Chicago's Food Deserts

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in a lengthy piece in the Wall Street Journal today, or the other day, I should say. The DSA now counts more than 120,000 members, half of whom joined after Israel launched its war with Gaza, after Gaza broke the ceasefire, and committed a mass terror attack and genocide and Holocaust, the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, on October 7th. So that kicked in mass amounts of people joining the DSA. They said, this is a great place to go if we hate Jews, if we want to blame Jews for what ails us. And we're seeing a tremendous pattern in these communists who call themselves socialist. Many of them get these degrees and secondary degrees and have tremendous amount of student loan debt. The Milat Coros lady who was at a New York City law firm went on a rampage after October 7th, was fired by her New York law firm, went back to Colorado, and became a barista with hundreds of thousands of dollars or at least tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt from school, and is a broke barista, and that she got elected. It goes on and on that Dara Alisa Chalvalier is in the same boat, broke tons of debt from school. And it's perfect. You know, you wreck up tons of debt. You don't have a job or you have a crappy job, buy your own choice, and then you want somebody to bail you out so you become a socialist to have the government bail you out because it's not your fault. And so I do believe that we're going to see... The El-Sayed, who is a socialist, communist, but won't admit it as the victor within an hour or two or three, something like that. We'll watch the votes coming in, continue to watch that for you. But there's a theme with the socialist as a word, and us Christians call it a sin, envy, envious. The Ten Commandments, don't cover it your neighbor, don't cover it your neighbor's car, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's wife. Don't be envious of what others have. Look at yourself, and God wants you to judge you based on your accomplishments, based on what you have done in your past. Judge yourself against yourself, not against others. But socialism and communism, and this movement in our country, is rooted in envy, a sin. Why do they have that? I want that. I want. I want. You have, I don't have. I want.

The Democrats are in the middle of experiencing what the Republican Party had when we had the Tea Party. Do you remember when the Tea Party started? I remember exactly where I was. I was in Georgia, and it was just starting to pick up, and I started at local Tea Party and had a big event with speakers, and my wife and I put it together with our radio station, and we lined it up. And that was the beginning of us being pissed off. That led to us getting Trump. That led to us getting victory after victory, after a victory most of the time in a complete upheaval of the Republican Party as we know it. Being a party for the working class of this country, being a party that welcomes legal immigration, celebrates legal immigration, love of a country unabashedly, raw, naked conservatism, Second Amendment, First Amendment rights. faith at the forefront of everything, an integral part of everything, sovereignty, freedom. And so now the Democrat Party is undergoing their own version of a Tea Party, but this, it is rooted in anger at the mainstream Democrat Party. And they're weak, and so what they're seeing is a Tea Party of their own, which is Communists. Communists coming within the party and overthrowing it, taking it, coming from within, winning elections, and destroying it. If you get enough, and there's going to be enough, most likely, congressmen and congresswomen in the Democrat Socialists, basically the Communist Party, and the Democrats, that they're going to have enough power to sway a lot of things. Chuck Schumer's out. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not going to run for the Senate. She's going to run for president. I do think that the predictions that Zohran Mamdani will run for the Senate seat of Chuck Schumer, I think that's absolutely quite possible. Absolutely quite possible. And they'll put that guy right in there. Well, people like Kathy Hochul will kiss his butt and would never want to support the guy, but since he's in charge, will kiss his butt publicly, won't call him out. Nobody will stand up to him. Nobody will call him out. They're afraid.

So you have two things in this new movement. You have envy, which is a sin, which is the Socialist Democrat Party. And of course, you now know that we have, in some recent polls, 62% of adults under 30 hold a favorable view of socialism. 62% of adults under 30 hold a favorable view of socialism. Socialism, Jason L. Riley writes in this column on Wall Street Journal today, socialism elicits less steadfast unfavorable views among younger Republicans even compared to their fellow partisans. Victories in Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, New York. On the ballot in Michigan, which I do believe Syed will win in the next couple hours. Missouri, Wisconsin. Cori Bush was trounced in Missouri by a little bit more of a moderate Democrat, but nonetheless. You got that lunatic Hong in Wisconsin who you're going to hear from in just a few minutes as well. I've got audio from her and some of the craziness. El Syed was partying up with Hasan Piker and still is, a guy who, of course, celebrates, said 9-11 was our fault. And by the way, he dressed up as Mao Zedong, basically, as you probably heard about recently at speaking to college students. And one of the things he said about Mao Zedong said, I never would and never will, Hasan Piker said, Bestie here with the El Sayed. I never would and never will criticize Mount Zetong. Mount Zedong. starved 40 to 80 million people and some of whom he publicly executed a lot of whom millions of whom he publicly executed most of them starved to death though and he will never criticize him Abdul El-Sayed lies to you and says Medicare for all what the Medicare he's selling you is not Medicare it is a fraud His wife, as you know, doesn't take Medicare at a private psychiatric practice. She's cash only, no Medicare. They're very wealthy. But his lie about Medicare for all is right here.

He says free child care, which of course will be paid for by you and me. Medicare for all, which is a fraud. I'll get to that in a second. Eight percent wealth tax on billionaires. Meanwhile, he and his wife earned $687,000 in income last year. They're in the top 1% of Michigan earners. And by the way, he will not give up that money. You know that and I know that. They used to say they were used to call it the millionaires. Now they call it the billionaires because they're the millionaires now. But his version... of universal Medicare, or I should say Medicare for All, is not, in fact, what he's offering. Alyssa Finley wrote a great column about this. I want to share pieces of that with you coming up next because it's really interesting. If you look at the details, how much of a lie that his Medicare for All is. Also, I want to get into the... As I was mentioning, the Attorney General for the state of Michigan, a Jew who has openly said, as a Democrat, she's now not going to go to the upcoming state convention because she knows she'll be shouted down at... She's afraid. She's afraid of Jew haters that have taken over her party. And she's unwilling to call them out directly. Cowardous. Cowardous. And I wonder how far... How far... Liberal Democrat Jews will allow this to keep going. It's really sad and it's really disturbing. But I'll share how that went down because it's really amazing that story. And then also you can hear a few more stories of these young DSAers who are coming up and who they are. I've got audio of Abdul El-Sayed. I've got audio of Francesca Hong in Wisconsin. And so much more coming up next. If you want to chime in as well, that's 312-6-4-2-5600. I'd love to hear from you. 3-1-2-6-4-2-5-600. It's Chris Crock and Verdan, 560, The Answer. Chicago's morning answer. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer. Signature, a division of Esquire Bank, offers Chicago businesses relationship first banking. Signature knows your name and your story because personalized banking still matters. I'm Dan Proft, and I know this because Signature is where I do my business banking. I'm Tony Patrick, CEO of Total Wall, and a client of Signature. We produce high-performance materials used in exterior insulating finish systems and other stucco applications. Every growing business needs a strong team behind it. Over the years, Signature has been more than a financial partner. They've shared their knowledge, offered guidance, and connected us with trusted professionals who help strengthen our business. Their valuable extension of our team and a true partner. That's why I value my relationship with Signature. Signature helps local businesses succeed. Want to learn how Signature can help turn your business vision into reality? Call Signature, a division of Esquire Bank, at 773-467-5600, or visit Signature.orgate.com. Esquire Bank, member, FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. Only the biggest stories. Only the biggest guests. And only the biggest opinions. This is AM-560, the answer.

Well, folks are chiming in on the Alpha Wealth Group text line. You can also call in and text on that line. 312-642-4-2-5600 for the Alpha Wealth Group call on text line. One person chiming in saying, you're pushing fear porn. Michigan has open primaries. Many Republicans are voting for it. I'm sure I'll say, Ed. But here's the thing. I'm not pushing fear porn. Mike Rogers lost by like 18,000 or 19,000 votes in the last Senate race for Michigan, he's going to win. If he's up against Al-Sai, he's going to win by a nice margin. The thing is, though, we have a real problem in this country. And it's interesting when you talk to, like, when you hear people, some people say good that the Democrats are being taken over by the communist, socialist. Others say bad, like Ted Cruz was on last night on Fox, and he said it was bad for all of us. Well, it is. First of all, it's crazy that so many people, young people, particularly, but others, Democrats, are so widely open to socialism now, when they don't realize how many millions of people have been killed in the name of socialism.

You have the combination, as I said, of socialist having envy, the sin of envy, and then also having Jew hatred. In fact, the Attorney General for the State of Michigan, Dana Nessel, a column by Seth Mandel the other day. American Jews who are shocked by the anti-Semitism in formerly friendly places. and spaces but feel obliged to let the world know that, first of all, the Israeli government doesn't represent them. Why does a Jew need to tell anybody that the Israeli government doesn't represent them? When has they had they had to do this? What's next after saying that they don't agree with the Israeli government? What's next after that? What will the next litmus test be for them to be a Jew that's spared from doing God knows what to yelling, screaming, doing God knows what? And if you think I'm exaggerating, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, revealed her plans to avoid attending the State Democrat Party's convention, which begins at the end of this month. She said, quote, I don't feel safe going. I feel like my presence isn't going to be welcome. I don't want to get chased around. I don't want to get harassed. I don't want to get yelled and screamed at. I don't want to get booed off the stage irrespective of what I'm saying, and I believe that if I go, that is what will happen because it's been happening to me. What in God's name is the Attorney General for the State of Michigan doing not boldly going up to these bleepity bleeps or when they approach her to stand firm? To stand firm. How could she be publicly saying she's too afraid to go to the convention when she should stand up and grow up here and go there and be a Sophie Cunningham, if you will? Instead, she's afraid. And when terrorists smell fear, when the enemy smells fear, when the shark smells blood in the water, they attack, they go, they come more come at you. That's why you don't back down or you don't apologize, unless you've done something wrong. And being a Jew is not doing something wrong. Nestle. An attorney general filed charges against several pro-Hamas activists at the University of Michigan for an on-campus lawbreaking and getting violent with police who are trying to clear a major fire hazard by demonstrations. Rashida Tlaib, the radical leftist Palestinian-American Congresswoman, led a public campaign accusing Dana Nessel of bias towards her fellow Jews. The McCarthy Aid campaign eventually succeeded in pressuring Nestle to drop the charges. She gave. She broke down and she gave in. They smell blood in the water. They're not going to let up. They're going and going and going and going.

It presaged what happened at the Michigan Democrat endorsement convention in April when anti-Semitic hecklers and a heavily progressive activist crowd taunted and shouted down Jewish candidates and those deemed too friendly to Jewish causes. To bully Jewish Democrat politicians. What the goal is, he says, Mendel says, is to bully Jewish Democrat politicians out of the party's public gatherings. Exactly right. The Jewish Democrat Council of America says, quote, she's not alone. We've heard from other Jewish Democrats who attended the Democrat Party Convention earlier this year in Michigan. They've blurred the line for some into anti-Semitic sentiment, and that's really concerning, they say. And Mandel says it's right. He's right. He says it's because she's Jewish. That's all it is. She's being hounded by anti-Semites, and that's the distinction that actually matters. And that's exactly right. And it's very simple. If you believe in what the Bible says, God says, if you bless Israel, I will bless you. And if you curse Israel, I will curse you. It's that simple. And just because the Israelites are... at this moment secularist humanist for the most part and very liberal and all sorts of stuff that it's ungodly they are still god's chosen people and sure the state of israel can be wrong and sure the state of israel makes mistakes and sure they're just as corrupt as any other government out there but god is clear about what he says about the jewish people and this is good versus evil and with that will chime in with craig who's called in at 312 642 50600 on the Alpha Wealth Group text line and phone line. Craig in Mount Greenwood, you're on AM 560. The answer. Chicago's morning answer. Chris in for Dan. Good morning, Chris. I really appreciate you taking my call because it's important. You are spot on. You're a good man because I've got friends at working at. They know I'm a Christian. Hey, what is all this going on in this world, man? You know, where's God? Where's God? I says, hey. It started in the garden. God warned, told Adam Eve after he sin of anything. The planet Earth is cursed. Every promise of anything good in paradise is all in heaven, not on earth. God warned that the devil would roam around the earth like a roaring lion, seeking who made devour, destroying everything, reckoning, turning everything backwards, the anti-Semitism, the immorality with the little children and everything, all of the injustice, the crime. That's where the earth is going, and the only escape and place of paradise where it all ends is in heaven. That's why people have to put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and go to heaven and leave this place. We're sojourners if we're Christians just passing through this rotten place. Well, I'll tell you. People don't understand. Go ahead. I appreciate your call, first of all. Thank you very much. And I'll tell you what else, too.

With the socialists and the communists, what their God is is their movement. That's their God. With a lot of liberal Democrats, their God is government. Their God is their movement. Their God is their politics. And that's a sad place to be. I want to play some audio of Abdul El-Sayed. Two different pieces of audio I want to play for you. Here he is with his... speech before the end of the night or an early morning here before everybody's gone home and waiting for the final results. Al-Sayyad is up by 1.3 points with 95% of the precincts reporting or the votes counted. Here he is talking about the win and using it a Muslim word, inshallah, which is God willing. I want you to remind them that if we come through this, when we come through this, inshallah. that will have taken $70 million on the chin and kept fighting back. He is an Islamist. He is a Jew hater. He is a terrorist supporter and terrorist sympathizer. In fact, the Lebanese terrorist, the Hezbollah terrorist. whose brother and family are Hezbollah terrorists, whose brother in Lebanon, as a Hezbollah terrorist, was killed by an Israeli missile, thumped him right in the head and killed him. His brother, the Hezbollah terrorist, and is his Balah terrorist family in Lebanon, after he was killed, this American... from Lebanon, who never should have been given citizenship, married an American woman, fathered some children with her. His brother was killed in Hezbollah, and then he went and tried to kill hundreds of Jewish schoolchildren, little Jewish children, by going to that synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, I believe it was, in Detroit area. He drove that van into a synagogue, into a Jewish synagogue and Jewish day school with the little children in it. He got through the hall with that van by crashing through an entrance that should have been blocked with bollards. Unfortunately, it doesn't have to be blocked with bowers, but because of the terrorists that want to kill and blow up churches and synagogues. from radical Islamists and others. They have to put these bollards up. They weren't there. He drove into the main entrance, was stuck. His van, his terrorist van, was stuck in a hallway. He had his AR-15 or something of that nature in the car with him. Nothing wrong with AR-15s. I own one, but when the terrorist has it, it's bad. He is stuck. He can't get out of the vehicle. There's incendiary devices. He had a whole bunch of fireworks, gasoline, and other stuff in his car because he was going to burn himself and blow himself up and kill a bunch of Jewish children. His van got stuck. He couldn't get out of either side. The armed guards there and off-duty police officers, etc. in the synagogue opened fire on this SOB terrorist. They popped him and dropped him and dropped him. He burned alive.

Not one little Jewish children was hurt. Not one hair on those little children's head was hit. And then comes Abdul El-Sayed to say, you know what? Yeah, he shouldn't have tried to kill all those Jewish children, hundreds of them. But he's hurt. And hurt people, hurt people. He's hurt because his terrorist brother with Hezbollah was killed. You know, when it comes to Temple Israel, I was profoundly shaken. Many of my friends growing up worshipped the Temple Israel. Nothing justifies the heinous attack that we saw on Temple Israel. And, you know, I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers for an America where that kind of thing never happens again. I also think it's just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people. And the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here. And if we stand against violence, we've got to stand against violence. Yes, yes, Abdullah Sayyad, the presumable Democrat candidate for Senator, yes, we can't kill terrorists. And when we do kill terrorists who are trying to kill us or Jews or both, when we do kill them righteously, you can't blame his brother for being a terrorist to try to kill the Jews here. He understands that. He sympathizes. Now he lies. As does all the socialists, whether they're ignorant or they know they're lying, about Medicare for All. Alyssa Finley and the Wall Street Journal wrote a great column about this, the Medicare for All scam from Abdul El-Sayed. What Mr. Abdul El-Sayed proposes isn't universal Medicare, she says, but a single-payer system with no premiums, no deductibles, or cost-sharing. Medicare has all the above, she says. All seniors who don't also qualify for Medicaid have to pay a monthly Medicare Part B premium, starting at $203 a month, tied to income. Seniors who enroll in traditional Medicare free for fee for service also have $1,700-plus deductibles for inpatient hospital care and no limit on out-of-pocket spending. They also have to purchase separate prescription drug plans whose monthly premiums range from zero to $239 a month. About 40% of seniors in traditional Medicare buy supplemental insurance policies to cover benefits like dental and vision care not provided by the government and for protection against catastrophic costs. Seniors also have the choice of enrolling in privately federally subsidized Medicare Advantage insurance plans, about half of Medicare beneficiaries, and most of those with lower incomes, enroll in Advantage plans because they provide comprehensive coverage at a lower cost than fee for service. Mr. Syed wants to eliminate all of these plans. Alyssa Finley writes in the journal. He complains that lower income American struggle to access doctors, but that's primarily because of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and low government reimbursement rates for physicians. She says El Syed's idealized system resembles Medicaid in which patients can wait months to see specialists.

in single-payer systems in other countries where the government rations health care. Wait times are even worse, like the Royal College of Emergency Medicine recently reported, almost 16,000 avoidable deaths last year associated with long delays for Britain's National Health Service. So what he is saying to you is a lie. It's not Medicare for all. You will still pay. You will still have to pay all sorts of things out of pocket. It will not be free, and you will wait in long lines, and you can count on, because we have a lot more people in this country than in Great Britain. So I don't know. What's the population of Great Britain versus America? Multiply it out. They lost 16,000 people last year from avoidable causes because of their health care systems, a single pair. So what do we lose? 45,000, 60,000, 80,000 people a year, maybe more? Or is that their plan to save money? Finley concludes by saying the wealthy in countries with nationalized health systems can usually expedite health care by paying out of pocket to see physicians while the rest of the folks are consigned to longweights for substandard care. So remember this too. Abdul El-Sayed and his wife will not be on Medicare for all. They will be paying cash. They're fine. Last year they made $690 grand a year. They're fine. She doesn't take Medicare, Medicaid. She doesn't take any out of that stuff at all. She's a high roller, and her clients are high rollers. So it's for you. The slop is for you and me, not for them. Mark has chimed in on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. Let's talk to Mark here in Oakland. Mark, you're on AM 560. The answer. Chris Crock and for Dan Proft. Hey, Chris. Thanks for taking my call. You're doing a great job. Appreciate your feedback. You know, this question, you know, I'm a Catholic, and, you know, we believe in the Trinity, which is the father. I was born and raised a Catholic boy in Chicago myself. There's so many Roman Catholic Polish boys over there. I'm a Baptist now, but most of my family is still Catholic. Go ahead, sir. Awesome. Well, we believe in the Trinity, which is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the love that the father has for the son, and that's where that comes from. And I'm just trying to, you know, I know you mentioned about the Jews being the chosen people, and I know it says it in the Bible, and I understand that. But, you know, I don't believe the majority of the Jews don't believe in Jesus. Yes, correct. Well, not only that, not only that, but the majority of the Jews in Israel are secularists, humanists. They're not even faithful Jews. You know, they're not religious Jews. You know, Christian, there's abortion over in Israel, too. Yeah, I know. Yeah, it's just like over here. But my question is, you know, how can they be the chosen people if they don't believe in Jesus Christ? Well, it's not, it's, that's an easy one. I mean, you look at whether it's not believing in Jesus Christ or whether it's just being, you know, away from God. I mean, I fill in from my Sunday school class. I'm teaching this week and I taught last weekend, and we're talking about judges and such in that time frame in the Bible. And somewhere between the periods of 350 BC and 150 or 50 BC. I can't remember the exact numbers, but is when the Israelites went away from God.

got thwacked by God, punished, you know, and came back to God, and they kept going away from God. It's a cycle going up, down, up, down, up, down. And so they've always been the apple of his eye, whether they're disobedient or not. But we are in the same camp as far as, you know, as Christians. Jesus was a Jew, you know. So I don't know what else to say to you about that, but... You can, you know, God loves you whether you know Jesus or not. I'll just leave it at that. Okay, so I also want to get into a few more things coming up next. I've got some audio of one more thing from Francesca Hong who wants to cancel Thanksgiving, but then when she's called on it, she's not going to do that. Oh, what else do I have? I want to get into... Yeah, a little bit more on Hong, but then coming up after that, the grocery store closures. I want to get into Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Public Schools saying, oh, we just came up with $150 million out of nowhere at the state of Illinois is going to write a check for us, even though nobody's agreed to that. All that's coming up, it's Chris Crock. And for Dan Proft, AM 56 to the answer. Chicago's morning. 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. Signature, a division of Esquire Bank, offers Chicago businesses' relationship-first banking. Signature knows your name and your story because personalized banking still matters. I'm Dan Proft, and I know this because Signature is where I do my business banking. Hi, I'm Tony Patrick, CEO of Total Wall, and a client of Signature. We produce high-performance materials used in exterior insulating finish systems and other stucco applications. Every growing business needs a strong team behind it. Over the years, Signature has been more than a financial partner. They've shared their knowledge, offered guidance, and connected us with trusted professionals who help strengthen our business. Their valuable extension of our team and a true partner. That's why I value my relationship with Signature. Signature helps local businesses succeed. Want to learn how Signature can help turn your business vision into reality? Call Signature, a division of Esquire Bank at 773-467-5600. or visit signature.esquirebank.com. Esquire Bank, member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. This is Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft on AM 560, The Answer. This is AM 560, the answer of Chicago's morning answer. Chris Crock and for Dan Proft. 312-642-5600 is our number. 312-6-4-2-5600. You can chime in, text, et cetera, on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. In the meantime, I got a little bit more I wanted to do before I get into quote-unquote food deserts and the $13 million that was poured into Save a Lot stores that, well, failed.

You will save nothing because there's nothing there anymore. Look at how great government is. Isn't it great? I mean, they can supply all your needs where there's a food desert. But what they don't answer and what the debate doesn't answer is why is there a so-called food desert? That will be coming up in just a moment. But first I had a little bit more. I have... Here's a great example with the DSA folk, and you have a DSA, I think she's the number two person for the DSA, a woman, and she's debating with a Venezuelan American guy who's with the Manhattan Institute. And on Martha McCallum's show on Fox News, this is a great short debate that encapsulates so much. They promised us the same things that Francis is promised in Americans, which is free housing. You know, everybody has a right to housing. Everybody has a right to food, right? We need government grocery stores. We created government grocery stores in Venezuela. We had government run large enterprises, the banks, right? Because you need a loan for your business. You need free electricity, free water, and everything that was made free was something that disappears. So we had blackouts, we had no water, we had no good quality housing. It was destroyed in the earthquake, by the way. I'm going to pause this because I read a really, really compelling article in the journal several, maybe it was several years ago, when we were seeing the Venezuelan economy and government collapse into utter nothingness. It was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. There was a criminal, a Venezuelan gangbanger criminal. And he had his hands in his pockets and he was lamenting to the journal that he had one bullet left in his revolver and that everybody he held up had nothing. There was nothing he could steal from anybody anymore. They had nothing. This is when the state bird or the country's, whatever, the Venezuelan state bird, whatever we want to call it, the flamingo. They were finding flamingos dead in the streets, their breasts cut off for breast meat. That is how desperate socialism... put its residents at. That's how desperate they are. The criminals can't rob anybody. When they do rob people, they got nothing. They got one bullet left. Nobody has a thing. The grocery stores, listen very closer to this, the grocery stores, when there was a mechanic who was interviewed in this article, and he says, my wife, would take, you know, our child to the grocery store. We get these vouchers from the socialist government of Venezuela. And she goes with my child or children, little children, to the grocery store. There is almost nothing on the shelves for her vouchers. What little is there, she gets with those vouchers. And then she, on the way home, gets robbed.

because she has something that people need. They rob her for her groceries. So he cannot work at his job on the days that the vouchers are in. So he has to take off from his mechanic's job and be with his wife to walk her to and from the grocery store so that she doesn't get jacked so that they have something to eat. in what is left in the barren shelves of the grocery stores that are communist socialist grocery stores in Venezuela. And he said his employer is growing his, the patients from his employer is growing very thin and he's close to losing his job. But he can't allow his wife to walk or go to the grocery store, well to walk to the grocery store and come back because she will get robbed. It's happened before. This is what... The grocery stores, the free groceries will get you. Now, before we get into the quote-unquote food desert and all these Save a Lot stores closing, a little bit more, I want to play the rest of this, DSA versus the Venezuelan American guy who's saying, you know, what socialism did to him, why his folks fled. from Venezuela to America. Quality housing was destroyed in the earthquake, by the way. That is what they delivered. And by the way, that is what public housing in America delivers too. You know, Francis said a few months ago in one of the DSA meetings that my colleagues too recorded that she thinks every president of the U.S. since its founding has been evil. Francis, what makes you think and why should Americans believe that you and your teammates at the DSA are not evil? Are you guys special, unlike all our presidents? It's so funny because this white chick born and raised in America is lecturing this kid who fled with his family from Venezuela lawfully and legally to escape socialism that she's trying to create. You know what else is fascinating? Is a lot of these socialist communists are first generation Americans. Here's a woman. featured in the Wall Street Journal the other day. Her parents are from Iraq and Indonesia. They met in Alabama, settled in Orlando. Father drove truck, mother mostly worked restaurant jobs. She landed in Cornell after the school offered her a generous financial aid, quote, a golden ticket. Then came October 7th during her first semester in upstate New York, and she knew, this is me saying this, not them. She knew. that the Jews, once they had to defend themselves from terrorists, that tipped her point. I'm going socialist. I'm going DSA. Quote, she says, it was just horrific. It probably has something to do with her parents, most likely being Muslim, one from Iraq, one from Indonesia, which are both Muslim nations. A quote, it was just horrific, she said, of Israel's retaliation. She said it was horrific of Israel's retaliation. Notice this American first generation does not say it was horrific to see what Hamas did to the Jews on October 7th. It was horrific to see what Israel did in response to the genocide, the terror attack. If anybody's being treated genocidally, it's the Israelites. All you got to do is say to somebody, hey, what's the population of Gaza?

What has the population been of Gaza over the past 30 years, 40 years? Show me the genocide. Genocide for dummy. Step one, you know, Gaza. Step two, question mark. Step three, genocide. Where's the genocide? Other than 1,200 people being slaughtered. But she says it was horrific. She said of Israel's retaliation, not of what the terrorist did, Hamas. It was like you see a lot, listen to this crazy, poor young lady. It's like you see a live streamed genocide on your own phone. And the normal reaction for any person is like, how can I stop this? Can you freaking believe this? Did she not see? And she's probably like many of these people when this was all going on with the terrorist Hamas intentionally. recording and putting out on their GoPro cameras all of the vile terrorism, rape, murder, mayhem, hunting Jews and murdering them in the streets in cold blood. And that was now what outraged her. What outrageers is Israel defending itself. But a lot of these folks are first generation. of this Francesca Hong, who apparently has secured the nomination for the Democrat Party, at least, a DSA, of course, person. She has secured, according to Foxons, I just saw that she's going to be the candidate for the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin on the Democrat side. Here she is, by the way. She's also a first generation, and let me tell you something. Holy cow, I can't wait to tell you about my friend.

This Francesca Hong is from Korea. Her parents are from Korea. One of my best friends from high school. He came here at 13 years of age, barely spoke any. He didn't speak any English. A year two or three later, I became one of his best friends. His parents worked their asses off in Wheeling Buffalo Grove area where I grew up. I spent my first 12 years in Lindenhurst, first two years in Chicago, then Linenhurst, then we went to Buffalo Grove, and then my parents went to Naperville, and now they're back in the city. But his mom worked at a pizza hut, and I can't remember what his dad did, but it was something similar, really working his butt off. They saved up enough money one day to buy a small sushi place. And my friend, overnights, his parents allowed him to work overnights for his own business to make sushi. My friend and his fellow friend from where we went to Wheeling High School, they created a business that is wildly successful. And he's the first generation Korean American. I can almost cry. I love him so much. And he's done so much successful with his fellow partner. They do sushi at Navy Piernau. They do sushi at Sox Park. They do sushi at the United Center. They do so much more. And he is not a freaking communist. He loves this country. He is this country. And I'm so proud to be his friend. I brag about him all the time. He's the American dream, personified. And he doesn't look for a handout. He works his ass off. And he's become very successful. I look at my soon-to-be daughter-in-law. My son's engaged and has been with his high school sweetheart since day one. Her parents, mom was born here, but her parents were from Korea and dad was born in Korea. And nobody's more conservative Christian than my soon-to-be, you know, in-laws. And then you see this Francesca Hong. The first generation Korean, and she's this freaking Marxist, Marxist, communist, socialist, it's wild. Listen to this twit, tell you how she wants to cancel Thanksgiving. Actually, she did say she wanted to cancel Thanksgiving, but then she was called out on fake news CNN about this. You know, you've talked about your past positions that he keeps highlighting and, you know, obviously likely would continue to do so before November should you win. One thing that they brought up as well was a post from you in 2021 where you said Americans should cancel Thanksgiving, should have done this in 1621. The post has been deleted. Republicans have been highlighting it. Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?

I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my house... She's dancing her. I'm a chef. Okay, but you said we should cancel Thanksgiving. In fact, the Wall Street Journal. columnist James Freeman calls it the 1621 project for Francesca Hong in a since deleted 2020 social media post said, quote, cancel Thanksgiving, period, should have done this in 1621. If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original super spreader event that killed indigenous folks with an X, which is some signal of inclusivity to LGBTQ people. Indigenous folks and women, so be it. Continuing on, she says, should we cancel Thanksgiving? You still think that? Well, so I'm a chef. Fatality background in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing. Wait a minute, wait a minute. She talked about her restaurant. She opened a restaurant like a good socialist and paid what she considers a livable wage. And the place closed because she ran it like a good socialist. She didn't have Democrat. She didn't have government money backing her restaurant. Just like a grocery store in a so-called food desert in Chicago, the government money does not solve the problem. And the problem is not a food desert. The problem is a grocery store can't function at 1 to 2% profit margins when there's high crime. When the insurance rates, premiums are skyrocketing because of high crime. When there's a high incidence or high incidences of theft, when there are thugs coming in and beating people up, when they have to hire extra security. Shrink it, which means theft. There is no such thing as a food desert. There is a lack of an environment for a business to succeed. There is by definition a business that sells groceries cannot succeed at a one to two percent profit margin if there's high crime. There is not a food desert. There is a lack of the government to do its job. And the government of the city, Chicago's job, and the county of Cook's job. is not to provide freaking grocery stores. It is to provide an environment for grocery stores to be able to sell groceries to us and make a profit doing it because we're a capitalistic society. And when you see the government of the city of Chicago and the county cook, paying for grocery stores to the tune over revitalizing them, revamping them, whatever, $13 million. And they don't solve the crime problem. And they don't solve the issues that make a business profitable. Then you have a food desert, which is no such thing. What it is is a crime. It's a crime island. It is not a food desert. It is a crime island.

So what you're trying to do is build a grocery store on a crime island. And so... If you build a grocery store on a crime island, the grocery store can't succeed. And when the government says, the city Chicago says, we're going to give you $13 million. We're going to revamp all this stuff. Oh, isn't that great? What happens when the crime problem still persists? What happens when shrinkage, aka theft, still persist? What happens? What happens when security guards have to get hired and hired and hired and theft and theft and crime? And their insurance rates skyrocket. What happens? It is a crime island and no grocery store can operate on a crime. crime island and you can bail it out you can put 13 million into it but the problem is in six months it's going to be another 13 million six months it'll be another 13 million you got to keep propping up a a grocery store that is not profitable because is located on a crime island not a food desert it's on a crime island that's what's happening that's what the answer is You can chime in right now. I'd love to hear from you. 312-642-2-5600. 3-1-2-6-4-2-5600. Oh, we got Marty and Neighborville, Nick on the northwest side, George in Neighborville. And your call is well coming up or your text on the text line. It's the Alpha Wealth Group, Ansela. All that coming up right after this, as well as, oh my gosh, so much more. I can't wait to give you details on some of these great columns. It was a great one on the Chicago contrarian about the, quote, root cause of food deserts in Chicago. All that next. Chris and for Dan, AM 560 to the answer. Chicago's morning answer. 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. Sean Fest returns on August 28 at the Western Chicago Northwest in Itasca. Registration is free. Go to 560 The Answer.com slash S-H-A-U-N-Fest.

AM 560, the answer. Chicago's morning answer, Chris Crock and for Dan Proft. 312-642-2-5600 is our number. That's 312-6-4-2-5600. You can text or you can call, et cetera, the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. In fact, in just moments, we will go to Marty, Nick, and George, plus your call. But first, interesting tonight, or I should say last night into this morning as I was reading, The Chicago Contrarian has an article written by George Shea. That's fantastic. Entitled to the, quote, root cause of food deserts in Chicago. And then similarly, the center square.com has Chicago store closures, reignite, debate over taxpayer-funded food access. And they both have the same explanation. Because there's no such thing as a food desert. There is such thing as creating an environment where a company cannot make a profit selling groceries, which is a profit margin of 1 to 2%. And it can't be done when crime is high, when theft is high, when insurance rates are high, when you have to pay a lot of money for security. and it's inhospitable. It is not a food desert. It is a crime island. And where crime islands are, grocery stores cannot exist. And when you propped them up with federal, excuse me federal, but Chicago subsidies to the tune of $13 million, it's like putting lipstick on a pig. It's like trying to polish a turd. Good luck with that because you're going to need another $13 million and another $13 million and another $13 million because you're not solving the problem. The city of Chicago should not be trying to bail out grocery stores or pay for grocery stores to stay open. The city of Chicago should be solving the problem with businesses being unable to be profitable in parts of the city of Chicago. That's it. That's why these places are out of business. because they cannot sustain the grocery store because it's a crime island. So let me share a little bit with you before we go to your call from the Chicago contrarian George Shea first. These stores were supposed to be the solution to Chicago's food deserts. But they never asked the question, why do the grocery stores leave in the first place? Why would you want to ask why they left? Just throw money at it. That'll do it. It's a food desert. No. He says every additional expense, higher insurance premiums, employee turnover, security guards, surveillance equipment, vandalism, lawsuits, inventory losses that retail is politely called shrinkage. The corporate site selection today, as he says, is driven by data, not politics. When I was fresh out of college at Western Illinois University, back home in Chicagoland. I worked part-time with a little P-shirter station in Waukegan doing a little talk show action there at a rinky, you know, a small little P-shooter in Waukegan. But in addition to that, I drove folks around that were getting rehabilitation from strokes and other different things. And one of the guys that had the privilege of driving home and picking up a lot was a guy who owned multiple McDonald's franchises. And, um...

I can't remember the exact towns, but I want to say somewhere, you know, maybe around Munderline, somewhere in that area, that neck of the woods. And he started out, and he worked as a McDonald's, and he started out as a fry cook and worked all the way up, became management, and then eventually became an owner, and then eventually came to own three franchises, three McDonald's franchises. And one of the things that makes me think about is what he told me. And you know this. McDonald's, they do not build a store anywhere or a location anywhere until they know it'll succeed. They have a formula. The formula is driven by data. Just like this columnist George Shea says in the Chicago Contrarian today, grocery store selection sites is driven by data, not politics. Same thing with McDonald's. Same thing with any franchise that wants to be profitable. He compares, for example, in Lincoln Park, they don't have a problem with groceries and grocery stores. Why? Because they don't have a massive crime problem like they do in other parts of Chicago. He talks about they have a Jewel Osco, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, because grocery companies expect those stores to make money. South Shore or Orland Park? Well, They expect strong customer traffic, low operating risk, and reasonable return on investment. He says every dollar spent replacing stolen merchandise, hiring security guards, installing surveillance systems, repairing vandalism, paying higher insurance premiums is a dollar that isn't available for profit. And profit is not an evil word. It's not a bad word. That's my saying. My word's not his. He also says subsidies can reduce the cost of opening a business, but they cannot permanently eliminate the cost of operating one. Eventually subsidies run out, and that's why these places have failed. And that's why we've whizzed away $13 million on grocery stores. He says what the government can't subsidize indefinitely is unsustainable business models. The first responsibility of city government is not running grocery stores. It's creating the conditions under which grocery stores want to operate without subsidies. That means safe streets, reliable law enforcement, economic growth, customers with disposable income. And that means don't build a grocery store on a crime island. He says, high crimes drive paying customers, investment, and taxpayers away while driving up security costs, insurance costs, and shrinkets. Amen. The... Senator Square column today says the same thing. It says closure of seven Save a Lot grocery stores in Chicago, South and West Sides, operated by Yellow Banana. Chicago invested $13.5 million. We'll round it to 14, actually, to renovate six of the seven locations, quote, food deserts, dumping millions upon millions of dollars into these stores without addressing the root causes of grocery unaffordability like city regulations, high taxes. crime without addressing these things, just dumping more money into artificially inflating these grocery stores, not going to save the problem. Says one of the guys they interviewed, Percent of Square. Why isn't the city addressing the root cause, which is why businesses aren't locating there in the first place? So just remember that there's no such thing as a food desert.

No such thing. It's a crime out. All right. Let's take some of your calls here. Let's go to Marty in Naperville, who's chimed in on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. Hello, Marty. You're on AM-560. The answer, Chris and Bradan. Hello, sir. How's Naperville this morning? Good. Son of drizzle. Three quick things. Number one, 200 some odd years ago, Ben Franklin, he believed, said, okay, here's your republic. Now let's see if you can keep it. So we see where that's going. Number two, don't we already have food pantries available for people? And number three, for my job, I drive all over the city. Nobody in this city is starving. No, no. Nobody is starving. There's no bodies on the ground from people who can't eat. In fact, there's a whole lot of overweight people. Yes. That's not politically correct. But I don't get this need for everybody with free food. So, I don't know. But food pantries. Go to food pantry. That's exactly right. Go to the food pantry. We're a first world country. Figure it out. This is America. This is not the... Some third world country. And the biggest expense, Chris, in these stores is going to be if you're going to have frozen foods and cold foods, is when the refrigeration goes out. What that's going to cost to fix? And where does that money come from? Yeah. Well, if you're a crime island, it will come from the city if they want to keep it going. I appreciate your call, Marty. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay, let me see here. There we go. Okay. Let's go to Nick. on well actually first hold on let's see real fast let's go over to carry oh i was just by carry at lincoln the hills not too far from you chris you're on a m 560 the answer alpha wealth group handsline hello Hey, good morning. I deal with these grocers every day, like Pete's, Fresh Market, Tony, CERMAX, Fiestas, a lot of the independents. And they do extensive research before they ever go into an area. In fact, they turn down, they walk away from more locations than they accept because... Their studies indicate that at least their store for what they sell probably is not going to work in that area. And then they look at like just what we're talking about. They look at what their capital investment is going to be in the return. And, you know, in these high crime areas, they don't want to touch it. Pete's is one of the exceptions. Pete's Fresh Market. He goes into a lot of areas. and provides a lot of opportunity, but most of the others walk away. So it's a real thing out there. And this is a capitalist country, at least for now, and nobody should be forced to do anything. And a company shouldn't be forced to be in an area where it's high crime. If it doesn't work for them, it doesn't work for them. That's the other thing, too. You see, I've seen...

older persons go after like what Walgreens and other ones that closed, but the city won't put its criminals in jail. They won't prosecute people for shoplifting, but then they bully and cajole Walgreens or what other location would be for closing. Well, it's like, again, the city is not providing an area where business can succeed, so they're going to close. That's just how it is. And instead of fixing the problem, they just want to end the problem, I guess. I'm sorry, subsidize the problem. Appreciate your call, sir. Let's go to George in Naperville. George, you're on AM 560. The answer. Chris Cronkin for damn prompt. Hey, George. Good morning, Chris. Yeah, it's a shame that that communist chef slash politician in Wisconsin didn't say the Packers should refuse to play on Thanksgiving. They throw it out of the state. There you go. I appreciate your call, sir. Let's go to Nick, who's chiming in here from the northwest side. Nick, you're on AM 56 to the answer. Chris Crock in for Dan Propped. Hello, Nick. Hi, you're doing a nice job. You always do. Thank you. And I hope Dan is okay at the golf course or wherever he's at. You know, watch out for a lightning when you raise up the public. If you see something up in the sky, a bike thing, run, you know. That's right. That's right. You're making me think a caddy shack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, enjoy your day off and you deserve it. Yes. I originally called and make a quick comment about the Gaza situation where the Israelis, you know, what are they supposed to do? They're innocent people, but 1,200 were brutally, sadistically killed and tortured. And what are they supposed to do? You know, they found out in that equivalent in America would be like 40,000 people. Right. As the Israelis learn more and more that there's an elaborate system of tunnels that the Hamas people, which stands for Islamic resistance movement, not trying to find some way to work with people, but try to resist working with people. What is Israel supposed to do? Senator Soldiers in and try to nicely get... The 251 hostages out? No. Find them. Are they going to be just handed over? No. So it's unfortunate that's so many innocent. And it's true. A lot of innocent Palestinian people, the children, for example, what fault is there for Palestinian to be killed and permanently crippled? But unfortunately, like in any war, there's very limited options sometimes. And there were these wood deserts. I mean, God Almighty, you know. I've been hearing this term, it's like they can't find any other way to show the irresponsibility of all the way back to living history growing up in the 50s and seeing the weak system of education and discipline to the...

people, especially in a black community. I've talked about it back in the mid-60s when I was in high school that, you know, what are these kids going to do who come out with a poor education or non-educated, and where are they going to go for a job? And then the Democrats already were cultivating people like, hey, don't worry, we'll put you on welfare, we'll help. Yeah, well, that's not help. You know, when you... Let me say this. Let me say this. You know, you said, you know, the food desert. You said, I don't know where they come with these terms. It is a leftist term that they coined to try to make it look like this is something they're fixing, as if there's something bad going on with why there's not food. It is a leftist term for political purposes. Just like... uh the the phrase the other another phrase the left makes up which is total BS which is the school school to prison pipeline that's another one of these lies from the left um that there's some kind of a school to prison pipeline there is no such thing as a school to prison pipeline there is um People that get into trouble, people that are troubled, they don't have a daddy in the house, they act out, they get in trouble, they get kicked out of school for righteous reasons. But there's no school to prison pipeline. It's called There's not a daddy in the household. There's no discipline in the household, and that's somebody acting out in school. So they make up a title called School to Prison Pipeline, which is false. It's a political term, just like they make up a term called Food Desert. It's all for politics. It's all for their political purposes. I appreciate your call, sir. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you. All right, you too. Thanks, bye. We've got several lines open now at 312-6-4-2-5600. 3-1-2-6-4-2-5600. Coming up next, Mayor Johnson, quote, turns up the heat on Springfield to deliver $150 million to fund the CPS budget. What? Why are you turning up the heat on the state? Why is it the state's fault? You guys made a fake budget up that said that the state owes you $150 million. You just made up a fake bill. They don't know your squat. The people of the state of Illinois don't need to squat. We'll get to that coming up next. Chris, in for Dan, AM 560 the answer. Chicago's morning answer. Hear about the big stories of the day. Then talk about them right here on Chicago's morning answer on AM 560. The answer. This is Chicago's morning answer with Dan Proft on AM 560. The answer.

AM 560, the answer. Chicago's morning answer. Chris Crock and for Dan Proft. 312642-5600 is our number 312642-5600. In between our talk of so-called food deserts, which are really just crime islands that chase away businesses. We have Abdul El-Sayed, the communist, socialist, Islamist. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Senate already declaring victory about an hour ago, even though nobody's called it yet. It's literally about 16,000 votes separating the two with 95% of the votes in. And I'm looking at still 95% of the votes in, and it's 16,000. It's literally looking at 716,000 versus 735,000, so it's just too close. Anyways, there he is already calling it for you. You have the Islamist communist who loves Mount Sitong, who says America deserve 9-11 and so many more things. Hasan Piker is in Wisconsin. This is some really heavily produced, slickly produced smoke and mirrors by these folks. Here he is giving his speech for the lady for Hong in Wisconsin for Democrat candidate for governor who wants to cancel Thanksgiving, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And here's what he said at a rally for her. The reason why I brought up Michigan, the reason why I brought up Michigan is because I think it was Michael Moore in 2016 who said, Michigan's not a swing state. And neither is Wisconsin. These are not swing states. They've been turned into swing states because they've left you behind. But we are going to bring back the working class to both Wisconsin and to Michigan. A Republican will never be elected in this state ever again once our movement is done. Well, you know, isn't that funny how they talk about working class people? You know, I'm sure you've heard Dan talk about it. I'm sure he's talked about the New York Times story and all the research that they did on the Democrat Socialists of America Party. They are 85% white. They are doubly represented as far as the white population in their ranks. They have very little blacks. Their education with college degrees and then with secondary degrees is double, in some cases even more than double, the average American population. So they're insanely white. compared to the rest of the country. They're insanely educated compared to the rest of the country. They are not working people. They rack up massive debts in college debt and quit their jobs, get fired for their jobs, or just work as a barista and don't pay their loans and say, look, I'm broke. I can't afford a house. Well, maybe if you got off your butt and worked your ass off like the average American does to succeed in this country, you'd be something.

But they are not working-class people. It's a whole lie. We all know that. They're white, highly educated folks. And in some cases, like with Hong, there are these first-generation folks whose parents came here from other countries, and they just despise this country. And a great comment was made about Hong is, is she from North Korea? Because her positions are certainly... North Korean positions, not South Korean positions. I mentioned my friend a little earlier who's wildly successful, came here not speaking any English at 13 years of age from Korea, wildly successful, sushi business. And I'm so proud of my friend. He's been all over the news with his sushi business at Sox Park, at Navy Pier, United Center. And he's the American dream. He's the American story. Didn't speak a lick of English when he came here from Korea 13. Became a friend of mine in high school, and Wheeling High School, where Charlie Kirk went. But I didn't know that until after Charlie could pass, unfortunately. But I graduated much earlier before he did. But nonetheless. I wanted to get into this unbelievable idea. Because... It is so crazy. I mean, of all the gimmicks I've seen, I've been a talk radio host all over the country. I'm in Dallas-Fort Worth now, but I'm a Chicago born and raised. I was on in Minneapolis, was on in Atlanta, Madison, Wisconsin, kind of all over the country, working my way up to become at Dallas-Fort Worth here for 16 years now. And I've got to tell you, I... What I see with a Chicago public schools, literally Chicago Board of Education creating a budget that says we're going to come up with $150 million that the state's going to provide, even though they haven't passed it. And then there you go. Look, there's our budget. It's fixed. and then sit there and say, we're counting on you, State of Illinois, to bail us out to the tune of $150 million. We're counting on you. We wrote it, look, it's right here. We wrote it in the budget. See it right here? $150 million. It's in our budget. So we need this. We're counting on you. Why did they say $150 million? Why didn't they make it $300 million? I mean, if you're just going to make up a number, Like, we're seeing that they could have, you know, what, a couple of hundred million dollars of a hole, three, four, five, six, seven million dollars of a whole. Why wouldn't they just say right in that the state of Illinois is going to come up with $700 million? It's perfect. Just make up whatever number you want. every year or twice a year and just say, there you go, there's the budget, and the state of Illinois is going to come up with, you know, $200 million, $300 million. You'll never have a problem again. And then maybe you can get somebody like the speaker, my manual Chris Welch, to say, yeah, I'm backing this. I'm going to push this through. And so this can be the new plan. Just write a blank check and say the state of Illinois is going to pay for it, even though they have not agreed to it.

In the meantime, we have the CPS CEO, Dr. Macklin King, saying the Chicago Public Schools added nearly $10,000 staff and $4.2 billion in new spending since 2019. And yet enrollment dropped by more than 45,000 students over the same period. Can you believe this? They lost 45,000 students in seven years while adding 10,000 new staff members. It's so unbelievable I have to repeat. Listen to this. They lost 45,000 students at the same time added 10,000 faculty members, staff members. It's a miracle. It's a Christmas miracle. We lose 45,000. We add 10,000 staff members. Board members backed Johnson. This is from Austin Berg in the last ward. Board members backed Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union by rejecting Dr. King's plan. Instead, they passed an early $10 billion budget that reversed some of those cuts by assuming additional $150 million in state money out of thin air. It's just unbelievable to see the mayor stand up there and pretend like this is a plan. It's an unbelievable thing to have board members and the CTU to say this is their plan. It's unbelievable. It's comical. if it wasn't actually serious with serious effects. Connor Durkin in the city that works substack wrote, wishing more state revenue into existence. That's what exactly it is, wishing more state revenue into existence. Any supplemental appropriation passed in a fall veto session would need a three-fifths majority to take effect. So wait a minute. Do they even have 3 fifth majority to push through $150 million? And does anybody in the state of Illinois that's not in the city of Chicago or people in the city of Chicago want to bail out this district? It's just unbelievable to me. It's amazing.

Meanwhile, we know that Cook County property tax delays are forcing CPS to borrow money immediately, as Austinburg writes, to fund future paychecks for teachers. Schedules will go on in September 4th. Everything is made up. Everything is mortgage to the health. Everything's pushed to the future, and then they make up fake checks. They write up blank checks that aren't even the budget isn't there for. It's unbelievable to me. This from the Capital News, Illinois.com, site, Vernon Moore. The Chicago Board approved a budget that's relying on $150 million from the state that it's not allocated. House Speaker Emmanuel Chris Welch from Hillside told the CTU that he's committed to supporting a supplemental budget bill that will increase funding for the district. I'm committed. You guys made up a number. I'm going to go find the money. One day later, the Chicago, listen to this. One day after House Speaker Chris Emanuel Welch said he's committed to finding the money, one day later, the Chicago School Board approved a budget that relies on state chipping another $150 million beyond what's allocated. So it's just look at all that works. It's magic. I've just never seen... In my 25 years of doing talk radio in, like I said, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, I've never seen somebody, some entity like a school board make up a $150 million check and say the state's going to pay it without anything being provided. It's amazing. Walla. You know what else is interesting watching? Watching all the people flee the Brandon Johnson administration. Here's a great little commentary for one person on X. Watch Mayor Brandon Johnson tease off on a reporter who asks about the effects of Johnson's CFO, his deputy CFO, and budget director all resigning in recent weeks. And, of course, Brandon Johnson calls the question reckless and irresponsible. Do you remember that I said the list that Marianne enumerated, the long list is people leaving City Hall. And in some, when you total that all up, I'm not talking about Ms. Guzman in particular, but the totality of those departures has to have some net effect, I would think. And I wonder if you think that. Do you want to know if those individuals who have transitioned out have an impact on me building the safest, most affordable big city in America? It hasn't, right? Because again... He literally, what happened was it started out by saying, you know, you got all these people leaving. And the mayor earlier in the soundbite attacked, attacked this guy, this reporter. Well, Guzman, Ms. Guzman needs to go. She's taking care of a family of her, one of her parents, an elderly family. What's wrong with you? Why couldn't she go help her parents? Why can't she resign to go help her one of her parents that's elderly and infirmed? And he's saying that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what I'm asking you about is all these people, the totality of people from your administration who have resigned, do you not see this as a problem? But Brandon Johnson pretends it's a personal attack. Brandon Johnson pretends that it's about her, Ms. Guzman, leaving. When he knows it's about why is everybody around you fleeing your administration?

Well, it's because the entire thing's a joke, because he's incompetent. I'll continue with this song, but here we go. Just who have transitioned out, have an impact on me building the safest, most affordable big city in America? It hasn't, right? Because, again, even with those transitions, has it stopped us from building affordable homes? You have the second... I just saw something in the Illinois Policy Institute talking about how we are the state of Illinois is like the second worst for housing builds. And he's talking about making affordable housing. Illinois, I believe, was the, from my recollection of reading the article a little bit earlier today, was Illinois is the second worst for housing to build housing and make housing affordable housing affordable. The Rivian Factory. I talked about in the article, the Rivian factory, people have to move because there's not enough housing. People have to move 48 miles away from the Rivian factory to move to get a job at the Rivian factory. 48 miles. Yeah, affordable housing. Yeah, right. Has it stopped us from building affordable homes? It hasn't. Has it stopped us from investing in hiring more young people? It hasn't. Who put that vision forward? I did. Whoa. You are so sneaky and smart. I did this. Yes, you did. Who's writing blank checks? I do. Who's the, by the way, he says, we. We did this. We did this. We this. Does the mayor have a mouse in his pocket? Everybody in his administration is resigning. Has it stopped us from investing in public and mental and behavioral health services? It hasn't. Whose vision was that? That was mine. Oh, my gosh, dude, you're a freaking genius. You're brilliant. But he says, we and us. What do you mean we? Is there a mouse in your pocket? Because there's nobody around you. Everybody's resigning. CFO, deputy CFO, budget director, all resigning in recent weeks.

This is what Johnson said. They have stability. They have stability in me, even though he's not announcing if he's running again or not. But he condemned a question on how the revolving door under his administration affects relationship with aldermen as reckless and irresponsible. You can't ask him on how the revolving door of his administration might be affecting relationships with aldermen. You can't ask him that. He can't handle it. He's not deft enough to answer questions. He takes everything personally. Meanwhile, getting back to the Chicago Public Schools, this is great. I'll take a few calls, but then I want to get back to this. Former top Chicago Public Schools executive charged with COVID loan fraud. She was making $200 grand a year. as a Chicago Public Schools executive, and it still was enough. She still had to rip us off, had to rip Uncle Sam off with a fake PPP loan for a side hustle that business that she wasn't even allowed to be doing as a CPS executive. Let's go to your call. Let's go to Ron on the south side. Ron, you're on AM 560. The answer, Chicago's morning answer. Good morning, Chris. This whole thing with this budget, with the school system, it is the ultimate slap in the face to taxpayers. But first of all, I wish someone from Springfield will have the guts to tell Brandon Johnson, no, the whole school system that, how do you request $150 million? When you have fewer students, there are 180 schools that have more seats than students. Yes. There are buildings that were built for 1,000 students with 8. But see, they need to present that to him, present the facts to him because all he keeps saying was the state, you don't deserve the money. But then, Chris, he's going to, Brandon is going to give them that 1050. TIF money. And you know, I wish there was a law. Yeah, because, see, they factored that in the budget, too. This is money they don't have. This is, man, this is, uh, three card motley. This is just, I mean, a game being played on people. But lastly, I really wish there was a law that the money that is set aside for TIF. it'd be used for two other than that this is just a game it's just amazing though it's it's just amazing that they literally made up a budget and said 150 millions come from the state when the state has never agreed to anything they don't even have they have no idea what you're talking about they just made it up it's it's just amazing to me 50 from this in 250 for mom The chief is a joke. Enjoy you, Chris. Thank you. I enjoy you too, Ron. Appreciate you, my brother. 312-642-4-2-5600 is our number if you want to chime in on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. Coming up next, I want to get into this top CPS executive charged with COVID loan fraud because her 200 grand a year was not enough. She had to rip us off.

and Uncle Sam off. We'll get into that coming up next. Plus, your call at 312-6-4-2-5-600. This is Chris Crock and for Dan Propton, AM-560, the answer. Chicago's morning. It's news, opinion, insight. This is Chicago's morning answer. An 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. AM 560. The answer is Chicago's morning answer. Chris Crock and for Dan Proft. Well, um, flock cameras. I want to get the flock cameras that I want to get to Iran. Coming up at 838, we're going to talk to Chuck DeCaro. He just wrote some great, great stuff on what's going on with Iran and the war. It really buttresses, he really buttresses in his column what I've been saying that I've learned about Iran, that if they literally survive, if the regime survives, for them it is a victory. That is their victory. Their victory is to be able to say, we did not get defeated. We stood up to the great Satan and we won. True, they can't win unless we let them. But they will say that, and for them, literally survival is a victory. And so the day that hostilities, the war is over, whether it be in a week, a month, a year, three years, the day it's over is the day they declare victory. So I want to hit on that coming up next. But first, flock cameras. It's becoming all the rage. Now, I told you I'm a Chicago born and raised. It was just there last week. We had a great, great, great, great surprise, wedding anniversary and birthday for my mom, who I adore and my dad. And so we were in Edison Park and at the celebration surprising my mom. And I said, horrible. I did not even mean to do a Harry Care impersonation. We did a game show where you do the questions and answers, you do like you separate the couple, the newlywed game, except we called it the not-so newlywed game because they've been married for 56 years. And I had my tacky game show host accent that just somehow turned into Harry Carey, and my uncle told me that was the worst impersonation of Harry Carey I've ever heard in my life. I said, you're exactly right.

But I'm out in Dallas, came back, and one of the articles I saw here is we have flock cameras everywhere like you do. They're all over the country. We've been seeing stories about flock cameras. People think it's an invasion of privacy. People are against them. You have a story that was in the Dallas morning news, I think, a day or two ago. They said there's about 67 of these flock cameras that have been destroyed. People are vandalizing them, cutting the cord, knocking them down, wherever they can do. So, and there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of flock cameras in Dallas, as you would expect. City Journal writing a column about this. These cameras saved lives, but some want them banned. Well, here we go. Flock safety. They capture information about vehicles, not the people inside them as they pass. They get license plates. The cars make, model, color, distinguishing features, including bumper stickers, custom paint, visible damage. Now, it's funny because you got all sorts of people from all sorts of spectrums on the Republican and Democrat sides. You got Thomas Massie, who's a cuck, Tim Burchett, who I'm a big fan of, Anna Paulina Luna, I'm a pretty big fan of, and Chewy Garcia. Jesus Chui Garcia. is against the flock cameras. I mean, you have quite the dysfunctional family here that are against them. The ACLU, Amnesty International, Americans for Prosperity. These are strange bedfellows. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Democrat House Caucus in West Virginia, including the GOP's Freedom Caucus, are all against the flock cameras. Here's my thing. You have no expectation of privacy. You're in public. And if you don't want to be filmed or pictures taken or the ability for data systems to get your picture or see whose cars is where at whatever time, then don't go out. Don't go in public. I mean, what do you want me to say? I mean, anybody can stand in the street corner and take pictures of cars. And the flock cameras are only used. There's two ways they're being used. Flock cameras are being used to solve crimes, crimes that if you are the one whose loved one is missing, murdered, victimized, or something happened, a rape, God forbid, you will want these flock cameras to be working. And you will want them to help catch the bad guy or a bad person, whoever it is. If you're against them, I mean, I would just tell you, well, I mean, dude, you're out in public. You don't have a right to drive. It's not a right. It's a privilege. And you have no expectation of privacy when you're on about in public. Now, the other way cameras are, flock cameras are being used. And by the way, none other than the CWB Chicago, just put this out. Quote, wonder how the anti-Flock camera crowd feels about a cop being charged based on an investigation in which flock cameras played a key role. I read this story they're referring to in a second. This story is freaking vile. A veteran Illinois state trooper is accused of somehow drugging up a chick at a bar and sexually assaulting her.

She awoke in her car with her bra on the passenger side and her shirt tucked in under one of her – I mean, it was completely obvious to her when she awakened, not knowing what the hell just happened to that she was sexually assaulted. And so she put things together, talked to people, and she found out that it was allegedly this Illinois State trooper. And – And she had barbiturates and cocaine in her system. And she said, I didn't touch cocaine. I didn't touch barbiturates. And that may be why she passed out. And they got footage of different places where she was that this Illinois State Trooper off duty, of course, allegedly took her. And one of the places they, the video camera, you know, footage from wherever this, you know, surveillance camera or whatever in the area. showed was this poor woman was, she tried to sit down and she fell on the floor because she was just so out of it. So what the CWB says, what was the linchpin in busting this state trooper for allegedly, Illinois State Police Master Sergeant for allegedly raping this woman? Flock cameras. They nailed this Illinois State Trooper for alleged rape based on flock camera. Quote, from the CWB Chicago. An Illinois State Police Master Sergeant has just been jailed on allegations. He sexually assaulted a woman he knew from frequenting suburban bars. The woman suspects he drugged during toxicology tests came back positive for a bitituates. Quote, CWB Chicago. Wonder how the anti-flock camera crowd feels about a cop being charged based on an investigation in which a flock camera played a key role. License plate readers are invaluable. Legislators should protect the data and outlaw the text, says CWB Chicago. I agree.

And by all means, if you don't chime in. 312-642-2-5600, 3-1-2-6-4-2-5600 on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. And City Journal talking about this, there's not a right to be, you have no right to not be photographed in public. Fourth Amendment is unregional search and seizure. What's unreasonable about somebody taking pictures of you when you're out in public? And again, the flock cameras don't take pictures of the person inside. It's the vehicle. By the way, the other reason they're used, there's two reasons there's used, because I'm not going to try to polish the turd here. There's two reasons the flock cameras use. One is to catch criminals. The other one is for bad cops. to use the flock cameras illegally to stalk people, you know, because cops, there's bad cops too. Not nearly as many bad cops as people think, but there are bad cops out there. And, you know, I've seen it and you've seen it in the news, kind of popping up all over the country. One lady was stalking some lover who's a cop. She got nailed for that. Some guy was, I don't know, stalking some chick or something like that. You can't mess with these flock cameras if you're a cop. And if you're caught, you should be prosecuted to the full extent. You shouldn't be a peace officer if the investigation proves out that you abuse that using the flock cameras for personal use. And you should lose your peace officer license. You shouldn't be able to be a peace officer anywhere. So it can be abused. And when it is, people are caught and they're nailed. They should be. Scott is chiming in, of course, on AM 5-6 of the answer. Chris Crock and for Dan Proff. Hi, Scott. You are in Frankfurt. That is correct, sir. Good morning. By the way, do you know how I know that you're in Frankfurt? Do you know how I know you're really in Frankfurt? I absolutely know. That's what I do. Flot cam. No, no, but do you know how I know that you're in Frankfurt? I personally know. Flot cameras. I'm looking at you right now on a flock camera. I'm just kidding. Go ahead. I know that's not possible. So here's, yeah, here's the thing about the flock. Yeah, I know 99% of cops use them for good, but the angle that nobody wants to talk about is when you crawl through flocks documentation, and I've got some of it because there's a lawsuit in, and believe it's Wichita, Kansas, where the ACLU's involved, and they put out. all their information. I mean, it's out there, it's public. But essentially, besides gathering your license plate reader, they don't need your face because they're grabbing your cell phone data. They're grabbing Bluetooth radio signals. Some of the systems can also grab the unencrypted radio signal that your tire pressure sensors use to communicate with your own vehicle's computer.

They don't have to take your photo because they can build this profile of all these other electronic signatures. And then on top of that, let's say you and your beloved parents are traveling in a caravan somewhere and you pass a number of these. Well, then they have this caravan ID. And then forevermore, your parents are known to be associated with you, whether or not they're actually even physically near you. But in this database, anytime somebody in law enforcement genuinely, legitimately has to do an investigation, well, all of a sudden your parents' names come out, and there's already lawsuits in... You know, the ACLU is on because you can find it in their documentation. Basically, that says that, you know, there's a couple in Wichita that was actually pulled over at gunpoint, forced out of their vehicle more than once, and the cops are saying, well, maybe they should get a new license plate. They care about it. Well, maybe the database needs to be fixed, and this whole system needs to be rethought because it's, I mean, let me. And now, here's another angle. What about this angle, too? What about hackers? How security is because there's lots of videos about being hacked. I'm going to reply. First of all, I appreciate your call on that. Thank you very much. I'm going to reply off the air, or on the air, I should say. First of all, I have a friend who was pulled over at gunpoint because he was mistaken because he fit a similar description, had nothing to do with flock cameras. People getting pulled over as a suspect when they're not the suspect happens pretty frequently. Number two, what are they gonna do with the information with my parents? They've done nothing wrong. most of the flock camera agreements within 30 days are destroyed. Some cities are asking to hang on to the data for a year. I don't care because it's all in public. I have seen some of the stuff he's talked about wireless this or wireless that. But again, I don't, oh, I know what you're talking about. He's talking about a separate technology. There's a separate technology because I was reading about this, where some cars are equipped, some police cars, new ones are equipped. with the technology that can get in on your cell phone action. I'm going to tell you what I know about that coming up next, but I have no problem.

Most of the agreements, the flock, they record over it after 30 days, and it's only polled if there is a crime that's warrants looking into. Stand by. We'll talk to Glenn, who has a great story about they've done some amazing things. These flock cameras solving crimes. All that coming up next, plus your call at 312-6-4-2-5600 on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. It's Chris Crock and for Dan Proft AM-560 to the answer. The stories you need to know to start your day. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM 560, The Answer. This is Chicago's morning answer with Dan Proft on AM 560, The Answer. AM 560, The Answer, Chris Crock, in for Dan Proff. In just a moment, I want to get into Tel Rico. Does he really have a chance of winning Texas? Also, this follow-up from the In-N-Out Burger, remember that In-N-Out Burger mass shooting that happened over the weekend. I've got some audio from the guy who is a hero. Because the left always lies about people like you and me. I have a concealed carry. I mean, I don't have to have a concealed carry license in Texas where I live as a Chicago native living in Dallas-Fort Worth, but I do because I have reciprocity whenever I travel. I drive home to Chicago regularly, and well, sometimes I fly, but when I drive, I can have my concealed carry, whether I go up through Memphis or whether I go through Little Rock or whether I go through Missouri. until I get to the state line of Illinois when I have to, as you know, neuter myself and take out my magazine and take all the bullets out and such and then put it in a locked case in the trunk, lest it be that some communist cop who wants to enforce a law that's ridiculous. He wants to cuff and stuff me for it. So I follow the law, but it's just so ridiculous. But they lie. The left lies about you and me, us folk that I've concealed carry or us folk to carry, et cetera, saying that we can't carry and we can't prevent a mass shooting because if a mass shooting happens, they won't know who the good guy is or who the bad guy is. That's a total lie. And this In-N-Out Burger story encapsulates how this whole thing is a lie. So I want to hit that in a minute as well. But first, a little bit more on the flock cameras. Some folks calling in. I don't have a problem with them at all because you have no expectation of privacy when you're out and about in your car on the public roads. And as CWB Chicago just talked about an Illinois State patrolman, the master sergeant, was just cuffed and stuffed for allegedly raping a woman. And they caught them because they used the flock cameras. So it can be used against even law enforcement officers who are doing wrong. They work. There are some other stories. I mean, there's so many different stories that we see, whether it be abductions, rapes, murders. Oh, I know what it was. There was another story.

In Dallas, Fort Worth, I just saw yesterday or the day before. There was a triple homicide, shocker at a short-term rental place. I hate short-term rentals. There was a triple homicide from a thug party, and they got the guy with flock cameras. They put them at the scene with the flock cameras, for example. Let's go to Glenn. Glenn, you can chime in as well at 312-6-4-2-5-600 on the Alpha Wealth Group answer line. Glenn in Orlando, you are on AM-560 the answer. Yeah, good morning. Listen, I was a little skeptical of flock, too, until I went to their website and watched the videos and listened in on their Zoom calls on how they do things. And I'm very impressed with what they do. They gave an example of how they found a stolen dog in Ohio. They was stolen out of Ohio. They found it in Texas. Wow. They're using the flock cameras. And, you know, people are worried about privacy. There is no privacy when you're out in the open. And if you're worried about privacy, Why don't you worry about the Chinese taking all of our voter roll data? Why don't you worry about that? That's more important to me than police trying to solve crime on the streets. And if you talk to the police officers who encounter flock cameras, they say it's invaluable. Every one of them say it's invaluable. So, you know, they're not spying on you. They're looking for bad people that commit crimes. And go to their website. It's got a lot of good information. They'll say, well, you're going to the source and it's propaganda, but I don't have a problem with it. Glenn, I appreciate your call. Let's go to Bill on the northwest side. Bill, you're on AM 560 the answer. Hi. Thanks, Chris. Yes. For the people that are concerned about flock cameras collecting too much information, what if that woman that was assaulted was your sister or your daughter? How concerned would you be at that point? You, that would be the last thing on your mind. You'd be so happy that they had that technology to find that creep and get him off the streets. So it did its job. And if you're doing, like you said before, Chris, if you're not breaking any laws, you have nothing to worry about. Exactly, exactly. I appreciate your call, my friend. I'm going to hit up on one thing, though, the last caller from the previous segment in the last hour. He talked about those technology, too, where they can get it on your Bluetooth or on your cell phone. That is not flock. I just read, at least I read a whole bunch last night into this morning getting ready for the show and read a lot about flock cameras. And have, because, you know, my job to read up on all this news. But there's another technology that some police outfits are using where there's newer squad cars that can be purchased with newer technology that can, when they pull up on you, they can get, like get Bluetooth, that kind of stuff.

I don't think they can get into your phone. There's a possibility of that from some of these newer cop cars that are being used with some kind of a new technology. I don't recall the name of the technology. But if you want in on anybody's phone, to me, it has to be something where you have a warrant, and this is just me personally. I'm not a legal expert, but... You have to have a warrant. It has to be something where there's a crash and somebody dies and they need to get in on the metadata to see if or the data on your phone to see if you're texting or something like that. I got no problem with that. But just rolling up and be able to have access to a phone is insane. And I don't know the full extent of that, but I did read about something like that, but it has nothing to do with flock cameras. Flock cameras simply, to my understanding of the articles I've read a bunch, they get data from. The car, the make, the model of license plate, any identifying things on there, whether it would be damage to the exterior of their car or bumper stickers. So if they're looking for somebody, they can get them. And if you're out and about, you're fair game. If you don't like it, don't go out. That really is it. Deborah, you are on the M-560 The Answer with Chris in for Dan. Hello, wait, hold on. I've got to hit the right button here. Hey, Deborah. Morning, Chris. I, too, am a fellow Wheeling High School. Oh, and you're in Allington Heights, my uncle and it live. I have no problem. I have no problem with cameras. I think it's the people that are, you know, like, worried they're going to get caught doing something wrong. Like, if you're not doing anything wrong, why are you worried? I was mentioning your screener that there's a camera in our grocery store parking lot. There's cameras. because they're looking out for people that are walking out, you know, using the self-serve checkout to make sure that they're not stealing anything. Okay, I have no problem with that. You know, like I'm not doing anything wrong. So I think that it's a good thing. And if it can prevent crimes from happening, then why wouldn't we want that? Right. Totally agree. What year did you graduate wheeling, if I may ask? This is a sore subject. 74. That's what you sound like you graduated in 94. No, 74. I'm a 91 guy. That's okay. That's all right. 74. You're a answer. But, you know, unfortunately, not as young as the late Charlie Kirk who graduated, you know, look, if you think, I felt old when I saw Charlie Kirk what year, he graduated from Wheeling. I'm like, what the heck, man. I appreciate your call. You felt bad. I think how I feel. I'm sorry, I just made your day worse. Oh, the humanity. No, it's okay. You did it. Take care, Debra. I appreciate your call. That's what it is. And by the way, Deborah, when I was at Wheeling High School, we called it Whelan. Whelan, man, because of all the gangbangers. Whelan? Yep. All right. If we're going back further, we had the greasers. The greasers. Oh, boy. I don't know who's worse, the gangbangers when I was at Wheeling or when you were at Wheeling? Who knows? They're all bad. All bad. All right. James Talarico. James Talarico is not going to win.

This is before I get into the little minutiae little details, but James Talarico's not going to win. He's going to perform worse than Beto Hussein O'Rourke, the cultural appropriator fake Mexican, who literally is right where he belongs as a University's Chicago professor. Because he certainly doesn't fit in with Texas politics as far as being a red state that we are. at least for now, where I'm living here, and, you know, I know you don't want Beto Hussein and Rortico-cultural appropriator fake Mexican either, but he certainly would fit it at the University of Chicago, where he belongs. He ran and almost beat Ted Cruz. He lost by about 2.6 percentage points, and the real reason that Ted Cruz almost lost that was not because Beto was so incredible, it was because Ted Cruz phoned it in. I can't tell you. doing my radio show in Dallas Fort Worth leading up to that, how pathetic it was. Cruz literally phoned it in like two, three months before the election night. He finally realized, oh, crap. And the campaign finally realized, oh, crap, this is real. And it was almost too late. And we were talking about it all over here with my listeners in Dallas-Fort Worth, and we were talking about how there was no cruise signs anywhere. People would go to the Dallas County Republican Party precinct, and it had barely been anybody there. They're like, we're all worried, we're not going to win, and they're like, everything's fine, what's wrong with you? It was phoned in. And Betel Hussein O'Rourke, the cultural appropriator, almost won, but he lost by 2.6 percentage points. James Talarico is an abomination. And I don't say that angrily. I think it's important to not be angry about the guy at all. But it's an abomination. I mean, in his library at his church, his so-called church, not trying to be rude, mean, but they have, and he preaches there, they have books that encourage and talk about gay sex with children. These... These books that if you and I show up at our school board, if they still have in the library, we read it, the school board would shut us down. They'd say, you can't say that that's profane, that's explicit. And then, of course, you and I would say, well, why do you have this in the school then? Those kinds of books that encourage teen masturbation, teen sex, gay sex, etc. are in his church library. He, of course, as you know, says there's six genders that God's non-binary. All sorts of things that are just an abomination. He's learned a lot from Muslim faith, which, you know, if you're a Christian, there's only one way to heaven. It's not through Jesus. That's it. But he's going to lose by 7 to 12 points. You mark my words. And one of the things I learned from one of the veteran political reporters in Dallas is that he literally... If Tellerica wants to win in Texas, he literally has to have Hussein Obama numbers with the black community. He's got to get people, he's got to have rainbow shooting out of his wrist like former president Hussein Obama does and Mrs. Hussein Obama. And to get that many black people to show up, it's not going to happen. I think a large chunk of the black community is totally disenchanted with this guy based on his views that are abomination to Democrat black.

voters and churchgoers. But look at this. This coming in from two separate polls as covered by Breitbart. Telerico has topped out Democrat support and cannot reach a winning margin. Two recent surveys from Wedgwood polls in Texas Southern University bear this out. Telerico currently has a two-point advantage, but the problem, that's very deceiving over over Ken Paxton. The problem is this. James Talarico has maxed out Democrat votes. What I mean by saying that is, according to these polls, 98% of Texas Democrats say, yes, he's our guy. We're voting for him. He cannot go higher. Ken Paxton in the polling shows that he has 85% of Republican voters with 9% backing Trump but are undecided. And I'm going to tell you right now, Out of the 9% that backed Trump but are undecided, I'd say about 90% of them are either going to, if not more, are going to vote for Ken Paxton or they're not going to vote. But Ken Paxton's going to win. And now you have four months or three months to hammer home everything about him. And they're starting to define him now publicly here. So he's not going to win. He's maxed out with Democrat support. And with a two-point advantage with Tel Rico, When you add in the 9% who backed Trump, or either going to vote for Ken Paxton or stay at home, you're going to see that 7-point swing, and he's going to win by 7 or 12 points. I'm not worried at all, and you shouldn't be either. Okay? Coming up next, I want to play audio of the hero who is just an armed guy in Idaho, in and out of Berger, sees a terrorist, pull out a gun, a mass shooter, and starts shooting people. And what does the left tell you and me? They lie. They say that if you or I, and I carry basically everywhere I go, if you or I pull out our firearm to defend people that are being shot and killed at a grocery store, at a supermarket, at a mall, at our church, well, you're going to confuse them. They're not going to know who the bad guy is. Well, here's your freaking story. Somehow. an off-duty Idaho State Trooper and a civilian like you or me carrying. Both were shooting. They don't know anybody. They don't know each other. All of a sudden, they see a terrorist start shooting. They both start shooting with this guy. And the moment they start shooting in them is the moment this guy puts a bullet in his freaking head. Because they're cowards. They satanic. And when they're met with force, just like a terrorist, they'll either kill themselves or be killed or surrender. You're going to hear from the hero, average guy like you or me, that pulled out his gun and started shooting at the terrorist. In his first interview with ABC News, I've got a little bit of audio coming up next. Plus, we'll see if we have a few of you. The more calls to chime in. And then guess what? Chuck Dakaro, or Dakaro is coming up. Just an amazing asset and resource to talk about with Iran. And I have so many questions for him. And a lot of what he's saying, I totally agree with about what the hell are we doing right now. Finish the job, win the war or cut bait. I want to finish the job. I support everything he's done. Finish the freaking job. Oh, we got a deal. Oh, we got a deal. Oh, we ain't got no deal. They're terrorists.

It deals on, it deals off. I don't want to deal with terrorists. Do you? No. Kill them. All that up next. Chris Croc and for Dan Proff, AM 560, the answer. The more you listen, the more you'll know. This is Chicago's morning answer. Morning answer. On AM 560, the answer. AM 560, the answer. Chicago's morning answer, Chris Crock. And for Dan Proff, follow me on social media at Chris Crock Show, Facebook, Instagram, and X, K-R-I-S-K-R-K, podcast on YouTube and Rumble at Crock Talk, K-R-O-K, T-A-L-K. Here's the hero, just like you or me, caring, and sees a shooter at In-N-Out Burger in Idaho. pops and drops the guy. Actually, he doesn't hit the guy, the guy shoots and kills himself because he's met with fire. On the right-hand side of that sign closest to the road, and that's where I saw the individual with his rifle pointed at the vehicles. Authorities believe those heroic actions drove the shooter from the scene and likely saved lives. He seemed unusually comfortable aiming that rifle at those cars, and then as soon as some rounds started coming at him, everything changed. immediately all that, you know. All that bravado he had immediately crumbled. This in and out had opened just a week prior. A good guy with the gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. So many times the FBI doesn't know about it, doesn't report it, and their crime statistics don't include people that draw guns like you or I and don't even have to fire them to de-escalate a situation or prevent a crime. God bless this guy and you should carry two if you're comfortable and you've been trained. This is the morning show. More Chicago radio listeners are choosing. This is Chicago's morning answer on AM-560, The Answer. Sean Fest returns on August 28th at the Western Chicago Northwest in Itasca. Registration is free. Go to 560Theanswer.com slash S-H-A-U-N-Fest. AM-560 The Answer. Chicago's Morning Answer, Chris Crock and for Dan Proff. Chuck Takaro joining us, CNN's very first special assignment correspondent, served with the 20th Special Forces Group, former consultant for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment for 25 years. New column out from Chuck. First of all, Chuck, welcome back, of course, to Chicago's morning answer. How are you, sir? Good morning, Chris. How are you? Good. I really enjoyed your column in the blaze. with the other day. Thank you. America is winning the air war and losing the information war. And I could not agree with you more. The first thing I want to ask you before we dig into your column is surviving, just surviving, whether it be a month from now, if the hostilities are over, a year from now, three years from now, or three weeks from now, whatever, is just surviving for the Iranian radical regime.

Isn't that a victory in and of itself for them? Yeah, but I don't think they're going to. In a way, it would be a victory. But, you know, there's a difference here between perception and reality. And the Iranians are doing a very good job of driving a perception that they're winning the war. And they're doing it through information means. And the irony of this, if you Google Iran and the word soft war, they are using the theorem that I developed in the 1990s and have been teaching at the War College since 1992 or so. And they've adopted the term software and they're using it effectively. And the reason for that is they've got nothing to lose. They don't have a gigantic military and intelligence and state department bureaucracy like we do, and they've adapted. And they're using it well. For instance, have you seen the... The Iranian propaganda based on Legos. Yes, I want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about that because I'm going to talk to you about that because you don't really really pissed me off. I was talking to my father worked in... He worked in counterintelligence. And he worked with some CIA folks. And one of them is a friend of his, and I've had him on my show. He's incredible. Iran is one of his fortays, if you will. He took down the AQCon network selling nuclear secrets to Iran and other countries. And one of his – he hooked me up with another CIA guy, but the guy totally hates Trump. And he was bragging almost about the Legos that you're talking about. and how incredible they are. But to me, that's somebody who hates Trump can watch this and mentally masturbate about how successful Iran is and the horrible Trump is. I have seen the videos. They are very good propaganda. Go ahead. Well, let's talk about that. First of all, we have to look at the nature of television. That is the electronic distribution of cinematic film. The problem is that television transfers information by perception of images and sound and not exactly the hard reality. Right. Now, those videos, okay, are extremely good, and here's why. Right. Every one of them is targeted at those factions within the United States who have a problem, okay? And what they're trying to do is create a big enough disturbance in the American political system if you look. They're aimed at those people. Did you see the Epstein video? No. The indication, yeah, it's very good. There are other videos about other problems. And it's really odd that the kinds of groups they're going for are the kinds that form the coalition that you would see in the No Kings rally. That's exactly what I'm talking about. They're very, very smart about U.S. political culture.

Very smart, and they act quickly. We don't have anything like that that can turn on a dime as the Iranians do, and it's our fault because the bureaucratic nature of our government, which has been in place for a lot longer than the Iranians, is very difficult to change. It's a monster, and it turns the way the Queen Elizabeth would turn if we're equipped with a pair of ores. You know, what I was trying to get at too, by the way, I didn't think I finished my... I kind of cut myself off, but the second CIA guy that I was introduced to that was all excited and telling how effective the Iranian propaganda is, the Lego stuff, which I understand it is, but it pissed me off because this guy was a clear Trump hater, the CIA guy. So I did not have him on my podcast. So he pissed me off because he was like, he was literally excited that it was so successful, but it was exactly what you're talking about. It made somebody like Kim who despises President Trump excited. and, you know, it's just, it's just, which reviles me even more because I thought this guy was supposed to be on our side. You know what I mean? Whether he hates Trump or not is not my problem, you know what I'm saying? Also, here's another thing. The Iran, uh, They scatter their counterattacks, like you say, in your column, in its early morning hours, so the images arrive right during American primetime news cycle. Their propaganda and what they're doing with their extremely limited resources compared to us is extremely successful as far as in the propaganda department, isn't it? That's absolutely correct. You know, but that's all they've got to relay on. They cannot match us one for one in either in conventional weaponry. They can't do it. So they're using this, and it's very clever. You have to give them the prize on that. They are very clever in the way to use it. To go back to those Legos videos, you notice that they're done to rap music with an ebonic accent, and the rap is very good. So they're aiming for, you know, demographics. Pacific age demographics in order to try to get as much dysfunction within the American body politic as possible. Now, we haven't done anything. Now, one of the problems that we have is we get five different organizations that do information warfare. CIA, war department, state department. the agency for global media and the White House. And their information warfare definitions differ from bureaucracy to bureaucracy, and there's no coordination or common language.

And that's because these systems evolved over time rather than evolving recently for the enemy in front of us. Right. So it's really hard to make these bureaucracy move. Now, did you see the story about Central Command sending out a letter to try to crowdsource what to do next? In Iran, did you see that story? Yeah, yeah, this is the story that you want to talk about to, which I appreciate it. I read through at CNN, quote, exclusive U.S. military asked troop for creative and unconventional ideas to punish Iran. So like you said, they're like crowdsourcing, they're sending out emails to everybody, depending on what ideas can we do here? And, yeah, go ahead. The problem is that the... You're crowdsourcing to a very small crowd. It's somebody inside Centcom. Right. You know, and here's the problem. You've seen my other articles in the past about the quality of military education, which, of course, Secretary of War, Peg Seth, has been talking about in parallel to the articles that I've written. Yes. The problem is, if you are not classically trained in history and military theory, you can't really come up with new and unconventional ideas. The study of history is important because technology changes, but the human condition doesn't. Right. Things like deception are a skill that needs to be utilized on a regular basis, and it's not there. So I blame part of this on the quality of military education over the last couple of three decades. And therefore, we need to look at how we train our officers so that the imaginative ones come to the fore in a problem like the one we're having. Well, Chuck, Chuck DeCaro, of course, Ocaro, I should say Chuck to Caro, CNN's very first special assignment correspondent, served with the 20th Special Forces Group, former consultant for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment for 25 years. I want to ask you a few more questions here. Do you, does Iran want a deal? Because I don't think they do, and I don't want to do a deal with terrorists, do you? Oh, no, you're absolutely correct. But the problem is they're backed into a corner. The one thing that we haven't tried, that we ought to try, is we are not projecting information to the Iranian body politics. Yes. Zipnata. Your column talks about this. Yes. I'm sorry? Your column talks about this. Why have we taken out the comms and replaced the comms for our television networks there and put our stuff in there? What the hell are we doing here, right? Well, that's correct, because we had a system upon which I was a consultant in the 90s called Commando Solo, which was a C-130 aircraft that had a 10,000-watt TV transmitter. The problem is that the latest version of it was retired two years ago because in order to transmit television, you have to fly in a racetrack.

pattern that's extremely predictable and giving the plethora of modern missiles out there becomes a target. However, no one has even talked about utilization of remotely piloted vehicles of drones as carrier aircraft for television. As you know from the radio business, the power of a transmitter falls off by the square of the distance. So if you had a 10,000-watt transmitter that would go out to, let's say, 50 miles effectively, You could use 10-10-watt transmitters flying in individual RPVs to get the thing across. That's one. The second part is you better damn well know the quality of the programming that's going into the system. We had this problem with Commando Solo. The Air Force would have $52 million each to modify the aircraft plus the cost of the aircraft, maybe 80,000, 80 million total. And the Army would, you know, provide the product, and it was $1.98 kind of stuff. So you must have a system in place that can create effective propaganda for the population at contemporary times. Just exactly what Iran has been doing with the LEGO's videos. They understand our body politic, and they're effectively touching every one of those sub-demographics. in the hope that they can change the political mentality of the body policy of the United States by the time the midterms come up. Yeah. They ain't stupid. They're smart. Chuck, one last quick question for you. Sure. And that is, I think we need to finish the job. I think this is stupid. We're on again, off again. Oh, they want to make a deal. They don't want to make a deal. I think we need to finish the job. What needs to be done to finish the job? Or do we need to cut bait here? Talk to me. Well, I would use the theorem of Colonel John Warden, the United States Air Force retired, who dreamed up something called instant thunder, which was so effective in Desert Storm in 1991. Now, John calls for strategic paralysis. That is, you attack everywhere, everything all at once, and you cause a shock to the system. We haven't done that. We're doing it. by the book, looking at simply military targets. On the other hand, you can't do what we did to Japan in World War II, where you level 16 square miles of Tokyo in one night and cause 150,000 casualties. We can't do that either. So somewhere in the middle, part of this is getting to the Iranian body politic, which I think... The dictatorship in Iran fears the most because they've already had a reported 10 to 30,000 casualties, that is, executions of people disagree with the government. So there's got to be a substantial number of people there who are waiting for change. And we haven't done anything that I know of that's been publicized to get them to overthrow the government.

I think we might want to look at that as well. I agree so much. Chuck, I appreciate you very much, always. Chuck Takaro, CNN, first special assignment correspondent, serve with the 20th Special Forces Group, former consultant for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. Column is America is winning the air war and losing the information war on the blaze. Appreciate you very much, sir. Thanks for your service. Thanks for your time. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. There he goes. Okay, coming up next, I'll say goodbye, but I'll also want to do this real quick thing for you, is a new person that needs to go into the WNBA, a trans basketball star. All that next. Chris and for Dan, 560, The Answer. It's like a hot, steaming cup of information. To start your day, it's Chicago's morning answer on AM 560, The Answer. AM 560, the answer. Chris Crock and for Dan Proff, Chicago's morning answer. French trans basketball star says he'd accept the WNBA offer if the league came calling. If you haven't seen this guy, he's buff, he's massive, and he has a long ponytail, says he's a woman. I hope he does get called. I hope he does go to the WNBA, and then he can beat everybody in there, and they can all say, oh, I guess we don't support trans people playing in women's sports. Clay Travis from Outkick has said he'll throw down $10 million if WMBA team will play a high school boys basketball team of his choice because he knows they'll whoop their ass. Excuse my language. Here is this... I guess this gay activist anchor in Minneapolis, and she's angry about it on the newscast. I thought to myself, why? But obviously the answer is because he thinks it is so impossible for any group of women, let alone the best in the game, that they could ever beat younger and more inexperienced boys. She's angry. She's taking it personally. Don't. It's a fact. Remember when the professional women's soccer team lost to a boys' team of 15-year-olds? It's called The Way God Made Men and Women. That's why men shouldn't be in women's sports. 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. An AM 560, The Answer. Thanks for listening to Chicago's Morning Answer podcast sponsored by Signature, a division of Esquire Bank. Signature takes pride in helping customers grow their business and provide unmatched banking expertise, custom financial solutions, and the industry's best technology. So whether your business is looking for a deposit relationship or needs a ready source of financing, Signature has the solutions for you. Call today at 773-467, 5600 to hear how signature can help your business grow and thrive. Esquire Bank, member FDIC. equal housing lenders.