1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game with Ryan Gardowsky. I 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: am taping this episode from Washington, d C. I got 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: to speak at the National Conservative Conference on Tuesday, so 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: I've been in d C. I have a lot of 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: DC kind of buzziness and hanging out with DC people. 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: It's a certain type of wavelength that I'm not usually on. 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 2: But I spoke too. 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: I spoke in d C at the conference about radical 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Islam and immigration and if it was great, and I 10 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: want to thank the organization and his founder, Urim Hazoni 11 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: for having me. It was an honor to speak here. 12 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: I've never got invited before, so but it was very 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: funny what happened right But right after I spoke, I 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: got off the stage and someone who's been on this podcast, 15 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: the former guest of the podcast, walked up to me 16 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: and introduced himself because I had never met in real life, 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: and he goes, you know, do you remember me? I 18 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: was on your podcast. I'm not going to say his 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: name because I don't want to embarrass him, but he goes, 20 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: I was on your podcast. I go, oh, yeah, of course, 21 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: and then he just started talking to me about something 22 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: that I don't know. I was like I was kind 23 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: of interested in, but I wasn't super interesting, and I'm 24 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: must have been making a face and I didn't notice it, 25 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: and he goes, do you remember me, like I'm so, 26 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: and so I was like, oh no, I'm very well 27 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: aware of who I'm talking to. 28 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,839 Speaker 2: Right now, but I must have been making the phase 29 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: of I have no interest, which he interpret is I 30 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: have no idea who you are. 31 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: I felt bad about that, not not my I just 32 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: didn't like. You know, sometimes you do something and you're 33 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: talking versus a long time, you just get so tired 34 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: of talking and you just don't want to do it anymore. 35 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: And I guess I was just in a moment, but 36 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: it was very funny. The overall point of the speech 37 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: that I said about Islam, radical Islam, and immigration is 38 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: that we as America are very lucky compared to Europe 39 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: because we're not within walking distance of most Muslim countries, 40 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: and we when we experience a large wave of first 41 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: time Muslim immigrants or the first kind of wave of 42 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: any kind of Muslim immigrants in our country in the 43 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, when a new culture is 44 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: coming to America that's exotic to the native culture. This 45 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: is not really relevant anymore because they're kind of all here, 46 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: But this is especially true in the seventies and eighties 47 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: and nineties, is that they like the first ones to 48 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: come have to be skills because you can really only 49 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: get here through very few visas, and the largest one 50 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: is family reunification. If you don't have family here, well 51 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 1: then you have to do it through occupation and skill. 52 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: And so we got like the doctors and the engineers 53 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: and scientists and some very good Muslim immigrants when it 54 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: first began, and we were also seeing things like the 55 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: shah Fall, and a lot of moderates Muslims in the 56 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: aur were wanting to leave because they saw the way 57 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: that the world was changing there. That will come to 58 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: an end though, as we have enough immigrants here now 59 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: that family reunification and family based chain migration will be 60 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: the predominant way we receive Muslims in this country. And 61 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: also there's a radical that has happened abroad. At the 62 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: same time, a part of excellence and immigration comes from scarcity. 63 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: You want the population of recent immigrants to be low 64 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: as low as possible in comparison to the native nations population. 65 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: So here's a perfect example, if you had a choice 66 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: to live either in India or Mexico, you would want 67 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: to live in Mexico because for the average Mexican, the 68 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: average Mexican is wealthier and has a higher quality of 69 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: life than the average Indian. Right But if you'd rather 70 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: be a Mexican or an Indian American, you'd rather be 71 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: an Indian American. They have much higher levels of college 72 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: degree and income and all the rest of it. Why 73 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: because we took in zero point three percent of India's 74 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: population and twenty eight percent of Mexico's population. So while 75 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: we got the cream from India, we have a lot 76 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: of lower to middle, lower level quality populations from Mexico, 77 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: and that has reduced the mean Mexican Americans household, income, 78 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: college degree, everything closer to what it is in Mexico 79 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: than what it would be if we only took the 80 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: elites in and right now we only have the elites 81 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: of India. Basically, we don't have a lot of the 82 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: people who would otherwise be you know, swimming in the 83 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: Gange River and bathing and bury their dead and washing 84 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: their clothes all in the same place. What has happened 85 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: with Moustlim immigration though is now we are going to 86 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: have more people. We have tons of refugees from like 87 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: Somalia in Afghanistan, but even from the other places, even 88 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: from the nice places. We're more and more getting chain 89 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: migration through families. So we're going to get the deadbeat 90 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: cousin and uncle eventually who is susceptible to radical Islam. 91 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: And that's all. 92 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: And also the spouses who they meet over there, who 93 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: they bring like. 94 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 2: The Sam Bernardino shooter. 95 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: That is a problem for radical Islam. It's also a 96 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: problem for American Jews. And when I said in the podcast, 97 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: I said this on C ANDM, and I said this 98 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: with a I was on with Leah McGowan. Mcgou Yeah, 99 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: McGowan from she's some left wing political podcast hosts from Canada. 100 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: She's a very nice woman, but she's not she blinks 101 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: a lot. I'll just say she's like a woman who 102 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: blinks a lot. So I said that there will be 103 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: by twenty thirty five more Muslim immigrants than there are 104 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: Jewish Americans, and they will live in more important swing states, 105 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: and that will change how politics is conducted in relation 106 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: to Middle East policy, but also other policies as well 107 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: around speech, around hate speech, around Sharia cities, around like 108 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: a million other things. Because of mass immigration. You want scarcity. 109 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: You want only the best of the best of the 110 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: world to come here. Anyway, that was the whole speech. 111 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: That was what we talked about and and what I 112 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: talked about, and I thought it was a fairly good 113 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: and influential thing. I don't have a ton of numbers 114 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: for you guys this week. I've been been in DC 115 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: for two weeks, especially post being sick with COVID, as 116 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: I mentioned in the last episode, and they've just DC's 117 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: like its own orbit and what they think people care about. 118 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: No one gives a vote about. I try to give 119 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: has a very clean By the way, I really don't swear, 120 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: so anyway, one number that I thought was fascinating that 121 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: I had never heard about before I heard about it 122 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: this week. If you run for a federal office, or 123 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: you run a super pack like I do, you are 124 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: forbidden from getting donations from foreign entities and foreign donors. Right, 125 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: It's very well known. You can't get money from you know, 126 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 1: Saudias or Israelis or any or Russians or anybody. 127 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: Right. 128 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: If you're running for president or you're running for US Senate. 129 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: If you're running in the state legislatures, you can though 130 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: in many places, and more importantly than you just being 131 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: able to run for office and getting foreign money in 132 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 1: some places, if you have a state proposal and state 133 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: ballid initiative that can be funded by foreign money. There 134 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: is an organization called the sixteen thirty Fund. Now I 135 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: had not been super aware of the sixteen thirty fund. 136 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: It is a left wing C four. A C four 137 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: is a nonprofit that can give a minority fifty to 138 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: forty nine percent of its money to political campaigns and packs. 139 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: It's not a tax right off, but it's like a 140 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: I don't know it's it's not a pack, and it's 141 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: not a nonprofit's own thing. That's what they call dark 142 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: money groups. Dark money groups are basically C four because 143 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: you don't disclose where the money comes from. The biggest 144 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: donor to the sixteen thirty fund is a Swiss billionaire, 145 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: a liberal billionaire called hansgorg Wece. He is given hundreds 146 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars to this sixteen thirty fund, and 147 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: they have spent over two hundred and fifty million dollars 148 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: on ballot initiative to change state laws throughout the country 149 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: to promote progressive ideas on everything from abortion to taxes. 150 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: You name it, you run the gamut, and the sixteen 151 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: thirty Fund has had its fingers on the pull to 152 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: try to change the way that our state governments work. 153 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: The way our laws work pertaining to the government affects 154 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: us the most, which is your state government affection more 155 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: than your federal government does. I did not know this, 156 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: but the states have started to actually reform the laws 157 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: and change the laws when it comes to how state 158 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: constitutions are protected from foreign interference. In twenty twenty four, 159 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: Ohio was the very first state to ban any foreign 160 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: money from being used to change ballid initiatives. And this 161 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: last I think week and a half ago, there were 162 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: ten total states, one being Ohio. 163 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: From last year. 164 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: Nine states have added to that this year. They are Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, 165 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: and Wyoming all have passed new bans on foreign interference 166 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: into packs and other organizations being helped to sit there 167 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: and change your state constitution. Seventeen other states have also 168 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: passed I sorry, I have proposed bans on this foreign money. 169 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: I think it's something that actually bipartisanship can really actually 170 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: take effect in I think that this is a place 171 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: where Republicans Democrats can come together because it seems that 172 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,719 Speaker 1: fairly enough aarreaus that some billionaire from Switzerland and can 173 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: be pushing left wing issues. I mean, these are all 174 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: Republican states who have done this. But I think that 175 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: I don't see why a Democrat would support this anyway. 176 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: We don't want They wouldn't like if Russia came in, 177 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: or if there was like an anti gay bill that 178 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia or you know, African country and anti LGBT 179 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: African country was getting involved in. 180 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 2: So I think that I think this is a great thing, 181 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 2: and I think this is really really progressed. I did 182 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 2: not know that this was the law, and I did 183 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 2: not know that states were really jumping on the bandwagon 184 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 2: to ban foreign money. So far Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, 185 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: and Wyoming have banned it. Hopefully more will follow. I 186 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 2: have a great interview today. It is with my very 187 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 2: good friend Amber Duke's by Amber eighth. I've known her 188 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 2: since before she was married. She's a whip smart reporter, 189 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 2: from the Daily Caller and she's actually an editor from 190 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 2: the Daily Caller. She'll be on to talk about Trump 191 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 2: with a National Guard and the National Guards been coming 192 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: in to sit there and reduce crime, and we'll have 193 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 2: a real conversation on crime in Washington, C and the 194 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: country as a whole. A stay tuned for that coming 195 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 2: up next. So in the last. 196 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: Week, if you've seen the continued liberal outrage over one thing, 197 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: it is over the idea of President Troop. Let me 198 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: start that over again. If you have paid attention to 199 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: anything over the last week, the thing that liberals have 200 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: an outrage over is President Trump having National guardsmen in 201 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: Washingt d C. Here to discuss both their outrage and 202 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: the statistics on crime both in our nation's capital and 203 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: broad nationwide, is Amber Duke of the Daily Caller. Amber, 204 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. 205 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: Thanks for having me Ryan. 206 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: So tell me about you live in the Washingt d C. 207 00:10:58,920 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 3: Area. 208 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: Is there a crime issue, first of all, that they 209 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: would even acknowledge it doesn't exist. 210 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 3: Yes, there's a major crime issue. And one of the 211 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 3: things that liberals and Democrats have been saying in response 212 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 3: to Trump's federalization of DC police in the efforts to 213 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: fight crime is that crime has been going down over 214 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 3: the past couple of years, which is a very misleading 215 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 3: way of characterizing the problem. For one, because the DC 216 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 3: Police chief former police chief is currently under investigation for 217 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 3: manipulating crime statistics, including classifying violent crimes as non violent crimes. 218 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 3: We also have a problem where the DC attorneys will 219 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 3: deliberately lessen charges against suspects because they don't like to 220 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 3: quote unquote over prosecute. This is a particular problem with 221 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 3: the SEE attorney who prosecutes youth crime. That person is 222 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 3: not selected by the president like the DC Attorney General is, 223 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 3: and so they are not someone who was chosen by 224 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: Trump and is very tough on crime. The other problem 225 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 3: is that crime skyrocketed in the DC area in twenty 226 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 3: twenty during the pandemic, and so if you say, well, 227 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 3: numbers are down between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, 228 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 3: it's like, okay, well down from one of their highest 229 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 3: peaks since the nineteen nineties. Right. And then one final 230 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 3: issue with DC crime is that, like most cities, you 231 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 3: typically expect that a lot of the crime is going 232 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 3: to be concentrated in specific areas, meaning there are things 233 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 3: that you can do typically to avoid becoming a victim. 234 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 3: Don't go to anacostia, particularly at night, don't walk around 235 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 3: alone at night by yourself, stay away from CD areas, 236 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 3: don't join a gang, et cetera, et cetera. These are 237 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: all sort of common sense things that most city drillers 238 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: will do to avoid becoming crime victims. In DC, since 239 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 3: the pandemic, we have seen crime become more randomized, meaning 240 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 3: it's spread out across the city into wealthier enclaves, into 241 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 3: areas that were typically considered safe, and is done by 242 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 3: sort of roving gangs of illegal aliens and youth offenders. 243 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 3: So people feel more unsafe because it seems like their 244 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 3: ability to become a victim is much more random and 245 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 3: less tied directly to their behavior. 246 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: I have been in New York my entire life. I 247 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: was followed and attempted to be mugged one time, as 248 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: followed I think two or three times in all of 249 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: New York and thirty something in year thirty six years 250 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 1: that I was a full time resident New York. In DC, 251 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: I have been followed more times than Noll thirty six 252 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: years in New York, and I've never lived here. I've 253 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: only come here like on trips for work for a 254 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: week at a time, and I have had more incidences, 255 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: including in broad daylight in well poppeded area around Chinatown. 256 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: I've seen a live shooting in Chinatown. I've seen way 257 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: more crime, like actual, like really violent crime in broad 258 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: daylight in Washington, d C. Than I ever saw in 259 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: New York. Now, maybe I lived a very uh glamorous life, 260 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: but I grew up in New York in the early nineties. 261 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: So when where it's two thousand murders a year in 262 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: New York, like, I mean, I saw like I was 263 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: there when it was really bad. Granted I was a child, 264 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: but throughout my teen years everywhere, I never saw crime 265 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: like I saw it in DC. Just the open amount 266 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: of crazy people who talk to themselves, who are allowed 267 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: to roam the streets and a cost people is startling. 268 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 2: It's actually startling. 269 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: And the amount of kids who should be in school 270 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: who seem to be like out and just around and 271 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: it's the middle of the day and you're like, why 272 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: is there no school for these roaming black kids seems 273 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: kind of insane to me. And a big part of 274 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: this is, you know, with big balls being attacked the 275 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: Doge staffer being attacked and him being attacked by it 276 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: was black teenagers has changed this for Washington c Now, 277 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: I think there's only been one murder in two weeks 278 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: since President Trump launched the National Guard. Has crime overall 279 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: gone down aside from murder. 280 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 3: Yes, pretty significantly. Actually, I have the numbers here in 281 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 3: front of we. This is a two week comparison from 282 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 3: August eleventh to August twenty fifth, and we have the 283 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 3: numbers from twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, and twenty 284 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 3: twenty five, all the same two week period. Of course, 285 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five two week period is after Trump 286 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 3: said in the National Guard. Between this two week period 287 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, we have 288 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 3: seen carjackings go down ninety six percent, robberies down sixty 289 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 3: eight percent, homicide down sixty seven percent, all violent crime 290 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 3: down fifty two percent, and burglary down forty seven percent. 291 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 3: Total crime actually down twenty one percent. And when we 292 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 3: compare the same period of time between twenty twenty three 293 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 3: and twenty twenty four, where Democrats say, well, crime was 294 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 3: already declining, Yes, but not as much as it has 295 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 3: since Trump federalized the DC police. Carjackings between that time 296 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 3: period twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four went down 297 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 3: thirty five percent. Again, between twenty twenty four and twenty 298 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 3: twenty five it was ninety six percent. Robberies went down 299 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 3: forty six percent compared to sixty eight percent, homicides down 300 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: forty percent to sixty seven percent. So was crime trending 301 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 3: in the right direction? I mean yes, technically, but obviously 302 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 3: not enough, not to the degree that it needed to 303 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 3: in order for citizens to feel safe. And numbers don't lie. 304 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 3: I mean that's sort of the premise of this show, 305 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 3: and the numbers are very clear here that Trump's approach 306 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 3: to crime and DC is working. 307 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I last night, well on crime, when you mentioned 308 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, there's crime in recent history in America. There 309 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: are two chapters. There's from nineteen ninety to twenty thirteen, 310 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: where crime nationwide was decreasing everywhere, and then BLM happens 311 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: with Ferguson in twenty fifteen and crime goes up. It 312 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: kind of stays around the same place, but it's up 313 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 1: from twenty fifteen through twenty twenty. Then George Flood happens, 314 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: BLM happens on you know, meth like this is severoids 315 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: rather and like the crime explodes, and it's been weaning 316 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,880 Speaker 1: down from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two numbers. 317 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: It is, to my knowledge, in most parts of the country, 318 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: it is never returned to twenty fourteen numbers. Most when 319 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: you look at most violent crime, the reason that violent 320 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: crime has declined specifically as a percentage is because burglaries 321 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: and robberies are considered a form of violent crime. Because 322 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: of home alarm systems and home cameras, that has really 323 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: caused a massive decrease in that specific field of crime, 324 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: right while rapes have gone up in a lot of areas, 325 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: or like non violent crimes, which are fairly violent nonetheless, 326 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: but like assault is considered actually not a violent crime, 327 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: but assault has gone up, like in the New York area, 328 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: for example. What liberals like to sit there and say, 329 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: I was watching actually Ben Shapiro on Ampi Phillips's show yesterday, 330 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: and I was texting afterwards, but she was like, well, 331 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: his National guardsmen are not actually patrolling the streets to 332 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: stop crime in the high crime areas. But to my knowledge, 333 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: and maybe I'm wrong, his goal is to have them in. 334 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: The lesser crime that the policeman could go to, the 335 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: more there'd be more cops and the more criminal ayers. 336 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 3: That's correct, That's exactly right. Because the DC Police, it's 337 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 3: the Metropolitan Police Department is what it's called MPD. They 338 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 3: are severely understaffed right now. They've been offering like ten 339 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars signing bonuses for years now to try 340 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 3: to staff up the police force and really haven't had 341 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 3: much luck because who wants to work for a police 342 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: force when sixty seven percent of the crimes that you 343 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,719 Speaker 3: arrest people for are not charged by the top prosecutor 344 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 3: who was appointed by Joe Biden. Now things are a 345 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 3: little bit different now, but you still again have the 346 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: DC Attorney General who does all youth crime, who's not 347 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 3: really prosecuting or under prosecuting a lot of these kids. 348 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 3: They're back out on the street every day. Who wants 349 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 3: to work for that police department. So when you have 350 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 3: a limited amount of resources, having the National Guard there 351 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 3: to patrol George Town on M Street or to be 352 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 3: Navy Yard allows the police that you do have, particularly 353 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 3: the more experienced police officers, to focus on the neighborhoods 354 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 3: where the crime originates, which are typically in the southeast 355 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 3: quadrant of DC across the and Acostia River. 356 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: So in response to this, President Trump has also talked 357 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: about He's gonna sit National Guarden to Chicago, and the 358 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: governor of Illinois is like, they just had fifty shootings 359 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 1: over a weekend in Chicago, and it's Chicago has like 360 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: I hate to say, they we're comically high crime, but 361 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: it is. It is preposterously high for a big city 362 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: in twenty twenties and has for a long time. It 363 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: kind of didn't have the real New York LA shift 364 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: in the nineties the way that other cities did, Like 365 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: they do have more. I think they have more murders 366 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: than New York does, and you're so much bigger city. 367 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,360 Speaker 1: The thing is is so the governor is like, oh, 368 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: this is just normal to live in a big city. 369 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: Is there's a lot of shootings, and I don't I 370 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: think the opposing the idea of setting National guardsmen in 371 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: what is the status? I mean, can you just do 372 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: that and be like sorry, like this is I'm setting 373 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: my National guardsmen? There's no you have no options. 374 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 3: I mean, the president is in control of that, Like 375 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 3: typically you would want the state to acquiesce to a 376 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 3: national guard coming in, but we saw this in Los Angeles, right, 377 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,879 Speaker 3: He doesn't actually need the governor's permission in order to 378 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 3: do that. The Constitution, by the way, says to UH 379 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 3: that it's the federal government's job to have domestic tranquility. 380 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 3: So it seems pretty clear to me that he has 381 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 3: the authority to do it. And I always find it 382 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 3: bizarre when Democrats say, well, this is just part of 383 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 3: living in a big city, like it doesn't have to 384 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 3: be though. That's a choice, that's that's a specific policy 385 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 3: choice that you've made that you're okay with a certain 386 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 3: number of people dying because you don't want to do 387 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 3: the more difficult thing that actually requires manpower and resources 388 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 3: and good policy, which is to make sure that you 389 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 3: are cracking down on criminals, which, by the way, in 390 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 3: most big cities, and particularly in DC, most of the 391 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 3: crime happens from a very small number of individuals. You 392 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 3: actually don't have to do that much policing in order 393 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 3: to get crime down. You just have to arrest the 394 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 3: right people. In DC, one of the former police chiefs, 395 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 3: not the same one who was accused of manipulating the 396 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 3: crime statistics. But Chief Robert Conti, he said a few 397 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 3: years back that the average homicide suspect in DC had 398 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 3: committed eleven priors. Eleven priors, and I mean, I think 399 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 3: most people would probably scoff at the idea that all 400 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 3: of those priors, all eleven were petty, you were non 401 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 3: violent or in some way not deserving of this person 402 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 3: getting significant prison time. So again that's a choice. DC 403 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 3: City Council also made a lot of choices over the 404 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 3: years to make it easier for young people to get 405 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: away with crimes. When we see fourteen year olds carjacking 406 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 3: an uber driver and killing him, it's because they have 407 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 3: deprioritized prosecution of young people. Charles Allen, who is one 408 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 3: of the DCCD council members, he's actually a transplant from Alabama, 409 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 3: I believe, was the author of a lot of these 410 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 3: criminal justice reform measures, which I don't even like that 411 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 3: phrase because it doesn't really mean anything. But what he 412 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 3: did was he first introduced a bill that would make 413 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 3: it so that the most violent youth offenders, who are 414 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 3: the ones that actually get prosecuted in adult criminal court 415 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 3: because they've done things like murders, or rapes could get 416 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 3: out in fifteen years if they basically showed good behavior 417 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: in prison and a judge said that their conditions merited 418 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 3: their release. Then he amended it and it got a 419 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 3: lot worse. He amended it so that the youth offender, 420 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 3: the definition of a youth who was tried in court 421 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 3: was anyone up to the age of twenty five, So 422 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 3: not even miners at this point, full blown adults, people 423 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 3: who can drink, serve the military, et cetera, vote, all 424 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 3: of those things. Those individuals not could get out in 425 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 3: ten years now instead of fifteen, but shall get out 426 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 3: in ten years. The judges are not even allowed now 427 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 3: to look at these circumstances of the crime. They're not 428 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 3: allowed to consider anything about the offender's background. If they 429 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 3: meet these specific conditions as laid out in the bill 430 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 3: under the age of twenty five, have served ten years, 431 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 3: haven't done anything bad while they're in prison, so to speak, 432 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 3: the judge has to issue their release. So you could 433 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 3: rape someone when you're twenty five years old in DC 434 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 3: and get out when you are thirty five years old. 435 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 3: That is insanity. 436 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. And I mentioned Levin priors. The overwhelming 437 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: majority of violent criminals have at least three priors, and 438 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: that's why three that's why the idea three strike rules. 439 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, there was a study by 440 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: the RAND Corporation that looked at California's three strike rules 441 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 1: and found that it did reduce violent crime by twenty percent. 442 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: Because that's I mean, that is true. I think in 443 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: New York, I think in the name is in d C. 444 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: DC was like, if you arrest like the top one 445 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 1: hundred violent criminals, you would and put them away for 446 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: life whatever. You would reduce violent crime by like our 447 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: shootings by like fifty percent. And the thing it was 448 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: for New Year, it was like two hundred and fifty 449 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 1: or three hundred, I forget the exact number, but it was. 450 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 2: It was. It was a shockingly small amount of people 451 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 2: who were doing the overwhelming amount of shootings and overwhelming 452 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 2: targeting Black Americans too, when you know, in the name 453 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 2: of anti racism, they all be left out to shoot 454 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 2: more black people? 455 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: Is crime? 456 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 2: Is the truth? In crime? 457 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 3: Now? 458 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: In crime in Chicago? Are they claiming that, oh a 459 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: crime is down anyway, so it's not a big deal. 460 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the exact same refrain we've heard in DC, 461 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 3: and you started to get into this a little bit 462 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 3: earlier with the way that they manipulate statistics to show 463 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 3: crime decreases. One of the other important things to look 464 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 3: at is there's basically two methods of tracking crime in 465 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 3: the United States. One is the FBI Crime Database, which 466 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 3: is what most people use when they're looking at crime statistics, 467 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 3: and it could be relatively helpful if you're looking at 468 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 3: the same measures year after year. But of course, people 469 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 3: classify crimes differently in different states and different localities, and 470 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 3: some states are prosecuting crimes as one thing and another 471 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 3: state's prosecuting it as something else, right like reducing the charges, 472 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 3: et cetera, making a lot of plea deals like we 473 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: see with the Soros prosecutors. But the other database that 474 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 3: people often look at to really understand crime in its 475 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 3: totality is the National Crime Victimization Survey, which is a 476 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 3: survey that allows self reporting from victims of crime. And 477 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 3: what this does is it helps capture under reporting and 478 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 3: under prosecution, because in places like DC and Chicago, when 479 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 3: you have very progressive prosecutors and politicians in charge, you 480 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 3: have people not calling the police when they are a 481 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 3: victim of crime because they assume that either the police 482 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 3: aren't going to do anything, or the crime is not 483 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 3: actually going to get followed up on, or the prosecutor's 484 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 3: not going to charge the individual. And it also captures 485 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 3: again this problem of well, the person actually assaulted someone, 486 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 3: but because it's a he said, she said, then we're 487 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 3: going to, you know, bring it down to something lower, 488 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 3: or it was an aggravated assault and we're going to 489 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,719 Speaker 3: charge simple assault, et cetera. The National Crime Victimization Survey 490 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 3: pretty consistently shows since the pandemic that crime that has 491 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 3: not been reported has gone up in DC and Chicago. 492 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 3: The NCBs reveals that people have very little faith in 493 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 3: the justice system. Talking to my friends in DC, you 494 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 3: mentioned that when you come here you feel a lot 495 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 3: less safe than you do in New York City. Every 496 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 3: single person I know in DC has some kind of 497 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 3: crime story, if not multiple crime stories. Just about a 498 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 3: month ago, I was walking back from taping a show 499 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 3: in a DuPont Circle and was stopped by some creepy guy, 500 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 3: and like, I'm not going to call the police about 501 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 3: that because they're not going to do anything, but that 502 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 3: it happens a crime, right, it happened my husband was 503 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 3: assaulted by a homeless man. The police convinced him not 504 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 3: to press charges because they said he would be back 505 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 3: out on the street the next day. It wasn't worth 506 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 3: his time. I've been threatened to be raped by a 507 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 3: cracked out man at a bus stop, had my while 508 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 3: it's stolen, been trapped by a crazy homeless woman who 509 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 3: demanded I give her money. 510 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: The Maxine Waters right, shock. 511 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 3: I hope you know that is one woman I think 512 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 3: I would be able to defend myself against. But in 513 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 3: just walking through Union Station over the years, every woman 514 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 3: knows that you do not arrive more than five minutes 515 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 3: before your train is set to leave, because you will 516 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 3: be harassed by some homeless guy or as salted or 517 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 3: worse train stations. That's that's what life has been in 518 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 3: d C. 519 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: Train stations are in New York too, and it's in 520 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: a lot of major cities. Train stations aren't hubs of 521 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: like mentally beyond belief. My last thing is that you 522 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: know Democrats have responded with saying it's the red states 523 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: that have worse crime rates than the Blue states, and 524 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,479 Speaker 1: the blue states that the right Republicans will say, well, 525 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: it's the May Democratic mayors. It's really a hyperpensity of 526 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: black Americans with an easy availability of guns, with a 527 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: young population. I mean, that's really what it is in 528 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: these places like Jackson, Mississippi. But Gavin Newsom has a point, 529 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: and I would like, and this is my own pontificating, 530 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: the governor of Mississippi should say I think it's Tate 531 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: Tate Reefs should sit there and say, President Trump, police 532 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: in the National Garden in Jackson, Like, we could make 533 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: this situation much much easier if we're going to have 534 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: a national moment and not just like own the Libs 535 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: on it and the state national gardens and could come 536 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: in and try to help the police in these cities. 537 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: I mean it's hard. Like in New Orleans, there's a 538 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: lot of policemen who are former convicts that are there, 539 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: believe it or not, But like in some of these 540 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: cities there is a lot. But I think that it 541 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: is a real moment to actually do something if we 542 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: have a president willing to get on board with it, 543 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: there's no reason to at this exact moment. I don't 544 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: if you have any thoughts on that. 545 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree that Republican governors should take a page 546 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 3: out of Trump's playbook and get these blue cities under control. Right, 547 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 3: It really is a population of blow income black Americans 548 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 3: who are driving a lot of the crime crisis in 549 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 3: those blue cities. So it's a policy choice, but also 550 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 3: sort of just a socioeconomic reality. And Tate Reeves I 551 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 3: interviewed him maybe a couple months ago at this point, 552 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 3: and he talked about Jackson and was very concerned about 553 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 3: I think there's an upcoming election for mayor that he's 554 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 3: really worried about because they've consistently had these progressive mayors, 555 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 3: but is acutely aware of the problem Trump I think 556 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 3: would it would actually be great if he were to 557 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 3: be able to send some National Guard resources into kind 558 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 3: of squash that narrative. But I mean, I think one 559 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 3: other thing that I just want to mention really quickly 560 00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 3: about the crime problem in cities is that sometimes it's 561 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 3: not even really crime per se, but a lot of 562 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 3: it is quality of life issues. So for example, if 563 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 3: I am going out to dinner in Georgetown and I 564 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 3: choose to sit on the restaurant's patio, and this is 565 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,719 Speaker 3: a true story, by the way, I'm eating there with 566 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 3: my friends and a homeless man walks up, takes a 567 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 3: white cloth napkin off the table next to us, squats 568 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 3: behind a nearby trash can, takes a dump and then 569 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 3: wipes himself with the cloth knack and he just stole 570 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 3: and throws it in the trash can. I wasn't technically 571 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 3: a victim of a crime, but I'm still going to 572 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 3: feel less safe in my city because that occurred. And 573 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 3: that is something that statistics won't tell you about why 574 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 3: people feel the way that they do when they're in DC. 575 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, and think of it like this. DC has a 576 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: crazy housing problem. DC houses are so expensive in the 577 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,719 Speaker 1: DC areas is crazy. It's one of the most costly 578 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: areas to live in. How many homes are currently in 579 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: a high crime area that no person would want to 580 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: live in that go way under the market value if 581 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: they were just a mile over. That suppressed the availability 582 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: of housing. People cannot live in them because the crime 583 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: levels and the homeless populations and the drug population is 584 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: so high. It creates other issues like housing crisis and 585 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: as well as a quality of life crisis. 586 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 2: As you said, with this. 587 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: Restaurant amber, where can people go to read more of 588 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: your stuff? Hear your commentary following and social media. 589 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 3: They can find me on x at Amber Marie Duke. 590 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 3: My work is available to be read at the Dailycollar 591 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 3: dot com. And I'm also hosting The Hills Rising every 592 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 3: Friday and Reasons Free Media every Tuesday. 593 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 2: So check out out the libertarians over there. But Ambers 594 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 2: Amber is one of the best in the business, worth 595 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 2: absolutely worth following. I don't say everybody, so thank you 596 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: for being on this podcast. Thanks Ryan, Hey, we'll be 597 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 2: right back after this. 598 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: Welcome back for the Asking Me Anything segment. If you 599 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: want any part of the ask Me Anything segment, email 600 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: me Ryan at Numbers Game Podcast dot com. That's Ryan 601 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 1: at Numbers Game Numbers Plural gamepodcast dot com. I read 602 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: them all. I get to every one of them. Eventually, 603 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: I'm a little backlog, but I love your emails. I 604 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,759 Speaker 1: do read them, and I will get to them on 605 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 1: the show, or I'll just email you privately if I 606 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: it's something I don't really can't ans on the show, 607 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: or it's just a little quick thing. But this one 608 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 1: comes from Mary. She writes, I know Trump is busy, 609 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 1: but as a lifelong New Yorker, do you think he 610 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: can get Adams, Curtis and Cuomo together to broke or 611 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: a deal so we can get we can prevent comrade 612 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: Mandani from being in office. Why can't Democrats figure out 613 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: how to move forward? What remains in the party platform 614 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,879 Speaker 1: is pure Marxism. We should start referring to him as 615 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: the Marxist Party. They absolutely despise the country. They want 616 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: to rule. Even within their party, they apply a purity 617 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 1: test to root out traders. They rewrite history and deny 618 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,839 Speaker 1: laws of nature. If they ever gain power again, they 619 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: will try to find a way to crush opposition. Finally, 620 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,839 Speaker 1: if we can't stop Mandoni this time, maybe Trump can 621 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: run against him for mayor. Okay, Mary a lot to 622 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: chew on there. So first of all, can Trump get 623 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: them all in a room? Trump, I guess, can call 624 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: them all in a room. I don't think that Cuomo 625 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 1: would answer that call because it would look like he's 626 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: colluding and he's like Republican light. And part of the 627 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: Cuomo campaign is to say that I'm the Democrat who 628 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,240 Speaker 1: could really take on President Trump. I mean, President Trump 629 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: did well for New York City, but he didn't come 630 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: close to winning. I think that right now, what President 631 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,279 Speaker 1: Trump could do is he could offer Eric Adams and 632 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 1: Curtis Lee will a very nice DC job. Get them 633 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: leave the city and get out of the race, and 634 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 1: it could be a head to head with Cuomo and 635 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 1: with Mandani. I think Cuomo is running an absolutely garbage campaign. 636 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 1: Though Cuomo should be sitting there and saying I have 637 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:11,240 Speaker 1: been a bipartisanly supported governor, which when he was first elected. 638 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,839 Speaker 1: Remember when Cuomo was first elected in twenty and ten, 639 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,800 Speaker 1: he sat there and said, I will bring tax reform 640 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,800 Speaker 1: that will help working class people, that will help the elderly, 641 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,960 Speaker 1: that will help small businesses in upstate New York. He 642 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: ran to appeal to Republicans, especially modern Republicans, who thought 643 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: that the Republican at the time was a little too 644 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 1: out there right. I can't remember his name, but he 645 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: was from Erie County, and he was he brought a 646 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: baseball bat to his own press conference and said he 647 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: hated the media. Whatever the case is, that's neither here 648 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: nor there, but he did run when he first ran, 649 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,839 Speaker 1: I can work with the Republicans who control the state Senate. 650 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: I can work, I could have. I'm a man for 651 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: all people. I support gay marriage, I support tax reform. 652 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: I'm here for everybody. 653 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 2: As his time being governor continued, he ran to the 654 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,840 Speaker 2: left because he wanted to run for president and because 655 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,240 Speaker 2: he didn't want to get primaried, and he was afraid 656 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,240 Speaker 2: of that. He saw the teleis in the Democratic Party. Okay, fine, 657 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 2: you lost the Democratic primary. Run to the middle again. 658 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 2: Call the Republicans and say I will protect your seven 659 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,839 Speaker 2: city council seats. I will protect the six or seven 660 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,919 Speaker 2: Assembly seats you have in the city. I will support 661 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 2: the handful of politicians you have, and I will work 662 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 2: with you and the common Sense Caucus, which is a 663 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 2: caucus of Republicans and Democrats who are just not socialist 664 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 2: whack jobs in the city council. 665 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 1: He's not doing any of that right now. Cuomo is 666 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: running as he ran for governor, is saying I can 667 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 1: manage the decline better than anybody else, and it's not 668 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 1: aspirational and it's not going to win in the election. 669 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: And I cannot believe how stupid I thought this man 670 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,880 Speaker 1: was a real politician. It's just that he happened to 671 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: be a Democrat from New York so he can get 672 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 1: elected without really trying. He's oh my god, this is 673 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,640 Speaker 1: the worst cam I've ever seen. But I don't think 674 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,839 Speaker 1: that Trump can do anything, besire, I try to give 675 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 1: Adams and Sliwa a job. 676 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:03,879 Speaker 2: So that's that. 677 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: Why don't we call the Democratic part of the Marxist 678 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 1: Party because they're not the Demo, that's not their name. 679 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,360 Speaker 2: I mean, that's just people feel that way. Anyway. 680 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,760 Speaker 1: There are a number of Democrats who are fairly moderate 681 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: who would not agree with that term and wouldn't agree 682 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 1: with that opinion, and like, you know, I wouldn't call 683 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,919 Speaker 1: like the governor of Kentucky like a Marxist. I mean, 684 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 1: you know, they believe in some level of social safety, 685 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,560 Speaker 1: that they use some level of taxes, but so sort 686 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 1: of Republicans in most cases. Yeah, I mean, I just 687 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,520 Speaker 1: think that the next generation of Democrats are all identitarian 688 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 1: on the issues of race and socialism, and I don't 689 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 1: think that. I think the next generation of Democrats that 690 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: have been kept at bay for a long time by 691 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,360 Speaker 1: the likes of Nancy Pelosi are going to becoming and 692 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: be going crazy when it comes to Trump running from mayor. 693 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: He's not a resident of New York City anymore. He's 694 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 1: resident of Florida. And I don't think that you want 695 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,040 Speaker 1: to go from being president to being mayor, especially when 696 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: you're in your mid eighties at the time. So we're 697 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,360 Speaker 1: gonna have to find somebody else. Maybe get Derek Jeter 698 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: to run. Maybe find a Yankee like that might be 699 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: our path. Find one of the Dynasty Yankees and ask them. 700 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: Ask Alex Rodriguez to run as a Republican like that 701 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 1: might be. I grew up a huge nineties Yankee fan. 702 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: I could name the almost the entire roster. Tina Martinez. 703 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,880 Speaker 1: I would knock on doors for him, Bernie Williams, I 704 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 1: would knock on doors for him. I don't care what 705 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: there was, Derek Jeter, Chuck dock on doors or Chuck 706 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 1: not blocked. I mean, that's how bad it is. I 707 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: don't care who it is. Get a nineties New York Yankee. 708 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: Maybe that would do it and bring people further into 709 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 1: the GOP coalition who aren't there yet. But yeah, it's not. 710 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,439 Speaker 1: I don't think it's any Trump for that. But thank 711 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,880 Speaker 1: you for that question, Mary, And if you like this podcast, 712 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: please like and subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 713 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,719 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcast, and I will see you 714 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: guys in the next episode.