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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Phenomenal lineup of stories to talk to
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 govern 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 fifteen 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 you know, tribal realities
Speaker 1: inside of Africa had a massive slave trade. They were
Speaker 1: taking slaves. There was slavery practiced by different tribes in
Speaker 1: North America before anyone got here from the European side.
Speaker 1: So that's the reality, and those who don't know it's
Speaker 1: actually fast. The Ottoman slave trade, they would go as
Speaker 1: far and this is deep into the eighteenth century, so
Speaker 1: in the seventeen hundreds, they would go as far north
Speaker 1: to take Christian slaves. These are Muslim corsairs, taking Christians
Speaker 1: from their city towns and cities. They went to the
Speaker 1: coast of Ireland. They even made it to Iceland, I
Speaker 1: believe at one point. And this was over centuries. This
Speaker 1: went ongoing. The point being slavery was the reality of
Speaker 1: the world hundreds of years ago. It doesn't mean it
Speaker 1: was okay. Obviously it is a wrong, it is evil,
Speaker 1: it is immoral. But if we are going to judge
Speaker 1: everybody in that period of time by the standards of today,
Speaker 1: we're who's going to be left effectively, That's what you
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself. Who do they want to replace
Speaker 1: these individuals with? Who do they want to replace the
Speaker 1: founding fathers with Christopher Columbus and others. I would assume
Speaker 1: the New York City Council would try to replace them
Speaker 1: with some kind of like Marxist community organizers or something
Speaker 1: along those lines. That's what I think they would like
Speaker 1: to do you know someone who was involved in helping
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants and pushing for you know, the transagenda in
Speaker 1: schools in the last ten years or something, that those
Speaker 1: are the only people who are truly acceptable to the left.
Speaker 1: Because even people that the left admires and elevates throughout
Speaker 1: the twentieth century, what was their position on gay marriage? Well,
Speaker 1: why is that bigotry excused now? Right? I mean, you
Speaker 1: can see how it's just impossible. It's impossible to make
Speaker 1: the left happy on any of this. And the point
Speaker 1: is it's not about what's right, what's decent, what's best
Speaker 1: for society, the country. They want to tear down, and
Speaker 1: the desire is to replace that history with something else. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just the destruction of what is. But then they
Speaker 1: also have designs on creating something else. And it's not
Speaker 1: something that they're very open about. But I do think
Speaker 1: it's meant to change our shared historical vision of America
Speaker 1: so that they can shape the future of America in
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Speaker 1: here we get Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to
Speaker 1: create city run grocery stores to promote equitable access to
Speaker 1: food after Walmart and Whole Foods close stores. So he
Speaker 1: says there's a partnership with the Economic Security Project to
Speaker 1: open municipally owned state grocery stores. Basically remembers talking about
Speaker 1: Marxism before and all this state grocery stores. That's effectively
Speaker 1: what's going on here. And he says it's because we
Speaker 1: need equitable access to food because of food deserts, and
Speaker 1: he talks about underserved communees. Well, let's look at what
Speaker 1: happened here. One person on social media rotors this is
Speaker 1: the daily mail writing this. One person on social media wrote,
Speaker 1: let's see major successful retailers and grocery store operators have
Speaker 1: pulled out of certain zip codes due to chronic crime.
Speaker 1: But the city of Chicago is going to install and
Speaker 1: manage taxpayer subsidized stores. What could possibly go wrong? Another
Speaker 1: added people need to learn to not steal, and the
Speaker 1: grocery stores won't have to close. A third said residents
Speaker 1: must respect community businesses if they want their services. So
Speaker 1: this is a city has a budget shortfall of Chicago
Speaker 1: of five hundred and thirty eight million dollars and it's
Speaker 1: going to be operating grocery stores. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to tell you right now, these are these If
Speaker 1: they do this, they will be the worst, worst and
Speaker 1: most expensive grocery stores you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 1: Expensive not to the people that chop there, but to
Speaker 1: the taxpayer. I mean the amount of waste and fraud
Speaker 1: and abuse that will go on and ultimately the real
Speaker 1: problem here, the real problem here is that people are
Speaker 1: stealing from these places. They say they're closed because of profitability,
Speaker 1: because they don't want the problem really, how many if
Speaker 1: you live in a nice you know, you know, sort
Speaker 1: of middle class or above neighborhood, when was the last
Speaker 1: time a grocery store closed that was a Whole Foods
Speaker 1: or a wal Mart because they couldn't make money? When
Speaker 1: was the last time that happened? Right? Yeah, The problem
Speaker 1: here is people are stealing and they also the issue
Speaker 1: of the food desert is an interesting This is something
Speaker 1: that is often raised by people on the left. They
Speaker 1: talk about things like tree equity. If you didn't know,
Speaker 1: that's that there aren't enough trees in poorer neighborhoods, and
Speaker 1: so they say that's unfair and I'm a big advocate
Speaker 1: of trees and neighborhoods. But people have to take care
Speaker 1: of trees. They have to not scratch the trees, write
Speaker 1: graffiti on 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 unhealthy crap.
Speaker 1: And you know what they found that subsidizing and making
Speaker 1: more accessible in low income neighborhoods the high quality produce
Speaker 1: is the Obama administration to this big study, this is
Speaker 1: a federal study, did nothing. People still want to buy
Speaker 1: what they want to buy. People want to purchase soda,
Speaker 1: they want to purchase chips, they want to purchase candy.
Speaker 1: And then you get into this thing of like, well,
Speaker 1: are you not going to let them do that if
Speaker 1: they use, for example, SNAPS Supplemental Nutritional Assistance program. Also
Speaker 1: it's food stamps. Using food stamps, you're going to not
Speaker 1: let them buy soda. You're going to only let them buy,
Speaker 1: you know, low fat milk. Right, you start to see
Speaker 1: how this becomes very authoritarian sounding very quickly. That people
Speaker 1: should be allowed to make the food choices that they
Speaker 1: want to make. Right, we all agree on that, and
Speaker 1: the government trying to incentivize different food choices has not worked,
Speaker 1: has not worked, and it is not good at that.
Speaker 1: So you can try to talk about all the organic farmers'
Speaker 1: markets you want in poor areas of major cities. They're
Speaker 1: not going to catch on any time soon. We've already
Speaker 1: seen this. People have already tried. And as for city
Speaker 1: owned grocery stores. I mean, can you imagine the amount
Speaker 1: of theft and just mismanagement that would go on, would
Speaker 1: be true, would just be appalling. You know, it's like
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