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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You know, the one
thing, stuart, that I like I
used to like about my city wasit was safe.
You know, I could go out atnight, I can go visit friends, I
could walk around.
It was safe because peopleabided by the law.
We didn't have the murders,violent crimes, violent crimes.
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But over time and over the lastnumber of years, political
movements have all of a suddencreated this groundswell that a
the police are bad and that weshould let the criminals run
amok.
That seems to be the, theleft's mentality, you know, as
we've seen time and time again.
So to hear donald trump sayingin my town, where I'm now going
to live for the next three and ahalf four years, I'm not going
to do this.
We're going to have to changethe way life goes.
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Welcome back everybody to theRant Network.
My name is David Solomon, he isStuart Priskell.
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really a different way ofdifferent angle of looking at
what's going on, completelydifferent also than what your
liberal media likes to shovedown your throat.
So sit back today as we diveinto Washington DC.
And the reason, stuart, Ibrought this up to you in the
green room is for the lastnumber of days, this has been
one of the lead stories inMontreal that Donald Trump has
taken over Washington DC, whichis, once again, it's the
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absurdity of liberal medianeeding to find more problems
where they don't exist don'texist.
But what is interesting, stuart, is that the mayor and the
Democrats by the way, the mayorof DC is Democrat, the voting,
as you saw, in the last election, was heavily Democrat, and so
on and so forth.
So it's a Democrat-leaning city, considering who and after Doge
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, trump's not a nice guy.
People hate Trump, he ruinedtheir lives, and so on and so
forth.
We heard it all, but when itcomes up to Washington DC,
stuart, it's not a safe city.
I was there a few times in thelast couple of years.
It isn't safe.
It hasn't been safe in a longtime.
And here Donald Trump is sayingyou can't seem to handle your
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job, madam Mayor, so we're goingto help you with the National
Guard.
And apparently, god forbid, weshould really enforce the law in
your nation's capital, stuart?
I'm just shocked, not shocked.
Once again, stupidity from theleft.
What say?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
you, my friend.
You know, david, people seem tohave, I guess, blinders on.
I think there's no other wayfor me to explain it.
People forget history.
People forget how in the worldwe got here and why it is the
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way it is.
1973, david, we were probablyrunning around as little kids
right 70s, you had Nixon aspresident and he granted
Columbia, the District ofColumbia, the resident president
law that allowed them to electa mayor.
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That's when it happened.
Actually, dc only had the rightto vote for president of the
United States in, believe it ornot, 1961.
People have no idea anythingabout DC.
I think it's disgusting thatthey don't teach this in school,
that they don't teach this inschool.
We don't learn this in Canada,david.
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But it's really very simple.
Dc is a federal city, there'sno question.
And the mayor or the chiefthief of DC because clearly
she's making a piss pot of moneyI think we should try to get
her financials and put them onthe screen.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh your favorite pack
, my friend.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Follow the money.
The yellow brick road is whatshows you the money.
You know these people justdesire power.
They're looking for the path tothe biggest office in the land.
Whether they admit it or not.
No one wants to not bepresident of the United States
if they can do it and survivethe political headwind.
But DC is utterly dangerous ashell.
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You know, many years ago I thinkit was 2000 in I'll just pick a
year up, 2015, I went to DC ona trip and I had my fancy camera
.
As David knows, I used to DC ona trip and I had my fancy
camera.
As David knows, I used to likea lot of photography, had a lot
of cameras and was runningaround the city getting on
rooftops, getting private accessto rooftops, taking pictures of
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the capital which still hang ina couple of congressman senator
offices and in my office herein Florida.
But the fact of the matter is Iwas walking through
neighborhoods that I probablyshouldn't have been walking
through and I had no idea I'maimlessly walking through DC.
A cab rolled up next to me andit was like 430 in the afternoon
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in a cool winter day.
So the sun starts to come downand the cab says you need a ride
and I said you know what?
Yeah, it's time to take me backto the hotel.
I get in the cab and I noticedthat the cab driver didn't press
the start button and as I'mdriving away in the cab, I'm
like, hey, listen, buddy, youshould press the start button.
He goes.
No, I don't need to press thestart button.
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I go.
Why he goes?
Because I'm saving your lifetoday.
I go.
What do you mean?
He goes.
Do you have any idea whereyou're walking with that you
know $10,000 camera, that hugetelephoto lens that's white,
that we all see used in sportingevents, that I picked up for
that nice trip in DC.
He goes.
You were probably within a halfhour of being mugged, killed or
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both.
Probably within a half hour ofbeing mugged, killed or both.
I said, okay, he goes.
So why aren't you charging me?
I'm considering it my civicduty to prevent your name and
picture to being on the frontpage of our newspaper.
That's 2015.
That's a decade ago, david, andsince that decade it hasn't
gotten better and the mayorsthat have been in and out of
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office have never really beenforced to deal with the facts
because the left again.
Dc is primarily a Democraticblue city, right, almost in its
entirety Right, so you wouldthink they would appreciate the
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additional resources and fundsand safety for its constituents.
However, the adult in the roomseems to be like a hyena
Crockett or a TikTok AOC,because they're not really
thinking of their constituents.
People are dying in DC, mugged,raped, robbed.
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It's horrible.
And to think that the left isnow taking the concept that, oh,
it's the orangutan taking overthe country as a dictator, I
mean I just can't, david,anymore.
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I can't.
It's no different than thepeople that are on the left
trying to say there's atwo-state solution, but they
can't say who's the two statesbeing divided with.
They know one party, they don'tknow the other party.
They talk about all theatrocities going on in Gaza, but
they fail to mention what aboutthe hostages that are being
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murdered, raped or killed?
I mean it's like the left haslost its mind.
Now, I wanted to bring this up,david, because I felt that you
know this whole concept of leftgoing further.
Left is just.
I just can't make any sense ofit, david, and it's no different
than the mayors of DC, the, the, the, the people on the TV
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talking about how this is atakeover of federal government.
This is a federal fucking city.
You moron, like enough?
Like, go and get some education.
You know what?
I would almost pay for asubscription to these clowns for
whatever ai service they want,so they can actually put in the
subject and learn what it'sabout oh, stewart, okay, wow,
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you know.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think that, think
that they know what they're
doing, because what theDemocrats have still not learned
yet is that the population isnot listening anymore.
The liberal media, stuart, isjust off the charts.
And every time the Democratssay something, the liberal media
goes yeah, you're right.
The Democrats say something,the liberal media goes yeah,
you're right.
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So when you keep tellingsomebody they're right, they're
on the right track, in themeantime they're totally
disconnected.
Last night, 23 arrests weremade with the 23.
And yes, dc mayor Muriel Bowsersaid her hands are tied.
But let me tell you somethingthe police chief, pamela Smith,
is excited because she's finallygot enforcement to do her job.
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Stuart, let me take you back alittle bit.
Not that long ago, you and Iranted about this heinous murder
of two young people at a museumin an event for Israel Right A
vicious, violent hate crime.
And yet that doesn't seem tomatter.
Muggings, robberies walkingdown the street.
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A lot of people have admittedthat they don't want to walk
past 8 o'clock at night becauseit's just not safe.
Nope, and the liberal media isoff their charts, right, MSNBC
going ballistic.
Oh my God, this is a takeover.
And they go after HakeemJeffries and Hillary Clinton,
and again and again and again,they repeat the same mantras,
assuming you're going to listenand actually care that DC is a
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safe city and that Trump isautocratic.
Really, what's fascinating isthat they're just assuming the
American population is dumb asshit.
And oh, by the way, what theywant to tell you is that the
most violent day in inWashington DC January 6th 2021,
that was the day.
And again, what these Democratshave still not figured out it's
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2025.
Americans are not listening toyour 2021 Capitol riot rhetoric
anymore.
Russiagate is blown up, eventhough people still want to
bring it on.
The Dems continue to want togive you a narrative that is
absolutely absurd.
But listen to Joe Scarboroughfrom MSNBC.
He's actually believing thatliberal media is exaggerating
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and that people are not safe inDC.
But you can't say that ontelevision, because then you're
the traitor.
And I'll tell you something.
I'd like to see what DC lookslike in the next 30 days,
because I've been there and,like I said, I don't want to go
to places where I'm going to bemugged.
I have family there and I wantto tell you I want them to live
safely.
But to say to somebody but thenumbers are down.
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I don't care if the numbers aredown.
If the number is down from 200and something to 180, something
great, that means it's good.
It doesn't mean it's clean.
Why do we accept, in a tinycity like Washington DC, 180
murders and say it's good?
Why should we say that anymurders are good?
But you know, at that rate,what you're saying is we're
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killing three to four people aweek and that's OK and we don't
need help.
This is the absurdity, theviolent crime.
It's all about wrappingyourself in the Democrats banner
and telling the whole world wedisagree with Trump, no matter
what, and in this case, to tryto create a safe city for
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politicians, for their staff,for their families who are
living there, you're willing tosacrifice them for a vote.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
David, in politics it
used to be what can you do for
me and what have you done for usin the past?
You remember that, david,that's poli-sci, poli-sci 101.
We all most of us who went tocollege took a poli sci class.
What did you do for me?
What are you going to continueto do for me?
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The, the modern politiciantoday, is how the other guys
does everything wrong, and andand and deflect because they
haven't done anything righteither so it is literally
mind-boggling to hear this overand over.
I feel like I'm a hamster in awheel or in Groundhog Day.
Every Monday, wednesday, fridaynoon, easter, david and I get
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here and we talk in the greenroom and we we hope to have a
conversation about something new, something unique.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know what, stuart
, I'm going to tell you
something.
Jeanine Pirro, who is now she'sthe full-time what's her role?
Again?
Us attorney for DC.
And you know, of course, youknow the liberal media needs to
mess her up because she's ex-FoxNews and she's Trumpist and
whatever.
And they're talking about whyare you doing all this?
Crime is down.
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And she says, okay, crime isdown, but it's never enough.
Nope, who's going to tell afamily and this is I'm just
quoting this you tell the motherof the intern who was shot
going for McDonald's near theWashington Convention Center oh,
by the way, crime is down.
Like this is what the liberalmedia wants to do.
They want to paint the picture,and that's what bothered me
this morning picture and that'swhat bothered me this morning
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again listening to the news herein montreal.
Again, it's like trump hastaken over dc without revealing
the fact.
Now you brought in gas andisrael, which you always like to
come in with a wild left leftout of left field story and
bring it in.
But that's your media, ladiesand gentlemen, distorting the
truth, continuing to give youfalse information, a narrative
that doesn't make a hell of alot of sense, because to tell me
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that we run from 200 somethingto 180 something, and that's
good.
If you're okay with three tofour murders per week in your
city, fine, not in mine.
I don't want to live thereknowing that my I can walk into
a mcdonald's and be shot right.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So so you had the
trump kids on tv today because
they're ringing the bell on oneof their companies that deal
with digital currency, and youwant to know something.
They are doing phenomenal foreveryone leaving New York.
They're doing phenomenal foreveryone leaving California.
Everyone leaving California.
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Literally the top 20% is thelargest volume of people leaving
both these states.
Where are they going?
They're going to Arizona,believe it or not, which is kind
of unique.
They're going to Florida.
They're going to Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
They're going to
North.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Carolina.
They're going to North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They're going to
Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Why the money is
leaving these states.
And you know what?
Gavin Newsom saying oh, I'mgoing to fight fire.
With fire, I'm going to createseats.
Texas is laughing Again.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're off the rails.
Forget this, for Pete's sake.
One thing, stuart we knowthe're off the rails.
Forget this, for Pete's sake.
One thing, stuart we know theleft was crazy and this whole
rearrangement and da, da, da da.
But the reality is listen towhat the Democrats are saying.
No, what the Democrats aresaying is don't touch crime,
it's OK.
Yeah, that is their messagethat crime is OK.
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They listen to nothing sinceNovember of 2024.
Stuart, last words for you, myfriend.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Last words is
Groundhog.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Day.
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