This Is A Cutlery Embarrassment

Published Aug 14, 2024, 3:32 PM

In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:

  • Riots in Minneapolis & what Walz did/didn't do
  • Raygun the "Olympic break-dancer"
  • Crime rates & useless reviews
  • Chicago PD will intervene on any protest turned violent

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Arm Strong and Jack, Kiki and he.

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So I live in Minnesota. I need people to know that I've lived there since nineteen ninety four. I've been through numerous governors and this guy's the worst. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He likes to go around and smile and act like he's just good old Tim Walls. That period of time in Minneapolis was awful. A neighbor across the street came over and said, do you have a fire extinguisher? My friend's business is burning and there's no one to help her. She was looking in our neighborhood for fire extinguishers. We were under curfew, but he was nowhere to be found. And the night that that precinct burned and those cops just had to flee. It was one of the most surreal moments I can recall as being a citizen of anywhere. So he really did abandon his city.

That is Michelle Tafoya, formerly of ESPN, talking about being a Minnesotan and Tim Wallas's non response to the violent, fiery lootie George Floyd riots.

We have more on that to come.

I'm looking at NBC News, and their lead for this hour was Tim walls defense military record. I gotta believe that the Harris campaign is thinking, oh my god, is there any way we can keep this going all the way to November. The arguing about Tim Walls's military record, because as long as as long as the leads stories not how did nine million illegals slip in while I was the borders are?

I'm happy about it. I think you know that that's such an odd dynamic.

You're right, because there's part of me that thinks, wow, NBC News is hammering on the Democratic veie.

I want to story this. He's not going to move up vote in America.

Not many, Yeah, not enough to matter certainly. So I thought this was interesting, and I think this matters for reasons that I'll get to in a moment, in the way that the military record stuff does not. But the New York Times, of all places, in one of their lead stories today, the protests had turned into riots two days after a police officer murdered George Floyd by kneeling out his neck. The mayor of Minneapolis called the governor asking for help. The police had lost control of the situation. The city needed the Minnesota National Guard. That same Wednesday evening May twenty seven, twenty twenty, the city's police chief send an email to the state Commissioner of Public Safety conveying the same message, asking the National Guard for immediate assistance with significant civil unrest. He said six hundred troops were needed. So that was Wednesday in the early evening. It was not until that Thursday afternoon that mister Wall signed an executive order activating the Guard. Writers said as fired to a police station. And it took until Saturday, five days after the influence the infamous kneeling that mister Floyd died three days after the mayor had requested National Guard assistance for this situation to begin to come and the New York Times mentions mister Walls and Ms Harris had no interest in responding to our questions about the incidents.

So I do think this is a topic worth discussing, and partially because.

You can tie it.

In with the main candidate so well, because beaten up the vice presidential candidate. When has that been a thing really that does any good.

But this, Yeah, I was just gonna say, it's always been a thing, but it's rarely of any significance.

This ties in with her philosophy so well that I think it matters. And also, do you think it's fair to extrapolate this. I've heard people say it, and I don't know where I am on this one, that if he had gotten those riots under control at ground zero for the George Floyd thing, maybe we don't have the unrest all across the country and around the world.

Both riders thinking hey, it's open season on.

Smashing windows and flipping over cop cars, nobody's gonna do anything about it.

I absolutely think that's fair.

And I've got some more facts and stuff to provide you before I was going to dive into the analysis. But as long as we've started, yeah, I think that's one hundred percent fair. Not only did the riders get that message, but any Democrat run city, which is virtually all of them, saw the example of how it's done, and if they cracked down harder than that, well then they were fascists who are against black people, because remember black Lives Matter.

All of that turned out to be a.

Marxist organization that was just trying to tear down the system and cause chaos so that they could ascend the ladder of power.

All right, it's still your money to buy homes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're right, because that sent a signal.

And then the coverage of what was happening in Minnesota, you know, it was not condemning. So you would see that in other blue cities across the Merria and think, wow, they're not paying a price for this, might as well go ahead. In fact, they seem to being encouraging it with the mostly peaceful protests bs with flames behind you, And if you're a really independent minded Conservative, you might be thinking, do you guys really think so?

I don't think it's that big a shock to.

Think that the party or the philosophy that has traditionally been more individualistic conservatism, individual.

Rights, enterprise, free enterprise, the rest of it.

You know what that we have a harder time picturing being a complete herd animal, whereas the Democratic Party is all about collective action and community, this and that which is lovely in his place. But so, yeah, I think they get the media got the marching orders.

How are we supposed to talk about this?

The mayors and police chiefs got the message, how are we supposed to handle this? The saw okay, this is what we are supposed to do, and didn't exercise independent thought. Let me quote Heather McDonald in the Wall Street Journal for a moment here, writing on the same topic on the same day, Kamala Harris made an odd choice of running mate. If she wanted to appear tough on crime, Walls dithered while Minneapolis burned. As the headlined If Kamala Harris wanted to dispel the idea that Democrats are soft on crime, Tim Walls was an odd choice for running mate. Walls ten years Minnesota's governor will be defined by the George Floyd race riots in Minneapolis and his response to them. Americans everywhere still live with the consequences. Then they go into the facts of the George Floyd deal, the cell phone video going viral. By May twenty seven, the looting, arson and assaults had become an ecstatic frenzy of destruction. Rioters tore open plywood barricades that business owners had hurriedly nailed over storefronts, and tossed molotov cocktails inside the premises, cash merchandise, and safes were stolen, businesses burned to the.

Ground, firefighters were attacked.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry said they were delighted in responding to calls because of quote insufficient law enforcement presence to ensure firefighters' safety prior, meaning it was.

Such a violent, fiery riot. The firefighters were getting shot at and beat down. And that's when we were having the ridiculous discussions about looting it back and riding being the voice of the unheard, which only applies to certain groups, because when white people riot, it's like racist nut jobs, but if groups it's the voice of the unheard.

I'm glad you brought that up, because that was the full flower of Marxism being clothed as racial justice and tearing down the system, literally tearing it down and burning it to the ground was bringing portray to some sort of righteous expression of righteous hanger.

Just disgusting anyway.

So they go into the burning down of the police precinct, rioters firing high powered BB guns at officers outside the precinct, Holmes businesses burning down. Mid day of the twenty seventh, Waltz used his midday press conference to racialize what he called Floyd's wrongful death and to commend the Minneapolis Mayor's immediate firing and the four officers. We all know these type of incidents disproportionately affect our black and brown communities. He thanked the protesters for their commitment to safely protesting during this pandemic, an apparent reference to they ought to wear masks and encouraged everyone to be safe, especially in the light of the COVID nineteen pandemic. And he described himself as saddened to see that some of the protesters were in harm's way. That's his only reference to the riots.

So at six point thirty on the twenty seventh, the Mayor's begging the governor to activate the Minnesota National Guard six thirty pm. He followed up with a written request at nine to eleven PM because Waltz hadn't responded. In fact, Walls didn't respond until four o'clock the next day, almost twenty four hours later, when he assigned an executive order activiating five hundred state soldiers. But then it took several days to get them onto the scene. By then it was way, way, way too late. And again I want to indict the presidential candidate, not the vice president, but if the presidential candidate ever did a real press conference with an adversarial press, and they ask questions like present this the things you just said. Here's what your running mate did when he was governor of Minnesota. Your role at the time was to bail out protesters that had created all caused violence around the country.

Explain that to the American people, and then just let her talk. Yeah, it would.

Be huge if Trump could pull that off, that would be great. But I'm not holding my breath. And then finally, mister Waltz laid this honest. I will not patronize you as a white male without living those experiences of how difficult it is to have a police force. I up buying one's neighborhood. He described themselves, the riots themselves as a manifestation of systemic racism.

Quote.

What the world has witnessed since the killing of George Floyd has been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand.

Who we are and where we go from here. The ashes literally the ashes, ashes of the torch buildings. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard. So he justified and encouraged the rioting. Got to be able to indict him with that, or Republicans deserve to lose and badly. And again Kamala Harris, who was down with that, She repeated a lot of that rhetoric, and as Jack has so aptly pointed out, raised millions of dollars to bail the rioters out of prison.

Yeah.

I don't think that would play with the majority of voters. I mean, if you could get her in a situation, okay, you got two minutes to explain your philosophy on this go, I think.

It'd be a disaster. I really but I think you're a hundred percent right.

And it seems pretty clear her people think that too, which is why they're keeping it from being in a situation like that.

Oh, I wanted to get on Lisa Hanson, who's a Minnesota grandma. She had a restaurant open, then COVID hit, and she explains what happened.

Cliped fifty Michael.

So we opened up. I can't tell you for sure how long we were open, but immediately within twenty four to forty eight hours, the state came down on us with a vengeance. I was found guilty. I was not allowed to present my defense in a court of law. I was given a sentence to ninety days, which was the max sentencing. Tim Walls is not some cuddly, joyful coach like all the things that the MSMs are calling him. That is not who this man is. This man would like to take your rights away. He will take your rights away because what happened to me could have happened to anybody. What happened to me will happen to you if we don't get things turned around in our country.

So she insulted her attorneys, and they decided there was no legal basis for the state of Minnesota to shut down their restaurant at the beginning of COVID, and so they kept it open. So they prosecuted her and gave her ninety days in jail. You burned down a police precinct. They will bail you out. If you keep your restaurant open to try to keep your family business functioning to feed yourself, you will get ninety days in jail. You've got to be able to prosecute that case. As Republicans, I'm old.

Enough to remember when the Republican Party stood for freedom.

Well, we got a sing in Minnesota. Mind your own business. Crowd roars with craziness. Ah, I'm voting for the Freedom Party.

Well it's working so far, I think, at least according to the polls we got into the election we're held today.

That would be a violation of the Constitution. It's not going to be.

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What there is so much stupid in that story.

It's a horrible name for a dinosaur, and a horrible reason to give it that name.

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It's green because the minerals in that creek anyways.

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Rachel Gunn is known as Ray gun her stage name The Australian Breakdancer. As a PhD in cultural studies, that is all I.

Need to know where, she's now a lecturer.

Her academic focus is on breaking hip hop and construct auctions of the dancing body, plus the politics of gender and gender performance, and the methodological dynamics between theory and practice. She's a lecturer. I have a feeling she does that in her spare time. Also, if you're ever around her lecturing. Uh so you make up these bizarro theories about humankind that are unsupportable by any evidence or observation, and then you lecture people on your own bizarro made up notions. That's a good living if you make it.

Anyway.

She became an overnight spectacle after displaying unique moves, all of which were original.

She told ESPN and let's see and crap. She knew she would never beat these girls on what they do best, the dynamic and power moves. Her goal was to move differently, be artistic and creative. That's her strength, she says. She discovered break dancing in her mid twenties. Her discovery breaking coincided nicely with her educational pursuits and upon exploring cultural movement in quotes in a doctor program at maccarie University. Wow, what became prominent for her, and this is a quote, was that there were these gender politics that could be explored and analyzed in breakdancing.

So anyway she.

Got into breakdancing to explore the gender politics.

Wow, yes, exactly. So.

Her most creative and viral move was the kangaroo hop. She just held her hands in front of her like a kangaroo.

It's popped up and down. That's the part I thought I could do. She looked like she was having a medical emergency. For like eighty percent of that quote performance, somebody put a pencil under her tongue.

Guns stated purpose in breakdancing was never to be the best. The educators PhD thesis focused on quote how masculinist practices of breakdancing offers a site for the transgression of gender norms?

Wow?

Shut her up? Oh my god, shut up?

Yes, how would you fail out of a program like that? How would you ever not be good enough to be an a student in that area.

What you don't get, Jack, is that break dancing is an opportunity to displace and de territorialize gender.

That's what she was doing.

Wow, Armstrong and Getty.

The videos that we saw toed out of Afghanistan, they bring back some very bad memories. They remind us of that chaotic withdrawal that we saw. They remind us of the lasting implications of that withdrawal, and of course they remind us again of the Americans who died, who gave their lives fighting in Afghanistan for so many different years.

That's Benjamin Hall on Fox today.

It's the three air anniversary of the Taliban taking back over control after the United States spent geez what twenty years there, three different presidents, trillions of dollars, gained nothing.

But anyway, here's more from Benjamin Hall today.

What we saw with the Taliban celebrating their three years in control of that country, parading around Backgram Air Base, hundreds of people including Chinese and Erasian diplomats, gathering at the base with helicopters bringing in senior Taliban officials.

Amongst them.

We saw many US weapons and it is a reminder that during that chaosic withdrawal. Six hundred thousand US weapons were left, seventy five thousand US vehicles were left as well.

They go on to talk about a number of those weapons showing up in Gaza.

Yeah.

Absolutely, And I happen to just be rereading about the evacuation from Dunkirk the early days of World War Two, which to a large extent saved Britain's butt. And they left behind hundreds, thousands of weapons and thousands vehicles and hundreds of tanks too.

In a desperate flight for life. We left them behind.

Cauz cause well it'd be expensive to bring them back or something.

And now our mortal enemies have those weapons. Just unforgivable. I saw this on Fox today. I doubt it gets any coverage anywhere else. It is quite extraordinary that they're parading American weapons, taxpayer paid for weapons, through the streets to Kabul. Taliban officials standing next to representers from China and Iran.

Well, it's particularly galling. They're parading the American weaponry in front of the Chinese and Iranians saying look what we got.

We're all tough.

That's an ugly situation right there. Biden led them. Here's some more from Benjamin Hall.

The Taliban forces seized control three years ago, just as the Biden administration was carrying out that chaotic withdrawal. Many of the people who were left behind are still there. Many American allies are still trying to get out. We continue to speak to some of them. And since then, the Taliban has consolidated script on the country. It's implemented strict Islamic laws, restricting women to a second class life, lived under the veil and often behind locked doors.

If the person running for president who was in the White House at the time of that decision, Vice President Kamala Harris did any interviews like normal candidates on a day like today, she would have to answer some questions. Here's what she said in an interview back at the time.

This is with a Dana Bush on CNN.

President Biden always said that he wants you to be the last person in the room, particularly for big decisions, just as he was for President Obama. He just made a really big decision Afghanistan. Yes, were you the last person in the room?

Yes? And you feel comfortable?

I do, Okay, I'd like to hear you go on about that. Yeah, you can't be perfectly happy with the way that turned out.

Will that come up in the debate? First ones are the only agreed upon debate? Well, is anything agreed on? Because you know, when Biden Withdrew, you could certainly make the case that, all right, it was a set of two debates I had agreed to I being Trump in this scenario. Now that it's a different candidate with a different timetable, we need to talk about a different scheduled debates.

I don't think that's at all inappropriate.

But I think the ABC debate is agreed upon at this point.

But I'm not positive about that.

Yeah, because Trump said, yeah, I'll do the ABC if it's part of a Fox debate, an ABC debate, and then was an NBC or it doesn't really matter the third one. But yeah, so I'm not confident. But at any rate, if Dana Bash on CNN would bring that up. Of course, that was back in the day before it was so clearly a terrible, terrible outcome.

I wonder if Dana would do that today. I wonder if ABC News would do it at all.

Ah and those questions, I mean, on the three year anniversary of Afghanistan, worth mentioning, what's that book we like so much?

Ackerman? Oh, oh right, give me a second it Lit'll pop it into my head. God, dang it. That's a good book.

That's a good book about America's role in lots of wars throughout its history, culminating in his experience being there in Afghanistan in kabble at the time of the departure.

Just horrifying. I can look it up real quick. The fifth.

Of the Fourth the Fifth Amendment, the fifth Dimension, All right.

The fourth John First, No, I'm brainstorming here, the Fifth Act, Elliott Akerman.

That is one of one of the better books I've ever You should listen to it too. You should listen to him because he reads it himself, and he served there, and he goes through all the background and how we got there and how we left and all the mistakes, and it's so damned interesting and our roles of the military and where we should get involved in all the places we've gotten and how it turned out. I wish there were Swiss were more of a discussion of policy wise in America all the time. What country should we be involved in, which one shouldn't we How's it turned out? In the past that didn't work. Should we try it again? I'm where's the worst place on Earth right now? It's actually not Ukraine or Gaza. The worst refugee crisis in the on Earth right now is in Sudan. And for a variety of political reasons, We're not heavily involved in that one. But we get heavily involved in these things all the time. We often don't make them better, but spend a ton of money and lose lives. So I wish we'd have this discussion more often. I wish they could ask Vice President Harris about it well.

In Afghanistan, for instance, the idea of going there to whoop the Tallyban's ass because they harbored al Qaeda, I think it was a solid argy catch lead them down, get bin laden, and then you know, withdraw in an orderly and reasonable way.

Now, this is bipartisan problem. I'm not trying to pretend that it's all the Democrats or Biden Heiris. This is by partisan problem and getting involved in various places and what's the goal again? And Mission creep and everything's been around forever. But Kamala Harris should certainly have to answer for if you're the last person in the room and a major decision maker here on the anniversary of the Talban's to go over. Well, it's kind of weird, hot Talban's in charge standing there with Chinese and Iranian people.

What do you think of that? I'd love to hear off the cough answer that question. Yeah, wouldn't that be delightful.

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Came across, says yesterday. I thought it was pretty good.

It was a sign outside of a restaurant, coffee shop sort of place.

Chalkboards are very popular, as you know, in hipster kind of areas.

You're right on a chalkboard, often very clever, too funny funny jokes. This one said come in and try the worst coffee one woman on trip advisor had in her life that.

Would get me in the door. Yeah, we're always.

Joking about that on how worthless like Yelp and trip Advisor are for researching anything. Because one couple can't wait to go back to that bed and breakfast. It was the most romantic perfect honeymoon they could imagine, and then another couple it was the worst experience they've.

Ever had in their lives. And what am I supposed to do with those reviews? Average them out to a three? Well, right, yeah, exactly.

And it was funny after the show yesterday, we're talking about my favorite Chicago pizzas in my favorite pizza joint in the world, Papa Del's and Champagne Illinois. It's like trip Advisor ratings are not that great because the people complain about the atmosphere.

Whatever, it's a pizza joint in a college town.

What do you think they're gonna have white tablecloths and like dim lighting and waiters in tuxedos.

It's a pizza joint.

Well, and I just I was in a foodie crowd briefly in my life. It's a long story. It was unfortunate last for a couple of years, but ironic and no kidding, I was the wrong person to have there and I was so miserable. But the discussions about the meals was just endless about every aspect of it, because they enjoyed so much the whole experience.

And if you do, you do, that's fine.

I don't care, but just whether it was the tablecloth and the napkins, or the cutlery, or the service, or the every aspect of the meal, and then of course the food and the drink and the wine list and the blah blah blah the presentation. And I don't give a crap about any of that. What's the price and what's it taste like? Is all I care about. But you know, some type of cutlery maybe you really enjoyed that. Really, Oh, this this cutlery, this knife's first. It just doesn't fit the look or the type of food. Don't you agree?

Oh?

Yeah, I completely agree. They should have blah blah blah is.

A cutlery embarrassment. Oh that was an unfortunate period of my life. Wow, that's funny how these things happen.

And I never harshed anybody's mellow. I just sat there bitterly, resentful, quietly, But I never said, you realize how stupid this conversation is giving off hateful vibes that I'm sure we're noticed by anyone.

Right.

Oh, speaking of hateful vibes, the Chicago Police Department has put out a statement about the DNC which we will be at next week.

The Democratic National Convention should be a zoo. We flying Sunday. What's the talk of the protesting.

I have a feeling that the protesters, like in Milwaukee, are going to be pushed so far away from the venue that you won't even really notice unless you go looking for them, which a lot of people did.

Right Well, was it on CNN? They're talking about like terrorism there and I don't want to hear that. I want to go eat some pizza, watch a Cubs game, make fun of the Democrats.

And go home again. Don't bomb me. I'm just I'm not worth bombing.

See a Beyonce concert at the United Center one night. I suppose, oh, Beyonce will not be on hand jack unless there's no word thus far. And in fact, I just read that the Harris campaign has taken pains to tone down the whole celeb thing because they don't want to come off as elitists, really, which I think.

Might be smart. Oh, I think it's I think it's really smart.

I'm just surprised that they're doing that, and I hope they If I were them, I would hope I made that decision a little earlier than a week out.

But maybe we're just hearing about it.

Yeah, I think that would be a great idea, because man, you have a ton of celebrities, lots of George Clooney and Beyonce and everything else. And yeah, there's a big chunk of America that doesn't. It's the opposite. Oh look, how cool it is that all the rich, famous, beautiful people like my candidate. No, there's a whole bunch of America that reacts exactly the opposite way.

I think those of us who trafficking ideas, and I'm talking about you good people too, who think about governance and policy and just the ideas that have motivated.

America through the years.

It's easy to forget how much of campaigning is show business and how much of it is consultants crafting candidates into some weird and mostly fake ideal of who they ought to be. Ask Ron DeSantis about that, someday, He'll bend your ear anyway, But it is entirely possible. Kamala Harris has surrounded herself with some really astute, evil but astute people.

Well, most of the Obama people have come over. Some of them are working for free.

Right, who have said, all right, listen, we're gonna make this about the common people.

We're gonna make it about kitchen table issues.

We're going to pretend you weren't part of the Biden administration, and you're not going to open your f and mouth except to read this, this and this, And she said, okay, so that's official.

No, Beyonce, Uh, that's I think I read that. Yeah, wow, Okay. I don't think they'll like tase her if she tries to get in.

Well, they use her themes all the time. Whatever song that is, and the idea is she was going to perform it live, but which has been pretty cool. We got more on the way if you know anything about it Texas four one, five, two nine KFTC.

Well, top of the hit parade is always going to be terrorism, not the only thing that they're confronting. But when you look at a world with two wars going on, you know, promises from isis K to launch attacks, the shadow of Hesbola, the looming threat of al Qaeda, and then domestic extremism, that's where you start, and you know, that's where you see all of that lockdown. Perimeter required credentials to get in distance between the targets and the outside world.

Wow, was security going to be even thicker than it was in Milwaukee because I found that oppressive?

Yeah, gosh, I hope not. You're gonna have to bring down your tude.

You got a little tuned with a couple law enforcement people.

What yeah, that was done them. Remember that guy staring you down? Fight the power? Huh Yeah, what an ass he was.

That's what I'm talking about. Settle Jesus. Why don't we go in separately. I'm not walking next to you. They swing that club, they might accidentally hit me.

Yeah, hey, bow down to the man. Go ahead.

Why don't you lick their boots? Well you're down there, huh me. I've got rights and I know what they are.

Huh.

I have a feeling you're going to be walking the streets of Chicago with a red dot on your head.

Hey, how about this? She is Nizzle and clip sixty one. John Miller is still on Highlert.

And then there's the stuff you don't see or you barely notice. It's a lot of the same things we did for similar events in New York, where you know you've got teams of people with baseball caps and backpacks walking around that you think one of those guys may be graduate students. They're a little old to be college kids. You know, that's a nuclear emergency search team that is looking for in the air, and you know, little devices that are popped up on top of poles that are searching for biological threats. So that's all built into the package. But it starts with terrorism.

Well, yeah, I suppose that's not surprising that we have that at every major event. But so they're worried about like al Qaeda or something going after this as opposed to domestic nut jobs who hate the Democrats supporting Israel.

Yeah, I think some of all of the above. Yeah, frankly. And one more from John Miller. This one, this one bothered me a little. Sixty two sir.

Let's assume that if everything is planned and executed properly perfectly, that the perimeter is locked down and safe. You can't touch the convention. What about beyond the perimeter, and that's where terrorists find those choke points, which is large crowds of people trying to get you know, lined up to get into the perimeter.

You know that happens in a big city all the time. Once I'm in the perimeter, though, that's your all's problem.

I'm safe ball games and concerts, yeah you know, yeah.

Shopping malls, the rest of it. So worth noting.

The Chicago PD Superintendent Larry Snelling came out and made a statement at a downtown event yesterday Monday, protesters will not be allowed to riot. Quote We're not going to allow you to riot, he says, unnecessarily after setting up the quote. Protesting and rioting are two different things. You have the right to protest, but there will be no rioting. Tolerate, well, I like this new turn.

Officers will intervene the moment protests turn violent, and of course, well, we should have been doing this in every freaking city in America for years now. We've been saying rest forever. Perhaps you could put the kindly old coach, old man Walls, Tim Walls, tamp on Tim in a headlock and make him listen to this.

I'm not going to wait until it gets out.

Of control and try to bring it back in, says the superintendent.

The moment it starts, you put an end to it quickly.

So we will not allow people to come in here and destroy this city. I wonder if may and Mayor let's go Brandon Johnson is down with this if he approves of this, because he is way soft on especially the radical college left Marxist protests.

I about writing was the language of the unheard. You're not gonna let them be heard. Unbelievable.

All right, Chicago, Chicago, get a little stick work in if you need to, Chicago, not on me.

What was going on in Chicago that one time?

I remember when all the youths were jumping on all the cars and running around and smashing stuff.

Remember that one.

Uh?

Yeah, there were a couple of incidents where the magnificent Miles Chicago Michigan Avenue stores were getting looted and just lawlessness on display.

That's where our hotel is, right, Yeah, hm cool?

Like Union Square in San Francisco. The Communists in char had to concede that this will ruin us completely, so we better make these shopping districts an armed camp at least temporarily.

Yeah. Well, it'll be safe, I have a feeling, but it'll also be highly annoying. But you know, I might just stay in the room, hide in the bathroom, call in on the phone.

You can go through all that.

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