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Ep. 402 - EXCLUSIVE: New Details on GoFundMe for Charlotte Stabber, SCOTUS Rules in Favor of ICE Raids
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The Daily Signal has exclusive new details from the horrific stabbing by repeat offender DeCarlos Brown Jr. of Iryna Zarutska and the suspicious GoFundMe campaign that was quickly shut down after the video went viral.
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Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93Wype on CYTV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first out of 93. We have to get into right off the bat this situation developing out of Charlotte, N.C. a murder of Arianna Zarutska on Aug. 22 on the Lynx Blue Line light rail system committed by a thug, committed by a serial criminal, Decarlos Brown Jr. Who had previously been arrested for 14 times and then let out on a promissory little written love note if he pinky promised. Because as we all know, someone arrested 14 times, clearly the most trustworthy of individuals, the judge let him out saying, you pinky promise you're going to come back to court, right? And then he found himself on the light rail system. Also didn't pay for fare on that light rail system. Also also didn't pay the bus fare to get to the light rail system. And again, according to Charlotte officials. And by the way, I want to make this perfectly clear, every time you hear people arguing about equity and public transportation always involves things that cost individuals their lives in these situations. Whenever someone says, well, we can't prosecute people for jumping the turnstiles of the local subway. What about the equity? And it's never pregnant moms that are jumping the turnstiles. It's always guys like the dude in his mid-30s, this decarlos Brown Jr. And I'm, I, there's a video out that was released. That's one of the reasons why this has now blown up as much as it has over the weekend. The video I'm not going to play on the show. You can find it a lot of places. It's very disturbing. It involves this individual, this to Carlos Brown Jr. Sitting behind Irana Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who came to the United States to escape the Russo Ukrainian war, sitting behind her and just out of nowhere, out of nowhere, pulls out a pocket knife, stabs her in the neck, gets up, sheds his hoodie and then walks off of the train. And only then people begin to notice there's blood dripping off of him and the girl in front of him slumped over dead. And even as, as though there needed to be anything else in addendum, about 35 seconds into the recording, you can hear him saying kind of soft mutterings that he killed that white girl. He killed that white girl. Now here's why this is a particularly outrageous situation that has lasted through to today beyond the brutality of unfettered crime in blue cities across the United States, because we're going to get into the entire mess regarding that. But you get in a very rough spot right off the crack of the bat when news directors and news managers at various major media, institutional outlets choose not to cover something because the race of the individual who committed the attack and the race of the individual who was the victim in the attack. And we're going to get to that in a minute. But I want to talk about some of the most egregious stuff in this particular instance because it's going to be very important later. So again, first of all, the magistrate judge who let this murderer out, Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes released 14 time criminal Decarlos Brown Jr. With that promissory note. She's also the director of operations at Second Chance Services, a mental health and addiction clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now Representative Randy Fine out of Florida has put forward a bill in Congress now that suggests that judges should in fact be partly responsible for repeat releases of criminals. Now we're going to get to all of the statements because the statements really do paint a sharp contrast to the facts of the situation. Again, this individual was released by North Carolina, by Charlotte judges. Thirteen of those releases were in Charlotte. One release was outside of Charlotte. Here's what New York, or excuse me, here's what North Carolina governor Democrat Josh Stein had to say this morning after all of this outrage essentially drove his office to comment, quote, I am heartbroken for the family of Irana Zarutska who lost their loved one to the senseless act of violence. Again, senseless, interesting choice of words there. Says, I am appalled by the footage of her murder. We need more cops on the beat to keep people safe. And then he steps this into a political thing. That's why my budget calls for, you know, we need Republicans to vote for more. Cops aren't the problem. Here's why the dude was arrested 14 times. There's no issue catching the guy. You gotta keep the guy. One of the most famous scenes in all of Seinfeld is when Jerry goes to a reservation counter to rent a car. He says, I have a reservation for a car. She says, we don't have it. He says, that doesn't make any sense. You have a reservation, you know how to take the reservation. You don't know how to keep the reservation. Blue cities know how to arrest criminals. They just don't know how to keep the criminals. I cannot tell you how many city prosecutors and judges in blue cities and blue and red states across the country, under the guise of protecting local government, have the freedom to release cross criminal after criminal after criminal after criminal back out onto the street in the name of equity or oh, well, he's. He's probably homeless. And after all, that's the real crime here, is that he's homeless. That's what the mayor of Charlotte said. Mayor Vai Lyles. According to the report by WFAE. That's 90.7 in Charlotte. That's an NPR station, I believe. Said Lyles said the suspect appeared to have struggled with mental health and suffered a crisis. I'm sorry, I'm going to be quite clear here about the whole mental health argument. People have crises, but if you have individuals with mental health conditions, severe mental health conditions that are running around, you know what? It's on you. If they have a severe crisis, it's on you. That's why mental institutions are important. If someone is suffering from severe schizophrenia, gender dysphoria, whatever, and they have a manic episode, then it is now on the innocent people around them. Unless there happens to be a hero like Daniel Penny nearby in New York City to hold down the individual having the manic episode and threatening everyone around them. This is what the mayor said, though, that was particularly egregious. We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. Lyle said mental health disease, and is just that, a disease like any other. It's not that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as a cancer or heart disease. Old liberal white women, overeducated, overly arrogant liberal white women who think that they can just get up in front of people and give the old elementary art teacher lecture on love and kindness and compassion and just. If you just love them enough and treat them, then they'll be wonderful and fine. That's not true. Mental illness cannot just be cured, like the common cold or polio or even a broken bone just mended with time, loving chicken noodle soup. No, it actually requires understanding a long term series of risks to the rest of the population because there's no Vernier, there's no magical little gauge on someone's forehead with a mental illness that says, hey, I'm about to have an episode. And people were understandably outraged. Now, here's something that I haven't seen reported, this sent me. This should make every single person in this country outraged beyond a shadow of a doubt. This is a thread that has been pushed out by Joe Bruno. So Joe Bruno is a reporter over at WSOC. I believe that's Channel 9 in Charlotte. He says while not on the agenda tonight, the Charlotte City council members will question Katz, which is the transportation light rail system in Charlotte and professional security services about the fatal stabbing of Irana Zarutska. Katz will give a safety briefing. That was on September 2nd. Now, he then goes through to say that while they're getting ready to talk about all of these, you know, various, the stabbings issue, a lot of people are there. They take a break to eat cake. Not joking. He says they are indeed taking a break for cake to celebrate council member Dimple Ajmira's birthday. Now cake time finally ends and now they're starting their discussion of the fatal shooting. Producer Nick, you were looking at that this morning. You said how many minutes, according to his tweet thread, I don't have it listed here. How many minutes did they actually spend discussing about the stabbing?
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There was not an actual confirmation of minute to minute. His coverage seemed to suggest that he was tweeting it live as it happened. And it was barely long enough to actually cover the whole stabbing. It was surmised as well. That's sad.
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Yeah, just a couple of minutes. Just real swinging right through. So priorities in the Democrat city council at Charlotte seem to be exactly where they have always been. We're gonna send the radio crew to commercial. We have a few more things to cover on this before we get to a couple of the scandals regarding the GoFundMe campaign and a whole lot else. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast. All right. While the radio crew is at commercial break, we have a little bit of time to cover something that is, I would argue, more infuriating before we get to the national media coverage, you know, before we get to the really heartless remarks, the terrible statements from Axios and then of course, even from some independent journalists on the right and in the center saying Things that are very, very, very dangerous. That has become kind of a cottage industry after incidents of mass tragedy. I want to talk about some of the coverage from local sources. So if I have this, this clip loaded correctly, and I believe that I do, here's how local media covered the stabbing. Again, the stabbing by a repeat 14 times arrested offender.
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I think it's a complete tragedy, but it is an example of how we.
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Need to get more mental health services to folks who are unhoused. Oh, we just need to get more mental health services to people who are unhoused. That's the issue. See, if people just weren't homeless, man, if people just like you could give them like a psychiatrist to listen to them. Some guy in a sweater like in Disney's like the Santa Clause, you get Neil up there to give him a hug, then everything's totally fine. Well, I mean, you know, hey, why not? Here's the thing. The rest of the city council meeting, they actually do start talking about some ways to possibly solve security incidents like this in the future. So there were some staffing issues and, and whether or not bus operators are supposed to let people ride without fares. And because again, that's how Carlos Brown Jr. Decarlos Brown Jr. Actually got to the train station. He took a bus fare, didn't pay for it. And then there is a question asked, hey, maybe, you know, just saying, shouldn't we close off the light rail system so that people have to pay a fair? And if you can't pay a fair, you don't get on the train. That would protect a lot of people in Charlotte from being exposed to unhoused or homeless individuals who are going through mental crises. Here is what council member Renee Johnson says that, well, you know, if you close off the light rail system from the rest of Charlotte, first of all, it would be really hard to kind of like close off, put up gates. Second, it would. Oh, sorry. This isn't according to Renee Johnson. This is. This is according to the others is Cagle said that it would be concerning for equity. So if you cut off homeless people who are going through mental episodes who don't pay the fare from accessing the light rail network, well, then, you know, that's probably an issue of equity. And this brings us to the Democrats key problem. Why is it the Democrats cannot ever solve any kind of crime in their big cities? It's because they immediately assume that if you enforce the law, then it is going to disadvantage, as according to the city council, it's going to disadvantage black people, which is about the most racist thing I've heard in my entire life.
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Producer Nick Cagle himself is the CEO of Katz.
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Thank you for clarifying.
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Which makes it even worse.
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That is even worse. Yeah. Cagle, the CEO of the light rail system.
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The council members are attempting to offer some solutions. And his answer is, we'll look into that because of equity.
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I'm glad that you point that out. And it's again, this is one of the benefits of having producer Nick in studio on set. These long threads no one's even talked about. Now, by the way, the office of Mayor Vi Lyles has now put forward an official super duper statement. She's now put out three different statements. That is how bad the backlash is in Charlotte. Three separate statements from a major city mayor in the United States. Very, very, very unusual. And the way this is being painted by analysis and analysts over on various networks over at Axios, and we're gonna get to even others like Brian Stelter here in a moment here, the callousness towards these kind of events is so sickening. It is a perfect picture as to why Americans are so done with the same old answers every single time. And of course, some of the allegations that people need to keep an eye on. We gotta bring the radio crew back from commercial. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. The Tony Kennett cast on 93W. All right, let's dig into some of the media coverage surrounding this because this is where the egregious nature of both the left wing in the United States that brings its leaders forward to. As soon as there is a political tragedy which benefits them, they are talking about it immediately. They're doing campaign rallies. They're saying enough is enough. I don't want to hear your thoughts and prayers. They're getting out there, they're yelling in the Capitol building and they're holding protests. All that. Yet when the victims differ, all of the sudden, it takes until days later for Democrat officials in Charlotte and North Carolina and the rest of the country to issue any statement, many of them, for example, Senate candidate Roy Cooper, former governor of North Carolina, had nothing to say. Still no statements from him at all. Now, there are a lot of people that are promising action, but we're going to shift over to some of the media coverage here. I will remind you that right now the New York Times has 5,897 articles. I'm going to say that again, 5,897 mentions, excuse me, mentions of the name George Floyd Trayvon Martin currently brings up 1190 article search results for Trayvon Martin. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, The Maryland Man, Mississippi 13 gang member 56 Daniel Penny Over 100 article notes for the New York Times. Iran of Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee. Again, I thought I was told, as were you all told, that Ukrainian refugees were incredibly important. The Russo Ukrainian, that the Ukrainian people amid the Russo Ukrainian war, that the Ukrainian people deserve significant support. And now you have a situation in which in a homeless individual who is black who has confirmed schizophrenia, who also was previously arrested for attacking his own sister, now he commits a stabbing and there's nothing, nothing at all. Now Brian Stelter, I do want to point this out here. It appears as though CNN tried to pitch an opportunity for Brian Stelter to cover this accurately. And Stelter then took the football and spiked it into the ground in probably one of the grossest ways possible. Here's Brian Stelter being given an opportunity to be decent and well, really.
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Over the weekend, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump aligned figures succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.
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A symbol of big city crime. Now why, why would someone suggest that this senseless attack, that this out of nowhere attack by a homeless individual dressed like a thug, attacking just a person going about their business, not dressed for a fancy, just in I believe like a, a pizza outfit, like a uniform to work, like a local pizza place. Why would that be like a pattern Americans recognize? Maybe because it happens all the time. It happens all the time, 50 times a weekend. If you're looking at the news from Chicago, I'll let them continued.
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President Trump asked about it yesterday when he was heading home from New York City. He didn't seem to know much about it. He said he would get briefed and then today Trump did know all about it. That's exactly what has happened here. This story has trickled up from so from local news to social media and now to the President's attention. And it's being used, as you said, Brianna, as a political symbol with MAGA media calling for more forceful punishments and more incarceration. I have to say some of the replies to Musk, some of the comments around this story are baldly racist.
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Ah, see, people have pointed out that the individual in this story who did the attack, he's black. So therefore that means it's immediately racist. Sure. The, the killing of George Floyd in which a cop followed the procedures given by the Minneapolis Police Department. An Asian man, if I believe I'm correct, or an Individual who was, was half Asian, something like that, a mixed individual, which are also people, I'm told, put his neck on George Floyd. And then George Floyd expired from a severe fentanyl overdose. And that, oh, immediately, white supremacy. When, when Nicholas Sandman, a high school student, smiled as he was being harassed by a protester who happened to be Native American in Washington D.C. immediately the stories ran around the white supremacy, white supremacy. All the major networks, all the major articles. But oh man, man, if someone mentioned something the other way, well then button those lips, boys and girls.
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Stoking fear of African Americans because this man attacked a white woman. The open racism on sites like X today, it's eye popping. But there are also legitimate questions about this so called career criminal, someone who had been a repeat offender. And those questions, I hope they're not lost amid all of the cesspool kind of comments on social media.
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Now that last part. That's correct. The last part though, that is absolutely, unequivocally correct. There are serious questions about the crime here. There are really important things to discuss on Blue City crime. Now does the entire media come to that kind of a conclusion? Absolutely not. Axios had some horrible things to say today. Mark Caputo, who's the, I believe, the White House correspondent for Axios, he described this as the grizzly video of a woman's murder in North Carolina became a campaign issue in the swing state Senate race this weekend, drew Trump's attention and fueled conservative criticisms of Democratic policies. The way the news media covers race and crime, not about the stabbing. It's conservatives noticed conservative pounce Republicans seize ridiculous. And by the way, it's not just the headline, as though some social media intern put out a really awful headline. The article is terrible too. Axios the big picture. The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces and including on Charlotte's light rail has become a big accelerant in these cases. The video is easily shared or leaked and can instantly pollinate across social media. A visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases. See, the problem is that there are cameras. Now I'm going to come right off the bat here and say didn't we just get through an entire social campaign about cops wearing body cameras and more cameras to show that actually there was brutality towards minorities in the United States. Then when the camera footage was released and it was showed that that was crap and that most crime in this country is intraracial, meaning like inside groups. And then of course, the high amount of crime by individuals who are severely mentally ill. And yes, in New York City, a high amount of crime in which black individuals attacked Asian individuals and a high amount of crime in which black individuals attacked Hispanic individuals and black individuals attacked black individuals. And in this case in Charlotte, black individuals attacking white individuals. All of a sudden, the statistics train screeches to a halt and it's the cameras who are to blame. Okay, Axios, got it. Thanks. This brings us to one of the points of caution. This is the new information that we've just received today. Producer Nick and I have been looking at pretty closely. So There was a GoFundMe campaign, two GoFundMe campaigns, I believe that we have record of that were launched in support of Decarlos Brown Jr. Suggesting that the stabber, he needed the GoFundMe dollars, the big campaign dollars. Here. There is some footage or some information, I should say, on this photo here on the live stream that we have blurred out. It is an individual's photo and then it is an individual's first, middle and last name. Who, who says that has organized this fundraiser. Now, GoFundMe has taken down both of these and has issued a statement saying according to policy, they don't allow these kind of GoFundMes to be up and on the site. The rest of this story, though, is. Is pretty rough because there are a lot of rumors circulating online because if you reverse image search that photo, it takes you to a sex offender registry page. And again, we have blurred the photo of the individual and the name of this individual for a very specific reason, because it's the exact same photo, the exact same photo of the individual on his sex offender Federal sex offender registry page. It's the exact same photo. Not the same guy, different photos, exact same photo that is used as the organizer for the GoFundMe campaign in favor of Decarlos Brown Jr. Now, it's a different name, different name from the sex offender registry. As for the GoFundMe individual. Now that has not stopped a lot of people, a lot of people online from suggesting that it is in fact this guy on the sex offender registry who has committed sexual offenses, according to the. The charges, attempted rape. That's actually also the person who set up this particular go fund, me supporting the stabber. That's not true. According to what we can see. We're going to get into it because it matters how this news circulates. This is the next cottage industry in kind of the online media battle. We're going to talk about it. Radio crew, we have to send you to commercial per the FCC clock. It's The Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal. Okay, why am I making much ado? Because I'm the kind of guy who has said repeatedly those who have been convicted of sexual abuse crimes that the penalty should be a noose. I've said that, have I, Have I not said that? Producer NICK I've made that very clear.
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You have said that.
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Yes, I do believe that the, the standard for sentencing in the United States, if you are convicted of a crime that involves the sexual abuse, especially of a minor, that the penalty should not be a taxpayer funded timeout, that the penalty should be the news. I, I've said that consistently. That said, there's a problem with this particular story because now people have been putting out information regarding this particular offender on different social media platforms suggesting, hey, this guy needs to be killed. Here is his information, here's his address, here's all this stuff. And they are now assigning that he, this individual on the sex offense registry needs to be murdered because his picture from the sex offender registry was used in this. GoFundMe. Here's the problem. Why would you, if you're setting up a GoFundMe, use the photo if for some reason you're on the sex offender registry, why would you use the photo from the sex offender registry for the GoFundMe campaign? Photo, different names. What this appears like to me, I am speculating here because I'm not able to reach out to any of these individuals at the moment. GoFundMe just recently released just kind of a general statement condemning these particular fundraising campaigns. And we haven't been able to get in any other kind of contact information regarding the individual on the registry. It doesn't really make sense that you would put that picture on there. What does make more sense is essentially some kind of a goofy false flag situation in which, you know, a great way to cause a lot of controversy and maybe get some donations from really crazy people is to get a photo of someone that maybe you would perhaps like to see removed from the face of the earth and then put that in there. So it might cause a lot of extra layers of controversy. And that's a significant issue. Why? Because now all some legacy media outlet has to do over on the left side of the aisle is say this part of the story is wrong. Because I'm seeing a lot of very big accounts right now start to amplify this story that a rapist is the individual who started this GoFundMe campaign for Decarlos Brown Jr. And from all evidence that we can find, that's likely not happened. Now could that have happened? Yeah, I mean, he could have actually been the guy that did it. But again, the odds very slim, unreal that you would use the sex offender photo and then a different name. But it weakens the story overall. And we see this in a lot of the larger social media ecosystem right now right here. And I do want to point out that this becomes a problem when you have a mass shooting, an active shooter situation and then you have representatives, really big social media accounts that are sharing photos of people and saying, I think this is the shooter. And now that person who's carrying an umbrella and is not the shooter, now they're getting death threats. Now they're getting people that might be coming after them. There is this era of engagement first and the news second with a lot of these independent journalism accounts that absolutely you should be wary of. There were a large series of accounts that have been caught over the last week who have been taking foreign influence dollars in order to promote the nation of India right now while the, the Indian government, the Chinese government are getting closer promoting India on through American accounts. I'm just going to make this explicitly clear. Be very, very, very careful just because you see a large account whom you may agree with politically before you share it, because I'm telling you, we will end up with seeing somebody killed here. We got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. Be back in a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. We're going to talk very briefly about the strange obsession with crime. Just this week, more and more and more Democrats are clinging to their latest obsession, which is protecting crime in inner cities. And by the way, I'm not saying, well, they're just kind of sort of, you know, like infatuated with crime. But realistically, they'll get up and they'll say they like police, but they don't know, I mean, that Zoran Mandani, the runaway winner at this point in the New York City mayoral race, the open communist and pro jihadi son of producers and professors and the lap of socialist luxury, repeatedly getting out in front of the public amid all of these sweeping criminal issues and suggesting that, well, I mean, you know, that's probably just because they're disenfranchised. Producer Nick, do you have something?
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He also was a failed rapper. Put some respect on his name.
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Okay, sorry. Failed rapper, failed rap artist, Zoran Mamdani. Sorry, I can't leave out an individual's career achievements all weekend. Comment after comment after comment about law enforcement that would send any middle of the country Democrat running for the hills.
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The jail population of Rikers has increased since Eric Adams has come into office by more than a thousand additional incarcerated New Yorkers. And what is quite staggering to me is that we know that we can reduce that jail population to less than 4,000. Vital City had an article about a number of different proposals that could reduce it to 3,700. And some of this also just has to look at. The average stay on rikers in the 90s was 50 days. Now it's more than 100.
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Oh no. More than a hundred days. No. Hey, what were the crimes that threw people in there? Zoran, Just a real quick, you know, head scratcher. Were the crimes like you know, palming a loaf of bread from the local bodega. But they weren't.
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There are more than 1500 people on Rikers who have been held there for more than a year.
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Held for what? Zoron.
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So I do think many of the reforms that have to be made are also reforms around the court system and ensuring that people are actually having speedy.
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See that's the problem. See that's the problem. See, I mean it's not like if you just release someone as soon as you catch them, they might, you know, stab a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte on the rail system. I mean clearly the issue, I mean just think if, if the cops wouldn't have arrested the DeCarlos, Brown Jr. Or any of the other number of criminals, they just wouldn't arrest them and I'll just let him go. They probably wouldn't have lashed out so angrily. This is the kind of of apron strings socialism, soft handed nonsense that has brought millions, millions to an early grave under false promises of utopia. If you just cancel all laws and it's, it's disgusting. And it again that's not the only thing here. More Zoran Mamdani over the weekend just gets worse.
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Now you've been running on the platform of afford fixes for New Yorkers like a rent freeze. You mentioned free buses, city owned groceries that made you popular with some working New Yorkers.
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Working New Yorkers. He says young socialists. Yes, very popular with young socialists. Rent freezes, 1970s New York says enjoy the fires, free buses. I believe it was St. Louis who just canceled that program because oh dear sweet heavens, how expensive. City owned food shops, bunny centers and the breadlines are smiling.
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But not so popular with Real estate developers in the financial class. You were the only male candidate to march alongside Martin Luther King III and I on our march on Wall street about DEI on last week as we call for economic justice for all New Yorkers and all Americans. But right now, the top 1% earners in the city pay 40% of the city's income taxes, according to the Empire center for Public Policy. How do you bring these wealthy residents to the table as mayor, stop them from saying they're leaving, going to Florida? Because we need that tax revenue to pay for some of the things you're talking about.
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So Al Sharpton, even he, you know, usually when he's not instigating race riots, understands. Yeah. I mean, if nobody's paying the taxes, Zoran, how are you going to fund all these super duper reforms? And Zoron's answer, man, he's ready. He's ready to go.
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How do you pay for it if they're gone?
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Well, the first thing I have to say is I was proud to be the only candidate for mayor at that march. And I was proud because some of the chants at that march, they were asking, is the dream alive?
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Oh, man. The chance. You know, often, producer Nick, when I'm thinking about whether an argument is good or it makes sense, I just think of a chant. And if I hear a chant loud enough, that means that that's the right thing to do.
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If it rhymes, it's true.
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That's true. That's true. What else are you gonna do? All right, let's hear him out.
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Is Dr. King's dream still alive? And he asked the question decades ago, what good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? That's a question that New Yorkers are still wrestling with today in 2025, to.
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The ground on the subway, to be quite honest.
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And so what I have put forward is a vision to make the most expensive city in the United States of America afford time. When we have the wealthiest city, it is also one where one in four are living in poverty. And to your point, we have a number of New Yorkers who are doing quite well. The top 1% of New York City earns a million dollars or more a year. And my vision is not one where they leave. It is one where they stay.
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Yeah, I bet.
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How do you get them to stay?
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In part by showing them that asking them to pay more in taxes would increase even their quality of life.
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Oh, come on. See, this is. This is the best part. So the way that Democrats are going to win future elections, because it's not just. And we'll talk about Jasmine Crockett in a second. Her brilliant take on this is just incredible. But the Democrats have decided that right now the move is to say, we want less law enforcement. We want more again. People letting them out of jail or as early as they come in, just like, throw them right back out there. Because, man, if they stay 100 days in Rikers, ooh, and then you tell the people that those criminals are gonna be attacking. Well, I mean, you know, if you just pay a little more money so I can open up another social center, maybe, you know, buy another couple of hours for the local drag queen to read to the kids, that'll improve your quality of life. We aren't gonna spend anything on keeping you safe. Again, like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. He's gonna hire his own 150 officer security detail. Sorry, I just continually shocks me, but I mean, you know, if you want the safety of local cops on the street. No. No wonder so many Americans are looking forward to the Trump administration putting some National Guard troops in blue cities. Why? To show how easy it is to get a big city's crime under control. It humiliated Muriel Bowser in Washington that all it took was a couple National Guardsmen at Union Station and it didn't smell like piss anymore. All it takes is a couple National Guardsmen and amazing Los Angeles didn't turn into a fascist superstate. Which brings us to the Supreme Court of the United States. Big decision. So the Supreme Court ruled in what. What I must say, now that they are getting into the fall session, it's only going to get better. There are some bigger cases now that are brought forward with some precedent. Earlier on in the year, the Supreme Court has ruled six to three that the Immigration Customs Enforcement raids are fine. Why? Well, because they're upholding federal law and their federal law enforcement, and it turns out that a local city can't ban you from upholding federal law. Kind of had an entire war about that, believe it or not. And the side on federal law's behalf won. Like it or lump it. That's just the. That's just the facts. Now, Sotomayors. Sotomayor's having a time. She's one of the three dissenting justices. I know. Shocker. She has suggested the court decides to take the once extraordinary step of staying the district court's order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speak Spanish and appears to work a low wage job rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost. I dissent. The majority of people that were detained at the immigration rate at the Hyundai factory in Georgia were South Korean. Now, I don't know if you guys know anything about South Koreans. They don't exactly look Hispanic. Most South Koreans that I know and have seen don't speak Spanish. I don't know if you knew that. It's kind of, kind of crazy. Just a. I don't know. Just in case you were wondering, South Korea and Mexico not next door on the map. Little history lesson there for you radio crew. We got to send you guys off to the commercial because over here we've got some Jasmine Crockett nonsense to take care of. It's the Tony kind of cast. See you guys in a second. Now, Jasmine Crockett, she's also one of the Democrats who's here to talk about crime. But I, I'm sorry, I have been lax in my promises to you as a, as a broadcaster. Hakeem Jeffries, he was asked some very important questions today about Zoran Mandani. Pressure on you to get involved there. Put your thumb.
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H
I have more to say about the mayor's race. When I have more to say about the mayor's race.
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A
Why don't you have anything to say about the mayor's race? Why is it so difficult topic?
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H
Same answer. It's not a difficult topic. Who said it's a difficult topic? I choose to make endorsements when I choose to make endorsements and that's what I'm going to continue to do. And that's what I've done for 12 plus years as a member of Congress, reelected every two years consistently.
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A
Do you have any plans to meet with Zoran Mamdani again?
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H
Say it again. Do you have any plans to meet.
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A
With Zoran Mamnani again?
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H
Not at the moment.
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So Hakeem Jeffries is asked. So, I mean, you've got this guy that's running out there saying, release all of the criminals from jail. At a time when Americans are really annoyed with how blue cities are handling crime. Again, they're annoyed because people in Chicago see how Trump fixed it in D.C. they observe the difference and people are annoyed. Americans are really frustrated. Now, Hakeem not only has Zoran Mamdani to be annoyed with and, well, I'm not gonna answer any questions I don't wanna talk about. It's not important to me. He also has intellects like Jasmine Crockett, the representative from Dallas, whose seat is. Is evaporating in the breeze. Like Thanos just snapped his fingers. And her take on what cops are for again, she's such a treat to Republicans. Are you really sure that you want to get rid of her seat? Is there not one Republican in Texas who might give up his seat so she might live in Congress? To continue saying brilliant, brilliant epithets like.
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B
This, I want to be clear that like, law enforcement isn't too prevent crime.
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A
Law enforcement solves crime.
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B
Okay?
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A
That is what they are supposed to do. They are supposed to look at the other two people that she's on. This is on, on the show Grounded, I believe the other two people look as though they want to jump through a stained glass window and plummet as many floors as possible. Cops are not here to prevent crime. They're here to solve crime. Of crimes.
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B
Not necessarily prevent them from happening per se.
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Per se. Oh, per se. Oh. Some are saying, yes, as people say, fantastic. Yes, of course, as we all know that the cops just hide in the police station and then after the murder occurs, they come out, they dispatch them with the Inspector Gadget theme in order to solve crime. Jasmine Crockett's idea of police is like a 9 year old's idea of Sherlock Holmes. Incredible. Come, my dear Watson. They're all dead. Let's find out who did it. Excellent. Yeah, yeah.
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When my home is being broken into, I call the cops right away so that they can get there after the burglar leaves. So they have as much time as possible to solve it.
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Yes. Hi. My family and I are currently hiding from the violent criminal that's broken into our home. What do we do? Well, I mean, I guess if the Ontario police Chief is your guy, he's gonna say comply and do whatever the person says. We'll see you in a couple of hours. Incredible. How do they think this is going to be popular with Americans? It's really, really not. What else isn't popular with Americans? Letitia James, Attorney General of New York. Yeah, she's cooked additional mortgage fraud documents now with Citizens bank in 2021 after allegedly misrepresenting her five unit Brooklyn building as a single family home in order to secure a $200,000 credit line. Guys, you don't have to commit mortgage fraud. So you have two groups in the United States right now. On the left side of the aisle, you have those who are advocating for no punishment for crime whatsoever. Let the criminals roam the streets freely, and the other crew who says, commit as much crime as you want. And a little, little mortgage frame gets the bank account going. So what are they going to do when they lose elections? They're going to focus on independent journalism. We're going to talk about that. Up next, it's the Tony Kennett castle. It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYBC. All right, I'm gonna break a rule that you're really not supposed to as a broadcaster. There are a couple of shows that my team watches every day while prepping TKC for you and almost always one of those is Megyn Kelly. Almost never miss an episode of the Megyn Kelly Show. Solid reporting doesn't pull punches. Common sense. You probably already know this. Now what you may not have known is that her team really likes the Daily Signal and the Tony Kennett cast. That's why they're giving you first dibs on tickets to her 10 city tour starting next month. Tickets go on sale later this week, but only you. That's right, the Daily Signal and Tony Kennett cast audience get access to them Monday the 8th and Tuesday the 9th. You can grab those by going to MeganKelly.com and entering code MK2025. I'll tell you a secret. We sweetened the deal. Some of these packages include meet and greets, other perks. Yeah, because we take care of you guys. Head over to MeganKelley.com that's M E G Y N K-E-L-L-Y.com and enter code MK2025 and seriously, go see the show. Thanks to Megan and her stellar crew for giving the Daily Signal and Tony Kinnit cast folks, first crack at it. Megyn Kelly live, presented by Wide refi and Sirius XM. Go get tickets right now MeganKelly.com before they sell out and I'll see you soon. Welcome back to the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal where we're here with Kurt Schlichter. Townhall.com I have never been more happy not to be Don Lemon. Do you feel me?
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C
There's a Don Lemon joke there.
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Yeah, I, I think I gotta say the left has now started picking up on the, what is it, Nick? Like the independent journalism thing. They're, they're gonna try to do what the right has been doing on social media for a little while here now. They're gonna come out, they brought Don Lemon out and he's gonna do some independent journalismy things. How do you think it's going? Just before we even dig into these.
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C
Clips, I don't particularly want to. I don't want to particularly experience the man on the street, Don Lemon, if you know what I'm saying.
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A
Oh, it's. It's. It's pretty awful. So we figured the best way to.
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C
Think it could be way worse. I remember he kicked me off CNN in December 2015.
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A
That's right. That's right. We have that clip, don't we?
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H
What if you did the same thing with Donald Trump from something his spouse or his father, if someone else did in his family, it has nothing to do with him running for president. We're talking about his own actions, his own individual merit. So you're going to talk about Hillary Clinton, then Bring Hillary Clinton's actions into it. Don't bring her husband's actions into it.
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C
Bring Hillary Clinton's actions into it. Absolutely. She was the giving the choice between standing with a serial sexual abuser.
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H
All right, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
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A
Serious.
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H
That's not fair. That's not fair. That's not fair. Can we stop that, please? It is not fair. It is not fair. It is a low blow. It is the. Yes, I want to end this. This is the lowest of the low, and it is nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. It is just a cheap shot that millions. Can you please stop? Can we stop? Can we cut him off, please?
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C
It was amazing.
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A
All right, so we do have a couple of things here that are really great. He's doing kind of the whole gamut. And I wanted you to see these. So first of all, Don Lemon, formerly of cnn, he leads this group of tactile expert, super tactical activist, journo independencers into Marjorie Taylor Greene's office to demand that Donald Trump be impeached. Check this out.
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H
After you.
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A
Come on.
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C
Nice headgear.
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A
Yeah, I thought so. Is she in? You guys can contact her office at a different time if you guys would like a meeting with the congresswoman. Yeah, we would like to make sure that she knows that we need to get Donald Trump and impeached and out of office. They spend three minutes essentially going, can't we see her, please? They're like, no. They're like, well, you make sure she knows. You write down on your Rolodex she needs to impeach Donald Trump.
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C
I love the calf. Yeah, that's amazing.
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A
Oliver Twist looks good on him.
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C
So many jokes, and they're all inappropriate.
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A
That's true, that's true. So to avoid a little bit of an FCC fine here, the next one's fantastic because he's going out for man on the street. The same kind of thing you said you didn't want to be dragged through because you don't. You're not the only guy that has the bile that seeps up into his throat whenever Don Lemon appears on screen. Even the Brits are getting in on this. Check it out.
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H
How you doing, sir?
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A
Can we talk to you?
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H
Where you from? You live in New York.
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A
Who are you?
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H
Don Lemon.
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A
You're a moron, dude. Thank you.
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H
So are you.
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E
Except you've never heard anything I've had to say.
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A
And I've heard a whole bunch of what you.
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H
I'm glad you watched me.
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A
No, I don't. Why. But you just get clipped everywhere.
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H
I know, but why don't you. You said you don't watch me, but you. Yet you know who I am.
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A
And I get clipped before I realized that CNN and MSNBC were full of every once in a while.
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H
What do you watch?
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A
I watch all sorts of stuff.
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H
Yeah, but why do you say CNN and MSNBC are full of.
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A
How.
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H
But about what's. Everything.
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A
Everything. That's incredible. So, first of all, getting called a bleeping immediately, like, so can I talk to you? You're a. And your mother's ugly. It's like, who. What independent journalism is that? Do any of the journalists over@townhall.com. do any of you give them the advice to just go calling people morons at various events?
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C
Well, I mean, that's pretty much my whole shtick. You know, I. I mean, let's be honest here. But there's a difference. I'm accurate.
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A
That's true. He doesn't like the accurate, though. So I didn't know if you'd seen Don Lemon running away from a Dominican woman in New York City, and apparently.
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C
This is pretty much any woman.
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A
I. I know, I know, I know. The man's got the testosterone of an empty pill bottle, but he's. He's asking her about the National Guard because, of course, this is the fear mongering the left is going with fascism's incoming. He's just not prepared for the answers he's getting.
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H
How are you? Where are you? Where do you live?
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B
I live here.
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H
You do?
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B
In the pounds?
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H
Yeah. Do you feel safe?
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B
Yes.
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A
You do?
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B
A little bit.
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H
Do you think we need the National Guard on the streets here?
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B
What?
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H
National Guard on the streets. To help with crime.
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B
Maybe more.
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H
You think National Guard or just more police?
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B
More police.
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H
What about armed military?
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B
I think it's good if we are going to be safe.
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H
You're all poor.
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A
Yes.
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C
Don Lemon, meet Latina women. Women.
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B
The better is we are.
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A
Then he's like, well, nice to meet you. Oh, wait, I'm not on tv. I can't say back to you, Phil. Like, there's nowhere for him to go.
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C
You know, I mean, like, as a guy who married a. A Cuban chick who told me I don't own enough guns, when by any reasonable standard, I do.
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A
What do you need? Guns. Lots of guns.
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C
I like, I knew where this was going. I know this is like an away game for you talking to women, but, you know, if. If you're going for the Latinx chicks, maybe don't say. Wouldn't you like a bunch of criminals to run rampant instead of handsome dudes with firearms kicking their creepy butts?
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A
Hey, you know, Nicaragua.
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C
This game ends.
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A
Wouldn't you like Nicaragua? Right outside your door? And you can see the moment that she wants to deck him right in the teeth. It's incredible. Let me.
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C
Let me tell you a little story. Remember be. You know, be. He came to. Comes to cpac, right? And he's walking through the back, you know, in the back where all the. Yeah. You know, you walk through to the stage and it's all the guys working hard and getting stuff. And a lot of them are El Salvadorans, dude. The El Salvadorans stopped working and cheered. It was amazing. They were like, you're the greatest. You've made our homeland safe again. Our kids aren't afraid. Oh, you're great. And I was like, well, don't think I'll be seeing this in the mainstream media. I mean, yeah, you know, if you got somebody going, oh, well, you know, they tried to deport me. I've only molested five kids and had six DUIs. You know, I'm just a. You know, I'm just a Tennessee man. Instead, it's like, I'd rather be safe from scumbags.
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A
Like, when you saw the KLA tweet this morning, he said, buckle up, buttercups. I mean, there's just something about actually just finally getting down and tackling crime that the Democrats don't understand. How in favor of that Americans are El Salvadorians, the rest of the Caribbean. I mean, come on.
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C
Well, those guys don't play, man. They're serious. And we, you know, you know, that's. That's why I'm happy to have many legal Latinx. I love saying Latinx.
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A
I know. I can tell.
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C
Because they provide a. A powerful vitamin tea infusion into the pasty face. Incel. Bow tied virgins, like the ones who write at National Review or watch pods. Save them. Listen to Pod Save America. You know, I want you to know.
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A
I want you to know producer Nick is losing a lung listening to your explanations of this. And it's really, again, you get to the end of the. The election cycle. We've talked about this before, you and I, right after the election. We talked about this, like, the day after the left gets together. Like, Jen Psaki went on with. Was it Jon Stewart? And he's like, what's the problem? And Jen's like, well, clearly it's the communication messaging problem, because they have their Joe Rogans and their independent journalists, and.
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C
We need noted conservative Joe Rogan. Oh, pull it up, Jamie.
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A
Yeah, they're like, we need all of these things. So now they have Don Lemon actually out there trying to do the independent journalism thing.
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C
Why are they obsessed with, like, thinking that America's waiting for another gay dude?
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A
Yeah, they think it's the packaging. They're like, well, I mean, it's not what he believes.
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C
You know, I'm not, you know, not my scene. Not going to mess with you. Not going to hassle you. But that's not what, you know, draws my bow, if you know what I'm saying. Why are you trying to shove Pete? But, you know, again, another minority that's been underestimated by the Democrats, Pete Buttigieg has exactly 0% support among black males.
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A
Oh, yeah, that's. We were one of the first people to talk about that on the air.
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C
Surprise. To no one who has ever met a black male.
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A
But he's also tied for first place in the New Hampshire primary poll, which means that you're in for a very hilarious, entertaining primary. And we're not even to the kind of the eastern swing city districts. I want to show you this one again. Don Lemon, he's going out doing his independent journalism thing. He's trying. His Gavin Newsome podcast energy is another example of the horrible comms work. And he runs into a Maryland woman, and he decides to start asking her why she wants the National Guard. There does not go how Don Lemon thinks, which I know is a surprise.
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B
I've been a resident of Maryland all my life, so I think it would help some.
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A
Why?
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B
So, coming from a family that was broken up, my husband was murdered two years ago, and nothing was ever done.
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A
Murder?
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G
Where?
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B
At home, Right out in front of her house.
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A
Sorry.
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B
It was a carjacking going wrong, and they shot him in his head. Killed him instantly. So. But again, our lovely mayor didn't do nothing.
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H
Did they ever find the perpetrator?
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B
Nope.
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H
So you want to see it?
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A
Yes.
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B
I want justice.
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H
You want justice, and you want to see. You would like to see the troops here in the national.
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B
Yes.
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H
Thank you very much.
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C
All right, I'll be leaving you now.
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A
Oh, yeah. Thank you. Just again, I'm sorry. I. I've done the whole independent journalism thing. I've gone up to people who don't like me, and I've talked to them, and then I've asked for clarifying questions. Even if they look at me and say, you're scum of the earth, I want you dead, you evil. I'm like, okay, well, I want as much from you as possible so that I know how to fight it. And Don Lemon gets the honest answers. Not from again. Did that look like, you know, Billy Joe from Southern Arkansas? Rhett, he owns 15 MAGA hats sitting on the porch thinking she's not a.
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C
Subscriber to the New Republic.
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A
Yeah, I'm going to take a wild guess that this is one of those blue collar Democrats who every year is told, this new Democrat mayor or governor is going to deliver. And Don Lemon's out there trying to gin up this resistance to Trump, and they're like, man, I really wish that people weren't getting carjacked like my husband who was killed. And Don Lemon's answer to it is, all right, thank you for your time. Quick, get me out of here.
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C
Well, we're seeing that with this. Irina. Same name as my wife, same birthday as my wife, also my wife, also an immigrant butchered by this scumbag who the democrats let out 14 times. And their solution to this is, well, let's not show the footage. Let's not talk about it. Well, I'm talking about it. I don't think that, you know, it's not okay to have public spaces dominated by semi human, feral criminals.
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A
Imagine the concept of telling people like the mayor did in Charlotte when this footage came out. People are outraged to say, hey, look, we can't keep arresting our way out of homicides or violent crime. The Charlotte, whatever county that is, that county council that took a break. I am not joking. They posted about it on social media. To eat cake. To eat cake.
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C
And they're not even letting them eat cake. They're eating it themselves.
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A
It's just, dude, it's so wild and disgusting and still. I mean, there are several other clips that I could play. I won't, where men and women around Baltimore, around New York City, come up to Don Lemon when he asks. And is like, yeah, I would like to have some National Guardsmen near me instead of like they do in Minnesota with Tim Walls, where they force people to stay at home during COVID from gonna have the National Guard. I'd rather have them doing something good.
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C
I, I was at the NACON convention last week in D.C. i saw some National Guards. They were squared away too, as E45. Their stuff was wired. They didn't, they weren't fat, they weren't wearing their Air Force gloves. You know, they're just sitting there, people are talking to them. They're just being polite, providing presence. Saw a bunch of DEA guys who, I think they were big dudes, man. Maybe they're, maybe they're touching some of the supply those steroids because they were huge and scary. And I'll tell you what, there were noticeably fewer degenerates, hobos, losers, scumbags, bums and vagrants around downtown D.C. and people were walking around and enjoying themselves. And you know why? Good.
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A
Right. Right. And I'll say this again. We've. We've played this. Nick, go ahead and throw up some of the B roll right now. Of all of the protests or some of the various protests, you'll notice those who are watching that there are all these old white people protesting against the National Guard.
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C
Because I saw it, it looked like a Romney family reunion.
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A
I mean, but I mean, when you look at this nonsense. Yeah. I mean, all of the quote unquote, more ethnic individuals, those who are part of the black communities in Washington D.C. most of them, except for that one BLM guy, are again happy that there aren't carjackings outside their homes at 4 or 5 in the morning. Like the lady from Baltimore. It's. This is such a common sense thing for you and I, but it is wild to see how their big messaging push is flopping right now right as we're getting started into the midterms. And this hasn't dissuaded Don Lemon from going out. He's going to do more self harm.
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C
Oh, excellent.
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A
Oh my gosh. Kurt Schlichter, Townhall.com Always appreciate your swinging by to give us a couple of stellar reactions on all this nonsense.
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C
Thanks for having me.
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A
We'll be back in a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast jokes on you. We're going to be back right now. Yeah, that's right. Sometimes you include a little, a little closer, you know, at the end there, but now it's time for just a smidgen of bonus tonus here just a, just a brief minute or two for things that we couldn't cover in the show itself. And for today, there is another post just on this. This as soon as there is another seriously heinous crime or there's a mass shooting or whether it's a particularly egregious, really hard to like a, like a stabbing that occurred over on the 22nd of August in Charlotte, there are a series of posts that immediately come out and try to find this like super duper social fluth, super duper investigative whatever, and you end up finding some stuff that's again, really, really stupid and not true at all. It just ruins anything that could be considered good investigative journalism. And you see this most often from the left. You know, they'll find some yearbook where Brett Kavanaugh totally drank beer in high school. We or, you know, you'll see some crazed fool suggest, well, if you analyze this particular signature here, this means that Donald Trump secretly an agent of Israel of all kinds of ridiculous nonsense. One of the situations regarding or excuse me, one of the posts regarding Irana Zarutska includes this poster that supposedly came from her bedroom. So this one $1.1 million CEO of Sunfluencer, whatever the heck that is, made this post that includes again, a picture of, of Irina Zarutska in a bedroom and said, hey, the murdered Ukrainian girl had a, quote, Black Lives Matter quote poster hanging on her bedroom door. And a lot of comments immediately started going, whoa. Well, it just shows to go, you, you know, you may support this, but then you're on. First of all, I know this might be a rather hot take to throw out there. I don't care what it is that you have on your walls. As far as a political poster, I don't think you should be stabbed by schizophrenic homeless people in the downtown core. I know. Very bold and brave take to take her on the Tony Kinnid cast. Here's the problem, though. People who took more than five minutes before they looked and immediately posted something that's like over 50,000 likes 2.9 million views over on X. Several other posts on Zaruska's Instagram, like her actual Instagram and Facebook account, show that her bedroom is completely different. The photo of her with a Black Lives Matter poster on the bedroom, that's not her bedroom. But no one double checks anything like that before they run to social media. Oh, did you see the. Look at this. Great. I understand. I've been there, too. You get news, you have to share it right now because it either confirms some biases or it goes against some biases, or oh, look where we are. Oh, look where we aren't. Just because an account has a large number of followers does not mean that whatever it posts is immediately true. I run a large social media account called the Ministry of Truth. That's what that seal is behind me over here. And a little project that I worked on at the beginning of this year was faking articles from various publications in which I would go into Google Chrome. I would use the Inspect tool to completely rewrite entire sections of articles. I would then do some very rudimentary screenshots, and Photoshop didn't even use AI. And I would post it, suggesting from the Ministry of Truth account, which is, well, satirical irony in and of itself, that that was the story. And there was article after article after article which would come out from people saying, oh my gosh, I can't believe this is true. Like sitting representatives in Congress, you need to be wary of things that you see online. Just like when you read something from MSNBC and you say, wow, that's full of crap. That Axios article, it's full of crap. There's nothing about that that is true whatsoever. In the same way someone engagement farming online might share something that is complete hot trash. Why do I share that? Why does that matter? You know, what am I, what am I lecturing you over your social media use? No, absolutely not. I'm not lecturing you over your social media news at all. I'm simply pointing out that right now there is a group that has formed a cottage industry around going after your click, your retweet, your sending it to whomever with the goal of making money off of the click, of increasing the engagement so that they can call up sponsors. How do you know that they're gonna call up sponsor? Because I'm getting the sponsor offers in my DMs. One of the dudes who was caught taking money from India has been in my messages over at the Ministry of Truth trying to add to pay me like a hundred dollars per retweets on, on various things. This kind of influence campaigns, they happen. Some influence campaigns I think are worth it. Some influence campaigns are not. But there is a large part of social media that is just fake as all get out. It is so easy to set up some kinds of botting networks, especially if you pay for it. Be wary, be wary. There are things that are absolutely worth covering in this story about the disgusting, brutal murder of Irina Zarutska. And there are those that are capitalizing off of your interest in this story and its lack of media coverage to suggest that it must follow certain social media or political trends. And if you share those things, when you share those things, it takes away from the serious issue of her murder. By the 14 times arrested and released de Carlos Brown Jr. At the hands of a judge who the Little Second Chance organization that she's a part of and the mayor of Charlotte said you can't arrest your way out of problems. And the governor of North Carolina who said we need more police officers to do more arrests and then nothing about the judges and prosecutors who let them go that instead of the attention there now the attention is going to be on. Did you see the rapist that started a GoFundMe for and it doesn't look like that story's true. Oh well did you see she had a Black Lives Matter post for her that's not her bedroom. This is by the way the reason, the actual core reason because we've got a couple of questions and I'll answer it right now. Why I'm with the Daily Signal. Why not, you know, go it independent like some of my, you know, my, my friends and colleagues in the movement do. It's because I have an editing team that sometimes runs whatever it is that I'm working on through the mill to make ding dong dang sure it is correct before we hit publish. Why fewer lawsuits that way. Shout out to my boys over at cbs. How are those going? You know, I mean you don't have to deal with that. Number two, I don't have to be embarrassed when I make an error. Which is true. We have a policy on the books for issuing correction statements and I make statements. Sometimes my mouth gets a little bit ahead of my brain and I like this evening I said city council person instead of the CEO of the light rail. Correct it right away. Get back to it. No problem. Some of these large scale accounts on X specifically they get to Sharon and then well if there's any problems they'll just block you. If you suggest hey man, you might should take that down. That's kind of making my job a little bit more difficult. Well this is the environment we now live in. So those things said, just a good reflection on some of the news and nonsense today. Tomorrow we've got something really special prepared for you. We're looking forward to sharing it with you. We'll see you then. I'm Tony Kennett and this has been the Daily Signals Tony Kennett cast Here syndicated nationally first on 93 WIBC. Take care.