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July 2, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Is USAID Truly Dead?

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey say, “Cut it all.” They also discuss the violence threatening black food, AI Ebonics, whether ICEBlock is illegal, and how to pronounce Isandlwana. Thumbnail credit: © Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire

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	Ladies and gentlemen, and dear listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	And with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
	And today is July 2nd, only two days away from 4th of July Independence Day.
	So happy 4th of July for all of you who celebrate that.
	As usual, we will begin our podcast with comments.
	On your June 27th podcast, you mentioned a ship.
	This was a naval ship in the South African Navy, named the Izandluana.
	And I believe you mispronounced its name.
	Well, I in fact did, and I apologize.
	I won't mispronounce it again, I hope ever again in my entire life.
	And as it turns out, Izandluana is the name of a battle between the British Empire and the Zulus, in which the Zulus won a great victory.
	The British retreated afterwards and staged an incredible stand at Rourke's Drift, where about 140 British men fought about 4,000 Zulus with only 17 dead.
	Now, there's a movie about this called Zulu.
	Not surprisingly, there is no movie about Islandwala, which was a total defeat.
	The British lost about 8,000 dead.
	700 to 800 of them were white men.
	300 to 400 of them were native black auxiliaries, mostly from the Natal Native contingent.
	So, yes, this is not something the British chose to make a movie about.
	And I'm sure.
	Anyway, I have to cut in and correct you.
	There is actually a movie about that battle.
	Oh, gosh.
	Made by white people.
	And we actually mentioned it on the podcast last week.
	It's called Zulu Dawn, and it stars Burt Lincaster and Peter.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	No, you're talking about Rourke's Drift, aren't you?
	No, no, no, no.
	Zulu is the movie that you correctly mentioned.
	There's another film called Zulu Dawn, a 1979 American film.
	I see.
	Tells the story of the historical battle at Islanwanda.
	How are you wording it?
	Sorry.
	Island Luana.
	Island Wana.
	Yeah.
	It's not something that, you know, European and Americans should look at with too much fanfare, but we should look at it and realize, you know, you can lose a battle like this.
	And they did, as you said.
	And so there is a movie made.
	Zulu Dawn.
	I see.
	Well, I should take a look at that.
	It really, it was just a spectacular, horrible loss.
	And it had terrible repercussions within Britain.
	People wondered how in the world could this have happened?
	I don't think the Zulus even had firearms.
	They overwhelmed them with Asagais, handheld, edged weapons.
	It was really just an awful thing.
	I think, in fact, the defeat at Isanduana was a worse thing than the victory at Rourke's Drift.
	At Rourke's Drift, they're firing, you know, they've got ranks of men.
	They're behind barricades.
	They're shooting rifles at these guys who only have spears and shields.
	And yeah, they held out and they won.
	But I don't think that's nearly as remarkable as the fact that at Isanduana, the Zulus overwhelmed them despite their better armaments.
	But anyway, you have to give credit where credit is due.
	And just to tell you more about the film, it's basically a prequel to Zulu because it ends with some of the British showing up and realizing that Rourke's Driff is under attack.
	So you find out that, you know, yeah, they may have won the battle, but they didn't win the war.
	Oh, it took quite a long campaign finally to get rid of, what was it, I can't remember the name of the chief of the Zulus at that time.
	I don't think that was Shaka Zulu.
	I believe that was earlier on, but Chechwayo or something like that.
	But they finally did win.
	That is the name.
	Chechwayo, Sergeant the Sea.
	So yes.
	Here is another comment.
	Uncle Jared, I hear a lot of complaints about the racial nonsense in movies.
	I'd like to recommend the new adventure film called 28 Years Later.
	It takes place in post-apocalyptic England.
	Post-apocalyptic, that sounds about like now, frankly.
	Our listener goes on to say the director unabashedly juxtaposes old clips of industrious, valiant Britons from earlier times.
	What's more, it features an all-white cast, no-token black wise men or smarmy Asian sidekicks.
	I think many of your listeners would like it.
	Well, I took a look on the internet and I watched the trailer.
	Apparently it was released only on 20th of June.
	That's just not that many days ago of this year.
	The film got positive reviews and grossed 106 million worldwide against a budget of 60 million.
	And that's just in, what, about a dozen days.
	Apparently it was shot back-to-back with its sequel, which is to be called 28 years later, The Bone Temple, set to be released in January of next year.
	Now, I will say The Trailer looks gruesome, but it is true I didn't see any non-white characters.
	And for those of you who like gruesome stuff, it probably is pretty good entertainment.
	Another comment.
	I am a tour guy and use a touring website to get tours booked.
	I was corresponding with a guest who wanted a change.
	I told him I could re-jigger their tour.
	The site's system software blocked out the word re-jigger.
	Too close to a naughty word.
	Now, this reminds me, it must have been re-jigger, yes.
	Trigger, right?
	Is that the bad word?
	I guess that must be the bad word.
	Yes, yes.
	Gun violence, you know.
	I remember, it must have been about 1967 or 68, people joking that you couldn't talk about chiggers anymore.
	You know, those biting insects, you got to call them chigros.
	I can tell you, being from the south, we went trigger hunting all the time.
	And that was, we never bashed, we never became bashful when that word was used.
	So, and that was in the mid-90s, early aughts.
	So you never talked about chigros.
	Oh, you bad boy.
	Just I trigger.
	Yes, here is another comment.
	The mainstream media are all abuzz about the recent resignation of the University of Virginia's President Jim Ryan.
	It cites DOG pressure as the cause.
	Well, the DOG is investigating Jim Ryan because he refused to dismantle UVA's ham-fisted DEI infrastructure.
	Instead of complying with federal anti-discrimination law, UVA just renamed the entire machinery and carried on as usual.
	In 2017, Jim Ryan himself wrote, Diversity is a source of strength, a source of vibrancy, and it's part of an obligation to be open to all and to welcome all.
	Of course, under UVA's DEI regime that Ryan himself got started, he is largely inadmissible as a candidate for president to replace him due to his race, sex, and the fact that he likes women.
	I predict UVA's next president will be a woman, most likely black, and quite likely a lesbian.
	I do wonder, though, whether the fact that he's resigned and the fact that he's replaced by whatever he's replaced by really does mean that UVA will behave.
	All these people, and there'll be a couple of stories on this later, many of them just have quietly gone underground and they've continued to do the things they've been forbidden to do.
	They just don't talk quite openly about it.
	Anyway, Mr. Kersey, I guess we do have to talk about how to reach us.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we do love hearing from you.
	You do love corrections.
	Whenever you get something wrong, we appreciate it very much when people more knowledgeable than we write in and set us straight.
	Also, we'd like to hear what kind of stories you're interested in, just what your comments generally are.
	And the way to get to me is go to our website of the American Renaissance homepage, amlan.com, amre n.com.
	Click on the contact us tab, and you can send a message to me.
	That is method one, and there is a method two.
	Yeah, method two is send me an email at becausewelivehere at protonmail.com.
	Once again, that email address is becausewevehere at protonmail.com.
	And when you do that, we'll also add you to the newsletter so that weekly you'll get the award-winning New Century Foundation newsletter, which Jared puts a lot of time and effort into distilling down what transpired that week and American Renaissance news and videos and blogs.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, the first story that we'd like to cover is one that you had.
	It is about USAID.
	And you say that our Secretary of State has declared that USAID is officially dead.
	You know, Mr. Taylor, I know you laugh when I ever bring up pro wrestling, but there's a great term in pro wrestling, a heel versus a face.
	The heel is the bad guy.
	The face is the good guy.
	And in storylines, there's a face turn that the heel will sometimes take.
	And Marco Rubio, for the longest time, you looked at him and you'd say, oh, no, I don't think this guy's all that great.
	But he's turned out to have taken quite the face turn and been quite the ally to President Trump as he announced with great glee that USAID has officially ceased operations.
	This to me is the feather in the cap of Doge and the Trump administration so far, besides what's happened with the border.
	He confirmed yesterday, on July 1st, the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has been rapidly dismantled by the Trump administration.
	And only what?
	Five months?
	So incredible.
	He wrote that foreign assistance provided by USAID had failed to deliver results for Americans and also said the agency was part of the globe-spanning non-government organizations, NGO, industrial complex, which was funded by taxpayers.
	USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War, Rubio said.
	Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown.
	On the global scale, the countries that benefit the most from our generosity usually fail to reciprocate.
	He wrote that as of July 1st, the agency will officially cease to implement foreign assistance and that only assistance programs that align with the Trump administration's priorities will be facilitated.
	Democrats in the union representing foreign service workers strongly push back against the dismantling of USAID, claiming cuts to the agency would lead to a reduction in aid to poor countries.
	That's the plan.
	That's the plan.
	Life's in danger.
	Go ahead.
	I'm sorry.
	I was just going to say that's the plan.
	Reduction of aid to poor countries or rich countries, whoever.
	Reduction in aid.
	That's the whole idea.
	I remember a book I think you actually wrote a review to years ago.
	What was it called?
	A Farewell to Alms by an Ivy League professor.
	Does that sound familiar?
	There is such a book, but I don't believe I wrote a review of it.
	And if I'm not mistaken, it's not about foreign aid.
	I believe it's about domestic welfare programs.
	But anyway, no, there are many, many sharp critiques of the whole business.
	People pointing out that you pour money into these crazy dictator-run African countries, and it gets all swallowed up in the prestige products and villas on the Riviera, crazy stuff.
	So, yeah, I think there's a big argument to be made that every single bit of foreign aid should be scrapped.
	But I'm hoping, sir, that there's a post-mortem that shows a yearly breakdown of where the money went, which countries, which agencies, which NGOs were being funded, and to see what the stated goal of that NGO was.
	And just to be like, well, where did all the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars that we generously gave you, what exactly did that accomplish?
	Whether it was, you know, building a, you know, building some form of water desalination plant or whatever.
	Did it actually accomplish that goal or did it go somewhere else?
	So.
	Well, their records are probably somewhere now.
	Whether anybody will take the time to analyze them with a critical eye to them, that's a different matter.
	But is there any more to this story that you were looking at?
	There are a couple more key passages.
	On the day of the announcement, the American Foreign Service Association Union filed a lawsuit against a Trump admin, saying in the statement that U.S. AIDS closure would cause the United States to lose its standing in the world and would impact the government's capacity to wield soft power.
	Well, you know, what's the legal basis for saying that that's illegal?
	I mean, let's assume that's true.
	On what basis can you file a lawsuit against that?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But hey, I guess being able to wield the hammer of soft power is really important to these.
	Well, and not being able to must be against the Constitution.
	Who knows?
	They said this.
	Rather than engage in constructive conversations to lessen the devastating impact of these layoffs, the administration chose instead to inflict maximum pain and hardship through a barrage of questionable and likely illegal policies accompanied by dismissive and dehumanizing rhetoric, all delivered with little thought to implementation or human consequences, the American Foreign Service Association stated.
	A new analysis published in The Lancet, a once reputable medical journal that disgraced itself during the COVID-19 pandemic.
	This is the words of Zero Hedge where the article's from.
	I don't think I disagree with what they said there.
	They made the absurd claim, Mr. Taylor, that 14 million people could die over the next five years because Donald Trump and the Trump admin cut funding to USAID.
	And every one of those 14 million would survive if we didn't cut those funds.
	I suppose that's the idea.
	Because a whole lot more than 14 million people will die.
	But these are people who, it's our duty, I guess it's our legal duty to keep them alive if in fact what they say is true.
	It's our constitutional duty, sir.
	The analysis from this piece also claimed that from 2001 to 2021, per NBC News, U.S. AID-funded programs prevented nearly 92 million deaths across 133 countries.
	Now, Mr. Taylor, one of the things I'd like to ask you is we know that there's a temporary protective status and refugee status for Haitians is all gone now.
	So 500,000 Haitians let in during the Biden admin have been told that they've got a few months to prepare for, I guess, a return flight to Port-au-Prince.
	And I believe I've seen a number of black elected officials who have said, no, they can't go back.
	They can't go back to Haiti.
	That's a death sentence.
	I wonder how much money USAID has given to Haiti to build that nation back up again.
	That's probably something that you could find out.
	But that's all a good question.
	That's all a very good question.
	Well, you know, the story that you have just reported is a little bit in contradiction with a story that I found in the New York Times just a few days ago, actually.
	And it was a post-mortem of this doing in of USAID.
	And what it said was that when Donald Trump took office, there were 6,256 USAID programs.
	6,256.
	I mean, how do you even keep track of that many?
	And these were costing you and me, the U.S. taxpayers, $120 billion.
	Well, thanks to Elon Musk and Doge, about 5,364 of those programs have been cut.
	But that means there are still 891.
	Just keep tabs on them would be hard work.
	And it still costs us $69 billion.
	So we've whacked away, according to the New York Times, 5,364, but the ones that are left cost more than half of what we were originally spending.
	So a lot of those little programs weren't costing us that much.
	So it's gone from $120 billion to $69 billion.
	Now, the ones that cost the most, and this had a fairly detailed account, not by country, but by the kind of program.
	The ones that cost the most are those that are devoted to keeping African AIDS carriers alive.
	And they cost $24 billion a year, 24 out of the remaining 69.
	I say, cut it all, cut it all.
	You can't cure AIDS.
	All you can do is make it possible for people who are carrying AIDS not to be as infectious as they otherwise were.
	Keep them alive so that they can go on and infect others.
	And if they don't keep this AIDS medicine coming to them at an extraordinary cost to you and me at this point, it's $24 billion a year.
	Before Doge hacked into it, it was even more than that.
	Then they can just go on living and their reckless behavior is not punished in any way at all.
	I say cut it absolutely all.
	Just to confirm, sir, $24 billion.
	Oh, did I say million?
	Billion.
	Yes.
	Billion.
	That second time.
	I just want to clarify, because that is money that were we actually going to consider the measures of austerity with our government, we'd go back and say, hey, you know, we need some of that back.
	You know, I think you owe that with interest, guys, because you definitely didn't use that to stop the AIDS spread.
	No, it means there are more people with AIDS, more people than ever with AIDS, because we can keep them alive, and some of them are going to keep spreading it.
	It, to me, is one of the most misguided things foreign aid has ever done.
	George W. Bush, he was one of the guys who came up with this program.
	It's a thing he's proudest of.
	He's just happy, happy, happy that he came up with this.
	He decided to splash out all the money for this and all of these sub-Saharan and other AIDS carriers can carry on.
	Now, the New York Times came up with a table that showed what the other costly programs were.
	And I say HIV AIDS, that was the top one, about $24 billion a year.
	The next one was a rather vague category called crisis relief.
	Now, presumably, when crises are over, then you cut back on that.
	That was about $9.5 billion.
	And then apparently, we spend $3 billion a year fighting malaria.
	I don't know the details about that, but are we doing a good job?
	Are we smiting the mosquito?
	Are we making sure that there's going to be no more malaria?
	What are the consequences of doing that?
	In any case, we fight tuberculosis, we fight, oh, and we pay for disaster readiness.
	That's about a billion a year.
	And another thing we do is we monitor emerging health threats at another billion dollars a year.
	That, too, is USAID.
	Now, as I say, this article was written just a week or two ago, and my suspicion is that it reflects the priorities that our Secretary of State has said are in accordance with American interests.
	Now, this article also said, it quoted lefty after lefty after lefty, saying that in effect, we are losing our influence in the developing world because we're not splicing out the billions that we used to be.
	I say, who cares?
	Who cares?
	It seems like the more money we give people, the more they hate us, the more they despise us.
	I think our sovereignty is more important than soft power around the globe.
	I think, you know, it's July 4th, and I don't know if I speak for you, sir, but liberty is not an inalienable right.
	It disappears at the foot of tyrants.
	And I think we've seen that with USAID spending our money across the globe.
	So fruitlessly and carelessly.
	The point is, frankly, most of these countries that Donald Trump referred to as, I'm paraphrasing, dung heap countries, I don't care if they like us or not.
	And I'm not by any means convinced that splashing out money to them makes them like us.
	Maybe there are a few corrupt officials at the top who just love us to pieces.
	But does it make any difference if they like us?
	I don't think it does.
	Let's see.
	Moving on to something else.
	Universities.
	Universities are in the news, like UVA that our commenter was talking about.
	There is a branch of the University of North Carolina in Asheville, and it had, I speak in the past tense, a dean of students by the name of Megan Pug, P-U-G-H, however that's pronounced.
	She was caught on tape saying that the administrators probably still do DEI, but in a quiet way.
	And she added, I love breaking the rules.
	And this was a kind of a sting operation done by Accuracy in Academia.
	And she is recorded on a Zoom call saying, I'm so glad you guys are still doing equity.
	No, I'm sorry.
	The undercover reporter from Accuracy in Academia said, I'm so glad you guys are still doing equity work.
	And she went on to say that, yes, they'll keep pushing DEI until more or less they get mad at us.
	She also agreed that the school was secretly continuing DEI, adding that her hope and intention was we can still incorporate these kinds of things, but under a broader banner.
	Well, apparently, she is no longer Dean of Students, but there she was, an African-Americanist by the name of Megan Pugh, or Pugue, and there she was, quietly making sure that people who looked like her got special privileges.
	There have been other administrators in North Carolina who have also been caught on camera saying similar things.
	The Assistant Director of Leadership and Community Engagement.
	Well, what kind of title is that?
	Assistant Director of Leadership and Community Engagement.
	I'd like to be the Director of Leadership someplace.
	And she was at UNC Charlotte.
	Her name is Janique Sanders.
	Likewise, an African-Americaness.
	Accuracy in Academia caught her on video talking about job opportunities at her school.
	And she said, if you are looking for an outward DEI position, not can happen.
	But if you're interested in doing work that is covert, yes, there are opportunities.
	Well, apparently she is no longer employed at the university.
	And let's see, Harvard.
	The whole Harvard thing intrigues me, Mr. Kersey.
	I know that you've been paying attention to this, but the Trump administration said just this Monday that Harvard violated federal civil rights laws by failing to address the harassment of Jewish students on campus.
	What do you know?
	This increases the pressure on Ivy League School as it negotiates a possible settlement with the White House.
	The Trump administration said Harvard's commitment to racial hierarchies had enabled anti-Semitism to fester its commitment to racial hierarchies.
	Well, we know the DEI is all about racial hierarchies.
	There are people who are perpetual victims and to whom we must bow down and to whom we must offer privileged access to this, that, and the other.
	But I guess doing all this as part of racial hierarchies, this enabled anti-Semitism to fester.
	What do you know?
	And in a report issued in April of this year, a Harvard task force went into detail about, quote, the alienating and hostile atmosphere that many Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard described experiencing, particularly in the 2023-2024 academic year.
	And in a statement connected to the report's release, Dr. Alan Garber, himself Jewish, said that Harvard cannot, will not abide bigotry.
	The Trump administration has also been talking to Columbia University, and Monday's findings about Harvard were similar to ones the administration leveled in May against Columbia, namely, anti-Semitism run wild.
	Now, I don't know.
	Jews are vastly overrepresented in the Ivy League.
	I believe, what are there, nine Ivy League schools?
	You have a better head for numbers than I do.
	And as I recall about last count, five of the presidents of these Ivy League schools were Jewish.
	It's a little hard for me to imagine anti-Semitism running wild in these places, but apparently it has been detected and people are combating it tooth and nail.
	Just for clarification, there are eight Ivy League schools.
	Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Yale.
	Eight.
	Okay.
	This was Ivy League inflation in my mind.
	Well.
	Stanford doesn't count.
	Sorry, guys.
	Sorry, Peter Brimlow.
	Stanford's part of the ACC now.
	So you're in Mag10.
	it's on the other side of the country.
	These are all East Coast places.
	I know, I know.
	It's a joke.
	And let's see.
	Now, UPenn, that is part of the Ivy League.
	Interesting story about what's going on there.
	A writing seminar to be offered this fall will study how racism affects contemporary food justice movements, whatever they are.
	And apparently, there are plenty of them.
	And the unjust challenges that these food justice movements create for black food.
	Unjust challenges.
	The course is called Black Food Matters.
	Not just Black Lives, Black Food Matters.
	It will explore how race and racism fit into, shape, and inform contemporary food justice movements.
	There they are again, these food justice movements.
	A comprehensive look at black food culture and the various forms of violence that threaten the future of this cuisine.
	Black Food Matters centers blackness in a field that has too often framed black issues through a white-centric lens.
	And it offers new ways to think about access, privilege, equity, and justice.
	But did you know that there are various forms of violence that threaten the future of this cuisine, namely black food?
	Did you know that?
	Violence.
	Violence is threatening the future of sweet potato pie and collard greens and ham hocks.
	I had no idea.
	You know, normally it's a lack of a sweet and sour sauce put into a bag at McDonald's you see violence break out over, but I'm sure it's true.
	Yeah, well, golly.
	Maybe, I don't know.
	Maybe the fight over shade equity or the fight over, what is it, heat islands.
	Maybe that's going to take a toll on sweet potato pie.
	I don't know.
	In any case, this course will examine the broken food system that black consumers experience due to an inequitable distribution of resources.
	So saith the description of the course.
	Well, you know, we keep retiring some of these famous black representatives.
	Now, these aren't necessarily black food, but Aunt Jemima, Aunt Jemima, and Uncle Ben, they were fine figures of blackness.
	And Uncle Ben was always such a credit to his rice, you know.
	But there is.
	It was, you know, there's violence.
	Violence threatening these black foods.
	Who knew?
	Who knew?
	I guess I better go take the course.
	Credit to his rice.
	Yes.
	Yes, he was.
	He was a credit.
	Yep.
	Sorry, I can't even speak.
	I'm laughing so hard.
	Well, we must speak.
	Our hours is not yet up.
	No, it's not.
	And Mr. Kersey, you have to tell us all about stripping citizens of citizenship.
	I like the sound of that.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's fun on Twitter.
	God, I sound like Z-Man there saying, yeah.
	I like the whole concept of remigration and denaturalization, RAD.
	I love acronyms.
	It's sort of like the, you know, the United States military always loves a way to have acronyms.
	So I've been trying to say that a lot.
	And our good friends at Borderhawk News are actually starting to promulgate that as well.
	And I saw this on borderhawknews.com.
	And it's a great website to take a look at.
	DOJ moves to strip citizenship from criminal naturalized citizens.
	They're taking that bold step, Mr. Taylor, to protect American sovereignty by targeting naturalized citizens who break the law, ensuring only those who respect the nation's rules retain the privilege of citizenship, the franchise, getting that opportunity to vote.
	The DOJ issued a memo on June 11th directing attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit crimes.
	The memo focuses on the 25 million U.S. citizens born abroad, according to 2023 data.
	That's, goodness gracious, is that 7% of the current population in the United States was born abroad?
	Or no, citizens.
	We have what, like 340 million people?
	I think about, well, something like that.
	And I believe 15% of the population was actually born abroad.
	I think that's the current figure.
	I'm not mistaken.
	This directive lists 10 priority categories for denaturalization, including those who illegally obtained citizenship or lied on immigration forms.
	The directive targets individuals involved in war crimes, extrajudicial killings, human rights abuses, gang activity, or any crimes posing a threat to the United States.
	Also, civil proceedings will be used, the minimum states, which do not require the government to provide an attorney or meet the same burden of proof as criminal cases.
	This is really important.
	Otherwise, these things could bog down.
	It would be expensive.
	You got to pay for lawyers.
	No, some sort of very brisk judicial proceeding.
	I'm all for it.
	No, the approach streamwise the process to remove citizenship from those who violate the nation's trust.
	I'm not even sure they get a stint at alligator Alcatraz, sir.
	I think they're just, oh, you're back on a plane.
	Sorry.
	See you later.
	Maybe there's some peanuts on board.
	DOJ attorneys now have broader authority to pursue denaturalization in cases of financial or medical fraud, lying on immigration forms or referrals from U.S. attorneys' offices.
	The Civil Rights Division leads this effort, aligning with President Trump's broader agenda to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion programs, and other initiatives seen as undermining national unity.
	I love hearing that term, national unity.
	That's a good thing to be striving for, but not in a manner where white people are taught that everything bad happening is because of their ancestors.
	The division faces internal resistance with 250 attorneys, 70% of its lawyers reportedly leaving between January and May, 2025, according to NPR.
	That's quite a colossal amount of individuals.
	That's the number of lawyers who have left the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I wonder how many there are.
	That's probably a very substantial number.
	70%, yeah, exactly.
	Oh, that's 70% have left.
	Okay, well, probably they are just terrible people.
	All they want to do is try to Get as many people into the United States and try to make life as hard as possible for white people.
	So, the fact that they are gone, that is something very much to celebrate.
	And I bet there are plenty of people clamoring to get in, plenty of people who would have a much better job.
	I hope there are a lot of people who are just licking their chops to get the opportunity to start the denaturalization process and actually represent the American people as opposed to all those Americans in waiting, which, as we know, so many people see any, you know, any non-American as someone.
	Hey, why don't you come over here?
	We'll get you that citizenship for you.
	Mr. Taylor, on June 13th, a judge revoked the citizenship of Elliot Duke, a U.S. military veteran from the U.K. He was convicted of distributing child sexual abuse material, failed to disclose this crime during naturalization.
	Case demonstrates the policy's focus on removing dangerous individuals from citizenry.
	Immigration attorneys criticize the policy, claiming it creates a second class of U.S. citizens, as quoted by Samaria Hafis, the policy director of the Immigration Legal Resource Center.
	Supporters argue it ensures accountability for those who exploit the immigration system.
	Well, in effect, it is a second-class citizenship.
	In his case, in the case of this guy, who was what is it, sexual exploitation of minors, he was exploiting the system.
	He should be a second-class citizen because he became a citizen through lying, lied about a crime.
	He's not the kind we want.
	Out, out, out.
	Well, a second-class citizen would mean to say that he had some form of rights, but no, no, you're not even deemed worthy of citizenship.
	So I think even that concept of second-class citizens is like, no, that's not right at all.
	They're not a U.S. citizen in any way, shape, or form.
	So sorry, sorry, Sam Maria.
	You're even wrong there, pal.
	So anyways, good news, very good news, actually.
	It's exciting because there is a lot to be excited about.
	And it's just one of those really exciting stories, white pilling right before July 4th, because we're celebrating our nation's independence.
	And in a lot of ways, with USAID ending, with this push.
	I mean, these are words, sir.
	Remigration, denaturalization.
	These were not anywhere near a glossary of terms right of center people were using a year ago.
	True.
	True.
	No music to my ears.
	Music, music.
	Oh, my.
	Well, let's see.
	I have a kind of amusing story about, I guess she pronounced her name Beyonce and not Beyonce, although that's the way it looks like it's spelled to me.
	I see no acute accent over that E. It is Beyonce.
	I regret to inform you that I am aware of who our Creole light-skinned Negress friend is.
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	Sorry to hear that.
	Well, in any case, Beyonce is facing backlash from her fan base after wearing an offensive t-shirt.
	Yikes.
	I guess maybe it wasn't tight enough.
	Was that the problem?
	The Diva, age 43, sparked outrage at the Paris stop of her cowboy Carter tour after she wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the Buffalo Soldiers.
	They were some of the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. military.
	In the 1800s, the Buffalo Soldiers fought on the side of European colonizers against the Native Americans in the Indian Wars.
	Fans pointed out that the back of the shirt also featured a passage about the people against whom the Buffalo soldiers fought.
	And it goes like this.
	Their antagonists were the enemies of peace, order, and settlement.
	Warring Indians, bandits, cattle thieves, murderous gunmen, bootbleggers, trespassers, and Mexican revolutionaries.
	Wow.
	Well, we can't be fighting those people.
	Those are all heroes these days.
	And some of the typical comment was the Buffalo soldiers did awful things to Indigenous people.
	Likewise, they committed genocide against Indigenous people.
	So how dare Beyonce wear a t-shirt that praises the Buffalo soldiers?
	So in expressing solidarity with her fellow blacks, she has offended her fellow non-whites.
	Oh, it's tough.
	It's tough being woke these days, Mr. Kersey.
	It's really tough.
	I feel so sorry for Beyoncé.
	Meanwhile, in our south of the border, Mexico, south of the border neighbor, Mexico, the Sinaloa cartel has been up to a pretty brisk set-to with dissident members of its own group.
	Just earlier this week, 20 bodies were found on a highway bridge in Sinaloa.
	Four were headless.
	Five severed heads were also found at the scene.
	So you got 20 bodies, four without heads, that means 16 with heads, and you have five severed heads.
	So I guess one was extra.
	Who knows which heads go with which bodies, but that's not something about which I'm going to worry my pretty little head.
	Factions of the Sinaloa cartel have been fighting each other with more than 1,200 dead so far.
	That's a lot of corpses.
	This is all in a period of about one year.
	Now, these sweet cartel people like to torture each other.
	One of their favorite ways is to drive a corkscrew into a big muscle.
	Imagine, say, your deltoid, and you screw it in and then pull out a plug of flesh and then push in hot chili peppers.
	Another fun thing they do is feed people to tigers.
	I imagine that doesn't happen very often because the stock of tigers is probably a little bit less generous than the stock of corkscrews.
	I don't even like putting peppers in my mouth.
	Like, I was just listening to you tell that story, and it's like your wall just got 20 feet taller.
	Like, holy cow.
	Yep, pretty nice, aren't they?
	Well, all this killing picked up after the U.S. arrested Ismail Elmayo Zambada.
	He was the big kahuna of this cartel.
	And once he was gone, that left the cartel leaderless, and it fell into murderous competition amongst its various remaining pieces.
	Now, he was arrested in El Paso, Texas, and that was on 25th of July, 2024.
	And as I say, without the big boss in charge, the locals started killing each other and torturing each other.
	The odd thing is, El Mayo Zambada, the boss, and let's see, and the son of El Chapo.
	Remember El Chapo?
	He was a famous druggie guy, El Chapo Guzman.
	They were arrested in the U.S. at a private airfield in El Paso, Texas.
	What was Zambada doing in El Paso, Texas?
	Well, he was reportedly lured there by young Guzman, son of El Chapo, under false pretenses of looking to buy property in Mexico.
	This sounds like a very murky business.
	The details of this, no doubt, would be fit for a thriller novel.
	In any case, the U.S. government picked up both El Chapo, the son of El Chapo, I mean to say, and El Mayo at the same time, and they have been arrested and are expected to be tried in the United States.
	Now, Zambada, the guy who had run the Sinaloa Cortel, he submitted a petition to the Mexican government requesting extradition back to Mexico, his home country, to face trial there rather than face trial in the United States, because he could face the death penalty here.
	And the Mexican government apparently is all upset and investigating how anyone could have been involved in handing over a Mexican citizen to foreign police authorities, and they want to charge that person with treason.
	So, as I say, there is probably a novel here fit for the pen of one of these Clive Kussler types.
	Isn't he some sort of novelistic thriller kind of a guy?
	In any case, all quite fascinating, all quite fascinating.
	And I just thought it was interesting that it hardly made the news in the United States when 20 bodies found all together on a bridge.
	That's what our next-door neighbor is like.
	And to think that in just this one internecine fight in one of the many cartels, they've had 1,200 killings in the period of a year.
	Wow.
	Okay, another story back on our side of the border.
	Howard University and Google Research have announced the release of data that can be used by artificial intelligence developers to improve the experience of black people using speech recognition technology.
	As a part of a partnership called Project Elevate Black Voices, researchers traveled all across the United States to catalog dialogues and dialects and diction used frequently by blacks, but not recognized or misunderstood by AI-driven technologies.
	This makes it more difficult for black people to engage with AI.
	Incorrect results are sometimes generated when black users vocalize commands to AI-driven technology.
	So I guess, I'll ask you a question, who do that?
	And the AI might not understand.
	Thus, black users have needed to inauthentically change their voice patterns away from their natural accents in order to be understood by AI.
	This must just be a terrible experience for them.
	And according to the release, all of this wonderful come to the rescue of Ebonic Speakers technology will be retained by Howard University, despite the fact that Google is helping gather all the data.
	Howard will retain ownership and licensing rights.
	So if you're going to want to build an AI system with voice recognition and black people start complaining about it, you're going to have to license this stuff from Howard University, pay heaps of money so that your Ebonic speaking customers will be happy, happy, happy.
	Now, according to the press release put out by Google and Howard, this data set will initially be made available exclusively to black colleges and universities to ensure that the data are employed in ways that reflect the interests and needs of African-American communities.
	Now, I think it would be very interesting to kind of, oh, paw through the data and see just what kind of dialects and what kind of expressions they came up with.
	But AI is going to understand this.
	And so when, let's see, we talked about this a couple of podcasts ago.
	The city of Atlanta, didn't it come up with sort of a city anthem?
	And it was called, we were struggling with the name of the anthem.
	ATL something.
	I think it was the ATL.
	Yes, yes.
	Because in Atlanta now, they call themselves Atlians.
	It's something so weird and bizarre.
	That's the airport code, isn't it?
	ATL?
	ATL is the code for Hartsfield International.
	I refuse to call Hartsfield Jackson, but it is Hartsfield International Airport.
	Yes, it's the ATL.
	And I remember when this city anthem was proclaimed, white people were scratching their heads.
	There was only one phrase, as I recall, that they could understand.
	It was get it up, get it up, get it up, get it up.
	And there was lots more to it, but white people didn't understand.
	And I guess all of these voice technology AI recognition programs wouldn't have understood it either, but soon they will.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about CNN and something called Ice Block.
	Yeah, so the news network says they did not break the law by reporting on IceBlock.
	It's an app that reports ICE location for, I guess, illegal aliens so they know where ICE is going to be setting up shop.
	Their coverage has drawn heavy criticism from the White House and conservatives.
	CNN on June 30th defended a recent report on Ice Block app that alerts users to the location of ICE officers, saying there was nothing illegal about covering it.
	Well, come on, not illegal To cover a news news story, I guess.
	No, I don't think it is.
	Quote, this is an app that is publicly available to any iPhone user who wants to download it, CNN said in a statement.
	There's nothing illegal about reporting the existence of this app or any other app, nor does such reporting constitute promotion or other endorsement of the app by CNN.
	End quote.
	Now, having flown quite a lot so far this year, it is interesting.
	You no longer see CNN in the airports.
	They used to be ubiquitous.
	So I haven't seen a CNN except for when you see reports on X people showing them.
	But I did watch this one.
	Did you watch this presentation?
	No, no, I didn't.
	Just out of curiosity, which network are you more likely to see when you're waiting for your flight, if not CNN?
	Actually, no longer, and most of the airports I've been to, there's no longer the TV screens.
	They just show you flight information.
	So I believe CNN used to pay for the right to be at the ATL.
	Oh, okay.
	And at, I think Dallas, and I think they were also at IAD and DCA.
	So for those who fly a lot, you might know what those are.
	And LaGuardia or JFK, I remember seeing CNN there the past couple of years, but it's no longer at the ATL.
	So Homeland Security Secretary Christine Ohm, meanwhile, told reporters on June 30th that there may be grounds to open a DOJ investigation into the news network and prosecute them over its report on the app.
	She didn't note what law she's alleging CNN of breaking in its coverage.
	We're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute CNN for that.
	What they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities and operations.
	We're actually going to go after them and prosecute them.
	It's interesting.
	She gave these remarks actually when she was touring Alligator Alcatraz, Mr. Taylor, with Governor DeSantis and President Trump.
	CNN were a report on the app dubbed Ice Block on June 29th, which allows users to anonymously alert other users to ICE movement within a five-mile radius.
	So I'm sure you've used Waze before.
	I believe they got bought by Google Maps, but you used to be able to alert people and users if there were police, radar surveillance on the road.
	So you know there's a speed trap coming up.
	That never got reported for being illegal.
	But anyways, not defending IceBlock, but I'm just pointing out.
	Well, see, I think you're correct.
	And isn't there a quotation from the guy who cooked up the app?
	Yeah, so reporter Claire Duffy during an appearance on CNN said the app creator wants IceBlock to serve as an early warning system for those who are worried about ICE raids.
	The app founder, Aaron Joshua, told CNN he, quote, wanted to do something to fight back, end quote, because the raids reminded him of Nazi Germany.
	Yeah, yeah, Nazi Germany.
	Later during appearance on CNN, Duffy said Joshua, quote, does not want people interfering with those officers' activity, but he does want them to avoid them altogether, if they want, end quote.
	His report was shared by Libs of TikTok on X, and it was viewed more than 4 million times.
	It was met with swift criticism from conservatives who said the app put ICE agents in danger and interfered with their ability to remove people who are in the U.S. illegally.
	I believe, I think last week, we spoke briefly about what happened in Colorado where some ICE agents were beset upon by Latino gang to get a guy they had out of out of out of the van, right?
	Out of the van.
	That's right.
	I'm trying to remember the detail of the story, but he was being apprehended by ICE, and they successfully got him out and fled away because ICE didn't have any sirens on the car.
	They were unable to pursue.
	This to me is remarkable.
	This is something that was reported by Heather McDonald, who I always have considered to be a national treasure.
	Apparently, ICE got this guy in the cuffs, in the van, and a bunch show up, overpower the ICE guys, and they haul this guy out of the van, pop him into a car, and off they go.
	This, as I said, wow, this is something like out of a Netflix movie or something.
	No, it's like something out of, it's a real-life horror story.
	You know, you talk about 28 years later, that's some silly zombie apocalypse.
	But what we have in our country is, you know, this illegal alien apocalypse where, you know, these people are now attacking ice agents, and they now have this app, Ice Block.
	So when they're going to the store or going to get a, you know, chalupa or a taco, I guess.
	You know, what this really makes you have to think about is the number of, I wonder which app stores are selling this.
	Is the Apple app store selling it?
	Is the Google App Store selling it?
	I'm going to check my phone right now.
	Okay.
	Ice block.
	As you're talking, go ahead.
	I'm going to look it up right now.
	Okay.
	And this is not for polar bears who are looking for ice coming their way.
	This is a different kind of thing.
	Let's see.
	Well, let me talk about, in the meantime, the Roosevelt Hotel.
	The Roosevelt Hotel.
	It's available on Apple, sir.
	Sorry.
	Is that right?
	It is.
	Ice block right there.
	Read its description.
	What does it say it does?
	See something, tap something.
	And then it's got reported sightings.
	It's got 292 reviews, two and a half stars.
	Wow.
	Well, not very good, I guess.
	So, yeah, you know, it's...
	Is it free or do you have to pay for it?
	Oh, I could get it right now if I wanted to download it on my phone.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, one guy was suggesting we should all download it and just fill it with phony sightings.
	We say, you know, here I am.
	Here I am in Baltimore, Maryland, down on Main Street.
	Wow.
	Squads of ICE people, oh, in their green uniforms.
	Migra, migra, watch out.
	And then everybody will run.
	If you had people all over the country doing that, wouldn't that be fun?
	It would be fun to do that in Los Angeles and to just post, there's an ICE agent on every corner.
	You can't leave the house.
	Don't leave the house.
	That's right.
	No se puede.
	Yes.
	No se puede.
	No se puede.
	Yes.
	No se puede.
	Well, okay.
	Now, I was going to talk about New York City, which is just not nearly as much fun as Los Angeles.
	But this is an interesting story.
	It has to do with the Roosevelt Hotel.
	Yes, it opened in 1924.
	It was named after former President Theodore Roosevelt.
	It takes up an entire block on East 45th Street.
	And it was such a swank place that Guy Lombardo led the house band.
	And for years, it was not only a swank place, but as other swankier places went up, it was still quite a respectable hotel.
	I stayed there several times back when I was the beck and call of various law firms who were prepared to fly me all around the world and all around the country and put me up in nice hotels.
	They didn't want to overcharge.
	And so I would book in the Roosevelt because it's a perfectly okay hotel.
	And in those days, when maybe the average room was maybe $350, I could get a room for $250.
	I thought, you know, I'll save money for my client.
	But in any case, two years after it opened as the number one city-run center for processing new illegal immigrants, that's thanks to Joe Biden, it has shut its doors.
	Yes, over the last two years, more than 155,000 illegals from 150 countries passed through its doors because the city in those days required that the authorities house anyone who was homeless.
	I always thought it'd be nice to just show up and say, you know, I got no place to stay.
	I'd like to stay at the Roosevelt.
	You know, I used to stay here, but I got no dough tonight.
	Put me up.
	In any case, this was the place that 155,000 people were put up in.
	And the owners, which happened to be the Pakistani government, believe it or not, were paid a nightly rate of $200 and $202 per room as part of a $220 million deal.
	The place has 1,000 rooms, so the Pakistanis were raking in the dough.
	But what it meant was that pregnant women who had not received prenatal care often sought help.
	Some migrants showed up without medication and in dire need of treatment for cancer, diabetes, or AIDS.
	All that's very cheap, you know, just a few aspirin and that'll take care of it, you know, cancer, hypertension, diabetes.
	All of this, of course, on New York City's nickel.
	And of course, migrant children left a mess in many of the rooms.
	The place reportedly now stinks.
	And extensive renovations would be required if the hotel were ever to welcome tourists or business travelers again.
	If it's lucky, the 18-floor building may be redeveloped into a skyscraper, but we'll see.
	This just seems like such a sad thing.
	If you see a photograph from the outside, it really is a distinguished-looking building.
	A thousand rooms, full city block, named after Teddy Roosevelt.
	It had a distinguished place in American history, at least New York City history.
	And then it just became this dump for people who were dumped into New York City thanks to our feckless impeachment-worthy President Joe Biden.
	Now, by the way, the city's shelter system still is housing 37,000 of these illegals.
	Even now.
	Even now, there's still 37,000 of them living there.
	I wonder how many of them they will ever get out.
	Now, I bet a lot of them are perfectly deportable.
	And if New York City weren't run by idiots, they would say, Ice, here they are.
	Here they are.
	Collect them.
	I mean, it's much cheaper to put them in alligator alcatraz, I'm sure, than in these fancy places in New York City.
	Oh, they're all perfectly deportable, Mr. Taylor.
	Yes, perfectly, perfectly.
	Yes, wonderfully deportable.
	Now, let's see.
	What have I got?
	We're kind of running out of time here.
	Ooh, we're definitely.
	Well, you know, this is a story that I thought was really quite interesting.
	The new 75th anniversary edition of George Order Orwell's 1984 comes with a trigger warning in the introduction.
	A trigger warning.
	1984, something might disturb you in 1984.
	And the trigger warning is written by an American professor, of course, named Dolan Perkins-Valdez.
	According to her website, she has established herself as a preeminent chronicler of American historical life.
	And she teaches university at American University.
	So why is she writing a preface for George Orwell's 1984 Orwell was a Brit, of course.
	But she says, and her preface was authorized by the Orwell Estate, she says there are no black characters at all in the novel.
	Huh, fancy that.
	She also says that a connection is difficult with a book that does not speak much to race and ethnicity.
	What a dope this black woman is.
	I mean, one of the curses of negritude seems to be such total self-absorption.
	1984 has got to be about me.
	Me, me, me.
	Otherwise, who cares is what she's saying.
	She says, I'm enjoying the novel on its own terms.
	Well, on what other terms are you going to enjoy it?
	Not as a classic, but as a good story.
	That is until Winston Smith reveals himself to be a problematic character.
	What does she expect?
	Nothing but superheroes?
	For example, we learn that he dislikes nearly all women, especially young and pretty ones.
	We can't have that.
	So let's imagine if Orwell had written Winston as a woke liberal, policing his own thoughts, just happy, happy, happy, swallowing all the baloney, and then the party wouldn't even need Big Brother, would it?
	1984 is supposed to be disturbing.
	Isn't that the point of the book?
	And putting a trigger warning on it is ludicrous and proves only that Orwell knew what he was writing about.
	What a dope this broad is.
	I mean, anyone who is brainwashed wouldn't understand the book is all about brainwashing.
	Just, just, just.
	I don't think she's going to come to love Big Brother as.
	She already loves Big Brother.
	Already loves.
	she's Big Brother's girlfriend, yeah, or mistress, terrible side piece, but this is a kid show, forgive me.
	And I do want to say we do read all of the emails and comments we get, so we want to be cognizant.
	And I know that this is a family show, so we do hope that you sit down like in the 1940s when the shadow or one of those serials would run, Mr. Taylor, and you listen to this program as a family.
	Yes, indeed.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we thank you so much for your attention.
	It really is a pleasure and an honor to spend this time with you week after week.
	It really is one of the best hours of the week, I would say, Mr. Kersey.
	And I believe you would agree with me.
	And we look forward to doing the same next week.

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