Valuetainment - “Chicago Is A WAR ZONE” - Mass Shooting CHAOS Erupts At Chicago Christmas Tree Lighting

00:00:00.000 President says Chicagoans are chanting, bring in Trump after violent riot leaves eight shot, one dead.

00:00:09.140 So, Rob, I know you have a clip if you want to play just to kind of show the madness on what's going on.

00:00:13.840 I'll read the tweet first. Go ahead. That's fine.

00:00:15.680 Massive crime and rioting in the Chicago Loop area. Multiple police officers attacked and badly injured.

00:00:20.520 300 people rioting, six victims shot, one critical and one dead.

00:00:24.820 In the meantime, Governor Pritzker and the low IQ mayor of Chicago are refusing federal funding help for a situation that could be quickly remedied.

00:00:33.280 The people are chanting, bring in Trump.

00:00:36.740 Rob, show what happened there if you could.

00:00:40.440 It's absolutely insane to see this.

00:00:42.820 Folks, imagine you got kids and you're living in Chicago and your kids are, say, 17 years old, 18 years old.

00:00:48.400 They're going to go out hanging out with their friends and then they call you.

00:00:51.040 Mom, you won't believe what just happened. You're watching this on the news.

00:00:53.680 How would you react? Go ahead, Rob.

00:00:55.760 An ex from alderman Brian Hopkins is, of course, one of the downtown aldermen.

00:00:59.580 And he, this is the alderman speaking here.

00:01:02.880 So that's who we're attributing this to.

00:01:04.600 He has posted a tweet or on X, 300 juveniles.

00:01:08.840 He says, rioting in the loop now, at least five victims have been shot.

00:01:14.200 One critical with life-threatening gunshot wound to the torso.

00:01:17.440 Multiple police officers attacked and injured with mace and stun guns.

00:01:21.320 At least one police officer has been hospitalized.

00:01:24.240 That's according to downtown alderman Brian Hopkins, who has been very vocal, Rob and Cheryl Entry,

00:01:30.940 about the need to have new rules of engagement for the Chicago police in terms of how they can deal with youth.

00:01:37.540 And how they can deal with large, large gatherings of youth that happen, as Cheryl, as you say, when the weather gets nice.

00:01:44.920 And it became quite a political story, not just a few months ago.

00:01:49.120 Brian Hopkins, one of the big advocates for.

00:01:52.200 At least six children were shot, including a 13-year-old, two 14-year-olds, a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old.

00:02:02.920 And then less than an hour later, a 14-year-old boy was shot and later died at the hospital.

00:02:08.000 And an 18-year-old man was also wounded.

00:02:10.860 This is Chicago for you.

00:02:12.260 Vinny, your thoughts.

00:02:12.960 How much, okay, how many more times are we going to have to hear the story?

00:02:19.060 Imagine, this is just the thing, this is gearing up for Thanksgiving and a Christmas lighting ceremony.

00:02:24.220 How much more?

00:02:25.480 And then every time this happens, the mayor comes out, it's all Trump. 1.00

00:02:30.000 Trump is a fascist. 1.00

00:02:31.900 He's a dictator. 1.00

00:02:33.640 Pritzker, you know, he's walking, barely breathing, and he's saying it's all Trump.

00:02:37.560 No, this is just Chicago.

00:02:38.940 It's not that bad.

00:02:40.000 And I'm tired of these people.

00:02:41.080 I have family that live there, and they're like, we're tired of it.

00:02:44.080 In 2000, like, 805 murders in 2021, and then 4,400 people shot that year.

00:02:51.420 The numbers are coming down, and as if they're bragging about it, Tommy.

00:02:54.660 They're like, yeah, but it's not as bad as last year. 0.99

00:02:57.420 Hundreds of people are dying in your little ass city. 0.99

00:03:01.640 Drive-by shootings up. 1.00

00:03:03.400 Carjackings.

00:03:03.840 Remember that video we played of that guy, Tom, that he was in the park?

00:03:06.780 He looked like he was fearing for his life.

00:03:08.240 He's like, please, Trump, please bring it.

00:03:10.280 We need the help.

00:03:11.600 And I don't know if you guys saw this or not.

00:03:12.860 And, Robbie, I just slacked you a picture of all the stuff that happened.

00:03:16.120 Did you see what happened this past weekend?

00:03:17.880 The young girl, Bethany McGee, Pat, 26 years old.

00:03:21.260 She was set on fire on the train by Lawrence Reed, who had guess how many arrests, Pat?

00:03:27.340 You won't guess.

00:03:28.120 And, Robbie, don't look.

00:03:29.620 How many arrests do you think? 0.74

00:03:30.560 This guy doused this white girl with gasoline and litter on fire.

00:03:34.520 Guess how many times he was arrested, Pat, if you had to guess.

00:03:37.220 72 times.

00:03:38.060 What?

00:03:39.660 Stop it.

00:03:40.940 Lawrence Reed.

00:03:41.680 I'm going to go down.

00:03:42.360 From Chicago.

00:03:43.260 This is happening in this great city of Chicago.

00:03:46.340 72 arrests.

00:03:47.520 He's only spent how many years in jail, if you had to guess, guys?

00:03:51.160 How many times did he serve and how much time combined in jail?

00:03:53.440 How long?

00:03:53.880 How much?

00:03:54.500 He was in jail twice, and he's only served 2.5 years.

00:03:58.040 That guy.

00:03:59.020 And then, Pat, just going down.

00:04:00.660 Timothy Bowler, 45 arrests.

00:04:02.300 He killed Lawati Nareen.

00:04:04.220 Alexander Dickey, 39 arrests.

00:04:06.620 Killed Logan Federico.

00:04:08.080 David Mazzarigos, 33 arrests.

00:04:11.660 Killed Nicole Tanzi. 0.99

00:04:12.860 And then DeCarlo Brown, 14 arrests.

00:04:14.540 Killed Irina. 1.00

00:04:15.420 Go down, Rob.

00:04:16.240 Let them see all these people.

00:04:17.360 Look at that.

00:04:18.680 That's what I'm talking about, Pat.

00:04:20.460 This is unbelievable.

00:04:22.060 And Pritzker and all them pretending it's not a problem and focusing everything on Trump. 0.98

00:04:26.840 Chicagoans need to wake your asses up and stop voting for these people. 1.00

00:04:31.100 So this blind loyalty to your stupid ass party, sorry for my language, is nuts. 1.00

00:04:35.780 And then you have Amy Klobuchar who's saying, you know, saying that they shouldn't, soldiers 1.00

00:04:40.120 shouldn't take these orders, especially the orders when they're trying to send in the National

00:04:43.940 Guard.

00:04:44.540 People need it.

00:04:45.740 It's a war zone.

00:04:46.960 Okay?

00:04:47.460 People are not feeling safe.

00:04:48.780 And by the way, that 14-year-old that you talked about that was murdered this weekend,

00:04:53.960 ask his mother if she wants the National Guard in Chicago.

00:04:58.540 Ask her. 0.96

00:04:59.300 I bet you she'll say, bring the whole freaking army if it's going to be protecting us. 1.00

00:05:02.480 Because it's not stopping, Tom.

00:05:03.780 Every single holiday, every event.

00:05:06.180 Wait till you see New Year and Christmas, Pat.

00:05:07.860 What's going to happen in Chicago?

00:05:08.900 Anybody want to bet how many people are going to get shot and killed?

00:05:11.320 And they brag about it.

00:05:12.080 Yeah, we Chirac. 1.00

00:05:13.020 It's stupid. 1.00

00:05:14.120 Beat your prior best. 1.00

00:05:15.300 Yeah. 0.99

00:05:15.700 It's just dumb, Pat. 0.98

00:05:16.340 I have family that's in Chicago, and they all complain. 0.99

00:05:19.060 They all complain. 1.00

00:05:19.880 They're not voting for this shit. 1.00

00:05:21.100 It's the majority because people are giving them handouts. 1.00

00:05:23.580 And it drives me nuts.

00:05:24.740 Tom.

00:05:25.440 You know what this is the outcome of?

00:05:26.900 This is the downstream outcome of pandering to a voting bloc.

00:05:31.420 That's what we have here.

00:05:32.700 There are parents that are responsible, you know, because sometimes when I say things like

00:05:38.220 that, Pat, you know, I get like, you know, when you're saying that you're actually being

00:05:42.060 a socialist on the other side, you're saying government should fix it.

00:05:44.600 No, government can make laws and invest in schools and to do things to provide a framework,

00:05:49.700 but then you've got to have moms and dads and society, you know, driving it. 0.95

00:05:55.180 And what's right here, this is pandering and enablement coming home to roost because pandering

00:06:01.000 and enablement does not have standards.

00:06:03.200 It does not have controls.

00:06:04.540 It does not have, you know, accountability.

00:06:07.060 It's the other guy, your problems, your insecurities, your anger, your envy, your greed.

00:06:13.600 That's the other guy's problem.

00:06:14.900 All those bad things.

00:06:15.980 Oh, that's because of rich people or because of a guy that has a job and operates two dry

00:06:20.600 cleaners and employs six people.

00:06:22.400 Yeah.

00:06:22.560 Yeah.

00:06:22.720 That's business owners.

00:06:23.960 Boy, that's bad, bad people.

00:06:25.780 And that's the whole thing.

00:06:26.980 This is the downstream outcome of pandering to people and giving them no, it's a P word, purpose.

00:06:34.960 If you have no purpose in your life and you're just entitled and you expect to be given everything,

00:06:40.300 then you live this life out of control.

00:06:43.500 And that's what we're seeing in Chicago, a life out of control. 0.98

00:06:46.520 Number one, sprinkled in with immigrants that are the worst of the worst. 1.00

00:06:51.960 As they've said, those weren't freedom fighters.

00:06:55.140 Not all those weren't refugees.

00:06:58.180 And do I think there were some bet David families that were coming across Eagle Pass,

00:07:01.960 coming from Mexico, trying to get out of areas where the cartels were?

00:07:05.440 Yes, I do.

00:07:06.300 But there's a way to bring them in.

00:07:08.000 There's a way to do it.

00:07:09.340 And this is the downstream effect.

00:07:11.260 What we have no purpose, no accountability, pandering to the voting block.

00:07:15.720 This is the outcome.

00:07:17.220 And explain to me, because I know it's going to be extremely difficult, maybe impossible.

00:07:21.500 How can you be arrested 72 times or 73 times and you've only spent 2.5 years in jail?

00:07:28.600 How?

00:07:29.220 And then people are like, wait, it's an isolated incident.

00:07:32.320 The mayor said he's pouring gasoline on this girl that's probably going to go see her family 1.00

00:07:36.560 and then lighting her ass on fire. 1.00

00:07:37.940 Thank God she survived. 1.00

00:07:38.980 She's fighting for her life.

00:07:40.220 But make that make sense to me.

00:07:41.880 How is that system not broken?

00:07:43.380 I mean, I just don't get it.

00:07:45.900 73 times?

00:07:46.800 How many times?

00:07:47.700 It's a joke to me.

00:07:49.040 It's a joke.

00:07:50.680 Yeah.

00:07:51.300 I mean, listen.

00:07:52.920 Oh, my God.

00:07:53.660 A lot of this is theatrics where you're playing theater, you're playing to the big screen,

00:08:02.740 and you're getting a lot of local families that are coming and calling them out,

00:08:06.340 and you're just looking at them like this.

00:08:07.980 I will not be answering questions like that when you are using this opportunity to disrespect me.

00:08:13.600 I will go to the next person.

00:08:15.500 Yes, sir.

00:08:16.040 Jeez.

00:08:16.600 I've seen that.

00:08:17.440 You see that, yeah.

00:08:18.540 But you know what?

00:08:19.720 This is part of, and he promised a lot of things he wasn't going to do that he wasn't going to do.

00:08:25.440 Now he's asking for taxes, all these other things that he's at.

00:08:27.720 Adam, do you have any thoughts on this story?

00:08:29.000 Yeah, of course.

00:08:29.800 So, you know they say you're only as strong as your weakest link.

00:08:33.020 Chicago, whether it's real or not, they seem like the weakest link in America.

00:08:39.340 I don't know if it's actuality.

00:08:40.900 I don't know if it's just sort of the narrative.

00:08:43.820 But they seem like the weakest link in America.

00:08:47.280 They keep voting for these Democratic socialist mayors type people.

00:08:52.640 Who was the mayor before this guy, Brandon Johnson?

00:08:54.860 Lightfoot.

00:08:55.720 The lady who looks like Beetlejuice. 0.97

00:08:57.280 Oh, horrible. 0.97

00:08:57.900 Horrible mayor.

00:08:58.980 Something's going on in Chicago where they keep voting for these people.

00:09:01.140 My assumption is it's relegated to certain areas.

00:09:05.080 You know, on the last podcast, we're like, it's going on in Dearborn.

00:09:08.340 I'm like, listen, Dearborn's Detroit.

00:09:10.700 It's 15 minutes outside of Detroit.

00:09:12.360 And everyone's like, no, it's not Detroit.

00:09:15.060 It's Dearborn.

00:09:16.820 It's not Chicago.

00:09:18.320 This isn't going on in downtown Chicago.

00:09:20.380 It's going on in like Garfield Park or whatever that is or the south side of Chicago.

00:09:25.300 So if it were me, I would hyper focus on the area, not the name of the city.

00:09:31.140 So what is the area that's causing all these problems?

00:09:33.540 And if I were Trump, I would clean this thing up.

00:09:36.140 I would do that.

00:09:36.480 I mean, it's multiple spots.

00:09:37.940 The Christmas lighting tree ceremony wasn't in some random spots downtown.

00:09:42.400 This is hitting home.

00:09:43.400 Adam, people are scared to go outside.

00:09:45.160 I agree with you.

00:09:46.400 That's not supposed to be in America.

00:09:47.680 And why do they keep voting for these people?

00:09:49.100 Because they're giving them.

00:09:50.540 They're incentivizing.

00:09:51.200 No, no, no, no.

00:09:51.840 And it can't be just off of race.

00:09:53.440 It can't be off of we're going to promise you.

00:09:54.940 That's a very small segment that's, quote unquote, being purchased by EBT cards.

00:09:59.540 Okay, let me ask you one question.

00:10:00.960 There's probably white liberals. 0.86

00:10:02.300 There's probably white guilt.

00:10:03.440 Adam, if-

00:10:03.900 There's probably just normal Democrats.

00:10:05.820 Lightfoot, lightfoot, under lightfoot.

00:10:08.140 Thousands of people are getting shot.

00:10:09.520 Drive out.

00:10:09.880 The city is a mess.

00:10:11.260 Why would you vote for another person in the same party?

00:10:12.680 That's what I'm saying.

00:10:13.180 If it's really that bad, you would make a change.

00:10:16.480 I don't get it.

00:10:17.300 I don't get it either.

00:10:18.380 Thank God we live in Florida.

00:10:19.680 Yeah.

00:10:20.160 But-

00:10:21.040 Stockholm syndrome.

00:10:21.720 They like the views.

00:10:22.080 Simply what I'm asking is, is it as bad as we perceive it is?

00:10:25.660 That's all I'm asking.

00:10:26.100 Yes.

00:10:26.360 When family members are telling me, like, bro, it's bad.

00:10:29.200 Chicago's not-

00:10:29.940 There's areas that are good, obviously.

00:10:30.780 So you have family there?

00:10:32.100 Yeah.

00:10:32.560 Why do they stay?

00:10:33.380 Adam, they're from there.

00:10:34.880 You can't uproot somebody that's just been there their entire life.

00:10:37.740 Their family, their school, their school, their everything.

00:10:39.200 He's from Iran.

00:10:40.520 He left.

00:10:40.980 Yeah, but different folks, different folks.

00:10:42.520 I understand.

00:10:43.180 Yonkers, you left.

00:10:43.820 Adam, but some people are-

00:10:44.600 Tom's from Canada, he left.

00:10:46.140 They don't want to leave.

00:10:47.280 They love their place.

00:10:48.420 Okay.

00:10:48.680 They want the system to change.

00:10:50.020 Well, I agree with you.

00:10:50.580 They should make a change, but if it's so bad, and they fear for their safety,

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Valuetainment - November 24, 2025

“Chicago Is A WAR ZONE” - Mass Shooting CHAOS Erupts At Chicago Christmas Tree Lighting

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