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00:01:33.000We're going to lead the show today with Lori Lightfoot because it's just, it's just shocking what's going on regarding some of these hysterical left-wing reactions to the leaked SCOTUS opinion by Justice Alito.
00:01:50.000Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, I'm reading from the post-millennial, issues call to arms over U.S. Supreme Court.
00:01:58.000Lightfoot tweeted Monday night to my friends in the LGBTQ community.
00:02:03.000The Supreme Court is coming for us next.
00:02:10.000She followed that up with: we will not surrender our rights without a fight, a fight to victory.
00:02:16.000Now, what makes this particularly appalling is if you contrast Mayor Lightfoot's tweets with that of her tweets around January 6, 2021, during which she tweeted, I am in disbelief with what is unfolding in DC right now.
00:02:37.000President Trump and his enablers incited this violence.
00:02:40.000Shame on every elected official in Congress and elsewhere who fomented this anti-democratic insurrection by extremists.
00:03:08.000So one side puts out a call to arms, and it's completely okay.
00:03:17.000Another side, and by the way, we're going to pull some clips, some tape here in just a second, of some of the myriad examples of the left calling for an actual physical call to arms.
00:04:19.000Clip 36: I'm going to play this montage of Democrats saying the word fight.
00:04:23.000Now, before we play this, remember, this was their reason for attacking conservatives, for attacking President Trump, because he used the word fight.
00:04:39.000Now, before January 6th, when people would use the word fight, it was just considered a political turn of phrase.
00:04:47.000But then they said, no, not with President Trump.
00:04:51.000President Trump was using the word fight because he was calling for violence at the Capitol.
00:04:58.000But like I said, what's good for the goose should be good for the Gander.
00:05:02.000But we Democrats are fighting as hard as we can.
00:05:05.000Democrats are fighting as hard as we can, credit it in any way, but we're fighting back.
00:05:10.000And what we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.
00:05:16.000We each have an important role to play in fighting.
00:05:20.000In this fight, like so many before it, it has been a fight.
00:05:24.000The American people are going to have to fight.
00:05:27.000That is the guiding purpose of House Democrats fighting.
00:05:32.000All right, so fighting is part of their parlance.
00:05:36.000All right, but what about the same standard that they applied to President Trump, Cut 35?
00:05:42.000The implication of the president's tweets, the rally, and the speeches were clear.
00:05:47.000President Trump used the word fight or fighting 20 times, including telling the crowd they needed to fight like hell.
00:05:54.000Trump was telling them to fight, and he would keep telling them to fight throughout the rest of his speech.
00:06:00.000So I don't know about you guys, but the left loves to play with words, and I find it to be reprehensible.
00:06:09.000And if we don't call out their double standards, if we don't call out their hysteria, if we don't call their illogical nonsense in times like these, we will lose sense of the truth.
00:06:21.000Now, if anybody's been paying attention to Mayor Lightfoot's Chicago, I think it's very clear to say the last thing we need in Chicago is a call to arms, whether it's from the LGBT community or not.
00:06:37.000The city is rife with crime, rife with murder, rife with gun violence, but she's not alone.
00:06:45.000I want you to remember this clip: Cut 46, and just realize that on the issue of abortion, the left becomes completely unhinged.
00:07:05.000Do you remember this clip when Senator Schumer himself, the leader of the Senate, said that he was going to bring a whirlwind upon Kavanaugh and Gorsuch?
00:09:24.000The whirlwind is coming, and you brought it upon us.
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00:10:21.000So, I want to bring up another one of these shadowy left-wing groups that are behind so much of this violence, so much of this, we call it protest, which is, as we mentioned yesterday on the show, completely illegal.
00:10:36.000To be intimidating federal judges is completely illegal.
00:10:44.000Yesterday, we talked about the group Rise Up for Abortion, which is really just a front for a shadowy revolutionary Communist Party group, a Maoist organization founded in the 60s by Bob Avakian.
00:10:58.000Now, interestingly enough, some on the left don't like that group because they call it a cult, which seems very apropos.
00:11:10.000Now, another group that's actually getting probably more attention because they were the ones that actually doxed the five out of the six conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, is a group called Ruth Sentus.
00:11:29.000Ruth Sentus is asking activists to target Supreme Court justices who may overturn Roe v. Wade with demonstrations at their private homes.
00:11:39.000Now, can we just state it as a A simple clean fact here that you should not protest at private homes.
00:11:51.000You should not confront or get in their faces, as Maxine Waters says, when people are out in public with their families.
00:12:10.000And there might actually be free speech on Twitter moving forward with Elon Musk taking home.
00:12:16.000You do not, and I repeat again: do not protest at private homes.
00:12:22.000I think it's just important to say that it's idiotic, it's stupid.
00:12:25.000If you're a conservative and you're considering protesting in front of, I don't know, Justice Kagan's house because you think and suspect that she or one of her clerks with a leaker, don't do it.
00:12:42.000So Ruth sent us is, you know, obviously it's named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, although I don't think Ruth Bader Ginsburg would appreciate the tip of the hat.
00:12:54.000Stipends are being paid to artists who joined the march, and payments and compensation were also offered to protesters who came to Washington to disrupt the constitutional proceedings of the Senate to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
00:13:07.000So this group has been doing this for a while.
00:13:11.000But this is what's always so interesting about these left-wing groups.
00:13:13.000Now, the left loves to rail against dark money groups.
00:13:17.000Dark money is when you can't see the name of the donor.
00:13:25.000So the group's leadership remains concealed on its website and they have redacted information related to its owner's purchase.
00:13:36.000So Ruth Sentis is this very shadowy organization that is harassing and terrorizing the Supreme Court justices, the conservative Supreme Court justices.
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00:14:52.000I'm so excited to welcome our guest, Carol Markowitz, from formerly of New York, but a New York Post columnist, now a Florida resident, right, Carol?
00:15:58.000And what we're seeing, I want to start with Roe.
00:16:02.000Obviously, the leaked decision from Dobbs.
00:16:04.000We're seeing massive protests across places like New York City and LA, but in New York specifically, we saw St. Patrick's Cathedral experience a protest.
00:16:14.000What are you hearing from your friends that are still in the city?
00:16:16.000It's just so unfortunate that these political protesters who, you know, please protest away, how they're really overstepping the line, going into these religious spaces, threatening religious leaders, threatening the justices, protesting outside the justices' homes.
00:16:32.000I think all of this is so beyond the pale.
00:16:36.000But like for me, I think one of the topics that I talk about a lot is forced conformity.
00:16:56.000I think that we've gotten to where there's only one acceptable opinion and it has to be delivered in a very narrow way.
00:17:03.000And when it's not, like, we get riots in our streets and you know, behavior like we're seeing right now.
00:17:10.000Yeah, I mean, and New York's a very interesting place, I would say, religiously, in the sense that there is a sense of forced conformity.
00:17:18.000There is a sense that this is a secular bastion and we'll tolerate your religion, you know, but keep it off to the side.
00:17:25.000We don't want to get into the messy middle of our political or social lives.
00:17:30.000And you saw this again in a column that you wrote for the New York Post about what happened to Governor DeSantis.
00:17:38.000Your piece in the posts is titled, When New York City's Jewish Museum Bans DeSantis, it sends a clear message to all Jews.
00:17:47.000And apparently, this was the Manhattan's Museum of Jewish Heritage canceled a planned JLC Jewish Leadership Conference event because Florida Governor DeSantis was an invited speaker.
00:18:06.000So this really great organization called Tikva was having an event and they were renting space at the museum.
00:18:13.000And when they told them that Governor DeSantis of Florida was going to be one of the speakers, the museum canceled the event and wouldn't let them go forward with it.
00:18:22.000And it's so gross to me that they would do that because especially because I think of Governor DeSantis as such a friend to Jews.
00:18:30.000I think of Florida as a place that defends Jews, that does not allow violence against Jews to just go on unabated the way the way I think it did in New York for a long time.
00:18:41.000It's a real problem for me that a museum of Jewish heritage is disqualifying somebody from speaking there on the basis of their political opinions.
00:18:51.000And it doesn't escape my notice that I share a lot of those political opinions.
00:19:04.000This is scary to me that your political opinions can have you barred from a Holocaust museum.
00:19:10.000I mean, that's really where we are right now, where if you don't follow the exact line, you're not welcome at the Jewish, you know, Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Holocaust Museum.
00:19:32.000And in fact, back to my PR background, I have massaged a statement or two in my day.
00:19:39.000I understood what they were doing with their very particular language where they were like, oh no, Governor DeSantis is totally welcome to come buy a ticket and come see our exhibit.
00:20:18.000They're saying, buy a ticket, come see our show.
00:20:20.000Yeah, and I think you know it's it as somebody who has a pr background myself.
00:20:25.000Uh, you know, I think this, this language, simply a contractual and logistical decision.
00:20:29.000Uh I, it sounds like somebody consulted legal, right.
00:20:32.000I mean, you know, if they said well yeah, actually we just don't like conservatives, then they were going to open a can of worms, you know.
00:20:41.000It's shocking that this is okay in the what should be the greatest city yeah, on planet earth.
00:20:47.000I know, I know you, you probably love it like a drunk uncle, I mean, it's exactly the perfect way to phrase it's.
00:20:54.000I usually say like a, like an ex-boyfriend, but sure, like a drunk uncle, drunk uncle right, like charming, but just like unbelievably uh unbelievable, unbelievably inappropriate at many times.
00:21:05.000So I mean, here's the thing, the uh, New York um, you left because what they were doing to children.
00:21:10.000Now, I think we cannot separate what the left does uh, to children either pre-born children and they're very willing to discard them to protest in these insane ways to invade churches and I live in California.
00:21:25.000They're invading churches in Los Angeles, Cathedrals in New York.
00:21:28.000We cannot divorce that from how they treat them when they're in school.
00:21:32.000You left New York because of what was happening with uh, remote learning.
00:21:36.000I want to play a cut here that I think is just really poignant.
00:21:38.000Cut 49, um, this is a little girl talking about how she just can't take take it anymore being separated from her, her friends 49.
00:22:22.000I know what they went through and look, my kids are lucky.
00:22:26.000I did whatever we could to get them um out of the situation, out of New York.
00:22:30.000We lived in Florida last year, um for four and a half months, sort of as a test run, but also to just give them full-time school, which we didn't have in New York.
00:22:38.000Um, so I look, all the kids that were just left with you know no education, with um being on their remote devices all day, and who knows how well that went for so many Kids, not being able to see each other's faces.
00:22:55.000I mean, any parent will tell you that they know what kids need, and hiding them away from the world for two years is going to have a real impact on their future.
00:23:06.000You know, I didn't used to write about kids all the time.
00:23:09.000It was just when I saw this very sharp attack on children during COVID that it became sort of my topic because it was so obvious to me that we were destroying the lives of American children en masse.
00:23:22.000And I couldn't look away and I couldn't stop writing about it.
00:23:26.000And my editors of the post were great and let me hit the topic a lot.
00:23:30.000But that's how I became somebody who is an advocate for children and a writer about children's issues.
00:23:36.000It was because I saw the damage that was being done to girls like her.
00:23:41.000Yeah, and I think your work is being noticed a lot.
00:24:02.000I mean, this reminds me of people going to fancy colleges to get degrees that don't matter to study stuff that they can't get jobs in to impress people they don't like.
00:24:12.000I mean, there's only people dumb enough to come to this conclusion two, three, two years into this are highly educated, ignorant New York Times columnists.
00:24:22.000And that, you know, at least they're saying what we've all known since April of 2020, but it's just shocking how slow to the punch they are.
00:24:31.000And this is what we see so much in media is that conservatives are calling it out.
00:24:37.000We're waving our hands in the air saying, stop, stop.
00:24:40.000This is destroying not only the economy, but our children, the next generation.
00:24:44.000And it takes the media two years before it's like socially acceptable for them in their circles, the cocktail parties, to say what we all knew and what was so commonsensical, right?
00:24:54.000I have a friend, Mary Catherine Hamm, who calls it the now it can be told.
00:24:57.000Like now it can be told, you know, two years after the fact that obviously not going to school might have some, you know, deeper impact on kids.
00:25:06.000You know, we haven't even reached the conversation yet about what it's meant for toddlers to cover their faces.
00:25:12.000Toddlers are today in May, in May 2022, still masking in New York City today.
00:25:19.000What is that going to mean for these kids who learned how to speak through a mask, who learned how to convey emotions through a mask, who learned how to understand emotions through a mask?
00:25:28.000All of this is going to have long-lasting damage.
00:25:31.000I look forward to the New York Times article in two years about how messed up these kids are.
00:25:35.000And then we could all believe that it's true.
00:25:37.000Let's play CUP 51 talking about this exact thing, CUP 51.
00:26:29.000I think the collaboration between the teachers' unions and their presidents, like Randy Weingarten, and the administration, is something that we don't fully understand the extent of, just how deep it goes.
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00:28:34.000Let's talk about Randy Weingarten for just a moment here because she's, you know, she's really been front and center so much of the time during COVID and lockdowns and everything that's happened to our kids.
00:28:52.000And we had a mental health crisis before COVID, but with, and Dr. Ng will talk about this far better than I do, but within, but for two years of disruption, two years of looking at the screens, two years of not having a normal kind of routine and rhythm, recovery is really tough.
00:29:20.000The arsonist is like, oh my God, the house is on fire.
00:29:24.000You know, it's just like listening to her is so infuriating.
00:30:32.000And all the teachers got billions and billions of funding that we'll just never see again.
00:30:35.000And by the way, we're just spending money out the wazoo right now.
00:30:39.000We're going to send another 40 billion to Ukraine, but that's another story for another day.
00:30:43.000But listen, I want to finish this segment with you, Carol, and talk about, okay, you left the city.
00:30:50.000What is your message to people like me that still live in communist bastions like California and New York City?
00:30:58.000If you are either someone who's open-minded, let's say you're kind of more of like the Joe Rogan, Bill Maher kind of, you know, middle people that are like, this is insane, everything that's happening.
00:31:43.000You can fight and continue to fight, but you have to get your kids to a better situation if you're in a bad one.
00:31:50.000And if your kid's school is not teaching them appropriately, if they're learning, you know, if they're being, if CRT is being used, if they're learning gender ideology instead of math, if like, if all of this is happening at your school, you have to get your kid out.
00:32:06.000And that's really where you have to kind of draw the line that, yeah, you should stay, you should fight as much as you can, but your kids only have one childhood.
00:32:16.000I think that's really well said, Carol.
00:32:18.000I think the message of this show, I think of everything that's going on today, whether it's from Roe to lockdowns, we're finding out that, you know, obviously we knew all along that it was an unmitigated disaster, this remote learning, is our children have to be first.
00:32:34.000If we want to talk about the values that make, I would say, conservatives, it should be everybody.
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