OConnor's Quick Strike

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Hey, what is up, Patriots? This is O'Connor's Quick Strike, and I'm John O'Connor. Three stories the mainstream media won't cover or will completely twist beyond recognition, delivered in roughly 15 minutes. No fluff, no BS, no filler. Just the unvarnished truth peppered with my take on what's really going on. We do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you haven't already, go ahead and just lightly tap that like.

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subscribe and or follow button. Every single one of your gentle taps helps to get out our message. As I mentioned on Monday, based on your feedback, I'm cutting the chit chat and diving straight in. I'm still testing out this approach. So make sure to message me on X at O'Connor Podcasts or at O'Connor's QuickStrike.com and let me know what you think. Today is Wednesday, October 29th. And folks, today's episode is going to make your blood boil.

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because we're going to talk about something that I honestly thought, naively I'll admit, might change after Charlie Kirk's assassination. I thought maybe, just maybe, the left would pump the brakes on the insane rhetoric. Maybe they'd realize that when you spend years calling your political opponents Nazis, fascists, and threats to democracy, eventually someone's gonna take you seriously and act on it.

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Well, I was wrong, pretty much dead wrong, because this past Monday, just two days ago, nearly seven weeks after Charlie Kirk was murdered by someone who'd been radicalized to the left, Democrat Senator Dick Durbin stood on the Senate floor and compared ICE agents to Japanese interment camps. And on the same day, former Biden press secretary, Kareem Jean-Pierre

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gave the most disastrous interview in political history, proving the left is not just dangerous, they're dangerously incompetent. The pattern is crystal clear and it's sort of terrifying. The left has not slowed down, they have not learned, and they may have finally gone too far. Let's get into it. Tree. All right, this first story happened this past Monday during a Senate subcommittee hearing on immigration enforcement.

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Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who thank God is retiring in 2026 and won't torture us anymore, stood on the Senate floor and said this, I quote, there was only one parallel in history that I can think of that has occurred in my lifetime. And that of course would be the internment camps of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. He was talking about ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal,

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law enforcement officers who are enforcing laws that were passed by Congress. Laws that existed under Obama, under Biden, under every administration. And Durbin just compared them to one of the darkest chapters in American history. Now, let's break down why this is so phenomenally offensive and stupid on so many levels. First, the internment camps. You know who created those.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, Executive Order 9066, signed in 1942. So Durbin is reaching back to his own party's shameful history to attack law enforcement officers doing their jobs. That's rich. Second, let's talk about what actually happened in those camps. Japanese Americans, United States citizens,

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were rounded up based solely on their race and ancestry. Stripped of their property, their businesses, their homes, and imprisoned behind barbed wire with armed guards for years. They were American citizens who committed no crime, held without trial, without due process, without any legal basis whatsoever. Now, let's talk about what ICE actually does.

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They arrest people who entered this country illegally. They deport people who violated our immigration laws. They target criminal aliens, people with records, people who've committed crimes on top of illegal entry. They're not just rounding up Americans based on race. They're enforcing the laws that Congress passed. The comparison isn't just offensive. It's an obscene lie. But here's what makes this even worse.

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This happened nearly seven weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Seven weeks after a 22-year-old who'd been radicalized to the left shot and killed one of the most prominent conservative voices in America. Seven weeks after we all sat there horrified watching that video spread across social media. And I thought, I genuinely thought that maybe this would be a wake-up call.

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Maybe the Democrats would realize that when you spend years dehumanizing your political opponents, calling them Nazis, calling them fascists, comparing them to the worst atrocities in human history, eventually some unhinged person takes you literally and acts on it. But no, here's Dick Durbin less than two months after Charlie Kirk's murder, comparing ICE agents to Japanese internment camps.

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Oh, and by the way, this isn't Durbin's first rodeo with this kind of rhetoric. Twenty years ago, in 2005, Durbin compared officials at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. He was forced to apologize with his voice quaking and tears welling in his eyes according to NBC News at the time. He said his remarks had crossed the line. Well, Dick, you crossed it again, except this time,

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You did it seven weeks after someone actually got killed because of rhetoric exactly like yours. And the mainstream media? Crickets. mean, Breitbart covered it. The Gateway Pundit covered it. Conservative outlets are all over it. But CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, anyone? The networks? They're burying the story because it doesn't fit their narrative that conservatives are the violent ones.

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Here's the thing that really gets me. ICE existed under Obama. It existed under Biden. These laws were passed by Democrats and Republicans alike. When Obama deported over three million people during his presidency, more than any president before him, where was Durbin then? Where were the comparisons to Japanese internment camps?

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They only bring out the rhetoric when Republicans are enforcing the exact same laws they supported when their guy was in office. It's pure political theater. Except it's not theater anymore when people are getting killed. Dick Durbin just told every unhinged leftist in America that ICE agents are no different than the people who imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II. He just painted a target on the backs of thousands of federal law enforcement officers

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who are doing their jobs. And seven weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination, the left has learned absolutely nothing. Story number two. On Monday, the same day Durbin was comparing ICE to internment camps, former Biden press secretary, Kareem Jean-Pierre, gave what multiple journalists are calling the most disastrous interview in modern political history. She sat down with the New Yorker's Isaac Chalkner

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to promote her new book, Independent, A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines. The book claims she left the Democrat Party because they betrayed Joe Biden by forcing him out of the 2024 race. And folks, this interview was such a train wreck that even liberal journalists are piling on. Jonathan Chape from New York Magazine, a liberal outlet,

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called it an absolute train wreck and said it should inspire follow-up reporting. How was KJP hired for her job in the first place? Let that sink in. A liberal journalist at a liberal magazine is openly questioning how this woman ever got the job as White House press secretary. Same thing I've been wondering forever. The interview is painful to read. At one point, Chotner literally says to her, I'm not sure what you're saying.

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Multiple times throughout the interview, he has to stop her and ask for clarification because her answers are so incoherent. Here's my favorite part. The title of her book is Independent, A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines. So naturally, Chautner asks her about the broken White House. She refers to in the title. Her answer? She claims she's talking about Trump's White House, not Biden's.

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even though the book is about her time working for Biden, even though she left the Democrat party over how they treated Biden, but somehow the broken White House in her book is about... Trump's White House? All right. Journalist Josh Barrow summed it up perfectly. This is painful. Chris Zazilza, another journalist, wrote a whole article titled

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The 21 cringiest lines from Kareem Jean-Pierre's car crash New Yorker interview. 21. He found 21 separate moments that were so bad they deserved to be highlighted. But here's what's really important about this story. Throughout the entire interview, Jean-Pierre keeps bringing up that she's a black woman who is part of the LGBTQ community over and over and over again. It was...

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nauseating. Every answer somehow circles back to her identity. Megyn Kelly, who's been all over this story on her show, asked the perfect question. Has she done even one interview where she didn't mention she is black? The answer is, from everything I can find, no. Because that's all she has. She wasn't hired because she was qualified. She wasn't hired because she was competent. She was hired because she checked the rights.

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boxes. She was the first black gay woman to be White House press secretary. And for three years, we all watched her stumble through press briefing after press briefing, reading from that damn binder, unable to answer basic questions, constantly referring reporters to other departments. I mean, our nickname for her was binder. Matt Taibbi called her book incoherent.

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The Washington Post reviewer wrote that it's emblematic of the Democrats' total aesthetic and intellectual driftlessness. Even the New Yorker interviewer couldn't hide his frustration. Megyn Kelly did a dramatic reenactment of the interview on her show, and it's comedy gold. She pointed out that Chautner just kept asking the most basic questions. What does that mean? I still don't understand. Could you please explain?

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That's all it took to completely expose how unqualified she was. Just basic follow-up questions. And here's why this matters beyond just mocking an incompetent former press secretary. This is what happens when you prioritize identity over competence. This is what happens when you hire someone to be the voice of the White House, the face of the administration, the person responsible for communicating policy to the American people, and you choose

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than based on their race and sexuality instead of their qualifications. Corrine Jean-Pierre was in one of the most important communication positions in the world. She briefed the press daily, she spoke for the President of the United States, and she couldn't string together a coherent answer to basic questions about why she left the Democrat Party or what her own book was about.

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This is DEI and action folks, and we all suffered for it. The American people deserved better than someone whose only qualification was checking demographic boxes. The left hasn't just failed to learn from Charlie Kirk's assassination. They've doubled down on the very policies and rhetoric that got us here. Story number three. And this one is going to make you proud. While Democrats are busy comparing them to war criminals.

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ICE agents are out there actually doing their jobs and doing them brilliantly. This past Saturday night, Breitbart's Bob Price got an exclusive embedded access with an ICE operation in Houston, Texas. And what he witnessed was nothing short of impressive. 40 federal officers, a combination of ICE enforcement and removal operations, Customs and Border Protection officers, and Border Patrol agents

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conducted a four-hour nighttime sweep through Houston's high crime corridors in torrential rain. These men and women were out there in downpour doing a job that Democrats just compared to Japanese internment camps. And in those four hours, they arrested approximately 25 illegal aliens, many with criminal records. Let me tell you about the technology they're using because this is what fascinated me.

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ICE has developed a new data-driven targeting system called ELITE that allows them to identify criminal hotspots with incredible precision. In just a one-mile radius in northeast Houston, this system identified about 800 potential criminal alien targets. The software shows them high crime areas with high population density. Then, they can drill down by country of origin, type of criminality, severity of crimes,

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everything from aggravated felons to sexual predators. Larry Adams, acting deputy director of the Houston Ice Field Office, explained it perfectly. Instead of sending two or three teams across the area, we're overrunning these locations. And it's working. In the two days before this nighttime operation, ERO, stands for Enforcement and Removal Operations,

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of the Houston teams arrested about 200 criminal aliens in the Colony Ridge community northeast of Houston. They also seized a large quantity of illicit drugs. Now, let me tell you what they encountered during the Saturday night operation. The first stop was in southeast Houston. They found two illegal alien males. The driver and passenger were both allegedly intoxicated. Officers saw the passenger with a six pack of beer. Both men resisted arrest.

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and then had to be forcibly detained. Later in the night, despite the torrential downpour, officers took another drunk driver, an illegal alien, off the streets of Houston. These are the operations good old Dick Durbin compared to Japanese internment camps. These are the men and women he just painted a target on. And by the way, one ICE official who recently returned from a temporary deployment to Chicago told Breitbart,

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they'd observed a massive upswing in the number of illegal aliens who violently resist arrest. You know why? They blamed the rhetoric from elected officials depicting ICE officers and agents as Gestapo, Nazis, kidnappers, and other dehumanizing labels. Think about that. Dick Durbin's rhetoric on Monday isn't just offensive. It's making these officers' jobs more dangerous.

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When you tell people that ICE agents are equivalent to those who imprison Japanese Americans, you're encouraging violent resistance. But despite all this, these officers showed up. They volunteered for this operation. Field Office Director, Brett Bradford, told Breitbart, I quote, these men and women all volunteered to work this new nighttime operation.

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They were out on the streets of Houston early Saturday morning to work their regular shift and then volunteered to come back out that night for this pilot op. Let that sink in. They worked their regular shift Saturday morning, then came back out Saturday night in torrential downpour to hunt criminal aliens. That is some dedication. And Adams, the acting deputy director, revealed something beautiful. His own wife is a naturalized Mexican national.

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Many of these officers have gone through the immigration process with their spouses. They understand it. They respect it. They know what it takes to become a citizen. These are empathetic professionals who understand the immigration process, Adams said. These aren't Nazis. These aren't the people who ran Japanese internment camps. These are federal law enforcement officers doing their jobs, following the laws that Congress passed, making our community safer.

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ICE told Breitbart they want to expand partnerships with local law enforcement. Harris County, Houston Police, other task force partners. We can be a force multiplier to these local and state agencies, Adams said. We can provide additional manpower to target high crime areas while they do their thing. We can do ours and everyone goes home safely. The operation ended at about 1 a.m. Sunday morning. About nine hours later, these teams reassembled

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and went back out on the streets. On Monday, they were back out again. On Tuesday, back out again. These are the people Dick Durbin just compared to war criminals. Well, that's our quick strike for today. Seven weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Dick Durbin compared ICE agents to Japanese internment camps. Corrine Jean-Pierre proved she was hired to check boxes, not for competence. And while Democrats spewed dangerous rhetoric,

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ICE agents were out in the rain protecting Americans. The left learned nothing. They've only doubled down. This is what we do. Stories that matter. Analysis the media won't provide. And a conservative perspective cutting through the noise. If you're new here, make sure to gently tap that like and subscribe. We're here Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with stories you need to know. Share this with someone who needs to hear it. And hey, quick reminder. You can reach me on X at O'Connor Podcasts or...

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at O'Connor's QuickStrike.com. I want to hear what you think about this new format. This is John O'Connor, and I'll see you Friday for another QuickStrike. Until then, stay informed, stay vigilant, and don't let them tell you what to think.