The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1801 - How This American City Was Reduced To A Total Humiliating Clown Show

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00:00:30.000 Now, I admit that over the years, I may have engaged in hyperbole from time to time.

00:00:35.740 I'm not going to say that I've committed the worst hyperbole of all time.

00:00:39.000 That would be hyperbolic, but may have exaggerated for effect on occasion.

00:00:42.960 And so when I declare that somebody is quite possibly the worst leader of a city in the entire history of this country and possibly in the history of every other country, you may think this is one of those occasions of hyperbole.

00:00:55.640 Indeed, the competition for the worst mayor title is so fierce, especially in recent years, and there are so many esteemed nominees for the award, the Ugandan guy in charge of New York City right now being one of them, that it seems impossible to pick one specific winner.

00:01:10.480 And yet, in spite of the stiff competition and the valiant efforts by guys like Mamdani to claim the title for themselves, I still believe that the current mayor of Chicago, a bloated clown named Brandon Johnson, may, when all is said and done, go down as the worst mayor in the history of mayordom. 0.71

00:01:31.480 And he is legendarily dreadful in ways that make him the perfect representation, a mascot, really, of what has become of the Democrat Party.

00:01:40.820 And of all of Brandon's colossally clownish moments, perhaps his worst came just this past week.

00:01:48.340 I'm going to read what he posted on Sunday. And as I do, keep in mind that this post was written and then published on X on the heels of a weekend where six people were murdered in Chicago.

00:01:59.280 39 others were injured in shootings.

00:02:01.440 All of this, of course, was black-on-black violence, mostly related to drugs and other crimes.

00:02:06.080 But Brandon was not thinking about that on Sunday.

00:02:08.400 Instead, he was focused on something else, something totally imaginary.

00:02:13.560 Quote,

00:02:13.960 For too many transgender Chicagoans, the sense of belonging they deserve in their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity in spaces that should feel safe and welcoming.

00:02:24.520 Since declaring a trans-femicide state of emergency, our administration has strengthened the city's capacity to support LGBTQ plus Chicagoans.

00:02:34.100 This framework builds on that work by centering on the voices and lived experiences of trans-Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.

00:02:45.600 Yes, you heard that right.

00:02:47.660 It sounded exactly like you heard it.

00:02:49.880 Blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:02:50.960 Trans-femicide state of emergency. 1.00

00:02:53.440 Blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:02:54.520 just drops it in there like it's a real thing. And then he continues right along as if nothing

00:02:58.280 ever happened. And based on the implication contained in this post, it appears that a

00:03:02.260 transfemicide state of emergency, whatever that is, has been ongoing for quite some time in Chicago.

00:03:07.580 And everyone's just kind of missed it. But now we know. So I had to look this up to make sure

00:03:13.100 that it wasn't an elaborate prank. Turns out that as advertised, Brandon Johnson first signed an

00:03:18.260 executive order declaring an ongoing trans femicide state of emergency in 2024. And the

00:03:25.720 order is entitled executive order number 2024 to declaration of trans femicide emergency and

00:03:32.820 establishment of working group on trans femicide and protections for the transgender and gender

00:03:37.620 diverse community. So what is trans femicide you might ask and why is it an emergency? These are

00:03:46.740 good questions. And if you read on, the executive order explains everything. So here's what it says.

00:03:53.020 Quote, whereas Chicago is the deadliest city in the nation for black trans women, whereas trans 0.92

00:03:58.520 femicide, which is the killing of trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when 0.90

00:04:03.600 motivated by trans misogyny, is an example of violence and discrimination, which this city

00:04:09.020 should work against. Whereas the accurate reporting and tracking of hate incidents and hate crimes,

00:04:13.980 including trans-femicide, where the victim is black, indigenous,

00:04:17.220 Latin, or a person of color, is essential to identifying trends

00:04:20.440 and implementing effective measures to combat violence and discrimination.

00:04:23.680 And whereas city governments seek to act swiftly and effectively

00:04:26.660 to provide help and support for our residents and employees,

00:04:30.140 now, therefore, I, Brandon Johnson, do hereby order the creation of a working group.

00:04:38.680 Well, it's an interesting document.

00:04:40.360 The phrasing words like, you know, whereas and I do hereby order make it sound like some sort of magisterial decree.

00:04:50.440 But then everything in between those words, trans, femicide, Latin, gender identity, make it sound like the ramblings of a purple haired 21 year old gender studies major with a personality disorder.

00:05:01.240 And in that way, it perfectly captures Brandon Johnson's vibe and the vibe of the party he represents.

00:05:07.200 So, according to this emergency declaration, they're very concerned about trans femicide, but in particular, they're concerned about trans femicide that's motivated by trans misogyny.

00:05:19.720 And to get even more particular, they're especially worried about trans femicide that's motivated by trans misogyny and that impacts a person of color, a Latine, not to be confused with a Latrine, an indigenous person or a black person.

00:05:37.080 Now, if you're genocided and it was trans-femicide, but not trans-misogyny, then you go to the back of the line.

00:05:45.080 I mean, we're still worried about you a little bit, but we'll get to you. 0.97

00:05:49.160 But don't even bother complaining about getting trans-genocided if you're white. 0.98

00:05:53.380 I mean, that would just be ridiculous, no matter how misogynistic your attacker was. 0.97

00:05:57.000 All of this may seem incoherent and or redundant to you, but rest assured, it all makes perfect sense. 0.56

00:06:02.840 And it's all vitally necessary, according to Brandon, because, and I quote, 1.00

00:06:06.120 Chicago is the deadliest city in the nation for black trans women. Urgent measures are needed in 1.00

00:06:12.680 response to this epidemic of violence. Working groups must be established. Emergency declarations

00:06:17.860 must be issued. Somebody turn on the bat signal. We need reinforcements. But wait a minute, you 0.99

00:06:23.740 might ask. What exactly does it mean to be the deadliest city in the nation for black trans women? 0.98

00:06:30.800 If you've been following the show for a while, you know that trans-identified individuals have

00:06:35.000 a much lower risk of being murdered on a per capita basis than nearly every other demographic

00:06:39.740 group in the country. They have a much higher risk of suicide because they're in a constant state of

00:06:44.380 war with their own biology. They're also a much greater threat to the public than the average

00:06:48.420 person for the same reason. But in terms of being murdered themselves, trans-identified individuals 1.00

00:06:55.240 are far safer on average than, say, straight white men. So how can there be a trans-femicide

00:07:02.160 emergency anywhere, much less in the Democrat stronghold of Chicago. How many, quote, black 0.96

00:07:09.140 trans women are dying exactly in order to make Chicago the deadliest city in America for that 1.00

00:07:15.160 group? Does it, does it turn out that Chicago actually is MAGA country after all? Have we all 1.00

00:07:21.560 been giving Jussie Smollett a hard time unjustifiably? Do we owe him an apology? Well,

00:07:26.380 let's take a look. In fact, let's try this as a pop quiz just for fun. Next time you're at

00:07:32.880 trivia night at the pub, in case this comes up, now you'll know. Can you guess how many

00:07:39.960 trans-identified people of any kind, not just black, were murdered in Chicago last year?

00:07:47.580 Now, this is a city where more than 400 homicides took place in 2025. Given that baseline and given

00:07:54.180 that we're talking about a black trans femme genocide here, what's your best guess? In fact, 0.94

00:08:00.680 let's extend this out to the entire state. How many trans identified people of any race do you

00:08:06.200 think were murdered in Chicago or anywhere else in the state of Illinois in the entire year of 2025?

00:08:13.540 What do you think? I mean, this is a genocide, remember? A state of emergency. The mayor has

00:08:19.280 made a task force to deal with it. So what's the number? How many dozens or hundreds of trans

00:08:26.200 identified individuals have lost their lives in this wanton slaughter? 200, 150, 75? Surely it 0.84

00:08:36.660 must at least be 50. 25 at a bare minimum, right? I mean, it's got to be. Well, as it happens after

00:08:42.300 looking into it, the answer is zero. Zero trans identified people were murdered in the city of

00:08:50.580 Chicago or anywhere else in the state in 2025. And by extension, zero black quote unquote trans 0.73

00:08:59.720 women were murdered in the city of Chicago in 2025. Yes, the city of Chicago has declared a

00:09:05.360 state of emergency over a genocide of so-called trans people in which zero of those people were

00:09:11.600 murdered. So this is the first genocide in history to kill zero people. If you're going to be

00:09:19.500 targeted by a genocide, that's a pretty good one. Of all the genocides that have actually happened 1.00

00:09:23.980 in history, if you have to choose one to be the target of, like, this is the best one you could

00:09:30.760 hope for. Like, I'll take the genocide where nobody is killed. I'll take that one. And, you know,

00:09:39.720 I can make that determination because after scouring the public databases of the left-wing activist groups HRC and the Trans Remembrance Project, both of which extensively track the deaths of trans-identified individuals, there is not a single fatality listed in the entire state of Illinois for the past year.

00:09:59.120 And believe me, if somebody identified as trans had died in Illinois for any reason, if they died in a car accident or like slipped on a banana peel and hit their head, these websites would have posted about it.

00:10:12.480 OK, in order to secure donations, both the HRC and the Trans Remembrance Project go out of their way to document every trans fatality they can find.

00:10:21.900 even though in every case the fatalities have one of four causes either it's a suicide or it was a

00:10:29.360 random killing that had nothing to do with the person identified being identified as trans or 0.98

00:10:33.940 it was a murder by a black guy who hired a prostitute and was furious to discover that 0.92

00:10:38.600 she was really a he or it was a death due to natural causes that's it okay they don't have 0.95

00:10:44.760 a single case on their website that actually supports this fantasy of a trans genocide at 0.98

00:10:51.140 the hands of white supremacist neo-Nazis. I mean, as the stats clearly show, and this is undeniable, 0.61

00:10:58.440 a trans person is an order of magnitude more likely to kill a white Christian than to be 0.99

00:11:05.080 killed by a white Christian. Because the latter basically never happens anywhere in the country 0.99

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00:11:45.540 belaboring because it's both very dark and honestly kind of morbidly amusing at some

00:11:50.120 level. So we'll start with the latest database of trans fatalities from the Trans Remembrance 1.00

00:11:55.520 Project, which runs from November 1st, 2024 to October 31st, 2025. And they report that in total,

00:12:02.920 there were just 58 deaths of trans identified people in that one year period. And of those

00:12:08.720 58 deaths, 21 were suicides and 27 were violent deaths. Now, if you're up on your math, you might

00:12:17.260 realize that 21 and 27 don't add up to 58. That's because 10 of those deaths had nothing to do with

00:12:25.120 anything. They were natural deaths. The person just dropped dead from cancer or something like

00:12:30.740 that. And I'm not kidding. They include deaths of old age and cancer in their tally of 58 deaths

00:12:38.140 of trans-identified people. That's how desperate they are to inflate the numbers. They're trying

00:12:42.460 to make the case that there's a genocide. And so they include in their figures people who died of

00:12:48.820 heart disease. That's how fundamentally dishonest these people are, which is no surprise, of course.

00:12:56.560 And one of those fatalities is Eli Stabline, 49 of Tucson, who, quote, passed away after a long

00:13:04.700 battle with kidney cancer. I guess the kidney cancer was transphobic. But just think of how

00:13:11.280 absurd all of this is at the outset. The people talking about a transgenocide are aware of only

00:13:18.520 27 violent deaths in total involving trans-identified victims. That's 27 people who

00:13:25.480 were killed in the entire country in an entire year in a population of over 340 million people.

00:13:31.540 Now, according to an estimate from UCLA, there are 2.8 million Americans over the age of 13 who identify as some classification of trans.

00:13:40.140 So with just 27 homicides per year, that comes out to a per capita murder rate of 0.96 per 100,000.

00:13:48.820 For comparison, the homicide rate for black men in the U.S. is 46 per 100,000.

00:13:54.760 For white men, it's 5.7 per 100,000.

00:13:57.780 For Asian men, it's 1.5. 0.54

00:13:59.620 For black women, it's 7.8. For white women, it's 1.9. The only demographic group in the country

00:14:06.000 with a lower per capita murder rate than trans identified individuals is Asian women at 0.5

00:14:12.840 per 100,000. That's it. Everybody else is getting genocided at a far higher rate. So if there's a

00:14:22.160 genocide of trans people with a 0.96 per 100,000 murder rate, then the genocide of white men is 0.79

00:14:32.840 unfathomably worse statistically. But the statistics get even worse for the trans activists

00:14:39.360 when you look at how precisely these people are supposedly getting genocided. And this is something

00:14:45.980 that they really don't want you to do, so I'm going to do it. Here's one trans-identified 1.00

00:14:50.980 individual on the list, a man dressing as a woman and using the name Camorra Woods,

00:14:56.300 who you can see right there. Note that this person was not killed in Chicago because, again,

00:15:00.840 no trans people were killed in Chicago last year. This story comes from Indianapolis, which is

00:15:06.300 close enough, I suppose. Now, according to the Trans Remembrance Project, Camorra Woods, quote,

00:15:11.380 loved animals and making people laugh. She had a big heart, lit up the room around her,

00:15:15.540 and was proud of who she was as a transgender woman. Of course, air quotes around her and she,

00:15:22.080 needless to say. So there's not much information there as to how exactly poor Kimura met his

00:15:29.560 violent end. And that's odd, given that the whole point of this project is to expose

00:15:33.940 a transgenocide. You'd think a lot of details would be forthcoming to expose the 1.00

00:15:37.880 white supremacist menace, but they don't include any details at all. So I went looking for them

00:15:43.620 And I discovered to my shock the following information from the local Fox affiliate, quote, Woods was found half naked in her bedroom, shot in the head.

00:15:51.700 Court documents detail how a detective identified a suspect by using a fingerprint on a condom wrapper selected at the scene and matched 23-year-old James Wallace, a convicted felon, with an active warrant for allegedly tampering with his GPS monitor in November.

00:16:05.800 A security video from the Scarborough Lake Apartments showed a woman getting out of Woods' car and entering her building at 2.14 p.m. on June 25th.

00:16:13.880 According to court documents, at 2.41, another vehicle entered the property, later discovered to be a Lyft ride, and dropped off a man believed to be Wallace.

00:16:21.360 But only 17 minutes after the man was seen entering the building, he walked back out and left the complex alone.

00:16:27.500 Documents said that Wallace told police he knew Woods from local bars and clubs and found her contact information online.

00:16:33.760 Investigators said Wallace had also pawned the victim's cell phone.

00:16:37.680 When they brought him in for questioning, he said that he didn't want her to call for help.

00:16:42.000 He denied knowing Woods was transgender.

00:16:45.840 Now, hearing this, we all know what James Wallace looks like, but in case there's any doubt, here you go.

00:16:53.800 This is why they don't provide any details about any of the people who are actually committing this so-called genocide, transgenocide, that doesn't exist. 0.97

00:17:02.460 In the rare cases where it's a legitimate murder as opposed to an accident, trans-identified victims are prostitutes who are getting killed by black men. 0.87

00:17:11.920 And those black men are usually upset to discover that the prostitute is actually a man and not a woman as advertised, and so they start shooting and stabbing. 0.97

00:17:20.960 And in some cases, they start robbing, too, although that was probably the plan all along, regardless of whether the prostitute was secretly a man or not. 0.98

00:17:27.480 Well, let's not get hung up on the details.

00:17:30.100 And this is the part you're not supposed to say out loud. 0.95

00:17:32.460 If we actually arrested all of the people, what few of them exist, who are committing this fake transgenocide that the left is always talking about, we'd be arresting black men and basically only black men.

00:17:46.540 And the more the left blames Donald Trump's rhetoric and transphobia, the more obvious it becomes that they want you to ignore this very obvious fact. 0.82

00:17:54.760 Kamala Harris voters are killing people constantly and occasionally a trans-identified person is

00:18:00.060 thrown into the mix in the name of diversity. I mean, diversity is our strength after all.

00:18:07.280 And more importantly, to the extent that trans-identified people are getting murdered and

00:18:10.260 you know, it's happening very, very rarely, they're not being hunted down because they

00:18:14.860 identify as trans. They're being killed in domestic disputes by people they've allowed 0.92

00:18:18.200 into their homes, often under false pretenses, which is the exact opposite of a genocide. And

00:18:22.560 a genocide or a trans femicide, a group of people is exterminated because of some identifiable

00:18:28.380 characteristic in a systematic fashion. What's happening to the two dozen or so trans-identified

00:18:34.140 murder victims is not remotely systematic. They're basically very unlucky people from a statistical

00:18:40.360 perspective. And more often than not, they're inviting their killers into their homes in order

00:18:45.660 to have sex with them for money. And usually they're lying about their gender. This is one 0.96

00:18:52.320 of the most dangerous professions imaginable and you're making it considerably more dangerous for

00:18:58.040 yourself by lying to your customers who are going to be understandably upset when they discover the

00:19:05.600 truth about the situation. Consider the very similar case of Tahiri Broom, 29 years old of

00:19:12.300 Southfield, Michigan. He's also on the trans remembrance list. Watch this news report and see

00:19:18.060 what you notice. It's been four days since the family of Tahiri Broom, who also went by Tokyo,

00:19:23.660 learned about her brutal murder while visiting Michigan. It's really like my whole family in

00:19:28.660 like an uproar. It's like one of those things, like you don't know what to feel. You want to be

00:19:33.340 angry, you want to be sad, you want to cry, you want to scream, you want to do. It's a big ball

00:19:37.880 of emotion. Even after the arrest of the person police believe is responsible Robert Ridges III,

00:19:44.560 There are still a lot of questions going through her aunt Patricia Bender's mind.

00:19:49.640 But you just want to know why. Like, why did you do that?

00:19:51.500 Why do you feel like she deserved for that to happen?

00:19:55.240 You know, and then that way and that magnitude.

00:19:58.120 Being that they caught him, that brought some peace.

00:20:02.720 But it's like, it don't take away the pain.

00:20:05.160 Bender says her niece loved making people laugh, was full of energy, confidence, and loved Nicki Minaj.

00:20:11.440 Funny, smart, like one of those people that could walk into the darkest room and find some light in it.

00:20:18.820 She's hoping people see Broom in that bright light instead of focusing on what she did for work.

00:20:24.300 It doesn't mean that that person was a bad person. She was never a bad person.

00:20:28.380 Southfield police say they haven't ruled out the possibility that Broom was targeted.

00:20:33.080 The suspect made 33 calls to sex workers, including black transgender women like Broom.

00:20:38.760 He knew. I believe it was possibly maybe even a motive of a robbery as well, because when he was interviewed, it turned out he didn't have any money.

00:20:48.840 So, you know, how is he going to pay for services, if you will? And so, but he's carrying a handgun.

00:20:55.120 So they all use the man's fake pronouns to pretend he was a woman.

00:20:58.480 And to keep the illusion going, the news station also goes out of its way to hide relevant details from the audience.

00:21:03.640 In that entire segment, which runs for several minutes, they never get around to explaining the circumstances of the murder.

00:21:09.300 They vaguely imply the victim was a prostitute, but they're not clear.

00:21:12.820 And they certainly don't describe the potential motivation of Robert Ridges III, the 28-year-old black man that police arrested.

00:21:19.620 So this is what I was able to glean by looking around for a bit.

00:21:22.520 This is from the local prosecutor's website.

00:21:24.380 quote, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald charged Robert Ridges III, a 28-year-old

00:21:30.340 residence of Southfield, with second-degree murder carrying concealed weapons and weapons

00:21:34.280 felony firearm in the death of Tahiri Broom, a 29-year-old transgender woman and sex worker.

00:21:39.880 The victim's name given at birth had been Jamal Broom. Ridges met Broom through a commercial sex 0.78

00:21:45.240 advertisement, and the two met up February 9 near Ridges' apartment. In Southfield, following an

00:21:50.420 argument, Ridges is alleged to have shot Broome. Now, again, we can all piece together what

00:21:55.560 happened here. This is the kind of homicide that, according to the mayor of Chicago, constitutes a

00:22:00.080 state of emergency. Never mind the fact that precisely zero homicides like this have even

00:22:05.220 occurred in this city in the past year. Never mind the fact that every weekend, dozens of people are

00:22:09.940 shot, mostly in black-on-black shootings, on the streets of Chicago. According to the mayor of

00:22:14.740 Chicago, the real emergency is that black men are killing black prostitutes when they discover 1.00

00:22:20.220 that those black prostitutes are really also black men. Now, the rest of this list, I have to say, 1.00

00:22:26.260 is really pushing it. Here's one example of a violent death of a trans person, for example.

00:22:32.280 This is a man using the name Blair Sawyer. According to the Trans Remembrance Project,

00:22:37.180 Sawyer died violently and was someone who loved dragons and bike riding. What they don't tell you

00:22:43.620 is that Sawyer was run over while he was riding his bike. So this was clearly a random and

00:22:48.040 unfortunate accident, the kind that happens every day to cyclists in this country. But according

00:22:53.500 to trans activists, quote, until the driver is found and the details surrounding the accident

00:22:57.720 or incident are clear, we can't assume that this was unrelated to Blair's identity. We don't know.

00:23:05.060 Yes, they're categorizing this death as anti-trans violence because in their minds it's possible

00:23:09.700 that the driver ran over this man because he could see from a mile away that he identified

00:23:15.080 as trans. I mean, they have no basis for believing that whatsoever. There's no evidence to suggest

00:23:21.020 that the driver could have seen any signs that this person identified as trans. But other than

00:23:29.060 just like assuming that if someone's a cyclist, they must be gay or trans, which, you know, I mean,

00:23:34.200 you could argue that that's an assumption you could make. But in the eyes of trans activists,

00:23:38.040 whenever, you know, any trans identified person for any reason dies, the presumption is that MAGA

00:23:43.940 transphobes are responsible. If a trans person got hit by a train, they would tell us that they

00:23:49.000 can't rule out the possibility that the train conductor was a transphobe. This is how they

00:23:55.500 think, and it's how the mayor of Chicago thinks as well. They also list somebody named Katoria

00:24:00.840 Banks, with a Z, I'm sure that was his Christian name, on their list of trans-identified people

00:24:06.860 who violently died without mentioning that Banks and his brother were shot during an attempted

00:24:10.800 carjacking in Atlanta. Again, no indication that the carjackers were looking for cars owned by gay

00:24:16.740 or trans people. But because a violent act happened to a person who identifies as trans,

00:24:21.740 they claim it was a targeted attack. And they include it in their statistics.

00:24:27.020 Now, none of this is new. Just a few years ago, the Biden White House publicly mourned the death

00:24:30.860 of an indigenous, queer, non-binary environmental activist known as Tortugita, whose real name is

00:24:37.820 Manuel Tehran. And according to HRC, Tortuguita was, quote, shot and killed by Georgia state

00:24:51.660 troopers in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 18th, 2023, during an ongoing protest alongside other

00:24:56.460 self-described forest defenders protesting against a proposed $90 million, 85-acre police training

00:25:03.360 facility deemed cop city by activists slated to be built in the South River in Atlanta. On the

00:25:10.660 morning of the 18th, police were executing a raid of the camp to knock down structures and

00:25:16.140 remove the protesters. During this process, a state trooper was shot and wounded and Tortue

00:25:21.420 was killed. Now, you can go look up that paragraph right now on the HRC website. It's still there.

00:25:26.080 Again, as you probably noticed, they're short on the details. Instead of explaining why this guy

00:25:30.740 was shot, they write, quote, Tortue's death is at least the seventh violent killing of a trans or

00:25:36.540 gender non-conforming person in 2023 and the second in Georgia in six weeks. Now, what's

00:25:43.300 admitted is that Tortue fired four times at police officers with his nine millimeter pistol,

00:25:49.640 striking a Georgia state trooper. Yes, he shot a police officer and they simply don't mention that.

00:25:56.360 That's how flagrantly these people are willing to lie in order to cook the numbers.

00:26:00.740 on this fake genocide. Now, meanwhile, Brandon has, you might think, bigger problems to worry

00:26:09.440 about. Now, of course, literally any problem is bigger than the transgenocide, given that the 0.99

00:26:14.800 transgenocide doesn't exist. The potholes all over the city are a bigger problem than trans 1.00

00:26:21.960 people being murdered. In fact, they're a significantly bigger problem. The potholes 0.98

00:26:25.840 on just one stretch of road are so bad that CBS News Chicago did a whole report on them

00:26:30.080 a couple of months ago. Residents of the city have complained about the road for years. They

00:26:34.460 have trouble getting to work because their cars get damaged. It's dangerous. It's a total state

00:26:39.440 of disrepair. And yet Brandon can't even fix that problem and doesn't care to. He's also about to

00:26:46.140 lose the city's football team, which is preparing to relocate its stadium to Indiana, which it

00:26:51.880 cannot be overstated as a massive financial loss for the community that will surely prove disastrous

00:26:57.860 for many local businesses. These are the kinds of problems that the mayor is supposed to solve,

00:27:04.980 but Brandon Johnson doesn't think about them. Much less does he worry about the 40-plus

00:27:09.820 shootings that commemorated Juneteenth weekend. The city is hemorrhaging rich people and corporations,

00:27:15.580 including Ken Griffin, who fled Chicago due to the violence and took his hedge fund with him.

00:27:20.760 But Brandon is focused on his reparations task force instead, and on his delusional idea that

00:27:26.520 you can't arrest your way to public safety,

00:27:29.080 even as his personal armed security detail

00:27:31.180 costs $30 million a year for the taxpayer.

00:27:34.080 He said that if you use the term illegal aliens, 0.81

00:27:36.880 then you also think black people should be called slaves, 0.62

00:27:40.880 a line that makes no sense, 0.95

00:27:42.800 but you could tell he rehearsed it several times in the mirror

00:27:45.880 and is really proud of himself.

00:27:47.480 Watch. 1.00

00:27:48.320 We don't have illegal aliens.

00:27:50.820 I don't know if that's from some sort of sci-fi message

00:27:53.660 that you wish you had.

00:27:54.440 well listen the legal term for my people were slaves you want me to use that term too

00:27:59.100 so look let's just get the language right we're talking about undocumented individuals

00:28:03.620 that are human beings the last thing that i'm going to do is accept the type of racist 0.82

00:28:08.760 nasty language to describe human beings yes we absolutely want to refer to black people as slaves 0.54

00:28:16.360 if you're talking about black people who are indeed slaves and there are quite a few black 0.98

00:28:20.600 slaves today, most of whom are in Africa. It's completely appropriate to use an accurate 1.00

00:28:26.300 description of a person's legal status. It's not even an endorsement of that status, obviously.

00:28:32.340 And by extension, yes, it is completely appropriate to use the term illegal alien,

00:28:38.460 which he thinks is a sci-fi term because he's illiterate. This is one of those idiotic 1.00

00:28:43.460 expressions you see on lawn signs, no person is illegal. And then they'll say you have to 1.00

00:28:47.880 call them undocumented. But if a person can't be illegal, then how can a person be undocumented?

00:28:53.840 That doesn't make sense. It's incoherent and dumb. So we should keep saying what's true, 1.00

00:29:00.080 which is that illegal aliens, illegal aliens don't belong in this country. That just happens to be 1.00

00:29:04.800 the case. And we should also keep mocking Brandon Johnson, especially because

00:29:09.400 of his comments on the so-called sub-minimum wage. Watch.

00:29:13.860 We passed pay time off. Yes, we've abolished the subminimum wage that has its vestiges tied to slavery and black and brown women being forced to make ends meet off of less than thirty five thousand dollars a year. 1.00

00:29:26.060 That's an injustice. Now, what he's saying isn't even true.

00:29:29.520 There's no subminimum wage. If a tipped worker doesn't make the minimum wage after tips, which is rare, then the employer is obligated to make up the difference.

00:29:39.280 And, you know, that wasn't the case during slavery or in the immediate aftermath of slavery.

00:29:45.800 Now you're guaranteed a minimum wage.

00:29:47.980 And, you know, are you guaranteed more than thirty five thousand dollars a year?

00:29:51.280 No, nobody is.

00:29:53.640 But that's a livable salary and you're certainly not a slave because you're getting paid and you're choosing to do this work.

00:30:01.020 And since we're doing a Brandon Johnson Greatest Hits episode now, I guess we can't forget that Johnson also blamed the constant shootings in Chicago on Richard Nixon.

00:30:09.280 Watch.

00:30:10.300 So, yeah, it is personal. 0.86

00:30:17.680 Black death has been, unfortunately, accepted in this country for a very long time. 1.00

00:30:24.980 We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes. 0.50

00:30:28.420 And people mocked President Johnson.

00:30:31.320 And we ended up with Richard Nixon.

00:30:36.620 I'm going to work hard every day to transform this city.

00:30:38.840 That's what it takes to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago and everybody to step up.

00:30:42.820 Maybe he's actually making the based right wing argument here and we've got Brandon all wrong.

00:30:47.360 Maybe he's coming out against Nixon's efforts to desegregate the schools and urban centers in the country, saying, you know, it led to the current violence that we're seeing in cities like Chicago. 0.98

00:30:58.700 Brandon is so dumb that it's hard to tell. 0.93

00:31:01.280 It's more likely that he's referring to the fact that Nixon actually tried to enforce the law against violent mobs. 0.99

00:31:07.420 But who knows?

00:31:08.840 And here's one more for good measure. This is from that cross-burning episode we discussed last week.

00:31:13.680 Even when a reporter tells Brandon that a gay Asian leftist burned the cross in a park in order to make a grand demonstration of how racist MAGA Republicans are, Brandon is not faced.

00:31:23.820 He continues to act like the cross was indeed burned by a MAGA white supremacist, and he talks about how black people are still victimized to this day. Watch. 0.83

00:31:35.080 Merlin Liu, who was interviewed by NBC5, who admitted to allegedly burning the cross in Grant Park.

00:31:41.140 During that interview, he seemed to lack an understanding of the meaning behind burning a cross and the implications of that.

00:31:49.100 How concerning is that to you as mayor, obviously, of a city with a predominantly black population?

00:31:59.640 And do you think there needs to be more education around that?

00:32:02.700 Well, look, I can't speak to his lack of or understanding of the gravity of what he is alleged of having done.

00:32:15.460 And, you know, again, it's a painful reminder of how hatred towards black Americans still permeates, you know, in our society.

00:32:27.060 In case you're wondering how people in Chicago tolerate this, the answer is that they've given up at this point.

00:32:33.420 Johnson has a 7% approval rating. Yes, a 7% approval rating, which is the lowest ever recorded for any mayor of Chicago by far.

00:32:44.020 Lori Lightfoot, who had both the look and leadership skills of Beetlejuice, only went as low as 27%.

00:32:50.400 This is from M3 Strategies, which ran the poll, quote,

00:32:53.380 79.9% of voters disapprove of Johnson, with just 6.6% holding a favorable view, a net favorability of negative 73%.

00:33:03.480 67% say crime is Chicago's biggest issue, outpacing high taxes and inflation.

00:33:09.800 Issues like LGBTQ plus rights, 3%, and reproductive freedoms, 4%, rank among the lowest priorities.

00:33:19.000 So the mayor, seeing that nobody in Chicago cares about LGBT issues, decides to declare a state of emergency over a non-existent trans femicide, even though trans identified people are the only people who aren't getting shot to death in his city. 0.55

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00:36:10.860 Now, what's important to understand through all of this utter stupidity is that the problem is not limited to Brandon Johnson. 0.99

00:36:19.300 He's fun to mock, and we should mock him. 0.99

00:36:22.100 But Chicago's dysfunction will continue long after he's gone. Really, we need to look more broadly at the city of Chicago itself, which is basically the perfect manifestation of modern Democrat leadership in every conceivable way from the from the aesthetics, you know, all the way down.

00:36:39.420 And there's no better illustration of that than the new temple to Barack Obama that we've talked about on the show before, but it just opened a couple of days ago on the south side. Watch.

00:36:50.760 So when you walk inside the Obama Presidential Center, the first thing you see is toward

00:36:56.800 a more perfect union, with a message from the president saying America has always been

00:37:02.500 a work in progress.

00:37:04.900 But you stop and listen and hear the president's remarks, yes we can.

00:37:10.120 We all remember that anthem of his candidacy that led him to the White House.

00:37:16.960 And on the eighth floor is the Sky Room, the final stop in the Obama Presidential Center.

00:37:21.160 It has sweeping views of the south and west sides of Chicago, as well as Lake Michigan.

00:37:26.460 But even more than that, these giant letters that are etched in stone are from a particular

00:37:32.020 speech, the one he delivered on the 50th anniversary of the March on Selma.

00:37:36.740 And the architect said seeing these letters is like looking into his mind as he's writing

00:37:41.380 the speech.

00:37:42.380 glorious task we are given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours.

00:37:49.160 Now, there is no doubt there are some missing pieces here, but he does actually confront some

00:37:54.160 of his challenges in ways more than I thought he would. This is one part of his legacy. But

00:37:59.580 finally, this Obama Presidential Center is opening nearly 10 years after he left office.

00:38:06.060 They love talking about the marches in Selma, but they really don't like talking about what

00:38:09.980 Selma looks like today. I mean, that would be an interesting exhibit. Show people the cities where

00:38:15.540 the civil rights movement was supposedly born, and then show people what they look like today.

00:38:21.320 For full effect, the exhibit would occasionally have to fire random shots from a Glock handgun

00:38:26.540 equipped with an illegal switch. Some people might die, but, you know, it's art, and art is the most

00:38:32.140 important thing. Yes, it's extremely narcissistic, and yes, the building is an abomination, you know,

00:38:38.200 as we've discussed. I mean, if the assignment was to make an aesthetically pleasing temple,

00:38:43.540 then they failed a million times over. On the other hand, if the assignment was to perfectly

00:38:47.440 capture the vibe of the Death Star's trash compactor, then they kind of nailed it. If the

00:38:54.360 idea was to make a presidential library that looks a little bit like a tower where an evil wizard

00:38:58.900 might live, then hey, credit where it's due. But really, this hideous building is Chicago in a

00:39:06.060 nutshell. It's a grift in plain view, a way to launder money in exchange for influence via

00:39:10.760 tax-deductible donations. It's an eyesore, a bureaucratic disaster all in one, and all in

00:39:18.380 the service of worshiping a washed-up party leader who nobody even pretends to like anymore.

00:39:24.940 Everything about the temple's opening ceremony was nauseating, as you might expect, starting 0.85

00:39:29.980 with the land acknowledgement from a woman who's drawing a $750,000 salary from donations 0.96

00:39:37.020 to this bride factory. Watch. We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants

00:39:45.200 of the land upon which we are gathered today. We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires,

00:39:52.520 the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Pottawanabe Nations. Now there's a lot to think about here,

00:39:58.080 starting with the fact that the designers of Obama's temple, with consent of the city,

00:40:04.420 seized 20 acres of public land in Jackson Park in order to build this monstrosity.

00:40:09.380 So Democrats stole a lot of land in order to build a giant temple. And then when they build

00:40:14.760 the temple with taxpayer assistance, they solemnly inform you that they're really sorry about

00:40:20.340 stealing land hundreds of years ago. And by the way, this is the Chicago flag,

00:40:27.240 which is flying at the Obama temple. And you'll notice that there are several stars on it. The

00:40:33.620 fourth star commemorates Fort Dearborn, which was the site of a massacre involving the U.S.

00:40:40.300 garrison and the Potawatomi, who were just honored during that land acknowledgement.

00:40:45.180 Now, in August of 1812, hundreds of Potawatomi warriors rode alongside an American evacuation

00:40:50.220 train leaving the fort, and they were claiming that they were an escort. But the escort quickly

00:40:57.140 became an ambush as the Patawatomi attacked wagons containing women and children and ultimately

00:41:02.600 massacred dozens of them. It was a horrific, savage, unjustifiable, unprovoked attack that

00:41:10.640 was typical of how the Indians conducted themselves. And now the same tribe that conducted 1.00

00:41:15.760 this barbaric attack, this massacre at a fort that's commemorated as a historical American 0.70

00:41:21.160 settlement on the flag of Chicago is now being honored by the Obamas at their temple. You have 0.54

00:41:28.640 to wonder why Obama and Valerie Jarrett didn't offer the temple to the Potawatomi. I mean, why

00:41:34.320 not invite their descendants or the descendants of any of the other Indian tribes they mentioned

00:41:38.080 up to the stage and hand them the keys to the temple? It's not like they don't exist. Plenty

00:41:44.080 of people claim Patoatami heritage to this day. Why are we thanking them for massacring children 1.00

00:41:49.720 back in 1812 when we can go all the way and give them an $800 million temple where they can 0.97

00:41:54.880 kill as many children as they want? They can turn it into a Planned Parenthood if they want to. 0.90

00:42:02.540 That would be appropriate for Obama. Why not let them do that? By the way, not to ruin the

00:42:07.740 land acknowledgement mood with all this actual accurate history, but it should be noted that the

00:42:12.400 Potawatomi were driven out of the area that is now Chicago in the 1600s. And they were not driven

00:42:19.760 out by white people. The Iroquois, another native tribe, showed up and killed the Potawatomi, 0.97

00:42:26.860 forcing them to leave. Because that's how things worked on this continent before Europeans took 0.99

00:42:31.780 control of it. Indian tribes ruthlessly murdered each other and stole each other's land. 1.00

00:42:37.520 So if anyone owes an apology to the Potawatomi, it's the Iroquois. 1.00

00:42:42.400 take it up with them. And the Patawatomi owe an apology, apparently, to us for massacring 1.00

00:42:50.340 white settlers. Nobody at the Obama temple is interested in any of this, of course. 0.94

00:42:57.500 Instead, their primary concern appears to be plastering obscene images all over the place.

00:43:04.660 It's not just outside. That's not just the appalling part. This is a scene from

00:43:09.840 indoors. Take a look at this. Now, supposedly the splotch of blue on the roof consists of various

00:43:19.940 words from Obama's speeches over the years. Nobody remembers any great Obama speeches because he

00:43:25.360 didn't deliver any. So they just mashed them all together and splattered them on the wall.

00:43:30.300 But really, if we're being absolutely honest here, and honesty is indeed the best policy,

00:43:34.780 and you know speaking just from a purely medical standpoint it looks more like the view a

00:43:41.280 veterinarian might have if she's inspecting a pig's anus now it's quite possible that pig's

00:43:47.880 anuses are in vogue right now but if that's the case i'm certainly not aware of it and that's to 0.95

00:43:52.440 say nothing of the narcissism involved in having your own speeches painted onto the walls i mean

00:43:59.260 as somebody who's done a lot of writing myself over the years and delivered a lot of monologues

00:44:03.840 a lot of speeches. I'm just trying to imagine how my wife would react if I suggested

00:44:09.320 taking the text of my 10 best Matt Wall show monologues and covering the ceiling with them

00:44:16.720 like some kind of schizophrenic Sistine Chapel. And considering that my monologues are significantly

00:44:22.760 better and more interesting than any speech Obama has ever given, which is a bar so low that it's

00:44:27.600 in hell, but still, I think I'd be more justified in that kind of self-celebration. And yet,

00:44:33.740 it would still be a psychotic thing to do. And if my wife came home and I'm painting my own words 0.53

00:44:41.480 on the ceiling, she would assume that my early onset dementia had finally taken a turn for the

00:44:46.440 worse and immediately contacted a nursing home, and justifiably so. In any event, as we proceed

00:44:52.060 through the museum, the exhibits somehow get even worse, if you can imagine. Watch.

00:44:57.440 I think this is probably my favorite exhibit in the entire place. It just moves me.

00:45:07.100 The last two times President Obama has come to Chicago and visited the museum,

00:45:12.360 he has paused extra long in front of the exhibit that describes the 10 letters a day that he used

00:45:18.320 to receive every day. He would receive thousands of pieces of correspondence on any given day

00:45:23.120 and his correspondence unit would select 10 letters that were representative of the letters

00:45:28.720 that came in that day. Some were very positive, some were very negative. The issues vary depending

00:45:34.060 upon the day but they would pick out this representative sample and then in the evening

00:45:38.760 as he was doing his work he would pull out the letters and take a look at them. He wanted to

00:45:44.040 read those letters because he always wanted to connect to the American people. He wanted them

00:45:48.480 to know that he saw them, that he understood their plight, and that he would offer his words

00:45:53.500 of wisdom to them. Some of these letters make me cry still. So each time he's paused to reread

00:45:59.880 the letters which he remembers from when they first came in, and to look at this beautiful film

00:46:05.320 that narrates the letters and his responses. The two times he's watched it, he's walked away and

00:46:11.520 he says, gets to me every time. And that's how he felt every night when he read the letters from

00:46:16.460 the American people. Now, at some point, I understand that you're talking about a presidential

00:46:22.000 temple. So it's going to be a little bit of an ego stroking session for the president

00:46:25.820 that comes with the territory. But even with that standard in mind, this is pretty over the top.

00:46:32.540 First of all, nobody believes that Barack actually read, much less responded to 10 letters a day from

00:46:38.600 random people. The odds of that happening are zero percent, which is why thousands of people

00:46:43.580 aren't posting their Obama letters all over the Internet. It never happened. It's insulting to

00:46:49.460 pretend otherwise. And the whole exhibit is embarrassing. But the worst part is that Valerie

00:46:54.820 Jarrett says, and I quote, he wanted to read those letters because he always wanted to connect with

00:46:59.500 the American people. He wanted them to understand that he would offer his words of wisdom to them.

00:47:04.900 imagine writing into the white house complaining about how terribly everything's going and

00:47:09.720 then obama writes you back acting like he's doing you a favor and imparting his words of wisdom to 1.00

00:47:15.040 you which you desperately need because you're so stupid whereas he went to harvard how many people 0.99

00:47:20.640 receive one of these 10 letters from obama's or really obama's intern and became incredibly furious 1.00

00:47:27.300 when instead of an actual response about you know how they're going to be able to afford health care

00:47:31.820 now that Obamacare has demolished their private insurance plan.

00:47:34.900 All they got was some patronizing, you know, fortune cookie words of wisdom from a narcissist

00:47:40.700 who's going to cry at the sight of his own letters 20 years after the fact

00:47:44.520 inside a grotesque temple that he built for himself.

00:47:49.220 Now, probably nobody had that reaction because he didn't read any letters and he didn't send any letters.

00:47:54.540 It's all a photo op, a fake exhibit for a fake president.

00:47:57.420 And for that reason, it's the perfect exhibit for Obama's temple.

00:48:03.840 And Obama's temple, in turn, is the perfect addition to the skyline of the city of Chicago.

00:48:09.480 No city is a better illustration of the perpetual rot that inevitably follows decades of one-party rule by Democrats. 0.96

00:48:17.180 No mayor is a better illustration of their incompetence and their maliciousness and their clownishness than Brandon Johnson. 0.95

00:48:25.380 And for that reason, we should all be grateful that Obama's temple has opened in Chicago, looking as distinctively repulsive as it does. 0.57

00:48:35.580 There lies a reminder of what we should resist with every fiber of our beings for as long as we can. 0.99

00:48:42.900 There lies a structure that honors Indians who massacred white women and children while patronizing Americans with its absurd exhibit of pigs' anuses and fraudulent letters. 0.98

00:48:52.180 There lies the perfect monument to the Democrat Party. 0.98

00:48:56.800 Never forget it or what it stands for.

00:49:00.540 That'll do it for the show today.

00:49:01.460 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:49:02.480 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

00:49:04.240 Godspeed.

00:49:11.180 Last month, we judged Martin Luther King Jr.

00:49:13.380 not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

00:49:16.380 American school kids spend a lot of time hearing about MLK and Rosa Parks.

00:49:23.380 Have you noticed no one ever asks what Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery are like today?

00:49:29.380 The legacy of the civil rights movement wasn't a racially harmonious utopia.

00:49:35.380 It's hollowed out urban cores, hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, 0.61

00:49:40.380 raped grandmothers, ethnic cleansing of entire neighborhoods.

00:49:43.380 This month, we survey first-hand accounts of the historic wave of nonviolent crime riots unleashed on this country by the Civil Rights Movement,

00:49:50.380 which caused more enduring damage on America's greatest cities than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

00:49:57.380 Who were the winners? And who were the losers? What's the truth about redlining, white flight, affirmative action?

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