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Normally Podcast: From DC Crime to French Cool: Politics, Migrants & Cultural Clashes · Normally

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  Speaker 1: I'll know and welcome back to normally the show with
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  Speaker 1: normalist takes for when the news gets weird. I am
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  Speaker 1: Carol Markowitz. Mary Katherine Han's on education today, and filling
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  Speaker 1: in for her is my very good friend Gates Garcia.
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  Speaker 1: Gates is a contributor at Daily Wire and The Blaze
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  Speaker 1: and the host of We the People with Gates Garcia
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube and all audio programs. It's so nice to
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  Speaker 1: have you on, Gates, Carol.
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  Speaker 2: I prefer to be with you on the beach or
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  Speaker 2: at the boat, but this is a close second.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is second best. We're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: just take it.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a lot of affinity with you for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reasons. But I like that you focus on culture.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's what I do as well. You
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  Speaker 1: have a piece up on the Blaze site today. Can
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  Speaker 1: you preview that for our listeners?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean I'm a data three soon to before
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  Speaker 2: baby Girl coming on Christmas, which we're.
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  Speaker 3: Really excited about, as you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, and I just you know, in the last ten years,
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  Speaker 2: because my oldest is I just see the world through
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  Speaker 2: the eyes of a father. It's changed my whole perspective
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  Speaker 2: on culture it's one thing for you know, the world
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  Speaker 2: to attack me. When it starts attacking my kids, I
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  Speaker 2: get pissed off. All to Beauty has stripped me of
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  Speaker 2: a rite of passage that every mother and father should
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  Speaker 2: share with their kids. And that is one that you're
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  Speaker 2: afraid of. It's that old birds and the bees conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But I never and I've been preparing for that, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when that day's coming.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably closer than farther away.
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  Speaker 2: But one conversation Carol and we've talked about this that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think i'd be having. First was talking to
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  Speaker 2: my ten year old daughter about boys wanting to be
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  Speaker 2: girls and girls wanted to be.
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  Speaker 3: Boys, and she's just getting into makeup. So ol to
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  Speaker 3: Beauty is.
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  Speaker 2: Like a stop for us at the mall and no
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  Speaker 2: longer because I now had to explain their campaign ad
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  Speaker 2: about that. So I wrote an article about this because one,
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  Speaker 2: it stripped me of a moment that I was preparing
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  Speaker 2: for as a father and put one in front of
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  Speaker 2: it that I was caught off guard with. And two,
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  Speaker 2: I just have a hell of a lot of respect
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  Speaker 2: for women, especially badass women like you like my wife,
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of others in our field, and it's
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  Speaker 2: totally disrespectful to them. Makeup is supposed to help women
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  Speaker 2: be seen, and a makeup company has chosen to use
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  Speaker 2: an ad campaign that erases women. So I think it's laughable,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the proof's always already in the pudding
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  Speaker 2: with lost customers, stock price and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's such an interesting point because I
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  Speaker 1: think that they're obviously the erasure of women point has
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  Speaker 1: been made, but I have not heard anybody make the
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  Speaker 1: point that you don't want to have to explain certain
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  Speaker 1: things to young children, and that you don't you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to kind of get ahead of yourself about what
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  Speaker 1: the world is like and what they're going to see
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and you want to maintain their innocence
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  Speaker 1: for a little while and don't want to plant ideas
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  Speaker 1: in their head either. Is the is one of the
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  Speaker 1: other things that kind of doesn't get discussed. So I
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  Speaker 1: read your piece. I loved your piece. I recommend everybody
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  Speaker 1: go check it out on the Blaze. If you also
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  Speaker 1: write for Daily Wire or anything coming up there that
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  Speaker 1: we should.
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  Speaker 2: Know about, Well, we got to keep it PG on
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  Speaker 2: your on your show. But there's this whole Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's some things being thrown on the court in w
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  Speaker 2: NBA games, and so I write about this. We've had
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  Speaker 2: four of them land on the court. One of them,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an easy I was waiting for permission. So four
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  Speaker 2: of these dildos have landed on the court and one
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  Speaker 2: sadly missed the court and hit a twelve year old girl.
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  Speaker 3: And so my piece is a little bit more lighthearted.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of write all my pieces from the perspective
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  Speaker 2: of just like an everyday dude living his life. And certainly, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: exactly so, like I do say in the piece, look
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  Speaker 2: I laughed at some of these incidents. My text message
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  Speaker 2: changed with my buddies have been funnier than usual.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, like.
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  Speaker 2: There is a decorum of respect that we have to
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  Speaker 2: have for one professionals implementing their craft. Like, no one's
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  Speaker 2: throwing dildos at me and my job. I'd be pretty
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  Speaker 2: upset with that. And just women in general. I can
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  Speaker 2: guarantee you that everyone throwing these as a man. And
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  Speaker 2: so the whole piece, and the whole point of the
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  Speaker 2: piece is like something can be funny and wrong, that's
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  Speaker 2: not those can be mutually exclusive and we just have
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  Speaker 2: to learn how is a culture to balance that and
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  Speaker 2: the whole build of things gone like way too far
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  Speaker 2: in my.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and if it was your kid being hit with
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  Speaker 1: one of those, it would really stop being funny very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and spoiler alert, one of the five men has
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  Speaker 2: been caught and he was wearing.
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  Speaker 3: A Beavis and butt Head shirt. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: tells it all care Yeah, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, looking forward to reading that. I think you're fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, so I'm really glad to be co
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  Speaker 1: hosting with you on normally. Today, We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: right into it, friends. The first topic of the day
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  Speaker 1: is the crime beat in d C. Obviously, the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration has taken over the DC Police Department. On the
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  Speaker 1: first day of the crackdown, federal and local authorities made
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  Speaker 1: twenty three arrests, including suspects wanted for murder, gun offences,
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  Speaker 1: and other crimes. People are wondering how is the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administed allowed to do this? And I think it needs
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  Speaker 1: to be clarified that the District of Columbia's Home Rule
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  Speaker 1: Act allows Trump to place the Metropolitan Police Department under
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  Speaker 1: federal control for up to thirty days. Trump and invoke
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  Speaker 1: the law on Mondays, so it'd be thirty days from there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic. I think it's really a good idea,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people who are angry about it
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  Speaker 1: aren't making a lot of sense when they're angry about it.
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  Speaker 1: And an underreported fact is that the mayor of DC
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  Speaker 1: is into it. On Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser met with
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  Speaker 1: federal officials to discuss coordination and strategy for the federal
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement presence. What do you think Gate's a good idea,
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  Speaker 1: bad idea.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: It's called accountability, and all of us in our jobs
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  Speaker 2: are held accountable to a standard, and when we don't
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  Speaker 2: meet those standards, we aren't asked to perform anymore. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why in all professions other than the
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  Speaker 2: police force, it shouldn't be the same way. And the
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  Speaker 2: biggest question you covered at first is like is this legal?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: So Trump made promises in his campaign and this is
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  Speaker 2: him keeping those promises.
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  Speaker 3: And look, I lived in DC.
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  Speaker 2: I went to college in DC and we had a
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  Speaker 2: dorm demolished on our campus. It was the only dorm
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  Speaker 2: that was technically across the street from the main campus
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  Speaker 2: demolished because the crime was so rampant.
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  Speaker 3: They were drive by shootings on that dorm.
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  Speaker 2: So I've seen this going back fifteen plus years, and
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  Speaker 2: it's about time someone steps up there. The other thing,
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  Speaker 2: like Carol, you and I have a lot of friends
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  Speaker 2: that quote air quotes live in DC. When you meet
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  Speaker 2: somebody that says, oh, I'm from DC, you say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: what neighborhood Alexandria Arlington, like Zach no one lives in DC.
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  Speaker 2: They drive and do their job, but they keep their
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  Speaker 2: families out. So I think that's important to keep them perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And this whole idea that like and Mary
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  Speaker 1: Catherine and I covered it on Monday's episode where oh
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  Speaker 1: a crime has gotten better in DC? Well, for one thing,
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  Speaker 1: has it gotten better? You know a lot of crimes
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  Speaker 1: just aren't prosecuted. Babylon b had a great headline Democrat
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  Speaker 1: mayors report violent crime down forty percent since they redefined
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  Speaker 1: violent and crime. Love the Babylon be But for example,
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  Speaker 1: Harmei Dylan, who is an Assistant Attorney General for Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights at the US Department of Justice, Harmitta is fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: She tweeted, that yesterday a homeless man tried to swipe
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  Speaker 1: her phone out of her hand. Now, these little crimes,
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  Speaker 1: they matter, and she's probably not going to go and
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  Speaker 1: report that crime. It's not going to be logged as
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  Speaker 1: part of VC's crime problem. It's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that won't make it into the numbers. But that disarray
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  Speaker 1: and that disorder still needs to be stopped. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this other argument that like, oh, it's fine, everything's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Crime levels don't matter. It's quality of life. Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: crime is a roadblock for so many people, especially for
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  Speaker 1: poor people, to improve their situation. Christopher Ruffo posted on
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  Speaker 1: x Nobody wants to say it, but America's poor would
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  Speaker 1: be much better off if we built new prisons rather
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  Speaker 1: than new universities. Crime and violence, not systemic racism or redline,
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  Speaker 1: are the great destroyers of opportunity for the poor. I
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  Speaker 1: so agree with that, And that's why it's so irritating
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  Speaker 1: to me to watch these people on TV say that
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  Speaker 1: crime is not a big deal, and then Girijratis at
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC says he's not worried about crime. Let's roll that.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's really important to be clear about what
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  Speaker 4: is going on here, and a relatively small crime problem
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  Speaker 4: is being used for specific authoritarian purposes that we know
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  Speaker 4: and understand. So let's be clear about DC does have
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  Speaker 4: a really one, really big crime problem, which was the
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  Speaker 4: January sixth insurrection incited by the current president of the
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  Speaker 4: United States, and his first act in coming back was
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  Speaker 4: pardoning all the people who tried to overturn constitutional republic order.
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  Speaker 3: In Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 4: When I go to DC, I'm not afraid of losing
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  Speaker 4: my wallet so much as I'm afraid of losing my vote.
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  Speaker 4: Afraid of losing my wallet so much as I'm afraid
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  Speaker 4: that my children's freedom to breathe will be stolen in
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  Speaker 4: a world where climate change policy is non existent. I'm
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  Speaker 4: afraid that the future of middle class people will be
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  Speaker 4: stolen by the very things you were talking about, cutting
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  Speaker 4: the safety net, cutting Medicaid, cutting rural hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I'm afraid that my kid's right to breathe will
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  Speaker 1: be stolen. This account Hilario Brighton Esquire a very funny
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  Speaker 1: account on X tweeted, I'm always terrified when I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: in the streets of DC at night that some gang
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  Speaker 1: of youths will sneak up behind me and list certain
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  Speaker 1: expenditures as legal expenses, which is of course what Trump
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  Speaker 1: is convicted of. I find that all very galling. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that guy doesn't live in DC.
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  Speaker 2: He talks about, you know, he's not worried about losing
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  Speaker 2: his wallet. He should be worried about losing his wallet
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  Speaker 2: because if he loses his wallet, he won't have his
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  Speaker 2: ID to vote, because we now enforce the law where
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  Speaker 2: you need your ID to vote, and that will take
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  Speaker 2: his right to vote away.
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  Speaker 3: So he might want to start worrying about that wallet.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go back to what you were saying
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  Speaker 2: about crime being under, the crime levels being whatever they are.
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  Speaker 3: Crime goes unreported when it's not enforced.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to report a crime if you have
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  Speaker 2: no expectation of the police showing up and enforcing the law.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why crime is going to stay reported in DC.
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  Speaker 2: Low crime numbers don't necessarily they usually don't mean low crime.
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  Speaker 3: It's just unreported.
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  Speaker 2: So I have this like sneaky suspicion that once Trump
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  Speaker 2: enforces this stuff, that crime is going to get. Crime
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  Speaker 2: reporting is going to go up, and the Left's going
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  Speaker 2: to try to spend it a crime is actually going
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  Speaker 2: up but what's going up at the same time as
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  Speaker 2: the enforcement of that crime.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what I hate.
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  Speaker 2: DC is like the gateway of the world to see
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  Speaker 2: our country. It's where the most powerful leaders in the
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  Speaker 2: world come to have their first impressions and sometimes last
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  Speaker 2: impressions ever of us. Why if not more than any
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  Speaker 2: other city in the world, would we want clean streets,
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  Speaker 2: crime levels down, families roaming about safely, no carjackings. Where
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  Speaker 2: about climate change killing people? Let's study how many climate
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  Speaker 2: things climate change is killed versus carjacking, guns, murders, knives
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  Speaker 2: and all that I had. I was just starting to
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  Speaker 2: rebuild my trust in mainstream media, just like a like
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  Speaker 2: a worth and then you still see this stuff out there.
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  Speaker 3: He's looking for hot clicks.
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  Speaker 1: Right exactly. I will say that not everyone at MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: feels like an end does. Let's hear from Anthony Coley and.
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  Speaker 5: I live in Washington. This is personal for me. Many
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  Speaker 5: people are frustrated with crime that we see, particularly committed
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  Speaker 5: by juveniles in the in the city of Washington. People
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  Speaker 5: are frustrated really that they when they go to CBS
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  Speaker 5: to buy deodorant, that they have to get it from
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  Speaker 5: behind locked plexiglass right. But the response here and you know,
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  Speaker 5: let me say this, right, this is not these are
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  Speaker 5: not just random andadotes what we see in Washington Post
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  Speaker 5: polling a month is that roughly half of DC residents,
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  Speaker 5: mostly half of DC, view this as a serious problem
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  Speaker 5: or an extremely serious problem.
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  Speaker 1: It is a serious problem. I think that that's really
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  Speaker 1: the thing. And this pretense from the media members who
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  Speaker 1: are like, the crime is just isn't that big a deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's like either they don't live in DC, like you've said,
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  Speaker 1: or they're lying. And I kind of think it's the
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  Speaker 1: second one. I think your you know, your trust in
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  Speaker 1: media was correct in the first place, because they're they're
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  Speaker 1: just pushing a point of view, and that point of
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  Speaker 1: view is everything's okay. It's Donald Trump that makes everything bad.
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  Speaker 1: My buddy Curtis Hook at NewsBusters points out that it's
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  Speaker 1: nearly impossible for these media people to not have seen crime.
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  Speaker 1: He writes, it really is stunning to see the liberal
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  Speaker 1: media be so dismissive of crime in Washington, DC as
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  Speaker 1: a major problem when it's likely they know someone who
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  Speaker 1: has been carjacked, chased, harassed, or worse in the last
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  Speaker 1: five to seven years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had one of these situations happened to me.
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  Speaker 2: So I like, you always hear these stories on the news,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you want to believe that the new
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  Speaker 2: sensationalizes things. But this happened in New York, but that
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  Speaker 2: I know from friends that this happens in DC. I
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  Speaker 2: was in a Walgreens in New York within the last year,
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  Speaker 2: and a person comes in with a garbage bag and
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  Speaker 2: just swipes a shelf. It was shampoo, shaving stuff and
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  Speaker 2: all that. It was the first time I had seen it,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is real. And
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  Speaker 2: I turned to the cashier and I said, hey, look
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  Speaker 2: look what he's doing. And they go, yeah, it happens
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  Speaker 2: every day. And I said, where's the manager. She goes,
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  Speaker 2: we will get fired if we confront them because they
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  Speaker 2: will get violent. And so there's that. So there is
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  Speaker 2: no enforcement. And then I worry about like people like
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  Speaker 2: you and me with kids. I'm not necessarily worried about
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  Speaker 2: my kids because I enforced rules in my home. But
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  Speaker 2: like when I grew up, Carol, we were at a party,
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  Speaker 2: the cops showed up. We were gone, Okay, Now the
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  Speaker 2: cops don't show up, and if they do, kids have
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  Speaker 2: no respect.
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  Speaker 3: They have no fear of the law and no respect
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  Speaker 3: from the law.
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  Speaker 2: And we're raising a whole generation to not even know
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  Speaker 2: what law enforcement's role is in their lives. It's to
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  Speaker 2: keep them safe and to keep them out of their
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  Speaker 2: own harm's way. And you know, it's like the boiling
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  Speaker 2: frog and the pot. Things happened very slowly over time.
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  Speaker 2: We're creating a terrible issue for the youth in this
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  Speaker 2: country when it comes to their view a law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: My middle son when he heard that theft or shoplifting
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  Speaker 1: under nine hundred dollars in I think it was San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco was not prosecuted, He's like, take me to the
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  Speaker 1: Lego store in San Francisco. I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if Lego store is still there. So, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of businesses don't stick around for that,
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  Speaker 1: they actually ended up overturning that because it was such
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  Speaker 1: a poor idea. So, yeah, I'm going to end.
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  Speaker 3: This story with San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Gross. I'm going to end the story with Sarah Bedford
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  Speaker 1: from DC Examiner. She writes, maybe elite journalists who have
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  Speaker 1: wrongly substituted their own views for how normals act actually
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  Speaker 1: feel about the economy, the border, transgenderism, and Biden's age
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  Speaker 1: should sit this one out on DC crime. Totally agree
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  Speaker 1: with Sarah. We're going to be right back with more
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  Speaker 1: on Normally. We're going to talk about New York highs
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  Speaker 1: and lows and things that they're doing to improve the
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  Speaker 1: situation and things that they're doing to not improve their situation.
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  Speaker 1: Be right back on Normally. Welcome back on Normally. I'm
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  Speaker 1: here with guest host Gates Garcia. He is fantastic and
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  Speaker 1: you should check out We the People with Gates Garcia
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  Speaker 1: anywhere you get your podcasts. So New York is actually
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  Speaker 1: closing its last migrant hotel because illegal population has plummeted
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  Speaker 1: so much under Donald Trump. It's amazing, actually how much
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  Speaker 1: it has plummeted, and the fact that it was seen
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  Speaker 1: as something impossible, impossible to solve before Donald Trump got
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  Speaker 1: into office.
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  Speaker 2: So New York has had everyone flee their city and
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  Speaker 2: it's gotten so bad that the illegals are even leaving
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  Speaker 2: this is once the safe haven for them. And Trump
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  Speaker 2: shows up again. He's shown up in DC, He's shown
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  Speaker 2: up in New York. You know, hotels are built for tourism.
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  Speaker 2: What is tourism. Tourism brings tax revenue into a city. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: these hotels have turned into migrant homes, which costs money.
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  Speaker 3: And I did the math.
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  Speaker 2: The one that's being closed was costing four thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: per homeless person per month.
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  Speaker 3: That that math does not add up.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm thrilled to see one of the first saying
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  Speaker 2: and productive fiscal decisions ever to come out of New
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  Speaker 2: York City in the last decade plus.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll see where it goes from here.
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  Speaker 1: Right because Zarmum Danny is in pole position to be
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  Speaker 1: their next mayor, and it's easy to imagine that he
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  Speaker 1: will say, you know, New York is once again open
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  Speaker 1: for this kind of business because they hope to get
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  Speaker 1: money from the federal government. I don't know that that's
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  Speaker 1: the sly going to happen under the Trump administration, but
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  Speaker 1: it will it would under a future Democrat where they
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  Speaker 1: get funding for this. So I think that the crazy
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  Speaker 1: thing in New York is that they are poised to
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  Speaker 1: elect a mayor who will bring back as much of
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  Speaker 1: this could as he possibly can. Obviously, when fewer people
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  Speaker 1: are coming across the border, they have less need for this,
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  Speaker 1: but he can up their sanctuary city status. You can
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  Speaker 1: say we want anybody coming in illegally in our city,
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  Speaker 1: and he can attract it in a way that Eric
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  Speaker 1: Adams just isn't doing right now. On the flip side,
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  Speaker 1: in New York, they just open the country's first city
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: funded shelter for transgender and gender non conforming people experiencing homelessness. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's funny because I actually don't have that much of
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  Speaker 1: a problem with this. I kind of think it's stupid,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't have an issue with having kind of
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  Speaker 1: people who are having gender dysphoria grouped together. I think
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  Speaker 1: that that if they were offering them help, for example,
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  Speaker 1: that it might be a positive. It will include services
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  Speaker 1: like individual and group counseling. Of course, those services are
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  Speaker 1: not going to be like helping them with the gender dysphoria.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be just helping them lean into that.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think, Gates?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm also one of these conservatives that I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that conservatives aren't empathetic, but I tend to talk
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: about my empathy for this group of people more than
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I hear from others. That doesn't mean I condone it,
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean I promote it. That doesn't mean I
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  Speaker 2: don't want it. I want it for my family, because
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  Speaker 2: I don't. But I am empathetic to these individuals. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That this isn't a step too far.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've poured DEI into everywhere we possibly can,
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  Speaker 2: and now we're pouring it into the homeless community. The
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: biggest question I have with this is like, how many transgender.
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  Speaker 3: Homeless people are there in New York City?
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  Speaker 2: Like this a population that is so massive that we
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: need to go immediately focus on service for them right now.
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  Speaker 3: These people don't have homes. Like, if you look at
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  Speaker 3: your basic necessities that you need as a human, you
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: need food and shelter.
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  Speaker 2: Let's provide this for the homeless people in New York
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  Speaker 2: City that need us to provide it for them. But
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  Speaker 2: why do we have to put them into these ideological
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  Speaker 2: groups based on their gender?
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  Speaker 3: I just don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's funny. I was thinking the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: like how many of them can there be? And I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: wonder if it doesn't end up attracting you know, gender
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  Speaker 1: dysphoric youth who maybe aren't completely supported by their parents
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  Speaker 1: or completely the parents aren't aren't letting them lean into
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  Speaker 1: it all the way to actually become homeless, to run
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  Speaker 1: away from home. I could tell you that when I
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  Speaker 1: was a teenager, there was a homeless shelter for teenagers
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in Manhattan on like eighteenth Street and Seventh Avenue. It's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: actually now it's the Maritime Hotel in New York, and
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it became known as like the cool place to go
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: hang out. Like people would go hang out at this
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: homeless shelter for teens because it was like, you know
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: where the funky people were, and you could like have
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  Speaker 1: some street credit school by saying you spent your weekend
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: hanging out at this homeless shelter. So I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't end up growing that population more than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing is like I think that gender
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  Speaker 2: dysphoria is a mental disease, and I think we need
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  Speaker 2: to treat it like one so we can put appropriate
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  Speaker 2: resources to helping cure.
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  Speaker 3: Some of these individuals.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: We're now far enough into gender dysphoria where we're seeing
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that it contributes to more suicides than many other things
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: at least that used to lead to suicide. When these
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: individuals grow up and they can't go back and reverse
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: what they've done. So it's like, hey, we're going to
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: give you food and shelter, but we're not going to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: spend more tax payer dollars on diverse FI unit of
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: these groups. But hey, we can take some of that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: money and maybe fight some of these mental health issues.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think back to we just.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Covered something that New York City was doing productively, and
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: then we go to this. I can't help but think
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite movie movie, Dumb and Dumber, when Lloyd
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: says her, when Harry says, you know.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Lloyd, just when you go and do something dumb, you
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: go and totally redeem yourself. That's what I think about
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. I have to rewatch that. Actually maybe I don't.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I don't remember if I show it to my kids,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Is it is it time for that yet?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Or nah? Your kids are good?
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: All right. We are going to take a short break
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and come right back with more on Normally. The French
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: might get air conditioning. We will see, be right back,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Normally. I'm here with guest host Gates Garcia,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you Gates, Mary Catherine Ham and I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: love covering when leftists call something right wing. I mean
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: some things that have been right wing just this last year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Red meat is right wing. Working out is right wing.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Sheath dresses, our right wing make up is right wing.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: A lot of things that you wouldn't think have a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: political personality are actually political, according to the left. Now,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: air conditioning in France might be getting that same treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Marine leapenn is running on getting people that air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: She says that if her Nationalist party wins, she would
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: deploy a quote major air conditioning equipment plan around France.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: One French chalk show host wondered if air condition air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning is a far right thing, I'll take it. I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: don't care make it a far right thing. I came
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: home yesterday to Florida after some travel and our air
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: conditioning wasn't working, and I can as far right as
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: can be. I needed my air conditioning fixed.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: All they're saying is that the conservatives are cool ding
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: ming ming, But I'm jing so. It's so funny.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: We lost power last night for thirty seconds, and all
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the kids were in bed and they come to downstairs
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  Speaker 2: and they're like.
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  Speaker 3: We lost power.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It's gonna get so hot in this house. Like the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: first thing they thought about was their air conditioning. But
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: it's like the left wants to now you named all
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: these things that are far right anymore. You forgot masculinity, fatherhood, parenting,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: all those.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Things surviving is now far right.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I mean it's like tell your grandparents that fought in
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: World War two, or name any war you want that.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You know, air conditioning was going to be extreme by
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the time we got to our generation.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: This is preposterous.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: If it's this easy to win an election on air conditioning,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I'm running in every city across America.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that we would elect to emperor in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Florida if you ran on air conditioning.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: So the funny thing is or not not so funny.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: But France does have a certain number of deaths every
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: few years from a heat wave. In twenty twenty three,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: one thousand people died in France as a result of
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a heat wave. And I see people say saying, oh,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: this happens everywhere, you know, even in America, we do
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: have people die from heat. Sure US had seventeen hundred
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: heat related deaths in twenty twenty two. That very same year,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Europe had sixty two thousand, eight hundred and sixty two
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and if you're just for population, that's like twenty seven
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: times more heat related deaths. This is no joke. In Europe,
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  Speaker 1: and in France, you know, it is particularly bad. I
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: think that air conditioning can be the unifying thing for
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the Nationalist Party in France. I think that they could
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: really show people that they are the sane party who
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: wants normal things. Kyle Orton on X posted quote. If
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you tell a population that protecting borders or wanting air
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: conditioning amid a heat wave is far right, they will
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: not cease wanting those things. They will ask how it
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is that they can get in touch with these far
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: right chaps so they can hire them to run the country.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that that's the case.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a far right chap, Carol. I just.
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  Speaker 2: When the government wants to strip you of your basic necessities,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: we have gone into lunatic world. I mean, the left
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: has been living in most of that world as far
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: as long as we've been talking. But this is it
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: does you wrote up the Babylon b It does remind
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  Speaker 2: me of a Babylon Bee post. I mean, if they're
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: so worried about global warming, wouldn't they want to cool
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: people down wouldn't they want to get people into a
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: cooler environment. I mean, I just I'm looking for like
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: this is a terrible pond. I'm looking for a hot
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: take to give you, Carol. And sometimes the headlines do
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: so much of the writing themselves that it's I'm almost
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: at a loss of words.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really feel like Europeans once they get air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning and see what it is and how good it
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: is and how prevalent it is. Because still, you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I was just in France. Actually you walk into a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: store and it's like hot in the store. Everything will
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: get better with air conditioning, I assure you. So. It
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: will not bring down your civilization. You will enjoy it
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: very much. Air conditioning all the way. Let's do it Europe.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: The other thing they need that's warm over there is
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: warm beer. That's the reason that I don't like going
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: to Europe. They need to cool their beer down too.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So if we could get europe ac and a good
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: cold pine of beer, I might make the trips over
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: there with me and my other far right chaps.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Things might really change. Yeah, I think your far right chaps,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we'll have a good time if they fix some things
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: over there. Well, thank you, for joining us on Normally.
• 26:33
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• 26:36
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