enjoying the CB Strike series by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling), the books not the TV show.

It’s a series about a private detective in London.

Despite all the dangers they run into with murders and psychopaths, all Strike and his partner Robin can carry to protect themselves is rape alarms.

Those alarms are a useless as you can imagine they are.

Oakland,  California is suffering a huge crime wave due to Progressive policies and a lack of policing.

They are giving their citizens the same useless self defense advice as the British government.

Air horns and moving trucks: How Oakland, California, residents are facing a surge in crime

After 60-year-old retiree David Schneider was shot and killed here while trimming a tree in his yard, his neighbor, Toni Bird, said she retreated indoors.

“People aren’t feeling safe out of their house,” she said. “It makes sense that you would want to protect your house then, right? You would barricade it.”

Amid a surge in crime in Oakland, California, police have advised residents to use air horns to alert neighbors to intruders and add security bars to their doors and windows.

Bird, who moved to Oakland 2 1/2 years ago, said she took their advice to heart. She now has three air horns and five security cameras around her home.

“The types of crime that we’re seeing feel much more violent and the consequences feel much more severe,” she said. “And it feels like the people that are being targeted are people who are vulnerable.”

The cowboys said: “God created all men, Sam Colt made them equal.”

Not a stadium air horn but a 45 caliber revolver.  That made men equal.

If the most vulnerable are under attack, what they need is an equalizer, not a can of tinnitus.

What useless fucking bullshit.

This is an actual captioned photo from that article:

The other day I posted video of a woman in California who was attacked and her her bike stolen, and was crying for help as people stood around and ignored her.

What the fuck will an airhorn do?  What neighbors will run to her defense?

If you fight back with an airhorn, you’ll only die with ringing in your ears.

This is post Bruen.

Californians need guns and concealed carry.

They get airhorns.

Welcome to the Chi
Young men show off all the guns they brought to an indoor basketball court in #Chicago pic.twitter.com/I4GkR106nP

— RawNews1st (@Raw_News1st) August 9, 2023

A bunch of youth gang members with illegal full auto converted Glocks, showing their guns and flashing gang signs.

This kids are, or want to be, cold blooded killers.

The Left may believe that they are all just about to turn their lives around and go to church, but these kids will kill you just for the street cred.

Be prepared to defend yourself.

H/T Miguel

This is from about 30 seconds on Google.

Boy, 13, charged with carjacking woman at Chicago gas station

13-year-old boy arrested in fatal attempted carjacking of St. Louis mom

Battle Creek Police: 13 & 14-year-old boys charged with homicide, carjacking in death of high school student

15-year-old boys arrested in ‘random, senseless murder’ in Loveland

Boys, 12 and 17, charged in murders of 3 teens in Marion County; 16-year-old sought

You get the point.

Anyone, of any age, that points a loaded gun at you isn’t your friend.

You can be killed by a kid as easily as an adult.

You need to be prepared to do what has to be done to survive a violent encounter.

If I’m alive, I can Go Fund Me the best defense lawyers in the country.

If I’m dead, who will make my children French toast in the morning?

This story is a window into pure evil.

Virginia first-grader, 6, bragged about shooting his teacher Abigail Zwerner to school officials – and said ‘I shot the b**** dead’

A six-year-old boasted ‘I shot that b**** dead,’ after firing at his first-grade teacher inside a Virginia elementary school in January, recently unsealed redacted search warrants revealed.

Documents obtained by WTKR show that the unnamed boy told a school official how he brought his mother’s gun into the Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, on January 6 and shot his teacher Abigail Zwerner, 25. She survived the shooting that drew national headlines.

The docs also reveal the same boy nearly choked his kindergarten teacher a year before ‘until she couldn’t breathe’ and had to be removed from the classroom.

She described how the boy drew his weapon from his pocket after the class got back from recess, pointed it directly at her, at which point she asked, ‘What are you doing with that?’

The boy paused for a moment ‘then fired one shot that struck Zwerner in her left hand and upper torso,’ the court documents said. She fled the classroom to the school office, where first responders found her bleeding from the wound.

Zwerner also allegedly told police of other incidents in which the student threatened violence and physically assaulted others — all of which, she said, were reported to school administrators.

In one of those incidents, the child allegedly choked his kindergarten teacher.

Authorities noted in their affidavits they spoke to the teacher, who described how the child ‘walked behind her while she was sitting in her chair and placed both of his arms around her neck, pulling down, choking her to the point she could not breathe.’

That child is pure evil.

I don’t know of he was born bad or made bad, but either way it doesn’t matter.

A child with a history of violence pointing a gun at you intends to do you harm.

A bullet fired by a little kid is just as lethal as one fired by an adult.

I have a wife and two kids, one a little younger than this boy.

My wife needs me, my kids need me.

I will feel bad having to defend myself against a six-year-old, right until I get home and my kids hug me and tell me they love me, then I will be assured I did the right thing.

The scenario you have in your head of who is going to try and shoot you might not be accurate.

Be prepared for when it’s not.

Woman screams for help as her bike is stolen in broad daylight. A bunch of people stand around watching. Nobody moves.

Welcome to California https://t.co/2lwBo3VP9m

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 8, 2023

Welcome to what the Left has created.

I guarantee you that people were more afraid of what would happen to them for confronting a black criminal than doing nothing as a white woman is attacked and robbed.

This sort of thing didn’t have to happen.  It was done on purpose.

The failure of law enforcement, social media and mainstream media that publicly shame and stoke internet hate mobs against people, this destruction of polite society was deliberate and malicious.

Society is suffering and it will get worse before it gets better.

File this away under Things I Didn’t See Coming.

The 9th Circus Court of Appeals made a good decision.

Ninth Circuit overturns butterfly knife ban, citing Supreme Court guns ruling

Citing the Supreme Court’s ruling that severely limited states’ authority to regulate guns, a federal appeals court on Monday struck down Hawaii’s ban on butterfly knives, pocket knives with folding blades that can be quickly joined into a single blade and used as a weapon.

The ruling, if it stands, could also be used to overturn California’s prohibition on carrying butterfly knives in public that have blades longer than 2 inches.

When the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last year that Americans have a constitutional right to carry concealed firearms in public — a decision that struck down laws in New York, California and other states — the court also declared, in the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, that any restriction on gun possession was unconstitutional unless the government could show it was “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation,” dating back to the country’s founding.

On Monday, a conservative panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the same standard applies to restrictions on knives, including butterfly knives.

Although those cases have involved guns, the same standard should apply to restrictions on other types of weapons, the appeals court said Monday.

“Like firearms, bladed weapons fit the general definition of ‘arms’” under the Constitution’s Second Amendment, Judge Carlos Bea said in the 3-0 ruling, citing a dictionary published in 1774.

And while Hawaii contends butterfly knives are commonly used by criminals, Bea wrote, evidence shows they are “commonly owned for lawful purposes. … Hawaii has submitted no evidence that butterfly knives are not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for self-defense.”

Seeking to satisfy the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” standard, Hawaii said that as far back as the 1830s, states had restricted or banned weapons like the Bowie knife, which has a single-edged blade longer than 9 inches. But Bea said those laws were “outliers,” not shared by most states, and were nowhere near as restrictive as Hawaii’s current law.

In the nation’s early history and tradition, there are “no analogues in which Congress or any state legislature imposed an outright ban on the possession of pocket knives to remedy this (crime) problem,” Bea wrote. He was joined by Judges Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee.

Hot damn!

My biggest complaint about the way the Second Amendment is enforced, when it is enforced, is limited to guns.

I’m a big believer that the Second Amendment applies to all weapons.

I’ve posted a myriad of videos of assaults from inside train cars and other close packed situations where a gun and pepper spray are both bad ideas.  Either over penetration of bullets or gassing yourself in an enclosed area.

Collapsible batons, blackjacks, brass knuckles, all are effective intermediate weapons for extreme CQB.

Some asshole gets in your face and starts manhandling you on the subway, a quarter of a pound of brass to the forehead will generally change his tune without breaking your hand.

I often carry an ASP Protector concealable baton.  During the summer of love it went with me everywhere in case of protesters.  Pepper spray and a baton were a good combo.

But there are many places that put restrictions on non-firearm weapons.

Tennessee for example, has permitless firearm carry but requires training and a license for a baton.

I want to see this decision used to challenge all weapon laws everywhere in America.

I’m a law abiding citizen, I should be able to carry any weapon I want to defend myself.