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Speaker 1: New York Times is now whistleblowing with a headline, kids

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Speaker 1: can't read the revolt that is taking on the education establishment.

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Speaker 1: The headline below that in suburban Houston, parents rose up

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Speaker 1: against a top rated school district demanding an entirely new

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Speaker 1: reading curriculum at an elementary school in Hutchinson, Minnesota, a

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Speaker 1: and Ohio may become the latest state to overhaul reading

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Speaker 1: instruction under a plan by Governor Mike DeWine. DeWine, the governor, said,

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Speaker 1: Research shows that most children need systemic, sounded out instruction

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Speaker 1: known as phonics, as well as other direct support like

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Speaker 1: don't know, because together they're actually starting to get some results. Ohio, California,

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Speaker 1: out it's all about lobbying about not actually what's about

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Speaker 1: The carnage began on Wednesday night, only four days after

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Speaker 1: The Four Heights of Islands comes only three days after

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Speaker 1: City's next mayor, Brandon Johnson absurdly claimed the blame for

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Speaker 1: if that's true, then why don't you have damn police

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Speaker 1: Tell me how disgusting that is. And the people that

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Speaker 1: To imply that we don't have this is totally and

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Speaker 2: Good job, a good career.

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Speaker 1: Now what a Democrat say, They say, we did see

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Speaker 3: Listen, carefully suffered loss and injury in these unspeakable attacks,

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Speaker 1: We don't need gun control, we need crime control. Mike Pence,

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Speaker 1: And when you have anarchy, then what happens. You have chaos,

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Speaker 1: just like we saw in Chicago. And what happens if

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Speaker 1: states reliable important grocery stores and retail outlets have begun

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Speaker 1: to make do on their pledge to close stores if.

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Speaker 2: Crime continues to climb.

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Speaker 1: Just last week, Walmart closed as many as four stores

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 1: The simplest explanation is that collectively, our Chicago stores have

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Speaker 1: seventeen years ago, Walmart staid in a statement, these stores

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Speaker 1: Why is it happening because of out of control stealing?

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Speaker 1: As a reporter John Nolty put it, left wing cities

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Speaker 1: and states have made shoplifting near fairly legal by letting

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Speaker 1: criminals off with barely a slap on the wrists. Chicago

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Speaker 1: has one problem, insane voters. We assumed, after the current

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Speaker 1: mayor Lightfoot loss the Democratic primary, that the city was

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Speaker 2: You would be wrong.

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot wasn't radical enough, apparently for the woke Chicago voting base,

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Speaker 1: so they booted her and brought in an even more

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Speaker 1: He came into office on the promise to raise about

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars in taxes on corporations and to ensure

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Speaker 1: even more violent criminals run free. So Wallalmart saw the

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Speaker 1: writing on the wall. And by the way, it's unlikely

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Speaker 1: problem is that shoplifting has been all but decriminalized, and

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Speaker 1: these retailers are losing billions. Walmart has now said they

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Speaker 1: after it closed remaining Portland stores due to crime wave

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Speaker 1: in the Antifa native city. Walmart has nearly five thousand

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Speaker 1: stores across the US, and unfortunately, some do not meet

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Speaker 1: our financial expectations. While our underlying business is strong, these

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Speaker 1: specific stores haven't performed as well as we hope, the

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Speaker 1: board of supervisor Matt Dorsey blamed the closure on the

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Speaker 1: city's lacks treatment of criminals, saying, quote, our neighborhood waited

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Speaker 1: a long time for this supermarket, but we're also well

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Speaker 1: aware of the problems we've experienced with drug related retail theft,

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Speaker 1: According to The Daily Mail, Target lost nearly fourgner million

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Speaker 1: shoplifters who had been stealing merchandise from its stores, with

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Speaker 1: They will all close on May the thirteenth. The company

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Speaker 1: stated why because of massive out of control retail theft.

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Speaker 1: One other thing you need to know, it's not just

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Speaker 1: ones saying goodbye. Walgreens has now closed as many as

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Speaker 1: five stores in San Francisco alone due to an uptick

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Speaker 1: in organized shoplifting in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three. This year, Walgreen's closed a store

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Speaker 1: Best Buy have also said they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: have closures in cities with high crime. When you stop

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Speaker 1: prosecuting children when they are doing criminal things, and you

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Speaker 1: stop teaching them at the same time how to read, write,

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Speaker 1: and do arithmetic because you put money over phonics, this

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Speaker 1: is the disaster you get. And yes they are both

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Speaker 1: connected to one another. Follow the money, look at what

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Speaker 1: is happening in our schools. Follow the money makes you

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