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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today's Thursday September 8th 2022.

I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A Greenwald Hyade. Hi John. Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute

fellow Christine Rosen, Hyde Christine. Hi John. And associate editor and author of the rise

of the New Puritans Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. Obviously our thoughts and prayers are with

the Queen of England who is and great Britain and the and the commonwealth who is I believe 97

and is in decline. So we should mention that at the beginning she's a extraordinary person.

As somebody somebody said earlier today, there are seven billion people on this planet who have not

known of another Queen of England. She's been Queen of England for 70 years, something like that. And

it's a pretty extraordinary longevity and record and life and we'll probably talk more about that.

I want to talk about what I consider I am not a big fan of political trolling though in my youth

like all foolish and immature people. I loved political trolling and I thought it was hilarious and

now I think it's mostly more destructive than it is positive. But I want to talk about what I think

is a genuinely brilliant act of political trolling and that is Greg Abbott the governor of Texas

who is forcing hypocritical urban democrats and their loud mouthory about the moral importance of

accepting immigration without limits. Both Eric Adams and Lori Lightfoot the respective

mayors of New York and Chicago have expressed outrage shock and discussed at the fact that border

crossers from Mexico into Texas are being sent on buses to New York and to Chicago cities that

call themselves sanctuary cities. What does that mean? I will now read to you from the Chicago.gov

frequently asked question document on sanctuary cities. What does it mean that Chicago is a sanctuary

city? Chicago's welcoming city ordinance means that the city will not ask about your immigration status

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