Lies and Statistics

No BS Newshour Episode #379

Lies and Statistics

 

Clarification to the latest national media hysteria:

(26:28) DC is NOT the safest it’s been in 30 years.

 

They’re simply using Detroit crime accounting in the nation’s capitol.

 

(20:23) AI can’t tell you that because AI traffics in mainstream Fake News.

 

(0:04) What has happened to the squalid Detroit shelter for women and children six months after two homeless babies were found dead in the back of a frozen van?

NOTHING.

 

I invite Mayor Mike Duggan- who calls our reports “nonsense”- to come inspect the dump along with our cameras.

 

With @jcroe and @philabenny. 

 

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News, you want some news?

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Here’s some news.

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The Detroit Dog Pound has a certificate of occupancy.

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A homeless shelter on the east side of Detroit for

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vulnerable women and children doesn’t have one.

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You can’t even put dogs in there.

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How’s it in there?

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Terrible.

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What the f**k?

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It was an international scandal.

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It was just six months ago this week that a woman living

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in a freezing van woke up to find two of her babies

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dead in the back.

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Making it worse was she had called the Detroit homeless

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hotline on multiple occasions only to be turned away.

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I reached out in November.

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I reached out before that.

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I’ve been on the cam list for a long time.

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So we came to one of these shelters for women and children

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last February,

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only to find a woman and her baby eating off of the

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floor.

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Good morning.

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You cold?

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They don’t have no more blanket for you.

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Well, at least it’s warm.

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There’s baby on the floor.

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We found out the place flunked multiple inspections

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and it wasn’t even legal to house dogs in there.

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After we posted the story,

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a reporter asked Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan,

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what’s up with that?

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Charlie LaDuff had posted video outside of a women’s

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and children’s shelter,

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said it was not authorized for occupation.

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He showed a child on the floor.

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Can someone address that?

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It’s a bunch of nonsense.

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And what that is?

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It’s a bunch of nonsense.

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six months later,

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and millions of dollars for the homeless unaccounted

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for, the place is still not fixed,

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cannot legally or safely be occupied,

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and flunked yet another inspection just a few weeks

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ago.

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How’s it in there?

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Terrible.

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Terrible?

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Tell me how,

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because I need to get it fixed for you.

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In water.

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Yes, madam,

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it is terrible.

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And now Mayor Mike Duggan wants to be Governor Mike

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Duggan.

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What we want is a federal investigation for the sake

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of the children.

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Live from downtown Detroit,

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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,

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Charlie LaDa and Jared Dumas.

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This is just breaking this double bullshit,

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double bullshit.

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All right,

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let’s just review this for a second.

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The new dog pound has a certificate of occupancy as

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required by law,

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assuring the public that the place is safe for both

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man and beast.

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The new Detroit homeless shelter does not have a certificate

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of occupancy,

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thus putting vulnerable women and children at risk

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of harm and sickness.

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The conditions at the Detroit Rescue Ministry’s Gratiot

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Avenue Emergency Shelter for Women and Children Only

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came to light six months ago this week.

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Remember?

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After two children died in the back of a rusting van

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in a casino parking lot where they were sleeping with

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their mother and other kids and grandma,

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remember?

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Remember the mother had called the city’s emergency

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homeless hotline on multiple occasions in 2023 only

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to be turned away?

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She was conditioned to accept rejection,

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and so the mother quit trying,

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and thus they’re in a van.

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They’re in a van,

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folks.

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The scandal shocked the world.

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It even made the Hindu Times or the India Times of

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India.

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It went everywhere,

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New York Times,

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everywhere.

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And that led me to the doors of the Gratiot Seltzer

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on the city’s east side,

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one of the few for women and children only.

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I was told by homeless advocates and city officials

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then that the place had not passed multiple fire inspections,

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nor did it have a certificate of compliance,

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thus making it ineligible to house dogs,

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musletts,

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children.

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Here’s that stack of failed reports.

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The thing is open in January 2024.

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Look at this.

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Look at this.

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When we first visited the facility,

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as you saw on that frigid February morning,

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a woman and her children were sleeping under thin

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blankets on the vestibule floor.

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which also served as their breakfast table.

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Back then,

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Mayor Mike Duggan called our report nonsense,

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despite the video evidence you just saw.

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And this guy wants to be governor.

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You think Duggan would have made fixing this his top

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priority.

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Not a riverfront walk,

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not skyscrapers,

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not ballparks.

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First, first thing,

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shelter for women and children.

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So this week we return to the shelter.

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And despite being awarded a $400,000 grant from Biden’s

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COVID money,

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the place continues to operate outside of city law.

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It’s failed its building inspection yet again just

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a few weeks ago after receiving a complaint about

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the conditions inside.

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According to the new inspector’s report and the accompanying

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photographs,

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the building’s infected with foreign substances,

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which to me looks like black mold,

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leaking pipes,

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fetid toilets,

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holes in the ceiling,

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a broken elevator,

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and still no certificate of compliance.

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You heard the mother.

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Mother of four.

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It’s terrible.

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Nobody wants to be in that building.

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It’s a place of last resort for hungry children and

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women tired of their old men’s hard hands.

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Still, they deserve a place that is at least as clean

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and as safe as the animal shelter.

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That’s why we pay taxes.

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Not a single man in his room would complain about taking

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money out of your pocket to protect these people,

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would you?

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No.

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Any of you guys?

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No.

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I expect it to fucking go there.

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I expect the child to get orange juice.

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Somehow it transmogrifies into orange drink.

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More than a billion dollars of federal money has been

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funneled into the city of Detroit over the past five

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years.

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They put out a press statement,

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over a billion dollars.

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This is for low-income housing and emergency shelter,

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a billion dollars,

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a press conference,

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dead children.

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Nobody goes to look.

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So when children die in the back of a van,

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I get angry.

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I reached out to Chad Audie,

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the executive director of that nonprofit,

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which owns the building.

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He claimed to me,

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The building continues to legally operate as a designated

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emergency warming center,

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a designation it received back in January of 2024.

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It’s now August of 2025,

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and the temperatures this week were in the mid-80s.

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Everything’s been fixed,

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he assures me.

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Almost everything except the elevator,

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which is already scheduled,

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will be repaired,

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he said, which is strange because that’s what he told

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me six months ago.

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Audie offered me a tour,

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and I have accepted.

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Now, City Hall,

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I know you listen because we can see the URL,

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or not, no,

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the IP address.

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I know you listen to the show.

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I’ve accepted,

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and now let’s see if Mayor Dougal will accept my invitation

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to tag along,

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along with the building inspector.

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How about that?

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Back after this.

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The market roller coaster is making you grind your

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teeth.

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We’re all hanging on to this ride like Gail King and

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Just hang on to your flower.

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Some people are saying that the earth will be better

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when this is all over.

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the internet goes out.

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When the internet goes out,

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I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.

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Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,

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giving it everything he’s got.

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Look at that man crack.

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So busy.

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He forgot to wear a belt.

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There’s Matt right there getting the board together.

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That’s 734-245-4100.

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So Karen, wait a minute.

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You’re not Karen.

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That’s Jason Rowe,

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the Republican strategist.

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What is a strategist?

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Can you explain to the listening public who don’t give

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a fuck?

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I think it’s pretty self-explanatory.

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No, I think your audience is smart enough to know that

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word means.

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I asked Adolf Mongo that once.

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What do you mean?

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It’s a fucking strategist,

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you fucking moral.

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On campaigns,

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I got to develop a strategy to how my clients can

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win an election.

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You basically are the chess master here,

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right?

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Yeah.

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Or checkers,

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depending on the race.

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Do you move the people?

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What’s the difference between a strategist and a campaign

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manager?

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A manager does the day-to-day grind of implementing

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the political plan.

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The strategist or consultant is the one that develops

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the plan.

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So who comes up with like the schedule?

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The schedule,

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media schedule would be the consultant typically,

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and then you develop the messaging.

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Consultant.

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Wait a minute.

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That’s a third one.

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I’m getting confused.

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Strategist,

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campaign manager,

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Consultant.

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I’ll bring an org chart next to it.

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Okay, just go ahead because,

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rapidly losing audience.

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I’m confused.

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Now I know why they need so much money to ruin an election.

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You need a social media guy.

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You do.

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Yeah, you do.

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You need that,

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right?

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Yeah.

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You need a firm to make your campaign commercials.

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You do.

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You have to hire.

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private investigators to dig up shit.

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Opposition research.

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The opposition you got,

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but you also have to research,

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you have to do oppositional research on yourself.

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Yeah, we call it a vulnerability study.

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A vulnerability study.

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And so the strategist does all that.

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You’re the choreographer of all of that.

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So it’s typically in a campaign,

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I probably have 8 to 10 different vendors that do

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different things that I coordinate and then synthesize

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into the plan to make sure everything happens.

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And I mean,

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dude, you know,

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this is just your bona fides.

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You’re all over the country.

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You were the former executive director of the Michigan

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Republican Party.

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And you’ve run gubernatorial campaigns in Missouri,

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Washington,

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California,

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Connecticut.

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What you got now?

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I mean, because the cycle’s never over.

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Here in Michigan,

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Tom Barrett.

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his re-election.

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That’ll be probably one of the biggest incumbent races

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in the country.

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Oh, that’s the one where the deep states got a couple

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of candidates,

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one that carried the nuclear football.

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And 2 candidates who’ve never lived in the district

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in their entire lives,

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one from Nebraska,

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one from Grand Rapids,

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both airdropped into the district.

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One was Biden’s ambassador to Ukraine.

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When the war lights off.

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Yeah.

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OK, there you go.

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And then the another guy.

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Wait, I didn’t she also she was in Sarajevo.

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I looked into it for a minute.

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Everywhere she went,

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war lit off.

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Well, I got a call from one of her security details

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at the time,

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and he was a career U.S.

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personnel guy and said she was the single worst ambassador

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he had ever worked with,

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the most incompetent.

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So I’m going to talk to him a little bit more and see

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what else we can find out.

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We’ll see if we can get her in here.

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I think we should,

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absolutely.

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By the way,

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but even,

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so there’s I think 5 candidates that are filed.

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One is a furry and he is running as a furry.

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What’s a furry?

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A person that dresses up in a furry costume.

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And gets sexually aroused.

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Some people do that,

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yeah.

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Is he using his furry name?

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Yes, he’s using.

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What’s the name?

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I have to look it up.

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Is that legal?

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It’s a weird euphemic.

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Apparently.

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Bobby the Beaver.

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And he’s actually pretty articulate.

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I’ve watched some interviews that he’s done.

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He’s an articulate guy.

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But he’s shame him.

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Like this.

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We need more jobs.

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No corporate welfare.

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No forever wars.

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I could do that.

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I think he has like 7 followers on social media and

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I’m one of them.

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What’s you know,

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you don’t know his name?

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But the NBC and CBS affiliates in Lansing have both

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done interviews with this guy.

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In costume?

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Not in costume,

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no.

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But his website,

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you go to it,

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it’s him in costume.

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You go to his social media.

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Look, I’d rather have that than somebody that goes

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around the war,

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foment.

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He’s keeping it interesting.

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I mean, going around the world,

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you know what I mean?

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He’s from the district.

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Yeah.

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He doesn’t have to go on a listening tour on,

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you know,

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Saginaw Street.

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Where’s that?

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Because Alyssa Slotkin’s a deep state shit,

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you know what I mean?

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She spent very little time here.

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As an adult,

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like none.

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No, when she left after high school,

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she did not come back to Michigan until the year she

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filed for Congress.

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Never voted here.

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No.

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What’s this?

412
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What?

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Never paid any property taxes.

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00:13:42,060 –> 00:13:43,380
Four years out of her entire life.

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Yeah, she’s only been in…

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That’s like the listening tours.

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She was here for Cranbrook was basically her experience

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in Michigan.

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Very in touch with the working people of Mid-Michigan.

420
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And I love it.

421
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Like, okay,

422
00:13:56,540 –> 00:13:57,300
now we’re getting elected.

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She’s trying to move to the middle,

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not to be president.

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She wants to be secretary of state.

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That’s the move here,

427
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I see, right?

428
00:14:03,020 –> 00:14:06,220
There is not a more phony,

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successful candidate in America than Alyssa Slotkin.

430
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And watching

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people fawn over her.

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In every one of her races,

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she outspent her opponent 3 to 1 and 4 to 1.

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And I think the most she ever got was 51.6%

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of the vote.

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So you take the money,

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make it equal,

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we wouldn’t even know her name.

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Speaking as a Democrat who just doesn’t identify with

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them anymore because they don’t identify with what

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it is we want.

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When they say,

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we need a leader,

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we need a figurehead,

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you don’t need a leader or a figure.

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That’s what you’re trying to create out of her.

447
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You need people

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that understand how we’re living,

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the values that we have,

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the things that we’ve lost,

451
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and the things that we cherish.

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And where the fuck is Saginaw Street?

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That’s what we need.

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And I find it remarkable in this political world now.

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Anybody that tries to dodge this microphone is suspect.

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That would be Mike Duggan.

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That would be Gretchen Whitmer.

458
00:15:02,380 –> 00:15:05,100
That would be any Republican that you can name.

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00:15:05,100 –> 00:15:06,860
There’s none popping up to the floor now.

460
00:15:07,020 –> 00:15:07,340
Let’s see if

461
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John James Pops in here.

462
00:15:10,220 –> 00:15:11,180
He’s been on the show.

463
00:15:11,260 –> 00:15:12,860
Mike Cox, he’s been on the show.

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00:15:13,660 –> 00:15:14,540
Tom Barrett’s been on.

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Tom Barrett’s been on the show.

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You know, we’ve had very many Republicans.

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I could list them,

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but if you’re dodging,

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you’re not fit for the job because you can’t think

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on your feet.

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00:15:23,500 –> 00:15:24,860
These aren’t trick questions.

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They’re simple questions.

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Do you have a simple,

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coherent,

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00:15:28,940 –> 00:15:30,300
and concise answer to give us?

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Because quite frankly,

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if you look at it,

478
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The Republicans have taken the mainstream Democratic

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points.

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00:15:41,501 –> 00:15:43,861
I mean, Trump was a Democrat.

481
00:15:44,021 –> 00:15:45,541
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat.

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00:15:45,861 –> 00:15:47,861
Bobby Kennedy was a Democrat.

483
00:15:48,181 –> 00:15:49,981
Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat.

484
00:15:50,661 –> 00:15:51,781
What can you give us now?

485
00:15:51,781 –> 00:15:55,301
You can’t be going far less than Socialist Democrat

486
00:15:55,301 –> 00:15:55,701
shit.

487
00:15:55,861 –> 00:15:56,861
It doesn’t work.

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00:15:57,021 –> 00:15:57,381
I was

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sitting at a table with some people and we all love

490
00:16:00,341 –> 00:16:00,661
Bernie.

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00:16:00,661 –> 00:16:01,221
Bernie’s great.

492
00:16:01,221 –> 00:16:01,701
Bernie, hey,

493
00:16:02,101 –> 00:16:02,621
millionaires,

494
00:16:02,621 –> 00:16:03,141
millionaires.

495
00:16:03,141 –> 00:16:04,341
We all know that.

496
00:16:04,501 –> 00:16:06,261
But we tried four years of Bernie.

497
00:16:07,301 –> 00:16:08,101
We tried.

498
00:16:08,421 –> 00:16:10,021
There was no wealth redistribution.

499
00:16:10,021 –> 00:16:11,701
They didn’t have the votes or the guts to do it.

500
00:16:11,701 –> 00:16:13,301
So in lieu of that,

501
00:16:13,381 –> 00:16:16,661
they printed money and it destroyed the value of money.

502
00:16:16,821 –> 00:16:18,341
That’s not the way to get things done.

503
00:16:18,341 –> 00:16:18,821
You agree?

504
00:16:19,061 –> 00:16:19,461
Absolutely.

505
00:16:19,701 –> 00:16:19,821
Yeah.

506
00:16:19,821 –> 00:16:23,301
I mean, the problems that we have were problems created

507
00:16:23,301 –> 00:16:23,941
by government.

508
00:16:24,301 –> 00:16:25,341
I mean, people are struggling.

509
00:16:25,341 –> 00:16:26,341
The cost of gasoline,

510
00:16:26,341 –> 00:16:27,381
the cost of housing,

511
00:16:27,381 –> 00:16:28,581
the cost of groceries,

512
00:16:28,741 –> 00:16:29,461
insurance.

513
00:16:29,461 –> 00:16:31,941
I mean, no matter what kind of insurance you have,

514
00:16:32,181 –> 00:16:33,861
you’ve seen it go up and you’re going to see it go

515
00:16:33,901 –> 00:16:35,381
up again in the next year.

516
00:16:35,381 –> 00:16:36,981
And I think in 2026,

517
00:16:37,421 –> 00:16:40,741
as much as the 2024 election was about kitchen table

518
00:16:40,741 –> 00:16:41,661
cost of living issues,

519
00:16:41,661 –> 00:16:43,061
I think it’s going to be accelerated.

520
00:16:43,301 –> 00:16:46,021
You and I have talked off camera about

521
00:16:47,061 –> 00:16:47,701
unemployment.

522
00:16:48,261 –> 00:16:51,781
we get plenty of coverage of Doge and all the layoffs

523
00:16:51,901 –> 00:16:52,981
of government employees,

524
00:16:53,381 –> 00:16:56,301
but there are hundreds of thousands of private sector

525
00:16:56,301 –> 00:16:58,661
employees being laid off around the country.

526
00:16:58,661 –> 00:17:00,981
And with AI and a lot of other factors,

527
00:17:01,381 –> 00:17:02,861
we’re going to continue to see that.

528
00:17:02,861 –> 00:17:05,141
And so I think unemployment is going to continue to

529
00:17:05,141 –> 00:17:05,541
go up.

530
00:17:05,541 –> 00:17:07,581
And I think we’re going to we risk being in a very

531
00:17:07,581 –> 00:17:09,421
tough spot if Trump’s policies don’t work.

532
00:17:10,181 –> 00:17:11,181
And the hubris of it all,

533
00:17:11,181 –> 00:17:15,621
like I’ve got reacquated with a guy working for

534
00:17:16,021 –> 00:17:18,901
an auto company that had to go to India and train his

535
00:17:18,901 –> 00:17:19,501
replacement.

536
00:17:19,501 –> 00:17:20,581
It was going to make less,

537
00:17:20,581 –> 00:17:20,821
you know.

538
00:17:20,821 –> 00:17:21,541
I remember that.

539
00:17:22,421 –> 00:17:24,821
So who just did that,

540
00:17:24,821 –> 00:17:24,981
Mark?

541
00:17:24,981 –> 00:17:25,781
Was it Apple?

542
00:17:26,021 –> 00:17:30,661
They laid off about 14,000 and then Microsoft,

543
00:17:31,141 –> 00:17:34,061
and then they asked for a reciprocal 14,000,

544
00:17:34,221 –> 00:17:34,661
what is it?

545
00:17:35,221 –> 00:17:35,941
H1Bs.

546
00:17:36,821 –> 00:17:40,901
So, wow, that’s absolutely got to stop.

547
00:17:40,901 –> 00:17:43,541
That is a democratic talking point.

548
00:17:44,101 –> 00:17:44,421
right?

549
00:17:44,821 –> 00:17:47,221
Our jobs, a chicken in our pot,

550
00:17:48,021 –> 00:17:49,061
equity and fairness.

551
00:17:51,621 –> 00:17:54,501
Come on, So what did you make of,

552
00:17:54,861 –> 00:17:56,581
we’re going to go back to these stats.

553
00:17:56,581 –> 00:18:00,021
We got Benny the nose man is standing by,

554
00:18:00,021 –> 00:18:00,341
you know,

555
00:18:00,341 –> 00:18:03,061
former DC cop,

556
00:18:03,221 –> 00:18:04,261
10 years of DC cop,

557
00:18:04,261 –> 00:18:05,141
NYPD.

558
00:18:06,021 –> 00:18:08,741
Want to talk about what’s going on in DC.

559
00:18:08,901 –> 00:18:10,341
Over, is it overreach?

560
00:18:10,501 –> 00:18:10,901
Is it

561
00:18:11,541 –> 00:18:13,341
Trump rattling the institutions again,

562
00:18:13,341 –> 00:18:13,741
et cetera.

563
00:18:13,741 –> 00:18:14,821
But before we do that,

564
00:18:16,021 –> 00:18:17,061
the homeless piece here,

565
00:18:19,141 –> 00:18:23,941
a billion dollars and nobody wants to look.

566
00:18:24,421 –> 00:18:26,181
What is wrong with the media?

567
00:18:27,461 –> 00:18:31,021
This was the story and no follow-up.

568
00:18:31,461 –> 00:18:32,501
So nothing gets fixed.

569
00:18:32,901 –> 00:18:34,101
That’s why I mean,

570
00:18:34,421 –> 00:18:35,381
this is a mirage.

571
00:18:35,701 –> 00:18:39,461
This is why at the No Bullshit News Hour,

572
00:18:39,461 –> 00:18:40,421
Michigan Enjoyer,

573
00:18:41,061 –> 00:18:41,941
mayoral debate,

574
00:18:42,661 –> 00:18:44,021
the audience was seething.

575
00:18:44,181 –> 00:18:46,261
The people that lived here were seething.

576
00:18:46,501 –> 00:18:47,941
You open up the New York Times,

577
00:18:48,781 –> 00:18:49,621
and it’s a magazine,

578
00:18:49,621 –> 00:18:50,501
they’ll come back to Detroit,

579
00:18:50,501 –> 00:18:51,301
come visit it,

580
00:18:51,301 –> 00:18:52,021
it’s booming,

581
00:18:52,421 –> 00:18:53,781
and the person they’re quoting,

582
00:18:54,341 –> 00:18:55,141
right off the rip,

583
00:18:55,701 –> 00:18:56,981
sells real estate downtown.

584
00:18:59,861 –> 00:19:02,261
Well, it’s not a problem that’s unique to Detroit either.

585
00:19:02,461 –> 00:19:05,461
I mean, homelessness around the country is out of control.

586
00:19:07,141 –> 00:19:09,301
And a lot of it is that we’re tolerating it.

587
00:19:09,301 –> 00:19:11,941
A lot of, we’re going to segue into what’s going on

588
00:19:11,941 –> 00:19:12,581
in DC.

589
00:19:12,981 –> 00:19:16,021
You know, what’s going on in DC where you have people

590
00:19:16,021 –> 00:19:19,141
walking the streets that should be in jail or in some

591
00:19:19,141 –> 00:19:21,461
kind of institution to deal with their mental health

592
00:19:21,461 –> 00:19:21,941
issues.

593
00:19:22,101 –> 00:19:24,261
And instead they’re on the street committing crimes,

594
00:19:24,581 –> 00:19:25,381
carjackings,

595
00:19:25,381 –> 00:19:25,861
et cetera.

596
00:19:26,981 –> 00:19:30,541
You know, I think you served up for the media a story

597
00:19:30,541 –> 00:19:31,861
that they should have jumped on.

598
00:19:32,101 –> 00:19:33,381
with the homeless shelter,

599
00:19:33,381 –> 00:19:36,101
and especially now comparing it to what we’re doing

600
00:19:36,101 –> 00:19:37,541
for a dog shelter.

601
00:19:38,301 –> 00:19:41,061
And the difference in standard of that is pretty outrageous.

602
00:19:41,061 –> 00:19:43,621
And you would think that after Duggan said what he

603
00:19:43,621 –> 00:19:45,781
said, that he would make that the top priority.

604
00:19:46,021 –> 00:19:48,901
I don’t, I think the media refuses to cover anything

605
00:19:48,901 –> 00:19:51,221
that seems to be driven by people outside of their

606
00:19:51,221 –> 00:19:51,861
little bubble.

607
00:19:53,301 –> 00:19:55,541
And I think one of the reasons Duggan’s running as

608
00:19:55,541 –> 00:19:56,661
an independent is

609
00:19:57,261 –> 00:19:59,461
There’s not going to be any cross-examination of his

610
00:19:59,461 –> 00:20:02,541
record as he runs until after the Republicans and

611
00:20:02,541 –> 00:20:05,221
Democrats choose their nominees next August.

612
00:20:05,541 –> 00:20:08,141
So he’s going to be able to travel the state talking

613
00:20:08,141 –> 00:20:09,061
about butterflies,

614
00:20:09,061 –> 00:20:09,541
rainbows,

615
00:20:09,541 –> 00:20:11,301
and unicorns with,

616
00:20:11,381 –> 00:20:14,341
frankly, only you and the Democratic Governors Association

617
00:20:15,141 –> 00:20:18,101
looking under the hood to what the real story in Detroit

618
00:20:18,101 –> 00:20:18,341
is.

619
00:20:18,421 –> 00:20:19,461
Yeah, and you know,

620
00:20:19,901 –> 00:20:21,621
what’s up with the media is it’s,

621
00:20:21,701 –> 00:20:22,021
look,

622
00:20:23,621 –> 00:20:24,701
They don’t care if they’re wrong anymore.

623
00:20:24,701 –> 00:20:26,821
It used to be great shame if you got it wrong,

624
00:20:26,821 –> 00:20:27,061
right?

625
00:20:27,061 –> 00:20:28,461
And you’d get blasted.

626
00:20:28,461 –> 00:20:30,501
And now they’ve gotten so many things wrong,

627
00:20:30,501 –> 00:20:31,781
it’s not even worth going into.

628
00:20:33,141 –> 00:20:35,941
But everybody’s going over to like AI,

629
00:20:36,261 –> 00:20:36,941
asking AI,

630
00:20:36,941 –> 00:20:37,381
is that, hey,

631
00:20:37,381 –> 00:20:38,261
Grok, is that true?

632
00:20:39,141 –> 00:20:42,101
And it’s become apparent to me that all AI’s doing

633
00:20:42,421 –> 00:20:43,541
is scrubbing the net,

634
00:20:43,941 –> 00:20:44,261
right?

635
00:20:44,741 –> 00:20:46,821
It’s not really doing any analysis for you.

636
00:20:46,901 –> 00:20:49,621
So all the big click machines,

637
00:20:49,621 –> 00:20:50,341
New York Times,

638
00:20:50,341 –> 00:20:51,221
Associated Press,

639
00:20:52,501 –> 00:20:55,301
All they want to do is keep their seat at the power

640
00:20:55,301 –> 00:20:55,501
table.

641
00:20:55,501 –> 00:20:56,661
It doesn’t matter if they’re wrong.

642
00:20:56,661 –> 00:20:58,821
So they double down and continues to get wrong.

643
00:20:58,821 –> 00:21:01,221
Like I was looking at this.

644
00:21:01,221 –> 00:21:02,661
Hey, Grock,

645
00:21:03,301 –> 00:21:05,061
is the Troy Tomov’s problem fixed?

646
00:21:05,461 –> 00:21:06,741
Well, there’s some trouble.

647
00:21:06,901 –> 00:21:07,941
It, you know,

648
00:21:08,101 –> 00:21:08,901
over the last years,

649
00:21:08,901 –> 00:21:10,021
it’s a billion dollars,

650
00:21:10,101 –> 00:21:12,581
but they never look at source material or there’s

651
00:21:12,581 –> 00:21:15,061
no mention of this homeless shelter.

652
00:21:15,061 –> 00:21:19,221
The very basic first person basic information.

653
00:21:19,221 –> 00:21:20,581
It won’t find it.

654
00:21:20,741 –> 00:21:21,261
It’s just.

655
00:21:22,261 –> 00:21:23,061
Finding the machine.

656
00:21:23,061 –> 00:21:23,781
So I looked up,

657
00:21:24,501 –> 00:21:26,901
hey, my daughter did it.

658
00:21:26,901 –> 00:21:28,661
I had Ken and my daughter do it.

659
00:21:29,381 –> 00:21:33,621
Did a dead man vote in the 2020 election?

660
00:21:33,621 –> 00:21:34,141
Let me just,

661
00:21:34,141 –> 00:21:34,581
this is what,

662
00:21:35,061 –> 00:21:35,621
hey, Claude,

663
00:21:35,901 –> 00:21:38,501
which AI program is this?

664
00:21:38,501 –> 00:21:38,901
Do you know?

665
00:21:40,261 –> 00:21:40,741
ChatGPT.

666
00:21:40,981 –> 00:21:42,181
ChatGPT.

667
00:21:42,981 –> 00:21:44,261
The William Bradley case,

668
00:21:44,261 –> 00:21:45,661
a popular false claim,

669
00:21:45,661 –> 00:21:46,181
it says.

670
00:21:46,421 –> 00:21:48,101
It’s AI, a popular false claim.

671
00:21:49,141 –> 00:21:51,781
A widely circulated social media post claimed that

672
00:21:51,781 –> 00:21:53,781
118 year old William Bradley,

673
00:21:53,781 –> 00:21:55,301
who died in 1984,

674
00:21:55,621 –> 00:21:58,741
voted via absentee ballot in Wayne County in 2020.

675
00:21:59,461 –> 00:22:01,141
PolitiFact investigated,

676
00:22:01,141 –> 00:22:04,581
PolitiFact investigated and found that the ballot

677
00:22:04,581 –> 00:22:07,221
was actually cast by his living son who shares a similar

678
00:22:07,221 –> 00:22:08,581
name, the same name.

679
00:22:09,461 –> 00:22:12,101
The appearance of the father voting was due to a clerical

680
00:22:12,101 –> 00:22:13,141
error, not fraud.

681
00:22:13,301 –> 00:22:14,421
Nobody asked if it was fraud.

682
00:22:14,581 –> 00:22:15,061
See that?

683
00:22:16,981 –> 00:22:19,941
No ballot was cast under the deceased father’s name.

684
00:22:20,021 –> 00:22:20,501
Well, see,

685
00:22:20,581 –> 00:22:21,461
let’s go to the source.

686
00:22:21,621 –> 00:22:25,541
We went to the son because I called PolitiFact.

687
00:22:25,541 –> 00:22:26,261
They didn’t call back.

688
00:22:26,261 –> 00:22:26,981
They wanted Pulitzer.

689
00:22:26,981 –> 00:22:29,061
They got it wrong and they never called back.

690
00:22:29,541 –> 00:22:32,341
What happened was William Bradley Sr.

691
00:22:32,581 –> 00:22:34,101
died in 1984.

692
00:22:34,821 –> 00:22:36,341
He’s still on the voting list.

693
00:22:36,421 –> 00:22:39,981
He still got an absentee ballot application to vote.

694
00:22:40,181 –> 00:22:42,421
So did the son living at the same address.

695
00:22:43,301 –> 00:22:45,141
The son filled out the father’s.

696
00:22:46,421 –> 00:22:47,861
He got the father’s ballot.

697
00:22:47,941 –> 00:22:48,781
He filled it out,

698
00:22:48,781 –> 00:22:49,221
voted.

699
00:22:49,221 –> 00:22:53,781
Thus, the dead man name was recorded as voting,

700
00:22:54,021 –> 00:22:54,901
not the son’s.

701
00:22:55,381 –> 00:22:57,141
The city told the son they fixed it.

702
00:22:57,141 –> 00:22:58,101
was a clerical error.

703
00:22:58,181 –> 00:22:59,701
It wasn’t a clerical error.

704
00:22:59,941 –> 00:23:03,381
It was the fact that Jocelyn Benson is so bad,

705
00:23:03,541 –> 00:23:08,581
so sloppy at the very basic level of making sure these

706
00:23:08,581 –> 00:23:10,701
rolls are clean and the people that vote are supposed

707
00:23:10,701 –> 00:23:12,821
to vote and those who don’t vote can’t vote.

708
00:23:13,381 –> 00:23:14,421
So that’s wrong.

709
00:23:15,301 –> 00:23:18,341
AI’s pushing it because PolitiFact pushed it because

710
00:23:18,341 –> 00:23:20,421
they couldn’t couldn’t have it be wrong.

711
00:23:20,421 –> 00:23:23,141
And let’s go back to why he was still on the rolls.

712
00:23:23,141 –> 00:23:25,781
There is federal law that compels these secretaries

713
00:23:25,781 –> 00:23:27,541
of state to clean.

714
00:23:27,861 –> 00:23:29,541
dead voters off the rolls.

715
00:23:29,621 –> 00:23:33,781
And when she was posturing about why she couldn’t and

716
00:23:33,781 –> 00:23:35,301
wouldn’t do this last year,

717
00:23:35,301 –> 00:23:37,381
I was talking to the Missouri Secretary of State,

718
00:23:37,381 –> 00:23:38,261
Jay Ashcroft,

719
00:23:38,661 –> 00:23:41,461
and he told me that dozens of states have already

720
00:23:41,461 –> 00:23:41,901
done this.

721
00:23:41,901 –> 00:23:44,901
And the only ones that refuse to do it are the Democratic

722
00:23:44,901 –> 00:23:45,861
secretaries of state.

723
00:23:45,861 –> 00:23:46,901
Not all of them.

724
00:23:47,141 –> 00:23:48,981
Some are actually complying with the law.

725
00:23:49,221 –> 00:23:50,341
And it makes you wonder,

726
00:23:50,501 –> 00:23:52,981
why in the hell will you not do this?

727
00:23:52,981 –> 00:23:55,541
I mean, when I run data as a consultant,

728
00:23:55,861 –> 00:23:56,901
I will click,

729
00:23:56,901 –> 00:23:57,741
we have an option.

730
00:23:57,981 –> 00:24:01,221
of active voters in order for us to try to get the

731
00:24:01,221 –> 00:24:02,341
riffraff off,

732
00:24:02,341 –> 00:24:04,101
the bad data off there.

733
00:24:04,501 –> 00:24:06,181
It doesn’t mean that those people,

734
00:24:06,341 –> 00:24:08,381
those records can’t be manipulated.

735
00:24:08,381 –> 00:24:09,181
And just like you said,

736
00:24:09,181 –> 00:24:13,941
a man that’s been dead for 40 years got a ballot for

737
00:24:13,941 –> 00:24:14,981
40 years.

738
00:24:14,981 –> 00:24:16,421
Why are we not cleaning that guy off?

739
00:24:16,581 –> 00:24:19,861
The son could have voted for himself and his old man

740
00:24:19,941 –> 00:24:20,661
if he wanted to.

741
00:24:20,661 –> 00:24:21,141
He could have,

742
00:24:21,141 –> 00:24:21,461
yes.

743
00:24:22,261 –> 00:24:22,701
He could have,

744
00:24:22,701 –> 00:24:24,061
but he thought he was voting for himself and they

745
00:24:24,061 –> 00:24:24,541
lied to him.

746
00:24:25,261 –> 00:24:27,061
And you notice on the prompt,

747
00:24:27,221 –> 00:24:29,621
I didn’t ask AI if there’s fraud involved.

748
00:24:29,781 –> 00:24:31,541
I don’t believe there was fraud involved.

749
00:24:31,701 –> 00:24:33,301
I believe it’s just sloppiness.

750
00:24:33,461 –> 00:24:36,901
But this thing is not doing the thinking for you.

751
00:24:37,061 –> 00:24:38,501
So, well, two other places,

752
00:24:38,501 –> 00:24:38,821
by the way,

753
00:24:38,821 –> 00:24:41,261
that Benson violated the law at the same time that

754
00:24:41,261 –> 00:24:42,021
she was doing this.

755
00:24:42,021 –> 00:24:43,021
During COVID,

756
00:24:43,341 –> 00:24:47,461
She unilaterally and illegally sent absentee ballots

757
00:24:47,621 –> 00:24:50,261
applications to every voter in the state of Michigan.

758
00:24:50,581 –> 00:24:52,101
That is not supported in law.

759
00:24:52,101 –> 00:24:55,221
The courts after the election came back and said that

760
00:24:55,221 –> 00:24:56,261
she violated the law,

761
00:24:56,581 –> 00:24:58,621
except if those votes were already cast,

762
00:24:58,621 –> 00:25:03,061
there is no way to know if they were or how they voted

763
00:25:03,061 –> 00:25:04,181
in those situations.

764
00:25:04,421 –> 00:25:06,301
Second, the law also required

765
00:25:06,421 –> 00:25:08,501
signature verification by the clerks.

766
00:25:08,501 –> 00:25:08,821
Yes.

767
00:25:08,821 –> 00:25:09,941
Meaning the clerks have to,

768
00:25:09,941 –> 00:25:11,461
when they get the absentee ballot,

769
00:25:11,621 –> 00:25:14,901
have to compare the signature on file with the signature

770
00:25:15,301 –> 00:25:16,421
on the ballot.

771
00:25:16,981 –> 00:25:20,741
Jocelyn Benson directed the clerks to ignore the required

772
00:25:20,741 –> 00:25:20,981
law.

773
00:25:20,981 –> 00:25:23,061
Courts again came in after the fact.

774
00:25:23,301 –> 00:25:27,781
So this is 3 violations of the law by our sitting Secretary

775
00:25:27,781 –> 00:25:28,181
of State,

776
00:25:28,181 –> 00:25:30,341
who’s the leading candidate for Democratic governor.

777
00:25:30,621 –> 00:25:32,901
And you have to ask yourself why she is.

778
00:25:33,461 –> 00:25:36,981
openly flaunting 3 laws that would protect the elections

779
00:25:37,301 –> 00:25:39,781
from any kind of nefarious activity.

780
00:25:39,861 –> 00:25:40,581
Let’s do this,

781
00:25:40,741 –> 00:25:41,141
you know,

782
00:25:41,221 –> 00:25:42,181
before we bring Benny in.

783
00:25:42,181 –> 00:25:42,741
I’m just going to,

784
00:25:42,981 –> 00:25:43,861
the guys on the couch.

785
00:25:44,501 –> 00:25:46,581
Can you all ask AI?

786
00:25:47,061 –> 00:25:48,741
You told them not to be on their phones.

787
00:25:48,941 –> 00:25:50,381
No, I’m instructing them.

788
00:25:50,421 –> 00:25:51,861
So what I instruct them,

789
00:25:51,861 –> 00:25:58,261
that’s, did Jocelyn Benson illegally instruct clerks

790
00:25:58,341 –> 00:26:01,381
to disregard signatures on ballots?

791
00:26:02,261 –> 00:26:03,141
We’ll see what it says.

792
00:26:04,261 –> 00:26:09,661
I’m sure AI is going to make an excuse for it because

793
00:26:09,661 –> 00:26:10,741
what’s it going to pick up?

794
00:26:11,701 –> 00:26:13,701
All the friendlies that want to stay at the table,

795
00:26:13,701 –> 00:26:14,901
the media that’s aligned,

796
00:26:15,301 –> 00:26:16,101
not with you,

797
00:26:16,821 –> 00:26:19,061
but with a political party just chumming it around.

798
00:26:19,181 –> 00:26:19,981
And they’re all dying.

799
00:26:19,981 –> 00:26:21,221
There’s no way around it.

800
00:26:21,461 –> 00:26:22,421
They’re all dying.

801
00:26:22,421 –> 00:26:23,701
All right,

802
00:26:23,701 –> 00:26:25,861
I’m going to bring in Benny Dinos Manis,

803
00:26:25,861 –> 00:26:28,341
columnist for BroadinLiberty.com,

804
00:26:29,061 –> 00:26:30,021
writes a lot about

805
00:26:31,381 –> 00:26:32,261
legal issues,

806
00:26:32,261 –> 00:26:33,221
law enforcement,

807
00:26:33,461 –> 00:26:35,541
former DC and New York City cop.

808
00:26:35,661 –> 00:26:36,581
What’s going on,

809
00:26:36,581 –> 00:26:37,061
Snoz?

810
00:26:38,501 –> 00:26:42,981
Snoz is slightly overjoyed that President Trump has

811
00:26:43,541 –> 00:26:46,021
federalized the Metropolitan Police Department because

812
00:26:46,501 –> 00:26:48,501
as a Metropolitan Police Department alumni,

813
00:26:49,541 –> 00:26:49,781
you know,

814
00:26:49,781 –> 00:26:52,261
the fact that DC government is probably,

815
00:26:52,261 –> 00:26:54,101
and I know this is a bold statement for Detroit,

816
00:26:54,101 –> 00:26:58,581
is the most corrupt mismanaged city in America.

817
00:26:59,061 –> 00:27:01,381
currently in probably since it’s been a city since

818
00:27:01,381 –> 00:27:02,341
1974.

819
00:27:02,981 –> 00:27:05,341
So, all this talking point,

820
00:27:05,341 –> 00:27:07,941
all this left wing stuff that you see out there saying,

821
00:27:07,941 –> 00:27:11,141
well, DC is very safe and it’s a lot safer than it

822
00:27:11,141 –> 00:27:11,541
was.

823
00:27:12,021 –> 00:27:15,101
It’s malarkey is their favorite president once said,

824
00:27:15,221 –> 00:27:16,901
because it’s just not true.

825
00:27:17,541 –> 00:27:19,381
So it’s not that’s the No Bullshit News Hour.

826
00:27:19,381 –> 00:27:20,901
You know exactly where Benny’s coming from.

827
00:27:20,901 –> 00:27:21,421
I like that.

828
00:27:21,421 –> 00:27:22,181
This is no trick.

829
00:27:22,181 –> 00:27:24,421
This is from his personal

830
00:27:25,181 –> 00:27:26,901
Perch having worked those streets.

831
00:27:26,901 –> 00:27:27,701
I got a wave over there.

832
00:27:27,701 –> 00:27:28,141
What do you got?

833
00:27:28,141 –> 00:27:28,821
In the stats.

834
00:27:29,981 –> 00:27:30,981
Reports of Jocelyn Benson,

835
00:27:32,341 –> 00:27:33,421
Michigan Secretary of State,

836
00:27:33,461 –> 00:27:35,541
failing to instruct clerks to remove deceased voters

837
00:27:35,541 –> 00:27:37,061
from the balls have been circulating,

838
00:27:37,301 –> 00:27:40,461
primarily fueled by lawsuits by the Conservative Public

839
00:27:40,461 –> 00:27:41,741
Interest Legal Foundation.

840
00:27:42,141 –> 00:27:44,581
However, the lawsuit alleging Michigan was violating

841
00:27:44,581 –> 00:27:47,261
the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to

842
00:27:47,261 –> 00:27:50,741
remove 27,000 individuals identified as deceased.

843
00:27:51,301 –> 00:27:54,661
was dismissed by a federal judge in March of 2024,

844
00:27:54,941 –> 00:27:57,021
according to Michigan Advance,

845
00:27:57,621 –> 00:28:00,381
which is one of the most liberal publications in the

846
00:28:00,381 –> 00:28:00,701
state.

847
00:28:00,741 –> 00:28:02,301
I think it’s pointed by the Democrats,

848
00:28:02,301 –> 00:28:02,781
is it not?

849
00:28:02,861 –> 00:28:02,981
Yeah.

850
00:28:04,661 –> 00:28:05,341
Okay, that’s enough.

851
00:28:05,701 –> 00:28:07,461
Anything else about the signatures?

852
00:28:09,301 –> 00:28:10,541
I asked Rock about the signatures.

853
00:28:10,821 –> 00:28:11,461
What did it say?

854
00:28:11,461 –> 00:28:12,421
It says, No,

855
00:28:12,421 –> 00:28:15,101
Joshua Benson did not illegally instruct clerks to

856
00:28:15,101 –> 00:28:16,581
accept all signatures on absentee.

857
00:28:16,581 –> 00:28:18,661
It’s a matter of absolute bullshit.

858
00:28:18,741 –> 00:28:19,541
Wow, just…

859
00:28:20,261 –> 00:28:23,141
Wow, simple court rulings have addressed her guidance.

860
00:28:24,341 –> 00:28:25,301
Absolute bullshit.

861
00:28:25,821 –> 00:28:26,261
Verification.

862
00:28:26,301 –> 00:28:29,621
But the claim she instructed clerks to accept all signatures

863
00:28:29,621 –> 00:28:31,061
is inaccurate and oversimplified.

864
00:28:31,461 –> 00:28:32,261
Oversimplified.

865
00:28:32,421 –> 00:28:36,501
So find out the court ruling where they said she acted

866
00:28:36,501 –> 00:28:37,621
outside of her purview.

867
00:28:37,621 –> 00:28:39,541
Like just go find the source material.

868
00:28:39,701 –> 00:28:40,981
Don’t ask AI.

869
00:28:41,301 –> 00:28:42,061
That’s why folks,

870
00:28:42,061 –> 00:28:43,461
I’m telling you,

871
00:28:43,701 –> 00:28:44,981
don’t give in to AI.

872
00:28:46,021 –> 00:28:46,221
No.

873
00:28:46,221 –> 00:28:47,621
Not at all.

874
00:28:48,021 –> 00:28:48,421
Here we go.

875
00:28:48,421 –> 00:28:49,061
What did it just read?

876
00:28:49,061 –> 00:28:49,861
2023.

877
00:28:50,261 –> 00:28:51,301
In June 2024,

878
00:28:51,301 –> 00:28:53,981
Judge Christopher Yates ruled that Bettsman’s December

879
00:28:53,981 –> 00:28:55,061
2023 guidance.

880
00:28:56,181 –> 00:29:00,261
We included initial presumption of validity was unconstitutional.

881
00:29:00,261 –> 00:29:00,501
Wow.

882
00:29:00,501 –> 00:29:00,821
Okay.

883
00:29:00,821 –> 00:29:02,901
Well, so AI just said,

884
00:29:03,261 –> 00:29:04,661
no, there’s nothing to that.

885
00:29:04,821 –> 00:29:06,701
And then when you go look up source material,

886
00:29:06,821 –> 00:29:08,821
the judge said it was unconstitutional.

887
00:29:09,941 –> 00:29:10,421
Wow.

888
00:29:10,421 –> 00:29:10,581
Okay.

889
00:29:10,941 –> 00:29:11,341
It’ll say no,

890
00:29:11,341 –> 00:29:14,661
and then it’ll present evidence contrary to its own

891
00:29:14,901 –> 00:29:15,101
answer.

892
00:29:15,101 –> 00:29:15,621
Right.

893
00:29:16,821 –> 00:29:16,981
Wow.

894
00:29:17,141 –> 00:29:19,621
So no, do not do this.

895
00:29:19,781 –> 00:29:21,781
That’s why I think the future of journalism,

896
00:29:21,861 –> 00:29:22,741
if you can hang,

897
00:29:23,061 –> 00:29:24,741
is you got to find spots like this.

898
00:29:25,061 –> 00:29:25,701
You got to find,

899
00:29:25,941 –> 00:29:28,861
like, you know what’s really good nationally is Matt

900
00:29:28,861 –> 00:29:29,461
Taibbi.

901
00:29:30,101 –> 00:29:32,181
I mean, this guy’s a poster child for the progressive

902
00:29:32,181 –> 00:29:32,501
movement,

903
00:29:32,741 –> 00:29:33,061
right?

904
00:29:33,061 –> 00:29:35,781
He was a Rolling Stone reporter that broke a lot of

905
00:29:35,781 –> 00:29:40,341
stories during the Enron and Wall Street collapse.

906
00:29:40,501 –> 00:29:41,141
All that shit.

907
00:29:41,381 –> 00:29:42,101
Goldman Sachs.

908
00:29:42,101 –> 00:29:45,221
He was a hero of the left and he completely turned.

909
00:29:45,541 –> 00:29:46,221
No, he didn’t.

910
00:29:46,301 –> 00:29:47,981
He just kept doing what he does.

911
00:29:47,981 –> 00:29:50,621
And the stuff that he does should absolutely,

912
00:29:51,781 –> 00:29:55,221
yes, and should concern the left because that used

913
00:29:55,221 –> 00:29:56,181
to concern the left.

914
00:29:56,341 –> 00:29:57,461
You’re spying on me.

915
00:29:57,621 –> 00:29:58,661
You’re censoring me.

916
00:29:58,821 –> 00:30:00,101
You’re lying to me,

917
00:30:00,261 –> 00:30:00,661
right?

918
00:30:00,821 –> 00:30:01,941
You’re stealing from me.

919
00:30:02,101 –> 00:30:03,301
Now we don’t want to hear it.

920
00:30:04,101 –> 00:30:06,221
Now we’re turning over to AI and all that’s doing is

921
00:30:06,221 –> 00:30:08,021
scraping these bums.

922
00:30:09,701 –> 00:30:09,901
No.

923
00:30:09,981 –> 00:30:10,901
And by the way,

924
00:30:10,981 –> 00:30:11,701
the Democrats,

925
00:30:11,701 –> 00:30:13,221
are the party of democracy.

926
00:30:13,501 –> 00:30:14,741
And we just talked about Benson,

927
00:30:14,741 –> 00:30:16,181
the leading candidate for governor.

928
00:30:16,421 –> 00:30:17,861
Now let’s talk about Gretchen Whitmer.

929
00:30:18,181 –> 00:30:19,981
There has been an empty Senate seat.

930
00:30:19,981 –> 00:30:23,941
We talked about this last time for over 200 days.

931
00:30:23,941 –> 00:30:24,261
By the way,

932
00:30:24,261 –> 00:30:26,741
the city of Flint is in that district,

933
00:30:26,741 –> 00:30:30,861
which means the party of democracy is disenfranchising

934
00:30:30,861 –> 00:30:33,621
one of the largest black cities in the state from

935
00:30:33,621 –> 00:30:37,981
having a state senator right now in the budget negotiations

936
00:30:37,981 –> 00:30:39,581
where they’re talking about school funding

937
00:30:39,861 –> 00:30:43,861
The reason she’s doing it is because the Democratic

938
00:30:44,341 –> 00:30:46,941
majority in the state Senate is 1.

939
00:30:46,941 –> 00:30:47,421
One vote.

940
00:30:48,021 –> 00:30:51,581
It’s quite likely that if the election was held today,

941
00:30:51,581 –> 00:30:52,741
a Republican would win it,

942
00:30:53,061 –> 00:30:54,101
meaning it’s a tie.

943
00:30:54,181 –> 00:30:54,421
Yep.

944
00:30:54,661 –> 00:30:57,061
And then you lose control of it.

945
00:30:57,061 –> 00:30:58,541
But this is the party of democracy.

946
00:30:58,541 –> 00:30:58,901
I know.

947
00:30:58,901 –> 00:31:01,701
Who is disenfranchising everyone that lives in that

948
00:31:01,701 –> 00:31:05,301
district now since January of this year.

949
00:31:05,541 –> 00:31:06,101
So many.

950
00:31:06,821 –> 00:31:08,221
It actually ties into D.C.

951
00:31:08,221 –> 00:31:08,941
Go ahead.

952
00:31:08,941 –> 00:31:10,061
That’s 100%.

953
00:31:10,421 –> 00:31:12,421
Well, when you think about the history of D.C.,

954
00:31:12,421 –> 00:31:15,061
there’s a big argument that’s arisen since 07 about

955
00:31:15,061 –> 00:31:18,701
statehood because the Democratic Party wants 2 guaranteed

956
00:31:18,701 –> 00:31:19,301
senators.

957
00:31:19,861 –> 00:31:23,421
But they have been for 50 years disenfranchising the

958
00:31:23,421 –> 00:31:25,461
majority African-American city of D.C.

959
00:31:25,461 –> 00:31:25,941
because

960
00:31:26,501 –> 00:31:28,501
The actual way to give D.C.

961
00:31:28,501 –> 00:31:31,141
statehood is to simply reabsorb it into Maryland,

962
00:31:31,221 –> 00:31:34,021
like Virginia reabsorbed its half back in 1849.

963
00:31:34,421 –> 00:31:35,701
And then they would have senators,

964
00:31:35,701 –> 00:31:37,741
they would have congressmen that vote,

965
00:31:38,181 –> 00:31:40,461
but they won’t do that because then you lose this

966
00:31:40,461 –> 00:31:43,381
whole, maybe we could get two more senators argument.

967
00:31:43,461 –> 00:31:43,661
All right,

968
00:31:43,661 –> 00:31:44,261
let’s go to this.

969
00:31:44,261 –> 00:31:47,501
You spoke yesterday at the Michigan Association of

970
00:31:47,501 –> 00:31:48,221
Broadcasters.

971
00:31:48,221 –> 00:31:48,501
Yes.

972
00:31:48,741 –> 00:31:48,981
Right.

973
00:31:49,061 –> 00:31:52,141
And the first question coming out of it,

974
00:31:52,141 –> 00:31:53,781
what were you supposed to talk about?

975
00:31:54,381 –> 00:31:57,301
So it was a panel about elections in Michigan.

976
00:31:57,301 –> 00:31:59,861
But the first question out of the gate from the moderator

977
00:31:59,861 –> 00:32:02,781
was a question about the deployment of the National

978
00:32:02,781 –> 00:32:03,541
Guard in D.C.

979
00:32:04,101 –> 00:32:04,421
Okay.

980
00:32:04,581 –> 00:32:07,461
And in the frame of is Trump undermining institution

981
00:32:08,101 –> 00:32:10,181
and the media and abusing his power.

982
00:32:10,341 –> 00:32:11,141
But before we go there,

983
00:32:11,141 –> 00:32:11,621
let’s just go.

984
00:32:12,021 –> 00:32:13,141
I need to say this again.

985
00:32:13,141 –> 00:32:15,741
When we’re talking about gerrymandering and everybody

986
00:32:15,741 –> 00:32:17,381
does it, that’s the whole point of hand power.

987
00:32:18,901 –> 00:32:21,381
Nobody’s reporting that Michigan

988
00:32:22,381 –> 00:32:23,701
racially gerrymandered,

989
00:32:23,701 –> 00:32:24,101
right?

990
00:32:24,421 –> 00:32:25,981
It was ruled unconstitutional.

991
00:32:26,021 –> 00:32:29,541
They were taking black representation from black Detroit

992
00:32:29,541 –> 00:32:32,061
and sliding it up into the suburbs so we could have

993
00:32:32,061 –> 00:32:32,421
white women.

994
00:32:32,421 –> 00:32:35,061
Giving it to black power advocates like Mallory McMorrow.

995
00:32:35,061 –> 00:32:35,381
Yeah.

996
00:32:36,181 –> 00:32:38,181
And it was ruled unconstitutional.

997
00:32:38,341 –> 00:32:39,541
Nobody’s reporting that.

998
00:32:39,621 –> 00:32:40,661
That’s what happened here.

999
00:32:40,981 –> 00:32:43,501
Number 2, there was a suit.

1000
00:32:43,501 –> 00:32:44,181
It got thrown out.

1001
00:32:44,181 –> 00:32:47,381
They should bring it back now that the congressional

1002
00:32:47,461 –> 00:32:48,661
seats also

1003
00:32:49,181 –> 00:32:50,461
violated the Voting Rights Act.

1004
00:32:50,461 –> 00:32:54,661
And they did because we had two black congress people

1005
00:32:54,821 –> 00:32:56,501
from Detroit.

1006
00:32:56,581 –> 00:32:56,821
Yeah.

1007
00:32:57,341 –> 00:32:58,261
And now there’s none.

1008
00:32:59,061 –> 00:32:59,621
Jeremy, Rick,

1009
00:32:59,621 –> 00:33:00,581
the fuck out.

1010
00:33:00,981 –> 00:33:02,821
That’s a complete violation of the voting rights.

1011
00:33:02,821 –> 00:33:04,421
Well, and they redefined the standard.

1012
00:33:04,661 –> 00:33:07,301
The standard was majority minority district.

1013
00:33:07,861 –> 00:33:11,541
They went to plurality minority districts.

1014
00:33:11,621 –> 00:33:12,541
Our independent.

1015
00:33:12,581 –> 00:33:12,741
Yeah.

1016
00:33:13,141 –> 00:33:16,501
Yes, the independent nonpartisan commission that the

1017
00:33:16,501 –> 00:33:17,821
voters of Michigan approved

1018
00:33:18,421 –> 00:33:21,701
changed a standard that has been in place for 50 plus

1019
00:33:21,701 –> 00:33:21,981
years.

1020
00:33:22,341 –> 00:33:23,381
If it’s 51%

1021
00:33:23,381 –> 00:33:25,621
black, you can’t redraw it.

1022
00:33:25,621 –> 00:33:26,381
So it’s 49%

1023
00:33:26,661 –> 00:33:27,221
black.

1024
00:33:27,381 –> 00:33:29,941
And what they did in order to get the outcome,

1025
00:33:29,941 –> 00:33:30,941
because that’s what they did,

1026
00:33:30,941 –> 00:33:32,981
they drew a map for an outcome,

1027
00:33:33,141 –> 00:33:34,501
not to, in fact,

1028
00:33:34,501 –> 00:33:37,541
one of the other things they redefined was communities

1029
00:33:37,541 –> 00:33:38,261
of interest.

1030
00:33:38,261 –> 00:33:41,861
And what was intended by that originally is you can’t

1031
00:33:41,861 –> 00:33:44,821
carve up a city multiple different ways to get an

1032
00:33:44,821 –> 00:33:45,221
outcome.

1033
00:33:45,221 –> 00:33:46,261
So take Livonia.

1034
00:33:46,941 –> 00:33:48,901
Livonia used to have one state rep.

1035
00:33:49,381 –> 00:33:54,341
They cut it up so that Livonia now has four state reps.

1036
00:33:54,981 –> 00:33:57,061
Is Livonia not a community of interest?

1037
00:33:57,221 –> 00:34:00,181
So they started using things like school districts,

1038
00:34:00,981 –> 00:34:04,901
state parks as being communities of interest in order

1039
00:34:04,901 –> 00:34:07,141
to come up with scenarios to give them the outcome.

1040
00:34:07,141 –> 00:34:09,541
Because Detroit City is 650,000,

1041
00:34:10,141 –> 00:34:11,181
votes 95%

1042
00:34:11,381 –> 00:34:12,021
Democrat,

1043
00:34:12,101 –> 00:34:14,021
and this independent board,

1044
00:34:14,021 –> 00:34:14,581
which wasn’t.

1045
00:34:15,101 –> 00:34:16,301
It says those are wasted votes.

1046
00:34:16,301 –> 00:34:16,901
That’s their words,

1047
00:34:16,901 –> 00:34:17,461
not mine.

1048
00:34:17,541 –> 00:34:19,941
Detroit’s votes were wasted on Detroit.

1049
00:34:20,181 –> 00:34:23,021
So if we could just carve Detroit up into little bits

1050
00:34:23,021 –> 00:34:24,181
and stick them to the suburbs,

1051
00:34:24,341 –> 00:34:26,101
we’ll get all those Democratic votes and we’ll get

1052
00:34:26,101 –> 00:34:26,741
all the seats.

1053
00:34:27,061 –> 00:34:28,501
It was racist.

1054
00:34:29,181 –> 00:34:29,781
That’s what it is.

1055
00:34:29,781 –> 00:34:30,301
It’s racist.

1056
00:34:30,301 –> 00:34:31,061
It’s race-based.

1057
00:34:31,141 –> 00:34:31,461
It was.

1058
00:34:32,379 –> 00:34:37,059
Nobody in the chat AI world of the mainstream shit

1059
00:34:37,139 –> 00:34:38,419
wants to touch this.

1060
00:34:38,979 –> 00:34:40,339
Detroit, Michigan.

1061
00:34:40,379 –> 00:34:41,539
They did the same thing in Philly.

1062
00:34:42,179 –> 00:34:44,179
They did the same thing in Philly and we don’t want

1063
00:34:44,179 –> 00:34:45,579
to look at it.

1064
00:34:45,579 –> 00:34:46,259
If we, see,

1065
00:34:46,339 –> 00:34:46,979
I’m like this.

1066
00:34:47,059 –> 00:34:50,579
Let’s just look at it and let’s have one uniform template.

1067
00:34:50,939 –> 00:34:53,539
I’m not into the blow up.

1068
00:34:53,539 –> 00:34:53,779
Okay.

1069
00:34:53,779 –> 00:34:55,219
Well, and on a national level,

1070
00:34:55,299 –> 00:34:56,819
listen, I don’t agree with the

1071
00:34:57,379 –> 00:35:01,019
with Texas doing it in the middle of the decade.

1072
00:35:01,139 –> 00:35:03,379
I think we should standardize that every 10 years we

1073
00:35:03,379 –> 00:35:04,499
redraw maps.

1074
00:35:04,499 –> 00:35:06,939
But I was listening to a podcast this morning on my

1075
00:35:06,939 –> 00:35:09,779
way back down from Traverse City that one of the reasons

1076
00:35:09,779 –> 00:35:13,939
that Trump is pushing for a new census is in the blue

1077
00:35:13,939 –> 00:35:17,779
states, they are oversampling population to increase

1078
00:35:17,779 –> 00:35:20,499
their congressional district allocations.

1079
00:35:20,819 –> 00:35:23,139
And then in the red states,

1080
00:35:23,299 –> 00:35:26,659
they are under sampling the population to reduce the

1081
00:35:26,659 –> 00:35:27,139
number

1082
00:35:27,379 –> 00:35:28,739
of allocations.

1083
00:35:28,899 –> 00:35:30,059
So you actually have,

1084
00:35:30,059 –> 00:35:32,259
out of the 435 members of the U.S.

1085
00:35:32,259 –> 00:35:33,459
House of Representatives,

1086
00:35:33,779 –> 00:35:37,539
it is disproportionately slanted to Democrats in seats

1087
00:35:37,539 –> 00:35:39,619
that they wouldn’t normally have if you had the same

1088
00:35:39,619 –> 00:35:41,939
standard applied across the 50 states and territories.

1089
00:35:42,059 –> 00:35:45,059
And I will actually play devil’s advocate on what Jason

1090
00:35:45,059 –> 00:35:45,539
just said.

1091
00:35:45,619 –> 00:35:48,819
I think Texas is doing the absolutely right thing,

1092
00:35:49,139 –> 00:35:52,579
not because of the electoral map going into the midterms,

1093
00:35:53,019 –> 00:35:54,179
But think about this.

1094
00:35:54,179 –> 00:35:58,339
Austin’s population has doubled since COVID because

1095
00:35:58,339 –> 00:35:59,779
of the people fleeing California.

1096
00:36:00,179 –> 00:36:01,859
Nashville’s has almost doubled.

1097
00:36:02,019 –> 00:36:03,379
Miami’s has doubled,

1098
00:36:03,379 –> 00:36:03,939
period.

1099
00:36:04,179 –> 00:36:06,299
So these are places people are moving to.

1100
00:36:06,299 –> 00:36:07,539
And if we wait 10 years,

1101
00:36:07,539 –> 00:36:09,419
they will be underrepresented because they’re not

1102
00:36:09,459 –> 00:36:12,739
getting the services based on their rapid population

1103
00:36:12,739 –> 00:36:13,059
growth.

1104
00:36:14,339 –> 00:36:17,939
You know, these are facts that you can ask ChatGPT.

1105
00:36:19,339 –> 00:36:21,459
and get something assembling an answer.

1106
00:36:21,619 –> 00:36:22,819
Well, here’s what we know.

1107
00:36:23,139 –> 00:36:24,059
Miami traffic.

1108
00:36:24,339 –> 00:36:26,099
Okay, so that was the kerfluffle.

1109
00:36:26,099 –> 00:36:30,579
The kerfluffle before that was Trump fired the chief

1110
00:36:30,579 –> 00:36:31,779
statistician for,

1111
00:36:31,859 –> 00:36:32,419
what was it,

1112
00:36:32,579 –> 00:36:34,419
the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

1113
00:36:34,859 –> 00:36:35,539
BLSE.

1114
00:36:35,859 –> 00:36:40,259
BS is because we all remember during Biden,

1115
00:36:41,139 –> 00:36:41,659
right, the

1116
00:36:44,139 –> 00:36:45,059
The job number will come out,

1117
00:36:45,059 –> 00:36:46,099
then there’ll be a revision,

1118
00:36:46,099 –> 00:36:47,419
and like what happened to a million jobs?

1119
00:36:47,699 –> 00:36:49,139
It’s so antiquated.

1120
00:36:49,379 –> 00:36:51,899
It’s each time these reports come out,

1121
00:36:51,899 –> 00:36:53,779
10s of billions of dollars move,

1122
00:36:54,019 –> 00:36:56,659
and they’re done like by mail.

1123
00:36:56,899 –> 00:36:58,179
Here’s a survey.

1124
00:36:58,819 –> 00:37:01,139
People answering the survey has dropped 30%

1125
00:37:01,139 –> 00:37:02,019
in the last,

1126
00:37:02,179 –> 00:37:03,299
not even 20 years.

1127
00:37:03,379 –> 00:37:04,099
It’s not even a

1128
00:37:04,939 –> 00:37:06,099
valid survey anymore.

1129
00:37:06,339 –> 00:37:07,379
It’s guesswork.

1130
00:37:07,379 –> 00:37:08,659
We got to modernize it.

1131
00:37:08,819 –> 00:37:10,899
So this has been so bad,

1132
00:37:10,899 –> 00:37:11,619
it’s got to move.

1133
00:37:11,779 –> 00:37:15,019
Now everybody wants to start in the media,

1134
00:37:15,019 –> 00:37:16,259
but like a bunch of beavers.

1135
00:37:16,659 –> 00:37:19,339
You’re not allowed to talk about crime in America unless

1136
00:37:19,339 –> 00:37:23,139
you’ve been out with a homicide cop in the freezing

1137
00:37:23,139 –> 00:37:25,219
rain looking at some poor soul,

1138
00:37:25,379 –> 00:37:27,739
because that drives you to understand the data and

1139
00:37:27,739 –> 00:37:28,499
where it comes from.

1140
00:37:28,619 –> 00:37:29,699
That’s why we got Benny on.

1141
00:37:29,779 –> 00:37:31,419
Benny and I have been going back and forth on this

1142
00:37:31,619 –> 00:37:32,579
since last year.

1143
00:37:33,179 –> 00:37:35,859
Now we’re looking at DC’s crime rate.

1144
00:37:36,019 –> 00:37:38,179
Benny, in your opinion,

1145
00:37:38,459 –> 00:37:40,499
a criminologist and a former cop.

1146
00:37:42,819 –> 00:37:44,099
Oh, look at this guy.

1147
00:37:44,099 –> 00:37:44,899
And he’s the host,

1148
00:37:44,899 –> 00:37:45,659
ladies and gentlemen.

1149
00:37:45,659 –> 00:37:46,859
That’s I’m getting the party ticket.

1150
00:37:46,859 –> 00:37:47,859
The man’s on my ass.

1151
00:37:47,859 –> 00:37:50,099
That’s what happens,

1152
00:37:50,099 –> 00:37:50,739
Lebowski.

1153
00:37:51,499 –> 00:37:53,419
Did Trump overstep himself?

1154
00:37:53,459 –> 00:37:56,739
Is DC really the safest it’s been in 30 years ago?

1155
00:37:57,939 –> 00:37:58,259
No.

1156
00:37:58,419 –> 00:38:01,699
And DC last year came in with 187 murders.

1157
00:38:01,699 –> 00:38:03,859
Yes, that’s down from 274.

1158
00:38:04,179 –> 00:38:04,979
But people,

1159
00:38:04,979 –> 00:38:06,859
especially in places like Philly and Detroit,

1160
00:38:06,859 –> 00:38:08,739
don’t realize how bad DC is.

1161
00:38:09,179 –> 00:38:11,219
It is 43 square miles.

1162
00:38:11,219 –> 00:38:14,059
It’s at 61 square mile city with 29%

1163
00:38:14,059 –> 00:38:15,819
being federal reservations.

1164
00:38:15,939 –> 00:38:17,539
So it’s 43 square miles.

1165
00:38:17,619 –> 00:38:19,619
They had 187 murders last year.

1166
00:38:19,779 –> 00:38:20,939
That seem safe to you?

1167
00:38:21,379 –> 00:38:24,099
Then you add in the fact that even 20 years ago,

1168
00:38:24,099 –> 00:38:25,539
when I was on the streets there,

1169
00:38:25,859 –> 00:38:26,819
they were stat fixing.

1170
00:38:26,979 –> 00:38:28,339
And they have been stat fixing,

1171
00:38:28,339 –> 00:38:30,419
and a district commander’s just been suspended,

1172
00:38:30,579 –> 00:38:31,859
caught stat fixing.

1173
00:38:32,099 –> 00:38:33,459
And yes, he’s naming names.

1174
00:38:33,459 –> 00:38:34,659
It came down from the top.

1175
00:38:34,899 –> 00:38:37,219
So the fact that they’re saying DC is safe,

1176
00:38:37,659 –> 00:38:40,259
Don’t buy it because even the journalists who have

1177
00:38:40,259 –> 00:38:43,059
a stake in holding water for this argument are saying,

1178
00:38:43,059 –> 00:38:45,459
wait, I got carjacked and I’m right downtown.

1179
00:38:45,939 –> 00:38:47,899
Capitol Hill staffers are getting carjacked.

1180
00:38:48,179 –> 00:38:49,779
Here’s an interesting factoid for you.

1181
00:38:50,099 –> 00:38:50,579
The D.C.

1182
00:38:50,579 –> 00:38:52,379
Metropolitan Police that Trump just took over,

1183
00:38:52,379 –> 00:38:53,299
he only has 30 days,

1184
00:38:53,299 –> 00:38:54,059
but we’ll get into that.

1185
00:38:54,979 –> 00:38:57,059
They have 800 vacancies.

1186
00:38:57,139 –> 00:38:58,539
Nobody wants that job.

1187
00:38:58,899 –> 00:38:59,619
But the U.S.

1188
00:38:59,619 –> 00:39:04,259
Capitol Police have 1,300 people for one neighborhood.

1189
00:39:04,419 –> 00:39:06,379
Seattle only has 1,200 cops.

1190
00:39:06,379 –> 00:39:07,139
There’s a whole city.

1191
00:39:07,539 –> 00:39:10,419
So you’re telling me in the most over-policed city,

1192
00:39:11,219 –> 00:39:12,579
only 43 square miles,

1193
00:39:13,299 –> 00:39:16,659
they can’t keep the crime down and they got the 4th

1194
00:39:16,659 –> 00:39:19,859
largest homicide rate in America per capita.

1195
00:39:19,859 –> 00:39:22,579
Now that’s astronomically bad.

1196
00:39:22,659 –> 00:39:24,259
Do we have that slide that Benny sent me?

1197
00:39:24,939 –> 00:39:26,179
Okay, Benny sent me a slide.

1198
00:39:26,179 –> 00:39:28,659
Here’s the homicide rates for capital cities.

1199
00:39:29,379 –> 00:39:29,939
Washington,

1200
00:39:29,939 –> 00:39:33,059
D.C., 41 murders per 100,000 people.

1201
00:39:33,219 –> 00:39:34,179
Lima, Peru,

1202
00:39:34,419 –> 00:39:36,899
7 people per 100,000.

1203
00:39:37,539 –> 00:39:38,019
murdered.

1204
00:39:38,819 –> 00:39:39,859
Havana, Cuba,

1205
00:39:40,099 –> 00:39:41,979
4 per 100,000.

1206
00:39:42,339 –> 00:39:43,459
Nairobi, Kenya,

1207
00:39:43,539 –> 00:39:45,179
5 per 100,000.

1208
00:39:45,459 –> 00:39:46,979
Brasilia, Brazil.

1209
00:39:48,019 –> 00:39:48,979
Brazil’s no joke,

1210
00:39:48,979 –> 00:39:49,299
right?

1211
00:39:50,299 –> 00:39:52,019
Brazil got a very high murder rate.

1212
00:39:52,259 –> 00:39:54,019
13 people per 100,000.

1213
00:39:54,019 –> 00:39:56,099
Remember, DC’s is 41.

1214
00:39:56,819 –> 00:39:58,099
Lagos, Nigeria,

1215
00:39:58,259 –> 00:40:00,019
15 per 100,000.

1216
00:40:00,339 –> 00:40:01,499
Bogota, Colombia,

1217
00:40:02,459 –> 00:40:04,099
11 per 100,000.

1218
00:40:04,419 –> 00:40:05,619
Mexico City,

1219
00:40:06,059 –> 00:40:07,299
Is that the world’s largest city?

1220
00:40:07,939 –> 00:40:08,339
Yeah.

1221
00:40:08,779 –> 00:40:10,499
It’s North America’s largest city.

1222
00:40:11,619 –> 00:40:14,019
Eight per 100,000.

1223
00:40:15,019 –> 00:40:16,419
Addis Ababa,

1224
00:40:17,219 –> 00:40:17,779
Ethiopia,

1225
00:40:17,779 –> 00:40:18,019
right?

1226
00:40:18,499 –> 00:40:20,219
Six per 100,000.

1227
00:40:20,219 –> 00:40:21,139
Okay, Detroit,

1228
00:40:22,499 –> 00:40:24,619
38 per 100,000.

1229
00:40:25,219 –> 00:40:26,819
Now, you guys will remember,

1230
00:40:27,299 –> 00:40:28,739
do ChatGPT.

1231
00:40:28,899 –> 00:40:29,379
Hey,

1232
00:40:30,139 –> 00:40:31,459
Detroit got a handle on murder.

1233
00:40:31,699 –> 00:40:32,979
Yes, it’s the lowest.

1234
00:40:33,219 –> 00:40:35,699
This is straight out of City Hall and everybody wrote

1235
00:40:35,699 –> 00:40:35,859
it.

1236
00:40:36,339 –> 00:40:37,939
They did it three years in a row.

1237
00:40:38,259 –> 00:40:42,819
Lowest homicide count since 1965 when Detroit had 2

1238
00:40:42,819 –> 00:40:43,459
million people.

1239
00:40:44,499 –> 00:40:46,499
It’s like the okie doke with the gas prices.

1240
00:40:46,499 –> 00:40:48,979
When they shoot up because of some external issue,

1241
00:40:49,379 –> 00:40:49,979
everyone goes,

1242
00:40:49,979 –> 00:40:50,219
whoa, whoa,

1243
00:40:50,219 –> 00:40:51,699
what are we going to do about the gas prices?

1244
00:40:51,699 –> 00:40:52,619
And then it drops,

1245
00:40:52,619 –> 00:40:56,339
but it doesn’t drop nearly as much as it did before

1246
00:40:56,579 –> 00:40:57,139
the spike.

1247
00:40:57,339 –> 00:40:57,939
And everyone goes,

1248
00:40:57,939 –> 00:40:59,379
look, we dropped gas prices.

1249
00:40:59,899 –> 00:41:01,539
It’s the same thing they’re doing with the murders

1250
00:41:01,539 –> 00:41:01,859
right now.

1251
00:41:01,939 –> 00:41:05,379
The murders are not and haven’t been lower than they

1252
00:41:05,379 –> 00:41:08,139
have been in COVID in most of the big cities in America

1253
00:41:08,139 –> 00:41:08,579
right now.

1254
00:41:08,619 –> 00:41:10,899
And there is a common thread to the leadership of those

1255
00:41:10,899 –> 00:41:11,219
cities.

1256
00:41:11,219 –> 00:41:12,499
Do you remember when I did that story?

1257
00:41:12,499 –> 00:41:13,539
Oh yeah, I remember it well.

1258
00:41:13,619 –> 00:41:14,619
I quoted it yesterday.

1259
00:41:15,059 –> 00:41:15,499
You did?

1260
00:41:15,499 –> 00:41:15,979
I did.

1261
00:41:15,979 –> 00:41:16,499
Do tell.

1262
00:41:17,539 –> 00:41:19,539
we were talking about crime statistics,

1263
00:41:19,779 –> 00:41:22,739
and the moderator brought up that crime is actually

1264
00:41:22,739 –> 00:41:23,219
down.

1265
00:41:23,219 –> 00:41:28,419
And I was sitting here in the studio when you compared

1266
00:41:28,419 –> 00:41:29,339
the FBI data,

1267
00:41:29,339 –> 00:41:31,539
which we know is woefully incomplete,

1268
00:41:31,699 –> 00:41:34,499
a number of major cities that aren’t included,

1269
00:41:34,579 –> 00:41:36,699
and a number of cities who are cooking the books to

1270
00:41:36,699 –> 00:41:38,899
get a better result to show that they’re doing well.

1271
00:41:39,139 –> 00:41:41,059
The FBI relies on these

1272
00:41:41,619 –> 00:41:44,499
police departments around the country to provide their

1273
00:41:44,499 –> 00:41:44,979
data.

1274
00:41:45,699 –> 00:41:48,499
You compared it to coroner’s reports because coroners

1275
00:41:48,499 –> 00:41:51,419
are recording based on their job.

1276
00:41:51,579 –> 00:41:53,219
They make the determination cause of death.

1277
00:41:53,219 –> 00:41:53,739
Homicides,

1278
00:41:54,019 –> 00:41:54,339
suicides,

1279
00:41:54,339 –> 00:41:55,139
all of those things.

1280
00:41:55,299 –> 00:41:57,699
So it’s hard to fudge those numbers when you’re the

1281
00:41:57,699 –> 00:41:58,099
coroner.

1282
00:41:58,099 –> 00:42:00,739
And so you went and did the research to get the coroner’s

1283
00:42:00,739 –> 00:42:02,419
numbers and compare that.

1284
00:42:02,419 –> 00:42:02,939
And you know,

1285
00:42:02,939 –> 00:42:03,979
I remember a couple of years ago,

1286
00:42:03,979 –> 00:42:06,499
and I brought this up yesterday at the MAB meeting,

1287
00:42:07,059 –> 00:42:07,459
where

1288
00:42:07,979 –> 00:42:10,499
we were being gaslit by the Biden administration that

1289
00:42:10,499 –> 00:42:13,139
what Republicans were saying about crime was a lie

1290
00:42:13,379 –> 00:42:14,499
and look at this data.

1291
00:42:15,059 –> 00:42:18,259
And then when the revisions did come out about a year

1292
00:42:18,259 –> 00:42:22,099
later, none of those reporters that were saying Republicans

1293
00:42:22,099 –> 00:42:24,979
were lying about the crime numbers

1294
00:42:25,419 –> 00:42:26,979
did the follow-up stories to say,

1295
00:42:26,979 –> 00:42:29,539
oh, the Biden administration actually gave us shitty

1296
00:42:29,539 –> 00:42:29,939
numbers.

1297
00:42:30,339 –> 00:42:30,579
Geez.

1298
00:42:30,739 –> 00:42:32,019
They published lies too.

1299
00:42:32,019 –> 00:42:35,219
You remember when the counter to the high crime city

1300
00:42:35,219 –> 00:42:38,059
argument that was being basically reported straight

1301
00:42:38,059 –> 00:42:40,019
by the right wing was,

1302
00:42:40,019 –> 00:42:43,819
well, Republican states have the highest crime rates.

1303
00:42:43,859 –> 00:42:46,659
Yeah, because the biggest city in the Republican state

1304
00:42:46,659 –> 00:42:47,619
is a blue city.

1305
00:42:48,019 –> 00:42:49,539
Hello, look at Philadelphia.

1306
00:42:50,419 –> 00:42:52,019
It’s absolutely ludicrous.

1307
00:42:52,019 –> 00:42:53,899
Benny’s a guy because he dealt with stats.

1308
00:42:53,899 –> 00:42:54,979
He watched him get cooked.

1309
00:42:54,979 –> 00:42:58,819
We both know New York got rung up for faking stats.

1310
00:42:59,059 –> 00:43:00,739
LA got rung up for faking stats.

1311
00:43:00,899 –> 00:43:02,779
Detroit got rung up for faking stats.

1312
00:43:02,899 –> 00:43:04,099
It didn’t go away.

1313
00:43:04,339 –> 00:43:07,219
What did change was the methodology of the FBI you

1314
00:43:07,219 –> 00:43:07,979
were talking about.

1315
00:43:07,979 –> 00:43:10,499
So it used to be something called the Uniform Crime

1316
00:43:10,499 –> 00:43:13,299
Report and it switched to NIBRS,

1317
00:43:13,299 –> 00:43:15,379
National Incident Based Reporting System,

1318
00:43:15,619 –> 00:43:16,219
criteria,

1319
00:43:16,219 –> 00:43:16,659
all this.

1320
00:43:17,339 –> 00:43:19,099
It was very convoluted and complicated.

1321
00:43:19,099 –> 00:43:20,899
There’s no quality control in this thing.

1322
00:43:21,059 –> 00:43:22,979
So they’re just,

1323
00:43:22,979 –> 00:43:24,179
no one’s checking on them,

1324
00:43:24,339 –> 00:43:24,659
right?

1325
00:43:24,659 –> 00:43:26,019
These are all nonsense.

1326
00:43:26,179 –> 00:43:28,499
And most of the cities don’t have the infrastructure

1327
00:43:28,499 –> 00:43:30,219
to appropriately report using NIBRS.

1328
00:43:30,219 –> 00:43:34,019
NIBRS is like using the phone book to find one name.

1329
00:43:34,819 –> 00:43:36,419
You know, you’re going to be looking at it for a while.

1330
00:43:36,419 –> 00:43:41,139
So the actual systems most of these big underfunded

1331
00:43:41,139 –> 00:43:44,339
cities use just is struggling to catch up with the

1332
00:43:44,339 –> 00:43:45,539
NIBRS transition,

1333
00:43:46,059 –> 00:43:49,139
when and I know that the actual survey,

1334
00:43:49,139 –> 00:43:50,379
the victim survey,

1335
00:43:50,379 –> 00:43:52,579
which we’re seeing in spades in DC right now,

1336
00:43:52,979 –> 00:43:53,859
because people are going,

1337
00:43:53,859 –> 00:43:54,339
wait a minute,

1338
00:43:54,339 –> 00:43:55,139
I don’t feel safe.

1339
00:43:55,619 –> 00:43:56,579
The crime is out there.

1340
00:43:56,899 –> 00:44:00,419
Well, it’s underreported because NIBRS is cutting a

1341
00:44:00,419 –> 00:44:01,019
lot of corners.

1342
00:44:01,339 –> 00:44:01,859
And it’s not

1343
00:44:02,379 –> 00:44:03,379
really on purpose,

1344
00:44:03,379 –> 00:44:04,339
but it’s definitely out there.

1345
00:44:04,339 –> 00:44:05,219
Let me do it this way.

1346
00:44:05,379 –> 00:44:08,659
We don’t know what last year’s final crime numbers

1347
00:44:08,659 –> 00:44:09,299
are going to be yet,

1348
00:44:09,299 –> 00:44:09,539
right?

1349
00:44:09,539 –> 00:44:10,819
Because it’s not out.

1350
00:44:10,819 –> 00:44:11,859
It’s a year lag.

1351
00:44:12,579 –> 00:44:16,339
But this is last year for 2023.

1352
00:44:17,139 –> 00:44:18,739
Now, what we’re saying is this,

1353
00:44:18,739 –> 00:44:19,059
folks.

1354
00:44:20,099 –> 00:44:20,979
The crime numbers,

1355
00:44:20,979 –> 00:44:23,779
the FBI stats are made-up of two reports,

1356
00:44:23,939 –> 00:44:25,939
just like the jobs numbers.

1357
00:44:26,099 –> 00:44:26,779
Two reports.

1358
00:44:26,779 –> 00:44:27,379
For the jobs,

1359
00:44:27,379 –> 00:44:28,739
it’s the bosses,

1360
00:44:28,739 –> 00:44:29,779
how many jobs you create,

1361
00:44:30,019 –> 00:44:31,219
and the household survey.

1362
00:44:31,539 –> 00:44:32,739
How many of you lost your job?

1363
00:44:33,139 –> 00:44:36,499
The media likes to talk about what the executives say,

1364
00:44:36,739 –> 00:44:38,419
but never about what the households say.

1365
00:44:38,819 –> 00:44:40,419
And they’re widely divergent,

1366
00:44:40,979 –> 00:44:44,699
more so than ever since Biden and now Trump fires

1367
00:44:44,699 –> 00:44:47,139
you because why are they being so divergent?

1368
00:44:47,139 –> 00:44:48,739
They used to run parallel.

1369
00:44:50,899 –> 00:44:54,619
In crime, the neighbors is the cops and the National

1370
00:44:54,619 –> 00:44:57,859
Crime Victimization Survey is the people.

1371
00:44:58,579 –> 00:45:00,099
Okay, so last year,

1372
00:45:01,139 –> 00:45:04,899
The cops reported first that violent crime fell across

1373
00:45:04,899 –> 00:45:06,219
the country by 2%.

1374
00:45:06,379 –> 00:45:07,539
Crime’s down,

1375
00:45:07,699 –> 00:45:08,019
right?

1376
00:45:08,179 –> 00:45:09,579
Media, what are you talking about?

1377
00:45:09,579 –> 00:45:10,179
Conservatives,

1378
00:45:10,259 –> 00:45:10,939
you’re assholes,

1379
00:45:10,939 –> 00:45:11,299
you’re lying.

1380
00:45:11,299 –> 00:45:12,179
Look at the data.

1381
00:45:12,819 –> 00:45:14,179
Now, the people,

1382
00:45:14,339 –> 00:45:15,219
when you ask them,

1383
00:45:15,219 –> 00:45:16,139
on the other hand,

1384
00:45:16,259 –> 00:45:19,739
reported a 42%

1385
00:45:20,099 –> 00:45:20,899
rise.

1386
00:45:22,059 –> 00:45:23,859
and violent crime perpetrated against them.

1387
00:45:23,939 –> 00:45:25,539
A 42% rise.

1388
00:45:25,619 –> 00:45:26,739
Are you saying people are lying?

1389
00:45:26,899 –> 00:45:28,379
People don’t even call the cops.

1390
00:45:28,499 –> 00:45:29,539
You don’t call the cops.

1391
00:45:29,699 –> 00:45:30,819
There’s no number there.

1392
00:45:30,979 –> 00:45:32,659
Now, fine.

1393
00:45:34,099 –> 00:45:35,299
The media reports the cops’

1394
00:45:35,299 –> 00:45:35,699
numbers.

1395
00:45:35,939 –> 00:45:37,939
But what happened?

1396
00:45:38,899 –> 00:45:40,099
Oh, six months later,

1397
00:45:40,499 –> 00:45:41,459
quietly.

1398
00:45:42,099 –> 00:45:43,299
FBI didn’t tell anybody.

1399
00:45:43,299 –> 00:45:45,379
Somebody found it in a asterisk,

1400
00:45:45,539 –> 00:45:45,699
right?

1401
00:45:45,699 –> 00:45:46,579
A criminologist.

1402
00:45:46,659 –> 00:45:47,739
It may have been Matt Talibi,

1403
00:45:47,739 –> 00:45:48,259
in fact.

1404
00:45:48,339 –> 00:45:49,699
No, it was another guy.

1405
00:45:49,899 –> 00:45:50,699
He reported on it,

1406
00:45:50,939 –> 00:45:52,419
but it was an actual criminologist.

1407
00:45:52,419 –> 00:45:54,979
It was a criminologist and he noticed the asterisk

1408
00:45:54,979 –> 00:45:55,539
and you know,

1409
00:45:55,779 –> 00:45:56,579
he had screenshots.

1410
00:45:56,579 –> 00:45:57,819
I remember that.

1411
00:45:57,819 –> 00:45:58,979
And he goes back and he looks.

1412
00:45:59,219 –> 00:46:00,979
The FBI quietly said,

1413
00:46:01,219 –> 00:46:02,419
well, it didn’t,

1414
00:46:02,779 –> 00:46:04,059
violent crime didn’t fall by 2%.

1415
00:46:04,059 –> 00:46:07,939
It actually went up by 4 1/2 percent.

1416
00:46:08,499 –> 00:46:10,659
So it’s a 6 1/2 percent.

1417
00:46:11,179 –> 00:46:11,939
all right,

1418
00:46:11,939 –> 00:46:15,699
so 6 1/2 murders out of 100,000 quietly got added,

1419
00:46:16,419 –> 00:46:16,739
right?

1420
00:46:17,059 –> 00:46:18,339
Well, and what makes D.C.

1421
00:46:18,339 –> 00:46:18,939
interesting,

1422
00:46:18,939 –> 00:46:20,259
and Benny alluded to this,

1423
00:46:21,059 –> 00:46:23,459
I think the outrage has been pretty muted.

1424
00:46:23,579 –> 00:46:26,779
And the reason is everybody there has been the victim

1425
00:46:26,779 –> 00:46:29,699
of crime or known someone who’s the victim of crime,

1426
00:46:29,939 –> 00:46:32,899
because it is a small geographic area and it’s very

1427
00:46:32,899 –> 00:46:33,699
interconnected.

1428
00:46:33,939 –> 00:46:34,579
And so, you know,

1429
00:46:34,579 –> 00:46:35,619
I was reading this morning,

1430
00:46:35,619 –> 00:46:35,899
S.E.

1431
00:46:35,939 –> 00:46:37,819
Cupp, the former CNN commentator,

1432
00:46:37,819 –> 00:46:38,579
wrote a Substack.

1433
00:46:38,579 –> 00:46:39,379
It’s worth reading.

1434
00:46:39,619 –> 00:46:40,099
And, you know,

1435
00:46:40,099 –> 00:46:41,099
she’s a Trump hater.

1436
00:46:41,219 –> 00:46:44,259
and she was bashing the Democrats for how stupid they

1437
00:46:44,259 –> 00:46:46,019
are for falling into the trap again,

1438
00:46:46,259 –> 00:46:47,699
that they roll out and say,

1439
00:46:47,699 –> 00:46:48,739
no, look at the data,

1440
00:46:48,739 –> 00:46:49,619
look at the stats.

1441
00:46:49,779 –> 00:46:52,739
Except the people that live there don’t feel the data.

1442
00:46:52,979 –> 00:46:55,979
What they feel is the car jackings and the crime and

1443
00:46:55,979 –> 00:46:58,259
what they’re seeing happening around them and to their

1444
00:46:58,259 –> 00:46:58,739
friends.

1445
00:46:58,899 –> 00:47:00,179
And some of it’s high profile.

1446
00:47:00,179 –> 00:47:03,539
So when you have tons of national media people there,

1447
00:47:03,779 –> 00:47:05,059
tons of politicians,

1448
00:47:05,059 –> 00:47:07,779
even looking at DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s response

1449
00:47:08,019 –> 00:47:11,099
was pretty damn muted for what she usually

1450
00:47:11,179 –> 00:47:12,899
is doing when she’s clashing with Trump.

1451
00:47:12,899 –> 00:47:14,219
She was almost resigned to,

1452
00:47:14,219 –> 00:47:16,179
yeah, we probably do got to do this.

1453
00:47:17,579 –> 00:47:18,499
And do you know why?

1454
00:47:18,819 –> 00:47:19,939
Because it has nothing.

1455
00:47:20,019 –> 00:47:22,499
Let’s leave the stat discrepancies out of this for

1456
00:47:22,499 –> 00:47:22,819
a minute.

1457
00:47:23,139 –> 00:47:25,619
Even if we accept their numbers,

1458
00:47:26,259 –> 00:47:28,259
these homicide stats,

1459
00:47:28,259 –> 00:47:29,419
these violent crime stats,

1460
00:47:29,419 –> 00:47:31,939
these part one felony stats are way out of control

1461
00:47:31,939 –> 00:47:32,899
for a city that size,

1462
00:47:32,899 –> 00:47:35,739
especially a city as overpoliced and high tax burden.

1463
00:47:35,739 –> 00:47:37,539
Word is the word of the.

1464
00:47:38,579 –> 00:47:39,459
This isn’t Detroit.

1465
00:47:39,459 –> 00:47:42,379
This isn’t a city that has struggles making ends meet.

1466
00:47:42,379 –> 00:47:45,099
This is a city that I don’t know a mayor and Jason,

1467
00:47:45,099 –> 00:47:46,419
you’re a political strategist.

1468
00:47:46,739 –> 00:47:48,819
I don’t know a mayor in America,

1469
00:47:49,539 –> 00:47:50,739
small town or large,

1470
00:47:50,739 –> 00:47:53,059
that wouldn’t kill their mother for the ability to

1471
00:47:53,059 –> 00:47:55,459
go right to Congress for their funds and not have

1472
00:47:55,459 –> 00:47:56,979
to go argue a state house for it.

1473
00:47:57,379 –> 00:48:01,859
Yet DC has had it for 50 years and consistently sprews

1474
00:48:01,859 –> 00:48:02,339
the pitch.

1475
00:48:02,659 –> 00:48:03,859
So the question isn’t

1476
00:48:04,339 –> 00:48:06,419
Do we, are we overstepping our balance?

1477
00:48:06,419 –> 00:48:08,739
The question is where the checks and balances are on

1478
00:48:08,739 –> 00:48:09,259
home rule.

1479
00:48:09,259 –> 00:48:10,099
Like I’m in Philly.

1480
00:48:10,419 –> 00:48:14,019
Philly is the only city in Pennsylvania with home rule

1481
00:48:14,019 –> 00:48:16,739
status, and it has exactly the same problems.

1482
00:48:16,979 –> 00:48:19,579
So 187 people were murdered last year.

1483
00:48:19,579 –> 00:48:20,979
What are you doing to make it better?

1484
00:48:21,379 –> 00:48:25,699
Why in 50 years haven’t you tried to get your own DA’s

1485
00:48:25,699 –> 00:48:27,619
office, your own sheriff’s office,

1486
00:48:27,619 –> 00:48:28,899
or your own court system,

1487
00:48:29,019 –> 00:48:31,459
which they don’t have in D.C.?

1488
00:48:36,099 –> 00:48:39,059
Why let facts get in the way,

1489
00:48:39,059 –> 00:48:39,459
Benny?

1490
00:48:39,779 –> 00:48:40,699
I mean, seriously,

1491
00:48:40,699 –> 00:48:41,539
what do you want to say?

1492
00:48:42,739 –> 00:48:43,899
That’s the problem.

1493
00:48:44,099 –> 00:48:44,619
Come on.

1494
00:48:44,619 –> 00:48:48,579
All of this obfuscates that they’re measuring it completely

1495
00:48:48,579 –> 00:48:49,379
wrong anyway.

1496
00:48:49,619 –> 00:48:50,619
It’s quality of life.

1497
00:48:51,379 –> 00:48:54,019
So even if they can massage the numbers and they can

1498
00:48:54,419 –> 00:48:56,659
find some bullshit way to say that crime has dropped

1499
00:48:56,659 –> 00:48:56,699
2%,

1500
00:48:57,739 –> 00:49:00,099
The vibe on the street is that the quality of life

1501
00:49:00,099 –> 00:49:00,699
is declined.

1502
00:49:00,739 –> 00:49:02,779
All you got to do is get off of Union Station,

1503
00:49:02,779 –> 00:49:03,059
man.

1504
00:49:03,059 –> 00:49:03,579
Oh, listen,

1505
00:49:04,339 –> 00:49:05,859
I lived in Metro DC.

1506
00:49:06,099 –> 00:49:07,819
I lived in Metro DC for eight years,

1507
00:49:07,819 –> 00:49:09,619
and I’m there several times a year,

1508
00:49:09,859 –> 00:49:10,339
every year.

1509
00:49:10,659 –> 00:49:12,179
And I ride the Metro all the time.

1510
00:49:12,179 –> 00:49:14,659
It’s faster and easier than a cab or an Uber,

1511
00:49:14,659 –> 00:49:15,099
anything.

1512
00:49:15,619 –> 00:49:17,539
I can tell you from my experience

1513
00:49:17,899 –> 00:49:18,739
on the metro,

1514
00:49:18,739 –> 00:49:22,259
I can see it because the passengers are different.

1515
00:49:22,499 –> 00:49:25,779
There are people that are super aggressive and violent.

1516
00:49:25,939 –> 00:49:28,979
There are people that clearly have some mental health

1517
00:49:28,979 –> 00:49:30,979
issues roaming around in there.

1518
00:49:30,979 –> 00:49:34,259
are no metro police patrolling the metro.

1519
00:49:35,139 –> 00:49:36,179
I was never scared.

1520
00:49:36,179 –> 00:49:38,019
I’m not super scared now,

1521
00:49:38,339 –> 00:49:41,579
but I’m looking over my shoulder a lot more when I’m

1522
00:49:41,619 –> 00:49:42,339
out of the metro guys.

1523
00:49:42,339 –> 00:49:45,059
So I just want Ben,

1524
00:49:45,059 –> 00:49:45,619
Benny, Benny,

1525
00:49:45,619 –> 00:49:46,979
let me finish it,

1526
00:49:46,979 –> 00:49:47,379
Benny.

1527
00:49:48,499 –> 00:49:52,419
I just want the listeners and viewers to know you didn’t

1528
00:49:52,419 –> 00:49:56,579
hear me advocate one way or the other for what Trump’s

1529
00:49:56,579 –> 00:49:58,739
done with the National Guard in DC.

1530
00:49:58,819 –> 00:50:04,659
What I’m advocating for is clear data for the public

1531
00:50:04,659 –> 00:50:08,339
to make a real decision instead of gaslighting them.

1532
00:50:08,659 –> 00:50:10,979
We in the media have failed

1533
00:50:11,379 –> 00:50:12,859
You’re not getting a clear picture.

1534
00:50:12,979 –> 00:50:14,179
I hope you have a clear one.

1535
00:50:14,259 –> 00:50:15,779
We know where Benny stands on this.

1536
00:50:16,019 –> 00:50:17,859
Jason hasn’t said one way or the other.

1537
00:50:18,339 –> 00:50:18,939
If you want to,

1538
00:50:18,979 –> 00:50:19,459
you may.

1539
00:50:20,579 –> 00:50:22,339
I think it’s going to be an interesting test.

1540
00:50:22,339 –> 00:50:25,779
I think I’m supportive of it to send a message.

1541
00:50:25,779 –> 00:50:29,219
And it’s going to be interesting to watch how Bowser

1542
00:50:29,539 –> 00:50:32,099
responds to this and what the reaction is to the residents

1543
00:50:32,099 –> 00:50:32,579
of DC.

1544
00:50:32,899 –> 00:50:33,939
I have a feeling

1545
00:50:34,259 –> 00:50:35,379
that in a couple weeks,

1546
00:50:35,619 –> 00:50:37,459
things are going to be really nice in DC.

1547
00:50:37,699 –> 00:50:39,699
And even the people that are outraged and think that

1548
00:50:39,699 –> 00:50:42,419
this is an authoritarian move are going to be probably

1549
00:50:42,419 –> 00:50:44,339
kind of pleased that their neighborhoods are safer.

1550
00:50:44,499 –> 00:50:45,259
One can hope.

1551
00:50:45,659 –> 00:50:46,619
I actually don’t.

1552
00:50:46,739 –> 00:50:48,099
I wish I could agree with that,

1553
00:50:48,099 –> 00:50:49,259
but there’s guardrails to this.

1554
00:50:49,259 –> 00:50:52,099
So he just like going to war with the president in

1555
00:50:52,099 –> 00:50:54,419
a home rule act only has 30 days to end.

1556
00:50:54,419 –> 00:50:56,619
Yeah, but we’ll see results on that pretty quickly.

1557
00:50:56,619 –> 00:50:57,419
And that’s what I’m saying.

1558
00:50:57,419 –> 00:50:58,659
In 2, three weeks,

1559
00:50:58,659 –> 00:50:59,619
people are going to be like,

1560
00:50:59,939 –> 00:51:00,579
well, let’s see,

1561
00:51:00,899 –> 00:51:03,139
let’s see what happens in the 30 days.

1562
00:51:04,899 –> 00:51:05,419
Real simple.

1563
00:51:05,419 –> 00:51:06,259
What, like,

1564
00:51:06,499 –> 00:51:08,019
I’m going to get off probably,

1565
00:51:08,099 –> 00:51:11,579
at Union Station within the next 30 days,

1566
00:51:11,579 –> 00:51:12,979
probably I’ll probably be in D.C.

1567
00:51:13,299 –> 00:51:14,299
Let me see how it looks.

1568
00:51:14,939 –> 00:51:17,659
Am I dodging needles and tents and you know what I

1569
00:51:17,659 –> 00:51:17,859
mean?

1570
00:51:18,179 –> 00:51:20,819
Just a feeling of when you enter the city.

1571
00:51:20,899 –> 00:51:22,539
Scott Jennings just said on CNN,

1572
00:51:22,539 –> 00:51:25,059
and I think in the last week during one of the panel

1573
00:51:25,059 –> 00:51:26,579
discussion with Abby Phillips,

1574
00:51:26,819 –> 00:51:27,539
that when he,

1575
00:51:27,699 –> 00:51:28,539
because he’s up,

1576
00:51:28,739 –> 00:51:28,899
you know,

1577
00:51:28,899 –> 00:51:30,179
between New York and D.C.,

1578
00:51:30,939 –> 00:51:31,779
and lives in Kentucky,

1579
00:51:31,779 –> 00:51:35,379
he rolled into Union Station and someone got murdered

1580
00:51:35,859 –> 00:51:38,659
on the escalator and his body fell down the escalator

1581
00:51:38,659 –> 00:51:39,459
at his feet.

1582
00:51:40,099 –> 00:51:41,619
That is Union Station for you.

1583
00:51:41,619 –> 00:51:43,619
And I’ve done that story a couple times now.

1584
00:51:43,659 –> 00:51:45,979
And Union Station has three different police departments.

1585
00:51:45,979 –> 00:51:47,859
Penn Station to Union Station,

1586
00:51:47,939 –> 00:51:49,939
Manhattan to DC.

1587
00:51:50,339 –> 00:51:52,899
The richest zip codes in America are right in there.

1588
00:51:53,139 –> 00:51:57,499
And in between is the rot of Newark and Philly and

1589
00:51:58,019 –> 00:52:00,099
Wilmington and Baltimore,

1590
00:52:00,179 –> 00:52:03,059
and nobody listens about anything there.

1591
00:52:03,459 –> 00:52:04,299
Having said that,

1592
00:52:04,299 –> 00:52:05,459
I’m going to wrap it up.

1593
00:52:06,259 –> 00:52:06,939
See you next week.

1594
00:52:06,939 –> 00:52:09,059
But I want to give you an update.

1595
00:52:09,939 –> 00:52:11,059
When I did the story,

1596
00:52:11,059 –> 00:52:13,619
the city claimed over the last 10 years,

1597
00:52:13,699 –> 00:52:15,299
there were 3,000 homicides.

1598
00:52:15,699 –> 00:52:17,779
There were actually 3,300 homicides.

1599
00:52:18,019 –> 00:52:19,219
And they were,

1600
00:52:20,659 –> 00:52:21,499
by definition,

1601
00:52:21,499 –> 00:52:22,099
taking them out.

1602
00:52:22,099 –> 00:52:23,459
Oh, that’s justifiable,

1603
00:52:23,459 –> 00:52:23,939
right?

1604
00:52:24,179 –> 00:52:24,979
He pulled a gun on me,

1605
00:52:24,979 –> 00:52:25,699
so I had to kill him.

1606
00:52:26,019 –> 00:52:27,099
That’s still a homicide.

1607
00:52:27,299 –> 00:52:30,419
I’ve been assured by the chief of the Detroit police

1608
00:52:31,139 –> 00:52:33,779
that when they present the crime statistics in January,

1609
00:52:33,939 –> 00:52:36,939
there will be a total number and a breakdown.

1610
00:52:37,059 –> 00:52:38,259
We will hold them to that.

1611
00:52:38,419 –> 00:52:39,299
So at this time,

1612
00:52:39,859 –> 00:52:40,899
I know the police chief.

1613
00:52:40,899 –> 00:52:42,259
I trust the police chief.

1614
00:52:42,499 –> 00:52:44,819
You see crime going off the hook right now in Detroit.

1615
00:52:45,459 –> 00:52:48,659
We expect a true accounting of what’s going on here.

1616
00:52:49,219 –> 00:52:50,019
And finally,

1617
00:52:50,339 –> 00:52:50,739
Ben,

1618
00:52:51,739 –> 00:52:52,739
Looking a little long there,

1619
00:52:52,739 –> 00:52:53,619
you need a shave.

1620
00:52:53,779 –> 00:52:56,619
I think your chest hair is covering your medallion.

1621
00:52:56,619 –> 00:53:00,299
It’s called ethnicity,

1622
00:53:00,299 –> 00:53:00,619
bruh.

1623
00:53:01,939 –> 00:53:02,419
Talk to you.

1624
00:53:02,899 –> 00:53:03,419
See you next week.