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Feb. 13, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Ten Days Until German Elections

Jared Taylor and Officer John wonder how much the Germans will take before they vote “extreme right.” The hosts also discuss Eric Adams, Natasha Hodge, CECOT, and sky-high morale at ICE. Thumbnail credit: © Imago via ZUMA Press

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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 guest co-host, Officer John Patterson.
	And today is February 13th, just one day before Valentine's Day.
	Auto Domini 2025. And as usual, we will begin with listener comments.
	A listener writes in to say, is there any realistic hope for a repeal and replacement of the 1965 Immigration Act under the current administration?
	I suspect most of our listeners know, but that was the law that overturned decades and decades, really, generations of an immigration policy that was designed to keep the United States European.
	Our listener goes on to say, Now, the Lake and Riley Act was one in which a few Democrats...
	I don't see it happening.
	Under Donald Trump.
	Perhaps.
	Perhaps not.
	But that would be such a remarkable change.
	That would be an admission that the United States made a huge mistake in opening the country up.
	to immigration from all around the world and not just Europe.
	That, of course, is the way a lot of people feel, but I don't think we could get Congress, a majority of Congress, to vote that.
	Even people who, in their heart of hearts, know that the United States was built as a European country, they're more comfortable with it being a European country, I think most of them, a lot of them, would have a hard time facing their constituents and a hard time facing the liberal press.
	That may be even more of a bother than the Constituents that they'd have to worry about.
	So I think it'd be a great thing.
	It's on my wish list, but I don't see it happening this term.
	And if it happens, it might very well have to happen in the first two years, because if midterm elections fit the usual pattern, it's possible that Donald Trump could lose his majority.
	And that would be a tough thing.
	I would like for him to pick up fights that are winnable.
	I mean, as you're alluding to, that would be stuck in a quagmire for years, and who knows if the next election would just undo it.
	So I want to pick fights that we can fight.
	And if for this listener that the good news that came out recently is don't Mr. President Trump has awarded South African inhabitants refugee status because of the kill the boar, the undeniable genocide that's going on in South Africa right now.
	And I've often bellowed on my program where all the South African refugees and so hopefully we can get some of that going.
	I think probably the best we can get under the administration is just a across the board cut on legal immigration.
	That would be a great start.
	Let's see.
	Next comment.
	I am a dissident right white advocate, but I don't have a name for myself in our circles.
	I would say I'm an original thinker with many new ideas to contribute to our movement.
	That said, what realistic advice would you give to someone like me who wants to get involved as a thinker and a writer?
	Well, I think it's pretty simple.
	The barriers to entry as someone who has a following on Twitter, for example, now known, of course, as X or a YouTube channel.
	If you really are as smart and original as you say, there is nothing stopping you.
	From starting a video channel, a Twitter account, and really making your ideas known.
	The other option, of course, is to write up your brilliant ideas and send them to American Renaissance.
	That's amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com.
	And if they're really good, we'll publish them.
	If you continue to write great stuff, that would be a good point of departure to establish your own platform in your own social account.
	And if I can add one thing, I'm sorry, Mr. Taylor.
	Colin Flaherty always used to say, you know, people would ask him, what can I do?
	And his answer was always, do what you can.
	And we all have livelihoods to protect.
	It's, you know, Mr. Taylor and I were joking about being meerkats, peeking up.
	Is it safe to speak my mind yet?
	And the glorious return of Mr. Taylor to Twitter is a testament that we're possibly taking a step in the right direction.
	But I would never want to give anybody any advice that would, you know, put you in risk of being doxxed.
	Because believe it or not...
	There are people out there who that is their life's mission to find you, identify you, dox you, and ruin your life.
	So if that's a possibility, if losing your livelihood is something that is a risk you're taking, I would take the advice of Mr. Taylor and just submit what you can.
	Well, you can submit it under your own name if you choose or not if you choose.
	We have a 30 year tradition of publishing people who have to write under pseudonyms.
	And we have never, ever broken any kind of confidentiality as far as that's concerned.
	Last comment here.
	On Facebook, comments are being taken over by conservatives.
	I looked on reactions to various NPR stories, and it seems 50 to 60% of comments skew conservative.
	That was not the case in the dark Biden years.
	Facebook had moderators who would boot you if you said naughty things.
	I told my brother about this.
	He said, yeah, liberals aren't used to conservatives getting to express their views, and many are abandoning Facebook and X and going to blue sky.
	Now, I hope that's correct, and I would be very curious to hear from listeners.
	Have any of you seen any marked change in the way Facebook handles dissident commentary?
	I do know that immediately after the election, our favorite owner, Mark Zuckerberg, yes, why does his name escape me?
	Mark Zuckerberg said, well, it looks like according to the voters' preference, we will move away from censorship.
	And maybe, maybe, in fact, Facebook has.
	I certainly hope that's the case.
	But if any of you out there in listener land have observed any kind of remarkable change, we'd love to hear about it.
	It is interesting to me that liberals, such as they are, I think that's a mistaken word, progressives, whoever they are, loonies.
	They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it.
	And it's true.
	As soon as they get any kind of negative commentary, they run away.
	I don't know much about this blue sky thing, but apparently that's a kinder and gentler version of X. That's where the liberals go to feel good, massage each other's egos and agree how awful we are.
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, we do love to hear from you.
	And if you have any observations or commentary on stories you'd like to hear from us or any reactions to the stories you've heard, and especially if we ever get anything wrong, I love to be corrected because I hate the idea of disseminating mistaken information.
	So the way to get in touch is to go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, where you will find all sorts of interesting things, but you can also find the Contact Us tab, and there you can find a way to get a message straight to me.
	Now, this is something that happened just today, or at least it was several hours ago in Munich, Germany.
	At least 20 people have been left injured after a Mini Cooper, that's a small British vehicle, plowed through a crowd of 1,000 strikers.
	A Mini Cooper plowed through.
	It sounds as though it was unmanned somehow.
	Of course, it was driven by a 24-year-old Afghan man who was an asylum seeker.
	His application had just been rejected.
	Obviously, a very wise choice not to accept this guy.
	And they should probably boot those swine the day they issue the rejection notice for fear of some kind of reaction like this.
	In any case, among the 20 people left injured, a mother pushing her child in a pram.
	Was one of those wounded.
	I believe I saw recently that one person had died as a result of this attack.
	But after the car was stopped, police wrestled this guy to the ground for he shouted Allah at the top of his lungs.
	Energetic guy.
	Now, I'm very surprised that it was a Mini Cooper.
	That's a small vehicle.
	You'd think you'd have had the brains to rent some giant SUV or rent a minivan and fill it with dirt.
	So you'd have a much more effective battering ram.
	But in any case, these people were peaceably striking for better pay.
	I believe they were city workers in the city of Munich.
	And so we have this lovely, unfortunate gift to the AFD. The AFD is the Alternative for Deutschland.
	The federal elections in Germany are coming up in 10 days.
	Immigration is a very, very hot number one subject, and this will put further wind in the sails of the one party, the AFD, that thinks Germany should be for Germans.
	And this, of course, comes just weeks after a Saudi Arabian drove a car into a Christmas market.
	He killed two and left nearly 70 injured.
	He had a much larger and better battery ram.
	And there have been who knows how many knife attacks.
	And so I would think that if Germans had any, any backbone at all, they would vote overwhelmingly for the AFD. But of course, for decades after the war, they've been beaten down.
	They've been told that they are the heirs of Nazism.
	They must never, ever be proud to be Germans.
	Let's hope that that's finally changed.
	Ten days from now, ladies and gentlemen, keep your eyes on the German elections and let us hope that the AFD does well.
	Now, I suspect because of incidents like this, that AFD will be better than pollsters predict, unless they have already calculated in a certain effect of people who don't want to go on record as supporting what's called an extreme right party.
	And let's hope that in the privacy of the voting booth, they will really vote their heart and vote for Germany.
	And I've often mentioned on, I'm sorry, my program that there are, Some European country has to be the canary in the coal mine to take that first step, to finally elect someone that says, you know, we'd like for Germany to, you know, retain our culture.
	We understand the Paul of 1933 to 1945 that we will never recover from.
	But at some point...
	One European nation just has to be just the very first one to say, hey, look, this is how we're going to do it, whether it be their immigration practices or the way they enforce their laws or the way they allow their people to speak their minds about the process of their government and their country.
	And, I mean, if it happens to be Germany, one of the nations that's being so browbeaten by their past, that would be a great sign.
	I've got a story coming up about France.
	I think the winds are moving definitely in a sensible and nationalistic direction in Europe.
	And these are very encouraging days for identitarians and nationalists.
	Now, needless to say, the BBC, the British Broadcasting Company, which is supposed to be a representation of the voice of Britain, but has been taken over by lefties years and years ago, is very worried about the AFD. It explains to us 60% of young men under 30 would consider voting for the AFD. 60%.
	That's good.
	Platforms like TikTok allow political groups to bypass mainstream traditional media.
	Oh my gosh, this is terrifying, of course, to the BBC, which considers itself mainstream media.
	My gosh, they can't control the information flow anymore.
	They say that the AFD dominates TikTok.
	It has 540,000 followers on its parliamentary account compared to only 158,000.
	That's about a third, I guess, for the SPD, the Social Democrats, who have the most seats in Parliament.
	And it's not just the official accounts, but many unofficial fan accounts are helping disseminate the party's point of view.
	That's, of course, because the party is correct.
	Immigration is a terrible threat.
	Other parties have noticed sites such as TikTok, too late, according to the BBC. Oh, the poor dears, which means they're playing catch-up.
	Now, the label of far-right is rejected by the supporters of the AFD, including party leader Alice Vidal.
	She says that she heads a conservative libertarian movement.
	This is BBC talk.
	They go on to say, speaking to people in Germany, It's clear that support of the AFD is not just some sort of protest vote.
	You see, the BBC is astonished that people think they actually want the AFD in power.
	How can that be?
	How can these people want proto-Nazis in power?
	Oh my gosh!
	They believe that AFD could set Germany on the right path.
	And of course, as soon as more mainstream parties start giving up this firewall idea or cordoning off, The AFD, no matter how many representatives it has in a lander parliament, a state parliament, or in the federal parliament, then very quickly its ideas are going to become mainstream.
	It's very important to, I mean, the key case, it was from June of 2024, there was a...
	A refugee that raped a German woman and a completely uninvolved German woman.
	I believe she only gave a thumbs up or said, you should be ashamed of yourself.
	So nothing overtly hateful, no calls for violence, nothing that could be deemed illegal.
	And she was given a harsher prison sentence than the rapist himself.
	So as you're speaking about these people, the followers and the comments, I suppose we should pay attention to...
	Or is the government going to continue to imprison and vilify her own citizens who express themselves?
	This was an interesting case, if I recall the details.
	These were underage Afghans or Middle Easterners who had absolutely treated some German girl terribly.
	They had raped her repeatedly.
	They passed her around.
	And their identities were held...
	Or held in confidence because that's the way the justice system works in Germany.
	Then some Germans had sleuthed around and found out who these people were.
	And then there was, and not a single one of them went to prison.
	Not one.
	Right.
	Because they were considered too young.
	And there was a lady judge who said, well, they've had trouble integrating.
	They're sexually frustrated.
	German girls aren't nice to them.
	And so we have to pat them on the head and say, oh, please don't do this.
	And then there was a German woman.
	I can't remember what rather rude things she said about these guys, but she had a...
	Okay, you have it right there.
	Well, she ended up, I believe, either actually going to prison or she had to do some kind of, I think she had to do public service.
	In any case, she was actually published, punished more severely than these creeps who had taken advantage of this girl, passed her around and raped her repeatedly.
	Now, this has got to end and the AFD wins, or if it really does well, it's absolutely got to end.
	Correct.
	Her evil words were disgraceful rapist pig and disgusting freak.
	And just like one of the first questions you read, there are people out there who will try to find you for social piety to call you out on this type of behavior.
	And Mr. Taylor's right.
	The 15-year-old rapists were given no prison time due to their quote-unquote age.
	And the woman that tweeted was given a weekend in jail.
	There you go.
	That's modern-day justice in we will apologize forever for Nazism, Germany.
	Now, the BBC goes on to say there are people in Germany and Europe who view the far right as an extremist, even anti-democratic force.
	But it appears that the normalization effect is working, at least among the young.
	The question I sometimes have is older people who have seen and lived in Germany before this horrible invasion of Africans and Muslims, they should be the ones who know what has been taken from them and should be the most active.
	It's interesting to me that the younger ones who are the most active in trying to preserve a Germany that many of them never even knew.
	But there you go.
	Maybe the older ones.
	They have been browbeaten for longer.
	They've been brainwashed for longer.
	They've been emasculated for longer.
	And maybe it takes a younger generation to put some kind of sense of being German back into their bones.
	Well, Officer John, I believe you have what sounds like a rather unusual case of what you could call a custody dispute in Michigan.
	Could you please unravel this weird mystery about which I had heard nothing until you called it to my attention?
	So I briefly glossed over it in my program, and I was kind of unhappy that I had done so.
	And the reason was because the information was so scattered and ambiguous and left so much out.
	I literally gathered bits and pieces from at least 10 different news stories.
	So I will succinctly sum up how this happened.
	There was a couple in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
	Two years prior, they had decided they were going to be foster parents.
	So it was Jennifer Bernard and her husband, Jeffrey Bernard.
	And they also had Miss Bernard's father living with them.
	He was a 74-year-old man.
	Now, the Bernards had their own biological 9-year-old daughter there living.
	And when they decided they wanted to be foster parents, they took in a 4-year-old black female child.
	I'm sure she was – they don't say much about why she was removed, but I'm guessing it was unsanitary living conditions, abuse, whatever the foster – whatever children are fostered for.
	So on New Year's Day 2025, there was a knock on the door and three suspects, including Siobhan Vinson, age 42, who was the biological mother of the four-year-old black girl that the Bernards had taken in as a foster child. who was the biological mother of the four-year-old black girl She was there with two other black males and they began pistol whipping the husband and wife and the father-in-law and placed them face down in the living room.
	Their first order of business was to take their phones and start transferring bank money over into the suspect accounts.
	Of course, that was their first step.
	And then as they decided they were done with...
	They went there with the guise of quote-unquote rescuing the four-year-old black girl.
	So as they got up to leave, they shot and killed the father-in-law, the 74-year-old, shot him in the head.
	They shot and killed the wife.
	It shot her in the head and then shot the husband in the face near his eye and in the side in the presence of the nine-year-old biological child and the four-year-old foster child.
	They fled.
	They took both girls, the nine-year-old biological child and the four-year-old foster child and the family dog and fled.
	So the nine-year-old is a white girl and the four-year-old is the biological black child.
	Of the suspect, yes.
	Yes, yes, that's right.
	Black child of the suspect, yeah.
	Okay.
	So they bashed down the door, shot them up, thought they murdered him.
	Somehow the father of the nine-year-old lived after having his eyes shot out, crawled over to the neighbor and was able to call police.
	Well, thankfully, the suspects stole the telephones of the decedents and the person that lived.
	And we have this technology where we can ping, P-I-N-G, the phone.
	If there are children in danger, like if an Amber Alert, we can show what tower that phone is pinging off of, and that helps us locate the suspect, or at least the phone.
	So thankfully, the police worked diligently after, you know, a 19-year-old veteran said it was the first homicide he had ever investigated at this particular agency, so that tells you something.
	A 19-year veteran.
	I think he's a 19-year-old, but anyway.
	I'm sorry, 19-year-old veteran.
	19-year veteran.
	Correct.
	That was his first homicide there.
	Thankfully, they found the car with the two male suspects and the female suspect and the nine-year-old white girl.
	During the arrest, the female, who was obviously the ringleader, the orchestrator of this, spat on the officers and attempted to arm herself with presumably the murder weapon as she was being taken into custody.
	And they admitted in an interview that their plan was to – they had this nine-year-old white girl that they had kidnapped.
	Their plan was to sell her for cash.
	Sell her.
	And the four-year-old black female that was the biological child of the suspect was found approximately a mile away at the suspect's mother's home.
	The biggest question that's being raised now is the anonymity of people who choose to take in foster children.
	And, I mean, we don't dive into conjecture on this program, obviously, but it was either, you know, the suspect knew somebody that worked in the health services that told her, or the foster family was one of those families that said, oh, we don't want her to lose touch with her biological mother.
	Here's where we live.
	Call any time.
	The original thing they did, they went in there, pistol whipped, and robbery.
	First they had to steal the money from the phones, and then they kidnapped these children.
	Now, if the police hadn't pinged the phone, hadn't been so diligent in recovering, this poor nine-year-old girl was going to be sold off to friends of these suspects.
	A fate that could be, I mean, could not even be imagined.
	And unfortunately, she watched her mother be shot dead, her grandfather be shot dead, and watched her father be shot.
	But he lived miraculously.
	So she gets to live with that.
	But that story was just glossed.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	That is quite a story.
	I had certainly never heard of it.
	This has really been low-key local news.
	And I believe I saw some record of this black woman, the biological mother, during her arraignment.
	All she did was swear.
	Yes, she screamed.
	It was a Zoom meeting, for lack of a better term, an online arraignment.
	And she was screaming and using profanity and alluding to the fact that the foster family was somehow harming her four-year-old and her, I suppose, her...
	The choice to rectify it by breaking down the door, shooting everyone, and kidnapping her daughter was the best idea, but it seems that she was just completely unhinged.
	One of the male defendants refused to even appear for his arraignment.
	I didn't know that was an option, so we're still waiting for that, and they're telling us that the next court appearance will be in February, so maybe we'll get the entire story.
	Wow, what a gruesome business.
	Now, I gather from what you said that ordinarily, foster parents, well, let's see, biological parents do not know where their child has been placed into a foster home.
	And so it was unusual that this crazy, unhinged black mother was able to find out where her four-year-old daughter was actually living.
	Is that correct?
	Correct.
	And they know their child is going into a foster home, but you can both think of a million reasons why they shouldn't know where.
	Yes.
	And so what the different news outlets I checked are alluding to is that either this was one of the families that was open and said, hey, here's where she is.
	Feel free to come by any time, which is possible.
	If you watch the interviews with the family, you can see that they're a Christian family.
	They're trying to do what they think is the best thing.
	Or there was some type of corruption or lack of attention to detail that leaked it, correct?
	Well, I will count on you to pay attention to this, and you can bring our listeners up to date.
	Wait as this unfolds.
	What a gruesome, awful story.
	Well now, I have a report from the Daily Mail from the first outside journalist to tour El Salvador's terrorism confinement center, as it's called.
	Its acronym is CICOT in Spanish.
	That's where they hold all those arrested gang members.
	And this reporter says, I can imagine no greater torment than being consigned to Seacott with no hope of ever being released.
	Like the inmates here whose sentences range from 60 years to more than a thousand years.
	Boy, that'll keep them in.
	Death would be more immersive.
	This is a thought that might concentrate the minds of the violent U.S. criminals and migrants Don Trump aims to banish here.
	Under the terms of an agreement.
	With El Salvador's president.
	Now that particular agreement hasn't worked out yet.
	There apparently are legal problems to sending U.S. citizens at any rate for imprisonment overseas.
	But it would be a great place to send any illegals who deserve the worst sort of treatment.
	That says it's one of the world's biggest prisons, a capacity of 40,000.
	Built two years ago amid this crackdown, the famous crackdown on gangs that was really destroying Salvadoran society.
	And the reporter notes that as the heavy gates clang behind them and they are x-rayed by sophisticated machines, these gangsters still bristle with machismo.
	Within a few days, however, they're behaving as obediently as laboratory beagles.
	Every shed of defiance and ego stripped away.
	The total acquiescence I witnessed is achieved by enforcing an ultra hard regime.
	Having visited the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay and the Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela was held, I can assure you this is much harsher.
	He goes on to say, you don't have any books or writing material.
	You can hardly interact with other prisoners.
	You get no fresh air.
	You can't communicate with family members.
	No visits.
	Nothing.
	He says, Yes, they are permitted to speak only to each other and only in whispers.
	Conversations with outsiders such as me and the sinister-looking Darth Vader clones who guard their cages in visored black helmets.
	And riot gear, any kind of conversation is forbidden.
	And the photographs of these guards, they're all carrying what looked like fully automatic rifles, M16s.
	And they've got these very fierce-looking black uniforms.
	And you can't see their faces because their visors are down.
	Some of them carry shields around with them.
	And this journalist is on to say, these prisoners will never again smell fresh air or see natural daylight.
	They're fed three meals a day in their cells, rice, beans, pasta, and one boiled egg.
	Their water is rationed by guards who hand it to them, and they all use a communal lavatory.
	Now, most of these prisoners are, I'm sorry, they're from the gang that Mr. Trump, in his first term that he served in, the gang is Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13.
	Yes, Mara Salvatrucha.
	Yes.
	Mara Salvatrusha, I believe is how I pronounce it.
	In any case, MS-13, yeah.
	And that apparently is another famous El Salvador gang.
	And they deliberately mix them up because they have to get along with each other.
	Too bad.
	Ordinarily on the outside, they'd slit each other's throats.
	Here, they whisper sweet nothings in each other's ears.
	Now, they are permitted to scuttle out of their cages only when they are shackled hand and foot with their heads bowed low.
	Maybe you've seen videos or photographs of this.
	Whenever they're running around, they wear these white trunks.
	And that's all.
	They're all bare-chested, bare-backed.
	They wear these little white, I don't know, look like white bathing suits almost.
	And they scuttle around with their heads all bent low.
	And they are evacuated when the guards...
	Charge into their modules, brandishing their automatic weapons, and they do a forced intervention, and they search their monks for whatever might be hidden there.
	I doubt there's much they can hide.
	And while this is going on, they crouch on the floor in perfect rows, with their legs wrapped tightly around the man in front of them, and their heads pressed against his bare back, almost like a human jigsaw puzzle.
	Perhaps you've seen photographs of that, too.
	I've seen photographs from up on the higher levels of the prison.
	You've got, what, maybe 200 or 300 prisoners all packed together like that.
	In dorm-like conditions where there's no individual cells.
	We're talking about everyone is just loose.
	Nope.
	Everybody is in a dormitory.
	Now, they sit cross-legged on the spotless floor for a daily 30-minute Bible reading.
	And it's followed by a calisthenics session, so they don't want to turn them into fat slobs.
	And for anyone foolish enough to break the rules, there is a windowless punishment cell, furnished only with a stone slab and a toilet.
	So you're in the dark.
	All you've got is a stone slab and a toilet.
	Apparently the maximum permitted detention period is 15 days, anything beyond about a week, and people go crazy.
	Says this journalist, if they die here, as inevitably they will, years could pass before their relatives are informed, if they are ever informed.
	President Nayib Bukele has banned tombstones for these people because they might glorify their memory.
	And any existing ones he had smashed with sledgehammers.
	And, of course, this has been effective.
	In 2015, That's just 10 years ago, El Salvador was the world's murder capital.
	106 killings for every 100,000 people.
	That is a rate more than 100 times higher than that of Great Britain, which is where this journalist is from.
	The worst day was in March 2022, when 87 people were butchered in a single weekend.
	However, now the murder rate of El Salvador is one of the lowest in the world.
	It's less than two per 100,000.
	So it went from more, it went from 100, let's see, it was 106,000, 106 per 100,000 down to two.
	For comparison purposes, the US murder rate is five per 100,000.
	And before these mass arrests, the city center was a virtual no-go zone.
	These Horrible people.
	And if you see photographs of the folks who are in this jail, many of them are tattooed all over their face, their torso, their neck, just one look at them.
	And you realize that these are absolute dregs.
	But these people, they completely controlled the downside of San Salvador.
	Businesses had to pay bribes in order to keep from being burned out or shot up.
	And, of course, now it is a hub of burgeoning tourism.
	It has completely transformed the country.
	And a great many El Salvadorans who had escaped their country to come live in the United States are now happily going home.
	Yes.
	The best part is Mr. Trump mentioning the possibility of sending people back.
	I mean, obviously, the Eighth Amendment could be against cruel, unusual punishment.
	It could be his blockade for that.
	But if he was to send illegal migrants down there, that would be a great dissuasion coming over.
	That's right.
	Well, and it's not cruel and unusual in El Salvador.
	So there.
	Of course, Nayib Bukele, the president, is hugely, hugely popular, as we can well imagine.
	Well, Officer John, I understand that morale has soared among ICE agents.
	Do tell us about that.
	Well, I was reading a Newsweek article that said ICE agents' morale extremely high amidst surge and deportations.
	And, you know, it seems like people would like to think that, oh, we've got this new administration.
	They're letting us do their jobs.
	And let's everybody line up to work in this federal agency.
	Maybe it'll trickle down into local law enforcement.
	Maybe everyone will say, oh, law enforcement, law and order is back.
	Police officers, law enforcement in general across the board are very fickle creatures.
	We tend to hold a grudge.
	If you tell us that we're the problem, if you remove all of our tools to do our job, and if we're indicted for using reasonable force regularly, we're very reluctant to come back.
	Now, I would like to see this as a small step in the right direction.
	I'm going to use police vernacular, but I'll explain it.
	These ICE agents who are kitted out.
	That means in their heavy vest with their long rifle and their helmets and everything.
	They're basically just given targets and they're utilizing their tactical experience to operate and go take the most dangerous of the dangerous and capture them and get the deportation process going.
	Other people do the paperwork.
	So they just get to operate, work, get these targeted individuals and get them out of the country, which is, you know, of course that's going to raise morale.
	But the question is, how long will it last?
	That's their idea of fun, right?
	That's what they're signed up to do.
	That must give them a great feeling.
	You find some horrible guy, a child rapist or somebody who's a murderer, get him out of the country.
	That must feel great.
	Right.
	They went from risking their lives to capture these people only to see them released back out for whatever the previous policies were, and it just completely emasculates and just ruins any love you have for your profession.
	And this is a federal agency we can't forget.
	So the problem is, even though this morale is skyrocketing for the reasons you just mentioned, it can't necessarily trickle down to local law enforcement because...
	As we're seeing in the news, as we're hearing people push back against Donald Trump's policies, the federal government can say, yes, we're going to – we want these detainers.
	But police chiefs and mayors can say, oh, we're not going to cooperate.
	And exactly what I predicted needed to happen is our new attorney general is going after Kathy Hochul and is suing New York, which is a great place to start for their lack of participation, lack of – We're going after the, what is it, 350 to possibly 430 criminal illegal aliens, and obviously that's where we should start.
	But we see these little glimmers of hope.
	ICE morale soars.
	Little things like that might draw the right people back to apply to be law enforcement officers, secret service, whatever.
	But it'll take more than just one good policy that lets ICE agents work hard.
	We're going to have to see changes across the board.
	Well, even the New York Times I saw in an article quoted a Border Patrol agent.
	He says, it feels good to be an agent now.
	He says to go out there and put bad people away.
	That's what we signed up to do.
	Well, good for them.
	I'm sure it must be great.
	You know, I saw a headline according to which enlistment in the armed services has soared.
	Since the transition to the Trump presidency, I really need to look into that a little bit more carefully.
	Maybe I'll do a story on that next time around.
	But that's great to see, too.
	I think when the policies change, people change.
	And just a follow up on what's happening at the border.
	The latest poll finds that 51% of voters want to eliminate birthright citizenship.
	47% want to keep it.
	It's nice to have a majority.
	At least think straight on that.
	I just don't understand the 47%.
	Why?
	Why do they think that any pregnant woman who manages to stagger across the border or flying from China on citizenship anchor baby tourism, why such a person should then drop a citizen makes no sense to me.
	And I'd love to hear someone actually defend it.
	But 47% of Americans want to keep it.
	The aspect of this poll that really surprised me is that 54% of blacks want to end birthright citizenship and 53% of Hispanics.
	In other words, more blacks and Hispanics than whites want to end birthright citizenship.
	I think that's quite remarkable, especially coming from the Hispanics, I suppose.
	Those who are already here, they have seen what a terrible rap they get in the misbehavior of all these people flooding across the border.
	They think it's crazy.
	They want it to change.
	I think that's great.
	And I think those two who oppose it don't understand the birthright citizenship and its relation to chain migration, which is really the anchor.
	Leads the chain out to their home country and brings the entire family over.
	I think they may be stuck in the, oh, if you're born here, you're an American.
	Now, you were talking about these sanctuary cities.
	Well, Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, he's the mayor of what amounts to a sanctuary city.
	But he gathered all of his top commissioners and city officials together on Monday this week to give marching orders about the new administration.
	And they were.
	Don't criticize President Trump.
	And don't interfere with ICE. How about that?
	He scheduled this hour-long meeting after days of confusion over guidance on what to do if ICE comes calling, especially if they arrive at city-owned buildings or schools or hospitals.
	And his orders are, if they got valid ID and the authority to arrest somebody, let them in.
	That's a big change for New York City.
	And he ordered city officials not to post unflattering messages about the president or the federal government on social media.
	Now, why is Eric Adams doing this?
	There are several reasons that are possible.
	He has already threatened to pull federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities.
	And, of course, this guy depends on federal money, and he would hate to see that money go.
	And another mayoral spokesman, a fellow by the name of Liz Garcia, who works for Eric Adams, criticized the Biden administration.
	She said in a lengthy statement, they left New York City largely on its own to manage an international humanitarian crisis.
	So there are cooling heads, even in New York City, the big rotten apple that realized they don't want these people around.
	And if the federal government's going to march in and take them off their hands, God bless them.
	This is a real change for a sanctuary city.
	Now, there could be another reason why the New York City mayor is playing nice with Donald Trump, because he said in December he would look at potentially pardoning Eric Adams, who has a federal corruption trial set to begin in April.
	So this has, of course, speculated, has fueled speculation that he's acting chiefly to get a nice, fat...
	I think both things are probably at work here.
	But there you go.
	Things change when there are reasons, when there are incentives to change.
	And I do think that even for liberals, no matter what kind of fancy talk they preach about how we should let everyone in, we have room for everyone, when it turns out that they are spilling onto the streets, hanging around, and you have to step over them because they're zonked out to get to work.
	They changed their minds.
	And even Eric Adams seemed to be changing his mind and trying to save his skin.
	Well, that's my philosophy.
	We heard about that indictment coming down the pike, and now all of a sudden, poof, it's gone.
	And all of a sudden, he's this common sense mayor after racking up a $938 million budget deficit for the hotels.
	Well, is the indictment, has it dematerialized?
	I wasn't aware that that had happened.
	It came out in the news, and I was ready for the hammer to drop, and all of a sudden he's...
	Oh, so he's off the hook.
	Could be.
	We never know.
	We don't know if that's already happened, or like you said, if he's doing this in preparation for saying, but don't indict me.
	Look at all this.
	I've come to toe the line.
	Well, so you're not sure whether the indictment has been withdrawn?
	No.
	That's very secret.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Now, you had what sounded to me like a mysterious story about Kanye West, otherwise known as Yee, and his strange account deactivations.
	I pay no attention to this guy.
	He strikes me as just, what is he, a tin pot rapper?
	What else does he do?
	He claims to be a fashion designer or something.
	In any case, what's the latest on this Yee character?
	Well, it's funny that he uses his name, Yee, because I believe the name has changed so many times.
	I honestly had to Google what his real name is before this, because I believe there have been at least 10 different ideations of his name.
	Yeezus, Yeezy.
	Anyway, like you said, he's a rapper, fashion mogul, whatever.
	All kinds of money.
	Who knows if he's related to this Diddy thing, the whole...
	Sexual charges and everything.
	But he has been putting up tweets and social media posts that are obviously beyond the pale or pushing the envelope.
	And I don't know if he's just kind of off his rocker, if he's doing it to just kind of stir the pot, to be a troll.
	But he did some – he put a tweet that said something like, I am a Nazi.
	I mean just overtly offensive stuff.
	And then he has this clothing website where – He took all of the items he had for sale off, and then he put up just one shirt with a swastika on it.
	Who knows if he was actually selling it?
	Who knows if it was actually for sale?
	I tend to think it was a troll.
	And then in response, there was an AI video made.
	Where it was a commercial that had been made for – I can't remember what the other cause was.
	Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Simon and Garfunkel, just a bunch of Hollywood and music stars.
	And they all appeared to be wearing shirts that had the graphic of middle finger sticking up with the Star of David in the middle.
	And it said F. Kanye or something like that.
	But that was deemed to be an AI hoax.
	So now the whole thing is stirred up.
	And something as absurd and as unnecessary and as obviously a troll as putting up shirts as a black rapper, putting up shirts that have a swastika on them.
	I mean, that's just – that's beyond the pale.
	And we support free speech, but that's just – I mean, where is he trying to go with that?
	Well, I don't care where he's trying to go, and I don't care how goofy or offensive people think that is.
	He's got the right to sell shirts with swastikas on them.
	He absolutely has that right.
	And he had some website.
	Now, you're telling me he's a fashion mogul.
	He sells all kinds of other allegedly fashionable clothing.
	And he took all that off the shelves and he was selling just this one Swastika product?
	That's pretty interesting.
	And it was interesting to me because this obvious, just kind of a thumbing his nose at everyone, and then people like you who say no vitriol, no swear words, no pejoratives, no racist comments.
	You state your opinion as you should be able to.
	The First Amendment protects speech you don't like, not speech you like.
	Just a pleasure to see all of the material that I'm sent, to see your name on a tweet.
	And it was just, I almost stared at it and I was like, wow, he really is back.
	And then we're kind of waffling on whether or not behavior like this should be removed.
	I'm not waffling.
	I'm not waffling.
	I'm not waffling one bit.
	He can put up as many swastikas.
	He can put up as many, I don't know, what else is supposed to be an offensive thing?
	Cross images of burning crosses.
	Who knows?
	He can even put up the Yankee flag.
	That's the flag wave about people trying to kill my ancestors.
	I don't care what he puts up.
	I'm a real free speech absolutist.
	He's not encouraging people to murder their neighbors, Jewish or otherwise.
	So I was very disappointed to hear that his clothing line has been knocked off the internet.
	Now, where did he have this account?
	Does he have a website that was taken down?
	Surely not.
	Yes, there was a website where he was selling shirts, and then he's got, obviously, his Twitter.
	The website's since been taken down.
	The website's since been taken down.
	Did he take it down?
	Was it forced off?
	Because that's a pretty extreme thing.
	I know of only one guy who's had his website taken down, and that is Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer, which is very anti-Jewish.
	But for a website to be actually jerked off the internet, that's a pretty unusual thing.
	Is that what happened to Yi, or did he just take it down himself, do you know?
	Well, he says, I'm logging out of Twitter.
	That was his last post.
	I appreciate Elon for letting me vent, referring to Elon owning texts and his free speech claims.
	And he said, I would never sell a swastika tea because people could be physically harmed wearing it.
	I love my fans and supporters.
	So some half-hearted retraction.
	Obviously, the ADL and everybody was just completely outraged.
	So he's suggesting that it was all a big joke anyway.
	He would never sell it because people who wore it might be harmed.
	It kind of shows that it was a troll to begin with.
	And in 2022, he was locked out of his ex-account over similar anti-Semitic remarks.
	But it's just things like this that are, you know, and when Zuckerberg said, oh, we're going to do, or Elon said, it's all going to be free speech.
	You know, I talked to my family.
	I said, well, this is going to bring out all of the people that are just going to troll the people who have been stuffed into a corner.
	and it's just going to become an untenable kind of a mess of a platform.
	And just the fact that you're back is a good sign.
	Hopefully we kind of find some happy medium.
	You know, I just I don't care how many, I don't know, pederasts or tranny, outrageous types or Nazis.
	I don't care how many there are on X or on any platform.
	You don't have to follow those people.
	You don't have to follow those people.
	So I really am a free speech absolutist.
	But anyway, no, as I say, there are certain limits.
	You can't incite immediate violence against specific people.
	And you also shouldn't impersonate people or release people's private information.
	That's the way Twitter used to be.
	You could do pretty much anything that was not against the law and was not a copyright violation and was not inciting immediate specific acts of violence, but then they shut that all down.
	That's what they need to get back to.
	But anyway, let's see.
	Now here's a story of one of our African-American fellow citizenesses.
	It has to do with the fact that dozens of people said that they paid a Georgia woman thousands of dollars to get what they hoped were going to be hardship grants.
	And Natasha Hodge, yes, African-American of Atlanta, she's a tax preparer and business owner.
	She promised to help people across several states get these grants.
	She charged more than $10,000 in fees.
	Mary Hoyle.
	She says, it was going to help care for my son.
	She was trying to find a way to afford her son's cancer treatments, but a year and a half later, Hoyle still says she hadn't seen any of her several hundred thousand dollars that was promised her, and she says, my son has passed away.
	Now, Hodge claimed that the grant money would be coming from something called the Black Coalition Foundation.
	And these poor fellow blacks of hers, who she hocus into spending $10,000 each in fees, believed her.
	Now, there is no nonprofit registered with the IRS called the Black Coalition Foundation.
	And Hodge, in the meantime, this grifter has posted many photographs flaunting various luxury items.
	And she gave excuse after excuse during phone calls with her victims.
	The payouts are coming, she would say.
	It's moving faster and faster, she would say.
	Could be any time now.
	And of course, she knew all along it was all just complete baloney.
	Eventually, her excuses turned into threats.
	And she would text some of her angry alleged customers saying, BBL and hair and clothes is all you want.
	Now, I'm not sure what BBL stands for.
	Would you like me to tell you?
	Yes, please.
	That stands for Brazilian butt lift.
	It's kind of like you get similar to breast implants.
	How do you know that?
	You don't have to say.
	Fountain of knowledge, sir.
	Okay.
	BBL and hair and clothes is all you want, she wrote.
	I have a team of attorneys.
	Some people can do what they feel.
	It's only the broke people who are talking shit.
	So that was the way she reacted to those who did not want her to get away with their money.
	So there you go.
	Another fine time.
	It's really, I don't know, blacks talk about how badly they are oppressed and how mean society is.
	And then so often you see blacks who are treating their fellow blacks just in the worst, most exploitative way.
	And here is a good example.
	It's kind of like the in-person Jamaican switch.
	That's all it is.
	Sure enough.
	Now, I believe you wanted to talk about a tweet that I tweeted, or an ex-post that I ex-posted.
	Yes.
	I'll have to...
	I didn't have it up, right?
	Give me one second.
	So, after the Super Bowl...
	Yes, it had to do with the Super Bowl, yes.
	Right.
	So, you know, the Super Bowl, the song...
	This was featured on Mr. Hood's article.
	I would highly recommend people check out.
	But it just talks about how football has been overtaken.
	It's this DEI that.
	There's not enough blacks in football.
	The never-ending grift, like you say.
	As Mr. Hood does in his great articles, he always puts links to the...
	The videos that back up his story.
	And one of my favorites was Serena Williams, the famous female black tennis star, coming up on stage and doing what is known as the Crip Walk.
	I don't know if you know what that is, Mr. Taylor.
	Well, I had never heard of a Crip Walk, but I did watch the video of her.
	It looks like kind of a soft shoe dance, a little fancy footwork, flip, flip, flip, flip.
	But what's so special about the Crip Walk?
	So the Crip Walk, if you notice, she's also wearing blue.
	Which is the color of the crypts.
	And as she does this crypt walk, this is the enchanting cultural benefits that we get from the halftime show.
	Her ex-boyfriend was another rapper by the name of Drake.
	This is what I do just to be on this program.
	I have to dive into this type of rap wars.
	She's the ex-girlfriend of another rapper named Drake.
	And so this whole halftime show was this clandestine diss track.
	From Kendrick Lamar to Drake, including his ex-girlfriend, the decorumless Serena Williams, dancing on stage in the colors of the gang, the Crips, of which Snoop Dogg is also a member, but I digress.
	So she does this Crip walk, and what that is, it's basically a secret handshake that's...
	how to do that dance, if there's a very certain way to do it, you're declaring to the world that, "Hey, I'm aligning with the Crips because I've learned this dance." So I believe the song he played was "Day Not Like Us," which, you know, it's a song, and I guess, I suppose as you would, what they mean is that black and white people are different and we are not like them.
	And Mr. Taylor, his ex account is up, and he's @realjartaylor.
	I would encourage everyone.
	He's back.
	And it's Mr. Taylor's tweet says, This is marvelous.
	I want every black in America to say they not like us.
	It's an essential step towards going our separate ways.
	Say it loudly, Benny.
	And he said Benny because an actual member of Congress said thank you, Kendrick Lamar, for drawing attention to the influence of blacks in this country.
	Black America is America.
	Last night's performance emphasizes, they not like us.
	They not like us.
	Well, right.
	Well, they not like us, and we not like them either.
	And yes, I do want them to say it loud.
	Remember that thing they used to say, it's a black thing.
	You wouldn't understand.
	I wish they'd say that all the time.
	I wish every black person would wear something like that.
	We don't want to understand.
	You go ahead.
	Have your secret handshakes.
	Have your secret knowledge.
	Have your secret little world that you run away into because I don't want to understand.
	So, anyway, we have come, alas, to the end of our allotted time, Officer John, so we have to end this podcast.
	But, ladies and gentlemen, it is a joy and a privilege and an honor to spend this time with you.
	Thank you so much.
	We look forward to next week.

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