00:00:31.000Why is Chicago all of a sudden a city that is largely unrecognizable?
00:00:35.000The answer we explore throughout this episode.
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00:00:41.000That's right, a Democrat that I admire.
00:00:44.000The death of America's second city, and a Democrat that I admire here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:03:07.000I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and I'm very proud that I grew up in Chicago.
00:03:12.000In the first couple of years of starting Turning Point USA, I was so proud of being raised in a city that was focused on grit, determination, resilience, and character.
00:03:24.000As I traveled the country and I started to get to know different business owners and entrepreneurs and people different family backgrounds, I realized they recognized the upbringing and the values in the community that I grew up in in the suburbs of Chicago and the Chicago, the Greater Land Chicago area were unique.
00:03:41.000That not every part of the country saw the world the way that Chicagoans did.
00:03:45.000I grew up in a world that believed that you must be accountable for your actions, that there is no place to tolerate widespread criminality or vagrancy.
00:03:58.000And I grew up in a place in Chicago and a whole culture of Chicago that didn't really care about where you were from or who your parents were, but instead they wanted to give you an opportunity to succeed regardless of all of that.
00:04:13.000Chicago is always called the second city growing up, second to New York City.
00:04:42.000It's 6 o'clock in the morning and you get on a highway in Chicago.
00:04:45.000There will be people up and they will be moving and they will be doing something.
00:04:49.000In Chicago, there is no excuse, whether on sports teams or in the local area or if you're doing a construction site for taking it easy.
00:04:56.000No excuse for complaining when you have to go to work.
00:05:01.000I believe that Chicago could have been the greatest city in America.
00:05:05.000Centrally located, phenomenal infrastructure, once great universities, a hardworking people, a Midwestern culture, terrific businesses, an incredible skyline, restaurants that were the envy of most major cities in the world, some of the most incredible Michelin started restaurants in the world.
00:05:27.000Not to mention the lakefront and all the beauty surrounding that.
00:05:58.000Because as I walk through what's happened to Chicago, it's almost as if there was Chicago was conquered.
00:06:05.000It's hard to believe a city would do what's happened to Chicago to itself.
00:06:09.000And that's the most puzzling thing: Chicago, in the last 10 years, has almost been the vanishing man, decided to be miserable.
00:06:25.000Chicago is one of the reasons why America was the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:06:30.000From its Greek culture, Irish culture, strong Polish culture, Czech and Bohemian culture, no matter where you were from, you could come to Chicago and you could make something of your life.
00:06:45.000Well, just this last couple of weeks, more and more people are talking about Chicago, mainly because of Lori Lightfoot, probably the worst mayor in Chicago.
00:06:57.000Year to date, there have been 295 people shot and killed in Chicago, 1,423 people shot and wounded, 1,718 people total shot, and 312 total homicides.
00:07:09.000So let me tell you something about the mayors of Chicago.
00:07:11.000When I grew up, we had Mayor Daly, the son of the other Mayor Daly.
00:07:16.000Now, there was no doubt that Mayor Daly was corrupt.
00:07:52.000As Tucker Carlson said, I would rather vote for the corrupt local mayor that keeps the city nice than the person that plans to make the city like the new tomorrow of a perfect utopia.
00:08:06.000And he was pro-police, and Chicago's murder rate was kept at bay.
00:08:12.000And then, all of a sudden, Chicago was thrown into the national spotlight because the worst of Chicago all of a sudden became president of the United States.
00:08:22.000Now, Barack Obama was not raised in Chicago, but Barack Obama found his values in Chicago.
00:08:28.000Barack Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers, still teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago.
00:08:33.000And Bill Ayers, who, of course, was a domestic terrorist, like an actual domestic terrorist, by the way, ran a group called Weather Underground with his wife, Bernadine Dorr.
00:08:40.000Nothing says romance like trying to blow up a police bureau.
00:08:44.000Bill Ayers, and he got off on all charges, suspiciously.
00:08:47.000And now he teaches your children at the University of Illinois Chicago.
00:08:50.000Barack Obama did his first ever fundraiser to run for office at Bill Ayers' home.
00:08:55.000Bill Ayers, by the way, writes textbooks for children still.
00:08:58.000And Barack Obama then can get thrown onto the national stage, and people started wondering what is actually coming out of Chicago.
00:09:05.000And all of a sudden, this idea of the Chicago political machine became very popular.
00:09:10.000David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, this idea of thug brass knuckle politics got instituted the highest levels of our federal government.
00:09:18.000And then kind of as a payback, first, Barack Obama had Rahm Emmanuel as his chief of staff as one year, and then Rahm Emanuel became mayor of Chicago.
00:09:28.000And I point that moment of tiny dancer, Rahm Emanuel.
00:09:32.000I call him Tiny Dancer because he is a ballerina.
00:09:35.000From that point forward, Chicago took a rapid decline of a city that was corrupt.
00:09:40.000And look, if you have a major city like Chicago, corruption is just kind of like baked into the equation.
00:10:17.000Fatherlessness drives many bad outcomes in America, from teen pregnancy to incarceration.
00:10:22.000An astounding 85% of youth in prison come from fatherless homes, 20 times the national average.
00:10:28.000There's a path forward from the grim statistics.
00:10:30.000That's why I urge you to order a powerful new film called The Streets Were My Father.
00:10:34.000It features the journey of three inner city Chicago men from fatherlessness to gangs and from life in prison to prison ministry programs that set them on the road to redemption.
00:10:43.000As lives as productive members of society, you see this important and inspirational film.
00:10:48.000The streaming version and DVDs go to salemnow.com and buy a copy or copies for anyone you know who doesn't have a father or doesn't believe in the power of God to change lives.
00:11:34.000And you might say, Charlie, why is that?
00:11:35.000Look, after the All-Star game, after the basketball thing, if I'm going to tell you to purchase in alignment with your values and to not support people that decide to do things that are just purely political, then so be it.
00:11:47.000The 90s Bulls, I really believe, played a major role in the type of culture that I was raised in.
00:11:56.000Relentlessly pushing towards excellence, holding yourself to an incredibly high standard.
00:12:01.000It all actually started with the 85 Bears.
00:12:04.000Now, I know all of you listening in Riverside, California, maybe on WABC on the dial, you're saying, okay, Charlie, enough of the Chicago stuff.
00:12:33.000What has happened in Chicago is the model for America.
00:12:38.000Chicago, a once great city of fairness and decency, grit, character, and resilience, has now been taken over by sociopathic ideologues.
00:12:46.000A city that used to look at things as they are and how they should be, and then put public policy measures in place to try to fix those things, has now become the land of professors dominating all.
00:13:01.000Look, Lori Lightfoot is now the mayor of Chicago.
00:13:04.000So after Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he was a total disaster.
00:13:07.000He mishandled, what was that one police shooting he mishandled?
00:14:31.000And so you got Mike Bloomberg and you got Rahm Emmanuel, who are very similar.
00:14:37.000They were transactional old school Democrats.
00:14:40.000And then both New York and Chicago decided to elect college professor activist types as mayor of their city.
00:14:48.000So then all of a sudden, Chicago and New York decided to go in a direction that was completely unprecedented.
00:14:55.000They were going to elect mayors, not based on qualifications, not based on making realistic promises, but on transformational change.
00:15:03.000New York and Chicago made a decision to actually wage war on their citizens.
00:15:09.000And I've always said that mayors are actually the most powerful positions in America that Republicans usually and typically don't care about.
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00:16:46.000How has Chicago, a once great city, fallen from grace alongside New York City?
00:16:53.000And this is going to be happening to every major city across the country.
00:16:57.000Urban areas are vulnerable to this type of takeover.
00:17:02.000Well, first of all, the mayor of Chicago had an amazing opportunity.
00:17:05.000Lori Lightfoot could have reversed course.
00:17:08.000She could have been a magnanimous mayor that cared about lowering crime and bettering schools, attracting businesses and keeping businesses there.
00:17:16.000But Lori Lightfoot has been a very bitter and quite honestly craven mayor.
00:17:22.000She has been not interested in the well-being of her citizens.
00:17:27.000And now thanks to new emails, she's actually a sociopath.
00:17:31.000I mean, she's actually someone that is, I'm sorry for this kind of hostage situation that is existing between her and her staff.
00:17:42.000So Lori Lightfoot became mayor a couple years ago, is probably America's worst mayor.
00:17:49.000And this was a new open records request of a email that Lori Lightfoot sent her team.
00:17:56.000And I am going to read every single word of this.
00:19:44.000When we think about racism, many of us think about its visible and audible forms.
00:19:50.000But the reality is, the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful, but often ones that we can't see.
00:20:03.000According to WLS, Mary Lori Lightfoot firmly declared racism to be a public health crisis in Chicago.
00:20:19.000Mayor Lori Lightfoot made the announcement at the MLK Exhibit Center in North Lawndale.
00:20:24.000She says, We can no longer allow racism to rob the residents of the opportunity to live and lead fully and healthy and happy lives.
00:20:33.000We work closely with the Chicago Department of Public Health and the community organizers to address these inequities once and for all.
00:20:41.000So she says now that she's improving anti-racism policies by building capacity for anti-racism racism leadership, reckoning with the impacts of racism, advancing strategies to operationalize racial equity, empowering transformational community relationships.
00:20:58.000The city is partnering with six community organizations in each part of the city.
00:21:03.000And Dr. Melissa Simon says, it's so frustrating to see patients come to me and now know the system has failed them in so many different ways.
00:21:10.000This is a doctor from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine who says that racism is indeed a public health crisis.
00:21:18.000So how exactly has racism contributed to the 1,423 people shot and wounded in Chicago?
00:21:28.000So here's the lesson for all of you out there: these leaders, they do not actually care about the circumstances around them.
00:21:35.000They think that they are going to march these cities towards a place of chaos, a place of disorder, that eventually only an authoritarian tyrant, autocrat, can then solve the problem.
00:21:47.00015 armed robberies and nine hours overnight, as the Chicago Police Department again orders detectives to sit in cars rather than investigate crimes.
00:22:56.000Chicago stopped caring about things that work and they started caring about things that sound good, bumper sticker phrases like eradicate racism.
00:23:04.000Do you know why Lori Lightfoot became mayor of Chicago?
00:23:11.000Only Donald Trump and the hatred that Donald Trump was able to generate from the left, only he was able to get politicians like Lori Lightfoot a footing.
00:23:45.000Someone broke into the home of the 6,200 block of South Morgan Street sometime before 5:40 a.m. and started shooting, according to a police spokesperson, Steve Rusynov.
00:23:56.000Three women and a man died in the attack.
00:24:01.000Denise Mattis, a mother of four boys, Shamitra Williams, 19, a mother of a two-year-old girl, Ratanya Ariel Rogers, 28, who lived in Rogers Park, and Blake Lee, 35, who lived in the home and did odd jobs in the neighborhood, relatives said.
00:24:16.000Donald Trump did this, but not intentionally.
00:24:19.000You see, the Democrats started to push forward people that were so radical, so willing to engage in fundamental transformation.
00:24:26.000You are now seeing the tragic decline of our once-great cities.
00:24:32.000And by the way, that's the third mass shooting in Chicago in just the last week.
00:24:36.000Second mass shooting of the day, five shot in West Garfield Park.
00:24:46.000Week in progress just this week: 14 shot and killed, 74 shot and wounded, 88 total shot, and 14 homicides.
00:24:52.000And none of this has to be the case, by the way.
00:24:54.000Chicago could be the safest, greatest city in the world if they had just practical wisdom and prudence and what would be called by most people common sense type governing and leadership.
00:25:04.000But this is coming to a city near you.
00:25:06.000Do you have very angry politicians that are running for office that call everything racist and they just want more power to try to implement critical race theory or things to abolish systemic racism?
00:25:18.000Lori Lightfoot snuck into office because of the hatred that was built around Donald Trump, a media that dared not ask her any questions, a defund police movement that has been picking up steam at a rapid, rapid pace.
00:25:32.000And so, what are we supposed to do about this?
00:25:35.000Well, Chicago has no impeachment and no recall mechanism.
00:25:39.000And by the way, do you know that there are no Republicans in Chicago in leadership?
00:25:42.000The entire city council are all Democrats.
00:25:45.000All the congressmen are all Democrats.
00:25:52.000And so what is someone supposed to do about this?
00:25:54.000Well, that system of checks and balances in Chicago has been completely and totally destroyed.
00:26:01.000And it's now spreading all across the country.
00:26:03.000And this is what the conservative movement must stand for.
00:26:05.000We must stand for things that work, that are so obviously good, up against abstractions.
00:26:11.000Meanwhile, Lori Lightfoot is declaring racism, a public health crisis, when she's actually a racist herself, only giving interviews to black journalists against white journalists.
00:26:21.000So maybe she's the public health crisis.
00:26:25.000And this is now going to spread to more cities.
00:26:27.000They're going to say, give us more power because racism and climate change are a public health crisis.
00:26:31.000The Chinese coronavirus and the lockdown surrounding were a social conditioning exercise.
00:26:38.000They were pushing the boundaries of how far they could go to control you and limit your freedoms and liberties.
00:26:46.000One of the main reasons why I am optimistic is because a lot of the radical pipe dreams, the fundamental transformational agenda of the Democrats, the stuff that will actually change things, not just inflation, we can fix inflation.
00:27:00.000It's going to be hard, but we can fix inflation.
00:27:02.000Not just big spending, we can fix that.
00:27:52.000You guys know that phenomenon, the Apple News kind of drumbeat.
00:27:56.000And so they sent me this notification that I didn't sign up for from Mother Jones of all places, which is, you know, to the left of Joseph Stalin's choice paper, Pravda.
00:28:42.000That means that just a 50-50 vote for HR1, HR-5, D.C.'s estate, Puerto Rico's estate, getting rid of the Electoral College and adding seats to the Supreme Court, just like that can happen.
00:28:51.000But Manchin has someone that actually might, if Manchin waffles, that doesn't mean they're going to get to 50.
00:29:00.000Kirsten Cinema, she has said she will not break the back of the filibuster.
00:29:04.000And this 45-minute story, it takes you 45 minutes to listen to the whole thing on audio because I did it when I was working out.
00:29:12.000It's really interesting about this incredibly ambitious.
00:29:17.000That's the best way to describe Kirsten Cinema, is ambition.