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ybe. You've noticed that I've been ignoring the story about the Ukrainian refugee woman who got stabbed to death in Charlotte when she was on the light rail train. Well, it turns out that now it's morphed from a crime story into a big political story because now the anti-MAGA press of the world has decided that the way the people on the right, the MAGA supporters, are talking about it somewhat ob…

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't do anything about it, I've often wondered if the best solution isn't for people to apply for, let's call it a grant or a scholarship to move out of whatever bad place has a bad example that's being set for them. Not just in this regard, but someplace safe where they can really concentrate on school or whatever. Don't you think that that would be one way to save a failing neighborhood? Literally to let people say, "All right, give me your best argument. If you're really serious about having a successful, honest life, write us a little thing or send us a video and maybe we'll sponsor you or a number of people will sponsor you to get enough money to move to a place that has lower crime, better schools." So it would be great if the people who have the ability to thrive in a different atmosphere had the opportunity to get there and they wouldn't always be able to do it themselves. So just an idea.

There's a Chicago alderman who was ripping into both the governor and the mayor Johnson and Pritzker about the topic of Trump offering aid to Chicago. Newsmax is reporting this, Michael Katz, and he's basically saying and he's obviously a Democrat as well, but he's on their team and he's even saying no, we got a little bit too much crime here. Maybe you should accept his help. So if you're wondering if reasonable common sense people would agree with Trump, well, there you go. Sounds like he's a pretty reasonable alderman.

But here's a question that I ask that you might be asking yourself. How much should I care about crime in Chicago if I don't live in Chicago and the people who do live there are electing people who allow this much crime and probably could do something i.e. let Trump come in with some extra help. They probably could do something to lower it, but for whatever reason, their priorities are not that. So am I supposed to care a lot? I very much wanted Trump to move the National Guard to Washington DC, even though I don't live there, because it's my capital, right? It's my capital. Of course I want that cleane

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d up. Of course that represents me. But if the people in Chicago don't want the help, should we really force it upon them? I mean, they do have the ability to vote in people who would change that and they apparently are not choosing that path. At what point does it just become their problem? So I don't know how much of my tax dollars I want to spend sending the military or any form of the militar…

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