The Narcissism of the Obama Temple

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Ieed the compometition for the worst mayor title is so fierce, especially in recent years. and There are so many esteemed nominees for the award the Ugandan guy in charge of New York City right now being one of them that it seems impossible to pick one specific winner and yet In spite of the stiff competition and the valiant efforts by guys like Mandani to claim the title for themselves. I still believe that the current mayor of Chicago, a bloated clown named Brandon Johnson, May When all is said and done Goown is the worst mayor in the history of Mayor Dom And he is legendarily dreadful in ways that makeake him the perfect representation a mascot really of what has become of the Democrat Party. and of all of Brandon's Colossally clownish moments, pererhaps his worst came just this past week. And I'm going to read what he posted on Sunday. and as I do Keep in mind that This post was written and then published on X on the heels of a weekend where six people were murdered in Chicago. thirty nine others were injured in shootings. All of this, of course was black on black violence, mostly related to drugs and other crimes. But Brandon was not thinking about that on Sunday and Stey was focused on Something else, something tootally imaginary For too many transgender Chicagoans, the sense of belonging they deserve in their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity in spaces that should feel safe and welcoming since declaring a Transfemicide state of emergency. Our administration has strengthened the city's capacity to support LGBTQ plus Chicago win. This framework builds on that work by centering on the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans. to chart a path toward a safer more connected city Yes, you heard that right It sounded exactly like you heard it. blah, blah, blah, transfemicide state of emergency blah blah just drops it in there like it's a real thing. and then he continues right along as if nothing ever happened And based on the implication contained in this post, it appears that a trans femicide state of emergency or whatever that is has been ongoing for quite some time in Chicago And everyone's just kind of missed it But now we know So I had to look this up to make sure that it wasn't an elaborate prank. It turns out that as advertised, Brandon Johnson first signed an executive order declaring an ongoing Trans femicide state of emergency In twenty twenty four And the order is entitled Eecutive Oder number twenty twenty four two. Declaration of Transfemicide emergency and establishment of working Group on transfemicide and Protections for the transgender and gender diverse community. What is trans femicide? you might ask, and why is it an emergency These are good questions And if you read on, the executive order explains everything. So here's what it says Whereas, Chicago is the deadliest city in the nation for black trans women. Whereas trans femicide, which is the killing of trans woman because of her gender identity especially when motivated by trans misogyny is an example of violence and discrimination, which this city should work against Whereas the accurate reporting and tracking of hate incidents and hate crimes, including transphemicide, where the victim is bllack indigenous latine or a person of color is essential to identifying trends and implementing effective measures to combat violence and discrimination And whereas city governments seek to act swiftly and effectively to provide help and support for our residents and employees Now therefore, I Brandon Johnson do hereby order the creation of a working group Well, it's an interesting document. The phrasing Words like, you know, whereas and I do here byy order. make it sound like some sort of magisterial decree, but then everything in between those words, trans femicide, latine, gender identity makeake it sound like the ramblings of a purple haired twenty one year old gender stududies major with a personality disorder. And in that way, it perfectly captures Brandon Johnson's vibe and the vibe of the party he represents. So According to this emergency declaration They're very concerned about transphemicide, but in particular, they're concerned about trans femicide that's motivated by trans misogyny And to get even more particular, they're especially worried about transphemicide that's motivated by trans misogyny and That impacts a person of color, a latine notot to be confused with a Latrine An indigenous person or a black person Now, if you're genocided and it was a trans femicide but not trans misogyny Then you go to the back of the line. I mean, will' still We're still worried about you a little bit, but we'll get to you. But don't even bother complaining about getting trans genocided if you're white. I mean, that would just be ridiculous, no matter how misogynistic your attacker was All of this may seem incoherent. and or redundant to you, but rest assured, it all makes perfect sense and it's all vitally necessary, according to Brandon, because and I quote, Chicago is the deadliest city in the nation Black trans women Uurgent measures are needed in response to this epidemic of violence. Working groups must be established, emmergency declarations must be issued. Somebody turned on the bat signal. Okay, we need reinforcements But wait a minute, you might ask. What exactly does it mean to be the deadliest city in the nation for black trans women If you've been following the show for a while, you know that trans identified individuals have a much lower risk of being murdered on a per capita basis than nearly every other demographic group in the country They have a much higher risk of suicide because they're in a constant state of war with their own biology. They're also a much greater threat to the public than the average person for the same reason. but In terms of being murdered themselves transrans identified individuals are far safer on average than say straight white men So how can there be a trans femicide emergency anywhere, much less in the Democrat stronghold? of Chicago. How many quote black trans women are dying exactly in order to make Chicago the deadliest city in America for that group Does it turn out that Chicago actually is MGa Country after all? Have we all been giving Justseie Smoette a hard time unjustifiably? Do we owe him an apology Well, let's take a look. In fact, let's try this as a pop quiz just for fun Next time you're at trivia night at at the at the pub, in case this comes up, now you'll know. Can you guess How many transrans identified people of any kind, not just black were murdered in Chicago last year Now this is a city where more than four hundred homicides took place in twenty twenty five Given that baseline and given that we're talking about a black trans fem genocide here, What's your best guess let's extend this out to the entire state. How many trans identified people of any race do you think were murdered in Chicago or anywhere else in the state of Illinois in the entire year twenty twenty five. What do you think? I mean, this is a genocide, remember, a state of emergency. The mayor has made a task force to deal with it So what's the number? How many dozens or hundreds of trans identified individuals have lost their lives in this wanting slaughter. two hundred one hundred and fifty seventy five, surely it must at least be fifty twenty five at a bare minimum, right? mean, it's gotta be. Well, as it happens after looking into it, the answer is zero. Zero trans identified people were murdered in the city of Chicago or anywhere else in the state in twenty twenty five And by extension, zero black, quote unquote, trans women murdered in the city of Chicago in twenty twenty five Yes, the city of Chicago has declared a state of emergency over a genocide of so called trans people in which Zero of those people were murdered So this is the first genocide in history kill zero people If you're going to be targeted by a genocide, that's a pretty good one. off all the genocides that have actually happened in history, if you have to choose one to be the target of like this this is the best one you could hope for Like, I'll take the genocide where nobody is killed I'll take that one You know, I can make that determination because after scouring the public databases of the left wing activist groups HRC and the transrans Rememberbrance Rembrance project, both of which both of which extensively tracked the deaths of trans identified individuals There is not a single fatality listed in the entire state of Illinois for the past year. And believe me If somebody identified as trans had died in Illinois for any reason If they died in a car accident or like slipped on a banana peel and hit their head These websites would have posted about it. okay In order to secure donations, both the HRC and the Trans Rembrance Project go out of their way to document every trans fatality they can find evenven though in every case the fatalities have one of four causes. Either it's a suicide or it was a random killing that had nothing to do with the person identified being identified as trans Or it was a murder by a black guy who hired a prostitute and was furious to discover that She was really a he Or it was a death due to natural causes. That's it They don't have a single case on their website that actually supports this fantasy of a trans genocide at the hands of white supremacist neo Nazis I mean, as the stats clearly show And this is undeniable. 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Now if you're up on your math you might realize that twenty one and twenty seven add up to fifty eight That's because ten of those deaths had nothing to do with anything. They were natural deaths. A person just dropped dead from cancer or something like that And I'm not kidd They include deaths of old age and cancer. in their tally of fifty eight deaths of trans identified people desperate they are to inflate the numbers They're trying to make the case that there's a genocide And so they include in their figures People who died of like heart disease That's how fundamentally dishonest these people are, which is no surprise, of course And one of those fatalities is Eli Stablin Stablin, who forty nine of Tucson, who quote passed away after a long battle with kidney cancer I guess the kidney cancer was transphobic. But just think of how absurd all of this is at the outset A people talking about a trans genocide are aware of only twenty seven violent deaths in total involving trans identified victims That's twenty seven people who were killed In the entire country, and the entire year in a population of over three hundred forty million people Now, according to an estimate from UCLA, there are two point eight million Americans over the age of thirteen who identify as some classification of trans So with just twenty seven homicides per year, that comes out to a per capita murder rate of zero point nine six per one hundred thousand For comparison, the homicide rate for black men in the US is forty six per one hundred thousand dollars For white minutes, five point seven per one hundred thousand. For Asian minutes, one point five For Black women, it's seven point eight for white women. it' U one point nine The only demographic group in the country with a lower per capita murder rate than trans identified individuals Asian women zo five per one hundred thousand That's it. Everybody else is getting genocided at a far higher rate So if there's a genocide of trans people with a zero point nine six per one hundred thousand murder rate then There's a Then the genocide of white men is like unfathomably worse to dis But the statistics get even worse for the trans activists. when you look at how how precisely these People are supposedly getting genocided And this is something that they really don't want you to do. so I'm going to do it. Here's one A trans identified individual on the list, a man dressing as a woman and using the name Kamora Woods who you can see right there. Note that this person was not killed in Chicago because again, no Trans people were killed in Chicago last year This story comes from Indianapolis, which is cllose enough, I suppose Now, according to the transans Rembrance proroject, Kamora Woods quote loved animals and making people laugh. She had a big heart lit up the room around her proud of who she was as a transgender woman. air quotes around her and she, you know, Needless to say. So there's not much information there as to how exactly poor Kamora met his violent end And that's odd given that the whole point of this project is to expose a trans genocide. You'd think a lot of details would be forthcoming to expose the white supremacist menace But they don't include any details at all. So I went looking for them and I discovered to my shock The following information from the local Fox affiliate, quote Woods was found half naked in her bedroom, shot in the head. Court documents detail how a detective identified a suspect by using a fingerprint on a condom wrapper selected at the scene It matched twenty three year old James Wallace, a convicted felon with an active warrant for allegedly tampering with his GPS monitor in November. Security video from the Scarborough Lake apartments showed a woman getting out of Woods's car and entering her building it At two fourteen PM on june twenty fifetth, according to court documents two hundred forty one., anotherother vehicle entered the property. Later discovered to be a lift ride and dropped off a man believed to be Wallace. But only seventeen minutes after the man was seen entering the building He walked back out and left the complex alone Dcuments said that Wallz told police he knew Woods from local bars and clubs and found her contact information online. Investigators said Wallace had also pawned the victim's cell phone When they brought him in for questioning, he said that he didn't want her to call for help. He denied knowing Wood's was transgender Now hearing this, we all know what James Wallace looks like, but in case there's any doubt Here you go. Um, This is why they don't provide any details about any of the people who are actually committing this so called genocide. trans genocide that doesn't exist In the rare cases where it's a legitimate murder as opposed to an accident transransidentified victims are prostitutes who are getting killed by black men. And those black men are usually upset to discover that the prostitute is actually a man and not a woman as advertised And so they start shooting and stabbing. And in some cases, they start robbing too, although that was probably the plan all along, regardless of whether the prostitute was secretly a man or not. Well let's not get hung up on the details And this is the part you're not supposed to say out loud If we actually arrested all of the people, what few of them exist committing this fake trans genocide the left is always talking about We'd be arresting Black men and basasically only black men And the more the left blames Donald Trump's rhetoric and transphobia The more obvious it becomes that they want you to ignore this very obvious fact. Kamala Harris voters are killing people constantly and occasionally a trans identified person is thrown into the mix in the name of diversity I mean, diversity is our strength after all And more importantly to the extent that trans identified people are getting murdered and It's happening very, very rarely. They're not being hunted down because they identify as trans. They're being killed in domestic disputes by people they've allowed into their homes, often under false pretenses which is the exact opposite of a genocide, in a genocide or a trans femicide A group of people is exterminated because of some identifiable characteristic in a systematic Fashion What's happening to the two dozen or so trans identified murder victims is not remotely systematic. basically very unlucky people from a statistical perspective And more often than not, they're inviting their killers into their homes in order to have sex with them For money And usually they're lying about their gender. This is one of the most dangerous professions imaginable and you're making it considerably more dangerous for yourself by lying to your customers who are going to be understandably upset when they discover the truth about the situation Consider the very similar case of type Tahiri Broom twenty nine years old of Southfield, Michigan. He's also on the trans Rembrance list Watch this news report And see what you notice It's been four days since the family of Tahiri Broom, who also went by Tokyo, learned about her brutal murder while visiting Michigan. It's really like whole family in like uproar like It's like one of those things, like you don't know what to feel.ike you want to be angry, you want to be sad, you want to cry, you want to scream, like you want to do This a big ball of emotion. Even after the arrest of the person police believe is responsible, Robert Ridges III. There are still a lot of questions going through her aunt Patricia Bnder's mind. Look you just want to know why? L whyy did you do that? Why do you feel like she deserved for that to happen. you know, and then W in that magnitude. Be that they called them, that brought some peace. U I's like it don't take away in pain. Bnder says her niece loved making people laugh was full of energy, confidence, and loved Niki Minaj Funny, smart Like One of those people that could walk into the darkest room and find some light in it. She's hoping people see Broom in that bright light instead of focusing on what she did for work Do does it mean that that person was a bad person She was never a bad person. Southfield police say they haven't ruled out the possibility that Broom was targeted. The suspect made thirty three calls to sex workers, including black transgender women om knew I believe it was possibly mayaybe even a motive of a robber as well. because when he was interviewed turned out he didn't have any money. So, you know, how is he going to pay for services, if you And so but he's carrying a handgun. So they all use the man's fake pronouns and pretend he was a woman. And to keep the illusion going, the news station also goes out of its way to hide relevant details from the audience In that entire segment, which runs for several minutes, they never get around to explaining the circumstances of the murder. They vaguely imply the victim was a prostitute, but They' not clear and they certainly don't describe the potential motivation of Robert Ridges IId, the twenty eight year old black man that police arrested. So this is But I was able to glean by looking around for a bit. This is from the local prosecutor's website Oakland County prosecutor Karen D. MacDonald Ch chargge Robert Ridges III A twenty eight year old residents of Southfield with second degree murder carrying a concealed weapons and weapons felony firearm in the death of T Taihiri Broom A twenty nine year old transgender woman and sex worker. The victim's name Birth had been Jamal Broom Ridges met Broom through a commercial sex advertisement and the two met up february nin the Rridg's apart In Southfield, following an argument, Ridges is alleged to have shot Broom Now again, we can all piece together what happened here. This is the kind of homicide that, according to the Mor of Chicago, constitutes a state of emergency Never mind the fact that precisely zero homicides like this have even occurred in this city in the past year. Never mind the fact that every weekend dozens of people are shot mostly in black on black shootings on the streets of Chago according to the mayay of Chicago The real emergency is that black men are killing black prostitutes when they discover that Those black prostitutes are really also black men Now the rest of this list, I have to say, is really pushing it. Here's one example of a violent death of a trans person, for example This is a man using the name Blair Sawyer. And according to the Trans Rembrance proroject, Sawyer died violently. and was someone who loved dragons and bike riding What they don't tell you is that Sawyer was run over while he was riding his bike. So this was clearly a random and unfortunate accident kind that happens every day to cyclists in this country But according to transans activists quot Until the driver is found and the details surrounding the accident or incident are clear We can't assume that this was unrelated to Blair's identity. We don't know. Yes, they're categorizing this death as anti trans violence because in their minds, it's possible that the driver ran over this man because he could see from a mile away, that he identified as trans I mean, they have no basis for believing that whatsoever. There's no evidence to suggest that the driver could have seen Any signs that this person identified as trans Other than just like assuming that if someone's a cyclist, they must be gay or trans, which I mean, you could argue that that's an assumption you could make In the eyes of trans activists, whenever, you know, any trans identified person for any reason dies. The presumption is that MAGa transphobes are responsible. If a trans person got hit by a train They would tell us that they can't rule out the possibility that the tra train conductor was a transpho This is how they think and it's how the mayor of Chicago thinks as well They also list somebody named Katoria Banks. with a Z I'm sure that was his Christian name. On their list of trans identified people who violently died without mentioning that Banks and his brother were shot during an attempted carjacking in Atlanta Again, no indication that the carjackers were looking for cars owned by gay or trans people But because a violent act happened to a person who identifies as transs, they claim it was a targeted attack and they included in their statistics. Now none of this is new. Just a few years ago, the Biden White House publicly mourned the death of an indigenous, queer non binary environmental activist known as Tu Gita whose real name is Mmanuel Taran And according to HRC, Tour to Gita Forort Tu guita, I guess to Guita T, let's calm Tu. was quote shot and killed by Georgia state troopers in Alanta, Georgia on january eighteenth, twenty twenty three during an ongoing protest alongside other self described Forest defenders protesting against a proposed ninety million dollars eighty five acre police training facility city by activists sll it to be built in the South River in the Atlanta. On the morning of the eighteenth, police were executing a raid of the camp to knock down structures and remove the protesters During this process, a state trooper was shot and wounded The Tortu was killed Now you can go look up that paragraph right now on the HRC website. It's still there. Again, as you've probably noticed They're short on the details. Instead of explaining why this guy was shot, they write, quote Tortu's death is At least the seventh violent killing of a trans or gender nonconforming person in twenty twenty three the second in Georgia in six weeks. Now what's admitted is that Tortu fired four times at police officers with his nine millimeter pistol. striking a Georgia State trooper. Yes, he shot a police officer And they simply don't mention that That's how flagrantly these people are willing to lie in order to cook the numbers on this fake genocide Now meanwhile, Brandon has you might think, bigger problems to worry about Now of course, literally any problem is bigger than the trans genocide given that the trans genocide doesnn't exist Potholes all over the city are the are a bigger problem than trans people being murdered. In fact, they're a significantly bigger problem The potholes on just one stretch of road are so bad that CBS New Chicago did a whole report on them. A couple of months ag Residents of the city have complained about the road for years. They have trouble getting to work Because their cars get damaged danger. It's a total state of disprepair and yet Brandon can't even fix that problem and doesn't care to He's also about to lose the city's football team, which is preparing to relocate its stadium to Indiana which it cannot be overstated is a massive financial loss for the community that will surely prove disastrous for many local businesses. These are the kinds of problems that the mayor is supposed to solve podcast is supported by MittDI Health Are you in midlife feeling dismissed, unheard, or just plain tired of the old healthcare system You're not alone Too long women's serious midlife health issues have been trivialized, ignored, and met with a justust deal with it, attitude Many of us have been made to feel ashamed or forgotten. 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But Brandon is focused on his reparations task force instead And on his delusional idea that you can't arrest your way to public safety Even as his personal armed security detail costs thirty million dollars a year for the taxpayer He said that if you use the term illegal aliens Then you also think black people should be called slaves, a line that makes no sense, but You could tell he rehearsed it several times in the mirror and is really proud of himself. watch We don't have illegal aliens. I don't know if that's from some sort of sci fi message that you wish have had. Well, listen, the legal term for my people were slaves. You want me to use that term too So look, let's just get the language right. We're talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings. The last thing that I'm going to do is accept the type of racist nasty language to describe human beings. Yes, we absolutely want to refer to black people as slaves if you're talking about black people who are indeed slaves, and there are quite a few black slaves today, most of whom are in Africa completely appropriate to use an accurate description of a person's legal status It's not even an endorsement of that status, obviously. And by extension, U Yes, it is completely appropriate to use the term illegal alien which he thinks is a sci fi term because he's illiterate This is one of those idiotic expressions you see on lawn signs, No person is illegal And then they'll say you have to call them undocumented, but If a person can't be illegal, then how can a person be undocumented? It doesn't make sense It's incoherent and dumb So We should keep saying what's true, which is that illegal aliens, illegal aliens, don't belong in this country. That just happens to be the case And we should also keep mocking Brandon Johnson, especially because of his comments on the so called sub mininimum wage. W We pass pay time off. Yes, we've abolished the sub mininimum wage that has its vestages tied to slavery. and black and brown women being forced to make ends meet off of less than thirty five thousand dollars a year, That's an injustice Now what he's saying isn't even true. There's no sub mininimum wage. worker doesn't make the minimum wage after tips, which is rare then the employer is obligated to make up the difference. and You know, that wasn't the case during slavery or in the immediate aftermath of slavery Now you're guaranteed a minimum wage and are you guaranteed more than thirty five thousand dollars a year? No Nobody is But that's a livable salary and you're certainly not a slave because you're getting paid and you're choosing to do this work And since we're doing a Brandon Johnson Great Hits episode, I guess, we can't forget that Johnson also blamed the constant shootings in Chicago on Richard Nixon. Watch So Yeah, it is personal Black death has been Unfortunately, excepted in this country for a very long time We had a chance sixty years ago to get at the root causes And people mocked President Johnson And we ended up with Richard Nixon We're going to work hard every day to transform this city. That's what it takes to build a better, stronger city for Chicago and nearby to step up Maybe he's actually making the base right wing argument here, and we've got Brandon all wrong. Maybe he's coming out against Nixon's efforts to desegregate the schools and urban centers in the country saying, you know, it led to the current violence that we're seeing in cities like Chicago And Brandon is so dumb that it's hard to tell It's more likely that he's referring to the fact that Nixon actually tried to enforce the law against violent mobs T Who knows And here's one more for good measure. This is from that cross burning episode we discussed last week Even when a reporter tells Brandon that a gay Asian leftist burned the cross in a park in order to make a grand demonstration of how racist MAGA Republicans are Brandon is not faced. He continues to act like the cross was indeed burned by a Mga white supremacist. And he talks about how black people are still victimized to this day, watch Merlin Lou, who was interviewed by MBC five, who admitted to allegedly burning the cross in Grand Park. During that interview, he seemed to lack an understanding of the meaning behind burning a cross and the implications of that. How concerning is that to you as mayor of obviously of a city with a predominantly black population? And do you think there needs to be more education around that Well, look, I can't speak to his lack of or understanding of the gravity of what he is alleged of having done and You know, again, it's a painful reminder of how hatred towards Back Americans still permeates, you in our society In case you're wondering how people in Chicago tolerate this, the answer is that they've given up at this point. Johnson has a seven percent approval rating. yes, a seven percent Approval rating which is the lowest ever recorded for any mayor of Chicago by far Lauri Lightfoot, who had both the look and leadership skills of Beetlejuice, only went as low as twenty seven percent This is from M three strrategies, which ran the poll, quote, seventy nine point nine percent of voters disapprove of Johnson, with just six point six percent holding a favorable view A net favorability of negative seventy three percent. sixty seven percent say crime is Chicago's biggest issue, outpacing high taxes and inflation issues like LGBTQ plus rights, three percent. Reproductive freedoms four percent rank among the lowest priorities So the mayor seeing that nobody in Chicago cares about LGBT issues decides to declare a state of emergency over a nonxistent trans femicide, even though trans identified people are the only people who aren't getting shot to death in his city June means summer is officially here and my family's schedule is already packed. Spending time with the kids, traveling, celebrating America's two hundred fifteth, it's a very busy season And what I don't have time for is sifting through a maze of confusing insurance websites, trying to figure out whether I'm actually getting a good deal That's where policy genius comes in. Most people No, they need life insurance. They just keep putting it off because it sounds complicated. And that's the wrong call. Policy Genius makes it simple. 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Really, we need to look more broadly at the city of Chicago itself, which is basically the perfect manifestation of modern Democrat leadership in every conceivable way from the from the aesthetics you know, all the way down And there's no better illustration of that than the new temple to Barack Obama that We've talked about on the show before, but it just opened a couple of days ago on the South side, watch. So when you walk inside the Obama presidential center, the first thing you see is toward a more perfect union with a message from the president saying America has always been a work in progress You stop and listen. and hear the President's remarks Yes, we can. We all remember that anthem of his candidacy. that led him to the White House. And on the eighth floor is the sky room, the final stop in the Obama presidential center. It has sweeping views of the south and west sides of Chicago as well as Lake Michigan. But even more than that, these giant letters that are etched in stone are from a particular speech the one he delivered on the fiftieth anniversary of the march on Selma. And the architect said seeing these letters is like looking into his mind as he's writing the speech. What a glorious task we are given. to continually try to improve this great nation of arts Now there is no doubt there are some missing pieces here, but he does actually confront some of his challenges in ways more than I thought he would This is one part of his legacy. And fininally this Obama presidential center is opening nearly ten years. after he left office They love talking about the marches in Selma, but they really don't like talking about what Selma looks like today And that would be an interesting exhibit. Show people the cities where the civil rights movement was supposedly born and then show people what they look like today For full effect, the exhibit would occasionally have to fire random shots from a Gock handgun equipped with an illegal switch Some people might die, but you know, it's art. And art is the most important thing Yes, it's extremely narcissistic. and yes, the building is an abomination, you know, as we've discussed, mean If the assignment was to make an aesthetically pleasing temple then they failed a million times over. On the other hand, if the assignment was to perfectly capture the vibe of Death Stars trash compactor then They kind of nailed it. If the idea was to make a presidential library that looks a little bit like a tower where an evil wizard might live then hey, credit whereds do But really this hideous building is Chicago in a nutshell. It's a grift in plain view, a way to lauer money in exchange for influenceia tax deductible donations It's an eyeore, a bureaucratic disaster all in one And all in the service of worshippping a washed up party leader who Nobody even pretends to like anymore Everything about the temple's opening ceremony was nauseating as you might expect, starting with the land acknowledgement from a woman who's Drawing a seven hundred fifty thousand dollars salary from donations. to this bride factory Watch We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today We honor the Inishinabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Pottawanabe nations Now there's a lot to think about here, starting with the fact that Um the designers of Obama's temple with consent of the city. seize twenty acres of public land in Jackson Park in order to build this monstrosity So Democrats stole a lot of land in order to build a giant temple And then when they build the temple with taxpayer citizens, solemnly inform you that they're really sorry about stealing land hundreds of years ago And by the way this is the Chicago flag, which is flying at the Obama Temple And you'll notice that there are several stars on it. The fourth star commemorates Fort Dearborne which was the site of a massacre involving the US garrison and the Patuwatami who were just honored during thatand acknowledgement Now in August of eighteen twelve, hundreds of Patwatami warriors rode alongside an American evacuation train, leaving the fort And they were claiming that they were an escort. But The escort quickly became an ambush As the Patu Aatami attacked wagons containing women and children and ultimately massacred dozens of them It was a horrific savage unjustifiable, unprovoked attack That was typical of how the Indians conducted themselves. And now the same tribe conducted this barbaric attack This massacre at a fort that's commemorated as a historical American settlement on the flag of Chicago is now being honored by the Obamas at their temple You have to wonder why Obama and Valerie Jarret didn't offer the temple to the Patuatami I mean, why not invite their descendants or the descendants of any of the other Indian tribes they mentioned? to the stage and Hand them the keys to the temple It's not like they don't exist. Plenty of people claim Patsu Aatami heritage to this day. Why are we thanking them for massacring children back in eighteen twelve when We can go all the way and give them an eight hundred million dollars temple where they can kill as many many children as they want They could turn it into a Plned Parenthood if they want to That would be appropriate for Obama Why not let them do that? And byy the way, not to ruin the land acknowledgement mood with all of this actual accurate history, but It should be noted that the Patuatami were're driven out of the area that is now Chicago In the sixteen hundreds And they were not driven out by white people, the Iroquois. Another native tribe showhed up killed the Poatami. forcing them to leave Be that's how things worked on this continent before Europeans took control of it. Indian tribes ruthlessly murdered each other and stole each other's land So if anyone owes an apology to the Patuatami, it's the Iroquois Take it up with them And the Paduwa Tami owe an apology apparently to us. for, you know, massacring U White settlers Nobody at the Obama Temple is interested in any of this, of course. Instead, their primary concern appears to be plastering obscene Images all over the place. and it's not just outside That's not just the appalling part. This is a scene from Indoors Take a look at this Now, supposedly the splotch of blue on the roof consists of various words from Obama's speeches over the years Nobody remembers any great Obama speeches because he didn't deliver any. so they just mashed them all together Slatter them on the wall But really, if we're being absolutely honest here and you know, honesty is indeed the best policy, Uh, and, you know, speaking just from a purely From medical standpoint, it looks more like the view a veterinarian might have if she's inspecting a pig's anus Now it's quite possible that pigs anuses are in vogue right now, but if that's the case, I'm certainly not aware of it And that's to say nothing of the narcissism involved in having your own speeches Painted onto the walls I mean, as somebody who's done a lot of writing myself over the years Dellivered a lot of monologues A lot of speeches I'm just trying to imagine how my wife would react if I suggested taking the text of my T best Matt Wall show monologues coovering the ceiling with them, like some kind of Schizophrenic Sistine Chapel And considering that my monologues are significantly better and more interesting than any speech Obama has ever given which is a bar so low that it's in hell, but still I think it'd be I'd be more justified in that kind of self celebration. and yet It would still be a psychotic thing to do And if my wife came home And I'm painting my own words on the ceiling. She would assume that my early onset dementia had finally taken a turn for the worse and immediately contacted a nursing home and justifiably so. Then the event, as we proceed through the museum, the exhibits somehow get even worse, if you can imagine Watch I think this is probably my favorite exhibit in the entire place. to this mo the last two times President Obama has come to Chicago and visited the museum. He has paused extra long in front of the exhibit that describes the ten letters a day that he used to receive every day He'd received thousands of pieces of correspondence on any given day. and his correspondence unit would select ten letters that were representative of the letters that came in that day. Some were very positive, some were very negative. The issues varyied depending upon the day, but they would pick out this representative sample And then in the evening As he was doing his work, he would pull out the letters and take a look at them. He wanted to read those letters because he always wanted to connect the American people. He wanted them to know that he saw them, that he understood their plight, and that he would offer his words of wisdom to them. Some of these letters make me cry still So each time he's paused to reread the letters which he remembers from when they first came in and to look at this beautiful film that narrates the letters and his responses. The two times he's watched it he's walked away and he says, gets to me every time And that's how we felt every night when he read the letters from the American people Now at some point I understand that you're talking about a presidential temple. So it's going to be a little bit of an ego stroking session for the president that comes with the territory. But even with that standard in mind This is pretty over the top First of all, nobody believes that Barck actually read much less responded to ten letters a day from random people The odds of that happening are zero percent, which is why thousands of people posting their Obama letters all over the internet. It never happened. It's insulting to pretend otherwise, and The whole exhibit is embarrassing but The worst part is that Valerie Jarret says And I quote, He wanted to read those letters because he always wanted to connect with the American people. He wanted them to understand that he would offer hisis words of wisdom to them Imagine writing into the White House complaining about how terribly everything's going Then Obama writes you back, acting like he's doing you a favor and imparting his words of wisdom to you which you desperately need because you're so stupid, whereas he went to Harvard, How many people receive one of these ten letters from Obama's or really Obama's intern and became incredibly furious when instead of an actual response about how they're going to be able to afford health carere now that Obamacare has demolished their private insurance plan All they got was some patronizing Ftune cookie words of wisdom from a narcissist who's going to cry at the sight of his own letters twenty years after the fact inside a grotesque temple that he built for himself Now probably nobody had that reaction. because he didn't read any letters and he didn't send any letters. It's all a photo op, a fake exhibit for a fake president. And for that reason It's the perfect exhibit Obama's temple. And Obama's temple in turn is the perfect addition to the skyline of the city of Chicago No city is a better illustration of the perpetual rot that inevitably follows decades of one party rule by Democrats No Mayor is a better illustration of their incompetence and their maliciousness. and their clownishness than Brandon Johnson. And for that reason We should all be grateful that Obama's temple has opened in Chicago looking as distinctively repulsive as it does There lies a reminder of what we should resist with every fiber of our beings for as long as we can There lies a structure that honors Indians who massacred white women and children while patronizing Americans with its absurd exhibit of pigs anuses and fraudulent letters There lies the perfect monument the Democrat P party Never forget it or what it stands for I'll do for show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening, talkal you tomorrow Have a great day Last month, we judged Martin Luther King Junior. not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his carter American school kids spend a lot of time hearing about MLK and Rosa Parks. Have you noticed no one ever asks what Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery are like today The legacy of the civil rightights movement wasn't a racially harmonious utopia.