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Feb. 7, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Is Woke Insanity Self-Correcting?

Jared Taylor and Officer John laugh at the lily-white church that finally had enough. They also discuss debanking, West Point, foreign aid, and the latest noose hoax.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
And today is January 7th, Anno Domini, 2025. And with me is my guest co-host, Officer John Patterson.
Some of you know Officer John from previous podcasts of mine.
He's my go-to expert on all things police and security related.
If men in blue do it, he's done it.
Whatever men in blue know, he knows.
So, Officer John, I am delighted to have you with me.
Could you start by telling our listeners a bit more about yourself, and don't forget to tell them about your regular program.
Well, it's an honor to be here, Mr. Taylor.
I'm Officer John.
That's how I'm known on the Internet, and I have to wish you a very happy Black History Month 7th.
I've gotten rid of the word February from my vernacular, but...
I was a police officer for 30 years.
I started in the early 90s and recently retired.
Like you say, pretty much any television show that you've seen, whether it be SWAT, The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Shield, any of these television shows you see about police work where SWAT officers are making entry, buying drugs undercover, arresting gang members.
I've done it all.
I've worked gangs, undercover narcotics, SWAT. I pretty much did it all.
I took every job that was dangerous and I had a career where at the end of it I didn't want to have any regrets, didn't want to have any low points where I wasn't in the fray and I accomplished that.
So as such, I have quite a bit of knowledge on the aspect of police work and crime in general.
And thank you for allowing me to talk about the show that I do with Jack the Barbershop Guy.
We are friends of Colin Flaherty, the late Colin Flaherty, who you and I both had the honor to meet and know.
And when he passed away, sadly, we took over his work.
And on Rumble, our show is called Denial, Deceit, and Delusion.
And the way you find us is you search Jack the Barbershop Guy, all one word.
And we have over 200 videos there documenting crime.
And I do smaller videos where I analyze body cam videos.
But it's a great show.
We do it in honor of Colin Flaherty, and out of respect for this program as well.
Well, very good.
Yes, I was a great admirer of Colin Flaherty's.
He did great work.
He died far too young, like so many people on our side do.
But, as usual, let us start with comments from listeners.
This is rather a bald question.
In your opinion, will whites in Germany go extinct, or can the decline in birth rates be reversed?
Well, as Mark Twain used to say, predictions are very tricky, especially when you're talking about the future.
And I can't say, I can't make any confident prediction.
But if I were not optimistic, I wouldn't be in this business.
I think white people will certainly survive on the planet, and I certainly hope they survive in Germany.
And one thing that you can say about declining birth rates is this.
Over the long term, to the extent that having large families is heritable, and just about everything is to some degree heritable, the people who are having large families, that tendency will be passed on to their children, and so those people will eventually inherit the earth.
Now, whether or not that will happen soon enough so that the process corrects itself in time for German civilization not to disappear because there aren't enough Germans to keep it going, I can't say.
But my hopes are high.
I think that all the high IQ races, that's not just white people, but East Asians, we all face this terrible birth rate problem.
I am confident that we can turn it around, but we'll just have to see.
I would certainly hope that we would go that way.
I mean, the one promising glimmer of hope that I've noticed is the Alternative for Deutschland party.
They were looking to make that party illegal to even gather, and it somehow survived.
It's gathering lower numbers, but 25 to 30 percent of the vote.
But they're all for closing the borders and taking care of themselves as a nation, like any nation should.
Until they're so terrified of the albatross of 1933 to 1945, I believe that they're always going to be held down for fear of being compared to that.
I wish that AFD had a strong plank for promoting birth rates.
Trouble is, in most European countries, in fact, all European countries, except for Hungary, as I understand it, any kind of attempt to stimulate birth rates is going to be nationwide.
That would include Muslims, foreigners, gypsies, everybody else.
It's a real problem.
But let's see.
Next comment.
I'm struggling with the decision about where to put down roots for my young family.
Young and growing, I hope.
I'm fortunate enough to be in a line of work that allows me to work from home.
The issue is demographics.
I've been toying with the idea of relocating to northern New England, to a very rural, white area, in contrast to where I live in the South.
My question is this.
Do you believe it's better to live in a racially homogeneous blue state or in a red state that is teetering on the precipice of majority-minority status?
My main concern is for my children, who even would no doubt be exposed to a fair amount of racial diversity in my home state in the South.
Well, yes, that is a real consideration.
If you go to these very, very white areas, and northern New England is certainly one of them, the trouble is most white people there, all they know about non-whites is what they read in the New York Times or hear on MSNBC. And they are ignorant and they have these delusions.
They have this idea that black people are Hispanics.
They're just really white people with different colored skin.
So the fact is, my guess is, if you go to northern New England, you're going to be surrounded by liberal whites.
A lot of whites, but they won't have the right ideas.
Whereas if you stay in the South, Southerners have been around black people all their lives for the most part.
They have a realistic view of them.
If you can find an enclave of whites that's going to stay white, that's probably going to be as healthy an environment as you're going to find.
On the other hand, you, listener, sound like a perfect candidate for some of the intentional communities that are being established.
One is called Return to the Land.
Return to the land dot org.
I'll repeat that.
Return to the land dot org.
You can find out about white people who are deliberately building communities which will be all white and full of people who agree.
And I think that since you are able to move anywhere, that is something that you could consider that.
There are a number of these going on, and ReturnToTheLand.org is a very good place to start.
It's very close to home for me because that's the exact reason why I relocated.
I went from the best real estate, the best weather on the planet, and the running joke on my program is I moved away from the best climate on Earth to where there's more snow.
And what that joke means is we want to be around our own people, and we've discussed it many times.
Everyone is allowed to prefer living amongst whites except for white people.
So if your children...
If your children are the concern, if you don't want them schooled in this dystopian nightmare that is developing, I would encourage you to go somewhere.
But as Mr. Taylor said, if you go to one of these blue states, I would encourage you to see what Maine is doing as far as bringing in African refugees.
And Mr. Taylor is correct.
If a blue state is deemed to be too white...
The government will find a way to remedy that.
So I highly recommend going somewhere where there's more snow, and my recommendation would be to pick a red state.
A red state with snow.
Very good.
Next listener comment.
On your January 24th podcast, you talked about DEI and unconscious bias.
I have no unconscious biases.
Mine are all quite conscious, evidence-based, rational, and moral.
The results of years of experience and reflection.
As for discrimination, this destructive anti-white, anti-male fetish has done immense damage.
Like every liberal idea, it starts out sounding nice and ends up being a battering ram to crush our race.
Diversity, multiculturalism, inclusion...
And the worst of all, equality, racism.
They're nothing but frauds.
Weapons of war against the European race.
Quite so.
Now, discrimination, that is something that's essential.
Every day, every moment, practically, we are discriminating.
We're making decisions about what we want to do, what our preferences are.
And it used to be that discrimination was a perfectly good word.
A discriminating person is one with...
Who can tell good from bad?
But the other side has turned all sorts of words into weapons of war, as this listener says, and ways to crush us.
So, by all means, go ahead, discriminate, because that is the only way that you can survive as a human being, the only way our race can survive as a race.
And all of this nonsense on the other side, you can turn your back on it.
Good for you.
Discriminate to your heart's content.
And it's funny that that pejorative term is what's added to whites who prefer to live around other whites.
As far as the critical race theory training, as soon as my agency decided to spend $1.5 million of taxpayer dollars to give me a compulsory course telling me that I was the problem, that's when I decided to end my career.
So I couldn't agree more with this listener.
Very good.
Now, next commenter.
You mentioned USAID or USAID in your last podcast.
My late husband, who served two years in the Peace Corps in Liberia, shared an office with a USAID auditor who had come to check on rural Bush schools.
Billions of US taxpayer monies had been sent to educate Africa out of poverty.
This auditor found that many of those so-called schools We're nothing but fronts for local strongmen who spent that money on weapons and luxury cars, thus becoming warlords.
The locals saw them spending U.S. dollars and hating the U.S. for funding warlord bullies so much for caring about their own people.
Well, as it happens, the first thing we're going to talk about is a little bit about U.S. aid.
And I have just done a video which will probably go up tomorrow.
And that will be all about U.S. aid.
So I think this is something that is mercifully finally in the news.
Some of the absolute absurdities and even atrocities that we fund with your taxpayer dollars are finally coming to light.
And let us hope that Donald Trump and Elon Musk can succeed in taking a very heavy-handed meat axe to all of this rubbish.
Well, I'd like to let you all know how to reach us.
Love to hear your comments.
Love to hear your criticisms.
Love to hear your felicitations.
And especially, I like it, when you tell us where we've gone wrong.
I hate for misinformation to go out over the air, especially if I'm the source.
And the way to reach us is to go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and hit the Contact Us page.
The message will come straight to me, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Now, yes, this whole question of USAID, some of the really more preposterous LBGB goofiness has come to light, finally, after all these years.
And I'll just mention a few highlights here.
And then, as I say, I will recommend that you look at the video, which will come out tomorrow with more detail.
$50,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.
Yep, you paid for it.
A campaign to count transgenders in the Bangladesh census.
Did you know that they count them?
Not just men, not just women, but trannies too.
You can click the tranny box.
I don't think you can even do that in the United States yet.
A trans comic book called The Embassy of the United States in Peru presents the power of education that can educate us all into thinking that transsexualism is a wonderful thing.
Then there's something called the WITS Health Consortium in South Africa got $30 million for gender-affirming health care for, well, you know whom.
Then $2 million that we taxpayers spent for sex changes in Guatemala.
Doesn't that make you feel wonderful?
$6 million to promote tourism in Egypt.
I think the pyramids do fine promoting tourism in Egypt all by themselves.
$20 million for Sesame Street programs in Iraq.
Boy, Iraq is just so much better off for that.
Then $4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan.
Well, I'm sure they need it.
And I understand the State Department gave half a million dollars to a British NGO to promote atheism all around the world.
So, and this doesn't even talk about all the military spending.
We have spent.
Trillions, trillions on fighting these utterly, utterly useless wars.
And let us hope that when they start swinging the meat axe, they'll cut some of that out too.
Although I understand that in this project to at least pause all of this foreign aid, they have said that military spending for Israel and for Egypt can continue unchanged.
I think all of that needs to be looked at.
I'm just wondering, I grew up in the age of Sesame Street.
I remember my sister and my father, when he was still alive, we would share YouTube links of the old songs that we sang together, and I'm just curious what the Iraq version of Sesame Street would be.
I suppose the first thing they would have to do would be to get rid of the transgender ideology and the R. Burton, Ernie Gay.
And they would have to create the Charlie, the Caliphate Grouch, and Jihad Jill, the new characters who are professing Allah's wishes upon the children as they gather in front of their TV.
And exactly how many Iraqi children are gathering in front of a television in a Caliphate?
That part kind of startles me.
Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of them.
And I'm sure the Sesame Street trannies will also be good devout Muslims, too.
This is all changing hearts and minds, Iraqis included.
And every tax, as April 15th approaches, every tax day I end up writing a $5,000 to $7,000 check to the government, and my wife cries all the way home about it.
it.
And you and I can both agree that taxes are what keeps this country going.
And I don't know if you remember back in the 1770s, the evil white colonialist ancestors, we decided that we didn't want a 3% tax on our tea, our paper, our molasses.
So we decided to take on the greatest military empire on the planet because we didn't like being taxed without representation.
Now they're simply stealing our money and creating Sesame Street in Iraq for it.
I don't mind paying taxes, but I want to take care of my infrastructure, my elderly and the problems going on here.
I don't particularly care how many transgenders are in Bangladesh.
I don't know how that benefits us.
Nope, it doesn't benefit us one bit.
Now, Officer John, I believe you have a story on what looks to me as though it's turning out to be yet another race hoax.
Do tell.
So, first, if you're listening, I would like everyone to check out the website, Fake.
Hatecrimes.org.
It has a list of them chronologically.
It's a fantastic site.
But in Allentown, Pennsylvania, there was a woman.
Her name was Latarsha Brown, and the news was kind enough to capitalize black and let us know that she was a black woman if we didn't know this.
But she was a city employee who was embroiled in a lawsuit against the city for a hostile work environment against minority employees.
And apparently that lawsuit wasn't going quick enough, so...
Suddenly, one day, she came into her office and found an item resembling a noose.
Now, Mr. Taylor, if I said an item resembling a noose to you, what...
What does that conjure up?
Do you have any idea?
Is it huge?
Is it small?
Is it rope?
Is it string?
Is it bubblegum?
What could it possibly be?
I mean, what does that conjure up?
All I would know is that it is a loop of something.
That is what I would think.
Do we have any photographs of this thing?
Have we had any description of it?
Do tell.
Strangely, no.
It's still being described as a, quote, item resembling a noose.
So with all of the corruption going on and all the mayorships across the country, the FBI decided that an item resembling a noose required several FBI agents descend upon Allentown to investigate this item that was draped over the computer monitor of LaTarsha Brown.
Now they were going to use, the FBI was going to utilize touch DNA technology to try to identify the quote unquote suspect who left this quote item resembling a noose end quote on her computer monitor.
I ask you, what would the crime be?
They would find a way to shoehorn...
Malicious harassment in there.
But this was nothing more than her trying to beef up and give legs to her farcical lawsuit.
And when they said, hey, we'd like to get your DNA sample so that we can exclude you, along with dozens of other employees for exclusionary purposes, we were going to use the technology we used for murders to figure out who left an unidentified, unpictured item resembling a noose.
On her keyboard.
Suddenly, Latarsha Brown said, oh, I don't want to give my DNA. You guys can go ahead and drop this whole investigation.
And as the FBI and the local police department attempted to call her back to further the investigation, she stopped answering her calls.
She stopped answering her voicemails.
Officer John, Officer John, the last I heard is that she wasn't answering her calls.
Did she say specifically?
Hold your horses, I'm withdrawing my charges, or is she just gone mute here?
I'm very glad you asked that, because as is with every other hate hoax that hits the news, two things happen.
One, politicians jump on it as fact instantly.
Whether it be on Twitter or having a press conference, we're not going to tolerate hate in our town and we're going to get to the bottom of this.
This person needs to be prosecuted and minority workers don't feel safe in the workplace.
From 0 to 100 at the podium, at the pulpit, with the megaphone, from the get, before the investigation has even started, it has been shown to be a hoax.
They ambiguously said she stopped cooperating.
And the story is just going to go poof into the air.
There will be no retraction.
It will be there forever.
You're still not answering my question.
Has she herself said, hold your horses, don't investigate this any further, or has she just gone silent?
Well, she said, please ask the FBI to stop the investigation.
Oh, she did?
Ghosted out.
Yes, she didn't say, I made it up.
She didn't say, I placed it there.
But it's like any other, they never, right.
She did say, stop looking for the perp.
Right.
She never said, I put that there as a means to further my lawsuit.
But we never get a retraction on these.
We never get an apology.
The politicians that took the pulpit on day one never retracted.
I mean, Joe Biden himself tweeted about the juicy smoulier, just Jussie Smollett, and never took it back.
Never said, I'm sorry, America.
I jumped to conclusions.
I should have waited for the facts.
Never.
Okay, well, that's the usual process with these things.
Then we have had something that struck me as quite amusing.
The National Football League, its commissioner is Roger Goodell, and he says, I am proud of our diversity efforts.
I believe they are making the NFL better.
We think when we get different perspectives, people with different backgrounds, whether they're women, Well, this is going a little against the grain because a lot of big companies inside of this DEI nonsense is not only any good in terms of actually increasing profits, but people are getting sick of it.
And they're rolling back some of this at least.
They're probably pronouncing about it, but not the NFL. It strikes me as a little odd insofar as the players are over 60% black.
They are 100% male.
There is not one open poof on the field.
And so just what is his understanding of diversity?
My assumption is that you become a professional football player because you're the best that there are.
And what diversity has to do with that, I don't know.
Roger Goodell is still waving the diversity flag, and we'll see how long that lasts.
I understand also that at the Super Bowl, they plan to play the black national anthem, lift every heart and sing, or lift every voice and sing.
And I understand that there's a movement on to try to boycott that, but I think that Americans are so sports-mad that very few people will turn their backs on the Super Bowl because of this black national anthem.
In any case, that's Roger Goodell for you.
Good old Roger.
If I could add one thing to that.
What he's talking about, he's not referring to the players themselves, because sports are one of the last meritocracies on the planet.
And the 50-60% black number that you get, that's incorrect.
It's closer to 70%.
I think it's 75-80% in the NBA basketball.
But what he's referring to are the off-the-field employees, like the ambassadors.
Yes, I assume so.
I assume so.
But he's talking about the best, the best.
The best has got nothing to do with diversity.
But that's his story.
He's sticking to it.
Mr. Goodell took the brave step of eliminating the end racism graphic in the end zone for the Super Bowl this year.
And on my program, I receive a lot of heat because I played contact football for 10 years of my life.
I love the sport.
And my listeners say, why do you watch that crap?
It's, you know, black this, black that, will it never end?
And I, for the first time in my adult life, since I began playing and watching football at the age of six or eight, I am not going to watch the Super Bowl.
I am boycotting it.
My wife and I are going up to a cabin with our dog, and I am going to ignore it.
I have eliminated the NFL from my life.
It just will never end.
It will never be enough.
Well, hooray for you, Officer John.
I have never been a professional football fan.
I don't like professional sports of any kind.
To me, it's a little outrageous, really, that you represent a locale that you have nothing to do with.
I remember when I must have been seven or eight years old, my dad told me that, well, no, it's not as though everybody who plays for the New York Yankees is from New York.
And I thought, well, what?
These guys are hired guns.
Why should anybody want to root for them?
But anyway, I guess I'm old-fashioned that way.
I should think that somebody who plays for a team should have some sort of affiliation with the place.
But anyway, let's see.
Now, this was an interesting little story from National Public Radio, of all places.
They were going down a direction I would never have expected from them.
And it has to do with a church, the Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Well, apparently, the Sunday after Donald Trump won his second term, Pastor Ben Boswell, he took to the pulpit and he likened the moment to what he called the gathering dark of Hitler's rule.
He added that Trump's election would lead to the crucifixion, his word, of immigrant families, transgenders, and non-binary people.
But our faith also teaches us that every crucifixion needs a witness, he said.
Well, believe it or not, the congregation, who just loves this stuff, or at least to some degree, gave the preacher a standing ovation.
Now, I have never heard of applause of any kind, much less a standing ovation after a sermon.
But Pastor Ben Boswell got one.
Well, surprise, surprise, several weeks later, the board of the church met and voted 17 to 3 to ask Pastor Boswell to step down.
Why should this be?
Well, Marcy McClanahan, who was the head of the board, said that the first reason he needed to go was plunging attendance in the church.
It had gone from average.
Oh, yep, yep, yep.
The folks apparently aren't buying this stuff, despite the standing ovation.
The church had gone from an average weekly attendance of about 350 when he showed up in 2016 to 150. 350 to 150. And McClanahan said Ben has been given every chance to change his words and actions to appeal to a broader audience but has not been successful.
Fellow deacon Robert Doolin says many people who left the church in recent years have complained about the pastor's heavy focus on social and racial justice.
He paraphrased what he said he'd heard over and over.
I'm tired.
Of being indicted because I'm white.
I'm tired of being banged over the head every week about immigrants and LGBTQ. And the former chairman of the Board of Deacons said that all or most of the congregation supports social justice.
And then, quote, for some people, being able to focus on social justice would be a luxury because they have alcoholic spouses.
They have children who are addicted.
They got cancer.
They got personal needs.
And he said that Pastor Boswell wasn't good at the pastoral part of the business.
And apparently several years ago, this is just too much.
At an anti-racism seminar, Pastor Boswell said that Myers Park Church needed to change its wedding policy.
He described it as too waspy.
Too waspy.
Gosh, I guess they, I don't know, they want to play boogaloo music and the groom can stick a bone through his nose or something.
De-wasp it.
Yes.
Isn't Anglo-Saxon a dirty word now, anyway?
Oh, sure is.
Even in England, it's a dirty word.
Correct.
And he said they have to decolonize the interior space of the church in what he called a whiteness audit.
This is just so sick.
And, of course, as people left Myers Park, the church, the contributions left with them.
And since 2020, the church budget has shrunk by nearly a quarter.
Now, this part is just so delicious.
Myers Park Church is overwhelmingly white in a neighborhood where mansions can sell for up to $4 million.
So, you know, it is a hoity-toity part of Charlotte.
And there's a giant sign in front of the church that says, 80 years of inclusivity, community, spirituality, and justice.
Another sign reads, open to all, now and forevermore.
You know, I really wonder, 80 years ago, were they beating the drum on racial this and inclusion that?
I bet they didn't have any open homosexuals.
I didn't bet they said, yes, wall poofs of all sorts, welcome.
No, I bet they didn't have that at all.
But they claim 80 years of inclusivity, community, spirituality, and justice.
All these goofy white people, they talk a good game, and they will even listen to all this kind of nonsense about how bad they are, but they get tired of it.
This is a good sign.
Some of the stuff is potentially self-correcting.
But Pastor Boswell, despite the fact that he got a pig slip, he ain't backing down.
He says, my feeling is that as a progressive congregation, as a progressive pastor, our job right now is not to back away, but to double down.
Well, he's going to have to double down someplace else.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye, Pastor Boswell.
If I can succinctly put my beliefs on this, since some career criminal overdosed in police custody in Minneapolis in 2020, the most powerful, the most valuable social capital on planet Earth is social piety through ethnomasochism.
And until we devalue that social capital gained by saying, oh, we're racist, we're colonists, we need to de-wasp our wedding processions and everything, until we devalue that currency...
This will be the only way to stay safe in one's livelihood.
And as such, when he delivers such a ridiculous speech, if you are the one that doesn't stand for the standing ovation, you are automatically branded with the scarlet R on your chest.
And we fear the word racist more than we fear death itself.
Because we've been taught that if we are racist, we will be pilloried in the town square, and we will lose...
Everything we've ever worked for, our friends, our livelihood, our very lives themselves.
And it sounds like that is the first step of devaluing it.
What happened to that church is what happens everywhere.
The people who didn't like that stuff, they just quietly moved out.
That's what happens with white people.
When things go bad, they just move away.
We need to absolutely stand and fight, or we're going to have no place to move to.
We need to overtly stand up for it.
But Officer John, I believe you have an exciting report on the NYPD and crime in the New York subway.
So I'm just going to give a few numbers.
The New York City Police Department is the largest police department in the United States.
They're allocated for 36,000 officers.
They are 3,000 below.
In 2017, they had 18,000 officers apply to be a New York City police officer.
In 2023, they had 8,000, so a 55% decrease.
So the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City, New York City proper, this is just the city itself.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority's budget is $30 billion.
$30 billion?
Well, I'm sorry.
The city of New York's full budget is $119 billion.
MTA is $33 billion.
They've received federal aid and are still projected to lose $33 million.
$700 million of that loss, they're in the red every single year, $700 million of that loss is in fair evasion.
Whether it's jumping the line at the subway, not paying your bus fare, not paying the toll at the bridge.
Now they're adding this congestion tax where if you decide to drive a car onto the island, you have to pay money for that.
And Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, just had a press conference where she said, oh, we've got this new way to prevent fare jumping, fare evasion.
We've installed these sheet metal corrugated walls that prohibit people from using the sides of the turnstile to vault over or to crawl under.
So the headline at First Red, spikes are installed at the gates of the subway.
And I said, wow, spikes, that sounds pretty medieval, so I'll check it out.
And she held this ridiculous press conference, showed these new little rounded edges, metal.
Sheets that she puts on either side of the turnstile.
And then a couple days later, it showed several individuals lifting themselves up and over, putting their hands on this spiked metal, jumping over just as they had.
She's tried several things.
She's putting the National Guard camouflaged machine gun toting military men in the subway, and they have no authority whatsoever.
They cannot break up a fight.
They have no arrest powers.
And she somehow … Excuse me, officer.
In other words, this barrier that she put up can be easily gotten over?
You saw videos of people just climbing right over it.
If you check the New York Post, there is a picture of a gentleman saying, I don't give an F, and it shows him putting his hands up on this raised sheet metal to vault over the turnstile.
So she's tried everything.
Doesn't sound like a gentleman to me.
Please carry on.
I mean, every societal regression, everything that has to – part of your life, my life, every law-abiding citizen's life that's either taxed or made more difficult, whether it be taking off our shoes at TSA or whether it's having to go through a metal detector at a ballgame, it's all because of a certain – Demographics behavior.
And instead of addressing that behavior, we invent new technology.
We use corrugated sheet metal to try to dissuade them from vaulting the turnstile.
I mean, she's talking about putting more officers in the subway.
Well, they've decriminalized fare evasion.
So what are they going to do?
So it's just basically a free-for-all.
They're losing $700 million per year on fare evasion alone.
They've gotten rid of the cameras because it has a disparate impact on the black passengers.
They've decriminalized urinating in the streets in New York, obviously.
They've decriminalized fare evasion.
She's put the National Guard in there as if camouflaged soldiers are somehow going to dissuade thievery, violence, and just this type of antisocial behavior, which nothing could be further from the truth.
These National Guard men can't do anything about it.
So instead of just saying, hey, let's try to make it better.
Let's try to enforce this law.
Let's charge people.
Let's make them accountable for their actions.
They're raising the cost of the fare to get on the subway, and they're taxing people who are driving into the city to go to work instead of addressing the behavior itself that is causing this completely unsustainable behavior that is putting the Metropolitan and they're taxing people who are driving into the city to go to work instead of addressing the behavior itself that is causing this completely unsustainable behavior that is putting the Metropolitan
Think about that.
Mm-hmm.
Well, that's a story.
The city of New York, as much as you want, wherever you want, for free, for $25, for a week.
Yet we have people jumping over because they've been entitled and told that they're the best and we're the worst and they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, with no consequences, never ashamed, always offended.
It doesn't matter what we put.
I suppose next we'll put a moat around the entrance to the subway.
Swipe your card and the drawbridge will lower.
This is going to inconvenience everyone who wants to go to work on the subway.
It will not stop criminal behavior.
We've tried everything.
We've eliminated every police power.
We've emasculated our police.
The potency of the police department has been so broken down and beaten.
The morale is destroyed.
Nobody wants to be an officer anymore.
200 New York police officers retire per month.
And that's not even including the $938 million in the red that Mayor Eric Adams has put New York City in by being a sanctuary city.
We could go on about New York forever.
It will never be fixed.
It's the same song, different verse, a little bit louder, a little bit worse.
I'm not convinced it will never be fixed.
I think some of these things are possibly self-correcting to some degree.
But I'm the eternal optimist.
And one thing that makes me optimistic, for example, is that there's a story from the New York Post.
And it notes that for the past four years, the federal government has put major banks under immense...
Pressure to close accounts that are owned by conservatives and businesses, and they do it with no notice or transparency.
And this practice known as debanking, it used to be reserved for criminal organizations and money launderers.
But under Joe Biden, debanking became one of the federal government's most effective censorship tools.
It doesn't just shut you out of a bank account.
It pretty much shuts you out of society.
Imagine if you had no bank account.
Now, the Senate Banking Committee is holding a hearing so Congress can begin to understand just how widespread this abusive practice has become.
Joe Biden's enforcers got the ball rolling and they gave major banks a list of supposedly high-risk individuals.
And they wanted to hear reports on how these high-risk individuals and organizations were handled.
The FBI and the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network flagged any purchase of firearms, bibles, or anything associated with terms MAGA or Trump as indicators of extremism.
And the Biden administration effectively forced banks to spy on their customers.
Now, there has been introduced something called the Fair Access to Banking Act that would prevent banks and payment card networks from discriminating against people based on their politics.
Now, I happen to have been a victim of that insofar as New Century Foundation, the parent organization of American Renaissance, has been unable to process credit cards.
Oh, it must be for three or four years now.
And we even lost our bank accounts a time or two.
We had to scurry around like mad because, again, imagine, no bank account.
You can't pay people.
You can't receive payment.
You can't pay your riders in potatoes.
You can't get donations.
Well, you could get donations in gold bars, I suppose.
But if you have a bank account, if you don't have a bank account, not much you can do with those gold bars.
In any case, this is a real problem, and I am delighted to see that the Senate Banking Committee is trying to push through a law that would make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of any kind of political position.
It's about time.
I'm so glad you brought this up because a friend of mine has been a victim of this as well, and there's a new organization called OldGloryBank.com.
It's been started by four conservatives, Ben Carson being one of them.
And they, for this very specific reason, they are making themselves available saying, come here, we will not discriminate against you for your political beliefs, the Orwellian move that Biden did by eliminating people from the public square, as we've discussed.
But Old Glory Bank is up and running.
Larry Elder, Ben Carson.
The founder, I believe, is John Rich.
And I believe they testified before the banking committee that you spoke of yesterday on the 5th.
So there is hope.
There is a place for us to go.
It might be something for people who have been a victim of this to look at.
Let us hope that it will never be a problem again.
If these laws are actually passed and enforced.
Another spark of hope.
And this is something that absolutely shocked the New York Times when it reported on this.
Darren Beattie, he's the founder of Revolver News.
He has been appointed as acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.
And I imagine what he considers to be public diplomacy is going to be very, very different.
From what it was under Joe Biden, with all of this trans this and gender fluid that, and Beattie, who will manage the department's messaging and relationship with foreign populations, he has a history of what the New York Times calls incendiary comments, including a tweet from October 24th in which he wrote, competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.
Well, what an idea.
What an idea.
Well, so congratulations, Darren Beattie, and I hope that is the message that you'll be sending to South Africa.
I hope that's the message that you'll be sending all around the world.
Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.
Actually, this should not be a message that the U.S. State Department has to convey.
All you need to do is open your eyes.
You can see for yourself.
But as is so often the case, the truth that's obvious to you and me is...
Often lost on others.
Now, Officer John, I think you have a story that surprised even me.
And I'm hard to surprise these days.
And that has to do with the fact that these days, if you want to be a teacher in New Jersey, you don't even have to pass the literacy test.
Right.
I went to a Catholic school.
A vast majority of my classmates became teachers and are now administrators and principals.
I work with someone who's a current teacher.
And, you know, when I first...
I started considering a career path.
I consider teaching because it's something that betters the country.
You use your knowledge.
There's nothing more rewarding than passing knowledge on to our youth.
But it's a very difficult process.
You have to obtain a bachelor's degree in either education or English.
And then you have to get your teaching credential, which is years and years of training.
And then you finally get the privilege of teaching children.
But there's a strange phenomenon going on.
It's a teacher shortage.
Hmm.
I can't imagine why.
I don't think it's the people's motivation to help children.
I think it's because teachers are being physically attacked.
They're being cut down at the knees.
They're not allowed to, you know, honors programs have been eliminated.
The SAT is no longer administered.
Grades are not counted.
It doesn't matter if you're truant or tardy.
They're not allowed to give Fs anymore.
You get 50% just for being alive, I suppose.
So the standards of our schools, coast to coast, We're good to go.
The basic literacy, math, and writing skills test to become a teacher.
So do you think that they're going to lower the standards for the college education as well, or are they just getting rid of this possibly redundant test?
No.
It's something that certain teachers who are getting degrees in, I don't know, black studies or black victimization, they've got their bachelor's degree in these ridiculous areas who want to be teachers.
And the shortage is so bad that they'll just take anybody.
Now, you and I both know that garbage in, garbage out.
If you have a teacher that can't read, a teacher that doesn't understand the basics of math, and you put them in front of a class of students who are on their cell phones, who aren't expected to show up on time, who aren't expected to even attend, who don't even have to turn in their work at all, and they'll be graduated through.
And do you think that is going to make our youth, the people who will be taking care of us in the next 20 years, the next generation, the people who will be taking care of our country, running the governments, running the cities, do you think that's going to make them more intelligent or less intelligent?
It's only going to get worse.
They are just shoehorning people in based on how they look, or they're taking any warm body, because much like the law enforcement profession, people cannot get out fast enough.
Do you know anything about whether or not they're going to have to take any kind of qualification test, or has the test just been completely eviscerated?
What's the story of that?
Surely they must have qualifications of some kind.
Do you know anything about the details there?
The article I have says, for states to drop standards without replacing them with another meaningful measure of academic aptitude...
Doesn't do anyone a favor in the long term.
Well, duh.
So they're making it easier to become a teacher.
So why would a candidate applying to be a teacher go to a preparation program needed to meet additional requirements like a basic skills assessment that they've already met?
For admission to the university.
Now that just begs the question, do you really think that a major in black history studies makes you more literate?
Or do you think that people are just getting pushed through, like a factory, a money-making machine, here's a degree, you're completely illiterate, but here's a degree, and they simply just can't pass it.
Much like the air traffic controller test and the written test for police officers will go the way of the dodo.
Alas, for the poor children of New Jersey.
In the meantime, there's an interesting story about the Obama Presidential Center.
That is the name of what's going to be the Obama Presidential Library.
There's someone by the name of Robert McGee.
He is one of our African-American fellow citizens.
He is the owner of something called 2-in-1.
It provided concrete and rebar services for the construction of the Obama presidential center.
Well, he is suing Thornton Tomasetti.
That is the company that oversaw structural engineering and design for this $830 million presidential library project.
Well, Mr. McGee claims that Thornton Tomasetti, the structural engineer, changed standards and imposed new rules.
About rebar spacing and tolerance requirements.
And McGee has sued.
Well, Thornton Tomasetti, structural engineer, defended its actions, writing in a memo that the subcontractors were questionably qualified and the delays were due to their own incompetence.
Mr. McGee is wanting to be paid back for roughly $40 million in construction costs that the firm had to cover.
Along with its joint venture partner, the Concrete Collective.
That sounds mighty lefty and iffy to me.
Would you contract out to something called the Concrete Collective?
I'd think twice about that.
And Mr. McGee says, In a shocking and disheartening turning event, the African-American owner of a local construction company finds himself, namely McGee, and his company on the brink of forced closure because of racial discrimination by the structural engineer.
Well, the structural engineer says that construction costs and delays, quote, were all unequivocally driven by the underperformance and inexperience of the contractor.
Thomas Tomasetti, the structural engineer, then published images of cracked concrete slabs and concrete that is peeled off so much you can actually see the rebar.
A picture is really worth a thousand words.
Thornton Tomasetti says it spent hundreds of hours reviewing, analyzing, redesigning, and responding to correct the work that the contractor caused in what Thomas Tomasetti says, a multitude of problems in the field.
We cannot stand by while contractors attempt to blame their own shortcomings on the design team.
And again, if you were to look this up, you can see photographs that are really eye-popping.
You cannot imagine that any competent concrete firm would think that what is in those photographs is acceptable.
So, I'm afraid...
It's going to delay the construction of the Obama Presidential Center, and it may raise its cost.
And in the meantime, these people who are screaming racism are probably going to be shown up in court, if it even gets that far, as the incompetent complainers that they are.
If I can add to that just very quickly, I know we're running out of time.
Let's say they did.
They just ignored the structural flaws in that and they built this building and had the ribbon cutting and everything and hundreds of people went into this Obama library and it collapsed, killing and crushing hundreds of people.
They would say, well, at least we weren't racist.
And as we celebrate Black History Month, this kind of leads me to understand why in the history of the African continent, the native inhabitants of the Dark Continent have yet to construct a building over two stories tall.
Wait, wait, wait.
They didn't do that until the white men showed up.
They've been building buildings that are many stories.
Hi, with the help of the Chinese and Americans and the Dutch and English.
But in any case, no, they were not known for structural engineering.
Let's see.
Oh, a little note about West Point.
This is a self-congratulatory dispatch in Essence magazine.
It says there are 32 black women expected to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
And this is the largest group of black women to do so in the institutions.
216 year history.
Hooray!
Well, oh yes, this is something to be celebrated.
32 black women.
And there is a cadet named Tiffany Welch Baker with one of those double-barreled names that black people seem to love.
Tiffany Welch Baker.
She says, my hope when young black girls see the photographs of the 32 black women.
That they will understand that regardless of what life prevents you, you have the ability and fortitude to be a force to be reckoned with.
She says, in just a short while, I met so many cadets that looked like me and offered me some comfort.
So she is one of 32 black women and she is celebrating the fact that they will now become officers.
They will graduate.
Now, I saw this photograph.
It really is an extraordinary thing.
They're wearing their snazzy West Point uniforms.
They've all got that sword.
They're waving their swords around.
And I thought to myself, boy, oh boy, if only they had been leading the charge at Tarawa or on Iwo Jima, man, we would have whipped the Japs, oh, years earlier than we did.
Wouldn't you agree, Officer John?
And are we expected to believe that they passed the rigorous physical requirements for West Point?
I mean, climbing the rope, getting over the six-foot wall.
You said it right there.
They're officer candidates, so they're not going to be strapping on the Kevlar and the helmet, rushing into the fray, shoulder to shoulder with their brothers, fighting the enemy.
They're going to be in the rear.
Trying to pretend they know how to direct men into combat, and lives will be lost because of it.
And this is all because of social piety, because we want to say, well, at least we've got 25 blacks or 32 blacks.
They can't say the army's racist.
32 black women.
And we prefer death over being called racist.
So here it is again, social piety, the most valuable capital on the planet, even at the risk of our soldiers' lives.
I think we have time for one more little story here.
And it has to do with Indians living in the United States.
The Indian government has identified 18,000 citizens of India living in the United States illegally.
And what it wants to do is repatriate them in a bid to ease pressure from Donald Trump.
The Indian government will collaborate with the US authorities to suss out these illegal immigrants.
And give them deportation orders in order to demonstrate a willingness to work closely with the Trump administration and, of course, to protect legal immigration visas for Indians.
Now, they have found 18,000 of them, but the number of Indian illegals is likely to be far higher.
According to the Pew Research Center, there are an estimated 725,000 illegal Indians in the United States.
725,000!
I would have had no idea.
That would make them the third largest group of border hoppers after Mexico and El Salvador.
I would have thought maybe China would be up there, but no, it's Indians these days.
Now, of course, this offer to identify and take back Indian immigrants was described as an attempt to placate Donald Trump.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen as having a close personal relationship with the Donald and the pair regularly refer to each other as "great friends".
Well, what do you know?
However, the US president has also made it clear that there could be steep trade tariffs for India.
If it does not cooperate, and that would be crippling for India.
And of course, the Modi government is desperate to avoid any trade conflicts.
And what is perhaps most important about this is the Indian government is absolutely determined to protect the status of the H-1B visa.
And we know that about 70% of the, I believe, it is about 250,000 H-1Bs that are issued every year.
70 to 75 percent of them go to India.
So they want the gravy train to keep going.
They want to keep coming into the United States, undercutting American tech workers.
And so they are kindly offering to take back some of the illegals who are already in the United States.
Well, I guess the idea is scratch your back and you scratch mine.
I don't want any more of them here, but at least.
It's a recognition that Trump is going to take no nonsense for people to refuse to take their illegals back.
And I don't know about you, but I'm a little more concerned with the fact that the Civil War du jour that's going on over in Haiti, for whatever the 17th ideation of the Civil War, warlords, cannibalism, starvation, stealing the USA, the food, just as we discussed in the beginning of the show, did you know 5% 5% of Haiti's population has already been brought over to the United States.
5%.
Oh, that sounds about right.
I'm surprised it's not more than 5%.
I remember seeing a figure with either Guatemala or El Salvador, 15% of the entire population was living in the United States.
These people who, of course, come over here and they complain how racist and awful America is.
Well, somehow they all want to live with these racist, awful American white people.
And when you catch them and you want to send them home, they absolutely hate it because they'd rather be amongst us racist white people than back home with their brothers and sisters.
Very strange.
Let's lash together a pile of buoyant detritus and float over to America so that we can be oppressed.
What a great idea.
That's right.
Well, let's see.
I don't think we have any more nice short stories that we could fit into the remaining time.
So, I guess...
I could do the license plate readers in two minutes if you'd like.
Well, make it a minute and a half.
Okay, so Roanoke, Virginia.
You know, you have red light cameras and there's cameras in intersections.
Those are used, dispatchers and police dispatchers can see the intersections so they know if there's a crash there.
So they want to get rid of the license plate readers because it has a disparate impact on the black population.
And they're under the impression that the cameras are used to follow people to their doctor's office or what church they attend, as if there's some type of a drone following them as they pass through the intersection.
That technology is used to...
To see if an accident has occurred, to see if a homicide suspect has gone through, to see if a theft or other criminal suspect has gone through, and that they're trying to tell us that it's being used to violate HIPAA and religious freedom, instead of just saying it has a disparate impact on black people, it's catching too many black murderers, it's a surveillance state, and nothing could be further from the truth, but they come up with these red herring, ridiculous excuses for getting rid of it.
It's another societal regression that keeps us safe, but we have to get rid of it because...
Sorry.
So what's going on is these are simply the cameras that are at intersections, and they're the ones that take the picture if you run a red light, and they get your license plate, and they send you a ticket.
It's not as though these things move around and follow people.
It's just when you're going through the intersection, right?
Right.
They expect us to believe that there's a whole control room with officers monitoring who goes through and follow that car to see what church they go through or follow that car to see what doctor they go through.
In what city are they spouting this nonsense?
It's Roanoke, Virginia.
And it's just like anything else.
The BART camera in San Francisco was removed.
Facial recognition technology is banned.
Anything with a disparate impact, instead of addressing the behavior, We invent or eliminate technology to address it.
We will never address the Occam's Razor answer to what's behind it all.
Okay.
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we have come to the end of our allotted time.
It is an honor and a pleasure and a joy to be with you.
And we look forward to spending this time with you next week.
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