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Cars Being Stolen? Sue the Manufacturers.

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at big-city lawsuits against Kia and Hyundai because their cars are too easy to steal. The hosts also discuss ADL idiocy, David Oh, Patriot Front, and the untimely death of Naima Liggon. Thumbnail credit: Freepik

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm Jerry Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
	Today is August 30th, Anno Domini, 2023.
	And I must say August 30th, 2023, is a marvelous, beautiful day at American Renaissance World Headquarters here in Virginia.
	And I suppose it would be unreasonable, but I would wish that everyone everywhere all around the world has such a marvelous day.
	I guess that's just not something we'd count on in this big bad planet of ours.
	But, well, Mr. Kersey, since I'm obsessed with the weather, how are things in your neck of the woods?
	Hey, not too far away from where you are.
	My neck of the woods are fantastic.
	I agree with you.
	It's been Looking forward to a beautiful fall, so I hope all of our listeners are getting ready, and the United States at least, are getting ready for a fun Labor Day weekend with family, friends, and neighbors.
	And I hope, like you said, go outside and enjoy the day.
	As bleak as the news can be, as despondent as things can look sometimes, it's always good to recalibrate and take Take in what, you know, what nature provides sometimes.
	And that's a beautiful day, like you said.
	Nature is very generous today.
	However, our listeners have not been very generous with their comments.
	I have only one to share with our listeners.
	What's wrong with you folks out there?
	And it has to do with the fact that last week we reported that a listener who works in hotels says that black hair is so wiry that it can get stuck in towels to the point that it ruins them.
	I had never heard of this, but apparently this happens.
	And the listener says that item about black hair in hotel towels is exactly why your podcast is interesting.
	Well, boy, I guess we need another story about black hair.
	Do you think we would hear this on CNN, NBC, or even Town Hall?
	This reminds me that blacks and even Hispanics often talk about good hair or bad hair.
	Good hair is white hair and bad hair is black hair.
	Well, I guess good hair is hair that doesn't ruin your towels.
	So, I think, because we had so few comments this time, I think we will, at this very moment, encourage listeners to get in touch with us.
	And there are two ways to do it.
	Please send a comment or a criticism or a correction to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and click on the Contact Us tab or Hey, shoot me an email.
	BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	Once again, that email address is BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	And Mr. Taylor, we'd be remiss if we didn't say that a number of the speeches from the New Century Foundation's 2023 conference are now available on Rumble.
	I actually watched Mr. Hood's speech.
	I thought it was fantastic.
	So I encourage all of our listeners to head over to Rumble or Odyssey, whichever video Well, the best place to find them, actually, is at amred.com.
	Excellent.
	And there you can get your choice of platforms for your speeches.
	Well, Gregory Hood is a genius in his own right, and he gave an excellent speech, as he always does.
	Well, let's begin with Dr. William Daugherty.
	He is an economist at Duke University and one of the great gurus of the finances of reparations.
	Well, he recently announced on Twitter that his book, From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans, has won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association.
	Hmm.
	From here to equality.
	It sounds like a play on words.
	From here to eternity.
	Yes.
	Well, it sounds—well, I guess he's right.
	You know, equality would probably take an eternity.
	And then some.
	And then some.
	Yes, indeed.
	Forever and a day, as they used to sing.
	Well, last year's outstanding book of the ASA, American Sociological Association, went to Matthew Clare of Stanford, and it's called Being a Disadvantaged Criminal Defendant, Mistrust and Resistance in Attorney-Client Interactions.
	You know, I wonder if the American Sociological Association has ever given an award to a conservative book.
	I wonder if the bell curve got it in 1994.
	I somehow guess it did not.
	Now, the ASA is a non-profit organization founded in December 1905, so maybe back then it had more sense.
	Today, most of its members work in academia.
	Another 20% work in government, business, or non-profits.
	And the ASA publishes 10 academic journals and magazines.
	It's the largest professional association of sociologists in the world, with 13,000 members.
	And, as I say, it appears to be Absolutely, blindingly liberal and progressive.
	Now, apparently this book on reparations by my brother, Darity, it has received many prizes.
	It got the Lillian Smith Book Award, whatever that is.
	And Lillian Smith, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, gave it its book prize.
	And it got best book awards in social change category.
	And also the Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction.
	I never heard of these places, but I guess prizes is better than no prizes.
	The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association gave it its award, and I saved the best for last.
	This high-profile economist, he's proposing $850,000 for each eligible black family.
	This is the idea that is getting so many accolades and awards.
	As I explained to you, he is at Duke University, and I don't know whether he's calculated as to how much this would work out.
	It would cost $14 trillion.
	And that's a one-time payment?
	A one-time payment, yes.
	Apparently we'd be off the hook, but that's more than twice the annual budget of the federal government.
	Now, it would not bother me if the federal government shut down for two years, but that seems unlikely, and you would take all the money that it was going to spend and give it to black people.
	Of course, let us not forget the median household net worth in the United States is $160,000.
	And each eligible black family is going to have $850,000—that's five times the median net worth—drop out of the sky.
	And this utter fantasy, and at the same time, I would say, utterly unfair and crazy idea, is just being lathered with praise.
	But that's the world we live in.
	And apparently not being lathered with praise is SpaceX.
	You had a surprising story.
	At least I was surprised by this.
	Yeah, you know, this is what we should have talked about last week, because I believe it broke the day that we went to, we did our podcast, but this is courtesy of NPR.
	The Justice Department is suing SpaceX for allegedly not hiring Refugees and asylees.
	You know, New Century Foundation, American Renaissance, has never hired a refugee or an asylee either.
	I wonder if we're going to get sued.
	Easy now, easy now.
	You just self-reported your infraction.
	So the Justice Department is suing SpaceX, accusing the Elon Musk-founded company of discriminating against refugees and asylum seekers in the hiring process.
	The department alleges in the lawsuit filed last Thursday that between September 2018 and May 2022, SpaceX violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by discouraging refugees and asylum recipients to apply for available positions in their marketing materials, rejecting or refusing to hire them, and hiring only U.S.
	citizens and permanent residents.
	Oh boy, the weaponization is I mean, gosh, hiring U.S.
	US citizens and permanent residents. I mean, that's a crime, apparently.
	Yeah. SpaceX also falsely claimed it could not hire non-US citizens because of export
	control laws, the DOJ stated. And a reply posted to Twitter formally, well, and reply
	posted to X, we'll just call it Twitter.
	That's what people know it as must call the lawsuit quote yet another case of weaponization the DOJ for political purposes SpaceX was told repeatedly that hiring anyone who is not a permanent resident of the United States would violate international arms trafficking laws and Which would be a criminal offense musk wrote in a post so
	SpaceX, of course We all know they build and launch rockets which limits its
	capacity to export certain technologies and software Under export control laws such as the International Traffic
	and Arms Regulation ITAR and the Export Administration regulations
	however Asylees and refugees permission to live and work in the
	United States does not expire and they stand on equal footing
	With US citizens and lawful permanent residents under export control laws the DOJ stated in a statement
	That wasn't...
	That doesn't make sense, really.
	No.
	Just because, have they been that carefully vetted so that you've got somebody from China or, I don't know, Afghanistan?
	So they're, you know, they're okay.
	They're just like American citizens.
	They're not going to give the sensitive technology to people we don't want having it.
	You recall a couple weeks ago, I believe we talked about the story of the two Chinese nationals who were in the U.S.
	military who They were not Chinese nationals.
	They were U.S.
	citizens.
	They were U.S.
	citizens.
	You know what?
	You stand corrected.
	We don't have to have anybody write in.
	You're right.
	They were U.S.
	citizens who spied for their fatherland, their native land.
	So now we are making an argument in favor of this lawsuit because U.S.
	citizens can be just as suspicious as Azalees.
	That's very true.
	Yes, that's true.
	Let's see here.
	The DOJ says Musk posted on Twitter that, quote, U.S.
	law requires at least a green card to be hired at SpaceX as rockets are considered advanced weapons technology, end quote.
	It also alleges in posting SpaceX put on job hunting sites and online forums, SpaceX employees specified available positions were only open to U.S.
	citizens.
	The horror.
	On applications, potential employees had to check a box indicating their citizenship status, which was then input into a database that managers and recruiters marked with rejection codes, such as not authorized to work, ITAR ineligible, does not meet basic qualifications, and not U.S.
	citizen green card.
	So their CRM that they're using for tracking applicants, how dare they have this type of nomenclature?
	To try and figure out if the individual applying for the job is worth anything, regardless of their status.
	So rejected applicants with asylum or refugee status had apt experience for the roles, including one person who graduated from Georgia Tech and had nine years of engineering experience, and another who the hiring manager said had, quote, some impressive experience listed, end quote, the DOJ said in its lawsuit.
	So, nice little anecdote there.
	If the guy was such a great engineer from Georgia Tech, I'm sure there are many companies that would have hired him.
	Well, the question also is, where was he, an asylee, from?
	Where was this guy trying to escape with all his impressive experiences and credentials?
	All very strange, if you ask me.
	But, so, please continue.
	Yep, yep.
	Out of about 10,000 hires between 2018 and 2022, only one person was an asylum seeker and none were refugees, the DOJ stated, in regards to SpaceX hires.
	Again, let's repeat that again.
	From 2018 to 2022, out of 10,000 hires at SpaceX, only one person was an asylee and none were refugees.
	The Justice Department is seeking to have SpaceX pay civil penalties determined by a
	judge, hire the applicants who were qualified but rejected because of their citizenship
	status, and give back pay to those who were discriminated against.
	Again, we only have, Mr. Taylor, we only have evidence of a few people even applying for these jobs.
	Well, you know, what the U.S.
	government is likely to do is beat the bushes and try to find people who say they would have applied if the recruitment materials did not say that they had to be U.S.
	citizens.
	There's no end to this.
	And I bet they would make SpaceX Pay for the effort to track these people down.
	This just sounds like pure harassment to me.
	Yep.
	And it's interesting, I don't remember her name, the person who's actually behind this.
	But do you remember we were talking about an individual who was nominated for the DOJ who in her undergrad years at Harvard, she talked about melanin enhancement as being almost a superpower?
	I'll try and find her name here as we're talking.
	Yes, that's right.
	That's right.
	No, well, well, it is a superpower, you know, these days, if you want to get a government job, boy, it's just like you eat your spinach every day.
	So, yeah, it does have advantages.
	But what a crazy situation.
	Here you've got a very high-tech business that's subject to all sorts of export controls, and you say, okay, US citizens and permanent residents.
	And you get sued!
	And if this goes through, and if the government is successful with this, this will be millions and millions and millions of dollars bled from a company that's doing a job better than the U.S.
	government ever could in getting things into space.
	SpaceX actually saved things.
	In fact, NASA couldn't even send up rockets, and SpaceX stepped in.
	And here's the name of the individual, Mr. Taylor.
	I'm sorry we didn't mention this to begin with, because this is so important.
	Assistant Attorney General spearheading the case is Kristen Clark, who, as Zero Hedge talked about, appears to be a total black supremacist.
	On Thursday night, venture capitalist Max Meyer tweeted, flashback, assistant AG for civil rights,
	Kristen Clark, who is suing Elon Musk and SpaceX for discriminating against asylum seekers
	was an avid black supremacist while at Harvard University.
	He refers to a 1994 letter to the Harvard Crimson claiming that blacks are genetically superior to whites
	for various reasons.
	The letter was a response to defending the bell curve, which argues that human intelligence is a combination
	of both inherited and environmental factors.
	Ms. Coleman.
	Clark wrote this.
	She was the president of the Black Students Association, and it says this, quote, Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities, end quote.
	So this is the individual who's spearheading the lawsuit against SpaceX.
	Welcome to America.
	Welcome to Black Run America, Mr. Taylor, as I like to say.
	Yes, I used to make fun of you for talking about Black Run America, but it is increasingly Black Run.
	Wow.
	Well, we have a different story here having to do with the Patriot Front.
	This is an article from USA Today, so pardon its tendentious language.
	It goes like this.
	Members of the white supremacist organization Patriot Front have filed a federal lawsuit against a leftist activist, claiming he infiltrated the group and revealed the identities of members.
	The activists doxxing of the four plaintiffs cost them jobs, income, relationships with family members.
	Patriot Front describes itself, according to USA Today, as dedicated to a hard reset on the nation we see today, a return to the traditions and virtues of our forefathers.
	I have seen videos of some of their activities.
	They are absolutely 100% peaceful.
	This is free speech stuff here.
	The organization is mostly active in spreading propaganda in the form of flyers, banners, and stickers that members distribute.
	The lawsuit, filed in late June, seeks damages from this fellow, David Capito, who is a guy who infiltrated and for time acted as the group's photographer.
	Now, isn't that a great job for an infiltrator?
	But the lawsuit also says At a deeper level, this complaint seeks to vindicate the rule of law and basic principles of free expression for persons who espouse unpopular opinions.
	So, go Patriot Front, go!
	The organization is, let's see, the confidential information that Capito got by lying to get into the organization.
	This confidential information was then widely published and used to harass and threaten doxing them and causing them serious harm, says the lawsuit.
	Now, this comment strikes me as just as interesting as the entire rest of the story.
	Brian Hughes, Associate Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.
	I'll repeat that title.
	Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab.
	I wonder what they're innovating here.
	I don't know.
	I think just by having something like that, that's a certain innovation in polarization and extremism.
	In any case, this guy says, I think a judge will be very reluctant to set a precedent on behalf of a hate group, as he calls it, a completely nonviolent group that tries to get its message out by demonstrating and marching and putting up banners.
	I think this guy's put his figure right on it.
	A judge will be very reluctant to set a precedent on behalf of a hate group.
	This is all about who whom.
	It's not what, where, when, why.
	No.
	It's who is involved.
	If this was some other outfit and they got doxed, of course, they can be as lefties can be.
	Doxing them isn't going to hurt them in the slightest.
	In the United States of America, Anno Domini, 2023.
	Yeah, look what happened.
	We haven't talked about it.
	Perhaps we'll talk about it next week, but Andy Ngo sued Antifa in Portland, and of course a jury of his peers sided with Antifa.
	In fact, I believe the lawyer even said, I'm Antifa for the defendant or the plaintiff.
	I don't recall who was which in that case.
	Well, this sounded at first blush as though these Antifa types who beat him up, there's
	no doubt about that, got off scot-free for beating him up.
	But my recollection, when we did talk about this, is that he was trying to sue the doxxer, as a matter of fact.
	He was trying to sue the people who exposed his identity, explained where he was going to be at a certain time, and those are the people that he wanted to wring money out of, not the people who actually beat him.
	And yes, and my recollection is that there were three people in this suit who had default judgments filed against them.
	Now, the article about this was very vague, and my suspicion is those are the people who actually beat him up There are probably people with no assets, low lives, who live on the sidewalk shooting up, and those people probably didn't even bother to defend themselves.
	So he was suing the outfit that exposed him.
	That's a rather similar case here.
	It is.
	Now, I do recall, and he got nothing in that, but I do recall seeing a headlight, and I didn't dig deeper into the story, that he got $350,000 for something.
	I did see that.
	I did see that.
	Now, was that the award that he got against these people who did not even defend themselves?
	If so, good luck getting that from losers and pink haired people living in mama's basement.
	But I should have read the story more carefully.
	Well, but here's the story that the one we don't really have to, I think, read all that carefully.
	It's the story of Nyama Ligon, age 16.
	She is one of our African-American fellow citizens.
	She was stabbed to death during a fight over sweet and sour sauce outside a McDonald's in Washington, D.C.
	Judging the photographs, this is in a perfectly ordinary upscale part of Washington, D.C.
	Ligon and another girl began hitting a 16-year-old who then stabbed Ligon in her chest and abdomen with a, what the paper calls, a seven and a half inch pocket knife.
	There's no such thing as a seven and a half inch pocket knife.
	If the blade's that long, I mean, it's got a handle presumably, even if it folds, it's not going to fit in your pocket.
	This is a hunting knife.
	This is a vicious long, that's as long as a carving knife.
	In any case, the unarmed 16 year old girl claimed the stabbing was done in self-defense and that she was knocked to the ground by Ligon and another person during the fight.
	Now, you know, she's really claiming self-defense.
	I'm going to say she's unarmed.
	She had no firearm on her, but she whipped out this seven and a half inch knife and defends herself after she's being knocked to the ground by the dead girl, the girl who is now dead, and somebody else in this fight over sweet and sour sauce.
	I guess it must have been really sweet and really sour.
	Never got in a fight over sweet and sour sauce, but I must confess, I know you're not a fan of fast food.
	That is one of the Finest condiments known to man is the sweet and sour sauce at McDonald's.
	Is that so?
	It's delicious.
	Well, that puts a whole different perspective on this story.
	I shouldn't have even brought it up.
	If it's that good, why are they fighting over it?
	Apparently, Miss Naima Ligon, age 16, was the 13th person under 18 killed in Washington so far this year, often at the hand of other minors.
	So this is the kind of sisterly love we get in Washington, D.C., which is my signal to move the story about the city of brotherly love.
	Now, this is, you know, have you ever seen any of these videos?
	People walk down the streets, the horrible streets of this Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, just block after block.
	Of utterly zonked out people, some of them obviously shooting up, some of them unconscious, and a whole lot of white people, too.
	Have you ever seen these people?
	Yeah, no, and again, it's footsteps from where, what, from where the Constitution was ratified.
	I mean, it's just so many, so many sad metaphors for America in 2023 when you go to a place like Philadelphia or You know, the white city of, you know, Chicago, which we'll talk about, or you think about New York?
	I mean, it's just... Well, I don't think there's any place in New York.
	These people, and they don't even have tents.
	These days, you know, all these so-called homeless, I call them bums and winos, somebody gave them these spiffy little pup tents.
	But here in the Kensington area, they're just lying out on the street, they're lying on cardboard boxes.
	In any case, I've told some of the story in advance.
	This article says that years of failed policies have pushed Kensington into despair, with more public drug users dying from lethal substances, women resorting to prostitution, as powerless police officers are forced to stand by.
	That is the key point.
	So says the Republican mayoral nominee.
	If you want to come to a place you can get drugs, not be bothered, shoot up in front of the police, Prostitute yourself and all that.
	This is the place, said David O. He's the first Asian to serve on the city council, and now he's running for mayor.
	If he's running as a Republican, good luck, David O. Kensington was already internationally known for its excessive public drug use before fentanyl and the addictive animal tranquilizer xylosine took hold.
	Had you ever heard of xylosine?
	You know what?
	I've never heard of people stabbing one another over sweet and sour sauce McDonald's, so... Oh, yes, you have.
	Yes, you have.
	Of course they have.
	Yes, you have.
	I've not heard of people using an animal tranquilizer.
	Well, it's an addictive animal tranquilizer.
	Gee, in any case... What's a non-addictive animal tranquilizer that people are using?
	And you guys, gosh...
	But drug users inject themselves with needles right on the sidewalks in Kensington Avenue and also in McPherson Park, otherwise known as Needle Park.
	In 2021, Philadelphia had nearly 1,300 overdose deaths.
	And that is a 160% increase since 2011.
	Would you repeat that?
	1,300 OD deaths.
	In one year?
	In one year.
	That's right.
	1,300 people.
	Would you repeat that?
	1,300 OD deaths.
	In one year?
	In one year, that's right.
	1,300 people.
	And that is a 160% increase over the figure for 10 years previously.
	And this is the...
	Deaths at this fair, Mr. Taylor.
	It's just it's it's awful.
	It's just awful.
	And as I say, you ordinarily you expect these derelicts to be Hispanics or blacks.
	But I'd say the majority that I've seen in these videos are white people, just skinny, strung out, got vacant expressions in their eyes if their eyes are open at all.
	Our police are told not to arrest drug dealers, says Mr. O.
	Because somebody figures that drug addicts need drugs, and the only place they can get it from is drug dealers.
	The Philadelphia's Police Assisted Diversion Program tells officers to divert arrests for nonviolent drug offenses.
	That means buying and selling, I suppose, in any quantity at all.
	You can sell a ton of the stuff that's nonviolent, so your arrest will be diverted.
	And your arrest will be diverted if you engage in prostitution or retail theft.
	They will send you gently towards health-centered services.
	And, of course, by failing to shut down the open-air drug market, this means that people are making fortunes off of these sufferers, and it becomes a mecca for losers and drug addicts.
	Kensington residents, as it turns out, And yeah, it didn't really occur to me, and I see these videos, you see all of this horror going on, and it didn't occur to me, as it should have, because I'm a bonehead, Kensington residents aren't all dealers or drudgy addicts, says Oak, and they are fed up.
	One lifelong resident previously told a news reporter that he always goes out for pizza for his children so they don't have to go out and expose themselves to criminals and drug addicts wandering around in a stupid Since 2015, that's when it got really bad.
	Rob said, I do not let my daughter come out of the car out here.
	And yes, she's not even supposed to step out.
	Now, how she gets into the house, he did not explain.
	Maybe she's teleported.
	Maybe they've got a garage around the back of the house.
	Who knows?
	Needles, guns, addicts, fights, disrespect.
	He says he doesn't want his daughter around that, and I don't blame him at all.
	No, yeah, of course.
	Yeah.
	Now this guy, O, David O, and boy, oh boy, oh boy, I'm in O's camp.
	He's served on the Philadelphia City Council for over a decade, and he hopes as mayor that he can finally do something about this.
	Well, God bless him.
	And if it takes an Asian to say the obvious, and you've got to stop this stuff, Well, good for him.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about Chicago.
	You know, this is just one that I saw.
	It just kind of talks, it kind of speaks to what you just talked about.
	People not wanting their daughters to get out of the car because of just how crazy life is in major metropolitan areas.
	And this is Chicago.
	A camera crew was robbed at gunpoint while reporting on a surge in armed robberies.
	This comes to us courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times.
	A TV crew doing a story on a rash of robberies in the city was robbed at gunpoint early Monday morning while conducting a report on crime.
	Early Monday morning?
	Early Monday morning, 5 a.m.
	5 a.m.?
	Is that what it was?
	Yeah.
	Wow, you got some real early risers.
	Or maybe that guy was out on a toot all night and just coming home.
	It wasn't just one guy, Mr. Taylor.
	Three armed men wearing ski masks approached the reporter and photographer.
	Both males from Univision Chicago at about 5 a.m.
	Univision?
	Oh, so these were Hispanics?
	Yeah, the robbers took the victim's money, then also stole a camera and other equipment from an SUV belonging to the victims.
	ABC 7 reports it was one of a rash of armed robberies in Chicago in which two to four people ambushed their victims, sometimes physically assaulting them.
	The Sun-Times reports a photographer with ABC7 was assaulted and robbed earlier this month while covering a news conference.
	So this is not something that's an anomaly.
	It's happened twice in the month of August in Chicago.
	So reporters aren't safe.
	You know, as Mr. Hood likes to say, all journalists are bastards, A-J-A-B, but I don't think they deserve to be robbed while they're trying to enlighten the community about how bad the robbery situation is in the city of Chicago.
	I wonder if they get combat pay there.
	You know, there's more news about Chicago.
	We had heard that this was in the works, and I believe we discussed it on a previous podcast, but the lawsuit has been filed.
	The city of Chicago has sued two major automakers amid a growing car theft crisis.
	It's the fault of the cars that they get stolen, you know.
	Of course.
	Democratic Chicago, our brand new mayor, Brandon Johnson.
	Our favorite mayor.
	Oh, one of our favorites.
	You know, if I had to pick a favorite mayor, wow, he'd be close to the top.
	I guess that's true.
	He announced that they sued Kia and Hyundai, saying both companies have failed to include an industry standard engine immobilizer in several months, and this resulted in a steep rise in crime.
	Yeah, sue them because their cars are being stolen.
	The impact of car theft on Chicago residents can be deeply destabilizing.
	Only Chicago residents?
	Particularly for low and middle income workers who have fewer options for getting to work and taking care of their families.
	All the more reason to sue the car manufacturer.
	The failure of Kia and Hyundai to install basic auto theft prevention technology in these models is sheer negligence.
	And after social media videos exposed how easy it was to steal Hyundai and Kia's Thefts surged from nearly 500 in the first half of 2022 to over 3,350 in the second half of 2022.
	Now, that is a leap of more than sixfold.
	Thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars were over half of all the Chicago car thefts in 2023.
	Now, if he's going to sue somebody, Surely, he would go after the people who explained on social media how to steal these cars.
	Those people are obviously doing something wrong.
	Although, I don't know if that's an actual crime.
	I suppose that's freedom of speech, too.
	How to hotwire a Kia.
	The suit goes on to say, moreover, offenders have used stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles to commit other crimes.
	Reckless driving, armed robbery, and murder.
	Well, Kia and Hyundai are on the hook for that.
	Hyundai said that engine immobilizers are now standard on all vehicles made by the company ever since November 2021.
	So, I mean, they got the message.
	They don't want their cars stolen.
	And so they very quickly figured out, you see, this was the first half of 2022.
	So, what they're doing, they're stealing not even brand new cars.
	As of November 2021, they had put engine immobilizers in their cars, and all of these thefts are taking place after that, and they're still being sued.
	Yeah, and Chicago's not the only city that's doing this.
	Baltimore is also looking to file a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia for this very similar problem, and I believe that's actually a number of major cities.
	Again, it's not It's not the people who are doing the engaging in the criminality.
	It's the fault of these.
	Korean automakers.
	They put temptation in their path.
	But then again, to me, it's remarkable.
	I don't know when they were building these cars without engine immobilizers.
	And I'll talk about immobilizers later because I really hadn't known what they were, but I've learned about them since.
	So apparently they were building them up until 2021.
	But this thing became a big deal only subsequent to that.
	They'd already fixed the problem to the extent there is a problem.
	Well, so the clear solution, you know, Kia and Hyundai just ought to give a car to every low IQ black teenager in every black ghetto, you know, then they won't have to steal one.
	I think that'll solve the problem.
	But an immobilizer, you know about these key fobs?
	I mean, I drive a 30 year old car.
	It's a great car, by the way.
	I'm living in the past.
	So we don't have a key fob.
	But you have a key fob that communicates with the car, so you only have to have it in the car.
	You just press a button, boom, the engine starts.
	And so you could just keep the fob in your pocket, and it's not really a metal key of the usual sort.
	And the key fobs and smart keys have a transponder inside them, and when you start the engine or have the fob inside the automobile, the chip communicates a passcode to the car's immobilizer technology.
	And if the pin code for the key fob matches the one in the immobilizer, the vehicle will start, and otherwise it won't.
	And some companies have gotten really fancy, and they have a two-tier system with fixed and changeable codes.
	So, first they communicate the fixed code, and then the car says, okay, what's the variable code?
	And so every time you start the car, your little key fob, it updates to the next code.
	And so does the code inside the car.
	So it's all very tricky and clever.
	And once the vehicle starts, as I say, the immobilizer then generates a second code and transmits it to the transponder in the fob.
	And this cycle goes on every security system.
	So it stays dynamic.
	Very impossible to start.
	So all this fancy stuff.
	So that's how they work, and apparently because they didn't have all that tricky business inside the cars, Kia and Hyundai are going to face lawsuits.
	I'll tell you, having an older car, it's a lot easier than when you have a new car that is started by a computer.
	Mr. Taylor, it's not fun, especially when it gets too cold and you inadvertently leave your windows rolled down and you walk outside and your car won't start because the computer's frozen.
	You have to have it jump.
	Really?
	Yeah, that's happened to me.
	Regrettably, a few times.
	Is that right?
	I mean, all this, all this brain, all these brainy electronics to get brain freeze.
	Yeah, I think the next my next car purchase, it will be an older vehicle that not so difficult to maintain and easy instead of having to have so many When you have to have upgrades and fixes, it obviously costs more because you have to calibrate it with the computer.
	Well, ours uses a metal key to open the door and a metal key in the ignition, but I suppose some clever lad could hotwire it because it doesn't have an immobilizer on it, but nobody wants to hotwire a 30-year-old car.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I think you have some gloomy news from the University of San Francisco.
	Well, pretty much all the news coming out of San Francisco right now is gluing me, but this one was just, uh, this is just a weird story.
	Uh, cause it just shows that, you know, everything has to be changed.
	And the, um, after George Floyd, uh, George Floyd's death back in 2020, this is from National Review.
	University of San Francisco considers changing longtime mascot amid student backlash.
	The University of San Francisco is considering replacing its longtime mascot, the Don, and I'm not referring to the Don, Mr. Donald Trump, over student concerns that the mustachioed swashbuckler is too closely associated with the exploitation of California's indigenous people by Spanish colonizers, according to news reports.
	Yes.
	Couldn't this be Don Diego, Zorro, who fights for the poor?
	Well, unfortunately, isn't that a white savior trope?
	Oh, you're right.
	Well, no, they're all Hispanic.
	It's all Hispanics.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	They're Spanish colonizers.
	Come on.
	University officials confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle that they will consider replacing the mascot that has represented the school for more than 90 years after a student-led petition to axe the mascot.
	You know, I've actually been trying to find a shirt of the Don.
	It's actually a very cool logo.
	That's one of my favorite things to do whenever a university cancels their mascot.
	I immediately go when I try and find them, whether it's eBay or fanatics.com, and buy
	the shirt before it's sold.
	Oh, great, great.
	I did that with Holy Cross.
	Yeah, they used to be called the Crusaders, the Holy Cross.
	And they got rid of that because it was, I guess, anti-Muslim or I think people said
	that, oh, white nationalists and white supremacists are using our logo.
	And it's like, well, no, it's a cool logo.
	Who wouldn't want to be the Crusaders?
	And now, I would love to be a Don.
	That's a pretty cool nickname.
	What is Yale's nickname?
	Is it the Yale Tigers?
	No, no, that's Princeton Tigers.
	Okay, sorry, sorry.
	No, Yale's is the Bulldog.
	The Bulldogs.
	It's the Harvard Crimson, the Princeton Tigers.
	That's right.
	And, uh, no, so we have this idiotic, uh, fight song, Bulldog, Bulldog, bow, wow, wow.
	Isn't that high toned?
	That's, that's, that's your, that's your, uh, that's the fight song.
	You know, I actually, my alma mater has one of the coolest fight songs because it actually dates back to the civil war, which I'm still surprised hasn't been canceled yet.
	Um, in fact, they actually say Dixie in our fight song still.
	So anyways, the university explains on this website that the name comes from the acronym And again, I'm going to butcher this because I don't speak Spanish.
	De origen Nobel.
	Well, yeah, Don, I guess I understand.
	I've never heard that, but it's like Don Diego or Don Quixote.
	They say it's de origen noble, of noble origin.
	I wonder if that's really true.
	Yeah, de origen noble.
	A title, it's in Spanish, a title given only to a noble person of political, social or official distinction.
	I know you don't watch movies, but there is a great adaptation of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas.
	I think it came out in 1998.
	It's called The Mask of Zorro and Definitely has a lot to do with the Don so I was very familiar with that concept of the noble The noble class from that film and Zorro is also just a great story quote the name references the early history of California in San Francisco, which was marked by the exploits of the adventuresome and swashbuckling Spanish Dons the school explains and All USF students and alumni are of noble origin who share in the long passion for learning in order to understand the past, clarify the present, and anticipate the future.
	Thus, we are proud to call ourselves the Dons."
	That's from the official website of the University of San Francisco.
	I actually like that.
	That's a beautiful celebration of the mascot.
	Now, The mascot's a masked man with a Spanish-style green hat, green gloves, and a cape.
	He's named in honor of Don Francisco de Jaro, the first mayor of San Francisco.
	University spokeswoman Kelly Sampson offered few details about what the process of replacing the mascot might entail, but told the paper it will, quote, engage all university stakeholders both on campus and in the alumni community in this important conversation about the mascot, end quote.
	Again, it's not an important conversation.
	417 people can easily go find another university to complain about.
	University of San Francisco has a really cool mascot.
	Well, if Don Francisco was an exploiter, obviously they're going to have to change the name of the city, too.
	Agreed.
	No, you got to change the name.
	I'm sure there's a statue.
	I'm sure there's a classroom or a building named in his honor on the campus.
	Come on.
	It's all got to go.
	If this mascot has to go.
	Uh, and here, this is, uh, this is the key, key part.
	Members of the school community voiced concerns about the mascot and the wake of the 2020 death of George Floyd, which led to widespread protests and conversations about race in America.
	There weren't conversations about race.
	There was one side that was allowed to talk and we had to listen.
	And if we voiced any concern, well, It wasn't even considered in the conversation.
	So, because it's a one-way, it's a one-way, it's a one-way communication.
	I'd call it more about, more like screaming about race, not a conversation.
	Agreed, agreed.
	So, concerns about the mascot flared up again in the wake of a 2021 investigation into universities alleged mishandling of sexual misconduct incidents and reports over a decade.
	Uh, design professor Rachel Beth Ingenhofer spoke out against the mascot in a letter to the student newspaper in 2021.
	Quote, I can't help but see the connection between a masked male mascot known for controlling women, organized crime, Spanish colonization, unapologetically lassoing and sword fighting, and riding off on his high horse, What?
	and the culture that has allowed the many accounts of chauvinistic behavior, sexual
	harassment and assault to occur at USF," Egan Hoffer wrote.
	Is that what she's telling us?
	I'll tell you what it makes me want to do is go get a Spanish-style green hat, green gloves, and a cape, and write a Z all over the campus of the University of San Francisco in honor of the Don.
	Maybe that's what we need.
	Maybe we need a bunch of masked men who celebrate what the Don's represented, because everything that she wrote about, I think it's kind of cool to be lassoing and sword fighting.
	Especially considering how many businesses Mr. Taylor are leaving San Francisco because...
	Of the theft problem and the fact that the city is doing nothing.
	That's right.
	They sure need a bunch of dons.
	They need a whole lot more lassoing.
	So just to finish it up again, if USF replaces its mascot, it would join several other universities and professional sports teams that have done so in recent years.
	To its everlasting shame, George Washington University announced just this past May that it would change It's nicknamed from the Colonials to the Revolutionaries over concerns about the glorification of colonialism.
	Colonials to revolutionaries?
	Huh, I'm sure there are people who would complain about that.
	All those revolutionaries were slave-holding white men.
	I'm sure they were homophobes, and I suspect they were male chauvinists by today's standards.
	They probably did a lot of lassoing, too.
	Well, I don't know.
	I never heard of George Washington running around lassoing steers, but he was a talented man.
	Yeah, he was a sportsman, so who knows?
	Well, he was a horse racer, that's true.
	In any case, I've got a story about the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, which used to be known as Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, but somehow they dropped the B'nai B'rith, and I believe they're known simply as ADL.
	I'm not sure they're even Anti-Defamation League anymore, but James Pash recently assumed the newly created position of ADL's Senior Director of National Litigation.
	The new possession has become necessary, he argues, in light of the unprecedented global rise of extremism and antisemitism.
	An unprecedented global rise.
	It's become vital to use every tool and toolkit to fight against hatred.
	In the fight, he says, we investigate, we educate, and we advocate.
	Now.
	We have a fourth pillar.
	We litigate.
	And it all rhymes, too.
	Investigate, educate, advocate, litigate.
	With the spike in hate-based incidents, it's incumbent on us to use the long arm of the law to create massive disincentives for those engaging in extremism.
	The criminal laws just aren't enough, I guess.
	ADL, for example, is currently co-counsel representing the District of Columbia in a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking to hold two extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and their adherents accountable for their role in the January 6th attack.
	Now, what was anti-Semitic about the January 6th attack?
	And the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are already facing very serious criminal penalties.
	This is just nuts.
	More cases are on the way, says Pash.
	He says he's also mobilizing attorney volunteer leaders and law firms eager to provide pro bono help to the ADL.
	There is not a short supply of tremendous lawyers and litigators across the country who want to join in the fight against hate, says Pash.
	And this really struck me.
	ADL is prepared to act not only in the United States, but also internationally.
	The organization ...has recently filed a claim with the Iceland District Court against a computer server company that's hosting the website of the Boston Mapping Project, an anonymous group which, according to the ADL, is threatening the Boston-area Jewish community by publishing addresses of individuals and institutions and calling for them to be targeted.
	I do this work because I know that we can leave the world a kinder, more accepting place, says Mr. Pash.
	Now, I was very curious about this Boston mapping project that apparently has—it's hosted in Iceland, and the ADL has gone all the way to Farbasut in Iceland District Court to shut their website down.
	So, and as a matter of fact, it's quite an interesting little place.
	It's a very, it's a fascinating interactive map that you can use various filters on.
	Our interactive map illustrates some of the ways in which institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy, and to U.S.
	imperialist projects in other countries.
	Local universities engage in these multiple forms of oppression and produce much of the ruling class, and because they are major landholders, we've emphasized the university as a central nexus that ties together many of the harms traced on the map.
	So you can tell these people are super lefties, but you can see which groups are involved in ableism, or colonialism, or ecological harm, or privatization, or gentrification, and also One of the things you can search for is Zionism.
	I couldn't see any targeting of individuals at all.
	Just institutions are mentioned, and most of them have nothing to do with Zionism either.
	You can also see, of all things, the number of eviction filings, and they're strangely clustered in certain areas.
	I wonder why that would be, Mr. Kersey.
	Not sure.
	I think that would be intriguing information for renters or buyers.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, interactive.
	I've never seen an indication of where the where the eviction filings take place in the city.
	But of course, their attitude is this is all white supremacy at work.
	But it's got hundreds of entries on institutions, descriptions of companies.
	And it says this about the ADL.
	Masquerading as a civil rights group, the ADL is a counterinsurgency and espionage organization whose mission is to protect the mutual interests of the U.S.
	and Israeli governments and to eliminate solidarity among oppressed peoples.
	While the ADL claims to represent Jews and to fight anti-Semitism, it has supported anti-Jewish state violence.
	The ADL cannot be reformed.
	It must be dismantled.
	Now, For the ADL, on the basis of this expression, that is clearly not very flattering—the ADL—to go all the way to Iceland to try to sue in Iceland to get them deplatformed and kicked off the internet?
	Wow!
	If this is the stuff that the ADL is really worried about, this is way, way overreach.
	So, if that's what they're worried about, if they think that's going to start the new Holocaust, these people are absolutely nuts.
	But while the ADL is stamping out anti-Semitism or anti-Semitic hosting in Iceland, somebody's
	trying to stop murder in Baltimore.
	Yeah, you know, I was on Twitter and I just saw the story that they were reporting on
	and it was just so, so melancholy to actually have to talk about this story because it's
	just so, it's almost like the stabbing at the McDonald's that we talked about in DC.
	So right not far from Washington, this happened in Baltimore.
	I would much rather bury little old ladies.
	Funeral directors pushing for an end to Baltimore violence.
	This comes to us from WMAR News.
	It's an affiliate there in Baltimore.
	When John Williams looks at homicide rates in Baltimore, he doesn't see numbers, he sees faces.
	Quote, I don't think you understand what it's like to see the pain on someone's face as they have to choose what color casket they're going to get, to choose what outfit they're going to wear.
	I've heard screams that would pierce your soul, Williams, a funeral director, said.
	So when he sees homicide rates going down this year, even by a few dozen, he knows that's a few dozen fewer families entering his funeral home.
	I would much rather bury little old ladies, World War II veterans, and just lay them peacefully to rest as opposed to hearing mothers cry.
	That's why he didn't hesitate when a friend in the funeral industry asked him to get behind his idea.
	Corey Larkins organizes a Ride for Peace every year.
	A caravan of hearses Processes through the streets of West Baltimore joined by local clergymen and members of the police department.
	The message is simple, quote, if you don't stop, you're going to end up in the back of a hearse, Larkin said.
	If I can get one person that'll make me feel better.
	I just wanted to stop.
	Larkin's added in regards to the.
	Gosh, that's just so sad.
	violence found in West Baltimore, one of the most dangerous places by the way in
	the United States. Quote, as a kid you have the chance to choose life or you
	can choose death. Unfortunately a lot of kids in our community have the tendency
	to choose death. So hopefully they see the hearses and realize the finality of
	death, Williams said. Gosh that's just so sad. A parade of hearses. A parade, yeah.
	God, to remind people this is where you could end up.
	Well, of course, everybody's going to end up in the back of a hearse, you know, regardless, like he said.
	Will you live a long life where you peacefully are put to rest and your family surrounds the casket and celebrates your life?
	Or, as he says, as he concludes, the pair believes their neighbors are desensitized to the violence around them.
	They hope the image of a funeral procession provides a dose of harsh reality.
	I have a routine.
	I get on Instagram or I get on Facebook and I know what I'm gonna see, Larkin said.
	This person shot multiple times last night.
	This person stabbed last night, Larkin said.
	Quote, it's not normal for someone to be murdered at 18, 19, 22 years old, Williams said.
	Well, unfortunately, it is all too normal for that to happen in Baltimore where, you know, 18 to 25 year olds are basically Monopolizing both the victims and suspects of fatal and non-fatal shootings in Baltimore.
	It's just so heartbreaking, these desperate measures that people take.
	The people who are actually involved in the killing, while people who should know better, are talking about defunding the police, tying their hands behind their back, making it impossible for them to do their jobs, Prosecuting them if they make the slightest mistake, and this is what these poor people are forced to.
	They're driven to this kind of symbolic act because the people who run the country, run their cities, are bloody fools.
	It's really—it's just infuriating.
	We have these stories from time to time, these desperate things that these black people are driven to, to try to keep people from being killed.
	It's just awful.
	Journey to Selma.
	Now, when you were in Selma, and I encourage all of our listeners to go watch this amazing video of your trip to Selma, where you crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge into a world that the Civil Rights Act created.
	Did you see the signs that said, stop the violence in people's yards?
	Yes, I did.
	And they need them because according to a website that tracks levels of crime all around
	the world, I didn't mention this in the video, but Selma gets a score of zero, meaning there
	is no place more dangerous.
	It goes from zero to 100, and its score is zero.
	So Selma, this high holy place of the civil rights movement, is a high, holy, and dangerous
	place.
	And so this brings us to yet another, yet another problem of the people who come out
	of jail.
	They're not prosecuted.
	This has to do with convicted felon Rudy Garcia, another melanin-enhanced fellow citizen.
	He was being tended by an EMT, Julia Fatum, age 25, as he was being transported by ambulance from the Upper West Side, New York, Where a 911 call had come in reporting cardiac arrest.
	Garcia appeared oriented and alert, but suddenly became agitated and combative.
	This prompted Julia Fatum, age 25, to try to defuse the situation.
	It didn't work.
	Garcia shouted a monosyllable that rhymes with tuck, You.
	And he pulled out a large knife from his boot and stabbed her six times in the chest, arm, and leg.
	This is in the ambulance, for heaven's sake.
	They're riding along in the ambulance.
	She's trying to get this guy patched up.
	She suffered significant blood loss, nerve damage in her thigh, required two surgeries, and Garcia was held in the vehicle until the cops came and arrested him.
	He has eight prior arrests.
	Only eight.
	Only eight.
	So he's relatively, he's a piker by some standards, but he's still on the loose.
	He was caught in a subway station with a knife stashed in his boot doing threatening things.
	He was convicted of headbutting a police officer trying to arrest him because he'd hit her sister.
	He's also been convicted for illegally carrying a box cutter.
	This guy should not be on the streets, and as Fatoum's mother.
	But despite the name, it sounds like she would be a Middle Easterner.
	Julia Fatoum looks absolutely 100% European.
	She says, Rudy Garcia has been released back into civilization eight times.
	New York has failed its people.
	How is your bail reform working now?
	Well, excellent question, Mrs. Fatoum.
	These things are just outrageous.
	But what, you know, these people have dangerous jobs, but the last thing they expect is that they've got somebody in an ambulance.
	They've come to try to save this guy's life, and all of a sudden he gets agitated and starts, he whips out a knife and stabs you?
	Boy, what a country.
	Well, I think we've got just enough time to finish one last story here on blacktation.
	I bet you never heard of blacktation.
	Well, you have now.
	I'm not sure I want to know what blacktation is.
	Oh, you do.
	You do.
	You do.
	It's pretty exciting.
	It's from a website.
	We are actively involved in addressing disparities and inequities of the black breastfeeding experience.
	By increasing visibility of Black feeding resources, services, and deployment of breastfeeding support.
	Blacktation relates to the lactation and Black breastfeeding experience within the Black community, ranging from our history and culture dynamics to social inequities and modern challenges.
	Blacktivism is more than a mission.
	It's a movement, an ever-evolving activity of activism within the black breastfeeding and lactation space.
	We are working to address disparities and inequities within black breastfeeding communities.
	And one of the titles is Presenting the Milk that Built America.
	So, It's one of these super melanin-enhanced mentalities that black lactation milk is what built America.
	Well, I say, let the chocolate milk flow.
	And it's full of pictures of happy babies suckling at black breasts.
	You know, this is typical of American blacks today.
	Breastfeeding is now part of the struggle of blacks against white suppression.
	Against iniquity?
	Was that iniquitous or iniquity?
	Iniquity, iniquity, either one.
	You know, as if white people are going to tell them forever, don't breastfeed your babies.
	Boy, what's going to be next?
	Fight racism and the man.
	Brush your teeth.
	Or, you know, every Brussels sprout you eat is a blow for black liberation.
	This stuff is cuckoo.
	It's very good to breastfeed your children, but to turn it into some kind of activism like this?
	This is typical of Looney Tunes America.
	And I'm afraid our Looney Tunes of America podcast has got to come to an end, Paul Kersey.
	Looney Tunes of America.
	I like it.
	That's sure what it is.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, it is always a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, and we look forward to doing the same next week.

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