Chicago's Transfemicide State of Emergency

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That's something J.B. Pritzker emphasized last week. You know, why don't you do it? You just write your own, yeah, okay, well, we'll write our own thing. I mean, it's going to be particularly with interest and serving our interests exclusively. But, you know, okay, I mean, if you want us to write our own their station, everybody should be able to do that. And then just have the General Assembly, a bunch of people may basically keeping seats warm until they can collect a pension. Just rubber stamp it. Yeah. There would be no special legislative session addressing the Bears without a deal in place. Well, whose fault is that there's no deal? I love this transparent attempt to blame shift. You know, the Bears made some missteps. They didn't genuflect before me. Yeah, I know. We heard you. And this statement from Cam Buckner, speaking of hapless and witless. And Cam Buckner, who was carrying the Bears legislation in the House, said this, you don't call a special session to drop a flight plan. You call a special session to land the plane. Well, then what was the last session of the General Assembly about? I mean, this is your legislation that you didn't get out of the house with your speaker and your supermajority. Hey, yeah, we got to drop a flight plan here. And then the special session is to land it. This is remarkable. But it's so, it's worth pointing out because it is so indicative of exactly what I said, the Illinois's unique position as the state that has combined a kleptocracy with a cacistocracy. We are governed by our lessors and they're corrupt. 312-642-2-5600 alphawealthgroup.com text and call line. State Representative Curtis Tarver, he's entered the debate. He's entered the debate now. It's June. You had since January of 2021. Let's stop horset around and get down to business here. Now, Curtis Tarver, sure, because, you know, if we're just, you know, throw spaghetti against a wall, you know what they should do. Forget Arlington Heights. They should use the South Works site on the southeast side. That's even a, that's a bigger, better deal. And Curtis Tarver, you know, another visionary down there in Springfield, envisions a development corridor linking the Obama-Lisk. The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, he's no longer with us. I mean, as a resident. The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a new advocate health hospital, and a Bear Stadium. Don't just default transformational investments to the same old neighborhoods.

This is something. Oh, and by the way, McCook is involved now, too. Sure. Why not? Anybody else got to, you know, I mean, they're actually, we talked to him last week. You know, Marty McLaughlin, I know he's a Republican, so you're not supposed to pay attention to him. And certainly the power structure in Springfield won't. It doesn't have to. But I mean, you know, as these sorts of deals go, I mean, it's one of the more reasonable proposals I've heard. I'm not a fan of any of this rent seeking, any of these special deals. But if you're going to do it, I mean, Mary McLaughlin's proposed something that has some, you know, legs on the substance of it. Why don't you just take that run? No, no, no. The Terrence Carr, the mayor of McCook wants to make McCook. The home of the Bears. You know, they've already got that strip joint infrastructure there. So you've got the entertainment district. The Bears would be a nice compliment to that. Where's Stone Park's stadium ideal? You know, let's make that Mannheim Road corridor great again. I mean, the people are laughable. Laffable. And, you know, the Bears and this sort of obviously the pull of Chicago and wanting to make it make sense to be in Chicago, let me tell you something. The reason that the board, the Bears board moved to take the next step in the direction of Northwest Indiana, because you can't make it make sense to be here. Even if you got what you wanted, even if the Bears wrote the legislation and the General Assembly just rubber stamped it. The General Assembly and Jellybelly, just rubber-stamped it in some special session? How could you even trust it? How could you trust the deal? Look who you're dealing with. Just go. The stories you need to know to start your day. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer. Hey, business owners, is your business and money in good hands? Does your bank invest in your success? Hi, Mike Gallagher here, letting you know that when you need a relationship bank, signature bank makes commercial banking personal. I love these guys. Not only do they have expansive industry experience, a strong financial track record, but they're also highly capitalized for strategic growth. That's so important. That's why signature bank is my bank. They know what it means to grow a business by designing solutions that are right for you and only. you. These are real people. They're ready to help. So reach out to my friends at Signature Bank. Make the call today. 773-467-5630. Or visit them online at SignatureBank.Bank. Bank. That's SignatureBank. Bank. Your business could be Signature Bank's next success story. Go online. SignatureBank. Bank. Equal Housing Lender, Signature Bank. Only the biggest stories. Only the biggest guests. And only the biggest opinions. This is AM 560. The answer. I got to tell you, you know how talented a newsman Mike Scott is?

All of this data they rely on is cooked. So you can't take anything at face value. It all comes from these advocacy groups. The sorts of advocacy groups that say the Nashville school shooter, Covenant School shooter, there was no clear political motivation for the he-she mass shooting. I mean, despite the manifesto that was released, that shows all sorts of animus in the direction of Christians and Maga and so forth. Right, but they don't determine. So that you can't include that if you want to have a conversation about is there some dynamic among those who identify on the this imagined manufactured gender spectrum when it comes to violent tendencies or are there some cues because you're seeing a spike in that particular demographic. It's complicated. I don't know that the answer is clear to it, but it's a fair question to ask. But you can't ask fair questions and get fair answers because it's all wrapped up in the silliness of this identitarian politics as nicely demonstrated by BLM Brandon. I mean, his nickname wouldn't be BLM Brandon if he wasn't to die in the wool identitarian. And in case you didn't think he was, I think he just proved he has transfemicide. I mean, not to mention some of the data that is more reliable doesn't come from these advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign or the Trevor Project. The majority of crimes committed against men identifying as women, trans, yes, trans women, men identify. That's domestic. This is like, you know, they're romantic partners. So in other words, it's not the boogeyman that there are some, you know, cis white men who want to, you know, suppress, subjugate, violate trans people. No, we just don't want you grooming kids and we don't want to be forced to finance your lifestyle or celebrate it. I mean. Nope, not good enough. I know. But just to give you a little color on what I'm talking about when it comes to this unreliable data, because you'll hear like the active wear Antifa in the suburbs that so many of you live around, they'll spew this nonsense because they're just repeating some talking point they heard or saw online from the Trevor Project or the human rights campaign. They're waving their little flag because, you know, they don't have a functioning brain. A recent survey that looked at trans-identified teens and the sort of trying to assess mental health, suicidal ideation, I mean serious issues. But this is how these organizations manipulate data. First of all, it was done by one of these organizations. I just mentioned the Trevor Project. So, of course, they're going to manipulate it. Ostensibly, this is focused on suicide prevention.

The survey as respondents, more than 16,000 self-identified LGBTQ plus people between the ages of 13 and 24, about mental health systems and suicide risk, access to treatment, mental health, the impact of anti-LGBQ policies across a host of domains and about best ways to support the trans-identified youth. This good write-up on this from Joseph Figiloa. Figliolia, I think, is how you pronounce it, at City Journal. Too many vowels. All right. The interpreters of those who conducted this survey assume that the respondents' high levels of poor mental health, more than a third of respondents reported seriously considering suicide, which is awful. Nobody's happy about that. I don't want anybody to kill themselves. As you said before, these are people that are struggling with mental health, and they should be, you know, provided compassion and professional assistance, so they don't harm themselves. Nobody wants that. But that doesn't give you license to lie about what's happening. The high-level poor mental health. Over a third of respondents reported seriously considering suicide. The... Trevor Project's finding 9 out of 10 LGBTQs say recent anti-LGBQ laws, policies, and debates have caused them stress and anxiety. So their conclusion is that the policies and rhetoric associated with people who are not fully, you know, not offering full-throated celebrations of whatever the Trevor Project is promoting negatively impacts the mental health of LGBTQ young people and is in. instigating this spike in suicidal ideation. However, that purposely precludes the idea there were mental health issues prior to identifying as trans, prior to sublimating this identity. and that the mental health issues now, they're sort of their being, they're leading the witness with these questions into saying, well, the reason you are, feel duress, the reason you're. so despondent you're considering something terrible like committing suicide is because of these people promoting policies that are against your interests. So it's just an example of why you can't buy the rap that's used to announce some sort of trans-femicide state of emergency in the city of Chicago, for goodness sakes. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Not to say there aren't issues, not to say we shouldn't, we don't treat everyone with dignity. I mean, all of the normal stipulations that we shouldn't have to make because we're among reasonable people. But when you're dealing with the unreasoned and necessarily the unkind, you have to sort of provide a foundation to say, nice try.

But what you're trying to impose upon me, not my actual views, not what I think, not what I want to see happen. And what you're saying, I know is not happening. Not in the way you think. Mike and Union are on Chicago's morning. And you're exactly right. I mean, they promoted this. They played on the emotions of people. They're the ones that fault. There's the ones that caused all this, all this suicide. Back in the day, if somebody was weird, you just noted me moved on. You didn't hear about transgender or LGBT suicide. They're the ones at fault in all of this. They created a problem and now they're profiting from it. What a joke. Thanks for the call, Mike. Yeah. No, I mean, all this, you know, would you rather have a live son? or a dead daughter or vice versa, all of this really ghoulish, reprehensible mischaracterization of the discussion. And now you have the abject pandering of BLM Brandon, who, by the way, has his own mental health issues. I mean, I'm not even being sarcastic. You know, the discussions that have been, that have bled out into the public about the anxiety attacks he has, you know, I have been on pretty good authority that he routinely sees mental health professionals. I'm sure the job comes with a lot of pressure, particularly when you're out over your skis. The more you listen, the more you'll know. This is Chicago's morning answer. Morning answer on AM 560, the answer. Business owners, now's the time for your business to make the move to a locally owned business bank. Hi, Mike Gallagher here to let you know that you don't have to look far. Signature Bank was founded in Chicago with a simple mission to help companies like yours grow, succeed, and thrive. Their decisions are made locally by a terrific team that knows your name, cares about your business, and invests in your success. That's why Signature Bank is my bank. I'm a customer. As business owners, they knew that local family-owned businesses we're not getting the help they needed or deserved. So, I invite you to reach out to my friends at Signature Bank today. Write the number down. Remember this phone number. Signature Bank, 773-467-5630. And learn all about this great bank, 773-467-5630, or visit them online at SignatureBank.Bank. That's SignatureBank.com. Signature Bank makes commercial banking personal. Remember FDIC, Equal Housing. Linda. Just a post script on our discussion of the transfemicide state of emergency that has been declared by Brandon Johnson. A text from Amish, the Amish text, or that is. Do I have to buy a Subaru for this transfemiside state of emergency? You don't have to, but it would be nice. It would be great allyship if you did. I was also reminded by a texture of this study out of Finland this past spring that we covered on this show a couple times. Finland looked at the mortality rates, including the suicide rates, of Finns under the age of 23, who had psychiatric help for gender identity between the years 1996 and 2019. Two and a half decades.

Suicide was rare among adolescents who sought psychiatric help within the time frame analyzed in the study, regardless of whether they see trans drugs or surgeries. Although adolescents who struggle with gender identity issues did have higher rates of suicide than the general population. The discrepancy appear, according to these researchers, appear to be rooted in deeper underlying psychological health problems the use were facing rather than a lack of access to trans drugs or surgeries. The study also noted that adolescents who struggle with their gender identity commonly have other underlying psychological health problems, right? Yes. And thus the Trevor Project coming out essentially with their response to try to muddy the waters here. The study noted that adolescents... I should say the study argues, I'm quoting here, psychiatric morbidities are also common in this population. Therefore, the risk of suicide related to trans identity and or gender dysphoria per se may have been overestimated. Yes. And since we're on BLM Brandon, we can move past the transphemicide, return to the general violence problem. Flager shut up Donald Trump and give us our money for gun violence prevention so that we can put some more violence interrupters on CTA platforms or in St. Sabine's neighborhood to no particular effect. But don't forget BLM Brandon's famous, infamous, really, incantation on the subject of systemic violence in Chicago. It's not his fault. Not any Chicago mayor's fault. We had a chance way back when before BLM Brandon roamed the earth. And those who preceded BLM Brandon failed him and black Americans in general. You know who I'm talking about. That's right. Richard Nixon. Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time. We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes. And people mocked President Johnson. And we ended up with Richard Nixon. I'm going to work hard every day to transform this city. That's what it takes to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago. And everybody to step up. Uh-huh. Um, I mean, there's just so much there. He just packs so much into his, um, Unique take on history. I mean, can we just start with the fact that LBJ was a virulent racist? He's invoking LBJ as some sort of savior for black Americans. By the way, the great society persisted through Nixon into present day, didn't it? If that was the big chance, the great society. That didn't go away that's only increased exponentially. And what has, you know, $30 trillion gotten us? A bigger, better, stronger, safer black community? Intact black families, better educational attainment. More black politicians in office than ever.

And yet the problems persist. Huh. I wonder why that is. We mocked LBJ. I mean, he was certainly a fair subject for derision, but we mocked him into what, not running? LBJ, a rough and tumble guy from Texas. It just, it's just really something to behold that the... Interesting thing is that, I don't know, a third of the city's population thinks that he's doing a good job. And the alternatives are sort of slightly less, what's the word, overtly identitarian than he is, but they're all reading from the same playbook. They're all. walking down the same path just at sort of different paces. He just says things that are more outlandish than and more ignorant than others are willing to say. But that's how you get ahead in politics today, particularly in Chicago and Illinois, it seems to me, we've got a Senate candidate who's running on a campaign of F.U. Donald Trump. F. Trump. That's her tagline for the United States Senate. That's Illinois. There's only one radio show in Chicago talking about today's biggest stories and telling you what they really mean. That show is this one. Chicago's morning answer on AM 560, The Answer. This is Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft on AM 560, The Answer.

Top of the morning, Dan Profft here. I do want to get to this story about the teacher from U-46 who should have been charged with felony murder. Instead, she wasn't charged with anything. She was released. And I just recently picked her up in Kentucky. U-46 high school teacher up there in Elgin. The driver, the wheel woman, in a triple homicide. Mike Tobin, Fox News, has the story. Giovanna Mercedes Moreno, Ocho Pinto, 32 years old, first senator of the U.S. in October of 2021 with the visa waiver program. But she was supposed to leave January 2nd, 2022, and she overstayed her visa. Skip forward to December 2nd, 2024, when the Department of Homeland Security says she drove two gunmen affiliated with the Venezuelan gang, Trendyaragua, to a house party in the Gage Park area of Chicago, where they allegedly opened fire. Free people were killed, several others injured. say Moreno, Achipinto, also helped the gunman flee the scene, Ochipente, I should say. The two men she allegedly drove to the scene, also helped the gunman flee the scene, Ocho Pinto, I should say. The two men she allegedly drove to the scene and helped escape Ricardo Grandio Alex Padilla and Edward Martinez Sermano have both been arrested and deported. Chicago police arrested this former teacher December 5th, 2025. Federal authorities say she had weapons in her car at the time of the arrest. She had weapons at her car at the time of the arrest. She was arrested by Chicago police on charges of unlawful use of weapons and other weapons offenses. As I said, she should have been charged with felony murder. She drove them to the scene. They killed three people and injured five others. She helped them escape. The definition of felony murder is participating in a felony. If you participate in the commission of a felony, then you are culpable for whatever damage that felony produces. You know, like three people being murdered. That's not what happened. She was released without ICE ever being notified because Chicago is a sanctuary city because we're welcoming people. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office decided not to prosecute. the suspects. And as Tobin reported, the two murderers were deported. Well, that's okay. But, of course, it's not okay, generally speaking. And this is what Tom Homan had to say about this latest high profile. head-shaking incident. ...city policies, the dangerous policies of these sanctuary, you know, state sanctuary cities. Look, she was complicit in the murder of three people.

And they didn't honor a detainer and reached her back to the street. Like I say it again, President Trump has promised the American people he's going to make this country safe again. And one of the ways he's going to do that is remove illegal aliens or public safety threats. So ISIS is going to continue to do their job. But let's be clear, it makes it less efficient. It makes it harder to do that job. We have local law enforcement. That won't help us. And it's not the police officer in Chicago. When last time I was up to do an operation, I had numerous Chicago police officers come up and thank us for what we're doing. It's the politicians. It's Mayor Johnson. It's J.B. Pritzker who doesn't want. They'd rather see public safety at risk. They give President Trump to think a win by decreasing crime in their cities. It's ridiculous. That's a sickness. But I'll tell you what, we do have a transphemicide. state of emergency. It's pretty serious about that. 312-642-2-5600 alphawealthgroup.com call and text line. Just another, I mean, you know, I don't even know what to say about these stories anymore with respect to Chicago and Illinois. I don't know how many people of every, you know, intersectional score range. have to be harmed or killed before you say people who are promoting these policies are menaces. They're the public menace. Jelly Belly and Tony, Tony, Tony, and BLM Brandon and the legislative bodies from Springfield to Cook County to Chicago. And a lot of suburban areas too, especially up there in Lake County with Mr. Safety Act, that guy in the heart, the Lake County State's attorney. I don't know. I mean, I feel, I guess I feel compelled to report the stories, number one, because I know they're not going to get reported locally. And number two, because I feel like we, somebody has to owe a duty to all the victims of these crimes, these preventable crimes. I mean, I can't help but think of our friends like the Abrahams, the McCanns, and so many other angel families or families who have suffered greatly because of these lawless policies. These pro-preditor policies, which is what they are. And of course, she's a former teacher at U-46. Can't let that go unemphasized, can we? Of course she is. It was either U-46 or CPS. All the red shirts.

In other news, the administration is moving in addition to Tom Homan's work and the work of enforcement and recovery operations from ICE to remove people like these individuals just profiled from this country, or at least from the public civil society. The administration is taking other steps to... effectively remove people who've overstayed. They're gaming the system. And many of the people who have overstayed who are overstaying so they can continue being the political agitators that they became when they land on a college campus. And a sort of notorious example, you want to talk about a professional student. Mosin Madawi. He's 34 years old. He's at Columbia. Of course he's at Columbia. And he's been an undergrad at Columbia for 15 years. He's really slow walking that he's having a difficult time finding a major he can really commit to. He's like Diane Chambers on Cheers. I mean, 15 years. Why has he been there for 15 years? Well. CBS News, in scare quotes, caught up with him because he's a fascinating young man, well, not so young anymore, who is standing up to the Trump administration. My name is Mohsen Mahdawi. In America, I go by Mosin, like Moses with an M. I am still a student at Columbia University. You're still enrolled. Yes. He had a message for President Trump. I am not afraid of you. Why was it important for you to speak directly to Donald Trump as you were walking out free? There is this philosophy of intimidation. So I wanted to share to them that you can do whatever you want. You will not silence me. Well, we're going to not hear you as loudly as we used to because you gone. Just like your buddy, I mean, I don't know if they're buddies, but same cut from the same cloth, Mahmood Khalil, who was a great anti-Semitic. anti-Trump, anti-American activists on the College of Columbia University as well. The White House has cleared a rule to cut duration of status with a two to four-year limit on foreign students so they can no longer be quote-unquote forever students, like taking 15 years to knock out their BA. The rule affects certain visa classifications, F1J1, and I visa's work, study, media, and journalism. which would close a long-term legal migration loophole. So there's, you know, again, the progress isn't as occurring as fast as we want, but it's a lot to get your arms around, a lot that was inherited to get your arms around. And high-profile examples that speak to gaps in policy that the president can close, this administration can close, they're doing their darn well best to close them.

It's like a hot steaming cup of information. To start your day, it's Chicago's morning answer on AM 560, the answer. Top of the morning, Dan Propter, G, who could have seen this coming? Tucker Carlson, not really with a big announcement. It was sort of made off the cuff on a Canadian podcast. Tucker Carlson can take it no longer. He is out. Out of the Republican Party, you will not be supporting Republican candidates. You will not be voting Republican. Tucker Carlson on the Can't Be Censored podcast in Great White North. you know, tell a pretty clear story about it. I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party. I'm not going to support the Democratic Party. I don't know what I'm going to do. But at this point, you know, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like, that's, that's, you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that. And I'm not going to. And I think I voted Republican in my entire life. I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. I mean, very consistent defender. But there's no defending this because it's immoral. And it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they're not doing that. So no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out. 312-642-2-5600 are you going to join Tucker Carlson in Mad Dash for the exits from the Republican Party because I mean his theory Israel talked Trump into this campaign against the Islamists in Tehran and I guess that's indicative that the Trump administration is putting the interests of Israel ahead of the interests of America. Because that's who he's talking about, clearly, and has been talking about somewhat obsessively. Leave the Republican Party. You know, I've declined to support Republican nominees for office before, so I'm not, you know, a Republican Party or bust guy either. But I find the whole thing, there's a lot of descriptions I could offer, but let me just start with immature. I find it just terribly immature. You have a policy disagreement on a particular issue or particular belief about a relationship with an ally, and so you're going to walk from the party altogether. I mean, this is, of course, I mean, this feels to me like it's staged, like he's trying to set up a play to be some sort of Nigel Farage figure in America, or maybe worse. I don't know. Certainly, Nigel Farage didn't come to prominence in the UK by indulging cranks and black helicopter conspiracists.

prattling on on behalf of Islamist theocrats while taking cheap shots and saying things that are just patently untrue about the Israelis. Not to mention the Trump administration. Najo Nigel Farage, an ally. So, you know, I can see maybe what he's trying to do, but it's going to have to be, it's going to have to look very different than what Nigel Farage and the Brexit folks have done, which looks more like the MAGA folks here. You know, it's funny. You know what he sounds like you listen to Tucker Carlson talk of late for any extended period of time. He almost becomes indistinguishable from. one newly minted mayor of New York City. Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling APAC monsters who move dark money. These are phrases that invoke old anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories. What do you say to those who are concerned that the language you used is dangerous? I want to be very clear. We're talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire. Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about APAC, I'm speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine, but frankly, through much of the region. And it is a status quo for immorality. It is one that I will not accept. Immorality. There's that word again. The way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13. Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money by filtering money that would have previously been directly from APAC, now through other shell organizations whose identities of their contributors are only made clear. after an election. And I think that it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place. I'm no fan of APEC because they support people like Adriano Espaillat in that race against that Daralisa lunatic. I mean, but Adriano Espaillat's a socialist. Why even waste your money? They're both terrible. So, you know, APEC is establishment. That's the funny thing about it. So I'm not.

any big cheerleader for APEC. But I mean, this guy, Zohran Mamdani, oh, they run money through different organizations. You mean like Arabele advisors in your party? You mean like care? You mean like these Islamist charities that are fronts for terrorist organizations across the world? You mean like your chummy imams? that are also allied with terrorists in New York City and throughout the Arab world and these theocracies. Let me give me a break. Please. Bill on Northwest Side. You know, just when you stop hearing his name, he thinks he has to say something to get his name back out there again. So that's his deal. He needs to get his name out there to get to see if he can make himself more relevant, which he isn't right now. Thanks for the call. He and Candace and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I love Tucker Carlson to be like, you know, I know you're tight with Marjorie Taylor Greene. That was said in the podcast. It's like, boy, how the mighty have fallen. He's tight with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Gosh, I can imagine that Tucker Carlson starting out at Fox News and Marjorie Taylor Greene spending a lot of quality time together. Let me put it that way. By the way, since Zohran Mamdani brought it up, there's a reason that propaganda that he was promulgating has an audience. There's a lot of reasons. One of them is the media. And I thought this was an interesting disclosure from Maddie Friedman, who is a former reporter for the Associated Press, about how the Associated Press, and thus every other outlet in the West, covered the war in Gaza, and covers Gaza, generally speaking, which is to say runs cover for Hamas. Take a listen. As far as I know, I was the first staffer to erase information from the story because we were threatened by Hamas, which happened at the very end of 2008. We had a great reporter in Gaza, a Palestinian, who had always been really an excellent reporter. We had a detail in a story. The detail was a crucial one. It was that Hamas fighters were dressed as civilians and were being counted as civilians in the death toll. An important thing to know. That went out in an AP story. The reporter called me a few hours later. It was clear that someone had spoken to him. And he told me, I was on the desk in Jerusalem, so I was kind of writing the story from the main bureau in Jerusalem, and he said, Matz, you have to take that detail out of the story. And it was clear that someone had threatened him. I took the detail out of the story. I suggested to our editors that we note, in an editor's note, that we were now complying with Hamas censorship. I was overruled. And from that point in time, the AP, like all of its sister organizations, collaborates with Hamas censorship in Gaza. What does that mean?

You'll see a lot of dead civilians and you won't see dead militants. You won't have a clear idea of what the Hamas military strategy is. And this is the kicker. The center of the coverage will be a number, a casualty number, that is provided to the press by something called the Gaza Health Ministry, which is Hamas. And we've been doing that since 2008. And it's a way of basically settling the story before you get into any other information. Because when you put, you know, when you say 50,000, 50... 50 Palestinians were killed and one Israeli on a given day, you know, it doesn't matter what else you say. The numbers kind of tell their own story, and it's a way of settling the story with something that sounds like a concrete statistic, and the statistic is... being given to us by one of the combatant sides, but because the reporters sympathize with that side, they're happy to play along. So since 2008, certainly since 2014, when we had another serious war in Gaza, the press has not been covering in Gaza. The press has been essentially an amplifier for one of the most poisonous ideologies on Earth. Hamas has... figured out how to make the press amplify its messaging rather than covering Hamas. There are no Western reporters in Gaza. All of the reporters in Gaza are Palestinians, and those people fall into three categories. Some of them identify with Hamas. Some of them are intimidated by Hamas and won't cross Hamas, which makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't want to cross Hamas either. And the third category is people who actually belong to Hamas. That's where the information from Gaza is coming from. And if you're credulous, then, of course, you're going to get a story that makes Israel look pretty bad. For two decades, three buckets. Those who are sympathetic to Hamas, those who are intimidated by Hamas, those who are part of Hamas are bringing you the news from the Middle East. I think that has an impact. There's only one radio show in Chicago talking about today's biggest stories and telling you what they really mean. That show is this one. Chicago's morning answer on AM 560, The Answer. Only the biggest stories. Only the biggest guests. And only the biggest opinions. This is AM 560. The answer. Top of the morning, James Proff here. How are we doing with our new partners in peace, the Ayatollah and the Islamist in Tehran? Hmm. That new leaf they're supposedly turning over. Some fits and starts, apparently. I think they've had a couple of relapse as well. The executing dissidents, that seems to be sort of the old totalitarian habits rearing their ugly heads, sort of speak again. The head of Iran's judiciary said of Trump, Trump is an arrogant, boastful, selfish, resentful, vile, promise-breaking person.

How can one trust someone like that and who even trust the U.S.? Negotiations today are a way to confront the enemy and toward its plans. Negotiations do not mean that we trust them, nor do they mean that we are surrendering. Sort of bellicose rhetoric in the face of JD Vance's chumminess. The Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Strait of Hormuz will be managed by Iran under Iranian terms. Quote, I was among the first to say clearly at the start of the war. Everyone should know that the management of the Strait of Hormuz will never return to the way it was before the war. He also added that Iran has never trusted the Americans and never will. But that rings familiar. Having a hard time seeing where they, I guess maybe privately, they said, you know, the last 47 years of our posture towards America, big mistake turning over a new leaf that got JD Vance all excited. Tim Jeanne Shaheen, who is a Navy SEAL, he's also the Republican Senator from Montana. He had this to say with Brian Kilmeade, reminding some people who apparently need reminding of who we're dealing with. Well, of course, we hope this can be successful. I hope that. Vice President of Advance and Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are successful in convincing Iran to be a normal country and to open their minds and stop trying to murder their neighbors and destroy the world. But the reality is this is a murderous regime that doesn't want a deal. They don't want $6 gasoline. They don't want the straits to be open. They want you and your family and all of us to be killed. They want to wipe our civilization off the map. That's their national motto. Nothing's changed. And I don't think we've been successful in communicating that to the American people, that this isn't a regime that wants to negotiate. They want to buy time. want to buy as much time as they can because President Trump's the only president who's ever actually gone after them head to head, who's shown them that if you kill Americans, if you come after our country, we're going to hit you back. And from Soleimani to Midnight Hammer to the most recent campaign, he's the first president ever to actually go after this regime. So what we're seeing now is what the rope atop they usually perform, which is by time, try to... lead us along till hopefully President Trump and this team's out of office and they can re-up their campaign. So hopefully this is successful, but we have to remind ourselves we are dealing with a regime that will not negotiate in good faith. They want you and I dead and all of us to be gone. And they don't want that to happen with the snap of a finger. They want to happen like October 7th times a million. They want us to be wiped off the map from New York to San Diego in a savage manner. Jay Dee JD Vance, though, is excited about the concession he reportedly got yesterday that iran will allow for nuclear inspectors he and this is probably what we're most excited about as americans the iranians have agreed to invite iaea inspectors back into their country that is a major milestone for the american people and the first step in that's a major milestone is it Jim Garrity of our National Review has the receipts. He reminds us that in 2004, Iran's so-called moderate former president, the moderates in Tehran. Is there anything more oxymoronic emphasis on moronic? Iran's so-called moderate former president, Hassan Rouhani, boasted he had duped European negotiators while converting yellow cake into uranium hexafluoride at Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan.

It was violated in 2004, 2012. Nuclear scientists who was head of Iran's atomic energy organization declared in a newspaper interview that, quote, we presented false information sometimes in order to protect our nuclear position and our achievements as there is no other choice but to misleave foreign intelligence, unquote. That's 2012 and 2016. Secretary of State John Kerry announced just yesterday the foreign minister reported to me that the... A core of the plutonium nuclear reactor is now out, and in the next hours it will be filled with concrete and destroyed. The image of the reactor filled with cement was photoshopped. I mean, if this wasn't so serious. In January of 2019, Iran's atomic energy organization chief said in a television interview that the core was not filled with cement. No kidding. In late February of this year, Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who is part of the negotiating team for them, we have limited the range of our missiles below 2,000 kilometers. That was a few weeks before Iran fired a ballistic missile, nearly 4,000 kilometers. To Tim Sheehe's point. Noah Rothman is senior writer at National Review, author of Blood in Progress, a century of left-wing violence in America. Noah, thanks for joining us again. Appreciate it. Thank you. My pleasure. So how does this deal shaping up so far in your estimation? Well, here's the thing about multi-stage peace deals with Islamist terrorists in the Middle East, which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's core and control of Iran very much is. They almost never progress beyond stage one. Now, stage one, when it came to the deal with Hamas that the president negotiated and did some high-tempo combat operations inside Gaza. That was great because all it did was expand the Gaza envelope in which Israel would have troops on the ground, control over the territory. And that was internationally recognized, codified in a UN resolution. Hamas didn't get anything. If it never progressed beyond the second stage, which it hasn't yet, it'd still be great. Everything about stage one in this deal is terrible from our perspective. Iran gets absolutely everything it wants. Iran gets to sell oil on the market at market prices above ground. None of this is sanctioned anymore. And it gets to recoup hard cash from it to the tune of perhaps $5 billion a day. Likewise, the MOU drives a wedge between the United States and Israel by roping Israel into a deal to which it is not signatory nor party by equating an entirely different conflict in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, not the Lebanese government, Hezbollah, and the war in Iran, which Iran previously denied that it had any control over Hezbollah, only under extreme duress and to prevent Hezbollah from being utterly defeated and wiped out. Did it acknowledge that it had control over this terrorist organization? And then Trump, rather than use that leverage, agreed with the Iranian position and now makes Israel the scapegoat for any time the provocation, or engages in a provocation designed to test its freedom of action and Trump's willingness to absorb humiliations and embarrassments, which it will.

All of this is designed to get gas prices down, and it will get gas prices down. But the notion that the American voter will reward this national humiliation... or that Republicans who are previously enthusiastic to vote in the midterms are somehow now enthusiastic to preserve Republican majorities. I just don't see it. And all of this sort of presupposes that Iran doesn't engage in a really horrible, bloody miscalculation as it provokes and it will provoke. And that compels the president, however reluctantly, to re-engage in high-tempo combat operations against Iran. It's very foreseeable, if not necessarily, especially likely, given the president's willingness. to subordinate everything he knows about this regime to the political intentives not to engage with it. So I just think we have a conflict here that is going to perpetuate in various different permutations for the foreseeable future. And I don't see any way out of this based on the terms that we're setting for ourselves that's going to result in an advantageous status quo. It's just various flavors of defeat. Now that Iran is getting flush with cash again, David Harsani pointed out, the Iranian regime owes American victims of Iranian terrorism more than $50 billion in damages. There are more than 90 judgments against Iran. So I assume that's going to be part of the discussion, too. We're going to make Americans who have a judgment against this, against the Iranian government whole for the acts of terrorism that victimize themselves or their families. Yeah, no, we're not doing that. We're definitely not doing that. That's not even part of the conversation. But that would be, to me, that would be America first, wouldn't it, wouldn't that fit in America first orientation? I suppose. The president just, and the administration just doesn't seem all that interested in negotiating for the terms that it's set out to achieve. through the war. The war, if you regard it as politics by other means, had a variety of objectives, all of which have been abandoned by this president. And restitution for the victims of Iranian terrorism would definitely be among them, although it wasn't stated at the outset of the war, but a satisfying conclusion to hostilities would at least acknowledge the victims of Iranian terrorism, the American victims, and European and Israeli victims. of Iranian terrorism. Now, you know, we just, you know, you mentioned a couple of these things in, uh, that we're trying to, you know, polish this. This thing in Switzerland where JD Vance is saying, you know, the AEIEA is going in. And as you noted, the IAEA has been in. Not only did Obama Crow about that, but they were in and on the ground after Operation Midnight Hammer and before Operation Midnight Hammer. The issue is where they get to go, what they get to see, and the safeguards that prevent Iran from proudly, boastfully misleading these inspectors. And, you know, the notion here that unfrozen funds, which I'm not even sure we're ever going to get to, would somehow be used to patronize.

the administration's preferred constituencies, American farmers, you know, maybe if you can verify that, but who cares? Money is fungible. Republicans have been saying this for a decade now. They have to rediscover all the arguments they made against Obama's Iran nuclear deal. Money is fungible. If you give money, even if you dedicate it to certain purposes, that frees up Iranian cash to do whatever it wants with it. And what it wants to do is to support terrorism and build missiles. And that's exactly what they're going to do. So the notion here that any of this stuff is satisfactory to the American position is to me just spin. And, you know, one of the arguments that has been made is this is... The best we can do because to do more is to pay too high a price in terms of the combination of military assets plus human lives if we were to try to forcibly open the strait if we were to try to affect regime change. But it's a little, and I mean, it's generally unclear to me. I don't know. We've gotten various opinions from experts and military and geopolitical experts. But the idea that if we could open the straight through force, we would have done it because we haven't done it, therefore we can't do it. It seems to me, you know, difficult. A little circular. Yeah, a little circular. And also, too, the people are saying that they don't really have any better handle on the potential cost to be paid, you know, the potential downsides than I do. And frankly, it doesn't seem like anybody does because everybody in the administration, with perhaps the exception Marco Rubio, has taken every position on this issue that is available to be taken. So it's a little confusing. Yeah, I have less, not a lot of tolerance for that argument, too. It's more in sorrow articulation of a policy they've already advocated for for months. It's not as though the United States Navy is incapable of reopening the Strait, or the United States Air Force and Navy war planes can reopen the Strait militarily. They've done that in various forms before. The Iranians muck about with the Strait all the time. And in the 1980s, 1987 and 1988, they did attempt to close it with a lot more ordinance than they were able to deploy now because we were interdicting so much of it and destroying the Iranian Navy. So it's not like it can't be done, but it is a very fraud operation, a dangerous operation, and one that could entail U.S. casualties. Or perhaps I think this is the big fear. an Iranian effort to attack civilian infrastructure around the Gulf. Oil production, desalinization plants, really just rain down apocalypse on the region and consigned the world to an economic catastrophe. And in the absence of a significant stock of missile interceptors, which are depleted, we would be open to a real catastrophe. I think that's the calculation that the president just was persuaded by.

Which is not to say that we can't do it, but the president lacks the will to do it. And I'm a little confused about the notion that missiles are impossible to interdict because, you know, we get this word that the Iranians have 70% of their missile stocks still. Well, they had 100% of their missile stocks at the outset of the war, but those fires slowed to a trickle because we were interdicting them from the air. They fire off a missile. We'd use radar to track where it came from, and that missile launcher would be gone. That's the sort of thing that you can get back to in high-tempo combat operations. But the president doesn't have the stomach for a long operation based on the political calendar, based on the midterm elections. He was persuaded by that. Somebody in his ear said, this is too big of a risk and you're going to lose the midterms as a result. Well, what has this done to restore the Republican Party's enthusiasm for Republican majorities? What has this done to mollify the president's critics? Nothing. If anything, it's... deepened the GOP's malaise and further emboldened the president's opponents to meet out retribution against him and his government. I don't see how anybody's benefiting from this situation. Noah Rothman, senior writer National Review, author of Blood and Progress, A Century of Left Wing Violence in America. Noah, thanks as always. Thank you. And he joined us on the Alfawealthgroup.com, Anseline. There's only one radio show in Chicago talking about today's biggest stories and telling you what they really mean. That show is this one. Chicago's Morning Answer on AM 560, The Answer. That sounds means it's time for in-depth history with Frank, the history teacher from Arlington Heights, because there's nothing new in this world, just the history you don't know, and Frank does. Frank, take it away. Good morning. Right before signing the MOU with Iran at the historic palace of Versailles, President Trump had met with other G7 leaders at a place called Evian-Leban. Trump knows his history, but I doubt many there knew that at Avian, summer of 1938, right after the Anschlis, but before the Sudaden crisis, that a conference was held there on what had become a major Jewish refugee crisis. Only one country, though, the Dominican Republic opened up to them. Later in November 1938, a week after the Kristlnacht, the British, possibly sensing the coming horror, had their ambassador to the U.S. asked that the remainder of the 60,000-person quota for British citizens be used to take German and Austrian Jewish refugees instead. Under Secretary of State Sumner Wells, though, made it clear that Washington was not interested, ultimately it took the Holocaust for the U.S. to change its position post-war. In the middle of and along the entire Atlantic Ocean, a depth of 8,000 feet deep lies the mid-Atlantic ridge, where magma rises to the seafloor and pushes in both directions outward, causing continental drift. As the basalt rock cools, it encodes the current magnetism of the earth. And although it takes at least 1,000 years to fully switch, these ancient rock records show that the magnetic north of the earth has shifted to the south pole many times in the past. Could the nature of the Middle East and our relations to it be undergoing such a pole shift? President Richard Nixon, who provided support to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, said that no U.S. President would let Israel be destroyed. So then why did Trump sign an MOU that he must have known some of his supporters would consider worse than the impeachment at Munich? It's simple. Keeping the straight of Hormuz open by force would likely require another forever war. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer. An AM 560, the answer.

This is Chicago's morning answer with Dan Proft on AM 560. The answer. Top of the morning, Dan Profft here and California Congresshuman Ro Khanna. who likes to present as a moderate, all you have to do is listen to him actually rap, and you'll know that that's not true. Went after Elon Musk on the leftist podcast this week, saying enough about all the millionaires he created at SpaceX. What about all the children he killed at Doge? And I do believe that once we take power, there has to be accountability. There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they're celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires. but they don't talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USA. He needs to answer for that. He needs to be a subpoenaed. He needs to face investigation. He needs to answer for what he did with Doge. It's not just, let's move on. And we will use the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee to hold people accountable who violated. the law on ice and abused power with ice, who violated the law and killing people on boats in the Caribbean, who violated the law when it came to Iran and some of the strikes, who violated the law with Doge. There will be accountability. There needs to be accountability. We will purge as many as quickly as we can with the power that we have. That's the translation. Elon Musk, not taking that. Assertion lying down suggesting he may sue Ro Khanna for defamation. And he's got a lot of evidence to support. Like, for example, even as USAID funding went up, the reduction in the rates of malaria in USAID beneficiary countries stayed static or actually declined in terms of the inoculation for that disease. Yeah, I mean, USAID was just a repository of fraudsterism and bureaucratic adventurism completely unbounded from any oversight. What else is new when it comes to Congress? This was Elon Musk talking about his Doge experience shortly after the apex of the relatively shortly lived Doge period in this administration. Like the president. And very hard to cut, even to cut things that are obvious waste and fraud, like ridiculous waste and fraud. What I discovered that is, it's...

extremely difficult, even to cut very obvious ways from the government. Because the government tends to operate on, like, who's complaining. Like, if, and if you cut off payments to fraudsters, they immediately come up with the most sympathetic sounding reasons to continue the payment. They don't say, please keep the fraud going. They say, you know, they're like, you're killing baby pandas. And we're like, meanwhile, there's no baby panders are dying. They're just making it up. The forces are capable of coming up with extremely compelling sort of heart-wrenching stories that are false, but nonetheless sound sympathetic. And that's what happened. And so it's like, perhaps I should have known better. And... I thought, wait, let's take a, let's try to cut some amount of ways from the government. It was a game effort, but yeah, you should have known better. Everybody should know better. If everybody read Thomas Seoul or Milton Friedman or James Buchanan, everybody would know better. And this scam wouldn't go on, certainly not at the scale that's gone on. I mean, the benefits, fraud investigations, billions and billions of dollars every single day that are being frauded. coming to the four because it's so ubiquitous and it's so easy to find if you're interested to look they're not that clever but the Thomas Sol formulation I've used before I mean all these people like nobody reads anything not nobody but so few people know anything they think whoever is talking right now just came up with this like Elon Musk the panda it's good stuff but I mean he Guys were saying the same things 50, 60, 100 years ago. Ah, that the lack of education, thought, civic mightedness. conversation with intelligent people that lead you to consume content that enhances your understanding of the world around you. It's just so, gosh, darn, frustrating. I know why people just walk away from politics. You just give up and go live a good life because people are just hopeless. Honestly, I hate to be so cynical, but Thomas Sol's great formulation. Yeah, this is like, I don't know, 30 years old. Here's the riddle. You only have enough money to fund a statute of Benedict Arnold on the mall or childhood inoculations against a pick a disease du jour. Malaria. What do you, what do you, and you're a member of Congress. Where do you spend the money? And people hear this. Well, obviously the more important thing is childhood inoculations. Why would we want to pay any money for a statute of Benedict Donald? He was a traitor. No, no, no, you don't understand. If you're the politician, you understand, I pay for the statue of Benedict Arnold, and then I mao-mow anybody who won't borrow against tomorrow to pay for yesterday to finance a child inoculations, and I get both. And that's how Washington works. And that's how most state capitals work, too. And that's what I guess the doge boys didn't fully appreciate.

For more on this and other matters, please be joined by Chris Whalen, Chairman of Whelan Global Advisors LLC, editor for the institutional risk analyst and author of Inflated Money, Debt in the American Dream. Chris, thanks for joining us, as always. Appreciate it. Good morning, Dan. So. Well, I mean, if you want to comment on the, you know, this topic we've talked about before before we get to the Fed and liquidity in the market and the war and so forth, you know, just the the rubber is going to meet the road six years before still Social Security is quote unquote insolvent. Six years still Medicare is quote unquote insolvent. They both already are. Whatever. And, you know, $40 trillion in debt, but everything's fine. Yeah, well, you know, the progressive experiment is coming to an end. This portion of the process that you just described so nicely with Elon Musk, I think just typifies a society that is, it thinks it's affluent, but it's not because it's all based on borrowed money. And even now, you know, Congress is pressed. to come up with ways to spend new money, although they do like to just increase everything 10% a year. That's easy, right? You don't have to do anything. But these financial pressures are extraordinary. And I think that we're pretty close to the point where you're going to start to see a kind of pushback by members of both parties, including some moderate Democrats, that says, well, maybe we do need to reduce the deficit before we run into the brick wall. This will be very popular, believe it or not, among people who work for living and invest and everything else. But I think that, you know, the numbers are striking. The Social Security issue, for example, they're probably going to end up mean testing Social Security simply because the old model that was put in place a century ago that said that, you know, 10 workers could support one retiree is now flipped on its head. And we have 10 retirees and one worker. And obviously the math doesn't work. So, you know, Washington is not a place where math matters typically because they've been able to disfudge it. But it's going to start to matter a lot because interest rates, I don't think, are going to go down, Dan. You know, the era of Greenspan, it's ironic the man just passed away at 100 years old. But his willingness to give Washington everything they wanted and more. and drive interest rates down over and over again, right, to give us the appearance of economic growth. It's kind of an end.

Well, yeah. Gold is a bigger reserve asset than the dollar. And that tells you everything you need to know. And if I could just, you know, add to my fatalism, I would think it would be difficult after my lead-in, but no, I've got more. You know, how you describe Greenspan. And Greenspan was a Randian. I mean, even the Randians are big government central planners in D.C. Oh, totally. You mean the religion of selfishness? Yeah. I'm not a big Ayn Rand fan. No, but I mean, but, but I mean, but, but, but, but, you know, ostensibly he's a free market, you know, a radical free market guy like most Randians are. And yet what did he end up being a big government central planner when he got to the five? Oh, totally. And a very adept politician. My dad was very close to Greenspan through much of his life and was his concierge when he was getting ready to get into the government, you know, with Jerry Ford and all of this long time ago. And he always knew how to bob and weave with the politics, how to mumble at the right time when he was on Capitol Hill. I think, you know, in many ways, he was the perfect Fed chairman for this era. Because we couldn't tolerate an Arthur Burns or Paul Volcker. You know, Arthur Burns is probably the last Fed chairman who was willing to lecture Congress about deficits and about how deficits lead to inflation. But we're kind of, you know, we're headed to the same place as we saw in Argentina with Millet, where you have this radical, you know, far-right free market economist who's elected president because they don't know what else to do. They were so tired of the inflation of the left and the peronism and the nonsense. But they said, fine, we'll make you president. Come here and fix it. Right. America's headed to that same place. I don't think politically, you know, when you see Zohran Mamdani in New York lecturing the Democrats that they're not radical enough, oh, please, go ahead. And that idiot you were just quoting before. I think Elon Musk should sue him forever. I think that'd be great. Yeah. Death by lawyer. That's good. I like that. Right. But I mean, you know, when all else fails, try freedom. It's an interesting, interesting thought. When all else fails, sue them and make them sit in a conference room for the rest of their lives. Well, no, but I'm not talking about Elon Musk. I'm talking about Javier Milei in Argentina and us here. It's like, when all else fails, move away from central planning and choose free markets. I mean, yeah. It's hard for Americans to get their minds around this. That's why I redid my last book because, you know, the whole notion of the New Deal and FDR was never presented as socialism. It was always presented as this heroic struggle against fascism in Europe and World War II and all the rest of it. But the reality is from really the 30s on, Americans have been a largely socialist society. You know, as my dad used to say, Social Security is socialism, Chris.

And he was absolutely right. So, you know, when we start to grapple with some of these issues, you know, here I am in Florida. We're getting ready to get rid of property taxes. Right. By the way, Ron DeSantis is clearly getting ready to run for president. That's going to appeal to a lot of Americans to get away from the universal pay model of the New Deal and say, no, we're going to have a system where you pay for what you use. And, you know, in Florida, for example, probably half the residents don't have children. They're retired. So should they pay for the schools? That's really the question that Ron DeSantis is asking. And I think it's going to pass overwhelmingly, by the way. I certainly hope so. I mean, you know, and it's just the first 250, but I mean, that represents 60% of households in Florida. It's massive. Oh, yeah. And again, this is, you know, I think that the Ron DeSantis crew and Republicans in Florida have very astutely decided to go after this aspect of the New Deal, because if you kill universal pay, then you can start to unbundle the rest of this nonsense. And you see this in Texas. You see this in other red states where they're very focused. on dismantling the whole New Deal infrastructure because that's where this nonsense comes from. Right. You know? Totally. A question. You said your dad was a confidant of Greenspan. Did he caution him against marrying Andrea Mitchell? No. No, you don't get involved in stuff like that. I think Andrea Mitchell actually was good for... for Uncle Allen, as we used to call him in our household. Uncle Al. He was always a guest at our Christmas party. No, he would be standing there next to Gene Kirkpatrick, having a great time. I'm sorry, my doggies are very upset right now. It's all right. That's it. Take care of the pups. It's all right. Well, there are a lot of animals in Florida. These go crazy. Yeah, yeah. We have birds. We have alligators. We're not sure what to do about the alligator. Yeah. Some of those birds aren't great either. Well, wait, now, I mean, I got the Greenspan at the Christmas party. So as a young man, were you, as a radical free market guy yourself, were you giving Greenspan the what for when it came to some of his monetary choices? No, I mean, I knew him, you know, just because I was the son of Richard Whalen, who was probably the most interesting Republican operative of his age. I worked for the Heritage Foundation when it was a tiny, radical little organization with no headquarters building. And then I worked for Jack Brian Kemp, who's probably, I think, still one of the great conservative voices in America over the last 50 years because he was positive. He said, tell me what you're for. He didn't want to talk about negative. He said, tell me what you're for. And he won in Buffalo, New York. Yeah. Okay. So conservatives need to take that example to heart. We have to start telling people how we can deal with our issues debt.

of course, things for that nature in a positive way. You know, it's fairly easy to do. People say, oh, this is impossible, Chris, we're going to crash and burn. I just laugh. No, we're not. No, they're all man-made problems. I mean, some, you know, they're man-made problems. They're ostensibly man-made solutions. I mean, there are points of no return in some instances. But just on Greenspan, since we're sort of thinking about his legacy, and, I mean, and it was really tarnished. by the Great Recession, the crash in 08 and 2008. And so I wonder what you think the lessons from that episode were that we have assiduously not learned over the subsequent almost two decades. Well, I think the easiest one to describe is when the Fed started to target interest rates. That was a Greenspan innovation. And it was easy for members of Congress to understand because, you know, they all have the economic acuity of a three-year-old. So, you know, when you look at it that way, they said, well, we're going to drop interest rates and the economy will grow faster. Great. But the problem is, is by the time we got to the early 2000s, the efficacy of doing that was pretty much done. And Greenspan didn't have a way of pivoting and say, well, you know, targeting the Fed funds rate is probably not a good idea now. What else can we do? So it almost forced us into a mode where we could borrow anything we wanted, which we did. And we had reasonably high inflation, even though it wasn't a political issue. That came with COVID. Once you had inflation getting close to 10%, all of a sudden people were like, oh, oh, that's not good. And they couldn't buy a house. They couldn't get a job. You know, we're going to see energy prices go much higher this year, Dan. That's one thing we should mention to your listeners. The fact that this war is supposedly over has not fixed the fact that the Iranians knocked out probably two-thirds of the world's. production capacity for things like diesel fuel and lubricants and sulfuric acid, all of which we need for a modern society, right? It'll take years to fix that. So we're entering a period now. We're going to have much higher inflation. And the pressure on politicians, the president, everybody else is going to be very high. It's going to be fascinating to watch the midterm elections and then the presidential election that's coming up. And then he's going to be putting pressure on his what maybe his soon-to-be former good buddy Kevin Warsh to cut interest rates. And Kevin Warsh seems disinclined to do that because he's serious about taming inflation. Kevin Warsh is a hawk, but he's also a supply cider. And I would watch him carefully. I would tell you that he's going to make a lot of changes in how the Fed runs. He's going to refocus the Fed on their job and get them away from a lot of this progressive nonsense. You remember, after 1935, the Fed became the progressive institution in Washington.

when it had a Washington headquarters and the president essentially could, you know, make nominations and almost ignore the regional banks, right? The Fed was supposed to be a decentralized kind of Jeffersonian model, and it wasn't after the New Deal. So Kevin Warsh is going to, I think, make a lot of significant changes. He's going to try not to raise interest rates immediately because what can he do about the war? What can he do about the damage to the global supply chain in energy? Not much. I mean, can he ratchet rates up and cause a recession? Maybe. But look at this economy, Dan. This economy is not headed for a slowdown. This economy is roaring along, even where interest rates are today. So you could make an argument that they should be nudging rates up just to slow things down a little bit, you know, apart from the war. But I don't think that's going to happen. I think he's going to try and negotiate with the other members of the board and say, look, we're going to reduce the reserve levels, which doesn't really do anything about inflation. We're going to make other changes, which are in effect tightening, and that should be enough. Well, because we're going to try and grow our way out of it, get to 5% GDP growth. I wish. Well, I know, but I mean, isn't that the attitude?

AI is going to let us grow our party line. AI is going to let her, we're going to be able to grow out of it because the AI revolution, isn't that the line? It is. And, you know, I have a really interesting interview I'm running tomorrow with an old friend of mine. I don't think people understand AI. I think they miss a lot of what's going on. For example, everybody says Oracle is busted. No, no, Oracle's going to make a ton of money on AI. They're the cash register for AI. But the spend, the upfront spend for all of this is massive. We're just building buildings now. We haven't even started putting stuff inside the buildings yet. Yeah, sensibly that's going to happen at some point, too. I assume they're going to put stuff inside those data centers and so forth. Well, we'll see. You know, I'm a big proponent of precious metals. Silver. Silver used to be, you know, kind of laughed at, right? Now everybody realizes that it's essential for anything that has to do with electronics. You cannot make anything that involves electronics without silver. And the supply shortages are rather profound. So there's some interesting things going on, but none of them are suggesting that prices are going to come down anytime soon. We have systemic inflation that is running through all aspects of our economy right now. Will we be able to manage it? I think so. But we're going to need a new cast of characters in Washington. People are going to look back on Trump as kind of a remarkable departure from reason. Remarkable departure from reason. I love a lot of what Trump does. There are other times when I look at it like Bill Pulte. Oh, my God. You know, what are we going to do with Billy? You know where Billy belongs? Fox News. And by the way, I wanted to ask you something, are we really sending the Chicago Bears to Indiana? Is that what's going to happen? If anybody can make the Bears leave Chicago, it's the political power structure in Illinois. I'll tell you that, Chris. I know, but I saw that in the eclipse the other day. It's real. I mean, it's not, I don't think it's done, done, but it's real and it's moving that direction. So, yeah, yeah, another commentary. Yeah, no, exactly. I know who can't? Everybody can understand why. But nobody wants to do anything about it. I mean, it's, you know, we're a microcosm of, of D.C. Chris Whalen, Chairman of Whalen, Global Advisors, Editor of the Institutional Risk Analyst, author of Inflated Money, Debt, The American Dream, Second Edition. Chris, thank you, as always. Thank you, Dan. Have a great day. Appreciate it. And you join us to the Alf Wealthgroup.com, Anseline. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer. An AM 560, The Answer Democrat Socialist here. Runs the Democratic House law for 30 plus years running. He's promising this and he's stealing that.

Where can you get that kind of money? He's using your house like his own piggy bank, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, you ought to know by now. You can pay off your house here in Illinois. You can never keep up with the taxes. Oh, it's always been the plan to have a taxpayer pay, no doubt. Not a matter of if, any more but when. Top of the morning, Dan Proff here. The theme music means it's time for a weekly conversation with the wirepoints.org boys. Mark Lennon, the founder, will join us momentarily, but just to repeat our top story. The city of Chicago is under a transphemicide state of emergency. I don't know if you're supposed to send your kids to school or not. I don't know if you're supposed to go to work or not. Wear a mask. It does sound like a lawn care product, but it's not. Transfemicized State of Emergency, so declared by... BLM Brandon, for too many transgender Chicago and the sense of belonging they deserve and their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity and spaces that should be safe and welcoming since declaring a transvermicized state of emergency. Our administration has strengthened the city's capacity to support the LGBTQ plus Chicago. This framework builds on the work by centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicago and should charter a path toward a safer, more connected city. We'll continue to update you as information becomes available on this state of emergency and what you can do to keep everybody safe. Stay safe. Two weeks to slow the spread of transphemicide. I don't know. We're working on some of the sloganeering because I know that's what people like when it comes to these things.

I noted Mike Scott talking about this doctor who's entered the mayor's race. Dr. Lisa Ney, she's a cardiologist. She has an MBA. She's a former ICU nurse. She's a UIC trained doctor. She's a VA whistleblower. Got to find out more about that. And a lifelong Chicago and race in Humboldt Park. She said, I know what responsibility to a budget means. I know how to lead a team. I know how to look at the transparency of a budget and line items. Okay, who wants to tell her? Who wants to tell her? That's nice, Dr. Ney, but you would be much better served politically in Chicago if you just got a Nazi tattoo. I mean, it's nice to have those skills. They don't matter. In fact, they're probably disqualifying. It sounds like you're going to look around and take finances seriously. That has no place in this race. You know, if you were like a rebounding friend of President Obama, that's a credential. You got a Nazi tattoo. That's a credential. You got a high identitarian score. That's a credential. Just being like a cardiologist, you know, being like a successful professional, well-educated, successful professional and perhaps based on this whistleblowing thing, you know, somebody that has a certain ethical center. I mean, those things are. not of very much interest to the electorate. So I don't see her going anywhere. For more on all this, Mark Lennon joins us. Founder of Wirepoints, Wirepoints. Wirepoints.org, all things, Illinois, policy related. Mark, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Happy Tuesday, Dan. And, yeah, those stories really do fit together, you know, trans-femicide or whatever the word is, nuttingness, we can laugh at that. But, you know, the political calculation of these folks that come up with these things is that that's what the electorate wants to hear about. And, you know, in big cities across America, it's those kinds of things and not a budget. crisis, a killer crisis that Illinois faces, you'll get yawns. I mean, the last thing I wrote about was pensions, you know, probably nobody will read it. They're not very many, read it yet, pensions, you know, remember that crisis that was identified as a crisis well over 10 years ago. People are just, people yawn. I mean, and, you know, political advisors will tell you, you're wasting your time talking about those things. That's the reality we're in with... with voters in places like Chicago. Yeah, no, at least, I mean, if she doesn't go the Nazi tattoo route, which is available, maybe it's a little bit derivative, but, you know, the Mainer seemed to like it. Stephen King's a fan. Maybe she needs to think about becoming Dr. Larry Ney. And maybe doing like a transgender reassignment surgery during the campaign to generate some attention. I mean, these are the lengths you've got to go to if you want to lead this great city.

Again, you're laughing about it, but if you were doing the calculation, if you were a political advisor to a Democrat running in Chicago, it's quite serious that that's the kind of thing that scores your points, unfortunately. That's the situation when. You know who, I'll tell you what, whoever discovers. the responsible party for that noose at the obamalisk construction site, that's who should be the next mayor. It should be like a cannonball run or a survivor, I guess. I'm dating myself. But like it should be whoever can find the person responsible for the news or pin it on somebody that is convenient. That should be the next. We should just do it that way, do like a contest. So we could follow along like a like a reality TV show, game show kind of thing. I'm just spitballing. I mean, I'm just spitballing. I don't know. I mean, it's as good as your main qualification being your Obama's rebounding buddy. And, you know, and you're promising all of the old school grifters and rent seekers that you'll be user-friendly. I mean, that's the LEG value proposition. What's wrong with what's wrong with what I said? Just as good. You do need to somehow gamify the right issues and to apparently appeal to... ordinary voters, and I don't know what the answer is. Yes. Part of it, as we've discussed many times, is excuse me, the press that talks about all these things, and they're just focused on the wrong things. It's the ultimate universe that you get from reading the Illinois media compared to what the real problems are in Illinois. Yeah. And that's part of the solution, but I don't... No way to solve it. Yeah, the gamifying. That's a good way. I mean, I'm, you know, I'm like, you've got to, you're right, you got to appeal to, like, if I could borrow from the MRL OK, the common clay, the people of Chicago, you know, morons. So we've got to figure out how to, how to appeal to those people. That's the challenge for the next. crop of mayoral candidates, it seems to me. I mean, but since we're on it and since we do things that nobody else does in Chicagoland or pretty much anywhere else, let's do talk a little bit about pensions because you did a write up on this new Hoover Institute study about state pensions, state and school district pensions that was done state by state. You know, Illinois's page in this study is rated NC17, so we're going to have to talk in hush tones about it. But the state of affairs with state and school district pensions in Illinois is what? Yeah, worse than a nation, of course, another topic on which we are the outlier. This is on by the Hoover Institute at Stanford. The lead author was...

Josh Rao used to be here at Northwestern, who did some of the more groundbreaking, breaking work on Illinois pensions 10, 15 years ago. And they compared across all the states in the country how much is going to pensions out of the K-12 budget. And Illinois is over 20%, which is twice the national average. and getting worse, getting much worse. In recent years, it's more than equals, the pension contribution increase more than equals the new money going into K-12 education by 50%. In other words, we've got a crowding out factor that more than exceeds the amount going into school funding. You know, we talk about all these increased numbers on school funding. Everybody congratulates themselves on that. It's going to pensions. That's where it's going. Well, and what's the percentage of the state budget that goes to the same? About 20% also. Yeah. You know, I'd like to make the comparison to somebody running a race with a 20-pound weight strapped around their neck. That's the situation that Illinois is in permanently. We've got this handicap, and if we want to restore Illinois to a competitive level of taxes and quality of services. You're just not going to be able to do it with that kind of weight strung around our neck when the other states don't have that. Pensions are a problem nationally. There are a few other states with bad pension problems, but nothing remotely like us for most of the rest of the country. The Bears, the Bears back in the news because there's... talk of the bears drafting their own legislation since the General Assembly couldn't get around to doing something that they could agree upon. So you do it, and we'll just say yes. And Cam Buckner, who was the guy who carried water for the bears in the house, where it failed. He said, you don't call a special session to drop a flight plane. You call a special session to land the plane. Well, he's such a visionary legislator. I mean, so the bears, hey, what you tell us what you want because we've only had, you've only been telling us what you want for five years. And then what you just write it to? And then once you put it on our desk. then, you know, I guess we'll convene a special session, but maybe not because now there's all these other places that are suggesting. Come to, come to McCook. What about the South Works site? I've suggested Stone Park. I mean, you've got that Mannheim Road corridor. You've got strip joints, you know, light retail. That could really do wonders to revitalize West Central Cook County. And I think everybody would be for that. Plus, that's Chris Welch's territory. And I don't just mean the strip joints, but I do include them.

So what about the bears being back in place? It's exciting. All they have to do is write the legislation, then pass the legislation, and then implement it, and we're good to go. Yeah, we posted the article about some of these new ideas. And, you know, I haven't even to publish them because it's just so silly. But people are obviously very interested in the bears, and that's what the legislature is doing, all these silly things. I'd like your answer in the last segment when asked about whether they're going to Indiana church. Sounds like they're heading that way, but it's not a final deal. It's just... hard to make any sense out of this and make any sound prediction because of the silliness and the incompetence. I think both on the bear's side and on the legislature side, the only people with their act together are in Indiana, which, you know, has a good, solid proposal on the table. Maybe if BLM Brandon just clicks his heels together a few more times and says ingress and egress, the bears will. We'll choose Chicago after all. I know it's as good as anything else that seems to be proposed. Mark Glennon, founder of Wirepoints, wirepoints. Wirepoints.org, all things Illinois policy related. Mark, thanks as always. Thank you, Dan. And Mark joined us on the elfwealthgroup.com answer line. This is Chicago's morning answer. Your show keeps me alive during the week. There's nobody I'd rather listen to between 5 and 9 in the morning than you guys. On AM 560, the answer.

This is Chicago's morning answer with Dan Proft on AM 560. The answer. Time now for another reason why. Dan Proft is single. All right, gentlemen, young gentlemen, at least. Put the game consoles down. These chicks want you to go out to bars so they can meet you. Take a listen. Where are you guys meeting these cute men? Because we go out to the bars every weekend. Every weekend. And we only see cute guys in the run clubs, at bagel shops, like, at the grocery store. I'm not going to talk to you at the grocery store. The bar is the best place. Literally. They don't go out. No. Because they have an issue with it. And I don't know. Why? Because they say, they're not worthy. The girls are low value. Well, you're never going to find anyone then. Can y'all please start going on? Because, like, you're not, I know you guys aren't going to approach it at the grocery store or at the frickin' run club. So like, no, because you're sober. Why would I talk to you if I had a lot? No, like six in the morning. God. Like, be so, you know. And why would I talk to you if I was sober? 3126, 4-2-5600 is the alphawealthgroup.com call and text line. These are like late 20s chicks. So they're, you know, getting to their sell-by date. Well, I mean, that's a little aggressive. But, you know, I'm just saying. I don't. They seem like it. They seem pretty anxious to meet these guys. They only see the cute guys at the bagel shop or the run club and they don't get approached there. You know why? Because those guys are gay. That's why they're not approaching you. I mean, come on. The bagel shop? The run club? What are you talking about? I wonder about that, though, not going to bars, but these two chicks apparently are sick of the apps. Probably because of the kitten fishing. See how I incorporate concepts that we learned in the last why Dan Proft a single to the present one? Building our base of knowledge, staying current kitten fishing, for those of you who missed, is when basically you show up, you present yourself on the apps or on social media as something much better than you actually turn out to be physically, professionally, financially, et cetera. You get it. Kitten fishing. We'll get to. Goblin Timacy in a second, which is the opposite of kitten fishing. And another term, you need to add your glossary if you're going to go out and converse with young ladies like those two looking for guys at the bagel shop. The responses that they got, I wonder if these are indicative of the larger. But it's a lot of like. fay guys out there too i mean it's just even like the straight guys are kind of fay um women are so annoying with posts going viral such as this i have a whole laundry list of reasons why men don't approach women are literally hostile towards most men these days they know it too it's just them again pretending not to understand things hmm yes

I have felt a sting of hostility. There's no question. I get to somebody else. We don't want to waste money on girls who have no intention on wanting anything more than free drinks or dinner. Sounds a little parsimonious because we're labeled creepy asses. Well, I mean, if the label fits. And then like this is the thing, like this guy who's 28. So he's the same age as these chicks. I never want to make the other person feel uncomfortable, and I want to be respectful. Some girls don't want to be approached at all, so I'm always trying to err on the side of caution. Well, okay, you're never going to, you know, take a risk that way. You just, this kid, I got some advice for him. You just go up to some chick that you want to talk to. And. You know, you're gentlemanly to put her up at ease if you are afraid you're going to come across as creepier. You're going to make their uncomfortable. So, let me try this. Like, I pithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee. Something like that. If thou wilt, go with me to the ale house. something, you know, and make a gentlemanly offer in sort of a Shakespearean lexicon. See if that doesn't creep her out and have her run screaming the other way. Jim Jordan and Antioch, you're on Chicago's morning answer. Why don't they go to the book? Because you're there. That's why. And have you been to a bar lately? Wait, because me? You mean me personally? No, no. The girls, this crap rights itself. Oh. What is it? They're like seven bucks for a Miller life. So I got to go on the cheap and cost up $21 to hang out with some, you know, either half drunk or probably medicated hosebeats like you. Oh, my gosh. Wow. No. No. You know, if you want, if you want. Yeah, if you want to meet a good guy, go to the grocery store. A dude's trying to feed himself. He's probably got it on the Walmart shopping list. He's buying on a budget. He's trying to save his money. You're going to go meet some dude who's got to be drunk. If you got to be drunk to hang out with you, that should tell you about the dude you want to be with. Holy cow. I don't think you can. It writes itself. I don't think calling him a, what did you say, a hose bag? I don't think. Psycho hosebees. He hoseby. I don't think that's going to break the ice. But, I mean, you can take them to like Richards, you know, and you can get reasonably priced alcohol and enjoy some of the local color as well. I maybe you don't know where Richard. I don't know where Richard is, but I'm getting it by the implication. Yes. So I'm pretty sure these girls are not hanging out at Richard. No. No, that is not necessarily a hot scene. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Thanks for the culture. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to, you know, you don't have to go to.

Like the priciest steakhouses and be seen places all the time. Too good. You know, come up with something that shows something about your taste, you know, some little off the beaten path type of place. A little blot that demonstrates your man of refined tastes. Something like that. Deborah in Arlington Heights. Oh, hear from the distaff side. Hey, Dan. Yeah. So the whole thing has been messed up. People have no idea what we had to go through in the 70s, for example, when you would go to meat markets, aka bars. Meat markets. Like the amount of like backside pinching when you would walk through a crowd. You don't have to tell me, sister. Go ahead. I mean, I'm not advocating that. Let's be clear. I'm not saying we should go back to those behaviors, but somehow we survived and people found each other. I don't know. It's just kind of messed up today because everybody's so over-the-top, careful about every little move that everybody makes. Can't we find a happy medium? Yeah. I would think, I mean, you know, it would, I don't know, my days, you know, like in the 90s. You know, like the living room and places like that, those meat markets, they were highly entertaining in all sorts of kind of depressing ways. But, yeah, I mean, I think it was better than the online thing. At least you... got over the fear, intimidation factor of rejection. It's just too easy, I think. Like, there's no risk on social media. So it's just, if I could be semi-serious for a moment. There's no risk on social media because it's just, you know, you're just paging through and it's like, it's whatever. And if you're, and, and also, you know, the certain people are getting inundated. And so if you don't like, I mean, it's like like a resume. If you don't like do something that really stands out immediately, then it's too easy to get passed over in a bar or some other social setting. It doesn't have to be a bar where you can actually strike up a conversation. You get a little bit more layering than you do if it's just like, you know, who comes up with epithiest answers to some pre-programmed question on some dating app. I don't know. That's just my view. But what do I know? I don't know anything. That's why I'm single. George in Naperville. Yes, Dan. Keep riding lonesome. Hear your own best company. Thank you, George. Dave from Geneva was in a high school band called Backside Pinching. I wonder who they covered. I did want to get to Goblin Tissomy as well, just again, making sure that we're all speaking the same language. Goblin Tissimmee is the dating cousin of Goblin Mode, says Amy Chan, one of our favorite dating coaches. I am also a dating coach and relationship expert because you just sort of declare your one and you become one, especially if you write a book that's entitled something like unsingle, how to date smarter and create love that lasts. Which I assume is a pamphlet. Anyway, Goblin Tissomy.

The dating cousin of Goblin Mode. A rebellion against showing up on dates performing a curated version of who you think someone wants and instead showing up as your real authentic actual self, which you know no one wants. No, that's my parenthetical comment. But yeah, I mean, if you're trying to do a curated version of yourself, maybe there's some market feedback that suggests curation is needed. The text from 773, don't be knocking Richards. I'm not knocking Richards. I like Richards. I mean, I don't want to speak out of school about Richards, but you could do some things in Richards that you couldn't do anywhere else in a post-smoking ban era for, shall we say. Don't be knocking on Richard. Remember the old adage if she smokes you. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that attitude. Anyway, goblin tisomy, goblin tisomy, goblin t-same, be your authentic self, quirks, flaws, and perfections at all. So wear the jam shorts and the bikini inspector t-shirt and say, this is me, take it or leave it. One other thing, too, again, just trying to keep everybody up to speed, particularly those who are still out there searching for the one that has the other half of the amulets around their neck. Low vibrational relationships. Now, this could also include friendships, so this is more expansive. You want to pay attention to this. This is super important. On social media, especially within Gen Z community, so if you want to keep current with the kids, identifying a low vibrational partner has become a form of boundary setting and self-protection. I've been hurt before. Although it's being... over you, sort of like toxic where everything is toxic, so nothing is toxic. Anyway, when people, according to a Shan Boudrom. Bumbles relationship expert, oh, that's a corporate relationship expert. He or she trumps me. When people say low vibrational, they're describing a relationship that feels draining rather than energizing. At its core, it's a dynamic where growth feels one-sided. You're the one initiating hard conversations, reflecting and stretching emotionally. Over time, that imbalance can leave you feeling depleted.

I don't know, the high vibe thing can leave me feeling depleted too. If you're carrying the emotional work yourself, the emotional work, do the work. What does that mean? Nobody knows. Pushing the connection for while your partner remains passive, even if they aren't intentionally being unsupportive. How do you know if you're in a low vibrational relationship? I'm so glad you asked. You might notice a general decline in your own well-being or start questioning yourself, for example, wondering whether you're being too idealistic about your goals or ambitions. In relation to your partner, you might feel unresolved tension or a barrier between you and your partner or find it difficult to communicate or identify the core issue. Overall, you might feel a loss of energy drive or determination. which may just indicate, in my view, that you've given up and come what may. Yeah. Low vibrational energy can show up in friendships, too. This is from Eloise Skinner, who is a therapist and author, so you know she's got to know what she's talking about. I think you can look at friendships through this lens as well. The impact of a low vibrational friendship might be less intense or perceptible, but it might also be a more impactful issue in a romantic relationship, since the low vibrational energy can offend things like joint, affected things like joint plans, couples, activities, and one sense of self-esteem. You know what? really gives me a sense of what's the description. A general gives me a sense of a decline in my own well-being, starting to question myself, wondering whether I'm being too idealistic, feeling unresolved tension, finding it difficult to communicate, is reading all this pablum from relationship experts. Before you see it on TV, share it on Facebook, or read about it in the paper. Hear it here first. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer. Hey, you know who's in a low-vive relationship, I think, is Jelly Belly and low-T Jimmy, James Talarico. This is James Talarico, the... Soyboy running for Senate in Texas. I should mention, you know, my imagination is also just limited by my own, my own background and identity, right? My own, my whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what's possible. So I have to continually press against that to try to expand the limits of what I'm dreaming of for our community. Yeah, I think you're doing a good job transcending your masculinity. There, low-tee Jimmy. Governor Jellybelly is the special guest at a low-tid Jimmy fundraiser tomorrow night. You have to RSVP to get the address. It's an undisclosed location because God only knows what's going to go on there. I know it on the host committee. Robert Cole and Clark Pellet. Clark Pellet.

He was a Chicago Republican committeeman for a time. He was a, I think, the city GOP chairman. And you wonder why we don't have an opposition party in Chicago, in Cook County, in Illinois. Years of having enemies inside the perimeter. Clark Pellett at the Jimmy T.J.B. fundraiser. Of course. Enjoy the low-tee stylings as low-tie Jimmy tries to transcend his weightness in a performance featuring J.B. Pritzker. I love it. The stories you need to know to start your day. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560 The Answer. If you're looking for the latest news, insight into what it means, and the sharpest opinion. There's only one station in Chicago where you can turn, and it's this one. We're AM 560. The answer. Top of the morning, Dan Proff here, Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul. Yesterday's subpoenaed Anthony Fauci finally. That sad little man. telling semaphore in an interview that he reached his breaking point after Anthony Fauci agreed to appear before Homeland Security Committee this month and then backed out. Rand Paul saying he's been slow walking information to us for six months or more. We've been negotiating over the day for several months. He agreed. Then he said he wouldn't, so I think it's time we bring him in. Among the topics, his Biden pardon, gain of function research being funded when he said it wasn't. And the destruction of records, Rand Paul, saying, I think there's a lot to discuss. Indeed, there is. And more support for that claim was provided by Tulsi Gabbard on her way out the door as Director of National Intelligence. She offered a disclosure of documents and emails with the following explanation. And remember, you get to, excuse me, That sad little man, Anthony Fauci, under oath. And he lies again about gain of function research, for example, hypothetically speaking. Well, then he has legal exposure. The Biden pardon doesn't protect him. Tulsi Gabbard. Today I'm releasing new evidence of longstanding U.S. government funding of more than 120 bio labs in over 30 countries. Now, these biolabs include labs in places like Ukraine, which could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. In fact, the intelligence community had previously warned that a U.S.-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage. Now, until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from you, the American people.

Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, and in some cases included dangerous gain of function research with very little visibility or oversight. Now, President Trump clearly understands the serious threat dangerous gain of function research poses to the American people. And this is why he took decisive action over a year ago. On May 25, 2025, he signed an executive order to end federal funding of gain of function research around the world. Here at OD&I, I issued new guidance to the intelligence community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas. And we're already seeing the results of this increased collection. We're learning new details, for example, on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities and that are raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding the supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security. Now, despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Anthony Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S. funded and supported biolabs. Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. So this release today breaks new ground. As the information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these U.S. funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by very powerful people who falsely claimed that these biolabs didn't exist. Now, they accuse anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traders to America. Now, ODI and I will continue working closely with partners across the U.S. government to identify exactly where these labs are and what pathogens they contain to end dangerous gain of function research that threatens the health and well-being of the American people and people around the world. It's sort of a remarkable statement to listen to Tulsi Gabbard talk about the nature of an investigation by the National Director, you know, the Director of National Intelligence, the head of all the intel agencies. How deep is the deep state? How murky is the swamp? We're still investigating where all these biolabs are. that are ostensibly, arguably, allegedly engaged in gain of research, gain of function research, which Anthony Fauci lied about under oath and repeated exchanges with Rand Paul over the course of the pandemic. We have this happened. We're still trying to identify. I mean, the Director of National Intelligence.

has to put a team together to try to identify where all these government-funded bio labs are and provide information to the public. And one of the things that she did, as I said, is released documents, including some emails. For example, emails that provide more evidentiary support for... Rand Paul's claim for Tulsi Gabbard's claim that, in fact, gain of function research was being done, was being knowingly financed by Anthony Fauci with taxpayer dollars through NIH. Here's his good buddy who is now barred from federal grants, EcoHealth Alliance is Peter Dasak, at a conference in New York talking basically about gain of function research. This is what they do. This was flagged in an email that was, you know, in exchange, in an email that was among those released by Tulsi Gabbard. We're only looking at viral families that include those that have gone into people from animals. So we narrow it down straight away. Then when you get a sequence of a virus, and it looks like a relative of a known nasty pathogen, just like we did with SARS, we found other coronaviruses and bats, a whole host of them, some of them looked very similar to SARS. So we sequenced the spike protein, the protein that attaches to cells. Then we, well, I didn't do this work, but my colleagues in China did the work. You create pseudoparticles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, see if they bind to human cells. And each step of this, you move closer and closer to, this virus could really become pathogenic in people. So you narrow down the field, you reduce the cost, and you end up with a small number of... of viruses that really do look like killers. Then you look in people and you say in the people that live in the region where this animal lives that are exposed to that virus, do we see antibodies specific? So, I mean, he's talking about gain of function research, basically messing around with these novel coronaviruses. So now we know not only was this, I mean. again, allegedly seems to be a fairly strong circumstantial case that these biolabs exist. They were funded by NIH. Gain of research was going, gain of function research was going on. Anthony Fauci knew about it. And he knowingly misled the entire nation when it came to the virus's origins, which. Rand Paul is attempting to get to in conjunction with our friend Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. They're still on the case. If and when Anthony Fauci appears before Homeland Security Committee to be queried, I say just for good measure, Rand Paul plays this as his walk-up music.

Sad little man gonna trap you like a dog Put your head in the net While they eat you raw Don't ask why Just comply Because fear is the drug That the doctor prescribed Sad little man You can watch him on the news Preaching to his choir while they learn the rules Some feel safe And some feel healed But they'll all hold his hand As he makes the kill Sad And I'll tell you... Sorry five times August didn't mean interrupt. I'll tell you, I mean, this is important, even if there's not a legal reckoning, text from 815. Can Anthony Fauci plead the fifth? Sure, he could. That wouldn't look very good for him, but he could do it. It's important that he's remembered as a villain of history, even if there's no legal reckoning in our time. And so you have to... put together the record. So Rand Paul and Ron Johnson in particular, not limited to them, but they've been the most aggressive. What they're doing is important. And boy, this whole discussion reminded me of, gosh, so many signature clips from the COVID era of sort of the loss of sanity among so much of the public. The madness of crowds to borrow from. Macrae's of seminal work from the late 1840s, which tells you how little the human condition changes. The madness of crowds made worse by the madness of politicians or the cynicism of politicians, as the case may be. For example, she's no longer, but she was at the time. NASA County, New York executive director. or executive, National County Executive, the elected position. Laura Curran was her name before she got replaced by Bruce Blakeman, who's running for governor against Kathy Hochul now, Republican. On playing tennis in the COVID era. I mean, you remember so many of these, but this is a classic. Playing tennis in Nassau County, New York during COVID. Laura Curran, your county executive. Every player, unless they're from the same household, has to bring their own tennis balls so that you don't touch other people's tennis balls with your hands. You can kick their balls, but you can't touch them. I'm going to blush, sorry. Of course, if you're playing with someone in your household, you can touch those tennis balls. To avoid confusion between whose balls or whose, you can use a marker like a Sharpie to mark out to put an axe or put some of the initials. And by the way, she's standing next to two goons who look like they're Orthodox Muslims. They basically are covered up to their eyes. They're like iclets, but they're not Muslim. Not Muslim women. They're just COVIDian nitwits. How about this Fox affiliate report in Memphis, Tennessee about how parents were dealing with COVID-proofing their kids for school before, of course, the COVIDian shut down the schools? And one mom in particular, yeah, madness of crowds.

And don't nobody want their child to be sick and don't nobody want to take that virus to their house. Parents with children at Treadwell Middle and elementary schools are not playing around. Many wiped their kids down and some even sprayed them with disinfection spray as they took them home Monday. I wipe my shoes and backpack down when I got them out of school shirt. They got them gloves shirt. Parents are doing this after they found out an employee who works at Treadwell Middle and elementary came in contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus in Memphis. Some took more experience. stream measures. Two garbage bags. My shoes and came loose. Two sacks. Another sack. She put garbage bags over her shoes and she was otherwise. I mean, and then, you know, like our friend Amy Jacobson at the beginning of COVID when she would come into the studio looked like the keyboardist from Prince in the Revolution and surgical garb from head to toe. I mean, and you see the video literally parents outside the school spraying their kids from head to toe with disinfected because somebody came into contact with somebody who remember the mania around that? Like it was a death sentence even when we knew it wasn't particularly for young people for kids. And then there's this classic. This is my favorite. This is the one where I learned I did know a second language that I was almost fluent in. Aborigine. Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan doing a PSA with an Aboriginal translator. This is an important message to keep Aboriginal people safe. And the young message is a proper important one to keep everybody safe one. You can die from the corona or get really sick. You can pass away from this corona or you can get really sick one. It's time to get the corona needle to keep people and country strong.

He time to get him his needle, Long O'Corona, to keep him but all the people and country, probably a strong one. So if I just rearrange the couple of English words that I can speak Aboriginal, one of a beautiful language, very sensitive. Make sure the message got out, and nobody was confused. Man. Greg and LaGrange. Good morning, Dan. I think it's very important, very important to mention going back in history, how important your show was when you stepped out individually and you had your individual show and you had people like Johan Gisne Gisneccian. And they basically said, hey, let's keep our head about this. You know, let's find out what this is going to be like in a year. Right now, we're not seeing any adverse effects to children. Or Wisken-Vernuski, the doctor that they silenced about how you can't track an airborne virus because it's so small. Or the doctor in England that you said. that was on that you had that basically said, you know, this is a micro, this is a diameter of a virus that is like 10 with 11 knots after it. These simple masks aren't going to work. The collective loss, that was greatly appreciated because that talked me off a ledge, right? Everybody's worried right in the beginning. Then you start to listen to responsible professionals and you get your head about you. And then you see what's happening in this country where you have people actively saying that you want people rounded up to be forced to get this thing and they haven't even had it tested. Thank God for people like you. All the guts that I mentioned that you had on. Jeffrey Tucker Carlson, John Campbell, and bloggers that I can name that basically pointed out that the Princess Diamond did not indicate it was the novel virus because married couples in the same cabin didn't have it and they were tested with the same test. So let's think about what happened. And let's think about how we want to memory hold it. We shouldn't memory hold it. There were really, really serious damage done to our families, to our children, and to our society and our economy as a whole. And this needs to be brought to bear. There needs to be a cost paid. If we can't do it legally, then to read the history books. Thank you, Dan. Thanks so much, Greg. I appreciate it. Yeah, Johann Gaseki, great recall. I'd like to catch up with him. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer.

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