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Aug. 5, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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1,032 Killed and Wounded; 2 Convictions
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable and irreplaceable co-host.
And, as is the case every week, there is a cornucopia of interesting stories on race, immigration, and other matters of interest to us and to our listeners.
But, as has become custom, we'd like to begin with a number of listener comments.
And here's an encouraging one.
A listener writes in to say, I want to alert you to further good news on a story you covered many months ago.
Yes, I remember this story.
It was in Omaha during some of the looting and other frolic during the post-Floyd celebrations downtown.
A bar owner by the name of Jake Gardner He killed a looter who attacked him and his father.
Well, Jake Gardner, poor man, eventually committed suicide because he was indicted and he was suffering from all of this attention for doing something he thought was absolutely necessary.
As it turns out, the steps to gather a grand jury were completely skipped.
Due to the mounting pressure of the bloodthirsty woke hordes and the mob in fact picketed outside the housing development where the county prosecutor lives and this was enough pressure on him to go ahead and issue an indictment without even going through a grand jury.
If memory corrects, he was a black man, correct?
Yes, that's right.
He was a black man.
That's absolutely right.
Now, the family of Jake Gardner has filed a lawsuit against both the prosecutor, Don Kline, and the entire grand jury process.
So, that is good news.
Let us hope a little justice will be served.
And this reminds me, of course, the family of Ashley Babbitt, who has finally gotten around to filing a lawsuit for her killing in the nation's capital on July 6th.
Let them have great success in that process as well.
Now, we have a question.
A question from a listener, and this is a relevant one for which there's not always an easy answer.
He says, I've recently begun to question the value of a university education.
My daughter attends a good state university which accepts fewer than the top 10% of the state's high school graduates.
To get accepted, to get accepted.
She took a lot of AP college credit courses, did activities that helped her get into school.
We were happy, but now I've begun to wonder if it's worthwhile.
One thing I've noticed is that recent graduates of this university are getting the kind of jobs that graduates of mediocre places got when I was young.
I also noticed that in the past year, the Fortune 500 company where I work seems to be hiring only non-whites.
In addition, I saw an interview with a South African in which he said that white South Africans initially had a growth in income after the end of apartheid.
That is to say, when they started being discriminated against in the most fearsome way and started opening their own businesses.
Yes, I recall hearing about that as well.
I think that was a blip in wealth which has continued to go down.
But in any case, he then goes on to say I've heard about the Teal Fellowship, that's the founder of PayPal, which gives winners $100,000 if they want to skip college or drop out, and if they want to start a business.
And apparently that's going very well.
So he says, on top of all this, all the anti-white rhetoric to which my daughter is subjected to this institution is truly disgusting.
My question to you, should we be encouraging our children to start a business instead of going to college?
Excellent question.
Now, my answer would have to be, rather the easy, weaselly way out, it depends on the child.
Some children are not the sort who are entrepreneurial and who would start a business.
But I think these days, unlike, say, maybe 20 years ago, certainly when I was graduating from high school, it was assumed that basically every middle class, ambitious, reasonably smart person was going to go to college.
I think that's no longer the case.
We should not take that for granted, and we should not hold it against people who don't go to college.
If you're smart, if you're hardworking, then you can probably get ahead without a college education.
In fact, I should mention, I won't name him, but a person on our staff never attended college, but he is quite the self-taught intellectual.
He's an extremely effective contributor to American Renaissance, and so, yes, These are legitimate questions, I think more legitimate now than ever before, especially with all the nonsense that's shoved down white throats in colleges.
So, yes, please consider alternatives to college, but if you are the sort that's academic, if you think that there's some sort of actual academic future for you, or if you're learning something really that is practically applicable, intellectual engineering, for example, civil engineering, there are probably still a few jobs left for white people in those fields, but we'll see.
Oh, they're always going to need jobs for people who are, like you just said, who have to work and...
Do supply chain, or work in the waterworks, these public administrations, or these energy companies.
I would say this, at this point, if your child is going to get a scholarship for a full ride, yes, by all means, they should go.
However, the cost of an education is enormous.
More importantly, the cost of facilitating that education, books, housing, has risen exponentially to a point now where you basically have these state schools are for the elite.
It's no longer something that the white working class can even hope to afford to spend to send their children to because of the exorbitant costs.
That's entirely true.
This is a really good question, and I think I would go further.
I won't take the Weasley way out.
I'll say this.
If your child has a scholarship, by all means, yes, but if they don't, then you need to seriously have a conversation about other paths, a trade school or trying to do some sort of apprenticeship.
Part of the trouble, of course, is that whites are much less likely to get scholarships, given the same qualifications.
It's a very tough situation.
Everybody wants diversity, at least the good schools do.
Schools that actually grant scholarships are straining every muscle and trying to break every rule trying to get non-whites in.
So, yes, that's a very good point.
Cost is a consideration.
If you've got a scholarship, that sounds like a great idea.
But, no, these days it is a very serious consideration, college or not college.
So, moving on to the first story.
This is the southern border.
Thanks to our president and his vice president, there has been a huge increase in illegal entries into the United States for six straight months.
After the Biden administration, the numbers have gone up.
The number of illegals encountered by the Border Patrol reached 210,000 during the month of July.
That's an average of 6,770 every day.
That's a lot of people, a lot of bodies swarming across the border.
And this defies what is the typical year, usually in the hot summer months, people stay home, they don't want to be in the sun.
And so we have had the largest single month in 21 years.
Now, how many of those who are now 210,000 detained?
There's an estimated 37,000 that slipped through.
Those are out there amongst you, ladies and gentlemen, if at least you're living in light in the United States.
Repeat that number again for our listeners.
37,000 people probably got across the border in just that one month.
That's the estimate.
If we catch 210,000, probably nearly 40,000 slipped through.
Yes, they could be urinating.
So 20% of those who actually make it across the border More, more.
It's 37 divided by 210.
It's more like 15%.
In any case, what happened, of course, is that people in Latin America, they were watching every Democratic candidate very carefully during those debates.
Including Mr. Biden, who promised, and these were internationally televised, they would welcome all illegals, halt interior removals, end Donald Trump's deportation and asylum policies, give amnesty to everyone illegal, and give them free medical care.
Come one, come all.
And, in fact, the immigrants themselves are saying they couldn't resist the invitation.
Remember that batch that showed up with their t-shirts saying, Senor Biden, lead us in!
Yes, that's right.
And, of course, he immediately exempted the unaccompanied minors from the pandemic-related Title IV instant expulsion to Mexico.
He, of course, ended almost all interior removals for any immigrant.
So, those nearly 40,000 people who got through, hey, no problem.
Nobody's coming after them.
Now another aspect of this is that these exempted family groups and the unaccompanied alien minors who apparently we can't send back the way we used to under Trump.
Donald Trump magically said go home and they went home and that meant very few came.
But because the Border Patrol has all got its hands full with these families and these unaccompanied minors, they are off the line, so to speak, and that makes it much easier for single men to scamper across the border and into the waiting arms of those who would do nothing more than cherish and coddle illegal immigrants.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you had a story about a rather remarkable development at the border.
Before we get there, I just want to ask you a question.
We know that the border with Canada is basically sealed right now.
It's still closed.
It's still closed.
That's right.
They're going to open it very soon if you have been fully vaccinated and can show your vaccination pass for the border.
But any of that southern border?
No.
No, we know that.
We know about all that's going on.
We know about all of the Illegal aliens who have COVID.
We talked about that last week, actually.
Well, as a matter of fact, there was a new story.
Let me get into that before we talk about this remarkable incident that was captured from the air.
And that is, this is very briefly, the Texas border city of McAllen says that more than 7,000 COVID positive illegals have been released into the city since February and more than 1,500 just the past week.
1,500 sick Central Americans.
8,500 illegals with COVID that we know of in that one little city.
All in McAllen.
Yes, very nice.
Immigrants released by the Border Patrol are dropped off.
Catholic charities.
Reaches them, reaches out to them, and tests, and they're COVID tested by a third party.
Now, I'm sure you and I pay for that one way or another.
If they're positive, they're asked to quarantine.
They're asked, please quarantine.
And then Catholic Charities offers them a room at a quarantine site.
I bet they're happy to be quarantined.
Three hots and a cot, nothing like it.
Now, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, whom I like pretty well, he had a good line on this.
He says, the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was a super spreader event.
I like that because their open border is endangering not just the people of Texas, but everyone all across the country.
Here's my quick thought on this.
We have a situation now with an election coming up in 2022 where the Republicans could conceivably take back the House and the Senate if they ran on this simple issue.
Open borders and the pandemic.
The Democrats opened the borders during a pandemic.
Look what's happening.
We're seeing these spikes all across the country.
Now, as a contrarian, there aren't really an increase in deaths.
I looked at the CDC website today at some of these hot spots.
Okay, hospitalizations are up.
Deaths are not.
In this county, in the county where you are, where New City Foundation is, there's not been a death in Fairfax County since June of 2020.
21.
June of 2021.
Well, deaths lag, of course, and we'll see.
But I love to think of all of these sick illegals.
I wonder how many hospital beds they will take up, how many respirators they'll end up being on.
Get some pictures of it, ladies and gentlemen.
Spread it around.
You and I spread what around?
Spread the images of who is Helping the Superspreader event.
Right.
But, Mr. Kersey, do tell us about this event.
Well, this is a phenom for Fox News, Bill Mil...
Melugin, I don't know how to pronounce his last name.
It's M-E-L-U-G-I-N.
He's a national correspondent for Fox News.
He has been putting out some of the best material I think I've ever seen of this drone footage.
He's getting just incredible video evidence of this invasion.
And his story was entitled, Drone Footage of Migrants at Texas Bridge, an Absolute Catastrophe for Biden, Republicans Say.
Now, initially, he said it looked like there could be up to a thousand people.
The story was about three or four days ago.
You see this just long line of individuals.
A lot of them were being checked for COVID.
Some of them were being taken away to other areas.
They're on our side of the border.
Now it turns out There were upwards to 5,000 people.
They miscounted.
So, the drone footage emerged Sunday.
It shows them being held by the Border Patrol in Mission, Texas.
Alici Sefenik of New York, the Republic of New York, she said that, quote, it's an absolute catastrophe from Biden, Harris, and the House and Senate Democrats.
Again, she's tweeting this.
Now, why this is important, think back to what happened after J6 2021.
President Trump, who basically was a network unto himself.
He's kicked off of all these social media channels, Mr. Taylor, ladies and gentlemen, and he no longer has the ability to really galvanize.
So many people to show what's happening.
This is the moment where somebody in the GOP has to step up and take that flag.
Well, it sounds as though some of them are doing that.
They're trying.
This Ted Cruz quote was pretty good.
Of course, it's the mainstream media that's going to downplay, soft pedal, turn the other way.
This stuff is going nowhere except perhaps a little bit on Fox.
Well, the Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, he announced that the Texas National Guard is going to be helping troopers make arrests at the border.
He said, quote, to respond to this disaster and secure the rule of law at our southern border, more manpower is needed.
I believe a federal judge came in and put some sort of injunction that says they can't apprehend.
This might have been A day or two ago?
I thought there was a suit launched by the Feds saying that the Texas authorities cannot arrest illegals.
I believe that's the case.
I don't know if the decision has been made.
But yeah, here's the federal government saying Texas can't defend itself.
But here's that number one more time for you, for everyone out there in the listening audience.
U.S.
U.S. officials reported this month they encountered 55,805 members of families with children in
June, up 25 percent for the prior month.
88,587 was the number back in May.
So we'll see what starts to happen as the weather cools down a little bit.
And we'll see.
Oh, in the fall, just in time for school, you know.
They can just rush in and not speak a bit of English and be put right in your sons and daughters' classrooms.
Think they'll be wearing masks?
Well, only if they've been told to.
But, well, we'll just see what sort of state they're in physically and health-wise by the time they show up.
Now, we have another story from you, sir, and this is all of these lovely, we get yet more, a different brand of lovely neighbors coming our way.
Hey!
These are people from Afghanistan.
Doesn't everybody want Afghan neighbors?
Yeah, you know... Tell us about these Afghans.
Think about it this way.
It's been almost 20 years next month since 9-11, and then what?
Early in 2002, we engaged in a nearly 20-year war with Afghanistan.
That's right, that's right.
What fun it's been.
And now they're headed our way.
So the first wave of Afghans with special immigrant visas, SIB applications, are headed to Fort Lee, Virginia from Afghanistan.
According to two reports, around 221 individuals left on July 29th to arrive in Dulles, Virginia.
That's the Dulles International Airport.
They arrived late last week.
The individuals are going to be bused to Fort Lee where they will remain for around a week.
The group of Afghans are the first to be evacuated from the country and many more are still waiting.
Around 18,000 Afghan nationals.
I'm going to repeat that.
18,000 Afghan nationals have applied for SIVs and that number doesn't include their family members or those who aided the U.S.
during the war.
So that number could go... We're talking about Afghans, family, I think Afghanistan's got one of the highest birth rates in the world.
I think they have about six or seven children per female.
So multiply that number by five.
And there's just a start.
You're talking about over 100,000 Afghans.
What's the population of Wyoming?
Is it 500,000?
I don't recall, but it sounds about right.
Send them all to Wyoming.
You know, they need some diversity.
Yeah, so around 2,500 Afghan interpreters and their families, like I said, scheduled to be transported to Fort Lee.
How many did you say?
2,500.
2,500.
And there are bound to be more.
Oh, they're bad.
I mean, again, you have 18,000, so... And, you know, I predict that there'll be some fairly well-publicized massacres of some of these people who helped the United States.
It's going to be the Afghans telling people, look, we don't like... Oh, to create sympathy, to embolden the push.
That'll be more and more and more.
They will play on our heartstrings and we will get more and more.
There is a one silver lining in this story.
American officials are still probing countries willing to house the remaining Afghan interpreters.
Kuwait and Qatar are two likely areas.
So we'll see if a deal can be cut.
Who knows?
I mean, again, if the pandemic is as bad as we're being told this Delta variant is, there shouldn't be anyone coming in the country.
Of course, Qatar and Kuwait, all they have to do is say no.
Do we want Afghans?
No, thanks.
America, they're for you.
Our gift to the American people.
Hey.
Oh, thank you.
You spent trillions on a war, now you get to spend trillions on them at home.
That's right.
Now, meanwhile, back at home, Anita Gupta.
This is a lady to keep your eyes on.
She is the Associate Attorney General for Civil Rights.
That makes her the number three in the department.
If you're the Associate Attorney General for Civil Rights, you are important because civil rights are the most important laws in the country, you know.
Well, She was in Denver and she spoke to FBI agents, federal prosecutors, and pressed them to combat the rise of hate.
She is encouraging law enforcement officers to report all hate crime data because there are about 3,200 U.S.
police agencies that do not report any hate crimes.
Either they don't participate or they say we had no hate crimes.
She says that's impossible.
That's impossible.
All those white people out there, they've got to be committing hate crimes.
So, she says, approach each and every law enforcement agency in your district that reports zero hate crimes or does not participate in hate crimes reporting and learn what's going on and why that's happening.
Now, I don't know if there's an or else in there, but it sure sounds like it.
So, yes, look for those hate crimes.
Look hard.
FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigation Division, Jay Greenberg, he says hate crimes have now been designated as a, quote, national threat priority.
This has never been done before.
Hate crimes are now a national threat priority.
That means you, Mr. Kersey, you are a potential hate criminal because you're a white man.
Now, all current FBI agents will get added hate crimes training and the Bureau will start fresh outreach to community groups, especially those in historically underrepresented and targeted populations.
What's more, and this really thrills me, I can't imagine what fun this will be, there will be a nationwide anti-hate multimedia advertising campaign to stop hate crimes.
Wow!
Now, we are faced with a crisis of hate in this country, says the Associate Deputy Director Jeff Sallet.
Now, this multimedia advertising campaign, I guess what I'm going to see is, if I'm going to look at the YouTube video, there'll be a public service announcement that says, white man, don't punch a black person in the nose and use the n-word.
Don't do that.
What do you think it's going to be like, this multimedia anti-hate campaign?
I imagine, I imagine Jussie Smollett will be the narrator, and they'll have Bubba, what was the NASCAR driver?
Oh, I forget.
How to notice if the noose that you see is actually the noose that it needs to be, or if it's just a hoax.
That's right, that's right.
Well, because the FBI is absolutely sure that white people everywhere are doing this.
Now remember, I think last year we talked about a report that was shocked to discover that when you do a racial breakdown, Black people are more likely to commit hate crimes than white people.
We actually talked about that last week and it was 15 civil rights groups that were behind this.
You can actually find the PDF.
You actually, you asked.
I need to get into that.
I need to get, dig, dig into the numbers.
No, they were shocked.
They couldn't believe it.
As I've been, as I told you last week, I've been noticing this for years.
Black people are one and a half to two times more likely to commit hate crimes despite the fact that the scrutiny of black criminals for hate crimes is zero compared to whites.
Nobody, nobody says, you know, automatically disposed to go off.
Flashing bulb in your mind, if a black person is a victim of a white, ooh, that's racism.
But doesn't work the other way around.
Now, here's another interesting story.
Heartwarming.
Is your heart prepared to be warmed?
It's a little cold right now, so please, I need it to be... I'll breathe in your direction.
Raise the temperature a little bit.
44-year-old Joel Kasten of Washington, D.C.
He won the election for Advisory Neighborhood Commission of District 7F07 in southeast Washington, D.C.
He will represent the Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter, a new stand of luxury apartments, and the D.C.
Jail.
Well, the D.C.
Jail, which he'll be representing, is where he, in fact, spent the last four years.
Mr. Karsten has been incarcerated for 26 years for murder.
Oh!
But he's now an elected official in Washington, D.C.
That's because in July of last year, Washington, D.C.
changed the law to let prisoners vote.
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners are locally elected.
They serve two years without pay.
And according to the D.C.
government, this is what they do.
These commissions were, quote, established to bring government closer to the people.
Now, I don't know how the government can get any closer to Mr. Kasten and his fellow inmates than it already is.
The government's absolutely all over those people.
As for myself, I don't want the government any closer.
I want the government as far away as possible.
But it's to bring government closer to the people.
Got that?
Well, as I say, it's already very close to him.
Well, Mr. Kasten, he ran against four other inmates.
Those are the only people in this five-way election.
What were the people in the luxury apartments doing?
I don't suppose the Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter put up a candidate.
In any case, he won because he got 48 out of 142 votes.
142 votes!
Plurality, but hey, he won!
That's a victory!
Well, in a virtual interview by internet with the Washington Post, he said, I feel presidential.
Did none of the other four inmates he ran against ask for a recount?
Not that I know of.
That's probably pretty close, but who knows?
Well, I'm very happy for him.
He feels presidential.
Now, the news reports I saw so far are silent on just how the luxury apartment dwellers feel about this.
But they'll be represented by Joel Kasten, a convicted murderer.
So there you go.
Now, I believe he has some stories having to do with Missouri.
Regalus, regalus.
It's astonishing how many times the city of St.
Louis and the St.
Louis metropolitan area comes up on this podcast.
We determined that St.
Louis, if you factor out the white population, might have been the most dangerous place to be.
In the United States of America.
I'm sorry, in the world, in terms of a homicide rate.
Homicide rate, I should say, to the listener out there who says, hey, enunciate it correctly.
I do that as a joke.
Thank you for saying that.
I'll never do it again.
So thank you, listener, who wrote that email.
That was for you.
So... Well, we must speak properly.
This is the language of Shakespeare and of Milton.
And of Milton and of Marlowe.
Corey Bush defends... So this is a video everyone's got to go watch before we start this.
Pause real quick after I say this.
Do Cori Bush calls to defund the police while having private security?
Quote, you would rather me die, end quote.
Just go watch this on YouTube.
We'll be right back.
Okay, you're back.
All right.
So here's what we're going to talk about.
Cori Bush is a, can I use the adjective, corpulent?
You may.
Okay.
She's rather rotund.
Black.
Black woman.
And she said this, quote, I have private security because my body is worth being on this planet right now, end quote.
Unlike yours.
Exactly.
So she's a Democrat from Missouri.
She's a member of the House.
She was telling CBS News that police need to be defunded despite shelling out thousands of dollars I'm curious about this.
Does she pay out of her own pocket?
I don't know the answer to that.
That sounds astonishing to me.
So she slept outside the Capitol this week to protest the end of the first eviction moratorium
that was put in place because of the China virus pandemic.
The rep was once homeless herself.
She and Democrat leaders celebrated a short-term victory on Wednesday because the moratorium was extended to early October.
Of course, as a lot of people are shaking their heads, it was somewhat of a constitutionally dubious fashion, but hey, what does the Constitution matter in this day and age?
Written by dead white males.
Yeah, well, basically the CDC can go in and interrupt contracts.
It can say, no, this contract is void.
You can't collect.
It's just rent.
You can't collect.
No, it's astonishing.
So Bush has been called hypocritical for spending $70,000 on private security while pushing to defund the police.
A CBS anchor actually asked her to respond to this criticism, and this is when she said very colorfully, quote, They would rather I die?
You would rather me die?
Is that what you want to see?
You want to see me die?
You know because that could be the alternative."
She said she would ensure she has security because she has had attempts on her life and has, quote, too much work to do, end quote.
Too much work to do, yeah.
No time to die.
So suck it up and defunding the police has to happen, end quote.
She suggested she had two options, stay on the Capitol steps and stop evictions, or have a possible attempt on her life.
Quote, I have private security because my body is worth being on this planet right now.
Claiming a white supremacist, racist narrative is trying to stifle her.
Stifle her?
She then threatened, she then appeared to threaten during this interview, Mark and Patricia McCluskey.
After the couple was given pardons for wielding guns on Black Lives Matter protesters, she said, Mark McCluskey's day will come.
Remind us about the McCluskeys.
The McCluskeys happen to be my favorite photo, and my favorite photo from 2020.
It was, I believe, the last weekend of June.
There was a march in front of their property there in St.
Louis, this beautiful home they've restored.
Well, he had an AR-15, if memory serves.
She had some sort of semi-automatic pistol.
Their gun safety is a little bit off.
Not a lot of etiquette there.
Not a lot of gun etiquette.
No, no, no.
But again, you're in the heat of the moment.
There's this crowd going by.
As they noted, the black police officer, I can't remember his name, had been killed.
The 70-year-old black police officer when he was trying to stop the riots.
There had been a lot of violence near them, and they were terrified.
A lot of buildings burned down.
Understandably so.
Exactly.
And they're in this gated community that's private.
It's on private land.
Exactly.
They are not urban pioneers.
They stayed.
They did not engage in the white flight to St.
Louis County.
They stayed.
They've poured their blood, sweat, and tears into this home.
It's beautiful.
You can see it online.
Well, they were, of course, they had to plead guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault, and they were fined.
$750 and Patricia, his wife, she pled guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.
I guess yelling at people to get off our property, don't burn it down, is harassment.
I just don't understand.
If you're on your own property, people have broken through a gate to get into this private enclave and you walk out with a gun.
You've committed a crime?
They didn't let fly or anything.
No, they didn't.
They just said, keep marching, buddies.
So Missouri Governor Mike Parsons announced yesterday, Tuesday, August 4th, that he made good on a promise to pardon the couple.
So they have been pardoned.
The McCluskey's lawyer, Joel Schwartz, said, Mark McCluskey has publicly stated that if he were involved in the same situation, he would have The same exact conduct.
He believes that the pardon vindicates that conduct.
Both of them are lawyers in their 60s.
They said they felt threatened by the protesters who were passing by their home in a demonstration in front of the mayor's house, which was nearby at the time.
The mayor, of course, was a white woman.
Now, St.
Louis has their first black female mayor who wants to defund the police and do all sorts of crazy things.
And again, one of the most violent cities in America.
I mean, there were, again, there were several hundred of people in this group.
And I believe there's actually an image, Mr. Taylor, where they can be seen, someone in the crowd is pointing a gun at the couple of McCluskeys.
It was a very tense situation.
I'd heard that the demonstrators were unarmed.
But in any case, you know, all of the images we've seen of the looting and the rioting and the arson, I don't blame them at all.
And I'm glad to see here that some people in authority are saying they did exactly what they would have done.
But anyway, so Cori Bush says, what did she say?
They'll get theirs?
Cori, the black female who wants to defund the police, yet also wants to make sure that her body, her black body, stays on this earth.
Made a threat.
Here's one thing I do want to throw out before we move on.
McCluskey, there were a lot of reports early on that he was a Democrat.
He said over and over again, I'm a lifelong Republican.
He is running for the nomination for the Republican Party for Senate.
In the state of Missouri.
And I go back and I think about when President Trump at the RNC actually had them speak.
Yes.
And that was one of those moments where you felt the tide is shifting.
It might be too late, but the tide was shifting.
And that's the type of person I kind of want to see in the Senate.
Ah, same here, same here.
I want to see 10 like him, 20, 40.
Now, bear this in mind.
You go out, people invade your enclave, your gated community, you go out with a gun and protect yourself, and you're charged.
Let me contrast this with something that what goes on in Chicago.
In Chicago, if you define a mass shooting as a shooting in which four or more people are wounded, not necessarily dead, but four or more, Well, there have been at least 39 such mass shootings so far this year, and only one person has been charged.
These are people who actually went out and went bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and hit people.
Only one have been charged out of the 39, unlike the McCloskeys who are charged for just walking out and protecting their property.
This amounts to charges in about 2% of this year's mass shootings, far below the police department's Clearance rate for shootings overall.
Guess what their clearance rate for shootings overall is?
I won't put you on the spot.
25 percent.
13 percent.
Oh my gosh.
Yes, 13 percent for shootings.
Wow.
That's, yes, the lowest of any big city in the nation.
Barely one of ten.
Now, if we go back to 2016, shooters have been charged out of 212 mass shooting incidents.
That's, remember, that's four people or more get hit by a bullet There have been 212 of these, only 21 people have been charged.
21.
That's about 10% of the cases.
And just two men have been convicted in these attacks.
All the way back to 2016, only two have been convicted.
Now, if you go back to 2016, these 212 mass shootings, we get a body count of 1,032 people
wounded, 126 fatally.
And of that number, we've had two guilty verdicts.
Two.
These are, to me, breathtaking figures.
I mean, I feel as though I stay on top of this sort of thing pretty well, but I was surprised by this.
So, and if you look, there's a tabulation here in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Chicago Sun-Times did a great job putting all this information together.
They said nothing about race, of course.
No, that would be taboo.
But the data are here for inquiring minds.
So, if you look at the numbers here, so far this year there have been 39 Mass shootings.
And the record so far last year was 48 for the whole year.
And this is just halfway through the year.
So we're definitely cruising to a record.
It's going to be shattered this year.
It is going to be absolutely obliterated and shattered.
So it will.
And this year we've had 214 wounded.
That is more in the half year than in any full year from 2016 to 2019.
So the gunplay is really ripping along here.
And as I say, since 2016, there have been 212 mass shootings, 1,032 people hit and wounded.
112 mass shootings, 1,032 people hit and wounded, of those 126 died, and a total of about 21
charged and only two convicted.
Now why could this be?
Why could this be?
Now, yes, there was even a certain amount of speculation in the Sun-Times, as they point out.
What happens, of course, is that the most reckless shooters are still out on the street.
You've got practically no chance of being, and often, there's more than one shooter involved.
So you've got lots and lots of criminals.
And as Steve Gates, a social worker, says, you go to the parks on the south and west sides of the city.
Those are heavily pigmented areas of Chicago.
You see hardly anyone in the park.
It can be a beautiful day.
Nobody's there.
Everyone is afraid.
Now, is the fear exaggerated?
I don't know.
In more than 60% of these 212 mass shootings, no one was killed.
But still, you don't want to be hit by a bullet.
Yes.
It's fascinating.
You add the wounded fatalities, that gives you 1,058 people that have been shot.
In these mass shootings, and you said there were 212 mass shootings, so on average there's almost five people shot in these mass shootings.
You said the New York Times classifies it as four, and if you recall, and I don't recall if you just actually, I don't know if you stated, New York Times let slip that factoid, I think it was in 2017, that the great Colin Flaherty always talks about, where they said 75% of suspects in mass shootings across the country Well, the New York Times, I'm sure they deeply regret having said such a thing.
Deeply, deeply, deeply regret.
And there are some databases that just don't include gang shooting, remember?
That's right.
That's, you know, these liberal places that try to tell us that gun violence is the problem.
Well, they just don't count gang shooting because, well, that just makes a certain population group look bad.
We can't have that.
But, part of the problem, and I'll go in further here, is that investigation of a mass shooting requires an extraordinary amount of time and more resources than other shootings because detectives have to interview far more people, both victims and witnesses, and forensic technicians need to process a sprawling crime scene, often littered with dozens of bullets.
Gotta pick them all up and take a look.
Now, with all those witnesses, there should be lots of arrests, right?
Well, no.
Because, as the Sun-Times says, fear of gangs and distrust of police has created an atmosphere that discourages cooperation, thus striking fear in residents.
Now, this to me is the most interesting thing of all.
The Sun-Times are very good about this.
They said there's also a striking lack of cooperation from the intended targets.
Yes, you might stop four bullets, but You're not interested in the police going out and getting this guy.
And as the Sun-Times says, they quote a police officer, people are not cooperating who are victims and that signals to us we want revenge.
We don't want police solving this case because we want to retaliate.
That's pretty significant.
Which is why you find so often in places like Chicago, Indianapolis, where just last week there were five people shot, including a little girl, at a funeral out of revenge for one of these gangbangers.
So, there's probably a reasonably good chance that some of these people who are stopping bullets are the ones who actually let fly the bullets to begin with.
If the revenge is pointed in the right direction.
But of course, often these people just go up to crowd and they just fire away randomly and all kinds of innocent people are hurt.
But, now this I thought was very interesting.
This year, Chicago police have recovered at least, and this is a rather precise number, 7,289 firearms.
That's a lot of hardware.
And that's up from 5,668 the same year, at the same point this year.
And, this too is very interesting, crime victims are clamoring to get their elected officials behind measures such as stricter bail and stop-and-frisk.
The people in the neighborhoods, the people whose loved ones are stopping these bullets, they know better.
Now, this is just incredible.
But the McCloskeys, they were charged, they were charged, but fortunately they have been pardoned.
Now, I have almost a believe-it-or-not story here.
It's a really gruesome believe-it-or-not story that we would prefer not to have to talk about, but Nicole Johnson of Baltimore.
She was pulled over speeding in a car that had fake paper tags on it.
The vehicle was unregistered and uninsured.
You know, this is what the police often say.
Folks who are misbehaving in some obvious way, good chance they're misbehaving in other ways.
In pretty much every way.
You'd think they'd want to keep a low profile, depending on what they got in the trunk, but something they just don't seem to care.
Now, the car was being prepared to be towed when Nicola Johnson went to the trunk to get her belongings, and the officer smelled, quote, the unmistakable odor of decomposition.
Johnson removed a plastic tote and a clear trash bag and the officer noticed maggots.
Nicole Johnson said that there were just dirty blankets inside the bag but the officer continued to have Johnson remove the blankets and he opened up a suitcase and there was a body of a child inside the suitcase.
At that point, she ran.
But she was apprehended a short time later.
So there were two bodies.
Two bodies.
And one inside a plastic tote, one inside a suitcase.
And Nicole Johnson told investigators that both children are her sister's.
So these are her, this is a niece and a nephew.
The sister had apparently turned them over to Johnson because the sister said she couldn't care for them.
Well, that seems to run in the family, doesn't it?
So far, no word on what the aunt has to say about all this.
So, what in fact had happened?
In May 2020, that's more than a year ago, Nicola Johnson became angry at one of the children, hit her several times, calling her to fall, hit her head, and die.
And at that time, she put the child in a suitcase and put the suitcase in her car.
More than a year ago!
It's been riding around in the car with her ever since.
And the city in question was?
This is Baltimore.
Okay, Baltimore, Maryland.
Okay, just wanted to make sure I got that right.
Yes, yes, yes.
And then two months ago, the second child, for reasons that the press seemed to be unclear about, never woke up.
So, Nicole Johnson put that child in a tote, and this was the brother, and I guess she wanted them to be together in the grave and put him in the trunk next to his sister.
Well, the sister, seven years old, as far as I can tell, was 18 pounds when she died.
A seven-year-old child that weighed 18 pounds.
Now... This is one of those stories that it's, you know, you heart warmed earlier.
This is one of those, it's my gut is tensed up.
It's just incredible.
Now, I tell you... Tales of the Crypt here.
Yes, I know.
And, you know, we... I sometimes wonder about running these horrible stories.
And we have a sort of a standard for determining when to run a story like this over at the Admin website.
And my criterion generally is, can I imagine white people doing this?
And if my general sense is, ah, really, I can't.
Of course, I can imagine anything, but how likely is it that white people do this?
And I say, well, really, you could probably comb the archives, and I don't think you'd find white people.
Hollywood might actually try and reinterpret and reimagine this story so that it's a bunch of white people from the sticks.
Yes, that's sort of my standard for running stories like this.
Now, I would apply that standard to the next story, too.
This one is Well, a little eye-opening.
This is a story out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Last week, Juan Lorenzo Miranda Jara, 24-year-old, brought his girlfriend, his pregnant girlfriend, into the hospital, all happy at the prospect of becoming a father.
As a consequence, he was very surprised when he was summoned by hospital staff, who had called the police, and he found himself under arrest.
What could be the problem?
It turned out the new mother is 12 years old.
Now, the father is an illegal alien.
He was taken into custody and charged with first-degree rape of a minor, and he remains in jail, awaiting his next court appearance, which will be the 26th of this month.
Well, there's more to this story.
The 12-year-old's mother and family knew all about what the kid was getting up to with Miranda Jarrah.
They thought it was great.
There are photos of the family throwing a baby shower for their daughter and the dad-to-be.
Their 12-year-old daughter and the dad-to-be.
I wonder if they were planning a gender reveal party, too.
Just how hip and up-to-date is this group of Mexicans?
So the mother, and from her photos, clearly a Mexicana has been charged with child neglect and enabling child abuse.
She is currently in the Houskow in Tulsa County Jail.
Now, one wonders where has Papa been in all of this?
Well, Papa is serving time for a conviction of rape.
So this is really, I mean... Anne Coulter was right in Adios America.
I'm afraid she was.
I'm afraid she was.
Now, on the one hand, you sort of have to feel sorry for the poor father.
He didn't know what he was getting into.
He's an illegal immigrant.
Does he speak any English at all?
Does he know anything about the United States?
I mean, after all, things are a little more freewheeling south of the border in these matters.
In fact, I looked up on the internet to find what the age of consent is in Mexico.
What is it?
In 10 Mexican states, the age of consent is 12.
So, this guy is suffering from culture shock.
Yeah, that's right.
These laws the gringos abide by, they're not the same in Mexico.
That's right.
That's what her mama said.
Her mama said, go man, go.
When you said on the one hand, it may have been a Freudian slip, maybe my mind went there.
I thought you said on the one hand.
Anyways, but this goes back to that debate that Ann Coulter brought up in Adios America.
And if you recall back in 2015, then candidate Trump had just finished reading Adios America.
That's right.
No, there does seem to be a kind of gruesome specialty that our friends from south of the border have for these underage sex crimes.
But, you know, the mores are different down there, and as I say, it's just a matter of culture shock.
Well, here's a little bit more culture shock for you.
Emily Scala A white lady was appointed principal flute of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1988.
So she has been at her post for a long time and was appointed a faculty member at the prestigious Peabody Institute of Music the following year.
And she has been guest principal flutist here and there.
Clearly, this woman plays a mean flute.
But the flute has gone silent because she's been fired from her orchestra.
Details are a little scant, but apparently she posted a COVID skeptic video.
She also criticized BLM on social media.
Wait, wait, wait.
Yes.
She was in Baltimore.
Baltimore.
Baltimore again.
Baltimore comes up again.
Yes, yes, yes.
Boy, you could just do a whole broadcast on just about Baltimore.
So she's a COVID skeptic and a BLM skeptic, but the orchestra and official statement said that the problem was continued and repeated infractions and not limited to contrary opinions on social media posts.
So there may be more to the story.
Maybe she hit a few false notes.
I don't know.
But here, this is an astonishing thing.
You can be the principal flautist, first chair in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and it appears to me that if you say the wrong things, out you go.
Now, orchestra musicians have got unions, they've got contracts.
We'll see what happens with this.
It appears she's a pretty feisty gal.
She may fight back.
Now, just a brief item, a brief item on Ibram Kendi.
You're my favorite guru.
Somebody sent me a video of him in which he defines racism, and let me quote.
I actually define racism as a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity and are substantiated by racist ideas.
And I define a racist individual as someone who is expressing a racist idea or supporting a racist policy, whether it's action or inaction.
Now, that's known in logic as a circular definition.
I'm lost, so what?
Yes, racism is racism.
Now, let me give you an example of how that would work.
You've probably never heard of a crinketer.
Let me define a crinketer for you.
Please.
A crinketer is someone who is expressing a crinketer idea or supporting a crinketer policy.
Now wasn't that helpful?
No, absolutely not.
That's the way, that's the way Kendi defies racism.
This is quite hilarious.
But Kendi, I mean, it's clear he's not that bright, but he is bright enough to make a fortune.
He's bright enough to cash a lot of checks.
He's bright enough to make a fortune telling white people just how awful they are.
And he does it in such a sweet way.
You ever seen him in his videos?
Oh, he's so warm and cuddly when he tells white people how just miserable creeps they are.
And moving on to, you remember the Asian spa shooter, Robert Long?
In Atlanta, Georgia, correct?
Atlanta, Georgia.
Yes, that was last March.
He went to these Asian spas, that's what they're called.
Spa is a euphemism for where you can get a sex massage.
It's called the happy ending.
And he told authorities that he was motivated by his sex addiction.
As a Christian, he hated his addiction to sex and he wanted to remove temptation for all others.
This was a public service shooting.
Of course, eight of his victims were Asian, and Asians yelled very loudly about anti-Asian racism.
I didn't know Asians could yell that loud, but boy, they're getting leather lungs these days.
Well, if you remember, there was a wave of anti-Asian violence happening, but they couldn't have the picture of the individuals committing these crimes because they were all black in cities like New York and San Francisco.
And they found a white man.
They did.
Oh boy, that was just an orgasmic experience.
They found a white man.
Talk about happy endings.
Yes.
Well, prosecutor Shannon Wallace, he decided that Robert Long was right about that.
He says investigators about his motives.
He said investigators interviewed acquaintances and others of Asian descent who knew Long and none had ever seen him exhibit the slightest anti-Asian bias.
Well, that's not good enough.
That's not good enough.
But, after all, he says the investigation failed to show any type of history this defendant had any form of racism towards any other ethnicity.
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho.
Experts say no, no, no, no.
They know better.
Janelle Wong, she crops up a lot.
She's one of these real leather-lunged screamers.
She's the one who will make sure that you know that if a black attacks an Asian, he is an agent of white supremacy.
In any case, she's a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland.
She said, The historical sexualization of Asian women in the U.S.
is a clear part of this story.
It's a result of the confluence of racist and sexist stereotypes and structures in the U.S.
She says these factors exist regardless of the racial background and character assessment of the shooter's acquaintances.
So she knows better.
All of this is happening no matter what you say, no matter what you think.
She knows better.
She goes on to say, this case presents an important opportunity to acknowledge the ways in which racism, sexism, and economic exploitation work together.
She's got it figured out.
She never met the guy.
She never talked to any of his friends, relatives, acquaintances, but she knows.
Now, and we move on to April Alexander.
She is at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology, University of Denver, and she says, such gender-based violence takes place at the intersection of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia.
I guarantee the property value of that intersection is pretty high.
Ah, let's hope so.
Homophobia?
What's homophobia got to do with it?
I don't even know.
No, this is all very, this is all very, I mean, they are absolutely determined to deny, no, no, no, this can't have been a sex addiction.
It can't have been anything to do with his weird Christianity.
It can't have been what it said.
It can't have been what all his friends said.
No, no, they know better.
It can't be what he actually admitted to doing.
Yes, exactly.
He's already said, he's already given you the rationale for what it should be.
No, it's absolutely got to be racism!
We'll scream if it's not racism.
Stanley Mark, a senior staff attorney for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund says, it doesn't matter what the DA says.
Politically, they can whitewash it and say it's not racially motivated.
We, as Asian Americans, we know what it was.
They just know.
They know in their bones.
It just has to be an Asian privilege to know these things.
Well, Long, actually, he pleaded guilty on a couple of cases, and he's got four consecutive life sentences.
He still faces murder charges in Fulton County.
Where for the other killings, and the prosecutor is seeking the death penalty.
It's not as though he's going to get any extra for this.
They just absolutely have to mark one in the record books.
Anti-Asian white man.
Remind me, he killed eight people, six were Asian.
Six were Asian.
Two were white.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes.
But they just have the bit between their teeth.
They cannot let go of this bone that they're worrying to death.
But, in the meantime, there's a new crime policy in Philadelphia.
You know, Harry Krasner, our favorite Soros back-to-DEA, he's got a new policy.
And our favorite police chief and police commissioner, Outlaw, is her name.
Ms.
Outlaw.
Well, the Philadelphia police are now required, politely, to ask criminals to stop engaging in certain crimes before they can actually take action.
Come on, come on.
Yes, yes, yes.
That's not real.
It's real, it's real.
This is because A racial disparity exists in certain types of stops.
So, this is the new guidance.
Offenders will be free to leave and will not be detained if the individual refuses to comply with the cease and desist command that officers can proceed normally.
But the officer says, please stop.
And if the crime is then stopped in a track, you're free to go.
I did not believe you.
I had to look it up because this is one of those moments where Philadelphia is going through a historic Historic crime wave.
Yep, yep, just like everybody else.
Now, what are some of the crimes that you can commit until the police officer tells you to stop?
And they become a crime only if you persist.
Public defecation.
Okay.
I mean, I don't know how long you can go with that, but prostitution.
You can, in other words, it's legal, it's legal until the police show up.
And then it continues to be legal if you stop and the police show up.
Disorderly conduct, defiant trespass, I don't know what that is, but that sounds pretty bad to me.
I guess that sounds, you know, if somebody's on my lawn and I say, you get the hell off!
And he stays, that's defiant trespass, but the police come up and he says, please get off Mr. Tater's lawn, and it's okay.
No crime has been committed.
And let's see what else we got here.
Obstructing the highway.
That's fine too.
You can stop all 18 wheelers you like, so long as when the police show up you say, yes sir, yes officer, and off you go.
Noise violations.
Littering in parks.
I guess that means you're allowed one, your first mattress that you dump in the park is fine.
It's only when the police say, don't dump anymore, Well, it's police.
Do the police have to get on their knees and say, pretty please with sugar on top?
Probably just one knee is okay.
One knee, okay.
Yes, they take a knee and then they say yes.
Well, so yeah, there you go.
These things are not crimes in Philly until police comes and tells you to stop.
And that's for one reason, only because non-whites are more likely to do these things.
They admit it.
I can't be the only person who thinks about how Philadelphia is where the Constitution was signed, where so much of what became the United States was contemplated and debated.
Come on, dead white men.
Now, speak to us of Rochester, Mr. Kersey.
I'll do this one fast because, again, this is just an example of white men trying to keep alive the civilization their ancestors created for their progeny.
But, alas, It's not meant to be.
After its deployment in upstate New York, residents, black residents I should say, have raised concern over a gun violence task force.
I'll do it really quick.
Violence Prevention and Elimination Response, the VIPER task force, what a cool acronym, was launched on July 7th, intended to combat a recent surge of gun violence and homicides in Rochester and Buffalo, New York, both Used to be beautiful cities, now a rising tide of color has
transformed those cities into violent places.
So you have the combined work of city, state, and federal agencies, which are going to be
Vipers focused to get the high level and well-known gun offenders off the city streets.
Well, who do you think is committing the gun violence on the city streets?
Old Asian ladies.
One more guess.
Little outside.
Uh-huh.
I didn't get it right.
Not over the plate.
Okay.
I don't know.
Belgian tourists.
That's definitely way outside too.
So on July 23rd, a couple weeks into the Viper Task Force, I love saying that, great name, the task force released stats for its first two weeks of work.
138 arrests, 45 of those arrests were narcotics related, 45 firearm related, and 38 violent felony arrests.
So this Viper Task Force is getting the job done!
This is what you want to do.
This is what should be initiated immediately in Chicago, where you talked about these mass shootings where, my gosh, you said less than 10% or barely above 10% actually had been cleared.
Or had suspects.
Had suspects.
So what ends up happening is, you can imagine, the task force, There's Not Enough Black Faces, is what Stanley Martin, an activist who founded the Free the People, ROC, and works with one of the organizations there.
And then they also said that there's nobody there who wants to point out this is a Black Lives Matter activist with the Community Justice Initiative.
Why are they targeting the black community?
Why are they targeting the brown community?
I can't imagine.
I just can't imagine.
So there you go.
Oh, so they got to stop.
All these people who are actually stopping crimes, that's no good.
Got to be defunded, got to be fired, got to be gotten the heck out.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we had so much more to bring you.
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