audio version of the segment here > Chicago Dems in full blown panic
Jay Weber Show transcript 9-2-25
So... the Trump administration is preparing to use the great lakes naval base as a holding center for illegal criminals as they round them up in Chicago and Illinois-
And that’s got liberals squirming and America-hating leftists in a full-blown panic.
That naval base is only about 35 miles to the north of Chicago...and as ice prepares to do some larger ice raids of the sort that they have done in LA and New York- they are going to need a place to house them all.
Folks, between the promise of a ‘crime’ crackdown and an illegal alien crackdown, trump has Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker in a constant state of ‘tantrum’.
These are not technically the same operation, but they are closely related. After all, trump and his team members have promised to use national guardsmen to protect ice agents engaging in coordinated efforts to round up criminal illegals by the dozens and hundreds in Chicago-
And- after the guardsmen’s presence has dramatically reduced overall crime in Washington dc, trump has threatened to use that technique in other major cities- potentially starting in Chicago and New York.
Now, trump has backed off on that ‘anti-crime’ surge a little bit, saying that the leaders of these blue cities should be inviting him in... instead of Trump acting pre-emptively...
But that threat of an anti-crime surge also has Pritzker and Johnson’s undies in a knot.
I think mayor Johnson wants to see riots against any federal troops occur there...being the ‘anti-cop’, BLM activist that he is...and was...before winning that mayoral seat.
He made a show of signing some silly ‘mayoral order’ over the weekend....which states Chicago...officially will not cooperate with the federal government in any way-when it comes to enforcing our laws.
That’s what a dangerous idiot this man is:
No, but he-should-take orders from the people of Chicago, and Brandon Johnson-is not- following the wishes of his own constituents by insisting that-by God- he will not enforce the law.
He might be listening to a small group of activists and unionists who rigged the election to get him into office...but...Brandon Johnson is not following the wishes of most residents of Chicago.
They want safe streets and fewer illegals competing for jobs and affordable housing-and they made that crystal clear during the height of the Biden border invasion.
Johnson isn’t even following the wishes of the poorest and most downtrodden Chicagoans on the south side--who must live with the high crime Johnson claims doesn’t exist.
This silly ‘mayoral order’ he signed Saturday:
That is correct...and tubby Pritzker is right there ‘with Johnson’ when it comes to – for some reason- refusing to deal with Chicago area crime and deciding instead to -by God- protect the criminals....and criminal illegal aliens...at all costs.
Kristi Noem was on some cable station or another (I believe it was Fox) .... over the weekend...and she was asked about JB Pritzker vowing to fight ice and the dept of homeland security at ‘every turn’ here...
Sect. Noem is correct here: this is more about Pritzker and his ego-and his plan to run for president. He’s using this crackdown on illegals to try to endear himself to the left-wing voters in this country....and only pretending to ‘speak for’ the people of Chicago and Illinois.
He and Johnson are both lying about crime and murders that have been down dramatically in Chicago over the last year or few months...and everyone in that city knows it.
The fact that today’s democrats not only- have no plan- to deal with the crime in their cities, but also- have no ‘desire’ to deal with the crime in their cities is unconscionable.
To the point that they are even starting to lose the support of some of their traditional allies in the media. Even some left-wing panelists at CNN and MSNBC are starting to question why these mayors and governors-and their party-would simply dig in and ‘refuse’ to do anything about crime.
I also notice some of the editorial boards of their longest-standing and most loyal newspapers are starting to wonder.
Folks...over the weekend...the Washington Post editorial board admitted that president trump is correct when he says the local leaders in the district of Columbia have been cheating on their crime stats.
Everyone in DC knows the truth: before trump intervened, that was not a safe city.
Nor is Chicago. Nor is New York. Nor is Oakland or Seattle or Portland...etc.
And as for some of the big cities that are in ‘red states’.... for the record? Kirsti Noem and Tom Homan say they are going to be running deportation operations in those cities, too.
Where-ever the criminal illegals and the Latin American gang members are who Biden, and the democrats let in-in droves- there are going to be ice operations for removal.
Yes.
This question was put to Noem because Gavin Newsom and Pritzker and the national democrats are relentlessly trying to get a new narrative started about red states.
And I think everyone in this audience knows how stupid it is- and why-
But for the few of you who don’t: the snotty claim that the most dangerous cities are in red states...and trump should be focusing on the cities in the red states....is ridiculous because those cities are also run by democrats.
Get it?
The very premise that republicans or conservatives are running cities with the highest crime rates is false. They aren’t. Every big city in America is run-exclusively-by democrats and leftists.
They and their policies are the ones who have ruined the big cities in the red states-whether it’s Houston and Austin, or St. Louis, or Miami...etc.
Yeah. There are dangerous cities in red states, too, but only because democrats have been running them -and ruining them-for decades.
But for the record, Noem and Homan are saying, yes, of course we are doing raids in St louis, Houston, Miami...etc.
And yes...of course bigger raids of the sort that we’ve done in LA and New York are coming to those cities, too. Yes.
So, this is a really dumb talking point.
If you asked 100 people in America why these major cities in the red states are so crime-ridden- 98 people would tell you the same thing: because democrats have been in charge of them.
It’s not like the word-isn’t out- on which party has completely bleeped up our big cities in America. Everyone knows it.
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