Ep. 1219 - This May Destroy Chicago
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We are living in Clown World. You probably already knew that. The evidence is all around us. Joe Biden is so much worse than Barack Obama, not because he is more radical, but because he s a better politician than Obama ever was.
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Chicago residents have now for months had a difficult time reporting crimes at the Central District Police Station
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because dozens of illegal aliens have been camping out in the lobby and the hallways
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people who want to report crimes and walk into the police station are met with minimal space,
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nauseating smells, and children running, sleeping, and playing throughout the entire lobby.
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At night, the migrant adults reportedly take the heaters and the couches for themselves
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while they force the children to sleep without pillows or blankets on the floor.
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Now, in a saner age of American politics, this situation would be less a problem than a solution.
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In an earlier age, the police would have been thrilled if illegal aliens just sauntered right into their police station
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because it would have been much easier for law enforcement to enforce the law and deport them.
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But we're not living in any of those earlier halcyon eras of politics.
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We're not living in the traditional American nation.
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the new mayor is hard at work trying to build those illegal aliens,
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permanent housing, and give them the right to vote.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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You know how they're not transing your kids in school?
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You know how the libs say they're just not at all transing your kids in school?
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Well, there is a non-binary trans teacher in Texas at a middle school
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who's very upset that legislators are not going to let him trans the kids in school anymore,
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But he's really upset that he doesn't get to do it anymore.
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But before we get to that subdivision of clown world,
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we have to remain for just a moment in Chicago because Chicago has a new mayor.
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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, who is taking over after Lori Lightfoot.
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Brandon Johnson is running on a very, very leftist agenda,
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or he ran on a very, very leftist agenda and won on it.
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This includes opening up certain elections to illegal aliens.
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This includes building permanent housing for illegal aliens.
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This includes a $1 billion liberal giveaway agenda to many people,
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All of which I bring up, not because I'm surprised that Chicago's in a bad spot,
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Lori Lightfoot was a terrible, terrible mayor of Chicago.
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And yet, if this guy gets even a quarter of what he wants,
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Chicagoans are going to look back on the Lightfoot era,
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and they're going to call that the good old days.
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Sometimes you don't know what you got until it's gone.
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And that's not a defense of the terrible mayors and governors and politicians,
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but it is an indictment of the way that our country is moving.
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This is why Joe Biden is so much worse than Barack Obama.
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not because Joe Biden is more ideologically radical,
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not because Joe Biden is particularly more nefarious than Barack Obama is.
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In many ways, Joe Biden is a more moderate type of politician than Barack Obama ever was.
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He tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing.
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Why is it that Barack Obama ran on how marriage is the sacred union between a man and a woman,
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and Joe Biden is demanding that we trans the little kids in their elementary schools?
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It's not because of the individual politicians.
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because it shows you how difficult the challenge before us is.
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There's that good old line about the difference between a conservative optimist and a conservative pessimist.
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And the conservative pessimist says things can't get any worse.
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And the conservative optimist says, oh, yes, they can.
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Chicago is like a war-torn nation in the Middle East, and it is poised to get worse.
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That's where the powers that be in our culture are moving.
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So it's no surprise there are a lot of people who are going to run for president this cycle to try to turn things around.
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There is a reformer who has a lot of support among conservatives, who has a significant platform among Democrats, who has just announced he is going to run for president as a Democrat.
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Not just Trump, not just, DeSantis hasn't declared yet, but he's obviously running.
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Not just Vivek, not just Nikki, not just Tim Scott wants to run, not just those guys.
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He is now the third Democrat candidate in the race.
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Mary Ann Williamson, who ran against the dark psychic forces in the kind of woo-woo new agey lane in 2020.
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RFK Jr., people are going to laugh at him in the race.
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Because RFK Jr. has a lot of cred on both sides of the aisle.
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For much of his career, he didn't have much cred on either side of the aisle.
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He comes from the most prominent Democratic political family in the United States.
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People laughed at him as though he were totally crazy.
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Especially conservatives laughed at him as though he were crazy.
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And then during COVID, when the medical establishment lied to us about the efficacy and safety of the vaccines,
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all of a sudden, a lot of conservatives started to pay attention to RFK Jr.
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In fact, RFK Jr. started making appearances predominantly on conservative shows.
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So he will be running as a Democrat, as one of the most mainstream type of Democrats that exist,
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And I could see a number of conservatives supporting him, at least in a primary,
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just as a middle finger to the current administration.
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His shot of winning the nomination, pretty low.
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But you've got a president who can barely say his own name.
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You've got the only other challenge right now in the Democrat Party is from the woo-woo new age lady.
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RFK Jr. is not completely insane to throw his hat into this race.
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Now, on the Republican side of things, President Trump has just picked up another
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Senate endorsement, this from Cindy Hyde-Smith.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith has become the sixth sitting U.S. senator to formally endorse Trump.
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Among those other senators, you've got Lindsey Graham, Mark Wayne Mullen, Eric Schmidt,
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Tommy Tuberville, and J.D. Vance, which is a pretty broad smattering.
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Lindsey Graham definitely comes from the more moderate wing of the party.
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Sometimes his critics call him Lindsey Graham-nesty.
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J.D. Vance is representing not only the more conservative wing of the party,
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but J.D. is representing the rising, more populist, more blue-collar-focused wing of the party.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith, rather, strong conservative leader.
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So you're starting to see that momentum pick up.
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But then while that's happening, Ron DeSantis is picking up some endorsements in the Congress too.
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Ron DeSantis just got the endorsement of Thomas Massey.
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Thomas Massey is one of the conservatives' favorite type of congressman.
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And Thomas Massey said, America needs a leader who is decisive, respects the Constitution,
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understands policy, puts family first, and leads by inspiring.
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He says, that's why I'm endorsing Ron DeSantis for president.
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I've been honored to call Ron DeSantis a friend for over a decade.
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During the six years we served together in Congress, I witnessed Ron fight for economic freedom,
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personal liberty, fiscal responsibility, and constitutionally limited government.
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This makes Thomas Massey the second conservative leader who has come out in favor of DeSantis in the Congress.
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He said, America needs a leader who will truly defend her and empower the people
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against the destructive force of unrestrained government and corporate excess profligate spending
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You're seeing these two congressional endorsements for Ron DeSantis coming after Ron DeSantis was a congressional leader
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And then you're seeing some people pay back a little, a little political favor to Donald Trump as well.
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And I suppose, sincerely believe in him as well.
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But look, it's two people in the Congress and six people in the Senate.
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These guys are virtually neck and neck depending on what polls you're looking at.
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Now, an even bigger deal, and I'm not taking credit for this, but in New Hampshire, in New Hampshire,
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not New Hampshire, rather, North Carolina, where I am right now, the state legislature has flipped.
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It's not as though the Democrats had one of the houses, but the state legislature now has a super majority
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Representative Tricia Cotham is defecting from the Democrat Party, joining the GOP,
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delivering Republican super majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.
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The modern-day Democratic Party, she says, has become unrecognizable to me
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and to so many others throughout this state and this country.
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Joe Manchin is probably going to run as a Democrat if he runs at all for president,
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but he's going to run as a conservative Democrat.
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And now you've got a Democrat in North Carolina who says, no, I'm going to join the Republicans.
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So there's Republican power that's bubbling up.
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I was talking to Elisa the other day about this, and I said, is everybody a Republican?
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Because you all kind of look around and you say, I don't know.
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There are a lot of people who, you know, who will kind of wink and say, hey, Michael, keep up the good work.
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Or they'll say, hey, I secretly voted for Trump.
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But the culture makes you think that everyone is trans, everyone is woke, everyone supports BLM.
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Bud Light now is putting transvestites on their cans.
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So what's going on is that the people who have the biggest microphones, the people who control the liberal establishment, they're very, very vocal.
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It's not just a fantasy to say that conservatives have a silent majority.
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We have a lot of people who have become frustrated.
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Speaking of flipping states, Eric Holcomb, the Republican governor of Indiana, has banned gender-affirming care for minors.
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Gender-affirming care just means mutilating kids.
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This is a big deal, not because this should be a particularly hard vote.
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But it's a big deal because Eric Holcomb, who I really like a lot personally.
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Eric Holcomb certainly is a little more moderate than some of the people in the GOP.
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And so it was up in the air as to whether he would actually do this.
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He says, no, you can't trans the kids in the state of Indiana.
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What this means is that the moderates are there, too.
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What we've heard from a lot of the libs and the squishes in the GOP is, don't touch these cultural issues.
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You just focus on taxes and you just focus on totally anodyne issues.
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Of course, everyone knows that it's insane to put poor little kids on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and chop their genitals off.
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This is going to be a unifying issue for centrists and center left people, too.
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Now, speaking of the transgender agenda, Dylan Mulvaney has picked up a new sponsorship.
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This is Dylan Mulvaney just dancing and jiggling around,
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In a way, I get why the corporations are attracted to this guy.
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It's not just that they're intimidated by the woke people and the LGBT shtapo.
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In part, it's because the character that Dylan Mulvaney has created.
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I'm not saying this about Dylan Mulvaney as a human being, as a child of God.
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That is, I'm saying this at whatever show Dylan Mulvaney is putting on is a freak show.
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People don't want elephants living in their home.
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And so I can see how corporations might be attracted to that.
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They say, this guy's getting a lot of attention.
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But on top of that, the liberal elite want to promote this idea of transgenderism.
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This is the most absurd one that Dylan Mulvaney has gotten yet.
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It's the most absurd one because he's selling sports bras.
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He doesn't have breasts, but he is selling sports bras.
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As society becomes more isolated, as community breaks down, as we live more of our lives virtually,
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as the real tangible world has less and less of an effect on how we go about our day to day,
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we are going to increasingly live in this clown world.
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We are going to increasingly live in this world where law enforcement doesn't enforce the law,
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but they don't care about the essence or the function or the utility of the thing at all.
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we've got some slight updates, not really updates, on the Nashville shooting.
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the motive for the shooter's actions has not been established
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and remains under investigation by the Homicide Unit
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in consultation with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.
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It is known that the shooter considered the actions of other mass murderers.
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Initially, this was being treated as a local matter.
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Remember, the Daily Wire asked for comment from the Memphis FBI office.
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They said, oh, it's being treated by, as a local matter,
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and the FBI involvement greatly decreases the likelihood
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It does, because we have seen the corruption of the political leadership of the FBI for seven years now.
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Nashville PD, those guys are total straight shooters.
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I bet we would know a lot more about this case if they were really running the show.
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But we've got the FBI involved, which means we've got the DOJ involved,
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which means we've got the Biden administration and all the apparatchiks involved,
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Something that will be really telling, and we haven't seen it yet,
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but what we'll be really telling about whether we ever get the real motive here is
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If the FBI refers to the shooter as Audrey and uses the pronouns she and her,
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because what the FBI will be signaling is, no, we're grounded in reality.
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We're not going to push this absurd transgender ideology.
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If the FBI refers to the shooter as Aiden and calls her him and he,
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then we know for a fact we will never find out anything about the reality of this shooting.
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And we won't do that because we won't even find out anything about the reality of the shooter
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because the people who are leading the investigation have divorced themselves from reality.
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President Trump comes out yesterday and he says, in all caps,
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Quote, Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and FBI
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The Democrats have totally weaponized law enforcement in our country
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to interfere with our already under siege elections.
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There are a lot of good people who work for the FBI.
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There are a lot of crimes that the FBI has to prosecute and go after
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is that federal law enforcement, the DOJ and the FBI,
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who burned the country down for eight months on the left,
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because all of that's politically expedient for the Lib.
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Doesn't go after the Clintons for their manifest crimes.
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on January 6th, the worst day ever in the history of the world.
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And Republicans have the power of the purse right now.
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And I think they should throw that power around.
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persecuting the political minority in this country
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And so, inasmuch as Republicans have any power,
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they ought to say, okay, you don't get any funding
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The FBI showing up at the door of pro-life advocates,
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that we don't get to prosecute these crimes right now
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and do all the good work that the FBI has done in the past
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But we are not going to let Joe Biden and the Democrats
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turn federal law enforcement into an attack dog
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No, he's saying you got to wield a little political power
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And the FBI and the whole liberal establishment
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if you, if you call to defund or reform in any way,
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I think where the problem comes in is, you know,
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it was an FBI field office in the Midwest that was attacked.
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And much like New York City can do an extraordinary job
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that isn't going to stop somebody in Omaha, Nebraska
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just miscarriage of justice by the federal government,
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particularly when you have people like Marjorie Taylor Greene
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and Jim Jordan saying we should defund the FBI.
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So how do you predict somebody who probably may not
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And that's, you know, we're hearing it from them.
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I mean, you're going to expect a lot of violence on the FBI.
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I should hope that our premier federal law enforcement agency
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that Peter Strzok, a very corrupt FBI official,
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And for weaponizing the agency to go after Donald Trump.
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Saying, well, if any Republican member of Congress
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and very often the perpetrators aren't being prosecuted.
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I think law enforcement usually can take care of itself.
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this is the clown world cherry on top of the sundae.
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on one of the most left-wing networks on cable.
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the one-on-one pickup basketball game with you.
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and I don't want to have to completely outrun you