November 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Jon discusses the need for... public restrooms? Jon plays clips from a Hennepin County training video and looks at how socialism is spreading into city politics around the country. Jon has thoughts on coffee shop employees choosing to unionize and strike.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Working through a host of issues. This morning here on
Twin Cities News Talking, we're talking feuds between Trump and
Marjorie Taylor Green, Trump saying the Epstein files need to
be released. Ice moving into Charlotte to deal with their
illegal immigration woes. Here in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Police chief
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sites East African kids from out of town in ongoing
Dinky Town youth crime problems. An article from Alpha News.
And again, if the police chief is going to specifically
call out issues relating to certain demographics, then one has
to wonder if the problem is reaching in Apex. At
this point in time, I'm going to share with you
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a little bit of what the city of Minneapolis is
doing to not handled any of these problems. In the meantime,
let's get to some of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Your comments.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Talkback's brought to you by Lyndahl Realty here on Twin
City's News Talk.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Good morning, guys, So, speaking of immigration, the lady that
cut my hair, she's been here nineteen years, came over illegally,
has a seventeen year old son, married to a American man,
and went through all the immigration classes.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm assuming that she's married to she's married to an
American man. The way he worded it sounded like the
seventeen year old son married an American man. There's been
a lot of confusion on the show this morning, and
I think I'm partly responsible for that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So I just want to make sure that we clarify.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And she went to her routine hearings that she was
supposed to tend, and she went to one and they
deported her. So obviously I don't think she paid her
fees that were part of her immigration, so they do
take everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm just curious how you how did that conversation though,
where you found out that she was here illegally? Was
it like, do you want me to trim your eyebrows?
And Hey, did you know I'm an illegal alien?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm curious. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
This is kW from the Great City of Minneapolis, a
friend of the show with a different perspective.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, John, I was just wondering have you ever watched them?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Did you ever see the movie Predator bad Lands?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes? I did. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed
it quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would say it's my second to favorite Predator film,
next to the original.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That was the one that just came out a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I kind of enjoyed that movie. I
know this is not a movie segment, but I'm just curious. Also,
Marjorie Taylor Marjorie Green, I really liked her. I saw
her on a news program this Sunday morning. I've really
like her integrity.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Thanks Mike.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I do think there is a level of getting back
to my commentary regarding MTG from earlier, I think there
is a level of authenticity coming from Marchorie Taylor Green.
I think that she believes that what she's doing is
the right thing. But that being said, she's also finding
herself on an island when it comes to her particular opinions.
There's also a lot of griff that's happening within these
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feuds that she has been attached to as well. Bringing
things back to the city of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm guessing Chief O'Hara is missing his wife and kids
back in New Jersey, so he's looking forward to moving back.
It's refreshing to actually have somebody in Minneapolis government that
tells the truth him brings LFE to things that are
being covered up. So for once, Chief O'Hara great job.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, Listen, it's kind of a circumstance where in light
of the politics of Minneapolis and how it's near impossible
without really spending the money and going through a few
election cycles to bring about change, like individuals like Police
Chief O'Hara are like the best you're going to get
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in terms of Democrats that are in positions of power.
I do think that he's probably planning on leaving, which
is why he's being more vocal. But I also think
that the issues relating to crime are reaching an apex
wherein he just simply cannot avoid and needs to voice
specifically what the problems are, whether it is issues relating
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to certain demographics, or whether it's his frustration with the
Hennepin County Attorney's Office and the revolving door of criminality
under the social justice zealot that is Mary Moriarty.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Hey, good morning John.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
There's a good reason why Chief O'Hara hasn't sold his
home in New Jersey. He's going to need it pretty
soon and he knows this, and he's known it for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Good morning John, Rich Again, I went back to have
her cut my hair to make an appointment, and the
owner told me that they deported her and that she
was illegal.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh gotcha, the entire story.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So and her husband actually works for the city in
the area we live, so it happens.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I would like to know the specificity as to why,
you know, what exactly she did or did not do
that got her deported. But thank you for clarifying on that.
So take a little off the top. I'm here illegally,
didn't have a different way. So we have crime going on,
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Minneapolis Police chief being very specific, what.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is the city of Minneapolis focused on? City leaders are.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Discussing the need for more public bathrooms downtown. It's supported,
apparently by new research highlighting the demand and potential costs.
The report that was released the last week by the
Public Health and Safety Committee states that Minneapolis doing that
thing with my fingers has a lack of adequate to
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public restroom facilities. This is according to Adam Dwinnick from
the Minneapolis Downtown Council, saying there's not as many as
there ought to be. Well, I think part of the
problem is you don't have as many businesses that would
typically go and have bathrooms of which people can go
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and use. You also have the situation of individuals living
on the streets who just to find any location that
suits them to go.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And do their thing.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The report includes a map mark marketing public bathrooms in
places like City Hall, the Hennepin County Library, Dowinnock and
the Downtown Council have been working on the issue for years.
Why do you need to be working on it for years?
I mean it's if you want more bathrooms, than work
at building more bathrooms, we should explore.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All the options we can.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Several standalone public restroom models were researched, including the popular
Portland Loo. Oh yeah, that's exactly where we should be
taking our cues from Portland, where it can cost up
to one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars, with installation
fees ranging from ninety thousand to eight hundred thousand. Speaking
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of griffs, Duinnick said, they're not cheap. Some of these
models can be hundreds of thousands of dollars. One idea
from the report is incentivizing businesses to open their bathrooms
to the public.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hey, I was just talking about that.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No one wants to have to tell somebody you can't
use the restroom set A manager, a corner coffee on
the Nickeltte Mall. That manager noted that they used to
allow public access to their bathroom but stopped to do issues.
It's like vandalism and drug use. I'm sitting here, I'm
stunned that that would end up being a problem. Monetary
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incentives don't fix public safety. She went on to say
there has to be a middle ground between allowing people
to use the restroom it's a right, but also making
sure that people aren't disrespecting the state the space. Jason
Chavez the chair of the committee, far leftist on the clouncil.
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He's the chair of the committee behind the report. Oh man,
if he's the chair of the committee behind the report,
then there are other things afoot with this need. They
were unable to discuss, unavailable to discuss how many restrooms
they want, the budget or the timeline. Updates will be
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provided when available. You know, this is a problem, and
this was a story out of Channel five. This is
a problem that could end up fixing itself. If you
just end up tackling the lararger issues that the city
is dealing with, all of these things.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
End up correcting themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You deal with the crime, you bring back the businesses.
You deal with a homeless issue, you can have businesses
opening up their bathrooms again for individuals that legitimately are
there to use the bathroom and not to go take
a bath or a shower in the sink of the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
They've got more than enough bathrooms in the Twin city
is saying. Heck, they even have a mobile bathroom. What
do you think the light rail is for?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh, come on, you guys, come on now, Well that
was kind of funny. All right, we'll get back to
your comments coming up here in just a moment. Also
on the way, keeping with the theme, So while Minneapolis
is looking to bring about more bathrooms, what is Hennebon
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County doing. How is Hennepin County spending their time making
sure that their employee are ready to go and do
the job necessary of the pay that they receive from
the taxpayers. How about implementing pronoun training.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Thank god, they're finally taking care of the real problems
in Minneapolis.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Get more bathrooms.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I mean, when you rob the store, take a car,
pick pocket somebody on the street, I mean, these people
need bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Thank you? Whoever thought of that? Maybe that's the Maybe
that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Maybe all the carjackings are just occurring because people are
trying to get to a bathroom quicker and they can't
find one.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's been a weird show today.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We're not done yet, so there's weirdness that could still
take place, and I'm going to contribute to that in
just a moment with Hennepen County implementing their pronoun training.
I have the audio to share with you. Commentary's been
kind of all over the place this morning, and now
I don't know what to make of this when phones
of the show actually agree with me.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Hey, John and Jess stiff Ian Curry, So dealing with
this public bathroom situation, he hit a nail on the head.
Deal with the larger issue, just like the fentanyl problem.
Deal with the supply and demand. Deal with demand. Deal
with the demand of people of your character that want
that fentanyl. That's why we have something to overdose in fentanyl.
So I agree with you, will deal with a larger
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issue on most subjects.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I mean, he still called me John Injustice, but there
was a little bit of agree.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
With me that was in there from foe with the show, Phil,
what is going.
Speaker 11 (11:40):
On, doesn't that fall probably on the category of the
dead clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, broken clocks right twice a day him, or maybe
I'm just getting to him. Maybe he's finally coming around.
Listen to the show long enough in common sense actually
grabs hold. One could only hope.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They have what's called a Trump derangement problem. Have you
heard about that problem?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Hennepin County, in the meantime of all the other problems
that we're dealing with, has implemented pronoun training for its
employees as part of a broader diversity and inclusion initiative.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I thought we got rid of that. Here's a bit
of the audio.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You've been through this if you work for any large
corporation and you have to go through the mandatory training
that takes place every single year.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's what this is.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
I use he, him and his, And when someone uses
my pronouns, it makes me feel respected.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
I use he, him, and asking for someone else's pronouns
helps me avoid misgendering my coworkers.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I use say them pronouns because sharing my pronouns creates
an inclusive environment.
Speaker 14 (12:45):
I use she, her, hers, And when someone uses my
pronouns correctly, it tells me my coworkers care about me.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Welcome to the Why Pronouns Matter video training. By the
end of this training, you will be able to identify
commonly used pronouns, connect correct pronoun usage with creating a
respectful workplace, how to normalize sharing and asking for pronouns,
and how to apologize when you make a mistake.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
This does not need to be a thing, and this
is not an inclusive thing because you could then go
it would just take momentum behind it, shaming taking place
for any number of other ways in which people would
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like to be identified in order.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
To suddenly now have to go and.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Be in a business situation wherein not only do you
have to go and address individuals by their proper pronouns,
but I wanted to be addressed as a Star Wars
fan or a lover of music. These arediculous examples. But
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this is ridiculous. If somebody is having a one on
one conversation with another individual and they're talking and they
would like to be addressed in a particular way, okay, fine, whatever,
But to go and mandate or to suggest that you
must address individuals with these proper pronouns, and if you
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don't you're somehow disrespecting them, it's lunacy.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
For examples of personal pronouns, I'm sure you know most
of them, but some are probably new to you. Also,
some people may use their names instead of pronouns, or
many use multiple sets of pronouns. For example, someone might
tell you my pronouns are sheever or they? Then that
means either is fine. You can ask them if they
have a preference. If you don't know how to pronounce
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certain pronouns, you can look them up using the correct pronouns.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
For a coworker client tells them you respect who they
are as a person, it shows that you listen to them,
and it acts actively demonstrates the core value of customer
service and diversity, equity and inclusion. When we use correct pronouns,
we help create a welcoming workplace and avoid unnecessary harm.
By allowing everyone to feel more comfortable and to be
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their authentic selves, we can build stronger teams.
Speaker 14 (15:18):
The pronouns someone uses are often connected to their gender identity.
Gender identity is a personal sense of one's own gender,
which can correlate with a person's assigned sex a birth,
or it can differ from it It's important to know
that the pronouns someone uses do not necessarily match their name,
how they address, or how they openly express themselves, and
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the choice of pronouns can change and adapt to their
identities over time.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
If you decide to share your pronouns, here are some
ways you can do it. Share your pronouns when introducing yourself, Okay,
include your pronouns and your email signature. Introduce new team
members with their pronouns.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I'm going to stop here.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Got some spectacular comments that are rolling into the iHeartRadio app,
so we.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Do have your talk back of the day. Sorry, he's
your funny.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Your comment's coming up in just a moment here on
Twin City's newstock See.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I use Apa and chi as my pronouns because I'm
gonna attack helicopter and this whole thing is freaking stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
When somebody uses my pronouns at work, it tells me
I need to get my resume ready because I'm not
gonna work with a bunch of idiots. And remember, boys
and girls, if someone.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Has multiple personality disorder, use the pronouns they them.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
John, John, Please, no more of this, d Ideo please,
I can't take any more I'm just getting really nauseous.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Please no, I won't play any more, I promise. Twin
Cities News Talk. Hey, I'm eleven thirty one oh three
five FM. Glad you're with the show this morning, talking
about the issues facing Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Last hour, we had ours earlier, this earlier, this hour,
getting my hours screwed up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Minneapolis Police chief sighting East African kids from out of
town in ongoing Dinkytown to youth crime problems. The police Chief,
Brian O'Haras had in an interview with CBS, groups of kids,
groups of East African kids that are coming from surrounding
communities and not just one community, kind of all over
the place. They're coming in the area, armed and ready
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for a fight. These aren't poor kids from Minnieappolis that
are our residents. They are coming down in mommy's Mercedes
Benz to Dinkytown and they don't know where they are.
So on top of the issues rather specific being raised
by the Minneapolis Police chief, you have the city of
Minneapolis looking to bring more public restrooms downtown.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's a concern.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hennepin County employees in the meantime are having to deal
with pronoun training is product a part of its broader
diversity and inclusion initiative. I thought that we had gotten
rid of that. We'll get some more of your comments
from the iHeartRadio app, including and we'll make this one
your talkback of the day, brought to you by MINILEAF
and minileaf dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
More to John, just go with the pronouns.
Speaker 15 (18:33):
Say there is hope for the younger generation as in
the gym on Friday, younger couplicator.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Than they were in your early twenties.
Speaker 15 (18:41):
And he had the ultimate truth on his T shirt.
It said there are three genders male, female and mentally
ill man. Did dat hammer come down into nail hard
have a good day?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I thought you'd like you.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
How fit was the individual wearing the shirt. That was
a rather brave thing to say? Thank you for the
comment again. And then as your talk back of the day,
brought to you by minileafanminileaf dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Good morning, John. Come on, these are not proper pronouns.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
They're asking you to use improper pronouns.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Just oxymoronic. You can't be a democrat and lesser a hypocrite. Yeah,
you require me to use pronouns.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I will consider that a challenge at Malicious Compliance.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Boy, and listening to you talk about the proposed pronoun training,
my first thought went to, I wonder how many students
could even identify what pronouns are right. Perhaps that's what
educators need to be spending their time on grammar, math, reading,
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science and stop with the pronoun training.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Hey, Joe, I self identify as E or now which
way back to the one hundred acre wood.
Speaker 16 (20:08):
Bye.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
All of the leftist terminology that's getting pushed into our
society just needs to be rejected, and we know that,
but we just need to double down on it. Make
sure that we're not giving in things like gender identity,
gender assigned at birth, unhoused people, food, deserts, all this
crap that they say. Just reject it altogether. We're not
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playing their games. Let them call their names, but just
don't get into their mouse struggle session.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Well, and keeping with that theme, Minneapolis City Council member
Robin Wansley posted on x in the wake of the
In the wake of the election last week, sixty five
thousand plus residents voted to elect a Democrat Socialist All
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the council races that had a DSA endorsed.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Candidate won by an overwhelming margin.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
These results send a clear message people want leaders who
will fight for working class communities, not corporate interests, citing
the Democrat Socialists of America of which she is a member.
So as you know, however, Minneapolis man Baby mayor Mom
Jeans Jacob Frye won over Omar fat So the Democrat
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Socialist mayor did not emerge victorious the individual in this
case running for mayor that was endorsed by the DSA.
That being said, it's not stopping these city council members. Nope,
they are moving forward with a Democrat Socialist caucus within
the city council.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
This is what Robin Wansley posted online.
Speaker 18 (21:51):
Hey y'all, it's council member Robin Wansley, and I'm just
coming to you to check in and share a little bit.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Of good news.
Speaker 18 (21:59):
So this time last week, we had forty six thousand
Minneapolis residents vote to elect a Democratic Socialists mayor. And
while we were not victorious in that fight, all for
the essay endore city council candidates, including you're truly won
their races by all the whelming margins, and to me,
that does send a clear message that we do have
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people all across our city who do want city leaders
who are going to fight for working class communities and
not corporate interests. And that's exactly why I'm so excited
to announce that I will be formally bringing a proposal
to establish a Democratic Socialist caucus on the City Council,
and that I intent to lead it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Why, I know why, But why The other City Council
members vote ninety nine percent of the time in lockstep
with the other socialists, So why bother making a Democrat
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Socialist caucus. It's completely unnecessary except in the minds of
activists like Wansley, because that's what she is. That's what
the other members on the City Council are. They're not leaders,
they're activists. Moving forward with the socialist's agenda is a
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lot more important than the vitality of the city and
the areas of which they represent. They don't care about
the voters, they don't care about the crime. No, they
care about their ideology and their agenda. Because this is
a complete and total waste of time, considering the fact
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that there's very little the Democrats socialists don't get.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's also a.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Bit of a temper tantrum. She sounds very pleasant and
smiling and talking about her new Democrat Socialists.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But make no mistake, this is a pushback.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
On the fact that omar Fate didn't win, so they
needed to do something. So she's moving forward with this initiative, and.
Speaker 18 (24:12):
This caucus will represent the city wide movement we've built
over several years to advance policies that uplift and protect
working class communities and some of our most vulnerable communities.
And I think it's important to have that work and
those values be reflective in city Hall. So in January,
I look forward to Council supporting the adoption of a
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Democratic Socialist caucus under my leadership, and then for us
to get to work to advance and win a twenty
dollars minimum wage, keywrint to protections like print control and
the city owned grocery store. So you already know that
I'm in this with you, and I look forward to
working together to prove that a Minneapolis works best when
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it works for all of us. So with that, y'all, by.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So among the things that she'll be working on, a
twenty dollars an hour minimum wage, And as I said
over the Fight for fifteen, why not make it twenty.
I'll say this now, with a twenty dollars an hour
minimum wage, why not make it twenty five? Why not
make it thirty? Why not make it one hundred? Rent
control in city owned grocery stores. The good news is
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about all of this is that either these policies or
recipes for failure, So eventually.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
These will all fail.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Unfortunately, they have to be implemented in order to fail.
And I fear that, as I mentioned before, because of
the fact that the majority of the Minneapolis City Council
votes in lockstep with the socialists on the clouncil, and
Mayor Jacob Frye doesn't yield a ton of power, they
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may be able to implement implement some of these policies
much in the way that Mom Donnie will. And again,
the good news is people will see firsthand what they're
no longer taught in their schools anymore, and that is
the failures of the radical left ideologies under the banner
of socialism. But a lot of people are going to
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have to be devastated in order for those examples to
come to fruition. The next mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson,
also an open socialist, whose parents send her money still
for her bills at forty three years old. She has
no professional accomplishments whatsoever, and didn't start earning a regular
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income until her late thirties.
Speaker 16 (26:44):
As a progressive and as a socialist, I believe in
good governance. Our government is how we act collectively, how
we accomplish the things that can only be done together.
I believe that our city should be able to tackle
big challenges and take on big and vicious projects, and
I believe it is a very bad thing when people
begin to lose faith and the ability of their government
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to be responsive and effective and to deliver results for
its constituents. I look forward to working alongside all of
the dedicated public servants who work for the City of Seattle,
not just to advance a transformative policy agenda, but to
make sure that we are delivering basic services, communicating with constituents,
working collaboratively with every single neighborhood around the city, and
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building that faith and trust in government that is so
essential and yet so rare in our times.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's all just a word salad. There's absolutely no substance there.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
People vote for it.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Because they haven't seen the devastating impacts of socialism.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
They weren't taunt.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
In schools about how these policies just simple are not
sustainable and so therefore they're way more susceptible when an
individual rides in and says, I'm going to go and
fix all of your problems. I'm gonna take from the
rich people who have been achieving their wealth and not
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sharing it with any of you, and we're going to
make sure that we get some of that back and
that you're taking care of with all of these free things.
To that point, another audio clip for you. So this
is an individual in Minneapolis. They go by the name
of Ash. They posted this online. I see their posts
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on my x feed going and looking at the you know,
issues relating to Minneapolis. The algorithm spits this stuff to me.
But it's an interesting little example here because Ash writes
that this was my question at the DFL listening session
took place last week. She says the answer I got
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was not the one that I thought was acceptable. What
I found interesting about this clip, though, is that it
shows you the kind of energy that these democrats socialists
have that are working to get socialists elected into positions
of power.
Speaker 19 (29:21):
Hi, I'm ash I see him pronouns. I'm a proud
transgender member, member of the community. I'm a proud Democratic
Socialist as one of three cost secretaries of the city convention,
I'm former SD six g Outage and Inclusion, former Word
six chair. I planned the entirety of Ward six coxes
and conventions by my seth. I had to pull in
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people from outside of my board and outside of the
sick of Minneapolis to help me. Shout out to Brian
Swamp and Dan comes comments, thank you for that. I
received little to no support from party leaders above my
personal unit of Ward six. The most I got, at
least from the state party was some translation equipment, which
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I am thankful for.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
To be completely clear, but when.
Speaker 19 (30:08):
I was having issues, I did not receive help. The
city did not receive help. Ward six did not receive help.
Ward six is a notoriously ignored war within the DFL
because we're majority of Somali. To be frank, with the
upcoming Hennepin County convention, with the upcoming Senate District conventions,
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just in odd years in general, because there's not a
ton of support in odd years for conventions and for caucuses.
How does the state party plan to combat the one
the lack of volunteers. There's a reason I was working
by myself in Ward six. Nobody wanted to help until
I asked, And even then it was hard. I was
so burnt out. I resigned from all of my DFL
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positions after the Ward six convention.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was bad.
Speaker 19 (30:55):
How do you plan on one supporting the lack of
volunteers within not just warts, it's not just Minneapolis, not
just head of a county, but in the state in general,
especially with recent events regarding the city convention and regarding
everything that's been going on in Minneapolis, And how do
you plan on combating just the amount of time and
energy that people feel that they have to sink into
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the party and then burning out and crashing and not
being able to get help. Because when people go to
party leadership and ask for help, they should get help.
They should not be ignored, they should not be pushed off,
they should not be spoken over like I does.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Again, I just share this with you because it does
serve as a really good example of the energy and
motivation that individuals like this on the left have.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And while she.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Was complaining about the lack of support that she was receiving.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
She'd obviously put in the work. Is a true believer
in the cause.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
These individuals that are being elected as socialists, they have
true believers that are backing them, and there's an energy
behind their movement which conservatives cannot dismiss. It'd be to
your detriment to go and do so.
Speaker 20 (32:16):
John, I find it very telling at the call of
the socialists and the communists, isn't helped the poor to
attack the rich and to that end they succeed mightily.
They just take from the rich and don't help the poor.
Everybody ends up for the worst.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, it's a really good point. And thank you for
the talkback on the iHeartRadio app. Those are brought to
you by Lindahl Realty. Let's go here.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
John, You're really being confusing this morning, I am.
Speaker 17 (32:44):
When you talked about the type of energy that asks
brought to that council meeting, were you talking about they
them energy?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Energy?
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Energy?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
What a weird morning? Really has been just a bizarre Monday.
What does this mean for the rest of the week.
By the way, I missed this earlier.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I was playing the audio of Hennepin County and they
were going through the required worker pronoun training. Was there
any education on terminology like this from Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Rinchi Harton or something.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Curious? Twin City stores took part in open ended, nationwide
Starbucks strikes. The strikes began on Thursday, the company's Red
Cup Day, one of the busiest sales sale days of
the year for Starbucks. According to the article that I
have in front of me from Bring Me the News,
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Zoe ron Mom, Donnie was talking about the unionized to
Starbucks workers last week.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 21 (34:00):
Talking about a CEO of a company who made ninety
six million dollars just last year, ninety six million dollars,
which is six thou six hundred and sixty six times
the median Starbucks worker salary.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
That's the kind of disparity that we are seeing here.
And what these workers are asking for is the bare minimum.
They are asking for a salary that they can actually
live off. They are asking for hours they can actually
build their life around. They are asking for the violations
of labor law to finally be resolved, and they deserve
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a city that has their back. And I am here
to say that that is what New York City will vision.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
My message to Starbucks management is that I stand here
today to practice with these workers, and if you force
these workers to go on strike, then I will be
there with them on that strike as well.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm gonna share with you audio from a star Bucks
a worker in Washington where they actually ended up shutting
down the Starbucks that they work at in Redmond over
these boycotts at taking place. Starbucks only has their selves
to blame, however, allowing some of their locations to have
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their baristas be unionized.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
These are not meant to be careers.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You're not necessarily supposed to be able to make a
living comfortably off of an entry level job like being
a barista. And tragically, many of those gen Zers that
are cheering over the comments from Mom Donnie or protesting
outside their Starbucks, they haven't been taught and haven't bothered
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to use any common sense as to why individuals in
corporate Starbucks make as much money as they do. How Again,
the pay is reflective of the job that they're doing,
and that ridiculus this percentage that Zohron provided doesn't account
for the actual costs of running the business and paying
their salaries. And yet they put themselves out of work
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in Redmond, Washington, forcing the store to close.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
What do we want? When do we want it? What
do we want? When do we want it? What do
we want?
Speaker 6 (36:24):
What do we want?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
We need to be paid more.
Speaker 22 (36:27):
It's ridiculous, like what we have to go through as workers.
We're telling Starbucks that they need to invest in us
and they need to come back to the bargaining table
so we can get a contract and we can be
back at work.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The video was so sad to see this young girl
standing there with her protest Starbucks and T shirt that
I'm sure some well funded activist group provided to the
individuals that we're protesting outside of the Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
And she'll probably end up losing.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Her job over all of this. And again, Starbucks only
has themselves to blame. They have been catering to the
woke left for years now. They created this disaster.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
But I do have a.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Level of sympathy for these individuals or is it empathy
which one either way, it's so disappointing because these people,
these young people, they are going to be out of work.
They're gonna have to get themselves a job in a
place that's not going to allow them to unionize, or
they're not going to be catered to in the way
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that the mom Donnies and the Wansleys say that they
will under their socialist regime. Now, the lethel just continue
to support their mediocre lifestyles as long as they continue
to vote Democrats into office.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Thank you for hanging out on the show this morning.
It's been a weird one.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
What will the other four days of the week bring?
David Gartzenstein and Roswell join us tomorrow. Have some really
great AI stories to talk about with David starting at
six thirty.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I hope you have a fantastic Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
If you missed any portion of today's show, be sure
to check out the podcast available on the iHeartRadio app.
You can email me or leave a talkback overnight Justice
at iHeartRadio dot com. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning,
just after six.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Have a great one, by
Working through a host of issues. This morning here on
Twin Cities News Talking, we're talking feuds between Trump and
Marjorie Taylor Green, Trump saying the Epstein files need to
be released. Ice moving into Charlotte to deal with their
illegal immigration woes. Here in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Police chief
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sites East African kids from out of town in ongoing
Dinky Town youth crime problems. An article from Alpha News.
And again, if the police chief is going to specifically
call out issues relating to certain demographics, then one has
to wonder if the problem is reaching in Apex. At
this point in time, I'm going to share with you
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a little bit of what the city of Minneapolis is
doing to not handled any of these problems. In the meantime,
let's get to some of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Your comments.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Talkback's brought to you by Lyndahl Realty here on Twin
City's News Talk.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Good morning, guys, So, speaking of immigration, the lady that
cut my hair, she's been here nineteen years, came over illegally,
has a seventeen year old son, married to a American man,
and went through all the immigration classes.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm assuming that she's married to she's married to an
American man. The way he worded it sounded like the
seventeen year old son married an American man. There's been
a lot of confusion on the show this morning, and
I think I'm partly responsible for that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So I just want to make sure that we clarify.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And she went to her routine hearings that she was
supposed to tend, and she went to one and they
deported her. So obviously I don't think she paid her
fees that were part of her immigration, so they do
take everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm just curious how you how did that conversation though,
where you found out that she was here illegally? Was
it like, do you want me to trim your eyebrows?
And Hey, did you know I'm an illegal alien?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm curious. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
This is kW from the Great City of Minneapolis, a
friend of the show with a different perspective.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, John, I was just wondering have you ever watched them?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Did you ever see the movie Predator bad Lands?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes? I did. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed
it quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would say it's my second to favorite Predator film,
next to the original.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That was the one that just came out a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I kind of enjoyed that movie. I
know this is not a movie segment, but I'm just curious. Also,
Marjorie Taylor Marjorie Green, I really liked her. I saw
her on a news program this Sunday morning. I've really
like her integrity.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Thanks Mike.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I do think there is a level of getting back
to my commentary regarding MTG from earlier, I think there
is a level of authenticity coming from Marchorie Taylor Green.
I think that she believes that what she's doing is
the right thing. But that being said, she's also finding
herself on an island when it comes to her particular opinions.
There's also a lot of griff that's happening within these
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feuds that she has been attached to as well. Bringing
things back to the city of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm guessing Chief O'Hara is missing his wife and kids
back in New Jersey, so he's looking forward to moving back.
It's refreshing to actually have somebody in Minneapolis government that
tells the truth him brings LFE to things that are
being covered up. So for once, Chief O'Hara great job.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, Listen, it's kind of a circumstance where in light
of the politics of Minneapolis and how it's near impossible
without really spending the money and going through a few
election cycles to bring about change, like individuals like Police
Chief O'Hara are like the best you're going to get
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in terms of Democrats that are in positions of power.
I do think that he's probably planning on leaving, which
is why he's being more vocal. But I also think
that the issues relating to crime are reaching an apex
wherein he just simply cannot avoid and needs to voice
specifically what the problems are, whether it is issues relating
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to certain demographics, or whether it's his frustration with the
Hennepin County Attorney's Office and the revolving door of criminality
under the social justice zealot that is Mary Moriarty.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Hey, good morning John.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
There's a good reason why Chief O'Hara hasn't sold his
home in New Jersey. He's going to need it pretty
soon and he knows this, and he's known it for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Good morning John, Rich Again, I went back to have
her cut my hair to make an appointment, and the
owner told me that they deported her and that she
was illegal.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh gotcha, the entire story.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So and her husband actually works for the city in
the area we live, so it happens.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I would like to know the specificity as to why,
you know, what exactly she did or did not do
that got her deported. But thank you for clarifying on that.
So take a little off the top. I'm here illegally,
didn't have a different way. So we have crime going on,
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Minneapolis Police chief being very specific, what.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is the city of Minneapolis focused on? City leaders are.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Discussing the need for more public bathrooms downtown. It's supported,
apparently by new research highlighting the demand and potential costs.
The report that was released the last week by the
Public Health and Safety Committee states that Minneapolis doing that
thing with my fingers has a lack of adequate to
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public restroom facilities. This is according to Adam Dwinnick from
the Minneapolis Downtown Council, saying there's not as many as
there ought to be. Well, I think part of the
problem is you don't have as many businesses that would
typically go and have bathrooms of which people can go
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and use. You also have the situation of individuals living
on the streets who just to find any location that
suits them to go.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And do their thing.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The report includes a map mark marketing public bathrooms in
places like City Hall, the Hennepin County Library, Dowinnock and
the Downtown Council have been working on the issue for years.
Why do you need to be working on it for years?
I mean it's if you want more bathrooms, than work
at building more bathrooms, we should explore.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All the options we can.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Several standalone public restroom models were researched, including the popular
Portland Loo. Oh yeah, that's exactly where we should be
taking our cues from Portland, where it can cost up
to one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars, with installation
fees ranging from ninety thousand to eight hundred thousand. Speaking
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of griffs, Duinnick said, they're not cheap. Some of these
models can be hundreds of thousands of dollars. One idea
from the report is incentivizing businesses to open their bathrooms
to the public.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hey, I was just talking about that.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No one wants to have to tell somebody you can't
use the restroom set A manager, a corner coffee on
the Nickeltte Mall. That manager noted that they used to
allow public access to their bathroom but stopped to do issues.
It's like vandalism and drug use. I'm sitting here, I'm
stunned that that would end up being a problem. Monetary
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incentives don't fix public safety. She went on to say
there has to be a middle ground between allowing people
to use the restroom it's a right, but also making
sure that people aren't disrespecting the state the space. Jason
Chavez the chair of the committee, far leftist on the clouncil.
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He's the chair of the committee behind the report. Oh man,
if he's the chair of the committee behind the report,
then there are other things afoot with this need. They
were unable to discuss, unavailable to discuss how many restrooms
they want, the budget or the timeline. Updates will be
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provided when available. You know, this is a problem, and
this was a story out of Channel five. This is
a problem that could end up fixing itself. If you
just end up tackling the lararger issues that the city
is dealing with, all of these things.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
End up correcting themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You deal with the crime, you bring back the businesses.
You deal with a homeless issue, you can have businesses
opening up their bathrooms again for individuals that legitimately are
there to use the bathroom and not to go take
a bath or a shower in the sink of the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
They've got more than enough bathrooms in the Twin city
is saying. Heck, they even have a mobile bathroom. What
do you think the light rail is for?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh, come on, you guys, come on now, Well that
was kind of funny. All right, we'll get back to
your comments coming up here in just a moment. Also
on the way, keeping with the theme, So while Minneapolis
is looking to bring about more bathrooms, what is Hennebon
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County doing. How is Hennepin County spending their time making
sure that their employee are ready to go and do
the job necessary of the pay that they receive from
the taxpayers. How about implementing pronoun training.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Thank god, they're finally taking care of the real problems
in Minneapolis.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Get more bathrooms.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I mean, when you rob the store, take a car,
pick pocket somebody on the street, I mean, these people
need bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Thank you? Whoever thought of that? Maybe that's the Maybe
that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Maybe all the carjackings are just occurring because people are
trying to get to a bathroom quicker and they can't
find one.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's been a weird show today.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We're not done yet, so there's weirdness that could still
take place, and I'm going to contribute to that in
just a moment with Hennepen County implementing their pronoun training.
I have the audio to share with you. Commentary's been
kind of all over the place this morning, and now
I don't know what to make of this when phones
of the show actually agree with me.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Hey, John and Jess stiff Ian Curry, So dealing with
this public bathroom situation, he hit a nail on the head.
Deal with the larger issue, just like the fentanyl problem.
Deal with the supply and demand. Deal with demand. Deal
with the demand of people of your character that want
that fentanyl. That's why we have something to overdose in fentanyl.
So I agree with you, will deal with a larger
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issue on most subjects.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I mean, he still called me John Injustice, but there
was a little bit of agree.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
With me that was in there from foe with the show, Phil,
what is going.
Speaker 11 (11:40):
On, doesn't that fall probably on the category of the
dead clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, broken clocks right twice a day him, or maybe
I'm just getting to him. Maybe he's finally coming around.
Listen to the show long enough in common sense actually
grabs hold. One could only hope.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They have what's called a Trump derangement problem. Have you
heard about that problem?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Hennepin County, in the meantime of all the other problems
that we're dealing with, has implemented pronoun training for its
employees as part of a broader diversity and inclusion initiative.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I thought we got rid of that. Here's a bit
of the audio.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You've been through this if you work for any large
corporation and you have to go through the mandatory training
that takes place every single year.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's what this is.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
I use he, him and his, And when someone uses
my pronouns, it makes me feel respected.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
I use he, him, and asking for someone else's pronouns
helps me avoid misgendering my coworkers.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I use say them pronouns because sharing my pronouns creates
an inclusive environment.
Speaker 14 (12:45):
I use she, her, hers, And when someone uses my
pronouns correctly, it tells me my coworkers care about me.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Welcome to the Why Pronouns Matter video training. By the
end of this training, you will be able to identify
commonly used pronouns, connect correct pronoun usage with creating a
respectful workplace, how to normalize sharing and asking for pronouns,
and how to apologize when you make a mistake.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
This does not need to be a thing, and this
is not an inclusive thing because you could then go
it would just take momentum behind it, shaming taking place
for any number of other ways in which people would
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like to be identified in order.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
To suddenly now have to go and.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Be in a business situation wherein not only do you
have to go and address individuals by their proper pronouns,
but I wanted to be addressed as a Star Wars
fan or a lover of music. These arediculous examples. But
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this is ridiculous. If somebody is having a one on
one conversation with another individual and they're talking and they
would like to be addressed in a particular way, okay, fine, whatever,
But to go and mandate or to suggest that you
must address individuals with these proper pronouns, and if you
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don't you're somehow disrespecting them, it's lunacy.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
For examples of personal pronouns, I'm sure you know most
of them, but some are probably new to you. Also,
some people may use their names instead of pronouns, or
many use multiple sets of pronouns. For example, someone might
tell you my pronouns are sheever or they? Then that
means either is fine. You can ask them if they
have a preference. If you don't know how to pronounce
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certain pronouns, you can look them up using the correct pronouns.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
For a coworker client tells them you respect who they
are as a person, it shows that you listen to them,
and it acts actively demonstrates the core value of customer
service and diversity, equity and inclusion. When we use correct pronouns,
we help create a welcoming workplace and avoid unnecessary harm.
By allowing everyone to feel more comfortable and to be
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their authentic selves, we can build stronger teams.
Speaker 14 (15:18):
The pronouns someone uses are often connected to their gender identity.
Gender identity is a personal sense of one's own gender,
which can correlate with a person's assigned sex a birth,
or it can differ from it It's important to know
that the pronouns someone uses do not necessarily match their name,
how they address, or how they openly express themselves, and
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the choice of pronouns can change and adapt to their
identities over time.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
If you decide to share your pronouns, here are some
ways you can do it. Share your pronouns when introducing yourself, Okay,
include your pronouns and your email signature. Introduce new team
members with their pronouns.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I'm going to stop here.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Got some spectacular comments that are rolling into the iHeartRadio app,
so we.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Do have your talk back of the day. Sorry, he's
your funny.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Your comment's coming up in just a moment here on
Twin City's newstock See.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I use Apa and chi as my pronouns because I'm
gonna attack helicopter and this whole thing is freaking stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
When somebody uses my pronouns at work, it tells me
I need to get my resume ready because I'm not
gonna work with a bunch of idiots. And remember, boys
and girls, if someone.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Has multiple personality disorder, use the pronouns they them.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
John, John, Please, no more of this, d Ideo please,
I can't take any more I'm just getting really nauseous.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Please no, I won't play any more, I promise. Twin
Cities News Talk. Hey, I'm eleven thirty one oh three
five FM. Glad you're with the show this morning, talking
about the issues facing Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Last hour, we had ours earlier, this earlier, this hour,
getting my hours screwed up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Minneapolis Police chief sighting East African kids from out of
town in ongoing Dinkytown to youth crime problems. The police Chief,
Brian O'Haras had in an interview with CBS, groups of kids,
groups of East African kids that are coming from surrounding
communities and not just one community, kind of all over
the place. They're coming in the area, armed and ready
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for a fight. These aren't poor kids from Minnieappolis that
are our residents. They are coming down in mommy's Mercedes
Benz to Dinkytown and they don't know where they are.
So on top of the issues rather specific being raised
by the Minneapolis Police chief, you have the city of
Minneapolis looking to bring more public restrooms downtown.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's a concern.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hennepin County employees in the meantime are having to deal
with pronoun training is product a part of its broader
diversity and inclusion initiative. I thought that we had gotten
rid of that. We'll get some more of your comments
from the iHeartRadio app, including and we'll make this one
your talkback of the day, brought to you by MINILEAF
and minileaf dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
More to John, just go with the pronouns.
Speaker 15 (18:33):
Say there is hope for the younger generation as in
the gym on Friday, younger couplicator.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Than they were in your early twenties.
Speaker 15 (18:41):
And he had the ultimate truth on his T shirt.
It said there are three genders male, female and mentally
ill man. Did dat hammer come down into nail hard
have a good day?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I thought you'd like you.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
How fit was the individual wearing the shirt. That was
a rather brave thing to say? Thank you for the
comment again. And then as your talk back of the day,
brought to you by minileafanminileaf dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Good morning, John. Come on, these are not proper pronouns.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
They're asking you to use improper pronouns.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Just oxymoronic. You can't be a democrat and lesser a hypocrite. Yeah,
you require me to use pronouns.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I will consider that a challenge at Malicious Compliance.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Boy, and listening to you talk about the proposed pronoun training,
my first thought went to, I wonder how many students
could even identify what pronouns are right. Perhaps that's what
educators need to be spending their time on grammar, math, reading,
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science and stop with the pronoun training.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Hey, Joe, I self identify as E or now which
way back to the one hundred acre wood.
Speaker 16 (20:08):
Bye.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
All of the leftist terminology that's getting pushed into our
society just needs to be rejected, and we know that,
but we just need to double down on it. Make
sure that we're not giving in things like gender identity,
gender assigned at birth, unhoused people, food, deserts, all this
crap that they say. Just reject it altogether. We're not
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playing their games. Let them call their names, but just
don't get into their mouse struggle session.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Well, and keeping with that theme, Minneapolis City Council member
Robin Wansley posted on x in the wake of the
In the wake of the election last week, sixty five
thousand plus residents voted to elect a Democrat Socialist All
(21:01):
the council races that had a DSA endorsed.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Candidate won by an overwhelming margin.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
These results send a clear message people want leaders who
will fight for working class communities, not corporate interests, citing
the Democrat Socialists of America of which she is a member.
So as you know, however, Minneapolis man Baby mayor Mom
Jeans Jacob Frye won over Omar fat So the Democrat
(21:29):
Socialist mayor did not emerge victorious the individual in this
case running for mayor that was endorsed by the DSA.
That being said, it's not stopping these city council members. Nope,
they are moving forward with a Democrat Socialist caucus within
the city council.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
This is what Robin Wansley posted online.
Speaker 18 (21:51):
Hey y'all, it's council member Robin Wansley, and I'm just
coming to you to check in and share a little bit.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Of good news.
Speaker 18 (21:59):
So this time last week, we had forty six thousand
Minneapolis residents vote to elect a Democratic Socialists mayor. And
while we were not victorious in that fight, all for
the essay endore city council candidates, including you're truly won
their races by all the whelming margins, and to me,
that does send a clear message that we do have
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people all across our city who do want city leaders
who are going to fight for working class communities and
not corporate interests. And that's exactly why I'm so excited
to announce that I will be formally bringing a proposal
to establish a Democratic Socialist caucus on the City Council,
and that I intent to lead it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Why, I know why, But why The other City Council
members vote ninety nine percent of the time in lockstep
with the other socialists, So why bother making a Democrat
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Socialist caucus. It's completely unnecessary except in the minds of
activists like Wansley, because that's what she is. That's what
the other members on the City Council are. They're not leaders,
they're activists. Moving forward with the socialist's agenda is a
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lot more important than the vitality of the city and
the areas of which they represent. They don't care about
the voters, they don't care about the crime. No, they
care about their ideology and their agenda. Because this is
a complete and total waste of time, considering the fact
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that there's very little the Democrats socialists don't get.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's also a.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Bit of a temper tantrum. She sounds very pleasant and
smiling and talking about her new Democrat Socialists.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But make no mistake, this is a pushback.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
On the fact that omar Fate didn't win, so they
needed to do something. So she's moving forward with this initiative, and.
Speaker 18 (24:12):
This caucus will represent the city wide movement we've built
over several years to advance policies that uplift and protect
working class communities and some of our most vulnerable communities.
And I think it's important to have that work and
those values be reflective in city Hall. So in January,
I look forward to Council supporting the adoption of a
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Democratic Socialist caucus under my leadership, and then for us
to get to work to advance and win a twenty
dollars minimum wage, keywrint to protections like print control and
the city owned grocery store. So you already know that
I'm in this with you, and I look forward to
working together to prove that a Minneapolis works best when
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it works for all of us. So with that, y'all, by.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So among the things that she'll be working on, a
twenty dollars an hour minimum wage, And as I said
over the Fight for fifteen, why not make it twenty.
I'll say this now, with a twenty dollars an hour
minimum wage, why not make it twenty five? Why not
make it thirty? Why not make it one hundred? Rent
control in city owned grocery stores. The good news is
(25:25):
about all of this is that either these policies or
recipes for failure, So eventually.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
These will all fail.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Unfortunately, they have to be implemented in order to fail.
And I fear that, as I mentioned before, because of
the fact that the majority of the Minneapolis City Council
votes in lockstep with the socialists on the clouncil, and
Mayor Jacob Frye doesn't yield a ton of power, they
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may be able to implement implement some of these policies
much in the way that Mom Donnie will. And again,
the good news is people will see firsthand what they're
no longer taught in their schools anymore, and that is
the failures of the radical left ideologies under the banner
of socialism. But a lot of people are going to
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have to be devastated in order for those examples to
come to fruition. The next mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson,
also an open socialist, whose parents send her money still
for her bills at forty three years old. She has
no professional accomplishments whatsoever, and didn't start earning a regular
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income until her late thirties.
Speaker 16 (26:44):
As a progressive and as a socialist, I believe in
good governance. Our government is how we act collectively, how
we accomplish the things that can only be done together.
I believe that our city should be able to tackle
big challenges and take on big and vicious projects, and
I believe it is a very bad thing when people
begin to lose faith and the ability of their government
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to be responsive and effective and to deliver results for
its constituents. I look forward to working alongside all of
the dedicated public servants who work for the City of Seattle,
not just to advance a transformative policy agenda, but to
make sure that we are delivering basic services, communicating with constituents,
working collaboratively with every single neighborhood around the city, and
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building that faith and trust in government that is so
essential and yet so rare in our times.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's all just a word salad. There's absolutely no substance there.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
People vote for it.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Because they haven't seen the devastating impacts of socialism.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
They weren't taunt.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
In schools about how these policies just simple are not
sustainable and so therefore they're way more susceptible when an
individual rides in and says, I'm going to go and
fix all of your problems. I'm gonna take from the
rich people who have been achieving their wealth and not
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sharing it with any of you, and we're going to
make sure that we get some of that back and
that you're taking care of with all of these free things.
To that point, another audio clip for you. So this
is an individual in Minneapolis. They go by the name
of Ash. They posted this online. I see their posts
(28:41):
on my x feed going and looking at the you know,
issues relating to Minneapolis. The algorithm spits this stuff to me.
But it's an interesting little example here because Ash writes
that this was my question at the DFL listening session
took place last week. She says the answer I got
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was not the one that I thought was acceptable. What
I found interesting about this clip, though, is that it
shows you the kind of energy that these democrats socialists
have that are working to get socialists elected into positions
of power.
Speaker 19 (29:21):
Hi, I'm ash I see him pronouns. I'm a proud
transgender member, member of the community. I'm a proud Democratic
Socialist as one of three cost secretaries of the city convention,
I'm former SD six g Outage and Inclusion, former Word
six chair. I planned the entirety of Ward six coxes
and conventions by my seth. I had to pull in
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people from outside of my board and outside of the
sick of Minneapolis to help me. Shout out to Brian
Swamp and Dan comes comments, thank you for that. I
received little to no support from party leaders above my
personal unit of Ward six. The most I got, at
least from the state party was some translation equipment, which
(30:05):
I am thankful for.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
To be completely clear, but when.
Speaker 19 (30:08):
I was having issues, I did not receive help. The
city did not receive help. Ward six did not receive help.
Ward six is a notoriously ignored war within the DFL
because we're majority of Somali. To be frank, with the
upcoming Hennepin County convention, with the upcoming Senate District conventions,
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just in odd years in general, because there's not a
ton of support in odd years for conventions and for caucuses.
How does the state party plan to combat the one
the lack of volunteers. There's a reason I was working
by myself in Ward six. Nobody wanted to help until
I asked, And even then it was hard. I was
so burnt out. I resigned from all of my DFL
(30:50):
positions after the Ward six convention.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was bad.
Speaker 19 (30:55):
How do you plan on one supporting the lack of
volunteers within not just warts, it's not just Minneapolis, not
just head of a county, but in the state in general,
especially with recent events regarding the city convention and regarding
everything that's been going on in Minneapolis, And how do
you plan on combating just the amount of time and
energy that people feel that they have to sink into
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the party and then burning out and crashing and not
being able to get help. Because when people go to
party leadership and ask for help, they should get help.
They should not be ignored, they should not be pushed off,
they should not be spoken over like I does.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Again, I just share this with you because it does
serve as a really good example of the energy and
motivation that individuals like this on the left have.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And while she.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Was complaining about the lack of support that she was receiving.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
She'd obviously put in the work. Is a true believer
in the cause.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
These individuals that are being elected as socialists, they have
true believers that are backing them, and there's an energy
behind their movement which conservatives cannot dismiss. It'd be to
your detriment to go and do so.
Speaker 20 (32:16):
John, I find it very telling at the call of
the socialists and the communists, isn't helped the poor to
attack the rich and to that end they succeed mightily.
They just take from the rich and don't help the poor.
Everybody ends up for the worst.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, it's a really good point. And thank you for
the talkback on the iHeartRadio app. Those are brought to
you by Lindahl Realty. Let's go here.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
John, You're really being confusing this morning, I am.
Speaker 17 (32:44):
When you talked about the type of energy that asks
brought to that council meeting, were you talking about they
them energy?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Energy?
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Energy?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
What a weird morning? Really has been just a bizarre Monday.
What does this mean for the rest of the week.
By the way, I missed this earlier.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I was playing the audio of Hennepin County and they
were going through the required worker pronoun training. Was there
any education on terminology like this from Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Rinchi Harton or something.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Curious? Twin City stores took part in open ended, nationwide
Starbucks strikes. The strikes began on Thursday, the company's Red
Cup Day, one of the busiest sales sale days of
the year for Starbucks. According to the article that I
have in front of me from Bring Me the News,
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Zoe ron Mom, Donnie was talking about the unionized to
Starbucks workers last week.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 21 (34:00):
Talking about a CEO of a company who made ninety
six million dollars just last year, ninety six million dollars,
which is six thou six hundred and sixty six times
the median Starbucks worker salary.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
That's the kind of disparity that we are seeing here.
And what these workers are asking for is the bare minimum.
They are asking for a salary that they can actually
live off. They are asking for hours they can actually
build their life around. They are asking for the violations
of labor law to finally be resolved, and they deserve
(34:36):
a city that has their back. And I am here
to say that that is what New York City will vision.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
My message to Starbucks management is that I stand here
today to practice with these workers, and if you force
these workers to go on strike, then I will be
there with them on that strike as well.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm gonna share with you audio from a star Bucks
a worker in Washington where they actually ended up shutting
down the Starbucks that they work at in Redmond over
these boycotts at taking place. Starbucks only has their selves
to blame, however, allowing some of their locations to have
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their baristas be unionized.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
These are not meant to be careers.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You're not necessarily supposed to be able to make a
living comfortably off of an entry level job like being
a barista. And tragically, many of those gen Zers that
are cheering over the comments from Mom Donnie or protesting
outside their Starbucks, they haven't been taught and haven't bothered
(35:48):
to use any common sense as to why individuals in
corporate Starbucks make as much money as they do. How Again,
the pay is reflective of the job that they're doing,
and that ridiculus this percentage that Zohron provided doesn't account
for the actual costs of running the business and paying
their salaries. And yet they put themselves out of work
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in Redmond, Washington, forcing the store to close.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
What do we want? When do we want it? What
do we want? When do we want it? What do
we want?
Speaker 6 (36:24):
What do we want?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
We need to be paid more.
Speaker 22 (36:27):
It's ridiculous, like what we have to go through as workers.
We're telling Starbucks that they need to invest in us
and they need to come back to the bargaining table
so we can get a contract and we can be
back at work.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The video was so sad to see this young girl
standing there with her protest Starbucks and T shirt that
I'm sure some well funded activist group provided to the
individuals that we're protesting outside of the Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
And she'll probably end up losing.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Her job over all of this. And again, Starbucks only
has themselves to blame. They have been catering to the
woke left for years now. They created this disaster.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
But I do have a.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Level of sympathy for these individuals or is it empathy
which one either way, it's so disappointing because these people,
these young people, they are going to be out of work.
They're gonna have to get themselves a job in a
place that's not going to allow them to unionize, or
they're not going to be catered to in the way
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that the mom Donnies and the Wansleys say that they
will under their socialist regime. Now, the lethel just continue
to support their mediocre lifestyles as long as they continue
to vote Democrats into office.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Thank you for hanging out on the show this morning.
It's been a weird one.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
What will the other four days of the week bring?
David Gartzenstein and Roswell join us tomorrow. Have some really
great AI stories to talk about with David starting at
six thirty.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I hope you have a fantastic Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
If you missed any portion of today's show, be sure
to check out the podcast available on the iHeartRadio app.
You can email me or leave a talkback overnight Justice
at iHeartRadio dot com. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning,
just after six.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Have a great one, by
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