Ep. 1651 - Democrats PANIC As Trump Kills Narco Terrorists And Stops Violent Crime

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Speaker 13 Today, Matt Wall Show, Democrats weep as Trump kills narco-terrorists and stops violent crime in our cities.

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Speaker 60 You have to imagine there are more than a few panicked conversations going on this evening over at the headquarters of Trend de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that routinely traffics drugs into this country and takes over apartment complexes and places like Colorado.

Speaker 16 As you may have seen, seven months after the Trump administration designated Trend de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S.

Speaker 29 military just blew up one of the gang's drug boats as it sped towards the United States.

Speaker 27 There was no warning.

Speaker 49 The Coast Guard didn't try to take them into custody.

Speaker 50 Instead, the boat and all 11 people on board were bombed and eliminated, presumably with the help of one of the warships that the White House has recently deployed to the Southern Caribbean.

Speaker 69 After decades of having open access to the U.S., this development had to be quite a shock for Trend de Aragua and every terrorist group that engages in drug trafficking.

Speaker 14 Until now, the absolute worst-case scenario is that they might get detained very briefly, maybe have to answer a few awkward questions about why they're heading towards the United States on a boat with four outboard motors and millions of dollars worth of narcotics.

Speaker 31 And then some NGO armed with tax dollars commandeered by the Democrat Party would jump into action and spring them loose as Ivy League academics demanded that we respect the civil liberties of sociopathic foreign drug traffickers.

Speaker 55 But

Speaker 54 That's not what happened this time.

Speaker 63 Instead, the NGOs and academics weren't given any time to intercede on behalf of Trendearagua.

Speaker 17 Federal judges weren't given that opportunity either.

Speaker 77 There's simply no chance that a federal judge with a name out of a Star Wars movie can issue any kind of injunction at this point, ordering the Trump administration to form a dive team and go on down there and piece all the dead bodies back together.

Speaker 78 It's not going to work.

Speaker 79 We just simply killed them all instead.

Speaker 58 And as you might expect, our moral superiors aren't very happy about this.

Speaker 45 Here's how one Princeton professor and self-styled human rights advocate, a guy named Kenneth Roth,

Speaker 15 responded to the destruction of the drug boat, quote, drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war.

Speaker 40 Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S.

Speaker 33 forces just illegally did.

Speaker 77 And there were dozens more posts like this, all of them complaining about the destruction of a boat full of drug traffickers.

Speaker 80 The Trump administration didn't respond to any of these people.

Speaker 70 Instead, one by one, the official accounts of various officials and departments in the administration, including Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, the rapid response team, posted the footage of the boat exploding without apology.

Speaker 14 The White House also posted memes like this one.

Speaker 46 The caption reads, terrorists eliminated, adios.

Speaker 22 Not exactly a subtle message, but what makes it so effective is that predictably, no one on the left has any idea how to respond.

Speaker 61 Their default tactic, which is to stall, file frivolous lawsuits, wage large-scale propaganda campaigns, That simply doesn't work anymore.

Speaker 54 So instead of accomplishing anything, they're stammering on the internet about how it's supposedly a terrible thing that drug boats are being destroyed.

Speaker 58 They can't explain why that's so terrible or

Speaker 42 what negative consequence that will actually have for us.

Speaker 15 They're aghast at the possibility that for the first time in recent memory, the U.S. military is actually carrying out airstrikes for the benefit of the American people.

Speaker 78 And the American people overwhelmingly support it.

Speaker 79 As scandalous as this this may be to left-wing anti-human academics, most Americans feel the way that I do about it.

Speaker 77 And my take is very simple:

Speaker 85 kill the foreign drug traffickers who bring poison into our country, kill them all, mass slaughter of the drug cartels, leave no one alive.

Speaker 40 That's what I'd like to see. It's what most Americans would like to see.

Speaker 38 And it is, in fact, the moral and just course of action.

Speaker 67 Now, the White House recognizes the abject weakness that Democrats are displaying at the moment, and that's why the other day the President announced that the U.S.

Speaker 89 military would continue to take action to protect the homeland.

Speaker 40 The city of Chicago is up next. Watch.

Speaker 9 I'm the bon Chicago, though.

Speaker 91 Well, we're going in. I didn't say when.
We're going in. When you lose, look, I have an obligation.
This isn't a political thing.

Speaker 91 I have an obligation. When we lose, when 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and 75 are shot with bullets.
So let me tell you a little story about a place called DC,

Speaker 91 District of Columbia, right here where we are. It's now a safe zone.
We have no crime.

Speaker 91 It's in such great shape. You can go and actually walk with your children, your wife, your husband.
You can walk right down the middle of the street. You're not going to be shot, Peter.
You're safe.

Speaker 15 Now, just so you know, there's nothing, despite what you may have heard, there's nothing unprecedented about using the National Guard to establish order when local authorities prove unable or unwilling to do so.

Speaker 49 You take the shooting at Kent State in 1970 during riots over the Vietnam War, for example.

Speaker 38 Four college students were killed and nine were wounded by the National Guard.

Speaker 39 And in many schools today, this episode is taught as the Kent State Massacre. Pretty much every university in the country claims that this shooting was a clear example of brutality by the U.S.

Speaker 28 military.

Speaker 20 But at the time, the public overwhelmingly supported the National Guard.

Speaker 39 People understood that these students had been rioting and threatening people with deadly weapons for days.

Speaker 30 They'd burned down a building on campus.

Speaker 17 They were unruly.

Speaker 82 They were a clear threat to public safety.

Speaker 36 They had cornered the National Guard troops and were advancing on them.

Speaker 54 And, you know, that's what actually happened.

Speaker 58 And in fact, as recently as two decades ago, Chicago's leaders were openly talking about bringing in the National Guard on their own.

Speaker 15 Here's a report from the Associated Press in 2008, quote, Illinois Governor Blagojevich surprised Mayor Daly on July 16th by offering to send state police or even the National Guard to battle out-of-control crime in Chicago.

Speaker 19 So there's nothing crazy or unprecedented about what the Trump administration is proposing now.

Speaker 45 And Democrats realize that, presumably.

Speaker 32 So in response, rather than construct any kind of rational argument, they're resorting to panicked non-sequiturs.

Speaker 46 Here's one alderman in the city of Chicago making his counter-argument, if you can call it that.

Speaker 32 Listen.

Speaker 97 How do you respond to the argument that there were something like 50 plus shootings, 53 people, 52 people, I should say, were shot in Chicago, 30 different shootings over the holiday weekend, seven people killed?

Speaker 97 Aren't numbers like that still a problem that your city needs to address? What more can be done to address that?

Speaker 98 Well, I think that what we need to be doing what we need to do is we also had a mass shooting in a Catholic school. We also have had many,

Speaker 98 instances where the administration has really

Speaker 98 escalated, exacerbated the violence

Speaker 98 in our country, in our cities.

Speaker 98 Trump is a dictator. I think we got to be very clear.
He's trying to normalize violence. He's trying to normalize military deployment in American cities like LA, DC, Chicago, and many others to come.

Speaker 98 But what we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues. I had shootings in my ward.
One of them was a tragic shooting of an un-housed neighbor.

Speaker 98 So, the Trump administration is saying that they're going to address the issue of unhoused residence by putting in jails, in concentration camps?

Speaker 20 Yes, his very first response when asked about the extraordinary levels of crime and violence in his hometown is to talk about the murder of two children in a Catholic church by a trans-identified shooter in another state.

Speaker 62 This is a trans-identified mass shooter whose demonic ideology was affirmed at the highest levels of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 19 And yet that's the defense he's offering.

Speaker 80 Oh, oh, you're worried about the constant shootings in Chicago?

Speaker 7 Well, that's absurd because our party is also responsible for mass shootings in other states, too.

Speaker 30 Now, if you notice, CNN introduced this guy in the Chiron as a Chicago alderman for a ward with large Hispanic population.

Speaker 45 So apparently, we're supposed to treat him as a credible talking head on this particular issue

Speaker 45 because he comes from a ward with a lot of Hispanics.

Speaker 10 Even though he uses every single DNC buzzword that he can, he just crams them all in.

Speaker 102 He calls homeless people unhoused folks.

Speaker 39 He says Trump is a dictator.

Speaker 89 He talks about concentration camps.

Speaker 79 Then he demands a systemic investment, meaning more tax money.

Speaker 45 So just, you know, he goes down the bingo.

Speaker 52 He's got

Speaker 45 all the boxes on the bingo card checked there.

Speaker 54 You just know this guy goes around saying Latinx on top of all this.

Speaker 38 So it's a complete train wreck, but this is all they have.

Speaker 54 Meanwhile, residents of Chicago are being terrorized by repeat offenders who obviously belong in prison.

Speaker 47 Watch.

Speaker 105 13 mugshots of Livingston going back to 2012. A large number of those arrests for aggravated assault and battery of both women and police officers.
Something Miles found out after the fact.

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Speaker 105 According to online records, Livingston's history of random acts of violence against women goes back eight years. In 2017, he was accused of randomly attacking two women months apart.

Speaker 105 Both cases were dropped. In 2022, Livingston was sentenced to five years in prison after prosecutors said he punched and attempted to rob four women within 20 minutes in the loop.

Speaker 105 And yet, just 14 months later, in 2023, while on parole, Livingston was arrested for hitting a woman in the face on North Michigan Avenue.

Speaker 105 And in 2024, he was sentenced to 100 days in prison after punching a 15-year-old girl, also on North Michigan.

Speaker 22 Now, any sane person watching reports like this would realize that Chicago has a major problem. It's not enforcing the law.

Speaker 37 or punishing criminals.

Speaker 102 So maybe they should start with that.

Speaker 69 Instead, Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson has decided to deflect blame in probably the most pathetic and unconvincing way that he possibly could.

Speaker 43 Yesterday, he announced that red states are somehow responsible for all of the violent crime in the city that he leads.

Speaker 85 Watch.

Speaker 107 And they've made historic progress.

Speaker 107 However, we will never be able to end gun violence in Chicago as long as the president continues to allow tens of thousands of guns to be trafficked trafficked into our state and our city.

Speaker 107 The vast majority of guns do not come from Chicago. They are not made in Cook County.
They are not bought in the state of Illinois. These guns come from red states.

Speaker 107 They are coming from Indiana. They are coming from Mississippi.

Speaker 107 They are coming from Louisiana.

Speaker 107 And that is the harsh reality. Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue to have a gun problem.

Speaker 107 Shootings will continue as long as this presidential administration continues to put politics over people.

Speaker 109 Yes, the shootings will continue, says Brandon Johnson.

Speaker 44 He really just said that.

Speaker 51 He doesn't seem to realize what he just said.

Speaker 64 He couldn't have made it any more clear that he views the violence in Chicago as a core building block of his political power.

Speaker 21 He might as well have announced the shootings will continue until morale improves.

Speaker 51 I mean, that's basically the tone.

Speaker 20 Think about the logic here.

Speaker 21 Yes, there are constant shootings in Chicago, Brandon Johnson concedes, but they'll continue to take place if Donald Trump gets involved.

Speaker 47 So I guess we're looking at what, a wash?

Speaker 20 Is that the idea?

Speaker 80 But we get to the absurdity.

Speaker 26 Before we get to the absurdity of Johnson's underlying argument, It needs to be said that he's changing his position here, just so you know, just a year ago, when he was asked also about why Chicago is so dangerous and dysfunctional, at that point, Johnson was blaming Richard Nixon, of all people.

Speaker 85 Watch.

Speaker 108 So we cut off the pipeline of boys between the ages of 10 and 19 being either victims or the perpetrators.

Speaker 110 So,

Speaker 108 yeah, it is personal.

Speaker 108 Black death has been

Speaker 108 unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time.

Speaker 108 We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes, and people mocked President Johnson. And we ended up with Richard Nixon.

Speaker 108 I'm going to work hard every day to transform this city. That's what it takes to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago.
I need everybody to step up.

Speaker 70 So we've gone from Richard Nixon being the one at fault from the grave.

Speaker 68 He's haunting Chicago and causing all the the violence.

Speaker 80 And then we went from that to the idea that guns from red states are responsible, which is quite a pivot.

Speaker 15 But let's give Brandon Johnson the benefit of the doubt and look into the numbers here.

Speaker 14 First of all, if you pull up the data from the ATF's website, here's what you'll find.

Speaker 40 And this is from 2022.

Speaker 67 It shows where firearms that were recovered in Illinois were originally purchased, assuming that the ATF could make that determination.

Speaker 58 And as you can see, see, Illinois is the top source by far.

Speaker 82 So his state is the top source of these guns.

Speaker 92 Roughly 7,500 firearms that were recovered in the state of Illinois were originally purchased from Illinois.

Speaker 15 The next highest states are Indiana and Missouri, which were responsible for 2,500 and 1,000 firearms respectively.

Speaker 24 And if you add up all the other states in the top 15, You'll find that in more than 50% of cases, the firearms were originally purchased in Illinois.

Speaker 10 This is not a surprising or significant finding in any way, and it certainly doesn't implicate red states so much as it implicates blue cities.

Speaker 11 Both Indiana and Missouri, as we all know, are home to many loyal Democrat Party voters.

Speaker 112 And

Speaker 80 some of those Democrat Party voters will move across state lines.

Speaker 14 And the problem isn't the fact that these people are capable of traveling, it's the fact that they're committing violent crimes.

Speaker 64 And there's a reason why, if you look up the top 10 most violent cities in America, nine out of 10

Speaker 20 are led by Democrats.

Speaker 18 Whether they're in red states or not, as we all know,

Speaker 49 this is a common deflection from these people.

Speaker 11 They say, well, look at the violence in red states.

Speaker 106 Yeah, where is that violence happening?

Speaker 18 It's happening in the cities.

Speaker 21 And who's in charge of the cities?

Speaker 20 The Democrats are.

Speaker 96 Out of the top 10 most violent cities in America, nine of the 10 are run by Democrats.

Speaker 40 That's 90%.

Speaker 86 So trying to pin this on Republicans is a form of gaslighting that could only be done by the same people who tried to convince us that men can get pregnant.

Speaker 74 I mean, they are very accustomed to denying basic reality.

Speaker 51 And so here they continue.

Speaker 22 Also, here's a question, Brandon.

Speaker 70 Let's just take the guns that do come into Chicago from red states.

Speaker 82 Okay,

Speaker 113 let's pretend that all of the guns, but let's let's go along with that fantasy that they're all coming from red states.

Speaker 52 And let's even pretend, let's even pretend that not only are they all coming from red states, but they're coming from red areas of red states, meaning the rural areas, not the cities.

Speaker 83 None of this is true, but let's pretend.

Speaker 86 Well, Brandon, why do those guns only become a problem

Speaker 79 once they make it into Chicago?

Speaker 52 Why do these guns suddenly start killing people in Chicago when they weren't killing people in rural Indiana?

Speaker 7 Why is that?

Speaker 18 If the guns are coming from rural Indiana, then we should see, and the guns are the problem, then we should see that the violence in Indiana is worse than it is in Chicago, given that Indiana is the source.

Speaker 3 But that's not the case.

Speaker 83 It's a strange thing.

Speaker 18 The guns don't start killing people until they get into Chicago.

Speaker 96 Do the guns just take on a life of their own?

Speaker 70 Do they come to life like some rated R version of Toy Story?

Speaker 76 Or do do the actual humans in Chicago decide to use those guns to commit violent crimes, which would mean the problem is with the people in your city, not the objects?

Speaker 86 Now, this is a concept that obviously leftists struggle to understand, but if you work with them, then sometimes you can get them to understand it a little bit.

Speaker 22 In fact, I just had this experience with Stephen King.

Speaker 82 Of course,

Speaker 51 the author, famous author, Stephen King.

Speaker 67 And after the mass shooting by the trans guy at the Catholic Church, I pointed out that trans-identified people are mentally unwell and doctors should be legally barred from affirming their confusion, like we talked about on the show after the shooting.

Speaker 106 Stephen King responded

Speaker 70 to my post by posting this.

Speaker 2 Trans is not the problem.

Speaker 30 He had a gun.

Speaker 43 That's the problem.

Speaker 21 Now, I replied to Stephen King, and I said, I have multiple guns.

Speaker 115 I've never murdered anyone in my life.

Speaker 39 Somehow, even with my guns, I have never experienced the temptation to spray bullets into a church.

Speaker 58 It turns out that if you aren't a mentally ill freak, having a gun isn't a problem at all.

Speaker 67 And then, get this, Stephen King, in a moment of accidental mental clarity, said,

Speaker 109 and you see the tweet here,

Speaker 57 yes, but you're sane.

Speaker 40 Well, yes, Stephen, that's right.

Speaker 12 You finally got it.

Speaker 22 Congratulations, Stephen.

Speaker 69 I mean, you're in your 60s now.

Speaker 95 Yes, exactly.

Speaker 18 So you see that it's not the gun, as you originally said in your tweet.

Speaker 21 It's not the gun, it's the person.

Speaker 39 Because just a second ago, you were saying, oh, no, it's not that.

Speaker 18 It's the guns.

Speaker 44 It was the exact quote. It's the guns.

Speaker 19 And then I pointed out that, well, I have a bunch of guns and I've never killed anybody.

Speaker 31 I've never even wanted to commit murder. I've never even come close to it.

Speaker 48 It's just not in the realm of possibility for me.

Speaker 78 But why is that?

Speaker 16 Well, as you point out, well, it's because I'm not insane.

Speaker 68 So it's not the gun. It is the person.

Speaker 71 It seems we have a breakthrough with Stephen King.

Speaker 62 Now, if only we could do the same thing with these Democrat politicians, but instead they all play the same game that Brandon Johnson plays.

Speaker 51 Gavin Newsom has been doing this.

Speaker 80 J.B.

Speaker 17 Pritzker has also joined in.

Speaker 85 Watch.

Speaker 116 The president, and let's talk about the press secretary for the president, doesn't seem to understand that it's actually Republican Republican states that have the crime problem.

Speaker 116 That of the 20 states that have the biggest crime problem, 13 of them are red states controlled by Republican governors. Why is he choosing, in fact,

Speaker 116 of those 20 states, we're at the bottom. Why is he choosing that over going after a state, a red state, that voted for him rather than a blue state that didn't vote for him?

Speaker 40 So once again, there's this conflation of red states with blue cities inside red states, which are, of course, the real problem.

Speaker 39 But what's left unspoken here is that in red states, there are cities controlled by Democrats where extraordinary levels of crime and violence take place.

Speaker 45 And many of these cities have majority black populations or close to it.

Speaker 69 That's the very inconvenient fact that you're not supposed to talk about.

Speaker 48 But the truth is, you simply can't explain the disparity in crime numbers without talking about demographics.

Speaker 70 And when you're talking about demographics, you also have to talk about the fact that something like 80% of black children in Chicago are born to single mothers.

Speaker 77 If black women in the city of Chicago stopped having kids before marriage, and if black men stopped abandoning their families, the crime problem would all but go away.

Speaker 20 I mean, just the slightest bit of self-control would fix all of this.

Speaker 28 But Brandon doesn't want to mention that.

Speaker 85 I wonder why.

Speaker 49 Instead, he openly declared an insurrection against the United States government,

Speaker 92 saying that

Speaker 38 residents of Chicago should rise up and resist the National Guard.

Speaker 40 This is just sedition, is what this is, very clearly.

Speaker 64 Listen:

Speaker 117 Are you prepared to defend this land, this land that was built by slaves, a land that was built by indigenous people, a land that is built by workers? Are you prepared to defend this land?

Speaker 117 The people united will always prevail. I need you all to stand firm, to stand strong, if this president decides to continue to break this constitution.

Speaker 75 Well, before we even get to the sedition, it's just layers of dishonesty that we have here on top of more dishonesty.

Speaker 72 Chicago was not, for the record, in any sense, built by slaves and indigenous people.

Speaker 40 Okay, that's just not true.

Speaker 72 Also, the country as a whole was not built by slaves and indigenous people.

Speaker 71 That is also not true.

Speaker 72 We could have never had slavery, and this country would still exist.

Speaker 70 So, but especially for him to be saying that in that particular city makes no sense.

Speaker 30 Eastern Europeans, along with Irish and German immigrants, are responsible for the development of Chicago as we know it today.

Speaker 34 It wasn't slaves from Africa who built the Illinois and Michigan Canal, which is what transformed the city of Chicago Chicago into a major hub of transportation and commerce.

Speaker 67 Slavery was illegal in Illinois.

Speaker 52 It was immigrants, mostly Irishmen, who constructed it.

Speaker 28 Useless bureaucrats like Brandon Johnson had no role in it whatsoever.

Speaker 49 This is back at a time, as we've talked about many times, when people say, oh, we're a nation of immigrants.

Speaker 14 Well, if you go back a century, a century and a half, if you go back decades and centuries, what you'll find is that there was a time when immigrants came here.

Speaker 52 People came from other parts of the world to literally help build the country.

Speaker 49 They built, and these were, this distinction I've drawn so many times, these were really pioneers.

Speaker 114 There's a difference between what we think of today as an immigrant who comes to an already fully built country in order to take advantage of it, in order to benefit from it.

Speaker 87 That's one thing.

Speaker 109 That's what we have these days.

Speaker 96 But back in the old days, you had pioneers, really.

Speaker 32 You had people coming and

Speaker 17 building this place,

Speaker 34 which is very different from what we have now.

Speaker 64 And again, it wasn't bureaucrats like Brandon Johnson either.

Speaker 15 And, you know, they shouldn't suggest otherwise or even talk about the development of the city of Chicago until they learn some basic history about their own city.

Speaker 31 But we all know why Brandon Johnson is lying like this.

Speaker 15 His goal is to dismantle the rule of law in Chicago.

Speaker 14 He's been working on that goal for some time.

Speaker 58 Last year, he got rid of

Speaker 36 ShotSpotter technology, which allowed law enforcement to pinpoint the location of any shooting within seconds.

Speaker 85 Watch.

Speaker 119 Well, there's been a lot of concern from city aldermen and community organizations as ShotSpotter is set to expire at midnight tonight.

Speaker 119 Mayor Brandon Johnson announced today a city request for information to look into other possible technology systems, but many are concerned about public safety while that entire process plays out.

Speaker 119 After months of contentious debate among city leaders, ShotSpotter gun detection technology will officially stop being used in Chicago tonight.

Speaker 119 Alderman voted 33 to 14 earlier this week to keep the technology system falling one short of a veto-proof majority.

Speaker 119 That led to Mayor Brandon Johnson vowing to veto, effectively ending the technology that has monitored Chicago's neighborhoods for more than six years.

Speaker 120 We hear the mayor talk about building a stronger, safer Chicago,

Speaker 120 but this doesn't do that when you're taking away this type of technology.

Speaker 39 Now, when you hear politicians like Brandon Johnson claim that they have solutions, remember videos like this one.

Speaker 113 They've

Speaker 15 gone out of their way to make violent crime much, much worse in Chicago.

Speaker 3 This is a deliberate effort that they've embarked on.

Speaker 71 Now, it's true that in our federal system, states are not required to assist the federal government in carrying out certain policy objectives, but it's also true that states and local government cannot actively interfere with the federal government's decision to enforce the law.

Speaker 46 That is not states' rights.

Speaker 33 That is treason.

Speaker 94 Brandon Johnson is openly encouraging residents of Chicago to engage in treason against the United States.

Speaker 39 And for that reason, Brandon Johnson should be arrested,

Speaker 79 charged with treason, convicted, and then given the requisite punishment for a capital offense.

Speaker 113 Will that ever happen? Probably not.

Speaker 30 But then again, just a few days ago, Trende Aragua, you know, they never thought that they'd be intercepted as they sped towards the United States on their drug boats.

Speaker 78 They certainly didn't imagine they'd get blown up without any warning.

Speaker 18 All indications are that we are entering a new phase of federal governance, one where the U.S.

Speaker 10 military acts to defend the American people, where false narratives from NGOs are ignored, where criminals are actually punished when they violate the law in public.

Speaker 39 So who knows? Maybe Brandon Johnson shouldn't be so confident.

Speaker 16 Like Washington, D.C., which has experienced something like a 50% drop in violent crime since the National Guard moved in, Chicago is about to become a much safer place.

Speaker 45 The more J.B.

Speaker 62 Pritzker lies about crime statistics, the more Brandon Johnson commits treason in public, the more obvious it becomes that this strategy needs to be applied to every major American city.

Speaker 15 Democrats have no response.

Speaker 52 They have no counter-argument.

Speaker 11 The safer America becomes, the more they will complain.

Speaker 30 And in response, every American who's paying attention will recognize their party for what it is.

Speaker 77 They are the party of chaos, crime, and cartels.

Speaker 89 and they should be treated accordingly.

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Speaker 20 Malcolm Gladwell is a famous author.

Speaker 16 He's written some interesting books and some other books that were not so interesting.

Speaker 75 But about three years ago, he was apparently on a panel in front of a live audience where he came out in favor of quote-unquote trans rights and defended the idea that trans-identified males should play in female sports.

Speaker 101 Now,

Speaker 36 that was back in 2022.

Speaker 73 And now, three years later, appearing on some kind of podcast, he's taken all that back.

Speaker 20 Says he never really meant it, actually.

Speaker 29 Here he is now. Listen.

Speaker 122 If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan Conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction.

Speaker 122 And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in

Speaker 122 the female category. I don't think there's any question.
I just think it was a strange, I mean, I felt, felt, I mean, I was,

Speaker 122 the reason I'm ashamed of my performance at that panel is because I share your position 100%

Speaker 122 and I was count.

Speaker 122 The idea of saying anything on this issue, I was

Speaker 122 in a, I believe in retrospect, in a dishonest way. I was

Speaker 122 objective in a dishonest way.

Speaker 19 So I guess everybody at this conference in 2022, or most of them, were in favor of trans males and female sports.

Speaker 92 And Gladwell says that if you replayed that now, it would go exactly the opposite way.

Speaker 36 Everybody would be on team sanity.

Speaker 85 And he's right.

Speaker 29 He's right about that.

Speaker 40 That's probably how it would go.

Speaker 64 And as for himself, he says that he's ashamed because he was cowed into pretending that he was on board with the trans stuff.

Speaker 85 Now,

Speaker 52 a couple of quick points about this.

Speaker 48 I've seen a lot of

Speaker 60 people congratulating Malcolm Gladwell and saying, Well, good for you.

Speaker 95 Good, good, nice.

Speaker 29 It's so great that you have the courage now.

Speaker 40 Yes, if you finally have the courage to speak up.

Speaker 115 Listen, I welcome anyone who's seen the light.

Speaker 13 If you're going to come, I welcome anyone who says anything true on any topic at all.

Speaker 20 So, anytime you speak up and say something true, I welcome that.

Speaker 27 And I welcome you on to team sanity

Speaker 17 but there's no courage here at all okay there's there's there's zero courage involved

Speaker 71 this was a guy who said the popular thing at least in his social circles back a few years ago

Speaker 7 and now he's saying the popular thing again so this is just someone saying waiting until the thing is popular to say it there's zero courage involved at this point.

Speaker 95 Now,

Speaker 77 there would have been a little bit, a little bit back in 2022.

Speaker 22 But even then, again, this is 2022.

Speaker 31 So even by then, it was like not as,

Speaker 85 we were really winning the battle

Speaker 70 even as

Speaker 20 long ago as 2022.

Speaker 31 So it would have required a minimal, a minimal amount of fortitude, not much.

Speaker 39 Keep in mind, this guy is 60-plus years old.

Speaker 28 He's worth, according to Google anyway, $60 million net worth.

Speaker 68 Those net worth things on Google are not always reliable.

Speaker 62 In fact, usually are totally made up.

Speaker 21 But

Speaker 19 given that he's a very successful author and he's written a bunch of books that have been New York Times bestsellers, we can assume that he's worth tens of millions of dollars.

Speaker 67 So he would have risked almost nothing by standing up and having the correct position back in 2022.

Speaker 67 he wouldn't have lost any money.

Speaker 58 He still would have sold his books.

Speaker 18 So he wouldn't have lost any money.

Speaker 70 All he would have done is upset some of his rich friends.

Speaker 16 So it would have made for some uncomfortable conversations

Speaker 68 with his friends and some nasty looks.

Speaker 72 And maybe he gets invited to fewer, you know, to fewer social functions.

Speaker 79 Maybe he doesn't get invited to the next next time.

Speaker 59 There's a conference and a panel, maybe he's not on the panel. I don't know.

Speaker 20 But that's all that he was risking.

Speaker 77 This is not a major risk.

Speaker 26 And he couldn't even do that.

Speaker 80 So this is someone who's just an abject, disgusting coward and still is.

Speaker 85 So we're not going to congratulate.

Speaker 88 And the reason why it's worth pointing this out is because he is not alone, obviously.

Speaker 29 We've seen this now.

Speaker 69 I mean, this is what's happening where you've got these prominent people who were all in Faye, all on the trans train train three, four, five years ago, and now one by one, they're all coming over here.

Speaker 16 And you've got some people over here who are welcome, who are ready to throw their arms and welcome them with open arms.

Speaker 52 And I got to tell you, I'm not.

Speaker 19 I mean, again, I welcome you saying something that's true, so that's great.

Speaker 28 I'm not going to congratulate you.

Speaker 48 And I cannot forget what you did.

Speaker 106 I can't forget it.

Speaker 39 But you are still an abject, disgusting coward.

Speaker 52 You did the popular thing.

Speaker 26 You betrayed.

Speaker 85 You were willing to deny

Speaker 66 just to avoid uncomfortable glances, nasty looks, and

Speaker 45 just to avoid upsetting a couple of your few of your rich friends.

Speaker 13 You were willing to deny

Speaker 114 one of the most fundamental basic facts of reality.

Speaker 21 And you waited until the coast was completely clear to come over here.

Speaker 82 The level of cowardice that that requires is impossible to overstate,

Speaker 40 which means that we can never trust you.

Speaker 87 Like,

Speaker 69 you'll do it again on the next issue, whatever the next issue is, where

Speaker 14 the popular opinion, at least among the elites, is something insane.

Speaker 87 You'll do it again.

Speaker 12 You will totally do it again.

Speaker 26 So, we can absolutely never trust you again.

Speaker 76 You have shot your credibility completely, entirely, and it cannot ever be recovered.

Speaker 18 There are things in life that are like that.

Speaker 12 There are times in life where you can do something or you could say something, and

Speaker 13 you can never come back from it.

Speaker 109 It's just that's because it's you said it, you did it.

Speaker 86 We can't pretend that you didn't.

Speaker 20 We can't rewind the clock and make it so that it didn't happen. It happened, you did it,

Speaker 102 and you and you revealed something about yourself that

Speaker 96 remains true even later after you've decided that you're sorry.

Speaker 13 So, and there's no humility here either, by the way.

Speaker 68 You know,

Speaker 16 this is not the prodigal son story, right? You know, the prodigal son returns and

Speaker 64 what does the prodigal son do?

Speaker 16 He comes back

Speaker 112 in

Speaker 24 a state of total humility.

Speaker 45 He comes back and says, you know, Father, I've sinned against God.

Speaker 19 I've sinned against you.

Speaker 61 I'm not worthy to be called your son.

Speaker 20 You know, if you tell me to sleep out in the barn with the cows, I'll do it.

Speaker 46 I'm not even worthy to walk into your house again.

Speaker 15 And I understand that because of what I've done.

Speaker 123 And in that state of like true contrition and humility, his father wraps his arm around him and says, come on in.

Speaker 16 You're welcome back into our home.

Speaker 103 But that story would have had a different ending if the son had walked back and said, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 75 I decided to come back, but i might leave again honestly dad i decided it didn't really work out this time but i'll so i'll come back and i'll eat your food for a little bit but uh you know next time next time i it strikes my fancy i'll probably leave again

Speaker 16 and that's what we have now right that's the version of the prodigal son that we're getting from these people so

Speaker 100 um

Speaker 74 so we can't forget it we'll we'll never be able to forget that you people disgraced yourself in this way.

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 38 this is one of those times.

Speaker 17 Look, it's okay to to be wrong about things.

Speaker 52 People are wrong.

Speaker 11 I've been wrong about stuff.

Speaker 96 So you can be wrong

Speaker 77 and you can change your mind.

Speaker 15 They were talking about that last week.

Speaker 69 People change their minds.

Speaker 60 I've changed my mind on things.

Speaker 72 But there are some things that you just can't be wrong.

Speaker 21 There are some issues you just can't get wrong.

Speaker 29 And if you do, then again, your credibility is done forever.

Speaker 12 You can't get this one wrong.

Speaker 20 Is it possible for men to have babies?

Speaker 67 Like, is a man a woman?

Speaker 76 I mean, you cannot get that wrong.

Speaker 83 That's one of those

Speaker 32 deal-breaker situations

Speaker 52 where if you get that wrong, then your credibility is just done.

Speaker 7 All right.

Speaker 19 Senator Corey Booker has, speaking of people with no credibility, has announced that he is engaged

Speaker 40 to a woman, apparently.

Speaker 71 So her name is Alexis Lewis,

Speaker 40 and Booker wants to run for president again.

Speaker 28 He's hoping to get 2% of the vote this time,

Speaker 40 which would be a 100% improvement over his performance in the primaries last time.

Speaker 71 And he knows that he can't be a 56-year-old bachelor and

Speaker 17 run for president. That doesn't really work in politics.

Speaker 68 Even in our enlightened era, it doesn't work.

Speaker 21 So he's getting engaged just in time.

Speaker 114 And here are the photos of this happy moment.

Speaker 20 And as you can see,

Speaker 85 they are happy.

Speaker 67 They really, really want you to know that they are happy.

Speaker 51 They are really, really happy.

Speaker 77 Actually, like maniacally happy.

Speaker 20 They are happy to a creepy degree.

Speaker 45 They are happy in the way that a serial killer is happy when he burns your house down with you inside it.

Speaker 96 This is, if you looked up the term overcompensating in the dictionary, it should just be these pictures.

Speaker 17 This is it right here. I mean,

Speaker 12 this isn't even the right emotion

Speaker 79 for getting engaged.

Speaker 20 I don't know what this is supposed to be, but

Speaker 22 engagement should be happy, but it's a kind of a tender, soft happiness.

Speaker 52 It's a sweet, personal, intimate moment.

Speaker 48 They're smiling and laughing like Jim Carrey playing a supervillain in a movie.

Speaker 20 They're like robots trying to emulate a human response.

Speaker 67 I am happy.

Speaker 21 I am so happy to be engaged.

Speaker 68 That's my Corey Booker impression.

Speaker 93 It's pretty good.

Speaker 48 It is amazing that Corey Booker is the first man in history to get engaged to a woman and somehow come off even more gay because of it.

Speaker 61 He looks gayer in these pictures than he's ever looked.

Speaker 17 I don't know how that, and I don't say that as an insult, by the way.

Speaker 92 I would never,

Speaker 39 I'm saying objectively, scientifically speaking, just like as an objective.

Speaker 17 as an objective measure.

Speaker 14 I think that he, so that's what's interesting about it.

Speaker 19 Now, Booker put out a statement about the engagement.

Speaker 68 He says, Alexis is one of the greatest unearned blessings of my life.

Speaker 48 She's transformed me, helping me to ground and center my inner life and discover the joys of building a nurturing home with someone you love.

Speaker 7 I'm thrilled to share Alexis and I are engaged.

Speaker 16 I am savoring the soul-affirming wonder of everyday life with my partner, best friend, and now my fiancé.

Speaker 24 We are excited for this journey ahead, having so much fun and feeling deeply grateful for the love, support, and energy so many of you have shared with us.

Speaker 26 We are truly blessed to be surrounded by such a beautiful community lifting us in love and commitment.

Speaker 85 Wow, Corey, thanks for that.

Speaker 37 That is a giant heap of.

Speaker 37 So thank you for that.

Speaker 48 I have to say, she helped me to ground and center my inner life.

Speaker 53 What does that mean, Corey?

Speaker 111 What does that mean?

Speaker 31 Ground and center your inner life.

Speaker 114 Tell me what that means.

Speaker 85 No, I actually want to know.

Speaker 85 We're not going to move on from this.

Speaker 80 I'm tired of these empty-headed, soulless,

Speaker 52 you know, walking greeting cards, going around and sputtering out nonsense like this and never being asked to explain it.

Speaker 24 We got way too many people walking around saying stuff like this, and no one ever says, What does that mean?

Speaker 111 What are you even trying to express?

Speaker 83 I have no clue what that means.

Speaker 7 Please explain.

Speaker 81 Explain what that means, Corey.

Speaker 111 What do you mean she helped to center your inner life? Please explain in detail what you mean by that.

Speaker 95 Was your inner life not centered before?

Speaker 20 Where was your inner life?

Speaker 70 Was it not inside you?

Speaker 13 Was it off in the corner of the room somewhere?

Speaker 83 Did she find your inner life for you and bring it to you and say, hey, I found your inner life in the corner of the room? You keep misplacing it, silly.

Speaker 114 Is that what she grounded?

Speaker 31 She grounded your inner life.

Speaker 70 I honestly, I'm not being obtuse on purpose.

Speaker 12 I don't know what, I don't know what that's trying to express.

Speaker 23 I don't know what it means to have someone ground your inner life.

Speaker 13 It sounds like it's like construction.

Speaker 16 What is she? A contractor?

Speaker 78 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 32 The problem here is your inner life isn't,

Speaker 26 it's not grounded and centered.

Speaker 101 We need, we got to pour some foundation and get that inner life, you know, grounded and centered.

Speaker 48 Doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 39 Also, do you really expect us to believe that you have an inner life at all?

Speaker 11 That's the real problem.

Speaker 103 What inner life are you talking about, Corey?

Speaker 51 Somebody who has an inner life never uses a phrase like, she grounded and centered my inner life.

Speaker 67 If you had an inner life, you wouldn't talk about grounding and centering your inner life.

Speaker 106 That is a dead giveaway that you have no inner life.

Speaker 20 You have the inner life of

Speaker 47 a chair, okay?

Speaker 123 You have the inner life of a wheelbarrow full of mulch.

Speaker 87 No, really, you have the inner life of chat GPT.

Speaker 46 You are a human chat bot, but with a lot less computing power.

Speaker 48 You are an empty, pathetic, fraudulent human being down to your core.

Speaker 20 Anyway, congrats on the engagement, though.

Speaker 72 Over the weekend, the media and leftists on social media were trying to spin up a narrative that Trump had gone missing and must be very sick or even dead.

Speaker 17 And they've been trying through his whole term to conjure up a health scandal around Donald Trump.

Speaker 75 And things really went into overdrive over the weekend.

Speaker 93 And Trump addressed that in a press conference yesterday.

Speaker 56 Let's listen.

Speaker 91 It's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful. They went very well, like this is going very well.

Speaker 91 And then I didn't do any for two days, and they said there must be something wrong with him. Biden wouldn't do him for months.
You wouldn't see him.

Speaker 91 And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him. And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape.
No, I heard that. I get reports.

Speaker 91 Now, you knew I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody, and everybody saw that was on one of your competitors.

Speaker 91 I did numerous shows and also did a number of truths, long truths, I think pretty poignant truths. Now, I was very active over the weekend.
They also knew I went out to visit some people

Speaker 91 at the club that I own pretty nearby on the Potomac River. And now I've been very active, actually, over the weekend.
I didn't hear that one. That's pretty serious stuff.

Speaker 91 I'm glad it's fake news. Well, it's fake news.
You know, it's just so

Speaker 91 so fake. That's why the media has so little credibility.
I didn't, I knew that you were saying, like, is he okay? How's he feeling? What's wrong? I said, I just left.

Speaker 91 And it's also sort of a longer weekend. You know, it's Labor Day weekend.
So I would say a lot of people know I was very active this Labor Day. I had heard that, but I didn't hear it to that extent.

Speaker 51 Well, he's right, of course.

Speaker 59 Trump has been more visible, more reachable, more transparent through his first eight months in office than Biden was in four years cumulatively.

Speaker 16 Not even close.

Speaker 45 Trump is constantly doing press conferences, interviews, speeches, and so on.

Speaker 71 That's how he's always been.

Speaker 75 That's how he continues to operate.

Speaker 39 Even while he had supposedly disappeared for three days, he was still putting out posts.

Speaker 11 He put out that post where he was complaining about the contractors who worked on the rose garden.

Speaker 71 This is while he was supposedly deathly sick or something?

Speaker 103 Now, granted, I wouldn't put it past trump to be on his deathbed moments away from uh expiring and yet still complaining about the shoddy work done by his contractors i wouldn't i wouldn't put that past him and i say that with respect that's like that that's the great thing about trump but anyway he's not on his deathbed he's doing fine and um

Speaker 89 i just want you to think about the shamelessness of the left here.

Speaker 14 They covered up and lied about Biden's health for four years.

Speaker 56 They gaslighted.

Speaker 19 We could see the guy falling in part in front of us.

Speaker 80 We could see that the president was in a state of decomposition.

Speaker 39 We had a president who looked like he'd been excavated.

Speaker 94 Okay, he looked like he was dug out of the ground by grave robbers.

Speaker 38 And we could all see that.

Speaker 18 We could all see and hear and

Speaker 12 hear that he couldn't speak.

Speaker 7 He couldn't string together two coherent sentences in a row.

Speaker 57 And they still gaslighted us.

Speaker 123 They lied.

Speaker 71 They told us everything was fine.

Speaker 20 And then the moment their guy's out of office, now, all of a sudden, they're super concerned about the health of the president.

Speaker 80 Biden went weeks without being seen,

Speaker 21 right? He gave like two press conferences his entire term.

Speaker 68 Trump goes a day and a half without being seen on camera over Memorial, over rather Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 40 And they treat it like it's a national emergency.

Speaker 26 Totally shameless.

Speaker 113 And

Speaker 45 this is exactly why I say that we need to take full advantage of the power we have right now.

Speaker 34 and do everything we possibly can to advance our agenda no matter what.

Speaker 58 All the concerns about, well, if we do it, then the left will do it.

Speaker 22 All that stuff, all those concerns are bunk.

Speaker 16 They're nonsense.

Speaker 115 And as they are proving, once again, they will do whatever they want to do, regardless of what we do.

Speaker 22 They don't need us to establish the precedent.

Speaker 76 They don't need our permission.

Speaker 15 They're going to pursue their goals and push their agenda and fight dirty every step of the way.

Speaker 74 You hear even people at conservatives now

Speaker 16 they've expressed this concern about Trump using the National Guard.

Speaker 55 They say, well, if Trump does this, then what if the Democrats go in and do it?

Speaker 7 If Democrats are going to do that, they're going to do it.

Speaker 83 They don't need us to, they're not looking at us and saying, well, we're only going to go as far as they went.

Speaker 20 That is not how Democrats operate.

Speaker 18 So if they feel like they want to do that, they'll do it.

Speaker 113 And they did, in fact, do that.

Speaker 106 I mean, they militarized Washington, D.C., if you don't recall, for a long period of time after January 6th.

Speaker 85 So

Speaker 77 they're not waiting for precedent.

Speaker 15 They're not waiting for permission.

Speaker 56 And so we should just ruthlessly pursue our agenda.

Speaker 11 Throw caution to the wind.

Speaker 96 All right, finally, before we get to the daily cancellation,

Speaker 48 this is something I wanted to mention, something non-political.

Speaker 16 Actually, I want to stick up for someone or a couple of people, a few people.

Speaker 51 So maybe you saw this viral video.

Speaker 45 It's a video from Hershey Park a few days ago.

Speaker 43 And it's a terrifying moment when a young boy, looks to be about three or four, is seen walking on the tracks of the monorail

Speaker 103 at this park, 100 feet off the ground.

Speaker 15 And the monorail is, I guess, one of those sightseeing things at the park.

Speaker 28 It goes along above the park, and it runs on a singular rail, hence the name.

Speaker 85 And this boy was walking on that rail by himself.

Speaker 32 Apparently, the boy got separated from his parents.

Speaker 15 He'd been reported missing just a few minutes before this.

Speaker 27 He wandered away from his parents somehow, and in the span of just 15 or 20 minutes, he ends up walking out on this monorail that was closed, but apparently not blocked off well enough.

Speaker 89 And here's the video: watch.

Speaker 89 Stop! Keep going! No! No!

Speaker 110 No, this way.

Speaker 110 Yes!

Speaker 110 Oh my God.

Speaker 114 So thank God the child was fine.

Speaker 23 He was unhurt.

Speaker 92 A man jumped up on the roof of the snack bar there and then onto the rail and grabbed the kid.

Speaker 16 Apparently the man was not the kid's father, just a concerned stranger, you know, a Good Samaritan.

Speaker 19 Unfortunately, it turned out okay, with no help from that crowd, by the way, shouting very confusing and contradictory commands at this child.

Speaker 48 You know, it is kind of, it's interesting you see the dynamic between the sort of confused, panicked mob and then the one decisive guy who decides to go up and like actually do something about it.

Speaker 87 Meanwhile, you have this mob of people yelling these commands: stop, keep going, don't go that way, don't go that way.

Speaker 83 And this kid's up on the rail.

Speaker 28 In fact, you even hear the guy running, the guy who had the camera, the guy that was filming this, says at one point, stop, keep going.

Speaker 106 What do you mean, stop, keep going? So, you want me to stop going or keep going?

Speaker 114 What do you want?

Speaker 86 So, but anyway, it turned out fine.

Speaker 20 Nobody was hurt. And then a couple of days later, another viral story, sort of similar.

Speaker 16 This time it's a five-year-old boy.

Speaker 114 So another boy, a boy in both of these stories, unsurprisingly, who left his parents' house early in the morning by himself and walked to Chick-fil-A,

Speaker 103 which was apparently down the street.

Speaker 51 And then the cops showed up because Chick-fil-A called the police.

Speaker 58 And let's watch that.

Speaker 124 We arrived on scene.

Speaker 110 Hello. Hello.

Speaker 124 And as we walked in, we see a little kid sitting at the table eating his breakfast with one of the managers.

Speaker 110 Hey buddy.

Speaker 2 Look at that.

Speaker 124 We asked where he came from and he kept saying he walked to Chick-fil-A.

Speaker 4 You know where your house is right honey?

Speaker 110 It's right across the street right over there.

Speaker 110 Okay, cool.

Speaker 125 I have children and you know the first thing you know you get that knot in your stomach because you know somebody else who's a parent is missing their child.

Speaker 4 Are you gonna show us where you live? Yeah.

Speaker 124 Okay. We gathered him up.
Look at that.

Speaker 110 Say thank you.

Speaker 106 California. I walked him to the back of my patrol car.

Speaker 110 Are you going to get me in jail?

Speaker 124 No, I'm not going to put you in jail. And we started checking the ears.

Speaker 4 All right, buddy, where's your house at?

Speaker 125 We were wondering, where did this child come from? Is it right here? None of these doors are open. None of these garages are open.

Speaker 84 I don't live in a dust pond.

Speaker 124 So then he explained that he had a white fence.

Speaker 84 That's where it is. Right here?

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 124 And that's when we pulled up in the driveway.

Speaker 26 Okay, so they returned the child to his parents, who didn't even know he was gone.

Speaker 75 They thought he was still asleep upstairs in his room.

Speaker 19 And they were were shocked, as you can imagine.

Speaker 92 But everything turned out fine there, too.

Speaker 45 So, fortunately, in both cases, the kid was not hurt, although could have been.

Speaker 71 And here's what I want to say about both these stories.

Speaker 15 And I don't know anything about the parents in these cases.

Speaker 48 There's been a lot of criticism of the parents.

Speaker 51 A lot of the commentary on social media that I've seen about these two viral videos has predictably been all about how the parents are extremely careless and incompetent.

Speaker 11 What kind of parent would let their kid wander off like that?

Speaker 101 Only a very, very bad parent would have a child walking on the the monorail at Herchie Park or walking into a Chick-fil-A by himself.

Speaker 20 And look, I get it.

Speaker 79 I understand that point of view.

Speaker 28 I used to feel the same way.

Speaker 89 I'd see or hear about a child who ends up in a very precarious or dangerous situation like this.

Speaker 76 And I would think, you know, wow, what awful parents.

Speaker 19 How negligent do you have to be that you managed to, that your kid was able to do that and you didn't notice.

Speaker 77 But I have learned to be much more understanding.

Speaker 28 I have learned that this kind of snap judgment of parents is unfair.

Speaker 16 So I'm going to stick up for the parents in these stories.

Speaker 32 I don't know anything about them.

Speaker 74 Maybe it'll turn out that they're total deadbeats and then I'll look stupid for defending them.

Speaker 85 I don't know.

Speaker 32 I mean, I have no clue.

Speaker 19 All I will say is that you don't need to be a deadbeat or a bad parent to end up in a situation like this with your kid.

Speaker 39 What I've learned through six kids is that you will get way more blame

Speaker 85 or credit.

Speaker 51 for the natural temperament of your child than you deserve.

Speaker 15 And so much really does come down to your child's natural temperament, their personality.

Speaker 16 Not everything.

Speaker 61 You know, I'm not saying the parent's job is unimportant, obviously.

Speaker 19 The parent could do quite a lot to determine what kind of person the child ends up being, but there is still natural temperament.

Speaker 52 So if you're a parent and you have a child who would never in a million years run off at Hershey Park and climb up on the monorail or escape your house at, you know, six in the morning to go to Chick-fil-A,

Speaker 87 well then good for you.

Speaker 22 But that's got nothing to do with your parenting skills.

Speaker 68 I got to tell you, it's got nothing, if you're looking at that and say, my kids would never do that.

Speaker 79 Well, you know, good, but it's really, it's not because you're a good parent.

Speaker 48 I'm not saying you're not a good parent, but it's got nothing to do.

Speaker 32 Like you're giving yourself, kind of give yourself a pat on the back, but you don't really deserve that pat on the back.

Speaker 79 You just ended up with a kid who isn't as adventurous as that.

Speaker 20 And I say this as someone who had four kids.

Speaker 61 who were not as adventurous as that, you know, as these boys in these stories.

Speaker 26 Pretty adventurous.

Speaker 52 I mean, all my kids are, but not like that.

Speaker 81 And so I'd hear a story like this, even after four kids, and I would think, you know, man, what terrible parents.

Speaker 32 And then we had our twin boys,

Speaker 48 numbers five and six.

Speaker 92 And, you know, they come along, and we've already, by the time they were born, we'd been in this parenting game for over a decade, and we'd had four kids, which by modern standards is a lot.

Speaker 39 And so we felt pretty good.

Speaker 19 We felt like we kind of had this thing figured out.

Speaker 23 And

Speaker 48 then, and now we have these boys, and they're exactly the kinds of kids who would do something like that.

Speaker 28 Now I look at that video and I go, oh my gosh,

Speaker 38 I could see that happening.

Speaker 67 I can totally see them doing that

Speaker 17 if they could get away with it.

Speaker 61 They are extremely adventurous.

Speaker 38 They are very, very curious, totally fearless, love to climb stuff,

Speaker 114 love to explore.

Speaker 79 And yeah, they're the kinds of kids that would end up in a viral video.

Speaker 104 We put a lot of

Speaker 40 deliberate effort into making sure that they don't do something wild like that.

Speaker 39 Now, most kids wouldn't do those things because they're too scared.

Speaker 77 You know, most kids would not do that.

Speaker 16 Like, if you have a kid who's never wandered off, never walked out of the house by himself, that kind of thing.

Speaker 34 Well, that's just like, yeah, most kids wouldn't do that because they'd just be too scared to do it.

Speaker 80 But some kids have a curiosity and a sense of adventure that overrides that fear.

Speaker 112 And that could be very good.

Speaker 31 It can be a very good thing in the long run.

Speaker 11 You can harness that.

Speaker 39 It can lead to a wonderful and fulfilling life when you have a kid who's like that, has that, I mean, that kid in that, when I'm looking at that, that Chick-fil-A video, that's a kid who could,

Speaker 71 that kid can go places in life.

Speaker 95 Now, but in the meantime, he's going to go places you don't want him to go.

Speaker 19 But if you can keep him alive for the next, you know, 15 years or so, that's a kid that could go be a world beater.

Speaker 26 But it's the, it's the, you know, keeping them under control in the meantime.

Speaker 16 That's the hard part.

Speaker 96 And this is the one thing I've learned.

Speaker 35 Like I said, every child is different.

Speaker 89 And if there's a parenting challenge that you haven't had to deal with, well, that's probably because you just got lucky.

Speaker 79 And it's not because you're the greatest parent on earth.

Speaker 14 It's because your kid just doesn't happen to have that tendency or that personality.

Speaker 112 And again,

Speaker 16 not that there isn't a lot parents can do, but

Speaker 48 to

Speaker 48 determine

Speaker 14 what kind of person

Speaker 61 your child ends up being, but personality and temperament to a large extent will be whatever they are.

Speaker 101 And

Speaker 72 I see this.

Speaker 39 And when you have a lot of kids, you start to see this because we have, you know, with six kids, we've got kids who are very adventurous, some who are a little bit less so.

Speaker 58 We have kids who are more cautious.

Speaker 80 We have kids who are huge extroverts, kids that are a lot more introverted.

Speaker 11 And all these kids were raised in the same house by the same parents in the same way, identical upbringing.

Speaker 112 Everything's the same, same sort of like punishments, everything's the same, you know, and yet they end up being wildly different people because that's what you're doing as a parent.

Speaker 45 You're raising human beings who make choices and have personalities. And that's what you run into here.

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Speaker 28 Just a few weeks ago, it seemed like Zoron Mamdani was a shoo-in to be the next mayor of New York.

Speaker 15 Residents of the Big Apple couldn't get enough of his plan to freeze rent, nationalize the grocery store, defund the police, cure monkeypox.

Speaker 68 provide free puppies to the homeless, as long as the homeless people aren't too hungry, I guess.

Speaker 48 He seemed untouchable, at at least up until the moment that he tried to bench press 130 pounds.

Speaker 67 And that moment, if you trust the polls, may have created something of a likability crisis for Zoron Mamdani.

Speaker 59 One new poll suggests that if it's a head-to-head between Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, meaning the other candidates drop out, then Cuomo would win by double-digit margins.

Speaker 52 So while things are still looking pretty good overall for Mamdani, he needs a little boost at the moment.

Speaker 11 His momentum is flagging.

Speaker 44 He needs a pick-me-up.

Speaker 113 And right on queue, that pick-me-up has arrived.

Speaker 16 And that's because one of the worst mayors in American history and easily one of the most repulsive politicians to ever hold any kind of political office at any level in this country has just announced his endorsement of Zoron Mamdani.

Speaker 19 Yes, Bill de Blasio, who tried to sell the COVID shot by eating fries and licking his disgusting fingers on camera, who murdered a groundhog as children looked on.

Speaker 16 who transformed New York City into Gotham City by suspending legal consequences for most crimes, has just come out in support of the socialists from Uganda.

Speaker 7 Specifically, Mill de Blasio is

Speaker 16 impressed by Mom Dani's plan to provide a bunch of free stuff.

Speaker 15 Because after all, free stuff has no downside whatsoever.

Speaker 44 You just give it to people and their lives get better.

Speaker 28 And the best free thing that Mom Dani wants to provide to Bill de Blasio's mind is free buses.

Speaker 20 Yes, in a city where the subway system is overrun by schizophrenic drifters, Bill de Blasio is fond of Mom Dani's plan to provide free buses for everyone in all five boroughs.

Speaker 47 Watch.

Speaker 9 Free buses. And who runs that? The city of New York runs it just like we run so many other services.
And the bottom line here is to think about the free buses again.

Speaker 9 Free buses has been proven to work in many parts of the country.

Speaker 9 I'll get to a list of cities, but the bottom line is

Speaker 9 it is something that allows people to, one, reduce their costs, which people are overwhelmed by, to get into mass transit more.

Speaker 9 It works because we know that if people are given a quality alternative they can afford, they'll use it.

Speaker 16 You know, it's not really a question of whether Momdani's staff desperately tried to prevent this endorsement from happening.

Speaker 32 That's a given.

Speaker 28 The real question is how they went about doing so, only to fail.

Speaker 96 The only rational conclusion here is that Bill de Blasio is going rogue.

Speaker 75 Maybe he actually wants Cuomo to win, and he's doing his part to prevent New York City from falling into socialism and total collapse.

Speaker 65 After all, this is a man who just wants to eat Shake Shack and lick his fingers like an ogre.

Speaker 11 Doesn't really want socialism.

Speaker 20 In other words, Bill de Blasio, seeing no political future for himself, has become a hero to all New Yorkers.

Speaker 69 He's falling on his sword.

Speaker 22 And we should all respect that. At least that's how I choose to interpret this.

Speaker 51 And if you doubt my interpretation of this endorsement, let's think about what Bill de Blasio is saying here.

Speaker 28 It's so obviously ridiculous that he can't possibly mean any of it, even if his IQ hovers around 75, which I'm sure it does.

Speaker 22 First, he announces that he's a huge fan of the free buses idea, and then he makes it clear that he can't provide a single example of a city where free buses have worked.

Speaker 39 He suggested he'll have to get back to the anchor about that.

Speaker 20 Yeah, I'll get back to you.

Speaker 96 But I can think of a few cities where free buses have not panned out.

Speaker 49 Kansas City is one of them.

Speaker 48 This is from the New York Post recently, quote, Kansas City's $50 million experiment with free bus fare is hitting the brakes because the city can no longer afford it.

Speaker 20 The Midwest City used federal COVID-19 relief money in 2020 to become the first in the country to institute free buses, but local funding dried up and riders and conductors slammed the buses as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters.

Speaker 96 Now, that that phrase, rolling homeless shelter, is actually something that you'll hear a lot when you look into the history of free buses in the U.S., which I did last night because I had some time on my hands.

Speaker 15 In fact, the exact language, that exact language was used in Austin, Texas back in 1989 when they experimented with free buses.

Speaker 77 Here's a report from researchers in Sonoma County on how that turned out.

Speaker 54 Quote, an experiment with free transportation in Austin, Texas between October of 1989 and December of 1990 found significant issues, not the least of which was that buses became rolling homeless shelters.

Speaker 14 The larger transit systems that offered free fare suffered dramatic rates of vandalism, graffiti, and rowdiness due to younger passengers who could ride the systems for free, causing numerous negative consequences.

Speaker 39 Vehicle maintenance and security costs escalated due to the need for repairs associated with abuse from passengers.

Speaker 22 The greater presence of vagrants on board buses also discouraged choice riders and caused increased complaints from longtime passengers.

Speaker 99 In other words, the promised reward, fewer cars on the road, did not materialize, and the costs of operating the public transit system increased significantly.

Speaker 113 Well, who could have seen that coming?

Speaker 48 Give these people another 5,000 years, and they'll discover why stores like Costco sell memberships or why housing projects, in every case, in every case, are extremely dangerous and unpleasant places to live.

Speaker 20 It turns out that if you want to maintain order, if you want like a nice, clean,

Speaker 58 civilized environment,

Speaker 80 you need some degree of exclusivity.

Speaker 109 You need to be able to exclude exclude people.

Speaker 46 If it's just a thing where you leave it open to everybody

Speaker 58 with no exclusion,

Speaker 113 then that thing, whatever it is, will fall immediately into chaos and disrepair.

Speaker 28 In fact, I just made this point yesterday about voting.

Speaker 40 The same goes for voting.

Speaker 76 And Mamdani should know this very well because even though he's a moron, he did start a pilot program for free buses in New York about a few years ago, and it failed.

Speaker 85 This was the New York Post Post once again: quote: Mamdani, who's made free bus service citywide a centerpiece of his mayoral campaign, was behind a 2023 state pilot to bring one free bus route to each of the five boroughs.

Speaker 27 He later co-wrote an editorial in The Nation, declaring that continuing to make buses free in New York is more attainable than you might believe.

Speaker 40 But the MTA's own assessment was far less glowing.

Speaker 86 The 30% jump in ridership came mostly from people already riding the bus, not new low-income computers the program was supposed to help.

Speaker 43 Service slowed, and the pilot program, which ended August 31st, 2024, still managed to run over its $15 million budget.

Speaker 15 In other words, even without serving many new customers, the project somehow managed to be too expensive.

Speaker 19 So I guess the idea is that Mamdani just has to raise taxes on New Yorkers even more until everybody with a bank account has fled to Florida.

Speaker 113 And at that point,

Speaker 64 you lose the free buses, assuming they haven't been torched or turned into rolling toilets by that point, which they will.

Speaker 56 This gets at the biggest problem with free buses, of course, which is that they aren't actually free.

Speaker 25 The taxpayers are forced to foot the bill, whether they're using the bus or not.

Speaker 26 And in the end, they get nothing out of it.

Speaker 78 Instead, they receive more decay, more waste, and yet another reminder that New York is incapable of self-governance.

Speaker 32 Unless each bus comes equipped with its very own full-time Daniel Penny, this is an idea that simply cannot end well, and everybody knows it.

Speaker 106 And to his great credit, Bill de Blasio, in his own special way, is trying to warn us about all this.

Speaker 11 Sure, he won't say it out loud, but if you read between the lines, it's obvious.

Speaker 44 He's a double agent.

Speaker 53 And now he's been activated.

Speaker 11 And that is why, for once in his life, Bill de Blasio is worth paying attention to.

Speaker 26 His endorsement of Zoran Momdani is a clarion call to every New Yorker.

Speaker 20 It's an unmistakable alarm bell.

Speaker 18 It's a bat signal, if you will.

Speaker 28 It's a window into what New York will look like if Momdani ends up winning.

Speaker 40 And it's the kind of message that only a complete buffoon like Bill de Blasio could possibly deliver.

Speaker 71 And it's also why everyone who's mocking Bill de Blasio for promoting Momdani's free buses in New York City, a proposal that will inevitably result in the creation of rolling toilets, as it did in Kansas and Austin, is today canceled.

Speaker 22 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
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