Trump Says Chicago Will Learn Why It's Called Department Of WAR, ICE & Guard Moving In ft. Christian Maxwell
BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/ Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.com Host: Tim Pool @Timcast (everywhere) Guest: Christian Maxwell @themodpun (X) My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/timcastnews Podcast Channel - https://www.youtube.com/TimcastIRL Trump Says Chicago Will Learn Why its Called Department Of WAR, ICE & Guard Moving In
Deodorant, you know, like, and, you know, it really, it's one of those things where you get used to it, but you're like, hey, let me push the button to order my deodorant and wait for the person to come over and give me my deodorant.
Like, can you give, can you give me the one with the 24-hour strength?
Trump downplays post threatening Chicago saying he wants to clean up city.
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The president had said on social media that Chicago was about to find out why it's called the Department of War, drawing a fierce rebuke from Democrats.
So Jesse Jackson's son, but he flies so low under the radar with his effort that people literally don't even know this man exists.
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All right.
Very easy opening question.
Should Trump send in the National Guard?
Yes, I do believe Trump should send in the National Guard.
And there's a few key reasons for this.
So when you think about the National Guard, the entire purpose of the National Guard is to do in-country work.
The whole concept of people kind of looking at it like a like SEAL team is being deployed on Nash on U.S. soil to police and kind of like detain American citizens.
That's just not what the National Guard is.
And it's really not, it's really sad to see them looked at the way they're being looked at right now, like an enemy force that's going to be against the American citizens.
Their entire purpose is to provide support to states while also being able to access federal funding so states don't have to bear the burden of needing those extra resources.
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So what we see in a lot of other states right now is that a lot, people keep bringing up like, oh, red states, he needs to send them to red states first.
Well, the issue is that a lot of red states are already having multiple federal task force or federal integrated task force where they're working with the federal government and leveraging those resources.
And they have an open door policy.
They're not hiding their ICE, their immigration data from the federal government.
They're not lying about who's being released from Cook County jail.
They're not doing that.
They're saying, hey, this person, we just released this person who's not actually a citizen.
They're yours now.
And then ICE is able to go do what they need to do.
But in Illinois, what we see is that our governor has us literally on lockdown pretty much.
It's like a wall around Illinois and he does not want any federal intervention unless it's a check.
Why do you think after a century they have not been able to get a handle on this crime?
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One second.
And what should they be doing?
So what I think they should be doing.
So I think as far as the policies, I do believe that the one issue I see right now with a lot of liberals is that they really do want to just do a one size fits all approach to this.
We want to talk to them and we want to give them supplies.
And that the only reason they're doing criminal things is because they don't have enough stuff.
I don't know that sounds bad.
But here's the thing.
There really is a group of people who it's not about how much stuff they have.
They are just inherently bad people.
And I know that that's something that people don't want to talk about for some reason, but there really are people who are beyond the reach of a dialogue, whether it's a mental health situation or just a, you know, just being so inundated with criminality that now it really is just the only way you look at life.
There are some people who are just inherently bad, whether they're rapers, murderers, drug dealers, you know, like whatever the situation is, there is no talking to them.
So no amount of affordable housing, no amount of food stamps, no truck parked in their neighborhood with vegetables and cucumbers is going to change how they approach life.
But for the people who are not interested in changing, no, we don't want to give them more resources.
Here's what it looks like, though.
When you do open up resources to people who just have a criminal nature, what they end up doing is you'll open up more senior living facilities and then you will see their grandsons, these older women, their grandsons will infiltrate the senior living facility and be in their apartment unit and they can't even get them out.
Wow.
You know, like there's, there's a lot of situations like that or women will have Section 8 and then they'll have a boyfriend who's living there who's dealing drugs out of a Section 8 unit.
And it's like, yeah, this is the housing that she should have because she has children.
But her boyfriend is literally not doing a single thing to provide for that household and is not incentivized to do so because his biggest cost is already covered.
But there is a pressure created by having National Guard present, not enforcing, like just being there.
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Yes.
And it's fascinating that it is the well-to-do liberals in the wealthier neighborhoods telling me, my friends and my family, the protection we're asking for is illegal, illegitimate, we don't deserve it.
Yes.
Yeah.
And I think that for them, because I'm, we're, me and my husband are foodies.
I went in there to buy an iPad and they had to go get it from like the dungeon of the back of the store because it's so locked down.
Yeah.
Well, now it's like, wasn't there like a Walgreens in Chicago where there's no, there's no items anymore?
It's just a, it's a tablet.
Yeah, deodorants locked up.
You know, like, why is deodorant locked up?
Deodorant, you know, like, and, you know, it really, it's one of those things where you get used to it, where you're like, hey, let me push the button to order my deodorant and wait for the person to come over and give me my deodorant.
Like, can you give, can you give me the one with the 24-hour strength?
It frees up some of those officers who may be stationed downtown to kind of go into some different districts because a lot of these districts are not covered the way that people would think that they are covered.
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I actually know for a fact that there have been multiple times where the mayor has decided to pull Southside officers to go downtown to stand on corners to keep downtown safe.
Wow.
So while a lot of black people are saying, you know, they're just going to be downtown.
Well, great.
Let somebody else think about downtown so we can be thought of.
Do you find that when I say that the south side is not a process, we're not a priority.
Do you find that the black community in Chicago, these neighborhoods would prefer a greater police presence?
I think that's why a lot of people are really upset.
And there's always some excuse of priority or something like that.
But what are it?
I left when I was 23.
So I come back periodically for the holidays.
What's it like with the gun laws now?
I mean, can you defend yourself?
So I think that if you are willing to study the laws pretty much very often, you need to know what you can and cannot do here because there's a lot of rules on law-abiding citizens.
There's more rules for us than obviously it is for criminals.
But the way that you can really get caught up and end up in jail as a law-abiding citizen, if you don't know all of the rules and regulations for how to use your weapon here, you can get in a lot of trouble.
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And to be honest, they will probably throw the book at you even more than they would actual criminal.
So if you, I would say anybody in Illinois, you should have your FOID, even though it's really ridiculous that you have to have one, but you should have your FOID.
And then you need to go and get your concealed carry because it's your job to self-rescue.
It takes an officer, even in a good area, it takes officers like 15 minutes to get to you in a good area.
What are you going to do for 15 minutes?
If you don't have a weapon and you don't know how to use it, you're going to die.
So or be raped or whatever for women who I see a lot of women walking around, I'm like, I really hope that you have something in that little pouch besides lip gloss because, you know, it's a lot more going on here than Chicago is going to tell you because they're not transparent about how much crime is happening in this city because they want you to feel safe.
It's not safe.
Yep.
And I think that DCU was accused of doing this too, flubbing the numbers to make it seem like everything's safe.
People don't realize I brought, I did a video on TikTok and I was talking about, I'm like, I'm like, guys, I don't know if you know, but there's a really extensive cartel presence in Illinois.
And some people were like, oh man, don't talk about it.
I'm like, but no, let's talk about it because when you have a cartel presence, that means you have a trafficking presence.
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And if you're, you know, a young woman, like you're, you're a commodity.
You know, like you have to be aware of your surroundings in a way that's a lot higher here.
And I think that a lot of people just think of gang violence and it's like, oh, it's just some black guys on the south side.
Like, no, there's a lot of different types of crime in Chicago.
This is why you see, you know, there was just recently, it was a Chinese person who was, I think they were, they, the DA got them because they were trying to change over $65 million from a transaction for fentanyl.
And then there was just recently a major cartel leader from the Sinaloa cartel, I believe, apprehended here or charged here.
I'm like, that's like, that's like Mexico.
I'm like, this is not Chicago's, it's so beautiful.
There is a real criminal element here that goes so much deeper than just black guys on the South side where people are like, they shouldn't be over policed.
I could care less about the crime that people think this is about.
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There is something that the government knows that we're not 100% aware of that I for sure want them to come and handle.
Please come and handle that.
What I just never understood, and it's one of the reasons why I decided to leave the city is how after 100 years, they've not solved anything.
I mean, go back 100 years, we're talking about Al Capone and you still have violent crime and the gangs have gotten worse.
And people, but why do keep, why do people keep voting for the same thing and for the same people?
So that's something that I've been looking into as well.
There are less and less people voting in these elections.
Even when, even though there is still a Democratic stronghold, they have just broken the will of so many conservative or even moderate Democrat voters to the point where they just don't show up.
If you even look at for some of the surrounding suburbs where there's mayoral elections, you'll have a mayor win with like 1400 votes.
So it's like there wasn't some overwhelming majority of people who said that Brandon Johnson was going to be a great mayor.
It was a small, it was a small group of people who cared enough to go out and vote.
And they didn't come back for the runoff, which is why Paul Vallas ended up losing.
Paul Vallas would have been the mayor.
Now, honestly, I know quite a few black people who voted for Paul Vallas and for sure wanted him over Brandon Johnson because nobody in their right mind wanted Brandon Johnson.
If you ask any black person who's like, I don't want to call them boomer age, but even like my age and up, they know for a fact that his whole the youth just needs to kumbaya with me and they're going to come over to the law-abiding side.
Everybody knows that that's not a thing.
It's not a thing, which is why you see youth taking over downtown now.
And you see, if you check a lot of the schools around here, they literally have 50% absentee rates.
A lot of CPS schools can't even get kids to come to school.
And he's a CPS product.
He's actually a CPS teacher.
And the CTU president is literally like his puppeteer.
She has his little puppet strings.
He's not a, he's not, none of the stuff that Brandon Johnson is doing is because he's sitting there plotting on Chicago.
It's fascinating to see that in CD1, the Republican turnout.
rivals AOC in her own district.
Yes.
Do you think you're going to be able to, obviously you're going to say yes, but you're going to be able to rally the people of your district and vote for some change?
So when I look at this whole fight, for one thing, I'm taking it one day at a time.
And I don't do a lot of boasting at all in this because I've never run for politics or done anything in politics.
But what I'm looking at is that people have never been more fed up than they are right now.
And with Trump in office, they have just a thread of hope.
And I honestly do believe that if there was ever a time to do it, it's now.
Jonathan Jackson, most, if you go up to, I'm actually going to probably do it pretty soon.
I'm going to just walk around the Pyd Park area and I'm going to ask random black people, do you know who Jonathan Jackson is?
They don't know him.
They don't know him.
He's slapping up billboards over literally destroyed areas all throughout the black communities, just slapping his face up there talking about people over politics while black businesses close all over the district.
It's like the people that he talks about all the time, they're not doing better with him as a representative.
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I looked at all of the all of the legislation that he's done as a congressman.
None of it is about Illinois.
And to be honest, none of it is about black people.
So the very people who elect him, I really wonder if they're checking his work because he's on Capitol Hill with, I mean, when you pay for a representative, Illinois is investing about $3 to $4 million a year into Jonathan Jackson and his suite of team members who aren't doing anything.
He's produced less than, I think, 15 pieces of legislation.
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He's been a representative since 2023.
How do you do less than 15 pieces of legislation in several years in a district that has this much need?
And you don't really hear a lot about him at the national level.
No, he doesn't, because he really is a wallflower.
A lot of people usually call him a wallflower.
He's the, I think the only reason to be honest that he ended up running is because his brother got locked up.
So his brother, Jesse Jackson Jr., who was probably the original kid who was supposed to, you know, be his daddy's like, you know, main kiddo, but he embezzled about $800,000 of his own campaign funds.
So he had to get locked up for a little bit.
He just got back out and put his little intellectual glasses back on and he thinks he's going to run in district two.
That should not be a thing.
You shouldn't get fresh out of prison and then go try to run for a representative again and think that you have a shot.
But in Illinois, these men, the true oligarchy, which is Jesse Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr. and Jonathan Jackson, that's an actual oligarchy because they love that phrase.
They think that they own Illinois and that this is their way to just keep themselves top of mind a little bit, keep a decent little salary, you know, a decent salary to put on the books and to just stay relevant.
But Illinois is tired of being a toy.
Yeah.
How many of the in the past 20 years, how many politicians in Illinois went to prison?
I mean, oh man, it's actually sad because I can't count at this point.
That's a normal thing is for, you know, Illinois politicians to end up going to not just like, they don't even just get a civil suit.
But also that's why I know that I want the National Guard to come and I want Trump to have his eye on Illinois because I know why they don't want his eye on Illinois because of the level of corruption.
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When Pritzker, during the pandemic, Pritzker kept Illinois in disaster mode longer than almost any other state, I think in the U.S.
He kept it in disaster mode.
Do you know why?
Because it paid the bills for RTA.
RTA is currently $700 billion, I think $700 million underwater.
because COVID funded ended.
CPS, our public school system, 100% supported by COVID funding.
They're like, I think a billion dollars underwater now.
There are so many different industries across Illinois that he was able to pay the bills for with COVID funding.
So now when you see people saying that there's less jobs being created, well, it's because there's not a bunch of fake COVID jobs being created.
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People going and shoving swabs up your nose at Walgreens.
That's a fake job.
You know, healthcare, all this fake healthcare hiring that Illinois did.
The only new innovation that you see in Illinois right now, if you come, you will notice that the only new businesses are dispensaries, autism clinics, and kidney dialysis businesses.
Jeez.
Somebody tell me I'm wrong.
I drive over the south side and the only thing I see is new dialysis clinics because people's kidneys are failing here.
That's something that needs to be looked into.
There's a bunch of new autism clinics and ABA clinics and then there's dispensaries.
And the dispensary money, nobody knows where that's going because it's going back to rehabs, apparently.
And then it's discretionary funding for Illinois to decide how they spend.
So all the taxes from dispensaries is not actually going to Illinois at all.
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I saw this.
I can't remember what you was watching recently, but someone mentioned one of the characters was like, yeah, I was thinking of going to Chicago, but you know, I'm not sure it's the right place for me too, Wendy.
And I love that there are, there are, it's, it's kind of shocking when I find out there are people who genuinely believe the windy city is called windy because of actual wind when it, when it's actually about how all the politicians are corrupt and blowing hot air.
And it's like it's for 100 years we've lived that way.
Yeah.
And it's an expectation.
I know a lot of people, they'll keep, I see people like, man, I really hope you don't, you know, change once you get in.
And the thing I think that's different about me is that I don't have anybody in my ear.
I don't have some like shady characters like, you know, over my shoulder telling me what to do.
Like I really am basically a rogue agent.
And even though I'm a Republican and I'm a conservative, I don't think the Republican Party even knows what to do with me in the state because I'm not a normal candidate.
I haven't done, I'm not doing anything the way that they usually do it.
This is the GOP's problem or at least one of their problems.
They don't want to invest in these districts, like Congressional District number one.
Their attitude is it's a foregone conclusion, but that means every two years, it gets more and more Democratic controlled.
You have to go after these districts that are Democratic Party entrenched.
That'll actually weaken all the other areas and improve your standing in this in the swing districts.
Imagine if you destroy a Democratic stronghold.
Everything else is falling.
I've literally had multiple people who were in the GOP in Illinois tell me, oh, your district isn't one of the ones like that's a focus for us because, you know, it's a DEM plus 24 or whatever it is.
And I'm like, I don't care what, I don't care what the data says.
You've, for one, you've never had a candidate like me.
And for me to be in this area, this is the best shot you will ever have.
So to have multiple GOP people still tell me, oh, you know, I don't really know if, you know, we're going to spend there, but we're going to spend in some random area in Illinois because that's an easier win.
The GOP needs to buck up.
Yep.
They need to buck up.
And the actual person who's over the GOP in Illinois, they need to have somebody who has more of a mind for strategy because I'm pretty fed up, to be honest, as a person who's a, I still consider myself, I'm just a citizen, a person who decided to go for it.
I just did homeschool this morning before this interview.
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I'm a regular woman.
Made my husband breakfast this morning because this is off day.
Like I'm normal.
But when I look at this from a business perspective, because I'm a business person as well, there's a lack of strategy.
Why is the Republican Party, even at the national level, not investing in more digital, digital media?
Why are they not going out and making sure that they have an infrastructure to tell the stories they need to have?
We're still missing the plot when it comes to really selling what it means to be a Republican and to be conservative and to care about the country and be a patriot.
Being a Republican is a, I mean, being a conservative and loving America is awesome.
The military is awesome.
That's why we don't have enough young men going into the military now where people are terrified of the National Guard because people know nothing about the military.
Hexeth's turning it around, though.
Hexeth is doing a great job.
I love what he's doing.
Recruitment is up.
Yeah.
What the GOP needs to understand, you look at the Democrats and they keep producing these squad member social media personality influencer types.
Not that they're doing all too well right now, to be completely honest, but when you think about who are the most prominent Republicans, it's a bunch of stodgy suit wearing, you know, they're nerds.
They're not approachable by the average person.
There's something good to the professional and the quorum and that I can respect, but you need to get personal and personable.
And I'll say this, in your district, especially for a place like Chicago, the GOP should be investing to erode and chip away at these strongholds.
Otherwise, you're just crossing your fingers that you can try and win in a swing district.
But then all you're really doing is having a battle over gerrymandering instead of actually trying to win the argument.
So if you have any final thoughts or you want to let people know where they can find you?
Yeah.
So I want people to definitely visit my website, ChristianMaxwellforcongress.com.
I can't do this for Illinois without you.
Even if you're not Illinoisan and you're an American citizen, oh, victory in Illinois is a victory for the U.S.
And I mean that.
Illinois is a stronghold for some of the most corrupt dysfunction that plagues our country in general.
And a lot of the things that they try here and test here spreads to other areas.
Prisker loves the work that he's doing and he's going and tampering in other people's elections, going into places like I think he went into Wisconsin and all of those areas.
Don't let people like him win here because he will spread his dysfunction via his not-for-profit all throughout the country and he's already doing it.
So if you're a person who wants to be a part of creating the best future, the best chance we have for a better future in America, invest in my election, spread the message.
Look for more people you can help in Illinois because a victory here is a victory for all of us.
And we truly do need help because Illinois is basically North Korea at this point.
And then on TikTok, I started off this entire journey as the Mod Pun, which stands for the modern pundit, but that's just the M-O-D-P-U-N, the Mod Pun.
And you can find me on X and on TikTok as the mod pun.
And on Instagram, it's Christian Maxwell for Congress.
