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Speaker 1: you about today. First up, we have New York City
Speaker 1: looking to possibly remove monuments in public spaces, public squares
Speaker 1: of Washington, Jefferson, Columbus, even Peter Stuyvesant. That's right, New
Speaker 1: York City taking the time to do this instead of
Speaker 1: trying to fix the trajectory it's on. We also have
Speaker 1: the Mayor of Chicago looking like he wants to build
Speaker 1: or set up grocery stores that are owned by the
Speaker 1: City of Chicago, which to me, this just strikes me
Speaker 1: as completely nuts. But when you understand what's going on
Speaker 1: with these Democrats, when you understand the way they approach everything,
Speaker 1: more government control is what they're looking for. And then
Speaker 1: the DOJ is investigating Elon musk Oh. Of course, anybody
Speaker 1: who challenges the dominant autocratic paradigm of the left is
Speaker 1: going to be subject to these kinds of tactics of
Speaker 1: intimidation and harassment. So we will discuss all that, but First,
Speaker 1: let's start with New York City, because New York City
Speaker 1: is New York City is canceled or canceling its most
Speaker 1: famous statues, possibly the city count The committee what is
Speaker 1: it called, Committee on Cultural Affairs Committee? There you go.
Speaker 1: The good little commissars of the Cultural Affairs Committee met
Speaker 1: today to hear public comment about removing statues that include
Speaker 1: statues like as I mentioned, Jefferson and Washington. We already
Speaker 1: know the left definitely wants to tear down the founding fathers,
Speaker 1: but in this one they also have Peter Stuyvesant. For
Speaker 1: those who don't remember, Peter Stuyvesant is was the Dutch
Speaker 1: governor of Manhattan and before it became New York, right,
Speaker 1: it was New Amsterdam. He was the Dutch governor of
Speaker 1: Manhattan and he was involved in slaves. He owned slaves,
Speaker 1: so he has to be canceled. Columbus, as we know,
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus. He oh. Just as a side note, I
Speaker 1: applied to stuyves In high school. For those of you
Speaker 1: who know New York City. Got in. Just take a test.
Speaker 1: You have to get a certain score. But I didn't go.
Speaker 1: But it's considered the most elite public school in all
Speaker 1: of New York City. I went to Regis High School instead,
Speaker 1: you know, got a full ride there, so that was nice.
Speaker 1: So they also want to put Christopher Columbus in the
Speaker 1: mix here, somebody that they might be willing to get
Speaker 1: rid of. Christopher Columbus. My friends, they hate Columbus. Now,
Speaker 1: Columbus mistreated some of the natives that he encountered. But
Speaker 1: we also have to look at the realities of the
Speaker 1: Age of Exploration in the late fifteenth century. What were people?
Speaker 1: How did people treat each other? The answer is might
Speaker 1: made right effectively. There was very little sense that you
Speaker 1: would treat people outside your group, your religion, your tribe,
Speaker 1: your nation, whatever, as as equals. That just wasn't the
Speaker 1: reality of the world. Then you look at societies all
Speaker 1: over the world. It also goes to how slavery existed
Speaker 1: in societies all over the world. In the fifteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: the Ottoman Empire had a massive slave empire. The different
Speaker 1: states within Africa, or the different tribal realities inside of
Speaker 1: Africa had a massive slave trade. They were taking slaves.
Speaker 1: There was slavery practiced by different tribes in North America
Speaker 1: before anyone got here from the European side. So that's
Speaker 1: the reality, and those who don't know it's actually fat sitting.
Speaker 1: The Ottoman slave trade. They would go as far and
Speaker 1: this is deep into the eighteenth century, so in the
Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds, they would go as far north to take
Speaker 1: Christian slaves. These are Muslim corsairs, taking Christians from their
Speaker 1: city towns and cities. They went to the coast of Ireland.
Speaker 1: They even made it to Iceland, I believe at one point.
Speaker 1: And this was over centuries. This went ongoing. The point
Speaker 1: being slavery was the reality of the world hundreds of
Speaker 1: years ago. It doesn't mean it was okay. Obviously it
Speaker 1: is a wrong, it is evil, it is immoral. But
Speaker 1: if we are going to judge everybody in that period
Speaker 1: of time by the standards of today, we're who's going
Speaker 1: to be left Effectively, That's what you have to ask yourself.
Speaker 1: Who do they want to replace these individuals with? Who
Speaker 1: do they want to replace the founding fathers with Christopher
Speaker 1: Columbus and others. I would assume the New York City
Speaker 1: Council would try to replace them with some kind of
Speaker 1: like Marxist community organizers or something along those lines. That's
Speaker 1: what I think they would like to do you know
Speaker 1: someone who was involved in helping illegal immigrants and pushing
Speaker 1: for you know, the transagenda in schools in the last
Speaker 1: ten years or something, that those are the only people
Speaker 1: who are truly acceptable to the left. Because even people
Speaker 1: that the left admires and elevates throughout the twentieth century,
Speaker 1: what was their position on gay marriage? Well, why is
Speaker 1: that bigotry excused now? Right? I mean, you can see
Speaker 1: how it's just impossible. It's impossible to make the left
Speaker 1: happy on any of this. And the point is, it's
Speaker 1: not about what's right, what's decent, what's best for society,
Speaker 1: the country. They want to tear down, and the desire
Speaker 1: is to replace that history with something else. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: just the destruction of what is. But then they also
Speaker 1: have designs on created something else. And it's not something
Speaker 1: that they're very open about. But I do think it's
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Speaker 1: that they can shape the future of America in a Marxist,
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Speaker 1: get Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to create city
Speaker 1: run grocery stores to promote equitable access to food after
Speaker 1: Walmart and Whole Foods close stores. So he says there's
Speaker 1: a partnership with the Economic Security Project to open municipally
Speaker 1: owned state grocery stores. Basically remembers talking about Marxism before
Speaker 1: and all this state grocery stores. That's effectively what's going
Speaker 1: on here. And he says it's because we need equitable
Speaker 1: access to food because of food deserts, and he talks
Speaker 1: about underserved communities. Well, let's look at what happened here.
Speaker 1: One person on social media rotors this is the daily
Speaker 1: mail writing this. One person on social media wrote, let's
Speaker 1: see major successful retailers and grocery store operators have pulled
Speaker 1: out of certain zip codes due to chronic crime. But
Speaker 1: the city of Chicago is going to install and manage
Speaker 1: taxpayer subsidized stores. What could possibly go wrong? Another added
Speaker 1: people need to learn to not steal, and the grocery
Speaker 1: stores won't have to close. A third said residents must
Speaker 1: respect community businesses if they want their services. So this
Speaker 1: is a city has a budget shortfall of Chicago of
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty eight million dollars and it's going
Speaker 1: to be operating grocery stores. I mean, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to tell you right now, these are these If they
Speaker 1: do this, they will be the worst, worst and most
Speaker 1: expensive grocery stores you've ever seen in your life. Expensive
Speaker 1: not to the people that chop there, but to the taxpayer.
Speaker 1: I mean the amount of waste and fraud and abuse
Speaker 1: that will go on and ultimately the real problem here,
Speaker 1: the real problem here is that people are stealing from
Speaker 1: these places. They say they're closed because of profitability, because
Speaker 1: they don't want the problem really, how many if you
Speaker 1: live in a nice you know, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: middle class or above neighborhood, when was the last time
Speaker 1: a grocery store closed that was a Whole Foods or
Speaker 1: a wal Mart because they couldn't make money? When was
Speaker 1: the last time that happened? Right? Yeah, The problem here
Speaker 1: is people are stealing and they also the issue of
Speaker 1: the food desert is an interesting This is something that
Speaker 1: is often raised by people on the left. They talk
Speaker 1: about things like tree equity. If you didn't know, that's
Speaker 1: that there aren't enough trees in poorer neighborhoods, and so
Speaker 1: they say that's unfair and I'm a big advocate of
Speaker 1: trees and neighborhoods. But people have to take care of trees.
Speaker 1: They have to not scratch the trees, write graffiti on
Speaker 1: the trees, let the dogs urinate on the trees. Right.
Speaker 1: You have to actually as a community, you have to
Speaker 1: want to support these initiatives and people have to be
Speaker 1: held to account who don't. But on the food desert issue,
Speaker 1: they've done. They did a big under the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: They had a big study on this and they were
Speaker 1: incentivizing healthy food choices in grocery stores. They were subsidizing
Speaker 1: because they said there are food deserts. There aren't enough
Speaker 1: places that sell vegetables, fresh produce, you know, high quality
Speaker 1: proteins in a lot of majority minority neighborhoods. That was
Speaker 1: the story. And you say, okay, well, what happens when
Speaker 1: they subsidize those choices for people? What happens when they
Speaker 1: straight up say we will make it cheaper for you
Speaker 1: to buy you know, lean ground beef and apricots and
Speaker 1: Brussels sprouts and you know produce instead of soda chips
Speaker 1: and just stuff that for your body is effectively on
Speaker 1: health healthy crap. And you know what they found that
Speaker 1: subsidizing and making more accessible in low income neighborhoods the
Speaker 1: high quality produce. It is the Obama administration to this
Speaker 1: big study, this is a federal study, did nothing. People
Speaker 1: still want to buy what they want to buy. People
Speaker 1: want to purchase soda, they want to purchase chips, they
Speaker 1: want to purchase candy. And then you get into this
Speaker 1: thing of like, well, are you not going to let
Speaker 1: them do that if they use, for example, SNAPS Supplemental
Speaker 1: Nutritional Assistance program. Also it's food stamps. Using food stamps,
Speaker 1: you're going to not let them buy soda, You're going
Speaker 1: to only let them buy low fat milk. Right, you
Speaker 1: start to see how this becomes very authoritarian sounding very quickly.
Speaker 1: That people should be allowed to make the food choices
Speaker 1: that they want to make. Right, we all agree on that,
Speaker 1: and the government trying to incentivize different food choices has
Speaker 1: not worked, has not worked, and it is not good
Speaker 1: at that. So you can try to talk about all
Speaker 1: the organic farmers' markets you want in poor areas of
Speaker 1: major cities. They're not gonna catch on any time soon.
Speaker 1: We've already seen this. People have already tried. And as
Speaker 1: for city owned grocery stores. I mean, can you imagine
Speaker 1: the amount of theft and just mismanagement that would go on,
Speaker 1: would be true, would just be appalling. You know, it's
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