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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | In a tower by the river, there lived a man. |
0:04.0 | There was a man who took a stand, |
0:10.0 | with pen and paper in his hand, defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword. |
0:20.0 | No escape from his ink lasso in a tower by the river, Castle. |
0:27.0 | Here's how you get him. |
0:28.0 | He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, you send to one of yours to the hospital, you say, |
0:32.0 | one of hiss to the morgue. |
0:33.4 | That's the shanpackle. |
0:35.0 | It's the end of the year and all the wheels are falling off Mayor Johnson's bus. |
0:46.1 | And to discuss that and the nature of the stories |
0:49.7 | that will be interested in as the West is under attack as Trump runs for re-election and as |
0:59.6 | the media seems to try to protect Mayor Johnson. |
1:06.2 | We have with us Charles Lipsen, |
1:08.8 | Professor Emeritus, Ritzma Professor |
1:11.3 | at the University of Chicago, our friend who wrote an excellent piece, |
1:17.0 | the Chicago Mayor's Hat Trick of Dreadful Policies. And I would suggest it's a hat trick for three heads because he's |
1:27.2 | become something of the three-headed monster. You know what strikes me John? |
1:33.0 | Yes Charles. |
1:34.0 | Is that I've talked to a number of people who, you know, friends who are, I would say moderate |
1:40.1 | progressives or, you know, further left than that who supported Johnson and |
1:45.4 | almost all of them have gotten off that bus they think he's a failure and |
1:51.6 | that's not because he has changed from his left his |
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