WEBVTT - Big Trouble In Lib Chicago 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:15.920 You are entering the freedom hunt. There's big trouble in Chicago, 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:21.320 plus axios. The website stands for activism and not journalism. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:26.400 CrossFit gets canceled. Ruth Bader Ginsberg calls out flag kneeling. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.560 Would New York actually be better off with no mayor 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.240 and a new Bill and Ted movie? Could it be real? 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:38.520 Buck Sexton decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.080 Make no mistake American Great, You're a great American again. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:50.199 This is the Buck Sexton Show. Thomas CIA analysts can 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.479 speak to three hours without a phone call. Try doing 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:58.360 that sometimes. No, we won't be defunding our police. We 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.520 won't be dismantling our police. We won't be disbanding our police. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.520 We won't be ending our police force in a city. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.600 I guess you might have some cities and want to try. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.840 But it's going to be very very sad situation if 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.399 they did, because people aren't going to be protected. People 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.800 do a tremendous job of protecting citizens of our country 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.520 and that's what that's what they're paid for. But whether 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.920 they were paid or not, that's what they do. And 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.280 you know, somebody put it very beautifully before where they 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.800 said they protect people, risk their own lives for people 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.360 they've never seen before. People in many cases they don't know. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.680 You're protecting the lives of people you don't know. And 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.039 it's an incredible thing. That's a great honor to be 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.840 with you all. Welcome to the buck Sex and Show everybody. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.480 President Trump making it clear that at least as far 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.040 as he is concerned, there will know there will not 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.560 be a defunding of police. We are not going to 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.320 go down that road of insanity, not without a fight. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.480 At least, it's good to hear that the leader of 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.720 the free world, the commander in chief, understands exactly what 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.960 we are up against. Now that this narrative of defunding 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.280 the police, they'll keep shifting it depending on what the 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.280 needs are at any given moment. One day it will 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.720 be no, no, I mean actually cut the police budgets entirely. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.320 The next day it'll be, well, just move some of 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.440 the funding around to some social justice causes. I've seen 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.600 other people are picking up now on what I had said, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.600 whatever it was now two days ago, Law and order, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:34.600 social service workers. That's not going to be the best 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.120 show you've ever seen. It's not gonna work out. It's 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.120 not gonna work out very well for those social workers. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.160 That's not going to happen, not going to be good. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.359 And all of this claim, all these claims that we 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.960 should have police disarmed, as if that would make things 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.000 inherently better. In fact, if you disarm police, anyone who 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.480 knows anything about police tactics will understand that the likelihood 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:01.280 of having to use exactly some of these in order 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.280 to subdue some Remember, if you're the first, if you're 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.119 the cop on the street, you're the first on the scene. Yeah, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.959 you can call for backup, but you're gonna have to 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.640 handle the situation that arises. And if you try to 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.839 arrest somebody for drunken disorderly and you don't have a gun, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.920 guess what can end up happening. You may be in 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.000 a position where they come at you with what you 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.880 think is is a threat to your life and you 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.080 one don't have the ability to respond appropriately. Two you 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.120 also in using you know, not having some of these 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:36.680 additional force escalation procedures in place, the ability to escalate force. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.240 You know, maybe you're gonna go for that chokehold or 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.520 something because you're really scared, because it's you or this 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.600 person who is coming after you. And I know now 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.160 in New York that they've passed a law to make 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:53.440 chokeholds illegal, just now passing more and more restrictions on cops. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.520 Cops are the first ones to get called out. I 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.840 saw the thing the President tweeted about Buffalo. You know, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.720 this President, it's so hard for me because I feel 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.520 like he's doing so much and get so little help 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.160 all that all you see from the press is insanely 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.320 negative stuff about him, and they're completely unfair, and everything 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.240 he says about them being fake news is true. But 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.360 was this, you know, was this necessary right now? Because 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.960 now we get a whole news cycle focused on what 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.440 Trump said about a protester in Buffalo who got pushed 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:30.560 by cops who have now been suspended and charged and 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.240 criminally charged. Another cop I think here in New York 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.560 has been charged. So now they're they're charging cops with 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:40.480 criminal assault. And you've got to remember that that now 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.200 is going to factor through it in the thinking of 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.520 law enforcement across the country when they're trying to determine 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.960 how much force they can use in different circumstances. And 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.039 people will say, well, that's a good thing, isn't it Buck? Yeah, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.880 but this is a it's an imperfect world. When someone 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.960 is coming at you, you know what, what are you 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.240 supposed to do? When someone's throwing a rock at you? 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.880 You're supposed to sit there and take it. Are you 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.320 supposed to be able to tackle the person? How do 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.159 you tackle them? I mean there was all this police 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.800 training that goes into it, but at some level, this 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.640 is one human being trying to physically subdue another. And 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.000 really a part of this should be don't do things 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.120 that make cops have to rescue through the ground and 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.839 fight you that that is a conversation worth having as 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.679 a society, right, whether you're a protester or just somebody else. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.080 A lot of people go through life without ever having 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.840 to be wrestled to the ground by police. And most 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.840 people who are arrested, no, while the cops says you're 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.760 under arrest, all right, you put your hands behind your back, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.920 you go to the station, and that's it. You know, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.560 Resisting arrest leads to so much of this. But we 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.560 can't even talk about resisting arrest right now. I can't 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.960 even have that discussion. People say, oh, you're justifying police violence. No, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.720 No one likes bad cops. No one likes police brutality 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.360 because everybody understands what that means for them in their 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.719 day to day lives. It means that there's the possibility 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.320 that they themselves could be And people say this doesn't 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.080 happen to white people are lying or just ignorant, don't 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.679 know anything. It does. Police brutality happens to white people. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.200 It happens to people have alread happens Latinos. You know, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.240 you don't hear a lot about that either, are you 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:19.120 just go for in this movement the slogans and the 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.960 claims that have the maximum psychological and emotional impact to 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.080 divide us and to mobilize the left. They claim they 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.080 want to fix things. They don't want to fix things. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.120 They want to use this. They want to exacerbate the 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:36.159 situation and then mobilize against their perceived political enemies, they 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.599 being the left and the Democratic Party. Whether you know, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.560 we've seen this, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.120 all these different political entities that have come up in 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.520 the last decade or so, and it's just it always 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.280 becomes the same thing. A vessel, you know, the tip 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.440 of the spear for the broader left to push its agenda. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.359 That's what's happening. Now, we see this, let me see this, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.279 and I know they claim to be so in favor 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.000 of the powerless. Meanwhile, and I'll get to some of 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.920 these stories over the course of the show today. Meanwhile, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:15.559 you have members of Congress taking a knee, Democrat members 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.160 of Congress taking a knee in subservience or perhaps solidarity 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:25.360 with this group. You have all of corporate America just 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.000 falling over itself to show that they support the movement. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.520 What does the movement even really stand for? But it's 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.400 very similar to climate change. Do you believe in climate change? Yes, well, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.440 then you have to accept all these other policies and 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.600 ideas that I put forward. Do you do you accept 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.880 the Green New Deal? Well? No, Well, I thought you 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.720 said you believed in climate change. The same idea is 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.040 present here with the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.280 support black lives Of course, everyone supports black lives to 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.920 do anything, but that would be deeply immoral and disgraceful. Well, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:05.600 then you must also support defunding cops, disarming cops, federalizing 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.200 law enforcement. Which how is that going to make things better? 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.400 Look at what we've seen from the FBI recently. But 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.400 you better support all that stuff too, right, No, I 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.440 don't support all of those other policy decisions. I thought 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.800 you said you support black lives. This is how they 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.400 do it. And so, on the one hand, you're not 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.600 really able. It's not really possible for you to oppose 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.720 the movement without subjecting yourself to the worst kinds of 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:38.120 attacks and smears and the politics of personal destruction. And 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.240 so you have to go along with it, and you 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.080 have to go along with all of it, and you 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.040 have the people that are a part of the movement 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.800 feel incredibly self righteous about it all because the moment 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.480 that they're challenged on a policy issue, Hey, defunding cops 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.160 is really stupid. It's well, I'm here because I support 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.160 black lives. Therefore I always have the moral high ground 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.960 no matter what I want, no matter what I tell 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.679 you, you you have to do kneel bow, wash my feet, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.120 do whatever I say as a leftist, as a lib 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.080 no matter what I claim. If you push back, I 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.560 can always retreat to I'm just here to support black lives. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.720 Why do you have a problem with that? And you say, well, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.760 but that's it. Your whole argument here is highly dishonest, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.600 but it's the left, of course, the argument's dishonest. It's 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.400 all meant to force you to do things that you 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.840 don't want to do, and to do things that you 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.080 think are bad for society, to force you to not 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.480 only be silent, but to support them. That's the big 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.079 part about bending the knee. It's not enough to stand 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.320 by and allow people to have their free speech rights. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.640 It's not to standby and be neutral to this whole debate. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.640 You must comply. You must comply. You have no choice 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.240 but to agree with them, or else you are bad. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.880 That's the way this is all constructed. That's the purpose 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.800 of the rhetoric of the approach, and it's very powerful. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.840 There's a reason that all the all the major corporations. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.439 I mean, you know, you look at America. Where is 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:14.240 the opposition to this movement coming from. It's it's not 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.199 from the major institutions, and even members of the Republican Party. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.440 Don't even get me started on Mitt Romney. I'm look. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.880 I know that I think I could still say he 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.839 was a better choice than Barack Obama at the time, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.440 but it doesn't matter. I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that I 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.320 voted for Mitt Romney. I'm embarrassed this guy's walking around. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:37.080 Oh yeah, Mit Romney cares so much about the minority 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.319 community that he feels compelled to march and solidarity with 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.440 Black Lives Matter. Has nothing to do with Mitt Romney 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.480 feeling like he's just the greatest guy in the world. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.440 The virtue signaling you could choke on it. Oh Mit, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.880 such a such a disappointment. Mid is a disappointment. Marker 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.640 Rubio is a disappointment. Now. I only understand why there 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:02.599 was such outrage among GOP, among the goop circles, because 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.840 when Trump came in, these people were exposed and all 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.920 of a sudden you realize that it was really about them. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.120 And this is true of a lot of right wing 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.559 conservative media, and it's true of a lot of politicians, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:17.880 and some of them have fallen in line a bit, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.240 but for a lot of them, it was really all 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.160 about ego and all about them. But back to the 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:27.480 Black Lives Matter movement. There is a transcript and audio 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.880 you can hear the audio of it of a phone 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:39.680 call in Chicago, which just had its most violent twenty 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:46.160 four hour period ever. There is a transcript of this 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.920 phone call, that is, and if you want to know 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.120 how many, how many people are killed, I mean dozens 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.079 of people are shot, people are killed. And the transcript 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.240 does this phone call shows you that you're not being 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:07.000 told how devastating these riots, how devastating this movement has been, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:14.400 not just to cities in general, but specifically to minority neighborhoods, 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.960 specifically to areas of cities where there are people working, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.720 trying to get ahead, who are trying to do the 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:25.439 right thing, Black and Hispanic owned businesses, and they're being 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.600 burned down, destroyed. People have nowhere to shop, people have 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.600 nowhere to go. They don't feel safe. And these are 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.719 African Americans in cities like Chicago who are in a 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:43.480 terrible situation because some small percentage of the American population 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.640 has decided to take it upon themselves to riot and 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.240 loot and destroy. And where's the Democratic Party on this? 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.040 Pushing the narrative, They push the narrative while good people, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.640 black people, white people, all people. They push the narrative 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:06.040 of black lives matter, while people suffer, while actual human 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.360 beings are suffering from what has been done in weeks 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.280 now of riots and protests. I'll take you through this 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:18.920 conversation that happened in Chicago. It's stunning. You're in the 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.440 Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:31.880 My ward is a blank show. I can't actually say 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:36.040 what this alderman in the city of Chicago said on 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:41.679 this tape from wtt W News, but this was eye 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.800 opening and people are looking at it, hearing it, and 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.600 they can read the transcript. You can hear the audio 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.959 online too, of this phone call and saying why isn't 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.760 this a bigger Why isn't every news network in the 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.719 country covering what is happening to the third or wait, no, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.480 I think it's the fourth large. It's Houston, larger than Chicago, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.160 producer Mark. I think it's close, but one of the 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:10.720 largest cities Top five Chicago, the windy City. Chicago named 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.560 for Chicaqua, which means stinky onion because in fact, there 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.320 was a stinky form of plant found by the river 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.320 where the city of Chicago currently is true story actually, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.640 and I believe it comes from a it's algonquin. I 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.000 think if my Native American history is correct, it does 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.480 not mean the good Land. That's Milwaukee. As we learned 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.200 from Wayne's World. Okay, back to Chicago and back to 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.800 this news story. Did I'm producer Mark. I was trying 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.440 to give you time to find out. Yea, Chicago is 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.000 third behind a New York and el thank you, Chicago 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.200 is third. I like to get the facts correct here. Okay, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.080 Chicago's third largest city in the country, and Alderman is 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.880 effectively it's just a fancy way of saying a city 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.640 council person. I mean, you know Alderman, City council, same thing. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.960 Fifty men, fifty Alderman. Fifty members of Chicago City Council 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:07.080 are on this call with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and they 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.920 talk about how and this was on Sunday, May thirty first, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.360 so this was right after some of the worst protests 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:19.560 that happened that day alone. According to CBS CBS Chicago 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.040 here there were six hundred and ninety nine arrests, almost 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.840 all of them looters, one hundred and thirty two officers injured, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:35.600 forty eight shootings, and seventeen homicides. Seventeen murders one day. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.880 That's a lot. You don't need me to tell you that. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.560 I mean, you just extrapolate that, what if you had 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.840 seventeen murders in the city of Chicago size every day 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.120 for a year. It would be, I mean, would be 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.840 the most violent place on earth by far, would be 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:50.800 worse than really even some of the worst times in Siedaduarez, 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.200 some of you may have seen in depictions in film 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.360 and Warez. For a while on the US Mexico border, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:01.040 because of the drug cartels, there was, on a capita basis, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.320 the highest homicide rate in the world. It was a 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.120 terrifying place. But and Jone Grillo, who has covered the 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.800 cartels for many years decades down in Mexico, wrote a 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.040 book in which he said that when you crunched the 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:19.840 math on it and an assassination in Warez about a 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.520 decade or so ago, when things were really really bad, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.520 you're looking at two thousand, well, two thousand and seven, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.400 two thousand and eight. An assassination costs less than one 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.240 hundred dollars. That's that's what a hitman would be paid. Anyway, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.920 Warez a horribly scary place back then. I'm sure it's 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.000 still not particularly safe now, but I haven't checked on 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:44.280 it recently. Chicago sounds pretty darn terrifying too. Lightfoot, the mayor, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.720 said that this was a massive said that what happened 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.720 was a massive, massive problem, and she described writers as 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:57.320 just f word in lawless right now. Quote, I don't 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.800 know about you, but I haven't seen blank like this before, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.919 not in Chicago. Mayor Lightfoot said, you go through this 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:12.320 transcript and it is it is truly jaw dropping. I 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.840 mean the right up on WTTW news of it is 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.479 is um it's you read this, you say, how is this? 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.119 How is this not filtered out? It's with fifty city 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.080 council member. You know why, because they're all Democrats. Because 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.280 they're all Democrats. And if you speak out and say 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:35.440 that these riots were horrific and damaging and destroyed businesses 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.840 and destroyed quality of life in minority in predominantly black 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.600 communities in the city of Chicago, that interferes with Nettie 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.159 and knee. So I'm so woke. It interferes with the narrative, 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.640 so he can't do that. But finally, some actual reporting, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.919 you know, occasionally local news and this is what you 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.760 see happening. So why local news is still sometimes journalism. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.880 Sometimes we'll put journalism before politics just because not because 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.639 they are so ethical, but because they'll have a story 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.679 that's so big and they know. I mean, I've never 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.560 even heard of WTTW News before, and I'm in the 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.760 news business, right. It's a local Chicago station, but they 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.880 got such a big story that they have to run 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.320 with it because there's dollars and cents attached to this one. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.199 I mean, this is getting their name out there all 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.640 across the country. Why haven't we heard about this? This 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.240 was what almost a week and a half ago. Why 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:31.000 haven't we heard about this before? Oh, I'll tell you why. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.639 Thanks for listening to the bus show past. Remember to 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.480 subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.520 get your podcasts. All right, So we have the audio 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:48.679 for you of this call. Among the aldermen. They're fifty wards, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.119 which are like districts in the city of Chicago. I 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.480 know a little bit about this. It was a good 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.719 show years ago called Boss with Kelsey Grammar that did 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.679 a lot of Chicago politics stuff. And I will tell 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.480 you I actually producer Mark. I've never I've never really 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.399 been to the city of Chicago. I went once for 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.240 a day and didn't get to see anything and was 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.399 just there to give a speech. So I got to 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.800 spend more time in the Windy City. But this is 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.440 this audio. You got to hear it. So Lori Lightfoot 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.639 is the mayor, and she's speaking to members of the 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.760 city council. And this is right after the looting and 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.119 the riots and things that happened. And I would note that, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.160 you know, New York got a lot of attention because 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.040 things here with the looting was really bad last week 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.439 last Monday, you know, eight days ago, the looting was terrible, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.600 and the riots that have happened here in New York 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.600 were appalling. And there's some been some bad stuff in DC. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.480 But I'm going to tell you right, and Minneapolis clearly 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.399 had hold areas, you know, buildings burned down, the police 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.720 station burned down. Chicago didn't get much attention in this, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.879 and I think we're starting to see why tough to 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.960 make the case that this is all about justice, especially 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.800 justice for Black Americans, when they're burning down businesses, are 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:07.080 destroying and looting businesses that are staples of black neighborhoods. 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.960 Where people get their food, where people get their medication. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.360 Where do they go? Now, that's a question that these 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.800 aldermen are asking. Let me, there's a lot of finger 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.520 pointing here. They're all Democrats too. This is and you 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.639 see the problem that we're seeing out in the open 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.840 now that we have before, is that Democrats ruined cities, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.760 ruined them. They've ruined Baltimore, They've ruined Detroit, they have 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:36.640 ruined city after city. You know, Newark is in terrible shape. Democrats. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.960 I mean, find me Saint louis mostly Democrat, I think, 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.880 terrible shape. I mean, find me a place where there 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.040 have been these riots, there's been this looting, I'll find you. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:50.239 Democrats in charge. Because they think that if only they 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.800 tax they tax the productive class a bit more, and 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.600 if only they cut back on police, if only they 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.160 tell police to stop doing so much aggressive policing, things 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.560 will get better. We ran the experiment in New York 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:11.480 in the nineties. Aggressive effective, targeted policing brings investment into 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:16.800 a city, raises real estate prices, and most importantly of all, 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.280 and you won't hear this from the media. Those cops, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.159 whether it's here at the NYPD or cops in cities 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.600 across the country, when they're doing their jobs well and 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:31.560 they're bringing murder and rape rates down, they are literally 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:38.439 saving lives. They are preventing enormous amounts of pain and 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:44.959 misery and despair, which overwhelmingly and predominantly is concentrated in 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:50.040 black neighborhoods of major cities where is most of the 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:52.760 I know the stats for New York very well. I 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:54.760 don't need to keep focusing on this place, but this 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.920 is where I am, and I can tell you that 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.600 a vast majority, upwards of ninety percent of the homicides 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:07.200 occur in neighborhoods that are almost entirely black and Hispanic. 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.320 So when the cops bring the murder right down, they 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.400 are saving the lives of black and in the case 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.040 of New York Latino Americans. I mean, looking at this example, 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.359 they're saving the lives of the people who are trying 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.680 to provide for their kids, who are trying to show 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:29.160 up to work and do their part and be productive. 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.320 They're trying to take care of our fellow Americans. That's 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:37.000 what cops are doing by doing their jobs. This idea 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.359 that in cities where there are tens of thousands of 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.840 robberies and hundreds of murders, and thousands of sexual assaults 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.280 and rapes, everything's going to get better if we just 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.720 cut the cops in half, cut their salaries way down, 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:52.080 cut the numbers way down, less policing, and then people 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.879 will respond, though the bad guys are still going to 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.679 be the bad guys even with fewer cops. We learned 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.280 this lesson in the seventies and in the eighties we 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:04.520 learned it. We've run the experiment. But liberals want to 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:05.880 go back, and I want to go back. But it's 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.520 not really surprising. They still think that communism is a 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:10.760 good idea, right. They still want to get us back 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:13.200 to socialism. They look around the world and they take 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.800 all the wrong lessons from history. This is why I 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.800 think liberalism really is a form of mental illness or 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:20.639 a delusion or something. I don't know what we should 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.800 call it. Trump's arrangement syndrome is certainly should be classified 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:27.960 as a mental illness because it definitely exists. So I 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:32.640 bring you now the actual audio from this and I'm 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:34.440 going to play it and sort of stop and jump 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.680 in at some points. But this is the elite. WTTW 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.560 local news station got this audio a phone call with 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:45.879 Lorie Lightfoot and all I remember she's most famous from 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:48.560 the lockdown, perhaps for saying that, you know, she needed 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.560 to get a haircut because she's public facing for the 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:55.760 city of Chicago, but other people can't get haircuts. Classic 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.400