Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Japan’s New Nationalist Party

July 25, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Japan’s New Nationalist Party

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey rejoice at Sanseito’s success. They also discuss anti-ICE apps, Italian juveniles, and how a city-run grocery fared in East Kansas City. Thumbnail credit: © Kyodonews via ZUMA Press

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	Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners, welcome to Lady Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
	Today is July 25th, Annodomine 2025.
	And as usual, we begin with comments, and we begin with a particularly difficult question.
	A listener wants to know, is there anything the average person can do to help the movement?
	I have a decent job.
	I live in the Midwest.
	The left has control of almost every aspect of government.
	The only thing I've really tried so far is to talk to people.
	At best, these conversations have been weird.
	And at worst, they leave me wondering if I'm insane because of the responses I get.
	Well, I can assure you, listener, it is your conversational partners who are insane, not you.
	Listener goes on to say, I try to be as inoffensive as possible and to tailor my remarks to their personal beliefs.
	That's the best way to do it.
	I have children.
	I don't want to see them grow up in a violent and low-trust society.
	What do you feel are some of the meaningful steps that can be taken to help white people in this country?
	That's a very difficult question.
	We get it from time to time.
	And the fact is, there are several things that you can do.
	What you're doing talking to people is fine.
	And I'm a little bit surprised you haven't had more success.
	Generally, it is fairly easy to find people who agree with us.
	And once you open the door, many are likely to walk through.
	Something else you could try is to try to get into Republican politics.
	If the left has dominated everything, probably the Republican Party is in a weak state and could do with a great deal of help.
	And in my contact, generally with local politics among Republicans, they are much more racially aware than anything you would ever find from the National Party or any kind of publicly elected official.
	I think there are things you can do at that level.
	Also, if you have a decent job, you might consider making a donation, not necessarily to New Century Foundation or organization, but there are people who are out there full-time trying to change this country in a way that is in accordance with our interests.
	So that is a very quick summary.
	Mr. Kersey, do you have anything to add to this difficult question?
	Yeah, I think the most important thing you can do is keep living your best life and be a great father and have more children and instill in them the values that you care about the most.
	It starts at home.
	So that's the most important thing.
	Very important.
	That is the most important thing.
	But let us hope that you'd be doing that either way.
	Now, there are white people who are joining deliberate and intentional communities.
	That is another option for someone, especially someone who's rearing children.
	Let's see.
	Another commenter writes in.
	I live in Maryland.
	I've lived here all my life.
	And we've had a surprising water advisory.
	The company, the water company, issued a boil water advisory for parts of Prince George's County.
	The water company is working to establish a water distribution station to hand out bottles of water to affected customers.
	I've lived in Maryland all my life, never had to boil water.
	Well, all I can say to that is Prince George's County, which is where the water advisory was issued, is 60% black, 22% Hispanic, and 11% white.
	I think that's all the commentary that is necessary.
	We have a listener from Australia who writes, the book that your esteemed colleague, that, sir, is you, referred to about the White Australia policy contained the word Woomera.
	Woomera was mispronounced on your program.
	Woomera is a town in South Australia named after an Aboriginal spear-throwing device and is the name of the military rocket testing facility.
	Keep up the good work.
	I've been listening for years and love your podcast from the multicultural paradise of Australia.
	Now, once again, you know, when I said this last week, I thought in my mind, this can't be right, and someone has certainly corrected me.
	The Yankee cavalry commander that you are thinking of was Philip Sheridan.
	I won't repeat the first name that I attributed to him mistakenly.
	Yes, thank you very much.
	It was Philip Sheridan, often referred to as Phil Sheridan.
	Here's another combat.
	I implore you, stop fretting about the length of the podcast.
	Listeners want more.
	I'd wager that when you cut the broadcast short, you are mostly frustrating your adoring fans.
	Oh, dear, oh dear.
	This is, of course, the kind of complaint that any show likes.
	But I have this, maybe it's an antique and old-fashioned and unnecessary sense that we should stick it.
	We should keep it about an hour.
	Maybe if we have important things to say, we can run over a little bit.
	I know that in your other podcast, you all try to stick it to keep it to about one hour, but sometimes you run over, do you not?
	Well, it depends if Hood's getting into a, if he's in fourth gear yet.
	But no, I think you're right.
	I think setting a goal of hitting an hour is a smart thing to do because then you go quick and you're truncated when you're trying to get the stories in so you can get as much information as possible.
	Well, people then know they can, some people, they will listen to our podcast while they're doing a particular thing and they know they've got an hour's worth pretty consistently every week.
	So we probably will not change, but I very much appreciate the sentiment.
	And isn't that what every performer wants to do, to leave them clamoring for more?
	Not that we consider ourselves performers, but there is a certain parallel to what we do and what goes on in show business.
	Here we go.
	A listener in Lynchburg, Virginia says he's been listening to our podcast since 2019 and likes it very much.
	That's about when we started.
	You remember dates.
	When did we start, Mr. Kersey?
	He said he started listening in 2019.
	2019.
	I believe we started in 2015 or 2016.
	It was during the Trump 1.0 candidacy, and then we took a hiatus right around the time of Charlottesville, and then we came roaring back, and we've been doing it ever since.
	And we have been roaring and bellowing ever since.
	Gracious.
	It's your weekly episodic podcast of exactly one hour.
	So yes, we try and.
	Yes.
	Here's another comment about the deterioration of proper grammar.
	You worry about split infinitives, who versus whom, the Oxford comma, all of this, but this is nothing in comparison to the BBC's Pidgin English articles.
	Here is a sample explaining what temporary protected status under U.S. immigration law is.
	TPS, NA, immigration policy, way di U.S. de extend to people, way, dear country, de go through war, or major kata-kata, wei be threat to dea life if them return.
	Well, that's true.
	That is certainly bad grammar by English standards, but that's probably perfect grammar according to Creole.
	And I don't care what black people in West Africa, how they use the language, that's up to them.
	I care about white people.
	White people should know better who don't know the difference between who and whom.
	But to return to this question of pidgin, pidgin is a language, a kind of a creole that came over the centuries.
	It's spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and a couple of other countries.
	And the BBC News Pidgin service started in 2017, and it aims to reach audience in those areas, particularly young women.
	Now, why you go after young women by means of pidgin, I don't know.
	Maybe it's because they are more likely to speak it and not speak ordinary English.
	But pidgin is primarily a spoken language, does not have a universally standardized written form, although the BBC has worked towards standardization.
	It's not an official language in any country.
	But the BBC is kindly making sure that people who don't speak English get their news from the BBC.
	Now, more about Africa.
	Last week you mentioned the mess Liberia has made of itself.
	My husband, before we met, served two years.
	This is back in the late 1970s, in the Peace Corps in Liberia.
	He talked about how tribal Liberians were intensely hating people of other tribes, which is why they speak English.
	I guess that means they don't have to sully their lips with some hated tribe's language.
	My husband shared an office with a U.S. AID auditor who was sent to check on rural schools because they were always wanting more money.
	The auditor discovered that there was often no such school.
	The local men spent the money on weapons and fancy cars and became warlords.
	The locals blamed the U.S. for funding these bullies.
	They thought the funding was deliberate, not realizing that USAID money was meant to help educate Africa out of poverty.
	Blacks will be blacks.
	To which I would add, and USAID will be USAID.
	What bloody incompetence.
	Well, it's all to fund it.
	Yes, yes, that's probably not going anywhere.
	And of course, USAID will say, oh, all those poor schools that aren't getting money.
	Well, all those poor warlords who aren't getting money.
	Now, here's another comment.
	Have either of you ever run for office or planned to do so?
	If not, why?
	We need representation.
	I'm sure many people quietly agree, but they are silent.
	Do you believe we will ever have a congressperson or mayor or governor who will openly campaign for what's good for white people?
	Well, I can answer the first question.
	No, I have never run for office and I don't plan to.
	I have too much of a record.
	I think you need somebody who agrees with us and has our ideas, but is not so publicly associated with what is known as hate-mongering.
	Now, as for Mr. Kersey, I suspect he has no plans for running for office, but he can speak for himself.
	Nah, I was on the HOA.
	All right, Mr. Kersey.
	I tried to get lights put in at our tennis center.
	Boy, that's pretty important.
	That'll keep the non-whites out.
	Yeah.
	No, you've got to maintain the integrity of your local environment.
	And I'll tell you, we've got a lot of trees, so there's no shade.
	We definitely have an overabundance of shade inequity here.
	Well, people should run for office.
	Don't take our experience as your model at all.
	And the question, do you believe we will ever have a congressman or a mayor or governor who will openly campaign for us?
	I do.
	I think that time is coming.
	That time is right around the corner.
	As I like to say, there are 500,000 elected officials of the United States at various levels.
	I don't think that includes HOA members.
	And not a one of them is openly campaigning for our interests.
	But, Mr. Kersey, you could be the first.
	And listener, you too could be the first or the second or the 100th.
	That is what we need in this country.
	Final comment.
	You gave us a homework assignment to find out what happened to Freedom, Georgia.
	That was your assignment, Mr. Kersey.
	And I'm sorry, you issued the assignment.
	That was not your homework assignment.
	Freedom, Georgia was established in September 2020 by 19 black families who banded together and they bought 97 acres of land near Macon, Georgia.
	It was going to be a safe haven for people of color.
	And it was reported on quite sympathetically, enthusiastically by the local press, and you and I have talked about it at the time, Mr. Kersey.
	So what happened?
	According to our listener, Wikipedia says all the land was sold in 2023, and there are no further plans for this town of freedom.
	So it lasted from 2020 to 2023.
	I'm sure they had three pleasant years of camping out, and they probably decided that America was a wonderful place after all, and that people didn't need a safe haven for people of color because people of color were doing just fine in multicultural United States, but it did not become Mokanda.
	Oh, dear, oh, dear.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, we love hearing from you, and we love hearing your views.
	And when we make mistakes, we love to be corrected.
	So please send your comments and your criticisms and your approval.
	There are two ways to do so.
	One is to go to Amerin.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and hit the contact us tab, and I will get your message.
	And the other way to do it is send me an email at becausewelivehere at protonmail.com.
	Once again, that email address is becausewehere at protonmail.com.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a rather eye-opening story about redistricting and immigrants.
	And occasionally, people who are on the other side of all of our ideas speak the truth.
	Yeah, sir, this story, I'm sure you being prolific on X, you probably saw this video.
	I saw Stephen Miller tweet it out.
	Immigrants needed for redistricting purposes.
	House Dem, House Democrat admits in viral quick clip.
	Quiet part out loud.
	This is how you hijack democracy, said one conservative reacting to the video shared on Twitter.
	It's a video of Democrat rep Yvette Clark of New York claiming she needs more immigrants in her district just for redistricting purposes, causing significant concern and outrage online.
	Now, this is from the 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee briefing, and it shows a longtime Democrat Clark suggesting that the local Haitian community in Brooklyn could absorb a significant number of those migrants.
	When I hear my colleagues talk about how, you know, the doors of the end being closed, no room in the end, I'm saying, you know, I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes, and those members could clearly fit here.
	Kyle Becker, an author and political commentator on X, said, House rep Yvette Clark just said the quiet part out loud.
	Democrats are as anti-American as it gets.
	It's the madness that American citizens are footing the bill for foreigners to come here, use our social services, our educational services, our infrastructure.
	They retire at our expense.
	All because the anti-American Democrat Party wants a few extra seats in Congress.
	Enough.
	Exclamation point.
	In awokeness.
	Actually, one of my favorite accounts on X, Mr. Taylor, commented on the video saying, this is how you hijack democracy.
	Well, no, this is pretty much democracy in action, is it not?
	Democracy is nothing more than a racial headcount, so why not pack the team, right?
	Well, that's right.
	And for those of you who are listening from outside the United States and may be unaware of our situation, congressional representation is based on population, and it makes no difference whether you're a citizen.
	This, I think, has always been a real sore spot for some of us.
	You can pack your district, you can pack state, you can pack city for the people who are non-citizens, have no right to vote, illegals who have no right to be there.
	And that's counted in the number of delegates you have in the United States Congress.
	It's really a crazy situation, but that's the way it works.
	And this person is making it clear.
	Yep, let them all in, and we'll have more power and more representation.
	Yeah, David Freeman, a conservative influencer, said, Dims have been saying the quiet part out loud for years.
	This is why they have imported millions, tens of millions, I'd add.
	They want to have a one-party country.
	Well, you see what that means in California, where Republicans have basically capitulated to the point where they're begging President Trump to stop enforcement of ICE enforcement because they don't want to alienate potential voters any further.
	New York City, which is heavily Democratic, has earned significant criticism in the past for allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections.
	A New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, blocked such a law that was passed by the New York City Council in 2021 that would have allowed nearly a million non-citizens, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, to vote in elections, including for mayor and city council.
	Talk about disenfranchisement.
	Well, that's excessive enfranchisement.
	But again, I'm talking about to the American citizen, whatever that means in New York.
	But you're right, it is excessively franchising those who should have no access to the ballot box.
	Go ahead.
	I'm sorry.
	No, no, no, I was just saying, why not let foreigners vote?
	Why do they have to even live there?
	What the hell?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why do they have to have ever set foot in New York City?
	If they've seen a movie with New York, they're obviously American, right?
	Fully qualified.
	Fully qualified.
	In response to the resurface clip, some renew calls for the legislature to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility SAVE Act, which was introduced by Texas rep Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, earlier this year.
	The bill would require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.
	Additionally, the bill stipulates states must remove non-citizens from their official list of eligible voters, as well as impose criminal penalties for registering an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.
	Now, this bill passed the House, but is yet to be taken up by the Senate.
	But this is an issue that animated X this week.
	So it's good to see people beginning to really understand the cracks that are inherent within the democratic process.
	You know, I'm not sure whether a federal law can ban local jurisdictions from letting non-citizens vote.
	I believe that's part of the federal system.
	They have the right to do that.
	But perhaps one of our well-informed listeners will let us know.
	Where I live, the city council is considering lettering non-citizens vote in school board elections.
	Outrageous, but there is a growing groundswell against that.
	Speaking of the legal system, Judge Julian Xavier Niels of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on June 30th denied a company, Cormex Inc.'s request to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit.
	We didn't get into the details of the shareholder lawsuit, but Judge Niels, one of our African-American fellow citizens, has since withdrawn his decision after lawyers on the other side complained his opinion contained made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes.
	Lawyers in a separate case Also pointed out the flaws in the opinion by Judge Neals, saying it contains pervasive and material inaccuracies, it mischaracterized key authorities and includes quotations from case law and pleadings that cannot be found in the sources cited.
	Well, a notice the court posted on the case docket just this Wednesday said that opinion and order were entered in error.
	A subsequent opinion and order will follow.
	Entered in error, Mr. Kersey.
	It was entered in error.
	It was a perfectly fine thing if we just kept it in a drawer, but it was entered in error.
	Well, okay.
	Now, as you know, Mr. Kersey, and probably all of our listeners do too, flaws of this kind have appeared in lawyers' briefs when they rely on artificial intelligence to prepare cases.
	Now, I've never understood why an artificial intelligence system would invent cases or misquote cases.
	I mean, that's pretty clear stuff.
	Although in this case, there's no allegation that Judge Niels used artificial intelligence.
	Now, some of the people who have used it, and cases that were invented, conclusions that turned out to be false, some of them have been punished.
	Two Manhattan lawyers in 2023 were fined $5,000 for filing a ChatGPT concocted brief.
	And last month, the Court of Appeals for the 5th District of Texas imposed a $2,500 fine on a lawyer for submitting a brief that cited non-existent cases.
	That seems like a rather light fine.
	$5,000, $2,500.
	And apparently, according to legal ethicists, judges, too, can face sanctions.
	However, a representative for Judge Neal's chamber declined to comment on the case.
	He can make up cases and citations, but he can't come up with a comment, apparently.
	Oh, poor boy.
	Well, my reaction to this is, you know, we can't have district court judges just making up fake stuff.
	That, after all, has traditionally been left up to the Supreme Court.
	So, let's see.
	Now, here's a story which is kind of an introduction to one of yours.
	It has to do with a fellow by the name of Sherman Austin.
	He's a fellow, this is an indication of something about his personality.
	He ended up in federal prison 20 years when he was 20 years old after bomb-making instructions were found on his website.
	And now, the deportation campaign launched by Donald Trump has got under his skin.
	He has high school-aged children, and the prospect of masked anonymous federal officers entering their school to make arrests just gives him the heebies and the geebies.
	The community, he thought, would need to be alert, alerted if that happened, so that illegals could bugger off and less vulnerable people could show up and protest.
	I'm not quoting from this Washington Post article precisely as you can imagine.
	Well, this guy launched something called Stop ICE Net, which invites people to report sightings of federal officers, and it notifies users who sign up of these ICE officers on the prowl.
	The network now has half a million subscribers.
	It's one of dozens of sites that have been launched in recent months.
	Government officials, including A.G. Pam Bodhi, say these websites are endangering the lives of officers and their families, mobilizing communities to attack them while they do their jobs.
	And a DHS spokesman says they are increasingly being assaulted at work.
	At least 79 officers have been attacked since Trump took office, compared to 10 under the same period last month under Joe Biden.
	Well, I'm not at all surprised.
	Eight times as much attack, eight times as many attacks.
	Probably there's at least 20 times as much enforcement.
	And we've talked about these cases too.
	On July 4th, a group of men and women ambushed a prairie land, an ICE detention center in Prairie Land and shot a police officer in the neck.
	And three days later, a man opened fire on the McAllen Border Patrol facility in McAllen.
	He was deported straight to the Netherworld, fortunately.
	And of course, these immigrant advocates are calling ICE a Gestapo.
	Is that what you pronounce?
	Gestapo?
	I think it's not Gesta.
	It's Gestapo, yes.
	And they call these arrests kidnappings, kidnappings.
	Of course, the reason officers are wearing masks is because they're afraid that if their identities become known, their families can come under attack.
	And very quick arrests are now needed to avoid conflict with onlookers who have already been alerted to the fact that they're there and make a fuss.
	There is one online group called No Sleep for ICE.
	It tries to figure out the hotels where agents are staying and encourages members to leave bad online views for the hotels and show up in person and disturb the officers' sleep with megaphones and chatting.
	Now, I would assume that's against the law.
	That's going to disturb everybody staying in the hotel.
	But that's the kind of thing people are promoting.
	Here's another activist, Dominic Skinner.
	He published the names of over 200 officers and has received thousands of tips, including, and this is absolutely revolting, dozens of tips from people who say they are family members of ICE officers.
	Now, this is just so disgusting.
	This is like these communist regimes in which children, children were urged to denounce their parents and got all sorts of pats on the head and slobbered over when they did that.
	Now, this guy who wants to identify the officers, he's experimenting with AI software that can take images of the parts of an agent's face that are not covered by a mask and match it with publicly available photographs.
	And Washington Post is clearly all in favor of this stuff.
	You can just see the editors and the authors smiling to themselves as they describe all of this going on.
	As it turns out, there's a federal law that makes it legal to reveal personal information about officers, such as addresses and phone numbers, if it's done with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or to incite a violent crime.
	Well, what other reason is this done?
	It's to threaten or intimidate.
	I can't think of any other reasons.
	So these people, it seems to me, are guilty of a federal crime.
	Furthermore, Mr. Curtsey, if you happen to know that I'm wanted by the police for armed robbery, and you happen to see the police coming my way, sirens blaring, and you call me up and say, Taylor, they're coming for you.
	Scram.
	That too is illegal.
	And it seems to me that that's what these people are doing.
	That's an obstruction of justice.
	Calling up, warning somebody that the police are on the way.
	Complicity in a crime.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	This is all.
	And what you said about exposing this information being a federal crime, I mean, they're putting these individuals in harm's way and the fact that family members would be part of Ice Block or be part of this effort to unmask.
	It really is unnerving when you think about all that we learned post-collapse of the Communist Party and Russia and the USSR and East Germany of how many people were employed by the Stasi.
	Right.
	Well, and they had all sorts of volunteers.
	Yeah.
	Oh, boy.
	So there you go.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about a different ICE app, as I recall.
	And I was very surprised by this article.
	Apparently, there are dozens of these apps and websites have sprung up all over the country, all people saying, no, no, no, we can't depart these wonderful, lovely people who've broken our laws.
	They can't do that.
	No, this is one of the more interesting ones because it's very revealing.
	This is from the New York Post.
	A Department of Justice staffer claims she was abruptly fired after an emerged that her husband was the brains behind a controversial anti-ice app that warns users when the feds are closing in.
	Caroline Feinstein.
	Same kind of app.
	Caroline Feinstein, and it's available at Apple.
	It's available at the App Store.
	So I don't think you can get the app any podcast that we do on Apple.
	I don't think you can.
	You sure can't, but you can certainly get something that encourages what amounts to illegal behavior, obstruction of justice.
	Boy, I didn't realize that.
	Isn't the Apple App Store, doesn't it vet its stuff very carefully?
	It's not sort of the Wild West the way.
	It does.
	I don't know if it's still available.
	I actually thought about downloading it because I wanted to see what it was all about and see how many, see if there were any, when I'm traveling, see if there are any ICE raids going on that I could be like, hey, can I volunteer to help out?
	It can work both ways, guys, because there's a lot of Americans who would jump at the chance to join one of these raids.
	Anyways, Caroline Feinstein, Mr. Taylor, who worked as a DOJ forensic accountant in Austin, Texas, she alleges that she was terminated as retribution for her spouse's radical alert system in which she has minority shares.
	Well, gosh, they're making money on this.
	Exactly.
	That's the most important thing to know from this story.
	She has minority shares and ice block.
	So she says this to Daily Beast.
	This was retribution.
	I was fired because of the actions or activism of my husband.
	Her tech husband, Joshua Aaron, he sparked outrage after eMERGE.
	He'd created the IceBlock app, which alerts users if immigration and customs enforcement agents have been spotted within a five-mile radius of them.
	Tom Homan, President Trump's border czar, and ICE acting director Tom Lyon, quickly called on the DOJ to investigate after Feinstein's hubby went on CNN last month.
	We talked about this.
	To advertise the app, spark an immediate backlash.
	Everybody was wondering, is CNN endorsing this app?
	Like, what's going on here?
	Feinstein claims that she informed the DOJ of her ties to the app creator after he allegedly started receiving death threats.
	Don't worry about any threats that the ICE agents might get.
	Don't worry about us, right?
	Right.
	Since we live in the same house, I thought it was pertinent to contact my employer, the DOJ, to notify them of death threats that were coming in and just in case I needed to be out of office so they would be prepared.
	A week later, the office of the U.S. Trustee started asking questions about the app.
	She admitted that she has minority shares in All UChart Inc., which hold the IP address for the app.
	She insisted, though, that it was only in case her husband were to become incapacitated so she could then shut it down.
	DOJ spokesperson said it had been probing Feinstein's connection to the app for several weeks after it emerged she had interests, monetary interests in the company.
	ICE Block is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture while endangering the lives of ICE officers, the spokesperson said, adding, we will not tolerate threats against law enforcement or law enforcement officers, end quote.
	For her part, she insisted that her role at the DOJ was unbiased.
	It's insulting to me because I dedicated myself and my career to serving the people of the U.S. And now the DOJ is claiming I was attempting to harm some of them.
	And that's not true.
	Well, is it?
	Yeah, well, now she's lost her job.
	She can devote herself full time to this higher calling, higher calling of obstructing justice.
	That's a great thing for a DOG employee to be doing.
	Exactly.
	No, this is one of these really interesting stories because I'd love to know how many people have downloaded the app and how often people use it and how often they're reporting this because you could get a very clear picture, Mr. Taylor, of the enforcement coverage that's going on across the country.
	It's like a weather forecast.
	Like, oh, right, we're attacking Phoenix now.
	Great.
	Trouble is, dozens of these apps are springing up.
	Imagine all of them consolidating.
	This one app that I was talking about had half a million subscribers.
	I wonder what the total is.
	If you had one centralized app that covered the whole country, that could be a fairly efficient way of stopping the government doing its job.
	But let's move on to Italy at the Cesare Baccaria Juvenile Detention Center in Milan.
	70% of the detainees are Muslims, mostly second-generation immigrants.
	Isn't that charming?
	These are people who are born there, Muslims, immigrants.
	Daddy and mommy are immigrants.
	And they are, of course, Muslims.
	And it turns out they are robbers and drug dealers and other violent criminals.
	And they are in the juvenile lockup.
	Officials fear that exposure of these young people to inmates who promote radical Islamist beliefs could easily lead to indoctrination and violent extremism.
	So what have they done?
	The prison authorities recently hired Abdullah Tichina, a moderate imam, to work in the detention center.
	His mission is to counter radical narratives and support young detainees in navigating religious identity and social rehabilitation.
	Now, this is quite a story.
	70%, 70% of the Juvies, they are Muslims.
	Muslims, most of these second generation, they've grown up in Italy, but they are still Muslims and they are, of course, criminals, and that's why they're there.
	Now, all the bleeding hearts will say, oh, they weren't sufficiently loved by Italian society.
	They weren't embraced and welcomed into the mainstream.
	And so the Italians are worried that they're going to get radicalized, and so they hire this guy who is supposed to be a moderate imam.
	How do you vet a moderate imam?
	That's something I'd like to know.
	And is he going to make a difference at all?
	If these guys, if these guys are basically rebels, despise authority, my guess is you could very well hire this allegedly moderate imam, and they would say to heck with you.
	We're going to go entirely in the other direction.
	But this is the kind of crazy dilemma countries get into when they let foreigners, utterly indigestible, unassimilable foreigners into their countries.
	Now, here's a story back to immigration back in the United States.
	I thought this was a particularly interesting one.
	Apparently, hundreds of people showed up earlier this week to protest the possible reopening of a former women's prison in Dublin, California.
	The Trump administration has proposed converting this former women's prison into an ICE detention center because we need more of them.
	And that's part of this big, beautiful bill that he passed that set aside a lot of money for more beds.
	And I hadn't realized that ICE runs this great hospitality industry.
	50,000 beds, it's going to be up to 100,000 beds.
	Boy, that makes it quite a major hotel chain.
	But the former women's prison was closed last year following a lawsuit that cited years of sexual and physical abuse against inmates.
	Now, okay, maybe that was happening.
	Let us assume for argument's sake that that was.
	Why does that mean you have to close the prison?
	That makes no sense to me.
	It seems to me you just fire the people who are doing the bad things and move on.
	But maybe they ran out of lady prisoners, too.
	In any case, as for making it an ICE detention center, Elijah Chum.
	Now, if somebody is a Cambodian, we may have a correction from our listeners on the pronunciation of the name Chum.
	It's spelled C-H-H-U-M.
	Elijah Chum from New Light Wellness, and there'll be more about him later.
	He says the Dublin prison already has a history of crimes against women and sexual crimes.
	It should not be reinstated into a detention center.
	Well, there you go.
	The fact that there were problems in the past, obviously they're going to be perpetrated.
	It may make it a male detention center, huh?
	No.
	The fact that they had a problem before, no, can't do that.
	And Sandra Ramos, sounds Hispanic to me.
	She says, that place is haunted by cruelty and evil.
	Why do we want to perpetuate that in our communities?
	And the crowd, apparently, demonstrations to not turn this into a nice detention center, they chanted, no hate, no fear.
	Emigrants are welcome here.
	So, Mr. Kersey, the truth comes out.
	They're not worried about the ghosts of sexual predators in this prison.
	They want immigrants, and they don't want them detained.
	They want them to stay.
	That's what it's all about.
	The whole idea that, oh, this place has the ghosts, the ghosts of predators past, can't have people there.
	That's not the point at all.
	They want illegal immigrants to stay in the country.
	And now, this is sort of the cherry on the parfait, as you sometimes put it.
	Japanese American groups are opposed to it.
	They're now comparing the ICE raids to the internment of 125,000 Japanese Americans during the Second World War under the Alien Enemies Act.
	A Lynn Yamasta from Richmond, California says, I'm here because Japanese were interned.
	My father was interned, and it must not happen again, but it's happening.
	It's shameful.
	What a complete non-sequitur.
	First of all, most Japanese were not forcibly interned.
	Only the ones who had shown loyalty to the emperor, he's militant.
	There was a Japanese exclusion zone, and they had to leave the west coast of the United States.
	And the United States government kindly offered them accommodations in the interior of the United States outside the exclusion zone.
	But these are now called internment centers, which they were not.
	Now, I said we'd have more about Elijah Chahum.
	That would be a literal pronunciation, a phonetic pronunciation, of the New Light Wellness.
	Well, what is New Light Wellness?
	It, according to its website, serves Southeast Asian families And communities impacted by deportation across borders and across seas by nurturing their trust through collective healing and reunification.
	Cambodian children born in genocide and refugee camps are the survivors of traumas and resettled into U.S. systems of violence, making them most vulnerable to the school, to prison, to deportation pipeline.
	Okay, Mr. Kersey, Cambodian children born in genocide were not responsible for that.
	They were resettled into the U.S. system of violence, which is just constantly mistreating them.
	Now, as for Elijah Chahoum, this is how he describes himself.
	As a child of Cambodian genocide survivors and a queer organizer living with a disability, I embrace my intersectional identities.
	Boy, diversity just really goes in directions we can hardly imagine.
	He is a queer commercial.
	Infinite number of directions.
	Yes, yes.
	The mind body.
	Yes, my gosh.
	Multi-dimensional.
	Yeah.
	Do you know any queer commercial organizers living with disabilities?
	I certainly don't.
	I must confess I've never met one.
	Maybe I sat next to someone on a plane one time.
	I just didn't inquire about that.
	I never even imagined such a thing.
	I wonder what his disability is that he's so embracing.
	Golly.
	In any case, that is the sort of person that wants the women's prison not to be repurposed for detaining illegal immigrants.
	So, boy, that's real moral and legal authority, isn't it?
	Well, Mr. Kersey, we are finally getting around to an article that we were going to discuss in a previous episode, but did not have the time to.
	Sorry.
	And this is about how Trump policies will particularly hurt black women.
	It's a terrible thing.
	Mr. Taylor, we talked at length back in March.
	New York Times, Washington Post bemoaned what Doge cuts would do to Prince George's County and Charles County, Maryland, because they are the two wealthiest black counties per capita in the United States of America.
	And as those front page articles of both of those newspapers, above the fold, mind you, lamented cuts in the federal government employment were going to have devastating impact on the artificial black middle class that the federal government, Largesse, has created, that the jobs have created.
	I think it's pronounced largesse, but it's native or listeners.
	It is.
	Yes, it is.
	Largesse.
	You're correct.
	However, we're even more correct into understanding the role that not just the federal government, but local and state government plays in manufacturing this artificial black middle class.
	And this article from the Economic Policy Institute data, it shows that black women make up more than one in five local government workers and more than one in four state government workers in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland.
	25% or greater in four state government workers are black women.
	So you can only imagine.
	So if it's black men as well, you're talking potentially close to half of the workers or, you know, within five points are black in these.
	I bet a lot more are women rather than men.
	Well, because black men aren't eligible.
	Well, a lot of them are not eligible.
	A lot of them are in prison.
	And so few of them go to college.
	I think these days it was what's, if you're looking at black students in the United States, it's something like 65% are women and 35% are men.
	It's really quite extraordinary.
	So a lot of them just don't get trained.
	So it's the things that presumably you have to know how to do in order to work in government.
	But yep, yep, that's remarkable.
	So the research found that efforts by the Trump administration in Congress to cut the federal workforce funding to states and public services will disproportionately harm black women who hold many of these jobs.
	So disinvestment is going to deny diversity from blooming.
	According to the Economic Policy Institute, jobs in the public sector are not only a key driver of economic growth, but also increase the quality of life, especially in the South, disproportionately for blacks.
	Jobs in the public sector are represented at the federal, state, and local levels, impacting education for children, caring for the elderly, ensuring vulnerable communities have access to quality water and food and many other essential services.
	It's weird how this kind of stuff just pops up magically when the white population is largely employed by the private sector.
	But anyways.
	Well, all of these burdens are disproportionately being carried on the backs of black women.
	What heroes they are.
	Yes.
	Oh, yes.
	That's why they need to take so many naps, right?
	Haven't you talked about stories about how black women are the most overworked racial segment?
	I don't recall that, but I'm sure someone is making that claim.
	Oh, you know what?
	When you read your next story, I'll pull it up.
	But anyways, black workers have historically faced widespread discrimination in the private sector from hiring practices, pay, sexism, blah, blah, blah, even limited and menial jobs.
	Luckily, the public sector exists because with the disinvestment of the public sector, however, black women will be more impacted, particularly in the South.
	Like I said, the Economic Policy Institute shows black women make up more than one in five local government workers and more than one in four state government workers in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland.
	They make up- Obviously, Texas has the most with 4 million plus blacks, but Maryland's population is so much smaller.
	They also make up 22.5% of the federal workforce in Georgia, 18.5% in Maryland, and 11.5% in Texas.
	In the public sector, black women are the most educated, comprising 43.8% of those in federal government, roughly half of those working in the state, and local governments have at least a bachelor's degree compared with just 26.3% of those in the private sector.
	So it seems that the best black talent from colleges, Mr. Taylor, black female talent, is being recruited quickly to come get some of those cushy, nearly lifetime positions with the federal, state, or local government.
	Makes perfect sense.
	It's exactly what you'd expect.
	Yep.
	And then finally, in state, local government, more black women work in professional occupations, 41.9% and 49% than in any other profession.
	So again, this is where the black talent is ensconced and entrenched.
	Well, I just looked it up.
	The black population in Maryland is 30%.
	So it's about twice the national average.
	Yeah.
	I think in Georgia, it might even be more than that as well.
	I bet it is.
	Yes.
	Well, gosh, they are governing as well.
	As I say, they have all of these important jobs to do, succoring the downtrodden and making sure that they're co-racialists that are not continuing to be ground down by the heel of the oppressive white man.
	So more power to them.
	But I guess Trump is going to just disenfranchise them and they'll be in trouble now.
	By the way, the story, it's something Steve Saylor made fun of a lot.
	This is from the Washington Post.
	Black professional women are exhausted.
	They're finally claiming the time to rest.
	And it was about the burden that black professional women have and how they need to nap.
	I'm not making this up.
	This is from the Washington Post.
	Really?
	They have to nap on the job.
	So they're providing special nap rooms or nap time, nap time for our black employees?
	They're taking the steps this year to reclaim their rest.
	This was published August 20th, 2021 in the Washington Post.
	Wow.
	And yeah, they're going to reclaim their right to rest.
	Well, you know, I'm going to lay my burden down.
	Remember that Negro spiritual?
	I'm going to lay down my burden down by the riverside.
	Study women.
	As Steve Saylor writes, he writes, now it turns out that black women who can handle white-collar jobs are already absolutely exhausted and need to work less.
	Who could have seen that coming?
	So here's a mic pillow for you.
	Lay down.
	Oh, that's good.
	Yes.
	Well, let's see.
	Here's yet another version of the American Dream or one of those only in America stories.
	Diversity, as I say, it just blossoms and expands in infinite directions.
	But it turns out that in Harris County, Texas, a fellow by the name of Jose Armando Carcamo Pedromo, oh Perdomo, parley, sorry, sorry, sorry.
	He is a 22-year-old illegal alien from Honduras.
	He's facing charges for kidnapping a woman and leaving her locked up in a room for five days without food or water.
	Wow.
	During which he punched her, tied her up, and sexually assaulted her.
	And then he locked her up in a closet after she tried to escape.
	This really is the American dream.
	The woman is Chinese.
	So this just goes to show you what the fruits of diversity can blossom into.
	Only in Americas, I say.
	The investigation began after authorities got a 911 call about a woman screaming for help.
	Someone had seen her running down the street before a man grabbed her and hauled her back inside.
	When deputies entered the house in one of the bedrooms, they found a closet with a board screwed into it to keep the door shut.
	Gosh, I mean, if it's screwed in, that means every time she's let out, you have to unscrew a board.
	Wow, I just wonder what the toilet facilities were like there.
	When they opened the closet, they found the woman.
	Now, she said she is a masseuse from New York City, this Chinese lady.
	She was offered a position in Houston that paid more money.
	A position.
	I imagine it might be a supine one, but who knows?
	Who knows?
	Maybe back in China, she was a dental assistant and the Texas are going to recognize her qualifications.
	Who knows?
	But in any case, she was kidnapped.
	Her passport was taken.
	And investigators now believe there may be both more suspects and victims involved.
	I suspect so.
	You see one of these, and there are probably a few more elsewhere.
	No indication, however, of her legal status.
	But there's a special visa.
	We've discussed these before, in which if you are a victim of a crime and you're an illegal immigrant, it sounds like she was sure a victim of a crime, then you get special dispensation and you are allowed to live legally in the United States if you testify against your wrongdoers.
	The idea, of course, I suppose, is that those people living in the shadows can't come out and denounce other people living in the shadows who committed even the most heinous crimes.
	So yes, I thought this was just a lovely story about modern America, utterly unimaginable even in the 1960s.
	People of my generation growing up could not have conceived of a story like this in the United States of America, but there you go.
	Now, Japan, that's a country I pay attention to, and they just had parliamentary elections, and the Sanseito Party, founded just five years ago, broke through from obscurity and got 12.5% of the vote in the upper house elections and got a substantial slate of counselors.
	It's called the House of Counselors.
	Sanseito, by the way, it would be translated into the participation in government party.
	And its vote doesn't come anywhere near reflecting this 12.5%, its seismic impact.
	This vote was fueled by a flood of very small denomination individual donations.
	No corporate stuff.
	This is Japanese people who are very angry about the state of affairs.
	It has a hugely energized membership, and it set the agenda for the entire campaign with the more established parties constantly scrambling to respond to and attack or co-opt the message, the brash, nationalistic messages of its charismatic leader, Sohei Kamiya.
	Basically, the party wants no more foreigners.
	As a commentator writes in one of local Japanese papers, you could sense Japanese politics changing.
	As it turns out, the number of foreigners living in Japan hit a record of 3.8 million at the end of 2024.
	That figure marks an increase of 10.5% over the previous year.
	However, foreigners still make only 3% of the country's total population, and Japanese people already think that's too much.
	Tourists also hit an all-time high of about 37 million.
	And Japanese have blamed the influx of foreigners for crime, inflation, among other things.
	I think it's really quite interesting.
	There have been foreigners, some of our probably African-American fellow citizens or other melanin-enhanced tourists who have been misbehaving, breakdancing, and swinging on places they shouldn't be swinging on, such as subway straphanger bars.
	And so now there are posters up in Japan in which they will say, in Japanese, don't do this, and there'll be a picture of, I must say, an Afro-headed dark-skinned person standing on his head or breakdancing, and it says, don't do this in English.
	This has become a sufficient problem for public announcements of that kind to become necessary.
	In any case, on Tuesday, that was the Tuesday before, less than a week before the election, authorities had set up a new committee aimed at easing citizens' concerns, pledging to shape a, quote, society of orderly and harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals.
	This is precisely the kind of mealy-mouthed language that people come up with all the time.
	Harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals.
	Well, what?
	You don't have to coexist with them at all.
	And it makes it sound as though the Japanese have to change their behavior to be harmonious.
	But it seems to have come too late, and the Sanseito has charged into the limelight.
	And let us see how the Sanseitou describes itself.
	I went to its webpage.
	It says its goal is to protect our precious country, which our ancestors have protected and will decline under the rule of existing parties.
	I love that, our precious country.
	To create a peaceful country where the people are united with the emperor, applying the wisdom of our ancestors.
	Yes.
	Also, they say, we want a society where each Japanese person can proudly say, I'm happy to be born in this country.
	That's a lovely sentiment.
	I'm happy to be born in this country.
	And the people who can say, I'm born in this country, are not likely to be the ones who are breakdancing in public.
	Also, they say we are building a national unity that protects and nurtures Japan's freedom, culture, and the uniqueness of Japanese character.
	Well, I say three cheers for Sanseito, and I hope it goes from strength to strength.
	More good news, more good news.
	And they are fed up with a country that's just 3% foreign-born.
	And now don't we have, what, 25% foreign-born in this country?
	It's some egregious number.
	Yes, yes, a quarter, a quarter are foreign-born.
	And then, of course, the number of non-whites in this country is growing all the time.
	What are we, about 59%, 60% scheduled foreign minority status in 2042 or 20th to 2040?
	It always keeps changing.
	But yep, the Japanese want nothing to do with that.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about East Kansas City, not a place you or I would want to live in or probably even visit.
	Only reason we're going to talk about this, and we're going to be brief because regrettably we're running up on time here.
	We've got everybody's talking about how the New York City candidate for mayor there wants to have government-backed grocery stores because of food deserts and everything.
	Well, Fox News just had an article that spotlighted a government-funded grocery store, how it's floundering in Kansas City, as, of course, similar proposals are gaining steam in New York City.
	So I decided to actually look this up.
	I wanted to find out some information, Mr. Taylor, about this grocery store in Kansas City, because again, if you just go underneath the surface, you're going to find out some fun information.
	And this particular area of Kansas City, the zip code is 64109.
	So I looked up the demographics of that zip code where this grocery store, Casey Sunfresh, it's a nonprofit, which is heavily funded by the government there in Kansas City.
	The zip code, 45% black, 38% white.
	The grocery store has received more than $10 million since 2018, and it lost more than $900,000 in the past year with shelves basically empty because almost all of the money, Mr. Taylor, is going to pay for security.
	So I decided to look up and try and find a story that mentioned just the word food desert and blacks.
	I googled that, and I got a story from 2024.
	Sun Fresh Linwood was supposed to revive businesses in East Kansas City.
	The store is now in crisis.
	This is from kansascity.com.
	It was behind a paywall.
	I got around it, and I'm just going to read some of my favorite quotes from it.
	Remember, this is a grocery store that's basically state-run by a nonprofit that's funded by the government there in Kansas City, and its clientele is heavily, heavily black.
	Teenage grocery store shelf soccers have taken to carrying tasers in their pockets in case they have to defend themselves from customers at SunFresh Linwood at 31st Street and Prospect Avenue in East Kansas City.
	The SunFresh, which anchors the Linwood shopping complex plaza, has changed hands several times in the past few years as city leaders and organizations tried to keep East Kansas City from becoming an urban food desert.
	Most recently, KBKC, a black-owned development agency, took over operations of the entire plaza in 2022.
	But today, it's common for unhoused residents to sleep outside the SunFresh, meaning homeless.
	And reports of fighting, drug use, and public sex lead to frequent 911 calls from the plaza, according to residents in KBKC management.
	Two managers have Quentin last year, citing hazardous working conditions.
	Store is managed by assistant manager Adriana Rinty, who said in an August meeting with Mayor Quentin Lucas and Kansas City Police Department Chief Stacey Graves that her short tenure has been far from easy.
	Sales are so low that the store cannot afford to repair its broken front door.
	Developer and KBKC CEO Emmett Pearson said in August, about 85% of the store's total revenue goes to security.
	What?
	85% of total revenue goes to security.
	And they still can't repair their front door.
	SunFresh staff have begun calling 911 frequently, often reporting limited success.
	I guess the police officers are afraid to go there.
	On one recent occasion, Rinty said a Kansas City police officer declined to intervene with a SunFresh customer accused of theft because the officer was busy responding to another customer wielding a machete.
	First things first.
	Another time, Rinty said an officer refused to arrest a man threatening to kill Renty and other customers, instructing Rinty to instead talk it out.
	Talk it out.
	Talk it out.
	Five years ago, city officials put more than $20 million into businesses alongside Prospect Avenue commercial corridor, including $17 million into SunFresh, hoping to get ahead of Blight and make the area a more attractive gathering place for residents and their dollars.
	Not be a food desert.
	Bring back some responsible citizens who aren't going to have public sex.
	And anyways.
	However, Kansas City officials know that evidence of the city's investment has all but vanished along Prospect Avenue.
	And Pearson is considering shutting down the store if conditions continue because the money is going to run out.
	You know, they said that they don't want the current store manager who's young and fearless putting her life at risk to sell groceries.
	That's what's happening.
	I cannot think of a story that illustrates why food deserts exist more than the story of what's happening with Casey Sunsign Fresh, a government-backed attempt to keep away and create an oasis out of the commerce-free majority black area of this part of East Kansas City, Mr. Taylor, and this replicates across the country.
	But again, we're the bad guys for noticing this story.
	That is quite a story.
	My goodness.
	It goes on and on.
	This is one of the funniest stories I've ever read.
	Oh, it's going to go into some of the more.
	It's sad.
	It is sad.
	It is sad because, again, we know that this type of loitering, this type of criminality doesn't have to happen.
	But if you come down hard to stop it, you basically are considered fascistic and for, you know, de-policing is more important in the post-George Floyd era than over-policing.
	I wonder what else is in that shopping center.
	It's run by some black group.
	I wonder if any of the other stores are operating profitably.
	Wow.
	What a mess.
	What a mess.
	Well, I don't think something quite this bad would happen in New York City, but maybe.
	I mean, it depends on what part of the city they do it in.
	It depends on where they're.
	Yeah.
	There's a really, and one more just, just really depressing quote from it.
	One neighbor told Mayor Lucas of Kansas City, who is black, I can't bring my kids here.
	It's unthinkable, end quote, from that story.
	It's just, it's just, it's disgraceful.
	It's sad.
	And it's an indictment of the post-civil rights, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which has just completely annihilated the concept of freedom association.
	Well, it's certainly true that I suspect you could never have imagined a grocery store with that kind of record, that kind of behavior back in pre-integration days.
	Black people would have policed that kind of behavior.
	This is really quite shocking.
	Alas, well, boy, oh boy, that's part of the new American dream, I suppose.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have run out of time.
	And Mr. Kersey, thank you for that story that I'm glad you took the time to look up because I had not heard about that one bit at all.
	And ladies and gentlemen, we very much enjoy the honor and the privilege it is to spend this time with you.

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