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Buck Sexton
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Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns? We got you.
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Buck Sexton
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Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham
And I'm Mary Kathryn Ham. We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently.
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Buck Sexton
Normally is about real conversations, thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
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Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
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Buck Sexton
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday Normally.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Donald Trump tells Chicago we're going in.
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Buck Sexton (continued commentary)
Well, we're going in. I didn't say when we're going in. When you lose. Look, I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation. When we lose, when 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and 75 are shot with bullets. So let me tell you a little story about a place called dc, District of Columbia, right here where we are. It's now a safe zone.
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Buck Sexton
That's right. He has decided that enough is enough after we had 50 people shot over the Labor Day weekend. There's a recognition that is growing among the American people that you can't allow these Democrats to be in charge of the crime situation in these Democrat cities or nothing will ever get better. Trump made it very clear that it's just a question of when at this point and how. Now, here's what I find really interesting. There is a window here. There is an opportunity for Democrats to stop being insane just for a moment, just long enough that they could say, you know what? On this issue, in this moment, we are willing to work with the federal government, work with federal resources in order to bring our crime rates way down. It's already working in DC, where the President has special authority because of DC's unique situation as what is essentially a fake federal territory or federal protectorate under the Constitution. And of course, an act of Congress as well passed the Home Rule act of, I think it was 1973. So that's quite clear. But in a place like Chicago, the authority would be different. But that doesn't mean it can't work. And Trump is saying that this is a moment where there's a choice to be made, a choice for Democrats, a choice for the American people and specifically those who live in Chicago and its environs. Do you want to actually get on the right side of this issue? Just because Trump is for it doesn't mean that you should be against it. Just because this is something that Republicans have been saying for a long time, it doesn't mean that Democrats should just reflexively shoot it down. Yet nonetheless, that's what is going on here. That is the reality of what we are seeing. And even here is Governor Pritzker, who obviously wants to run for president, which is pretty shocking in and of itself. I'd like to ask a question of my own, and it's one the press should be asking as well. When did we become a country where it's okay for the US President to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal? Yeah. There are safe areas of the city. I can tell you something. When I was in Baghdad during the war in the Green Zone, for the most part, there were safe areas of that city, too, but there were really unsafe parts of it. There were parts of it where if you were in the wrong place, you daylight or at night, you could end up getting kidnapped and murdered on videotape. So, yeah, it wasn't a safe place. But there were people going to work. There were people who were walking around going to markets and everything else. But there were car bombs going off. Yeah, sure. In Chicago, are there areas that are possible or areas that are generally safe? Of course, there are safe parts of every city. Pretty safe parts, I should say, of every city. Even in Chicago, though, and I don't know Chicago as well as I know other cities like New York and D.C. which I know like the back of my hand. In Chicago, the like Linkin park neighborhood, there are carjackings, there are home invasions and people getting shot. That does happen. It doesn't happen frequently, but it does happen. I'll give you a perfect example. My lovely wife Carrie and I, I had. And I know this is kind of a shock to some people. I had never been to the city of Chicago three years ago. I had never been once in my whole life. And so I decided, you know what, this is crazy, as I'm fond of saying. And I've been to Baghdad, I've been to Mosul, I've been to Abuja. You know, I've been to a lot of places. I probably. I've been to Vietnam. I probably should go to Chicago, a great American city. So I decided to go. And. And I'm going to tell you this. We had a great time. Beautiful weather. We went there. It was 70. And those of you know Chicago know this. It was 70 degrees the whole weekend, just crystal clear skies, crispness in the air, absolutely gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful outside and everybody was in a great mood and the food was amazing and the city is beautiful. I'm thinking, this is a great place. And I'm telling you the truth. I, I turned to my wife at the time, she was just my girlfriend. We weren't even engaged yet. So that's how long ago this was. I turned to Kerry and I said, you know, I don't know, maybe, maybe Chicago. I know the numbers and everything else, but maybe it's not that bad. We were standing in Millennium park at the Silver Bean. You know, that's what I think, the big silver Bean thing. And sure enough, we go to dinner two hours later, and she says, you're not gonna believe this. I just got an alert on my phone. Cause she was still working at Fox News and she would get news alerts and she was very up on that. She goes, I just got an alert on my phone. There was a shooting, a fatal shooting in Millennium park an hour after we left. Think about this. There was a fatal shooting on a beautiful day in the most touristy and well trod, well walked part of the whole city. And we were just there. I said, you know, there is a problem here in Chicago. I know you could say that's anecdotal, but, but it's an anecdote added to the reality of a homicide rate that is appalling year in and year out. 5, 50, 600. I mean, crazy numbers of murders in this city. It's only 2 million people. It's not that big. New York is 8.5 million people. Chicago has more murders than New York. And Chicago is a fourth the size. You know, think about that for a second. So, yeah, they've got a problem and Trump wants to help them fix it. And maybe they should just stop being so insane. But we should dig in a little more here to why is it that they refuse? Why is it that they are more willing to have the suffering and misery of their own people than just to do the obvious thing? We'll get to that in a second. You know, whenever there's a conversation with the word abortion, I understand it's not an easy one, but it's not easy for me to bring up either. It's a tragedy that's happening day in and day out in this country. And for our friends at preborn clinics, it's a mission to stop abortion, to do everything that they can to give women another choice, another alternative to bring life into this world. It's the choice of the mom. But they want to make this Choice as easy as possible by saying, look, we'll support you, we give you love, we give you an ultrasound so you can meet the baby in your womb. And preborn clinics are just hoping that the more they can do this, the more lives they can save. And they've saved hundreds of thousands of lives already, over 350,000 lives to date. This is happening every day. 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And he lost to the worst guy on crime in the whole city. When you listen to Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, and the mayor before him was an abject moron as well. I mean, an abject moron. Lori Lightfoot, maybe the worst mayor in America, which is remarkable. Worse than Portland's mayor, I think it was. Wheeler. What a. What a quizzling. That guy was worse than New York's mayor at the time. De Blasio. I think that Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, was the worst mayor in America, probably of a city of substantial size. And they made it even worse with Brandon Johnson. This guy, whenever he, you know, he was just on msnbc, whenever the topic of crime comes up, he starts babbling about investment. What investment? What investment is going to be made tomorrow, next month, next year, by the city of Chicago, by his mayoralty, his administration, that is going to save a single life that will stop one person from being shot? Oh, we're going to invest in our communities. What does that mean? It has no meaning. Chicago already has a massive and bloated bureaucracy and a lot of people working for the City of Chicago, who do very little. Well, what does it mean? What does investing. Oh, you're gonna, you're gonna have more expensive public schools. You know, I mean, you look at this stuff and you say to yourself, there should be some accountability here. You know, what is the per pupil, per pupil cost of a student in Chicago? I'm doing this in. I'm doing this in real time. I'm going to tell you this per people cost of a student in Chicago, because I think that when you start to see, they talk about Invest, oh, it's $29,000, $29,000. Average CPS spending for 2024 was $20,000, but one policy report said it was $29,000 in 2023. But even if it's $20,000, they're spending more than you would spend at 90% of the private institutions for grammar school and high school in America. More than, I don't even. Probably 99%, $20,000 a student. What is the investment that's going to stop when the system is failing to prevent violence? Ignoring the violence is to become complicit in it. And that is where the mayor of Chicago and all those who support him and all those who go along, this is where they are. It has to stop. Someone has to step in and do something. Trump is showing another way in D.C. the numbers are clear. It is safer in D.C. now than it was before. And every time some pundit comes out and goes, oh, I don't like seeing an armored personnel carrier outside of Union Station. First of all, I used to live near the armory on the east side of Manhattan, and there were jeeps and armored personnel carriers and things, you know, in the neighborhood. Who cares? It's a National Guard outpost. Why does this make anybody uncomfortable? You go into Europe. Liberals, Democrats, they love Europe. You'll see if you go to Italy, the carabinieri, these guys are basically dressed up like paramilitaries, have got machine guns, they're all over the place, walking the streets. And yeah, they're their version of the national police, but they're armed up like the military guys. They're not walking around with just pistols. These guys have machine guns and submachine guns. So they're not freaking out about it. So why did we get. As I've said, they deployed the National Guard to airports for Covid. What the heck was the National Guard gonna do at an airport when Covid was happening? It was just to say, we're in charge. It was just to say, this is our response to a virus but they won't do it when it comes to gang bangers. They won't do it when it comes to drug dealers. They won't do it when it comes to people that are really harming individuals who might actually pay attention to armed presence on the streets of good guys. At some point, it's just malevolent. At some point, the Democrats have crossed over into a malevolent being a part of the problem. When it comes to crime, they are complicit in it. And I think that's what Trump realizes increasingly. And we're seeing this play out because people say, investment in our communities. What does that even mean, investment in our communities? You could double the budget of the Chicago public school system. It would not change the murder rate next year. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. And you know it, and I know it. So what is the investment that he's talking about? Oh, we need more. What more? Jobs training. The people that he should be helping are the people who already are doing jobs training, as in going to jobs that they have. And they don't want to be robbed and they don't want to be shot, and they don't want bullets coming through their windows when they're trying to, you know, just spend time alone or with their families on the weekends. They just want to be safe in their own communities. And they are disproportionately black. In the case of Chicago, they're disproportionately. The high crime, low income areas are disproportionately black individuals. And they want to be safe in their neighborhoods. And they should have that right. And they should have the law enforcement presence and the resources necessary to provide them with safety so they can go to school and go to work and live their lives in peace and security and not have babbling idiocy about investing in our communities. What does that even keep? This is crazy. It's nonsense. All right, our sponsor here is Paradigm Press. You know what keeps me up at night? Artificial superintelligence. And the Chinese are getting a lead on us when it comes to this. It's a big problem. And Biden made it so much worse because he tied AI in this country up in red tape. Now, Trump's trying to fix this, but there's a lot that still needs to be done. 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Something else that happened that I just wanted to mention here is you have a strike. I mean, this is pretty remarkable. A strike on a drug boat coming out of Venezuela. This was after the show, after the Tuesday radio show finished. This is pretty remarkable. You had a drug boat that was leaving and it was a designated narco. Here we go. US Military, A US Military attacked a vessel from Venezuela in the Caribbean that it said was carrying illegal drugs. The first known operation of the Trump administration since the surge of warships to the region. President Trump, he told reporters about this one. It's remarkable what's gone on here.
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Buck Sexton (continued commentary)
Our great general, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran knocking out potential nuclear power for a long time to come. I think within a month they would have had it if we didn't do what we did. But he gave us a little bit of a briefing and you'll see. And there's more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country coming in for a long time and we just. These came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela, a lot of things are coming out of Venezuela. So we took it out and you'll get to see that after this, after this meeting is over.
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Buck Sexton
So, yeah, now we're actually using military force against narco traffickers. That's going to have an effect. That's going to change the calculation for them, that's going to change the game for the bad guys, which is. Isn't that what we want? Isn't that what we want? The cartels operate like a paramilitary organization, a transnational, highly funded, extremely ultra violent criminal entity that engages in terrorism. And the Venezuelan government is involved. There are sanctioned for narco trafficking, sanctioned members of the Venezuelan government all the way up to the very top, all the way to the very top of the Venezuelan government. I mean, the top top. You have people who are sanctioned for narco trafficking and they're poisoning Americans. They're killing Americans with these drugs because they're sending over fentanyl. We're not blowing up ships full of marijuana. They're sending over fentanyl and they're killing people. So we've now seen a Trump administration that is going to do something about this. And I think you're just seeing the beginning of this. I've been hearing for a while in backchannel that the war against the cartels is going to start looking a lot more like a war against cartels. If you have never seen the movie Clear and present danger, I think we're going to be entering into the Trump administration's clear and present danger era of the fight against the cartels. And when you think about almost 100,000Americans a year dying of drug overdoses and a lot of them dying of what is a hot batch or drugs that are even more lethal than anyone can realize because of how they're mixed together and people don't know what they're getting and they're getting poison. So the Trump administration is taking this very, very seriously. And I think we're just seeing the beginning of this and this could get, this could get a lot more intense very quickly. So I just want to note that for all of you, but if I could turn the clock back a full year, you know what I would do? I'd definitely buy more gold. Because gold has gone up in value by some 40% for existing gold owners. That's great news. For individuals not yet invested in gold, it's not too late. Central banks worldwide are continuing to buy gold for a number of reasons. Hedge against inflation. In fact, India just this week I saw this Reuters reporting India is buying more gold and laying off of US Treasuries a little bit for a reason. Having gold as part of your IRA or 401k is crucial and I think you should really check it out. Having gold as part of your IRA or 401k makes a lot of sense. Birch Gold can do that for you. And they make owning physical gold very easy too. You can convert existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold. So all you have to do is text my Name Buck to 9898 98. Birchgold will send you a free info kit on gold. Text my name Buck to 9898 98. Birch Gold Group. Check them out today. That's the show. Shields high tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes on the coast, wildfires out west, natural disasters strike without warning anywhere. When the grid goes down, Rapid Radios keeps you in control. No monthly fees, just reliable communication between you and the people who matter. When power's out and panic sets in, push a button and you're instantly connected. Rapid Radios Built for the unexpected, ready for anything. Because staying in touch shouldn't depend on luck. How lucky are you? Visit rapidradios.com today Life's messy.
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Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns? We got you. I'm Carol Markowitz and I'm Mary Kathryn Ham. We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently.
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Buck Sexton
Normally is about real conversations, thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
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Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
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Buck Sexton
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday Normally.
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Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.