CHICAGO RESIDENTS & QATAR IN IDAHO, THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING
The people of Chicago do not stand behind Brandon Johnson and Pritzker; they stand with President Trump and the people who will have their back and protect them and their families. On the flip side, our government has just agreed with the Qatari government to host a Qatari air base in Idaho. I'm not sure about you, but this feels wrong to me. @LyndaMick @RogueRecap See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Well, I've got two topics for you tonight, guys.
And welcome to the show.
This is the Rogue Recap.
I am Linda McLaughlin.
In true fashion of this show, we're going to talk about what I believe to be two of the biggest stories of the day.
Um, if you're paying attention to Illinois, uh the governor there, Pritzker, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, you are seeing these paid protesters, these rabid lunatics um who, while they want to unmask ice and homeland security and federal agents,
uh, you know, are in pink and black and uh blue masks with, you know, some of them have gas masks on, you know, and they're all covering their faces because while they're so brave to wear their cafe phases, they are not brave enough to let you know that it's them wearing their cafe.
So um continue to despise Antifa and uh wish we could just put them all on a bus and send them, I don't know, somewhere to a Remote Mountain where they have to forge for their own food or something.
I don't know.
But, you know, there's there's so much talk that the community is upset.
The community is angry about what's happening on the ground there.
And you know, I I just don't believe that.
I really don't.
You know, we played a few weeks ago here on the show, um, some audio of some residents that were like, you know, Pritzker and Brandon Johnson are standing on like the water side, and they're uh they're talking about how beautiful the city is.
And I'm like, first of all, you can't take credit for you know, the river.
You can't take credit for the bridge.
You can't take credit for an area that is, you know, kept up and clean because you've decided to make an appearance, or maybe it's always that way because the residents there take care of it.
You know, you have to go to the south side of Chicago.
You have to talk to people that are in the thick of where the drug cartels and the incredible illegal migration and the drive-by shootings, the broad daylight shootings, you know, we got little kids asleep in their bed getting shot.
I mean, there's just there's a lot going on.
And I I heard something the other day, and I've been repeating it because I believe it to be true, which is these liberals, these Antifa people, these Democrats, they hate Trump more than they love America, more than they love their constituents, more than they love freedom.
They would do anything they could to stop President Trump, and it does not matter what gets tramped in the way.
They don't care.
They just don't care.
And so I was scrolling through as I do.
Um, my son calls it the Doom Scroll, and I was looking at all of the various news stories, and I stumbled across this uh group of black residents from Chicago.
And it looks Like it probably was um around Christmas time last year, and so this is before any of the Trump stuff.
But I know that Trump was even talking then when he had first, you know, won the election that he was going to come into the major cities and clean them up and tackle crime and all the things.
And even then they were freaking out.
And um this woman so precisely responds to the ridiculous allocation of taxpayer dollars to non-legal people that are living in the state at the behest and the welcome of Johnson and Pritzker,
and as a result, they are taking away funds from subsidized programs that go to at-risk communities servicing, you know, a lot of the black communities, and they're losing shelters and housing and so on and so forth.
So I'm gonna set this up a little bit, which is this woman is standing here, she's in front of a group of um, I guess, friends and colleagues, and she's talking about how upset she is, and she's not pulling any punches.
And then on the other side, we'll go into a little bit about where that anger that you're hearing on this tape is actually coming from.
This morning I heard Mayor Brandon Johnson say that the sentiment in the black community is waning a lot.
The sentiment is not waning.
We are not okay with you taking our resources and giving them to people who don't live here.
As Mark stated before, you are preparing housing for them.
One of the reasons that the city of Chicago was able to close 50 schools was because of the black flight.
And the reason we had a black light was because there's no affordable housing in this city.
It is because the city of Chicago shut down the voucher system so that blacks who needed to get affordable housing could not.
So they had no choice but to flee to other states.
But now you found money for the migrants, right?
We're calling back.
And then another thing you said was that the faith-based leaders were helping to wing around the sentiment.
We haven't paid attention to faith-based leaders since Dr. Martin Luther King.
And guess what?
We are not listening to them now.
We understand that they are bought and paid for.
We understand that you control the narrative that they are trying to speak about.
So let me just say this to you.
We're not listening to them the same way we're not listening to you.
What you're doing is not okay.
I mean, could she be more spot on?
Chicago sheltered over 46,000 migrants since the summer of 2022.
And I'm sure that that number is conservative.
They've spent over 500 million dollars on illegal immigration.
And again, it's not being forced upon them.
They welcome it.
And Brandon Johnson is extending the shelter stays, and he did that as recently as September last month.
Even though black communities are screaming and saying you are diverting resources from things that help our community to help a community of people that are not here legally and do not pay into the system and do nothing to benefit.
How is this a thing?
Now, this woman is referencing initially with the Chicago schools where she talked about that black flight.
That goes back to 2013, and that was under Rom Emanuel.
And there was a ton of ongoing housing shortages in these black neighborhoods.
And obviously, instead of finding ways to get people into housing, they closed the voucher system, not allowing people to apply and forcing them to go to other cities and states where they could get affordable housing and projects and housing developments, etc.
for low income.
And to her point, you know, when she said we're not listening to faith leaders any more than we're listening to you.
That's because the faith leaders are getting kickbacks, and they're almost, if not worse, than the politicians, or they're exactly the same as them.
You know, Al Sharpton is one of these guys That is just such a grifter.
He is like the king of cringe.
And he's everywhere.
And he's just full of it.
He's never saying anything that feels authentic.
It's so contrived and ridiculous.
And I think to myself, you are one of the most deplorable people I have ever seen debate, whether it be on your TV show, on your radio show.
I've I've seen him in live debate.
He is so uneducated, and he just pulls stuff out of his ass that doesn't even make sense.
He accuses everyone who he you know is fighting with, he accuses of racism.
You're a racist.
Okay.
Well, now we got that out of the way.
Just so that he can sort of pivot the conversation away from the question that's being asked of him.
And it really doesn't service anybody.
Nobody gets anything out of that, you know.
Anyways, I love this woman.
I don't know this woman.
I don't know who she is.
She's got some weird username on TikTok.
It's like user number 4656, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But I loved how plainly and how directly she was talking to her elected officials and explaining, I don't know who you think you're talking about, and I don't know who you think is behind you, but it is not the black community.
And if there is a black community standing next to you, it's because they've been bought and paid for.
They have been bought and paid for.
And whatever it is that you're doing with those migrants and creating shelters and creating funds, to say that you have nothing left and you can't help the people of your community and that to suddenly find half a you know half a billion dollars, really.
It's just, it's just wrong.
And I there's really not a lot of, there's really not a lot of room to butter that up or make it something it's not.
They're just bad people.
It's just real simple.
So we're going to pivot to the next topic of tonight, which is something that has me really upset, and I have no idea why we're doing it.
You may or may not have heard that today, our Secretary of War, Pete Heggseth, has agreed to host a new Qatari Air Force facility in Mountain Home Air Force Base right here in Idaho.
The facility is going to be used to train Qatari pilots to fly F-15 fighter jets.
It's going to accommodate the Qatari F-15 fighter jets and their pilots.
And there's going to be joint training with U.S. forces so that we have enhanced combat readiness and cooperation.
Now, the Secretary of War Pete Heggseth is excited about this.
He praised Qatar's role in the Gaza Peace Deal and is saying thank you so much for being such a big part of what happened in Gaza, and this is historic.
So they're sitting there at this table.
It's Pete Heggseth and his, I guess, you know, sort of counterpart for Qatar, and they're signing this agreement that we're going to have a Qatari base in Idaho.
What?
I gotta tell you, this, I honestly had to see if this was like a Babylon B thing, but it's not.
Take a listen.
We also value the close cooperation between Doha and Washington that led to the signing of the Gaza Peace Plan on October 8th.
This historic achievement underscore what can be accomplished when our nations work together with courage and trust amongst other partners such as Egypt and Turkey.
We further welcome today's signing of the letter of acceptance establishing a Qatari Amir Air Force facility and mountain home air base in Idaho.
This steps drinken and please enhance joint readiness and advance our shared defense goals.
Mr. Secretary, together we will continue to deepen this strategic partnership in pursuit of lasting peace and shared security.
Thank you very much.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
How about that?
Yeah.
Exchange.
And this is them signing.
That's what you're hearing.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, God.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Just to recap there.
This is the Qatari Minister of Defense, Al Fanny.
He's calling this peace deal in Gaza a historic achievement.
I would agree with that.
I will reserve my comments for what I believe to be an unfortunate reality and where I think this will ultimately end up.
But for right now, fine.
Fanny is like, this is great.
We, you know, the effectiveness of the U.S. Qatari collaboration and the partnerships between the United States and Doha.
And, you know, and then President Trump jumps in and he's like, Thank you, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey for also being a part of the ceasefire agreement with Israel and Hamas.
Yeah, okay, fine.
But we're not talking about Israel and Hamas here.
We're talking about a Qatari air base in Idaho.
How the hell did a Qatari air base in Idaho become a part of the peace deal between Hamas and Israel?
Is this what we're doing?
We're giving up a peace.
I mean, Idaho, guys.
You know, like, have you ever eaten mashed potatoes from there?
This is like literally down home America.
And now we're gonna have a bunch of Qataris living there with an Air Force base.
I am I don't know.
This just feels wrong to me.
And you know, my good friend Brigitte Gabriel, she's been on this show, and this is a woman who truly understands uh the religion of Islam.
And she wrote today on X, she was like, This is a huge mistake.
These people are not our friends.
She said very simply, I don't trust Qatar, I don't trust Hamas, I don't trust Iran, and I don't trust the Muslim Brotherhood.
They all work towards the same angle.
I agree with her.
If you need to work with people because you have a collective greater good result that you're looking for, wonderful.
I think that's awesome.
But is there a reason why we need to give them American soil for a foreign airbase?
I don't know.
This just feels wrong to me.
I already think that we've got sleeper cells all over this country.
I already think that we are at great risk.
I've lived through 9-11 and uh I would choose to not do it again.
And I don't know, it's funny, you know, it's it's like never again is right now, whether it's the way people have this rabid anti-Semitism or the way that they're falling for you know Democrat bullshit or the way that they're like, yeah, we can all live in peace.
We really can't.
America is not a melting pot.
America is a place where a lot of people do their own thing right next to each other and occasionally cross paths, but for the most part, they're siloed in their communities, they do what they want to do, and when they want to mix those communities, they do.
But they're not, it's not an everyday thing.
So this idea that you're gonna bring in Qataris, I I don't know.
I just think it's a mistake.
That's my personal opinion.
And I'm really concerned about what we're giving in return for a quote unquote peace deal with Hamas, which I have to tell you from my the bottom of my heart, I don't even think is possible.
I mean, these guys are screaming from the river to the sea every single day.
And it has nothing to do with how hard our country worked to achieve this peace deal.
We still don't have the hostages back.
Dead or alive, shouldn't we have them back?
What they did on October 7th is so beyond the pale.
The idea that they used media and social media and live streaming to let the world know just how much they could do, how much hate they have, how much venom they have, and how little regard they have for human life.
It's it's the same old adage.
Like when someone tells you who they are, believe them.
And in this case, they showed you.
I mean, we still have people denying shit.
It's pretty upsetting.
I I'm very against this Qatari Air Base in Idaho.
I don't know why we can't have a Qatari air base In Qatar.
And then if we wanted to send, you know, United States pilots there to train with them on F 15s, have at it.
But to actually bring in the planes and the staffing from Qatar into Idaho, it's a massive, massive mistake.
I don't know, guys.
It doesn't feel right to me.
Uh, we have Columbus Day on Monday.
I'm so grateful to President Trump that it is Columbus Day again, and that we're actually proud of Italian uh heritage that brought us to this great nation with the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
I still remember that from fourth grade.
What is it?
1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
I don't know.
In any event, uh Monday will be a day to remember and not a day to hate uh quote unquote European colonizers.
And I for sure will be one of those people celebrating.
I hope you will too.
And I will see you next week.
Please follow us at Linda Mick at Rogue Recap.
Be safe out there.
We'll see you next week.
We'll see you next week.
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Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
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