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Jan. 25, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
And with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
And today is January 25th, Anno Domini 2024.
And we have so many good stories for you.
We're going to get right to work on the comments and then move lickety-split Our listener writes in to say you've probably heard about John Hopkins' chief DEI officer's recent claim and subsequent recantation that all white people, all men, all heterosexuals, all cisgender people, middle-aged people, Christians, English speakers, middle-class and property-owning people, all are privileged.
Well, there was a leaked internal document on social media and a subsequent backlash led to Chief D.I.
Officer Sherita Hill-Golden's immediate recantation the next day.
Of course, no discipline.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I kind of like it.
If privilege gets spread so far and wide, everybody gets a little bit of it, seems to me.
If you're, I mean, black men, they're males.
They might even be cisgender.
Middle-aged people come in all sorts.
Sounds like everybody's got privilege to me.
But I guess, well, I don't know.
I don't know quite what you was punished for.
I suppose the idea is, if you have all of these things, every last one of them, And I guess, you know, I'm not sure if I can be called middle-aged anymore, but I am an English speaker and middle class, and I actually own a little property.
I guess if it's all cumulative, then you're just unbearably privileged.
Do you think that was the idea?
I'm going to come in nice and slow here and ask, what was your score?
Did you add it all up?
I did not add it up.
I probably caught, you know, out of a scale of 100, I probably come in at about 200.
I'm a really privileged guy and glad of it.
Anyway, that is our first comment, and then this one is directed to you, Mr. Kersey, in a way.
It says, Mr. Kersey mentioned Jack Reacher.
I guess that's a Netflix series, is it not?
Yeah, it's based on Lee Child's Reacher.
Yes, and by coincidence, someone had recently recommended the Amazon adaptation.
I yielded to curiosity and watched four episodes.
Just like Lee Child's novels, the TV series is so politically correct, it is laugh-out-loud funny.
The white men are bad, the blacks are the decent ones, and the only person as tough as Reacher himself is a tiny little blonde woman.
Reacher cares for a neglected dog, and when confronted about his horrible crimes in Iraq, he explains that the men he killed had been abusing boys.
Well, there you go.
God bless Amak.
That's his comment.
Now, any observations on that?
No.
The reason I like Reacher is, again, in the novel by Lee Childs, he is described as about a six foot two, 210 to 220 pound, blue eyed, blind haired, badass white guy.
And what movies do you see?
What film do you see?
What streaming service do you see make movies that showcase that in a way?
And Reacher was a They made a movie back in, I think, early 2020, maybe 2012, 2013, 2014, with Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, which got a lot of blowback, because he's, what, 5'6", 5'7"?
Well... It's just, it's very gratifying to see, again, it's one of these type of movies, like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series, if you've ever seen.
Okay, so your point, your point is it's gratifying to have a really tough, beat-em-all-up white guy Even if everybody else and everything else is politically correct, at least it's nice to have a white guy you can root for.
It's the America that you want to have come back, regardless of the PC stuff, because it's not that toxic.
It really isn't.
Okay.
Okay.
Take your word for it.
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Oh, I'm coloring even as you speak, Mr. Kersey.
But you realize I'm such a geezer.
I bristle at the expression unemailed.
Send us mail.
But I know people talk about un-email.
Did you check the mail?
No.
U.S.
mail?
Yes, I got letters in the mail.
I got messages in the mail.
E-mail.
But anyway, that's a story for another day.
And I should not display my old fogginess even more than necessary.
Well, the big story is... Yes, I do it without even trying.
Well, the big story, of course, is Abbott v. Biden.
Well, boy, I tell you, I was dancing around the room yesterday when I heard about how Texas Governor Greg Abbott had reacted to the latest U.S.
Supreme Court decision.
But a little background.
As our listeners probably know, what an estimated six million illegals have been encountered at the southern border since Joe Biden made his way into the White House.
And Joe Biden seems to think that it's just come one, come all.
The country's up for grabs.
He rang the dinner gong and says, come on, fellas, and we'll turn you into good little Democrats.
Just step across the border and pronounce the magic word asylum.
And boy, you are home free.
Well, Greg Abbott doesn't think that that's a good idea.
And in November of 2022, he declared an invasion And he said this justifies using the Texas National Guard to keep these illegals out.
And of course, he made headlines by doing several things.
Shipping a lot of these illegals up to these so-called sanctuary cities.
Chicago, New York, they started singing a slightly different tune about how virtuous they are when they actually showed up.
And it looks like they need to be housed and fed, and they're overrunning the medical services.
And so they have decided that, you know, they don't want them, they'd like them sent anywhere else, but anything but close the border.
Anything but close the border.
And then he put up these buoys in the Rio Grande where it's so shallow that you can wade across with a toddler on your shoulders.
He put up the razor wire along the borders to discourage people from trying to cross.
And he even passed a law making illegal entry a state trespassing crime.
But that didn't really do much good.
You know, you got what, I don't know, thousands of trespassers.
And the worst you can do is then, I don't know, you want to actually put them in jail for a couple of days and then turn them over to Homeland Security.
It really was more symbolic than anything else.
But I think one of the great things he did, last December, he passed a law in which he said that this is a brand new law.
He says if you are caught illegally in the state of Texas, then you go before a judge and you face a choice.
Either you hop back across the border and we'll give you a helping hand, or you face criminal charges in the state of Texas and you could be in the big house.
So the Biden administration, of course, immediately yelled about that.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The state of Texas can't be heaving people back across the border.
Also, the Mexicans complained about that.
They said, well, you know, if they're Mexicans and maybe we'll take them back, but anybody else, you bought it, you broke it.
Well, Greg Zabit's idea is, no, no, you bought it.
You bought it, Mr. Obrador.
You broke it.
You bought it.
So the latest thing is, What the Biden administration had sued was to allow them to cut the razor wire.
That the state of Texas had put up.
The state of Texas had said, no, no, this is our razor wire.
This is this is state property.
You've got no business coming and destroying state property.
But the the feds said, well, this is hampering our access to immigrants in distress.
And so they were cutting the razor razor wire and letting the immigrants through, just like Joe Biden wants them to do.
And so the Supreme Court sided with them.
They said, yep, yep, yep.
The feds can cut the razor wire.
Well, much to my surprise, the way Greg Abbott has reacted to this ruling has really filled me with delight.
He says, we're going to keep putting up just as much razor wire as we like, that there has been an invasion.
This is an invasion.
We have the sovereign right to defend the state of Texas.
And this is about the biggest middle finger into the face of the Supreme Court that I've seen in a long time.
Of course, it was a 5-4 ruling, like all of these utterly unconvincing rulings.
It was, of course, the Chief Justice, along with the ladies, Those are the people who are going to tell us what to do.
So basically what you're saying is all the ladies on the court, Mr. Taylor.
Yes.
All the ladies on the court.
Yes.
What other impression did I give?
All the ladies in America?
No, I was calling the Chief Justice.
Oh, well, he might be a lady too.
Yes, yes, yes.
Robert sometimes is a bit of a weak sister, isn't he?
In any case, so there you go.
So, in fact, Now, the real issue is, okay, it sounds as though the state of Texas says it has absolutely got the right to put up as much razor wire as it likes, and apparently the feds say they've got the right to cut down as much razor wire as they like.
Now, are we going to have some sort of ketone cop situation in which the state of Texas is walking around putting them up, And the Feds come around behind them, taking them all down.
I just don't know.
That's going to be pretty exciting if it works out that way.
So the real issue will be, the real issue will be, if the Feds are about to cut the wire, and the Texas National Guard comes and says, no you can't.
And the Texas National Guard has got AR-15s, and the Feds, all they've got is little Glocks on their hips.
Or if, I don't know, if the Texas National Guard starts putting up the wire and the feds say, no, you can't.
That would be a very interesting confrontation.
In any case, in any case, the fact that the Texas says, Greg Abbott says, we're going to keep putting this stuff up.
We have got a sovereign right to defend our state against invasion.
And I find it most gratifying the number of states that have sided openly and immediately with Texas.
This reply was just yesterday, Greg Abbott's reply.
And since then, Florida, Iowa, Virginia, Georgia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Alabama, Montana, Idaho, Utah, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Wyoming have all said we stand with Texas.
As, by the way, if I could jump in, as has Indiana and Ohio.
Oh, have they added to the list, too?
And Nevada, as well.
Well, oh, excellent, excellent grab.
Well, boy, the campus of saints only grows here.
And if I could be so bold, Mr. President Trump has just posted on his Truth Social this.
May I read what he posted?
This is from Donald J. Trump.
Quote, we encourage all willing states to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of illegals and to remove them back across the border.
All Americans should support the common sense measures by Texas authorities to protect the safety, security and sovereignty of Texas and the American people.
And I am president on day one.
Instead of fighting Texas, I will work hand in hand with Governor Abbott and other border states to stop the invasion, seal the border, And rapidly began the largest domestic deportation operation in history.
Those Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home.
Makes my heart just posted.
Well, very good.
Very good.
You're always on top of things.
Well, I particularly admired South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.
Is that how you pronounce her name?
She offered to deliver more razor wire.
She says, Greg, baby, if you run out, we've got plenty here.
And she says she's already sent several dozen South Dakota National Guards to help Texas.
And she's been doing this since 2021.
She has called the US-Mexico border a war zone, in fact, as it is.
But to me, to me, the real question here And this is something that I think I would, you know, I'm not sure I want, what is it, five ladies on the Supreme Court to actually have a chance to deal with this.
But Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution guarantees that the federal government will protect all states against invasion.
And it would be interesting to see what a fair-minded Supreme Court would say about whether the Biden administration is fulfilling its constitutional obligation to protect Texas and the rest of the country against invasion.
I'd love to see that.
Now, I think that it's very clear that the Biden administration is completely flunking any obligation it had.
And if a Supreme Court said that, no telling, then all bets are off.
The states could do anything they like.
Now, Of course.
Now, this is quite amusing.
Congressman Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar, these are both from Texas and they are both Hispanics.
They have urged President Biden to federalize and take over the Texas National Guard.
So, in other words, neuter it.
Ordinarily, presidents get a governor's approval before they take control of the state National Guard, but The president can, under certain circumstances, defy the governor if it is to put down an insurrection or to enforce federal law.
Well, he would be taking over the Texas National Guard not to put down an insurrection, but so as not to enforce federal law.
So it would be a very, very intriguing question if he tried to take over the Texas Guard over Greg Abbott's dead body.
And furthermore, this is an election year.
I think it would look not so good for the White House to be steamrolling a state so as to accelerate illegal immigration.
You know, Joe Biden would much rather talk about abortion.
I don't think that would be really front and center of this campaign.
Now, I'm glad to hear that Donald Trump has come out of his corner swinging on this.
Do you know whether Nikki Haley has maintained her silence on this?
No, she's still She's still waffling.
She's still somewhere probably brooding about the fact that when she was a young girl in
South Carolina, that even though she looks like a very light-skinned white woman, that
she was racial profiled and kept out of beauty pageants.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, she is licking her wounds over that that alleged and imaginary slight.
You know, she really had a chance if she had come out before Trump had said she could have hit him from the right if she really cared about the American people rather than journalists falling over.
But, you know, Before we move on, though, but I know, again, I think this is a hugely important, developing, unfolding question, and you may have more to say about it, but it leaves me always wondering, whenever these things happen, what about the people, you know, the Venezuelans, and the Guatemalans, and the Haitians, and the Somalis, and what do they ever think about this?
You know, wouldn't you hesitate to break into a country where there are so many people who obviously don't want you there?
I mean, this seems to have absolutely no effect on them at all.
They don't care.
You can roll up the razor wire.
I guess it's like breaking into steel or something.
You don't care what the owner of whatever it is you're trying to steal cares.
You're just going to break in.
It doesn't make any difference.
Those are the kind of people that Biden seems to just be waving in $10,000 a day.
No, it's fascinating, and I would pose this question to you, and I think all our listeners need to ponder what's that we're about to say, is that what if SCOTUS had actually cited, say, what, 6-3 as opposed to 5-4?
What if Roberts and ACB, I forget her name, forgive me, Amy Barrett?
Amy Coney Barrett, yes.
Yeah, yeah.
What if they had actually cited with Texas?
This controversy would have now been abated for the time being, as opposed to, For some reason, for some reason, Governor Abbott, after three years, and I don't say this with any slight knowing his handicap, but he's decided to stand up for not only Texas, Texans, but the American people.
And it's extraordinary to see the number of secretaries, I'm sorry, the Attorney General of various states, governors, senators, People are standing up and making this the number one issue.
And, you know, with all that's going on in the world, everything that people are talking about, you know, Mr. Taylor Drudge, I don't think he's even talked about this yet, the Drudge Report.
Oh, for heaven's sake, who reads the Drudge Report anymore anyway?
I agree.
I agree.
But at a time when, you know, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post are firing scores of people because they're losing so much money, you know, I read on Twitter where the New York Times has not mentioned this story once yet.
You know, the corporate media is- Well, wait, wait, wait, wait.
They've been covering the whole border business.
Maybe they haven't- Not what Governor Abbott has done.
Well, I mean, that was just yesterday.
You know, these guys are pretty slow moving.
They'll get around to it.
They will.
But I mean, this is one of those moments where we're kind of seeing something just Oh, I agree.
I agree.
I agree. You talked about you dancing around, you know, I wanted to dance around myself.
But anyway, I was afraid Greg Abbott was going to say, well, Supreme Court has spoken. Well,
why shut my mouth? But no, this is thrilling to me.
As well as, how many states now?
About 20?
20 states?
I think it's 25.
That's half the states!
And again, I'll say this real quick.
Kansas, I believe, has a Democrat governor.
Kansas is a very conservative state.
They've done some dumb things that have happened over the past couple of years that enabled a Democrat to be elected.
And in Kentucky, which is a very conservative state, it's actually one of the whitest states in the union, they regrettably ran a black guy who has a white wife as the Republican candidate for governor.
He lost.
Well, this is this is somewhat beside the point.
I'm just saying those states would be joining.
Oh, heck, what?
That's what I'm implying, but they have Democratic governors.
Sure.
The number of white people all around the world, probably, I really mean all around the world, who are very excited and rooting for Governor Abbott is probably in the many, many, many, many, even hundreds of millions.
In any case, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about some of the consequences of Joe Biden's policies in the city of Denver.
Yeah, you know, I'm a big lover of going to Colorado.
I love to ski.
I love spending time there.
It's a beautiful state that has just changed so much this century since I first started going there to ski.
This story comes to us, I believe, from Zero Hedge, one of my favorite websites.
Denver Health at critical point as 8,000 They use the word migrants, I'm going to use the word illegal aliens, make about 20,000 emergency visits.
ABC News reports Denver hospital system may collapse due to the illegal alien crisis.
Quote, we are turning down patients, end quote.
Denver Health CEO Donna Lynn warned the center is in a crucial moment due to unexpected costs associated with immigrant visits.
What I think is not being said is that the Denver Health is at a critical, critical point and that we need to take this up in 2024, she told the Denver City Council, according to the Denver Post.
8,000 migrants from Central America accounted for approximately 20,000 visits in 2023.
Denver Health asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, to provide funds for immigrants' medical costs because the state and federal governments aren't reimbursing the hospital, which spent $136 million for patients who didn't pay.
Think about that for a second, Mr. Taylor.
I'm thinking about that.
What I'm thinking about that, though, is this is the typical Democrat response.
The Democrats don't seem to be able to add one plus one and get two.
They never say to the feds, Stop these people coming.
They just say, give us money.
Give us money.
This is so spectacularly stupid.
They're just as bad, if you ask me, because they refuse to see the problem.
And that is why Greg Abbott is such a hero for me.
He sees the problem.
These people just say, oh, well, you know, we can't very well save them.
No, that would be unkind.
But all they want is more of federal money.
That is to say, your and my money, Mr. Kersey.
That's just sickening to me.
Yeah, we've seen the same thing play out in Chicago and all these cities where Governor Abbott, which we thought was kind of a dumb little thing when they were busting these illegal aliens, it's turned out to have really to this to be the main issue.
What's what happened with New York, which would happen up in Massachusetts, forgive
me, the Tony liberal city where they basically declared a national emergency when what 50
or 100 illegal aliens showed up.
Was that Martha's Vineyard?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you just laugh at all this.
But but I mean, again, 20,000 visits equate to one hundred thirty six million dollars
for patients who didn't pay.
That's just an extraordinary number.
What exactly are these illegal aliens getting done?
Are they having?
They're coming with all sorts of long-term problems as I recall a lot of them are Venezuelans They've never gotten proper treatment for anything.
They probably walk into that place with you know $20,000 worth of dental work mean didn't need to be done on them the super rating sores and you name it.
They've got it And of course, there's federal law that says, you know, you got to patch them up.
You can't send them away.
So, but again, what's the reaction?
We want money from the taxpayers.
We want money from the taxpayers.
I have no sympathy with these people.
Which is another reminder to all of our listeners, make sure you floss every day.
Take care of your teeth.
Anyways, sorry.
Here we go.
Quote, where do you think the migrants are getting care?
They are getting care at Denver Health, Dr. Lin said at a January 9th Finance and Governance Committee meeting.
Denver Health has treated more than 8,000 illegal aliens who lack legal documentation in the past year, totaling about 20,000 visits.
So again... Okay, we've heard that four times now, Mr. Kersey.
I know, I know.
But it's important to point out that it was 8,000 going, 8,000 illegals going to a total of 20,000 times.
But the majority of these patients are coming from Venezuela and arrive, like you said, for communicable diseases after making the This is the word that was used in the CBS story.
Difficult journey.
They should never have been allowed to make this journey.
They should never have been allowed to even come across the border.
But that's not something that the AP or these reporters believe is actually a possibility.
Eric Lavanos, he's a doctor, an emergency physician at Denver Health.
Expects the situation to worsen as sub-zero temperatures sweep across Colorado, exposing unhoused, uninsured populations to frostbite and hypothermia.
Mr. Taylor, in 2020, the health system had about $60 million in uncompensated care costs.
Last year's costs sprung to $136 million, a quarter of which came from caring for non-Denver residents.
So, there you go.
Okay.
Thanks, Joe Budden.
Thanks.
Yeah.
Okay, well, you know, I used to mock you for your phrase of Black Run America.
But here's another heartwarming story about Black Run America.
Ford Heights is a suburb of Chicago.
It is 92% black.
It hasn't had a proper standalone library for 30 years.
Oh, that's a shame.
30 years, yes.
The gray, rusted doors to a community center lead to a temporary library space volunteers have cobbled together.
It has a rug, and it has shelves with about 100 donated books on it.
You probably have about 20 times that number of books yourselves, but they got 100 donated books.
Public records show that the South Suburb has, however, collected more than $100,000 in taxpayer money for library services over the past decades, although it's a mystery where that money's going and why volunteers instead created a library the size of a dining room.
In other words, between 2011 and 2021, the Cook County Treasurer had distributed more
than $121,500 to the Fort Heights Public Library District, Liddell Jones.
He is the guy who runs the volunteer library.
He is listed as the guy who is the public library president.
Hmm.
Sounds a little suspicious, doesn't it?
Well, local radio reached out to Ford Heights officials to get an explanation about where the money's going.
No phone calls returned.
Sounds to me as though this Liddell Jones is pocketing this money while volunteers have cobbled together this little loser library.
Since Fort Heights, now this is again, this is just, this is just one of these things, it shakes your head.
Since Fort Heights technically has its own library district, its residents can't get full access cards to other libraries.
So, not only is this guy skimming money off the top, they got no real library, but they technically have a library, but they can't get a full access library card.
The 92% Black suburb has 1,800 residents, and 39% of them earn less than $25,000 a year.
And according to Cook County Treasurer's Office, this is pretty good, Ford Heights has the lowest property tax collections in the county.
Now, the countywide rate of property tax collections is 96%.
I'll put you on the spot and ask you to guess what the collection rate is in Ford Heights, 92% Black.
5%.
Oh, it's better than that.
29%.
Okay.
So, you know, that's not so bad.
29% of the local fellows are kicking in for their property tax.
But 30 years ago, now this is just lovely.
The district closed its library after being unable to keep it up to code.
That was the problem.
Up to code.
I wonder if the roof was leaking.
Was it full of rats?
Couldn't keep it up to code, Mr. Kersey.
And eventually it was torn down.
Then the Illinois General Assembly in 2018 requested an audit of the Ford Heights Library District.
Well, Ford Heights refused to conduct the audit because they said they didn't have enough money to pay for it.
And I guess the Illinois General Assembly said, well, okay, thank you very much.
Here's another sad story.
In 2004, Floyd Heights partnered with the neighboring and white-run Glenwood-Lynwood Public Library.
It donated a bookmobile to the Ford Heights so that at least they could operate that and run around and get books in the hands of the little black children who just love to read.
It sat abandoned year after year after year.
And as one of the people who—the white people who run the Glenwood—the Glenwood-Lynwood Public Library System says, as far as I know, it just sat there.
And last year, it was towed.
After years of disuse, it had fallen into a shambles.
So this is one of those sad stories about black-run America, of which we will see more and more.
There will be Mexican-run America, too, but I don't think it'll be quite as sad a story as black-run America.
Now, here is a question, Mr. Kersey.
This was a series of polls, and I think it's worth looking into this in some detail.
The question was, whites are—well, do you agree or disagree?
Whites are oppressors of non-whites and other groups, so these oppressed groups should be favored at universities and employment.
In other words, whites are oppressors.
Everybody else should get special treatment.
And in ages 18 to 24, 79% of respondents agreed.
Only 21% disagreed.
Isn't that a substantial thing?
Whites are oppressors.
They're talking about, well, the 79% And now the number changes dramatically.
By the time you get to my age, geezer age, 65 plus, only 19% support that idea, and 81% express themselves politely by saying, balloon.
And it sort of gradually gets that way.
But 18 to 24, age 18 to 24, 79% say whites are oppressors, non-whites are oppressed, so they should get a special leg up Under all circumstances.
Now, this is an interesting question, too.
The question was asked, Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.
In age 18 to 24, 67% said, yes, they are.
And 33% said, no, that's not true.
This is remarkable.
67% were prepared to say Jews as a class are oppressors.
And then the number goes down, you know, 25 to 34, it's down to 44%, 35 to 44, well, 36%.
It's down to 44 percent, 35 to 44, well, 36 percent.
Then down to my Gezer group, only 9 percent of the Gezer group says Jews are oppressors,
and 91 percent disagree.
So this just shows you an extraordinary generational difference in the way young people look at
the world.
the world.
And I wonder to what extent, you know, it's a slightly smaller number that says Jews are oppressors as opposed to whites are oppressors.
And I wonder if these young people are seeing Jews as a subset of whites, or they're seeing them as especially different oppressors.
No, they're seen as whites, as Caucasians, 100%.
I feel quite sure about that, too.
The idea that the 18- to 24-year-olds are anti-Semites in any kind of traditional sense of the word is probably completely nutty.
They just see them as whites.
And the fact that Israel is really killing an awful lot of Palestinians, I think that puts them in their minds as uber oppressors.
Right, colonizers in a lot of ways.
Yes, or settler colonizers.
That's the worst thing these days.
You know, settler colonizers, I think that's the worst form of white supremacy these days.
But in any case, Mr. Kersey, you have one of these stories that really sets my teeth on edge.
And that is Seattle Pays Up.
Well, let's get to it.
I'm going to read the story for you real quick.
Another state has just joined the 25 aforementioned states in siding with the great state of Texas.
All right.
I would like to point out that Mississippi has entered the conversation as Governor Tate Reeves has just tweeted.
What's happening on America's southern border is horrifying and it must be stopped.
Mississippi stands with Texas.
And you know, the fact is those SCOTUS sites, they read the newspapers.
So pay attention, those women on the court.
Anyway, she has.
Roberts.
Yes.
Anyways, I'm including.
Yeah, this is one of the stories.
You know, we've talked about this before, because New York City and Philadelphia have
doled out millions of dollars to those individuals on the left who participated in the George
Floyd insurrection of 2020 for settling out of court.
And Seattle now.
Seattle now joins them.
BLM protesters who participated in 2020 riots will receive $10 million from Seattle.
This comes to us courtesy of Glenn Beck's The Blaze, just published January 25, 2024.
A Wednesday press release from the city revealed that Seattle is settling a complaint filed by a group of 50 protesters in September 2020 Who claimed they were injured by police while participating in the demonstrations.
Seattle admitted to no wrongdoing.
According to the city, the complaint involved hundreds of interactions between the protesters and local law enforcement officials, over a million pages of records, over 10,000 videos, hundreds of witness interviews, and extensive court filings.
This decision was the best financial decision for the city considering risk, cost, and insurance, Seattle City Attorney Anne Davidson said.
The case has been a significant drain on time and resources of the city and would have continued to be so through an estimated three-month trial that was scheduled to begin in May.
This settlement... This is just so sickening, isn't it?
You know, as I say, I have to... smoke is coming up my ears while I hear you read this story, so please continue.
No, I agree, I agree.
Quote, the settlement resolves the majority of the remaining claims arising out of the 2020 demonstration period.
Again, just hearing the way that they described that period, it was an insurrection, it was a color revolution, guys, ladies and gentlemen.
Going back to the quote, Quote, and is a big step toward allowing the city to focus on the important work of today while moving forward from events four years ago in quote, Davidson said the riots, which were ignited as a result of the death of George Floyd in May of twenty twenty led to destruction of many local businesses, significant property damage and even injury and death.
A six-block area in Seattle was taken over by BLM activists who declared an autonomous zone called the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest Zone, which was also referred to as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, as I'm sure you recall.
The rioters forced police out of the area where multiple people were shot and two were murdered.
In fact, I actually remember there was a story, Mr. Taylor, we talked about where the city was going to give up the police station in the Chaz area, if memory serves correct.
I thought they did.
Well, in any case, it was a shameful, shameful, shameful capitulation.
Yeah, yeah.
According to the plaintiff's attorney, one of the protesters suffered a heart attack after she was hit by a blast ball fired by a Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Times reported.
Another plaintiff, a veteran who uses a cane, was allegedly gassed and tackled because he didn't retreat fast enough.
Maybe he shouldn't have had to be in a position to retreat.
But anyways, the lawyers claim that dozens of others who suffered permanent hearing loss, broken bones, concussion, wounds, bruising, and emotional damage as a result of the Seattle Police Department's response.
Judge Sandra Whitlin rejected Seattle's argument that the protesters assumed the risk of being injured by law enforcement when they chose to participate in the riots.
Nope.
Gotta protect them at all times, even when they're rioting.
Yeah, they're the shock troops of the establishment, and they deserve recommendation for their righteous acts in the pursuit of justice, which inexorably bends only one way, as we were told by our founding father, Martin Luther King, correct?
Even with the exorbitant objective evidence that a significant number of protesters who attended the demonstrations were highly destructive of violence, The corporate media continues to claim that the activists participated in peaceful protests when they were exercising their right to free speech.
The plaintiff's lead attorney, Karen Kohler, claimed her clients were, quote, engaged in a First Amendment speech and activity against the very police brutality which they were met with.
She slammed the city for not admitting to wrongdoing.
Despite leftist claims that the 2020 riots were not destructive, Seattle previously agreed to pay $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen business owners and residents whose properties incurred significant damage at the hands of the so-called peaceful protesters.
However, again, that $3.6 million, what is that?
Almost three times less than the... We usually say one-third.
Yeah, one-third, yeah.
One-third was BLM gotten.
Still, I mean, the city, what a system we're in.
The BLM rioters are obviously destroying many things.
You don't just get a settlement like that out of thin air.
And then the people who are destroying these things, the police don't treat them like they're at a cocktail party.
And then some of them might sprain their ankles.
And then the city's got to pay them too.
It's just a topsy-turvy, topsy-turvy world.
Well, we have here another story.
Of the shakedown that is coming down the tracks.
A New York lawmaker wants the federal government to push a $14 trillion reparations measure.
It is being promoted by a S.Q.U.A.D.
member.
That's a mostly female outfit, just like the Supreme Court.
But it is actually Representative Jamal Bowman.
Who is, as far as we know, a man.
He is a member.
He wants the federal government to be held accountable for slavery and everything bad that happened to black people after it.
He cited the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as examples how it is easy to pay.
He says, where did the COVID-19 pandemic support money come from?
We spent it into existence.
And that's what he wants to do with $14 trillion to be splashed out to black people.
We just spent it into existence.
I wish I could just spend money into existence.
Somehow, whenever I spend it, that it goes out of existence.
But he's going to just spend it into existence.
Unfortunately, to some extent, the federal government actually can do that.
But it's not as though it has no harmful consequences down the line.
In any case, he is among sponsors of HR 414, which Asserts that the United States is a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations from enslavement of African Americans and its lasting harm And it was introduced last year and as I say it would splash out approximately $350,000 for every man woman and child so family of four I think that means you're sitting on something close to about oh a million two hundred thousand dollars and The bill cites
Scholars estimates that the U.S.
benefited from over 222 trillion hours of forced labor.
222 trillion hours.
And Mr. Bowman says there were 246 years of free labor that produced what made the U.S.
economy great.
That economy wouldn't exist in the way it does today if slavery hadn't built it.
So once again, we have this cuckoo idea that since black people made America the wealthy country it is, and because they had all of these 222 trillion hours of unpaid labor extracted from their ancestors, that a family of four should get $1.2 million.
I believe that the median net worth of a white family is about $250,000.
The median net worth of an Asian family is about twice that.
I think it's about $600,000.
But so, this means that black families wouldn't just be keeping up with the Joneses at $250,000, they'd be keeping up with the Watanabes.
They'd be way ahead, even of Asian families, if Jamal Bowman has his way.
Now, he's the guy who can't tell a door—he can't figure out how to unlock a door without setting off a fire alarm.
You remember him?
It was just before a vote in Congress.
He thought he was going through a door, but instead he went elsewhere.
And so he suddenly found that he had interrupted a vote because all the fire alarms went off.
Do you remember that amusing story?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
And yet another aspect of black run America.
So that's another law.
I think it will languish on the vine, at least in this session.
But you never can tell.
13 trillion on top of whatever trillions that the state of California and the state of New York puts into the hands of black people.
Just wait around, folks, and you'll all be millionaires.
Now, I thought what Boris Johnson said about the prospect of a Donald Trump re-election, this to me was most amusing.
He has backed Mr. Trump's re-election campaign, claiming that the global wo-karate are trembling violently at the thought of a second term.
I think Bojo is right.
The former prime minister praised Trump's willingness to use force and his sheer unpredictability.
I'm not sure I consider that an admirable trait in a politician, but it is amusing.
Mr. Johnson said the prospect of a second Trump presidency has caused a shriek from the Western liberal intelligentsia and produced sheer gibbering funk.
In the senior common drooms of our universities, in the synod of the Church of England, and in the Orwellian corridors of the BBC, and among much of the UK establishment, there has been a catawalling orgy of nose-holding abhorrence.
That's pretty colorful talk, Boris Johnson.
Then he says this, in the cocktail parties of Davos, And as our listeners probably know, the Davos Hootenanny just closed up shop, I guess that was last week.
He says, I'm told the global Wokorati have been trembling so violently that you could hear the ice tinkling in their Negronis.
In their Negronis.
Well, I can't say I know anything about Negronis.
And I've never been to Davos either.
But Wikipedia tells me what a Negroni is.
Do you know what one is, by the way?
I'll let you go ahead and educate.
I don't want to try and guess.
No, no, it'd be pure guessing with me.
It is a cocktail made of equal parts gin, vermouth rosso, which is red and semi-sweet, and Campari.
So gin, red semi-sweet, vermouth, and Campari, generally served on the rocks, garnished with an orange slice or orange petiole.
Mr. Taylor, that sounds like one of the beverages that the elite of a former era were probably enjoying on the Titanic as it went down.
Maybe so.
Maybe so.
Let's hope that's the case with these Davocites here.
But I must say, the prospect of a return of Trump tickles me, too.
I just smile uncontrollably when I think how much our rooters will screech and scream.
Remember last time around, all the people who promised that they would leave the country if Donald Trump were elected?
That never seemed to have happened.
As I recall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of them.
She said she was going to bugger off to New Zealand.
I kept waiting for her to bugger off.
She just left the planet.
Yes, she just buggered off elsewhere.
In any case, Mr. Kersey, I believe we're going to have a blackface Wizard of Oz.
Oh my goodness, yeah.
Something to look forward to.
This is a story that I didn't want to report on, but I thought it was so good it would be a switch culturally.
It's a wonderful life in the Wizard of Oz to get diverse reboots for people who hadn't felt seen.
A pair of Hollywood's most iconic classic films would be undergoing diverse reboots at the hands of Hollywood writer Kenya Barris, who has planned to change main characters to a BIPOC, a person of color.
Barris has written or directed many race-centric titles since 2020, including TV shows Hashtag Black AF and Blackish and films You People and the remake of White Men Can't Jump.
Mr. Taylor, I must confess, I haven't seen any of those.
Good for you.
I mean, pieces of entertainment.
I'm sure you're in the same boat.
I am.
So his next ventures are reportedly a reimagining of two industry classics, the aforementioned Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life.
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, one of my favorite movies.
I'm sure you enjoy watching that every Christmas.
Quote, I'm sorry, the Oz movie will utilize a completely different setting and take place in an apartment complex in Inglewood, California, called The Bottoms, where the Dorothy will live.
Hmm.
It sounds like just a captivating plot.
The original Wizard of Oz, of course, took place during the Great Depression.
It was about self-reliance and what people were going through, Barris told Variety.
I think this is the perfect time to switch the characters and talk about what someone imagines their life could be.
The writer also told talk show host Jimmy Fallon about his plans to purposely cast the movie with diverse characters.
Quote, I think that this is the best time to turn a mirror on society, because we need to see ourselves.
And I want to do it with diverse characters.
The character lives in Inglewood, and someone comes up and she ends up in Underhood, which is right outside Oz, and it takes place from there.
So, okay.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
I'm in the exact opposite boat.
I'll just go watch... I'll just go watch... Jack Reacher.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll go watch season two of Jack Reacher.
Good call.
He then goes on to say this.
this. I wanted to make people think but also make them feel good and also make people feel
seen who hadn't felt seen," Barris added.
That seems to be what they all live for.
Feeling seen.
Feeling seen.
Here's what he says about the reboot of the 1946 Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life, which stars one of my favorite actors because he reminds me so much of my late grandfather, Jimmy Stewart.
Barris explained that the movie's plot is a perfect story to be portrayed by an actor who has black or brown skin.
I feel like Chris's movies are amazing and I think the idea of taking something that has
long history that has a long that has I'm sorry this is such a terrible sentence.
Let me read this again.
I think the idea of taking something that has that long of a history and a tale behind it and putting an amazing piece of talent to tell that story, Barris explained, it's a guy who was trying to help out his community and things are going to turn around on him.
I think that's a perfect story to tell for a person of color, black or brown, to get into that because our community has some issues and someone trying to help that community out.
I think that's a perfect vehicle to tell that story from, end quote.
I'm sure all the antagonists making sure that the community is held down are going to be guess what?
Oh, Mr. Potter is going to be not an old white guy, but a young blonde haired blue eyed white guy who inherited his wealth from a structural racist, you know, environment.
No doubt.
Yes.
Anyway, is that the end of that story?
Yeah, I'm just gonna go watch It's a Wonderful Life and Wizard of Oz again and remember what we lost.
Remember what things used to be like.
Well, I think we have, wow, boy, Tempest Shona Fugit.
Germany is wrestling with a potentially explosive debate over whether to ban the alternative for Germany, AFD.
Germans have been shocked by revelations that senior figures attending a meeting where mass deportations were allegedly discussed A growing backlash against this has sparked large protests and public condemnation.
The AFD, which continues to poll number two in the country nationally, is reacting with this.
Panic is spreading.
We can smell your fear, says AFD spokesman Bernard Baumann.
It was the investigative outlet Connective that released a report about a so-called secret meeting at a hotel near Berlin in November involving 20 people, including senior AFD figures and so-called neo-Nazi influencers.
A couple of members of the center-right CDU, that's Chancellor Angela Merkel's former party, they were present.
And this is, of course, leaving egg on CDU faces.
Discussion allegedly focused on so-called re-migration.
The removal of millions of asylum seekers, non-assimilated people, and those with non-German backgrounds.
The report has sparked large anti-AFD rallies in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg.
This is last weekend.
I'm sorry, the weekend before.
I feel threatened and I'm already making plans to get out of Germany, says a German citizen whose family comes from Latin America.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that any expulsion plan amounted to an attack against our democracy, and in turn against all of us.
Boy, they think big, don't they?
Anything like that's an attack against our democracy.
Now, according to the BBC, which wrote the story, Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner, I wonder if he's the so-called Nazi influencer, who has been previously barred from the UK.
Yes, they believe in free speech in the UK, all right.
is alleged to have presented the mass deportation master plan.
It reportedly included details of moving people to a model state in North Africa that could provide space for up to 2 million people.
A good start.
Mr. Sellner has promoted the idea of remigration before, mainly for migrants he considers a burden.
But in comments posted on YouTube, he said that the idea of re-migration was mentioned only in passing at this Potsdam meeting, and that the whole conversation was turned into a master plan for deportation by the lying press.
So you see, they have the same problem in Germany that we do, Mr. Kirsten.
Now, reacting to reports about this, 25 Social Democrat Bundestag members called for the possible banning of the alternative for Deutschland, banning the party that is polling number two in the polls.
Isn't that democracy in action?
Oh, that is democracy in action.
This is just so hilarious.
The German Constitution, after all, says that parties that seek to undermine or abolish the free democratic basic order should be deemed unconstitutional.
Well, how on earth do deportations undermine the free democratic basic order?
If that's what the people want, that's what the people should get.
As it turns out, in the 1950s, two political parties were dissolved.
One was something called the Socialist Reich Party, And one was called the Communist KPD.
Now, recently, the only one that I've been aware of was an attempt to ban the NPD.
It was said to be neo-Nazi, blah, blah, blah.
And it was put on trial in 2003.
You probably remember this, Mr. Kersey, because you remember everything.
As it turned out, All of the people who were saying the most outrageous things, who were in the leadership of the NPD, they were German Secret Service plants.
God.
Yes.
And so the case completely fell apart.
They hauled him into court saying, you guys say this, you guys said that.
And as it turns out, all the people who were filmed getting drunk and shighiling, all of those people turned out to be federal plants, federal agents.
So, as it turns out, this time, though, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck accused the AFD of wanting to turn Germany into a Russian-style autocratic state.
Can you believe that?
An autocratic state, one that might even want to ban opposition parties?
This is incredible!
Thorsten Frei, an MP, a member of parliament from the CDU, is the only sensible person quoted in this entire BBC article.
He says, we have to ask ourselves a different question.
If a party like the AFD pulled so high, there must be a reason.
There's no point in insulting voters, he said.
Now, good grief, I think somebody at BBC should fire whoever editor let that piece of good sense run through.
Of course, any pursuit of an attempt to ban a political party would present serious political dangers as well as legal obstacles.
However, Germany's interior minister, Nancy Faeser, She promised to use all instruments available to defend democracy.
I just don't understand it.
Every time people don't vote the way they want, oh, democracy is threatened.
And that's, of course, the same in the United States.
Yeah.
All of these Democrats, they're defending our democracy.
Well, boy, we've got a pretty feeble democracy.
If voters bring in somebody you don't want, and that's going to destroy democracy.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I think it's on that note that we must leave our loyal listeners.
It's always a joy and a pleasure and an honor to spend this time with you, all of you listeners, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen all around the world, and it was a great pleasure that we look forward to spending this time with you again next week.
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