Morning Update: Let’s Go, Brandon

Democrats suck for lots of reasons, not the least of which is this. Over Father’s Day weekend, 44* people were shot, 7 of them permanently. That’s more than three dozen gunshot wounds over a three-day period, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson took time to express his concern about trans-femicide.

00:00 Introduction and Overview of Current Events
00:48 Chicago’s Violence and Political Response
02:38 Critique of Democratic Policies and Priorities

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Ep 202 Link(s):

  • https://www.frontpagemag.com/chicago-mayor-declares-transgender-state-of-emergency-after-39-shot-on-fathers-day-weekend/
  • https://heyjackass.com/
  • https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/fathers-day-weekend-shootings-soar-100-in-chicago-as-city-sees-bloodiest-day-since-2024.html
  • https://x.com/ChicagosMayor/status/2068740734971412745

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Edited Transcript:

Welcome to your Wednesday, June 24th, 2026. Morning update. Democrats suck. Take Gavin Newsom, for example. He gets billions of dollars for this and millions of dollars for that, and directs all sorts of funding at that or this. And the money gets spent. The money disappears somewhere down a hole.

Lots of holes, probably blue holes. But nothing gets better. Nothing gets done. In fact, things get worse. Another fine example of that is the Windy City in Chicago. Here’s the headline.

Chicago mayor declares transgender state of emergency after a thirty-nine-shot on Father’s Day weekend. There’s some debate about that number.

If you go to Hey Jackass, they say thirty-seven were shot.

But if you count the incidents that they list on their website, forty-four got shot.

Seven died.

So, transgender state of emergency, what’s that all about?

According to the report on Front Page magazine, since declaring a transfemicide state of emergency, our administration has strengthened the city’s capacity to support LGBTQ Chicagoans. A Sunday X post report from Mayor Brandon Johnson said. This framework builds on that work by centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.

From the author’s opening paragraph,

Chicago, a city of children without fathers and nineteen-year-old deadbeat dads who point their guns sideways at each other while driving at high speed past drug corners, commemorated Father’s Day with shootings that took out thirty-nine people and killed six of them. As I noted in the opening, it’s thirty-seven or probably forty-four, and seven people died. That’s up from five killed and sixteen wounded last year.

Those numbers are correct.

So obviously it was time for Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, probably the worst mayor in the country, and between Zohran Mom Donnie, Katie Wilson, and Karen Bass, who burned down LA for a second time while on vacation, it’s a tough competition.

And it is a tough competition. Forty-four people got shot over the weekend. Seven of them died. In one of the incidents, it was a drive-by in which somebody probably unloaded something in the neighborhood of a hundred rounds, wounding close to a dozen people. This is Chicago. Chicagoland. And Mayor Brandon – Johnson seems appropriate. Is talking about (a) Trans femicide state of emergency. Were any of the people shot or killed over Father’s Day weekend trans femme-whatevers? I don’t think they were. In fact, all the police reports list them as male or female.

These are the priorities of the Democrat Party. They will disarm you so that only criminals can have guns. They will take your money so that you can’t afford to live without them supporting you. They will make everything harder to find, more expensive, and

And lower quality. That’s the Democrat Party. That’s who they are. And on Father’s Day weekend, while people who are fathering children are shooting each other with weapons they’re not supposed to have. Mayor Brandon of Chicago, Mr. Johnson, is talking about trans femicide.

Very connected to his constituents. Very connected.

That’s it for today. We’ll talk to you tomorrow.

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