Trump Says Chicago Will Learn Why It's Called Department Of WAR, ICE & Guard Moving In ft. Christian Maxwell
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Summary
Candidate for Congress Candice Miller joins Jemele to discuss why President Trump should call in the National Guard to fight crime in Chicago. She also talks about why she thinks the National Guards should be deployed in the city and why it would be a good idea.
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Wasn't there like a Walgreens in Chicago where there's no, there's no items anymore.
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Deodorants locked up, you know, like why is deodorant locked up?
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You know, like, and, and, you know, it really, it's one of those things where you get used
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to it where you're like, Hey, let me push the button to order my deodorant and wait
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for the person to come over and give me my deodorant.
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Like, can you give, can you give me the amp, the one with the 24 hour strength?
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Like, that's not something you want to do with a person, you know?
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If you need, if you need formula, you, you got to wait for somebody to come and get
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Trump downplays post threatening Chicago saying he wants to clean up city.
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The president had said on social media that Chicago was about to find out why it's called
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the department of war, drawing a fierce rebuke from Democrats.
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All the liberals, not from Chicago telling me from the South side that I'm wrong, that
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She said, Trump can't just, can't just send in the national guard to enforce the law.
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Gavin Newsom says, aha, the base is splintering.
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I'm not asking Trump go and send national guard to enforce the law.
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In fact, in the black community, often we saw this from Gallup polling across the country.
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They are asking for more police presence to help deal with the crime.
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So I'm going to say this to all those liberals.
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I say, I would love it in my neighborhood if we saw this.
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And these people from New York, from the, from the Northern suburbs, from the wealthier
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We're going to bring her in and she's going to tell us about what's going on and what she
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Do you want to just introduce yourself real quickly to everybody?
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My name is Christian Maxwell and I'm currently a candidate for Congress in Illinois, a Republican
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So not the most popular thing to be in this state, but I'm Illinois born and raised.
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And then I came to Chicago to pursue school and I ended up marrying my, finding my husband
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And that's how I ended up being a resident of this amazing city.
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So right now I'm just in the middle of the fight that a lot of people are in, which is
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figuring out how to make Chicago a livable place once again.
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So that's the thing I'm excited to talk about with you today.
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Yeah, you're running in congressional district number one.
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And then now most people don't even know, but it's not Bobby Rush anymore.
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So Jesse Jackson's son, but he flies so low under the radar with his effort that people
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Yes, I do believe Trump should send in the National Guard.
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So when we think about the National Guard, the entire purpose of the National Guard is
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The whole concept of people kind of looking at it like a, like a SEAL team is being deployed
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on U.S. soil to police and kind of like detain American citizens.
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And it's really not, it's really sad to see them looked at the way they're being looked
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at right now, like an enemy force that's going to be against the American citizens.
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Their entire purpose is to provide support to states while also being able to access federal
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funding so states don't have to bear the burden of needing those extra resources.
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So what we've seen a lot of other states right now is that a lot, people keep bringing up
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like, oh, red states, he needs to send them to red states first.
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Well, the issue is that a lot of red states are already having multiple federal task force
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or federal integrated task force where they're working with the federal government and leveraging
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They're not hiding their ICE, their, you know, immigration data from the federal government.
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They're not lying about who's being released from Cook County jail.
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They're saying, hey, this person, we just released this person who's not actually a citizen.
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And then ICE is able to go do what they need to do.
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But in Illinois, what we see is that our governor has us literally on lockdown pretty much.
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And he does not want any federal intervention unless it's a check.
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Democrats have run Chicago for what, 100 years?
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In this district alone, the district I'm running for it, I would be breaking a century,
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So I don't know if you're familiar, but I won't jump about it.
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I grew up on the South side in the Garfield Ridge.
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So I've told the stories over and over again about my neighborhood.
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There's an area that used to be called the LeClaire.
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It's still called the LeClaire courts, but they bulldozed it.
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And I actually had a debate on Friday with a liberal who was from New York.
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And the reason why I bring this up, after 100 years of Democrat supermajority,
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congressionally, at the federal level, at the state level, the crime hasn't stopped.
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The police have been unable to get a handle on this.
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And where I grew up, I made this joke to one of the shows the day before.
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I was like, oh, I mean, Chicago's not that bad.
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I mean, I was only shot at like two or three times as a kid.
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Uh, my friend only saw one corpse dragged through an alley.
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I only got, we only got mugged by gangbangers, you know, 15 times.
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So the question I have for you, especially with you running for office is,
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you know, when I asked like, should the National Guard come in?
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It's clearly because the policies aren't working.
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Why do you think after a century, they have not been able to get a handle on this crime?
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So I think as far as the policies, I do believe that the one issue I see right now with a lot
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of liberals is that they really do want to just do a one size fits all approach to this.
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We want to talk to them and we want to give them supplies.
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And that the only reason they're doing criminal things is because they don't have enough stuff.
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There really is a group of people who it's not about how much stuff they have.
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And I know that that's something that people don't want to talk about for some reason.
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But there really are people who are beyond the reach of a dialogue, whether it's a mental
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health situation or just a, you know, just being so inundated with criminality that now
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it really is just the only way you look at life.
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There are some people who are just inherently bad, whether they're rapers, murderers, drug dealers,
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you know, like whatever the situation is, there is no talking to them.
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So no amount of affordable housing, no amount of food stamps, no truck parked in their neighborhood
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with vegetables and cucumbers is going to change how they approach life.
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Please do that for women in these neighborhoods.
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But for the people who are not interested in changing, no, we don't want to give them more
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When you, here's what it looks like though, when you do open up resources to people who
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just have a criminal nature, what they end up doing is you'll open up more senior living
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facilities and then you will see their grandsons, these older women, their grandsons will infiltrate
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the senior living facility and be in their apartment unit and they can't even get them out.
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You know, like there's, there's a lot of situations like that, or women will have section eight
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and then they'll have a boyfriend who's living there, who's dealing drugs out of a section
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And it's like, yeah, this is the housing that she should have because she has children,
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but her boyfriend is literally not doing a single thing to provide for that household
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and is not incentivized to do so because his biggest cost is already covered.
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I mean, that's another huge issue in the city, but it's so entrenched.
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And so, you know, for me, when I, I was talking to my, my friends, uh, from the South, I mean,
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Southwest, I don't want to act like it's, you know, 45th or something, but we're, we're,
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And I said, which would you prefer the muggings at our local park, uh, or a handful of national
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guard picking up trash and walking around the park?
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Cause they're like, no one fears national guard.
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They're cleaning up garbage, but that presence.
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So you talk about, you know, putting a vegetable cart in this neighbor, it's not going to stop
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It's certainly not, but it, there is a pressure created by having national guard present,
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And it's, and it's fascinating that it is the well-to-do liberals in the wealthier neighborhoods
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telling me, my friends and my family, the protection we're asking for is illegal,
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And I think that for them, um, cause I, I'm, we're, me and my husband are foodies.
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Like that's how intense, how heavy we are into food.
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Like I'll go anywhere, you know, for cool food.
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And what I ended up seeing a lot on these Saturday mornings is literally what I described
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I was literally watching people do exactly what I described.
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And when I came back to my area, I don't see people doing what I described.
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They're not outside of their home as much as people in these other neighborhoods.
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I mean, kids literally in, you know, some of these really nicer areas, their kids are
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Like you literally got up and just, you just hit the door immediately to go live your life
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Over here on the South side, we don't have as many businesses as they have.
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You don't have as many restaurants to choose from.
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You don't have as many, I mean, we have in my community, it's a lot of people who live
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I went in there to buy an iPad and they had to go get it from like the, the dungeon of the
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Wasn't there like a Walgreens in Chicago where there's no, there's no items anymore.
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Deodorants locked up, you know, like why is deodorant locked up?
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You know, like, and, and, you know, it really, it's one of those things where you get used
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to it where you're like, Hey, let me push the button to order my deodorant and wait for
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the person to come over and give me my deodorant.
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Like, can you give, can you give me the, the one with the 24 hour strength?
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Like that's not something you want to do with a person, you know?
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If you need, if you need formula, you, you got to wait for somebody to come and get it
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And I think that a lot of people don't realize that's how a lot of the city is living.
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They're living like they are criminals and they're not the criminals.
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So when I advocate for something like the national guard, here's also why I think a lot of Chicagoans
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don't realize that CPD is currently down about 5,000 officers, bare minimum, they're down
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So if you have the national guard here as a support and as a deterrent, that frees up
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I think we only have about 11, maybe like 11,000 or 13,000.
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It frees up some of those officers who may be stationed downtown to kind of go into some
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different districts because a lot of these districts are not covered the way that people
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I actually know for a fact that there have been multiple times where, uh, the mayor has
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decided to pull South side officers to go downtown, to stand on corners, to keep downtown
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So while a lot of black people are saying, you know, they're just going to be downtown.
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Let somebody else think about downtown so we can be thought of.
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Because when I say that the South side is not a process, uh, we're not a priority.
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Do you find that the black community in Chicago, these neighborhoods would prefer a greater
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I think that's why a lot of people are really upset.
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The comment I keep seeing is they're not going to come to the South side.
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And initially I was like, guys, why are you so hung up on that?
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But then I really thought about it and I'm like, this is almost like a reverse cry for
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People are basically saying like, they're just going to not think about us again.
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That's what I think that people are saying when they keep commenting over and over that
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the National Guard isn't going to come to the South side.
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It's because people are used to calling 9-1-1 and nobody comes.
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And even if they do come, the response time for CPD is pretty low.
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One, his promise when he ran was that he was going to hire 200 more detectives.
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For one, you can hire more detectives to close cases, but also hire the additional officers
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And if anything, I think CPD has gotten smaller under his leadership.
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I wonder if that's like, I wonder if that's like a common Chicago thing that you call 9-1-1,
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So I actually live in a really interesting area.
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It's like being, I don't want to call it gentrified, but they're knocking down old stuff
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And I literally watched the million-dollar home next door to me be burglarized.
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Somebody came up on a scooter and started bashing this glass door, patio door, on a million-dollar
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And before the million-dollar home was even built, three guys came up with chainsaws and took
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their time and robbed the construction containers.
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And there's always some excuse of priority or something like that.
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But what are, I left when I was 23, so I come back periodically for the holidays.
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So I think that if you are willing to study the laws pretty much very often, you need to
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know what you can and cannot do here because there's a lot of rules on law-abiding citizens.
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There's more rules for us than obviously it is for criminals.
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So if you don't understand what is considered your castle, like you can't just, your car
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is not an extension of your castle here in Chicago.
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So if your car is being burglarized, like there's not much you can do.
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You have to be in, and you should always have to be in imminent harm in order to use a weapon.
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But the way that you can really get caught up and end up in jail as a law-abiding citizen,
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if you don't know all of the rules and regulations for how to use your weapon here, you can get
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And to be honest, they will probably throw the book at you even more than they would
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So if you, I would say anybody in Illinois, you should have your FOID, even though it's
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really ridiculous that you have to have one, but you should have your FOID and then you
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need to go and get your concealed carry because it's your job to self-rescue.
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In a state like Illinois, they cannot rescue you.
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It takes an officer, even in a good area, it takes officers to like 15 minutes to get to
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If you don't have a weapon and you don't know how to use it, you're going to die.
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For women who, I see a lot of women walking around, I'm like, I really hope that you have
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something in that little pouch besides lip gloss because, you know, it's a lot more going
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on here than Chicago's going to tell you because they're not transparent about how much crime
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is happening in this city because they want you to feel safe.
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And I think that DC was accused of doing this too, flubbing the numbers to make it seem like
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People don't realize I brought, I did a video on TikTok and I was talking about, I'm like,
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I'm like, guys, I don't know if you know, but there's a really extensive cartel presence
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And some people were like, oh man, don't talk about it.
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Because when you have a cartel presence, that means you have a trafficking presence.
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And if you're, you know, a young woman, like you're, you're a commodity, you know, like
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you have to be aware of your surroundings in a way that's a lot higher here.
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And I think that a lot of people just think of gang violence and it's like, oh, it's just
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Like, no, there's a lot of different types of crime in Chicago.
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This is why you see, you know, there was just recently, um, it was a Chinese person who was,
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I think they were, uh, they, the DA, um, got them because they were trying to change over
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And then there was just recently a major cartel leader from the Sinaloa cartel, I believe,
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It's so beautiful, but do not let that fool you.
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There is a real criminal element here that goes so much deeper than just black guys on
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the South side where people are like, they shouldn't be over policed.
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I could care less about the crime that people think this is about.
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There is something that the government knows that we're not a hundred percent aware of that
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I, I for sure want them to come and handle and handle that.
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And it's one of the reasons why I decided to leave the city is how after a hundred years,
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We're talking about Al Capone and we, we, you, you still have violent crime and, and,
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and, and the gangs have gotten worse and people, but why do keep, why do people keep voting for
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So that's something that I've been looking into as well.
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There are less and less people voting in these elections.
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Even when, even though there is still a democratic stronghold, they have just broken the wheel
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of so many conservative or even moderate Democrat voters to the point where they just don't
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If you even look at for some of the surrounding suburbs where there's mayoral elections, you
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That's like an event, you know, that's not like a town's worth of people.
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Um, so, and even with the mayor, mayor Johnson, I mean, he didn't get that many votes.
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And I think it was honestly in the hundreds of thousands, Chicago is a really big city.
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So it's like, there wasn't some overwhelming majority of people who said that Brandon Johnson
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It was a small, it was a small group of people who cared enough to go out and vote.
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And they didn't come back for the runoff, which is why Paul Vallis ended up losing.
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Now, honestly, I know quite a few black people who voted for Paul Vallis and were, and for
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sure wanted him over Brandon Johnson because nobody in their right mind wanted Brandon Johnson.
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If you ask any black person who's like, I don't want to call him boomer age, but even
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like my age and up, they know for a fact that his whole, the youth just needs to kumbaya
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And they're going to come over to the law abiding side.
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Which is why you see youth taking over downtown now.
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And you see, if you check a lot of the schools around here, they literally have 50% absentee
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A lot of CPS schools can't even get kids to come to school.
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And the CTU president is literally like his puppeteer.
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He's not, he's not, none of the stuff that Brandon Johnson is doing is because he's sitting
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And Stacey Davis Gates, whatever her name is, she honestly needs to go on like a watch
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Like that lady is behind so much of the destruction of our children in the city.
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I honestly would love to see CTU get dismantled.
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Because they're a big reason why the city is dysfunctional.
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I was looking up Congressional District 1 in Illinois.
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You actually have a decently active congressional district.
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Jonathan Jackson won with 208,000 votes to Marcus Lewis's 108,000.
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That's like near 50% turnout, like 40 some odd percent.
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It's fascinating to see that in CD1, the Republican turnout rivals AOC in her own district.
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Do you think you're going to be able to, obviously you're going to say yes, but you're going to
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be able to rally the people of your district and vote for some change?
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So when I look at this whole fight, for one thing, I'm taking it one day at a time.
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And I don't do a lot of boasting at all in this because I've never run for politics or
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But what I'm looking at is that people have never been more fed up than they are right now.
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And with Trump in office, they have just a thread of hope.
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And I honestly do believe that if there was ever a time to do it, it's now.
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So Jonathan Jackson, most, if you go up to, I'm actually going to probably do it pretty
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I'm going to just walk around the high park area and I'm going to ask random black people.
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He's slapping up billboards over literally destroyed areas all throughout the black communities,
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just slapping his face up there, talking about people over politics while black businesses
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It's like the people that he talks about all the time, they're not doing better with him
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I looked at all of the legislation that he's done as a congressman.
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And to be honest, none of it is about black people.
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So the very people who elect him, I really wonder if they're checking his work because
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he's on Capitol Hill with, I mean, when you pay for a representative, Illinois is investing
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about three to $4 million a year into Jonathan Jackson and his suite of team members who
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He's produced less than, I think, 15 pieces of legislation.
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How do you do less than 15 pieces of legislation in several years in a district that has this
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And you don't really hear a lot about him at the national level.
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No, he doesn't, because he really is a wallflower.
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He's the, I think the only reason to be honest that he ended up running is because his brother
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So his brother, Jesse Jackson Jr., who was probably the original kid who was supposed
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to, you know, be his daddy, like, you know, main kiddo.
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But he embezzled about $800,000 of his own campaign funds.
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He just got back out and put his little intellectual glasses back on and he thinks he's going to run
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You shouldn't get fresh out of prison and then go try to run for a representative again
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But in Illinois, these men, the true oligarchy, which is Jesse Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr.
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and Jonathan Jackson, that's an actual oligarchy because they love that phrase.
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They think that they own Illinois and that this is their way to just keep themselves top
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of mind a little bit, keep a decent little salary, you know, a decent salary to put on the
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How many of the, in the past 20 years, how many politicians in Illinois went to prison?
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I mean, oh man, it's actually sad because I can't count at this point.
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That's a normal thing is for, you know, Illinois politicians to end up going to not just like,
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I mean, they really go to prison to do hard time.
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Like, that's how I'm like, they don't, they don't just do a little bit of crime or kind
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No, they just like, they're like, no, I'm going for it.
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I'm going to embezzle a million dollars almost and, you know, have to do multiple years.
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But also that's why I know that I want the National Guard to come and I want Trump to
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have his eye on Illinois because I know why they don't want his eye on Illinois because
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When Pritzker, during the pandemic, Pritzker kept Illinois in disaster mode longer than
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RTA is currently 700 billion, I think $700 million underwater because COVID funded ended.
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CPS, our public school system, 100% supported by COVID funding.
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They're like, I think a billion dollars underwater now.
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There are so many different industries across Illinois that he was able to pay the bills for
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So he was content to keep Illinoisans locked in their houses and tell them it was a disaster
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So now when you see people saying that there's less jobs being created, well, it's because
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there's not a bunch of fake COVID jobs being created.
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People going and shoving swabs up your nose at Walgreens.
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You know, healthcare, all this fake healthcare hiring that Illinois did, the only new innovation
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that you see in Illinois right now, if you come, you will notice that the only new businesses
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are dispensaries, autism clinics, and kidney dialysis businesses.
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I drive over the South Side and the only thing I see is new dialysis clinics because people's
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There's a bunch of new autism clinics and ABA clinics, and then there's dispensaries.
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And the dispensary money, nobody knows where that's going because it's going back to rehabs,
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apparently, and then it's discretionary funding for Illinois to decide how they spend.
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So all the taxes from dispensaries is not actually going to Illinois at all.
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I can't remember what show I was watching recently, but someone mentioned one of the characters
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was like, yeah, I was thinking going to Chicago, but you know, I'm not sure it's the
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And I love that there are, it's kind of shocking when I find out there are people who genuinely
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believe the Windy City is called windy because of actual wind, when it's actually about how
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all the politicians are corrupt and blowing hot air.
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And it's like, for a hundred years, we've lived that way.
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I know a lot of people, they'll keep, I see people like, man, I really hope you don't
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And the thing I think that's different about me is that I don't have anybody in my ear.
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I don't have some like shady characters, like, you know, over my shoulder telling me what
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And even though I'm a Republican and I'm a conservative, I don't think the Republican
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party even knows what to do with me in the state because I'm not a normal candidate.
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I haven't done, I'm not doing anything the way that they usually do it.
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This is the GOP's problem, or at least one of their problems.
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They don't want to invest in these districts, like congressional district number one.
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Their attitude is it's a foregone conclusion, but that means every two years, it gets more
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You, you, you, you have to go after these districts that are democratic, democratic party
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That'll actually weaken all the other areas and improve your, your standing in this, in
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Imagine if you destroy a democratic stronghold, it, you're, everything else is falling.
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I've literally had multiple people who were in the GOP in Illinois tell me, oh, your district
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isn't one of the ones like that's a focus for us because you know, it's a, a dim plus
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And I'm like, I don't care what, I don't care what the data says you've, for one, you've
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And for me to be in this area, this is the best shot you will ever have.
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So to have multiple GOP people still tell me, oh, you know, I don't really know if, you
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know, we're going to spend there, but we're going to spend in some random area in Illinois
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And the actual person who's over the GOP in Illinois, they need to have somebody who has
00:27:42.400
more of a mind for strategy because I'm pretty fed up to be honest, as a person who's a,
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I still consider myself, I'm just a citizen, a person who decided to go for it.
00:27:53.220
I just did homeschool this morning before this interview, I'm a regular woman, made
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my husband breakfast this morning because it's this off day, like I'm normal.
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But when I look at this from a business perspective, because I'm a business person as well, there's
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Why is the Republican Party, even at the national level, not investing in more digital media?
00:28:13.420
Why are they not going out and making sure that they have an infrastructure to tell the
00:28:18.420
We're still missing the plot when it comes to really selling what it means to be a
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Republican and to be conservative and to care about the country and be a patriot.
00:28:27.880
Being a Republican is, I mean, being a conservative and loving America is awesome.
00:28:33.900
That's why we don't have enough young men going into the military now where people are
00:28:36.640
terrified of the National Guard because people know nothing about the military.
00:28:46.600
What the GOP needs to understand, you look at the Democrats and they keep producing these
00:28:51.160
squad member social media personality influencer types.
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Not that they're doing all too well right now, to be completely honest.
00:28:59.060
But when you think about who are the most prominent Republicans, it's a bunch of stodgy
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They're not approachable by the average person.
00:29:12.780
There's something good to the professional in the quorum and that I can respect, but you
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And I'll say this, in your district, especially for a place like Chicago, the GOP should be
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investing to erode and chip away at these strongholds.
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Otherwise, you're just crossing your fingers that you can try and win in a swing district.
00:29:35.860
But then all you're really doing is having a battle over gerrymandering instead of actually
00:29:44.860
So if you have any final thoughts or you want to let people know where they can find you?
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So I want people to definitely visit my website, christianmaxwellforcongress.com.
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Even if you're not an Illinoisan and you're an American citizen, a victory in Illinois is
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Illinois is a stronghold for some of the most corrupt dysfunction that plagues our country
00:30:08.700
And a lot of the things that they try here and test here spreads to other areas.
00:30:14.600
And he's going and tampering in other people's elections, going into places like I think he
00:30:21.360
Don't let people like him win here because he will spread his dysfunction via his not-for-profit
00:30:29.100
So if you're a person who wants to be a part of creating the best future or the best chance
00:30:33.340
we have for a better future in America, invest in my election, spread the message, look for
00:30:38.280
more people you can help in Illinois because a victory here is a victory for all of us.
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And we truly do need help because Illinois is basically North Korea at this point.
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Did you mention you have a website or a social media handle?
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And then on TikTok, I started off this entire journey as the Mod Pun, which stands for the
00:31:09.520
And you can find me on X and on TikTok as the Mod Pun.
00:31:13.120
And on Instagram is christianmaxwellforcongress.
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And if you want to go to the website first, you can find everything on the website.
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But I definitely appreciate you so much, Tim, for this.
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And yeah, come, come back and visit, you know, come and visit.
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I was just there for the 4th of July and I'm upset with how the 4th of July celebration
00:31:35.460
There's a lot to talk about with Chicago, but I wish you the best of luck.
00:31:40.440
And we'll definitely, we'll reach out to you and we'll keep track of your campaign and
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It is always great to talk to someone from Chicago.
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And our agreement in that these neighborhoods are in trouble and need help.
00:32:08.400
And we can, you can be from Chicago and be like, yes, Trump, please come and help us.
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I'll say one more time before we're at, but we're going to send you on your way to go
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I believe, I believe we got Russell gearing up.
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Sometimes he's off, but he's currently gearing up.
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We're back, of course, tonight at 8 p.m. for TimCast IRL.
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She's even said if she wins, it's breaking a century of Democrat control.
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But how about at this point you try something different?
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So, with that being said, again, smash that like button.
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Shout out to Steven Crowder and the Mug Club and to Russell Brand