JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick
JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick ~ November 20, 2024 ~ Full Show
Well, come in. Happy Wednesday. It is good to have you. And we got a busy show today, and I'm going to ask you to, to try to explain something to me because one of the things that we have seen particularly Democrats do over the last couple of years is, you know, if, if Donald Trump appointed a couple of Supreme Court justices, it's, well, now this is a far right leaning court and we should expand the court. We should, we should add more. We should add more seats to which I always said was a silly idea because first of all, nothing is forever, but, but second, at what point are we going to stop? Because if you expand the court, then Republicans, when they get back into power, they'll expand the court and, and on and on, we go into this, you know, circle of craziness. Well, you know, we are halfway through this decade or about to be halfway through this decade. And there is an interesting thing that I found about what could happen in not this next presidential election, but the election after that, because in 2030, we'll have another census. And one of the things that we have seen, even here in the state, we know firsthand, when you lose people, when you lose population, so to do you lose electoral votes? So to do you lose congressional seats? And there is an interesting study done by an Ivy League school about who's losing and who's gaining and, and how that could have a, a serious impact going forward. We'll talk about that coming up at two 18. A couple of stories I want to get you caught up on this, uh, this afternoon. Police in Novi are investigating now as we've seen and heard of these transnational gangs that have come to the Metro Detroit area and have hit affluent communities. West Bloomfield, Birmingham, places like that. Well, now it's come to Novi because South American transnational gangs have hit a number of high high profile, high income homes in the Novi area. Um, at the end of October, they hit a house at the intersection of back and eight mile. Uh, there is a, a, a subdivision of a just massive houses, uh, in that area. And then, um, and, and so now this has come to South kind of Southern Western Oakland County. And this is something that Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bushard has talked to great lengths about, um, trying to stop, but, but these are, you know, highly trained groups of people that are coming from South America, that are coming from Central America, that are basically staking out homes, watching people, watching to see, you know, what their, their schedules are. Are they leaving at eight o'clock in the morning every day? Who's with them? Uh, and just kind of watching their movements. And then when they're not home or when, when they think that they're gone, they hit these houses. They, they go in, they jam security systems and they go and they take high value things, whether it's purses or clothes or jewelry, money, whatever. Uh, and so now that's, uh, come to the Novi area. Uh, meanwhile, the murder of Lake and Riley, uh, and the, the man who, who authorities say killed her, Jose Abara has been found guilty on all accounts of the murder of 22 year old, Lake and Riley. Uh, he was sentenced less than two hours. Uh, later, uh, once the jury went into deliberations, maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Uh, he was a gang member. Uh, he had waived his rights to a jury trial and, uh, which was unusual in the case, but again, this was, this was pretty cut and dry. Uh, and, uh, and he will spend the life, uh, the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Meanwhile, you've got, uh, speaker of the house, Mike Johnson announcing a policy that bars trans women from capital bathrooms. This came about after Nancy Mase, Congresswoman Nancy Mase, uh, was going to put a resolution on the floor that would bar, uh, trans women from women's facilities on Capitol Hill. And now speaker Johnson, uh, who, who under house rules as a speaker has general control of facilities in the chamber is, has said all single sex facilities in the Capitol and house office buildings, such as restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. It is important to note that each member of, uh, each member office has its own private restroom and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women's only spaces, he says. Uh, this of course comes as, uh, there is a first trans representative that has been elected from Delaware, Sarah McBride. Uh, she is the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. And, uh, so this has turned into a bit of a flashpoint on, on Capitol Hill. Uh, meanwhile, uh, interesting story out of the city of Detroit, uh, about lead water pipes and the, the, the worry of the water not being, uh, uh, able to be digested or used for Detroit residents, Detroit water and sewer CEO, uh, assures residents that water is safe. Uh, and WJR senior news analyst, Bury Osbourne has been keeping an eye on this story. Good afternoon, Marie. Hi, Chris. The Detroit water and sewage department says Detroiters do not need to worry about lead service lines in their homes or their businesses, even though they receive these letters, notifying them of the lines. About 225,000 of these letters were now telling Detroiters that their property had a known led service line, galvanized service line, or a line of an unknown material that may have led in it. So this caused a lot of residents to reach out to the department with questions and concerns. D W S D director Gary Brown said the letters lacked context and he ensured everyone that the water is safe. Your water is safe. We do have lead service lines in about 80,000 Detroit residents and we need to get them out. Uh, Detroit is leading the nation in the number of lines that we're getting out per year. We got more than 10,000 out this past year. Gary Brown speaking with the morning show this morning. All residents should take simple precautions. He says with their waters, the service and you can do that first thing in the morning. Find a way to run your water for three to five minutes in order to flush your home system as well as the lead service line that's feeding your home. And you will have you will not have a problem. So as of November, Chris, the EPA requires every municipality with lead service lines to mail out these notification letters. Brown said this is the first letter that's gone out. That's what's caused this kerfuffle and the department will be sending the same letter out for the next 10 years, reminding people about this. Detroit is replacing thousands of their lead service lines. So far, they've done about 11,000 of them just over that. So far, they've replaced that many. So how did this? Okay. So it was a misunderstanding or maybe the words were too harsh in this letter, but how did this letter get out? So the, the EPA requires that every municipality that may have lead water pipes somewhere, that they have to send these letters out. And apparently the actual verbiage of it was given to the, to each city and by the EPA and they had to use these words. And that was what was, you know, that's what alarmed people like people are all of a sudden you get a letter in the mail and you're like, well, you know, you probably knew that already, but now you're wondering why are they sending this to me. So Gary Brown was just saying he probably, they probably should have sent something with a little context, maybe a prefix to it, to explain this is why you're getting this letter. This is what it said. This is what it says. Rest assured your waters. Because what do people think? Oh, well, now this is the flint water crisis over again or yes. And of course we've seen flint play out elsewhere in the state and in the country, what Benton Harbor is another big hot spot. Yeah. All right, well, we'll keep watching it. Marie. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. We'll take a break. Come back for more here on Jay afternoon. So I know, you know, I don't, I'm not trying to get us to the next election. I'm not, look, I'm not trying to do any of that, but I, I'm always kind of thinking about stuff. And one of the things I've been thinking about lately is like, all right, we're getting into 2025 here a couple months. And somehow 2025 is the halfway mark from our last census in 2020. And I just like, boy, where did those four years go? But whatever. So now we're getting into the halfway point of this, of this decade. And I thought, you know, going back to 2020 outside of the COVID stuff, in that last census, we saw a shift in, in states that both lost congressional seats and then gained congressional seats. And as the, the, the equal by product, lost electoral votes, gained electoral votes, right? So in 2025 states gained a housing Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon. Texas got two. And then seven states lost a house seat, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. So, okay, how do those trends, how do they, how do they continue to trend over the next five years? Well, apparently, I'm not the only one thinking about this, because there was an op-ed put out in the New York Post, and they highlighted a couple of interesting things. Two nonpartisan nonprofits, the Brennan Center for Justice and the American Redistricting Project, have crunched the numbers and they, they put them into the, the, you know, they're, they're future forecasting machine. And they came out that places like California and New York might be in some trouble. In fact, they say states that voted for Kamala Harris this year are set to lose 12 seats in the House of Representatives. That is an equal number of presidential electors after 2030. That's taking the Census Bureau data from the, the 2020 Census and then extrapolating it. California is on track to lose not one, not two, not three, but four congressional seats and electoral votes, New York, three, Illinois, two, Oregon, Rhode Island, Minnesota are all going to be down one. Now, who stands to benefit from that? Well, Republican states, because most of them are going to go to Texas that's going to pick up four. Florida will get three, Idaho, Utah, Tennessee, each getting one. And of the battleground states, many of them are going to get more votes that all went to Donald Trump. Now again, is it, is it apples to apples? Of course not. Things can change the demographics and these states are changing rapidly. I don't think it's one or the other. But I guess my question is, do you feel like eventually there is going to have to be a shift, not just because of the election and how people voted, but a shift from how these parties govern in the states. Because if we look at, again, any example that you want about why people are leaving states or moving away. Well, again, who benefits and why are they leaving? And isn't going to continue? It's one of the reasons why Governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration has put such an emphasis on population retention. We want to stop losing people. We don't want people to move away from the state of Michigan, but they have been. And whether it's, you know, college kids graduating and moving on to their careers outside of the state of Michigan, or people moving around for whatever reason, Michigan doesn't want to lose those seats. It brings me to my next point in this, because MSNBC put out a piece that tries to frame this situation that I think Democrats are in. And look, if you ask me, Democrat states losing congressional seats, their ergo losing electoral votes, hurts Democrats. Bolsters states that Republicans have won and will continue to probably win. But they put out a piece, and I love this, two, as they frame them as conservative liberals, are putting out an idea that they need to expand the House of Representatives. Hmm. If you go all the way back to 1929, there was a law put into place that put a limit to the size of the House at 435 members. Before 1929, every 10 years, the census would come out and they would add representatives. But in 1929, they put a caps at 435 is the number. And what's very interesting here is this idea of, well, we have more people in the United States today, these congressional districts, in many cases, in some cases, have ballooned to where the number of constituents to the one representative is all out of whack. It's too much. It's, it's, it's, it's impossible for these people to be able to serve their constituents when there's just this many of them. But I don't understand this idea of, okay, well, wait a second, if we're losing seats in, in Democrat states, let's go ahead and just add to the House. We'll just add more representatives. It's, it's part of the bloated government that a lot of people don't like. I don't like we don't need to keep adding. So what we just need to keep adding people making $160,000 a year. How many are we going to add? Do we need to add a hundred? What is that due to the electoral college? It doesn't make sense. Instead, why don't we as a, as a political governing body, look at what the needs of the American people are and meet those, meet those. Now you want to hire more staffers that are making significantly less than $160,000 a year to hold events on your behalf to make sure that your constituencies or your constituents are being heard. I'm all for it, but we don't need to just add to an already bloated government. It doesn't make any sense to me. It's the same idea of Donald Trump put too many conservatives on the Supreme Court. Let's expand the Supreme Court. Well, no, that doesn't make any sense because if Republicans ever win power back, they're just going to add more seats and appoint more judges. Does it? It's silly. It's nonsensical. So now this idea of, well, let's just add. It's insanity to me. I want to hear from you. 800-859-0957, 800-8590-WJR. As we approach the halfway point of this decade, as we get a little closer to the next census, how are these changing demographics? People leaving blue states heading to red states, kind of fortifying these red states. Meanwhile, what does that do to the states that are losing congressional representatives? What is the political, chemical makeup of people in those states? Because you can make the argument that whatever is left in those states are probably going to be pretty fortified and it might be more difficult to flip those states looking at you, Michigan, Pennsylvania. And then this idea of, well, let's just add more representatives. No, no, no. Let's not address the issues and listen to the people and figure out how we should govern. No, no, no. Let's just add more. Add, add, add, add, add. 800-859-0957, 800-859-0WJR. We'll get to your calls, your texts coming up. And look, it's a very simple question. Where are you at on this? We'll talk about it as we continue on JR Afternoon. So the deal is, I think these parties need to be more catering to people. They need to cater more to what you think. They need to cater more to what concerns you. They need to cater more to the concerns that you have, whether it's the economy, whether it's your social security, your health care. They need to cater to you, you. And it goes for both parties. Now, we're coming off of an election where Republicans won pretty good. One control of the Senate won the White House. They're going to have the majority in the House of Representatives. It's a clean sweep for them. The issue is, and I have no other choice but to focus on Democrats here because a majority of the electorate sided with Republicans in Donald Trump. And so his message resonated. It resonated with people. It resonated people in urban areas. It resonated with people in densely populated areas, big cities, big suburban areas. I mean, he did better across the board with every voting bloc in every corner of the country. And so the Democratic message didn't hit home. And so as a result, like any election, you got autopsy things. You got to figure out what went wrong, what messaging you had that didn't work. What was it? Was it the candidates? Was it the messaging? Was it the campaigns? Was it the ads? What was it? Was it how you spent your money? They look at all these things. And, and, and if you want to even go all the way back to COVID and how states handled it and how states didn't and whatever. For whatever reason, people are leaving some of these blue states, these solidly blue states. And so how instead of addition, instead of, well, let's just do away with almost a hundred year old law of capping the house of representatives at 435 congressional house representatives. How about we look at what the American people want? How about we talk to you and figure out what you want? I don't need more. I need better. I don't need more representatives. I need more responsible representatives. I need people that are willing to listen to me and vote accordingly. Now, of course, any given congressional map in any congressional district, you're not going to be able to, to appease everybody. You're just not. It's not possible. But you can do your best. And some representatives do a better job than others. Some, some congressmen and women do a better job than others. So instead of adding, how about we just do better? How about we do better listening to you, listening to the American people? To me, that makes more sense. And, and I think that with that comes a better job of governing in individual states. And maybe the messaging from some of these solidly blue states, maybe slightly shaded blue states, even purple states, I think that has to come into the lexicon of, of politicians that are elected by you to do a better job or to, or to tone down certain rhetoric or to ramp up certain rhetoric, whatever it is. And so this idea of, while more blue states are going to be losing more seats, air go more electoral votes. And then how does that impact all of these other states, some of these red states? What does it do to states that are losing? Does it just make them more blue? Can, you know, you could make the argument that after COVID, Republicans left the state of Michigan. So what does that do? Well, we saw what happened in this election and they still went red. So there's a lot at play here, but I'm just trying to think of a different angle for you guys because the realities are we're going to be halfway through this decade. 2030 is going to be another census. And we, we've got one more presidential election in this decade before this shift happens, before states are losing and gaining electoral votes and house seats. So I don't need more representatives, like, like a couple of Democrats have thrown out. We don't need to add more. We need to do a better job of listening to you. 800-859-0957-800-859-0W chair. Let's go to William and River Rouge. What's up, William? Good. When the Supreme Court of the United States was formed, I don't know, maybe 100 years, 200 years, while I was done, the selection of the justices always been the sitting president of the United States, along with Congress, right? Yes. And Donald Trump didn't go kill nobody to put them into the Supreme Court, or we were just, these seats came available and it says duty as the president of the United States to suggest his people. And I'm sorry that it didn't happen, but in the manner that it happened, where they think down stacks the public courts, it happens as the way it's happened for the past 200 years when the seat came vacant, the sitting president appointed or suggested the appointment to Congress and then they sit down and do the approval on it. And with them saying that, "Oh, Donald Trump's debt of courts," he didn't. He's just done what every president in the history since the founding of the Supreme Court had done. He has not stepped or fired anybody and put them in. He's just put the people that he believes that he wants in there. And the same thing the Democrats have done it for more than the position of. Sure. And of course, William and other politics that play here, right? Because at the end of the Obama administration, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg unfortunately passed away and Republicans had control of the Senate, they made the decision that they weren't going to hold those hearings and that they were going to go ahead and not hear Merrick Garland and they were going to wait until after the election. It was a different set of circumstances from at the end of the Trump presidency because Republicans still had control of the Senate. So it was a different set of circumstances. But look, politics are still in play there. There's no doubt about it. Absolutely, Chris. Hey, I love your show and I wish I could give you my phone number. I mean, you could sit and have a talk. You know, I got a lot of views that I agree that I think you would agree with. And like I said, politics is a dirty game. Sure. Father was one. My father was one and he said, you know what? You get this guy happy? Now this guy's mad. Yeah. You get this guy happy? The other guy's mad. It's a no-win situation. Yeah. Well, I want it to run for something in Wayne County, like get on the new one of the commissioners. My dad said, do not get and do it. It just ain't worth it. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I mean, it's a tough business and you're not going to make everybody happy. But I think you got to do your best and I think you have to level with your constituents. Like guys, I'm going to do my best for you. I'm going to hear everybody out. I'm going to do what I think is right. I'm going to do what I think represents a majority of you. And I don't know that. Again, it's not all across the board. Like, you know, people, you know, like Debbie Dingle, for example, not everybody agrees with Debbie Dingle. But you know what? Debbie Dingle is one of the hardest working members of the House of Representatives. She is constantly out talking to people. She is constantly out at events. She's constantly out of VFW halls. And, and again, whether you agree or disagree, those are the people that you want representing you because they hear you or they will listen to you. They may not agree, but they'll listen. And I think that's a, that's a huge part of it. I do agree with you 100% on that thing. But I think that a lot of these politicians have got them. You can't call one. You can't talk to one. I know. They forgot. They work for us. Yeah. We don't work for them. And we can't even talk. We have no way to talk to them as a common citizen because I can't get on their phone number. Right. Which ain't right. I should be able to talk to them. Yeah. And I can't. Yeah. No, you're right. I as a person would like to sit down. The problem is the Democrats and Republican both parties. We have people in there that are not doing the things that the people of America want to do. Yeah. William, I appreciate the call, my friend. You're welcome anytime. You know that. I appreciate you. 808590957 your calls. We'll get some text in the mix next year on J afternoon. All right. Let's get a couple of texts into the mix and we'll get back to your calls, Dave. What do we got? Yeah. So text message from a 714 area code says, this is how illegals come into the picture. They can be counted in a census. They don't have to be a citizen. And that changes the electoral votes. Yeah, they are counted. I but I don't know if that impacts the change of electoral votes. That's a good question. I have to look into that. 313 area code says it is true that people are leaving blue states and going to red states. The problem is is when they go to the red state, they still continue to vote Democrat. Then they run away from the bad policies hoping to find better policies in red states, but they continue to vote Democrat. I mean, I guess the prime example of that would be Florida, but it's been the opposite of that. It's people have left blue states to go to Florida and Florida has become more red. I mean, I remember in the midterms, as Ron DeSantis was running for reelection, I remember reading something from a Democratic operative, a Democratic strategist in Florida that was working to unseat him and work to turn the state blue, basically. And they they said about, I don't remember if it was like three, four months before the election for the midterms. They said that the only way Democrats were going to win in Florida was going to be if Ron DeSantis came out and stumped through them. So I think Florida is a prime example. Texas is probably a good example of people leaving, you know, California going to Texas and fortifying Texas a little bit. I know Democrats have been working to flip Texas for many years, and they feel like they might still be on that trajectory. I guess the thing that I wonder more about is, okay, let's take Michigan for an example, right? If Republicans leave Michigan, doesn't that leave more Democrat voters in the state? Like, doesn't that make Michigan less of a toss up more of a blue fortified hold? Now, maybe Democrats are like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how it works out. There are ramifications, though, to it. Right. And especially to a state like Michigan, where we're just losing people left and right, you know, we lost another House seat again in 2020 for like the third consecutive census, whatever it was. So it's like, it's been happening. So what are the ramifications? We we didn't see them necessarily in this election because they went red. Right. One other one last text from seven three four area code says your Republican station got what you wanted and all Republican government, but that's not enough. You're worried about six years from now. And there could be a change at a Democrat might get elected. You should just take your medication and calm down. First of all, Republican station. Second of all, I it's not about guys, it's not about who won this election. It's like, can we have a little forethought down the road? Like, can we can we talk about something different? Like, it's a totally new angle. Nobody's talking about this. And and the realities are these do have real world ramifications. So it's not about taking our medicine. It's it's nothing to do with any of that. It's just another angle to all of this that I don't think most people are thinking about. And I find it interesting because the changing demographics and all of these states is something that these parties are constantly looking at, constantly, constantly looking at. And and again, it's it's a it's a real world thing that they will have ramifications to it. Let's go to the phones. Dave and Rochester. What's up Democrat, Dave? Hey, Chris, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Not surprising. I you're not surprising. Everything uses that. Oh, okay. Yeah, the Supreme Court logic. It's not about Patrick. You could argue there's a case for packing the court. It's where the last eight elections were the Democrats won during a point where since Clarence Thomas, eight appointees have been put on. But however, they've they're those eight appointees over eight presidential elections, 32 years. They won the plurality in 2004, George W. Bush, or one of the eight. And yet they got five of the eight appointments since Clarence Thomas. But the bigger point is throw that out the window as far as packing the court. The number of the Supreme Court is what's more logical than that. Well, throw that out the window. So all you got to do is look at the the original mix from the US Constitution when it we increased to 9 1869. Okay, you look at you look at the logical changes the circuits. There was one circuit for court. Now the head is justice. Chief Justice Roberts has like like five five districts instead of one each. You go down to the House of Representatives, a 165 to 243 US Senate 26 to 74. Legislative of federal legislators 91 to 317 the states themselves in 13 to 34. Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, there's more like land the plane. What are we talking about? Well, there's any logic in the world. Forget about the inequity and what's happened recently. Just go to the logic of why you have Supreme Court. Why is it inequity? No, forget about that. The inequity I told you about about the public. Okay, you just said that again. So that's why I'm confused. Wait, okay. There's one, there's one. School of Fox that says, well, this is this. This isn't fair. This is not what the public votes one way. And then people get to appoint the Supreme Court to another. People don't get to to nominate Supreme Court justices. No, they're voice for the president, the voice for the president. Yeah, one way. And then the president gets to point them. It's not a reflection of what's happened over the last eight years. I'm saying, take that. That's school or thought, throw that out the window. Dave, I'm very confused. If I'm confused, I assume a lot of people are too. I don't know what you're talking about. So the realities are presidents get to appoint justices. If a Republican is in office, they're going to appoint the justice. It's not inequity. It's the way of the world. Now, I actually, I would bet dollars to donuts that Donald Trump is probably going to going to appoint two new justices in the next two years. I would bet you that they're going to have Clarence Thomas step down and Samuel Lito step down. And they're going to put two new justices on the Supreme Court. Now, again, whether you think that's right, wrong, or otherwise, is this is the dirty politics of it all. And I don't know. I don't agree with expanding the Supreme Court. And I don't think most people do more of your calls tax coming up. Three o'clock hour. It is good to have you along. And look, we're going to get back to your calls. You tax coming up in just a minute, eight hundred, eight, five, nine, zero, nine, five, seven. I was thinking a little bit, you know, we're going to get into 2025 here. It's going to be the midway point of of this decade. And what we saw in the 2020 census was a number of states lost congressional seats. Ergo. They lost electoral votes, including California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, a couple of, of, of Democrat states. And, and I was just thinking that like, well, there's probably going to be more of those. And, and there have been a couple of bipartisan, uh, non-profits that have actually come out with reports recently saying the same thing. And I'll reset it coming up, uh, at three eighteen, also some news out of the Manhattan case with Donald Trump and a potential development there. We'll, we'll, we'll do that coming up at three eighteen. We'll get some more of your calls, your texts as well. Uh, but hey, the Trans-Siberian orchestra is out on the Lost Christmas Eve winner tour. And you can see them at the tour stop of your choice score two premium tickets to the Trans-Siberian orchestra concert of your choice with flights, a three night hotel stay and a thousand dollar gift card for holiday shopping prizes provided by wild child touring to enter for your chance to win Texas hours, national keyword, loud, loud, to nine, five, eight, one, nine full details and official contest rules. Visit wjr.com. A couple of things to get you caught up on. Some, some notable court cases, uh, with national interest. Uh, the murder of Lake and Riley has, uh, and that case has come to a close. Jose Ibarra has been sentenced to life without parole. He waved his right to a jury trial. Of course, Lake and Riley was the nursing student in Athens, Georgia, who was was found murdered. And, uh, this, this Jose Ibarra, who was a gang member, came into the United States illegally, has been sentenced to life without parole. Also, a story going back three decades, a woman named Susan Smith in South Carolina. Uh, she is serving, um, a prison time for killing her two sons by rolling her car into a lake while they were strapped in their car seats. So they, they drowned. Um, the reason back then was Susan Smith said her boyfriend didn't want children. So she killed her children. Well, she took her, her, her, uh, prison sentence to the parole board asking for an early release. And they have unanimously decided that Susan Smith should remain behind bars. Um, she says she was very sorry. She broke down in tears when she addressed the parole board. I know what I did was horrible. Uh, and I would give anything so I could change it. Um, the parole board asked her about law enforcement resources used to locate her children. She says she was just scared. She didn't know how to tell them. I'm sorry. I don't know. I, I know that's not enough. I know it's not. Um, I ask that you show that kind of mercy as well. Uh, God is a big part of my life. God has forgiven me. Um, and, and the parole board did not grant her parole. Meanwhile, in Novi, the transnational gangs that have been targeting affluent homes in Oakland County, we've talked to Sheriff White, Bouchard about it a number of times, uh, that they have now hit a couple of high-end homes in the Novi area. So that has come to Novi. Um, and, and it has become problematic. It was a flashpoint certainly, uh, as the elections roared on about illegal immigration and people coming across the border illegally and breaking asylum laws and, and those things. And, and these, these transnational gangs, um, when we've talked to Mike Bouchard about it, the Sheriff in Oakland County is these are not just some run of the mill, uh, uh, uh, illegal immigrants that have come across the border. These are, you know, tech savvy, highly trained gang members that come from a number of different places on Doris, Guatemala, uh, and, and they target affluent homes. They basically stake out and they watch your movements. They see when you leave, they say who you leave with. They, they basically stake out your house. And when they feel like nobody's home, they go in and they take valuable things, uh, clothes, purses, jewelry, money, whatever it is. Uh, and so Novi now dealing with that. Also the CEO of the Detroit water and sewage department, Gary Brown, uh, came out and said that the city after many residents, about 225,000 letters were sent to residents telling them that their water lines may contain lead and need to be replaced. Now there has been an effort to, to re, uh, to, to replace these water lines in the city of Detroit. Um, and they've done it to the tune of like a thousand, or excuse me, 11,000 or so. Um, and the city says they've got about 80,000 lines that need to be replaced, but the EPA came out with boilerplate language and the city sent it out. Well, Gary Brown says that there is no crisis, that they're not trying to hide, uh, an issue with the water supply or the water systems, and that nothing has changed since these letters have gone out in the way they've operated. They haven't made any adjustments to the water supply and, uh, and he said that they're not trying to hide anything. And I believe he spoke with the morning show today at Jair morning. So if you want to go check out that, uh, that interview, wjr.com's got it for you. Um, meanwhile, I just asked you the question, um, about what we're seeing in terms of what happened in the 2020 census has a number of states lost congressional seats, meaning they lost, uh, electoral votes, and how that's going to impact the next decade, because we're at the halfway point. I mean, 2020 was almost five years ago. And so in this next census, there are a couple of, uh, non-partisan, non-profits that have come out and said that more states, particularly blue states like California and New York are going to lose again, multiple seats. The Brennan Center for Justice, the American redistricting project came out and said that, that Democrats could be in some trouble in these places because they're, they're losing population at a higher rate and therefore you're going to lose seats. Meanwhile, you've got a couple of Democrats in Congress saying that we need to waive a, a, a nearly hundred year old law, a law that was established in 1929 that said, we need to cap the House of Representatives at 435 because previously they would look at the population growth and then they would add to the House of Representatives if needed. Well, then they capped it at 435 and 29. And so ever since then, we've had 435 representatives. The, the population certainly of the United States has grown. And as a result, the proposal from a couple of Democrats in Washington is, well, let's add more congressional representatives. Let's do away with the old 1929 law and, and start to add more representatives, to which I say, we don't need more. We need better. We need our representatives, our elected officials to listen to you. What matters to you? Whether you tell me the economy is good or not, it doesn't feel like it to me. So what do we do about that? What do we do with illegal immigration? What do we do with social issues? What do we do with geopolitical issues? We need politicians need to do a better job of listening to their constituents and being more available for their constituents to have their voices heard. And I don't think we need to add, I think we need to stay exactly as we are. But I think we need to demand more from our representatives. 800-859-0957, we'll get some more of your calls, your texts coming up at 318, also some movement in Donald Trump's Manhattan case. I'll tell you what that is as well on J.R. afternoon. All right, back at it, 800-859-0957. Let's go to Rotten Plymouth. What's up, Rotten? Hey, Chris. Think of the, the, the grief of Lincoln Riley's family as I say that, you know, you're talking about representatives. The Democrat Party has a much bigger problem than a few representatives. In the past four years, hundreds of thousands of family members have been killed. And, and that is not going to be soon forgotten. And it was all because of Joe Biden's, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi's open border policies. Whether it should be associated with the legal or not, it is, and forever will be, because these people, which is a blow, a voting block of at least 10 million people, will never forget what the Democrat Party has done to this country with these open borders. I think that was the biggest factor in President Trump winning. The Democrats at the end, at a last-minute effort to get, retain and gain some votes, they decided, yes, we should build a border. Look what Joe Biden did. He sold off for five cents on a dollar, a border that was being erected. That is why the Democrats lost. And this will have, they'll have to live with this for at least a generation. Well, I, I mean, I don't know. I, I think that, yes, it won't be forgotten. And, and look, there is no border that's perfect. I mean, people came in illegally under Donald Trump in his first term. Certainly not at the degree that, that we've seen over the last three years, but, but, yeah, I, I think that that messaging and Rod, I appreciate the call. I think that was a, a huge, a huge issue for people. I absolutely. And, and again, I think it's a lot of things. I think it's a lot, I think, I don't know that that was the, the issue. I think that there was a lot of issues that people looked at and said, well, wait a second, I don't, I'm not buying what you're selling. Or you could tell me one thing, but I feel something completely different. So yeah, I think there's a lot of reasons. And, and I'm not saying that this is going to be the be all end all that, you know, a couple of states are going to lose congressional seats and lose electoral votes. And, and all of a sudden that's going to change the landscape of, of President, presidential elections for the next hundred years. I don't think that's the case. But it will have some sort of impact. It will have a ramification of one way or the other. Also want to throw this into the mix. Prosecutors in Alvin Bragg's Manhattan District Attorney Office said that they opposed Donald Trump's bid to throw out his case, the hush money case. But they don't object to the indefinite delay of sentencing for his criminal conviction. Now, one of the things that if you remember leading up to the election, especially after the charges came down was that, you know, Donald Trump's just trying to escape sentencing and he's only doing this to stay out of jail. And the, the prevailing thought was that these cases are going to just go away. Well, that's not necessarily what the Manhattan DA's office wants to do. So here's what where we stand now. In a letter to Judge Juan Marchant, prosecutors proposed a December nine deadline to present arguments of postponing Donald Trump's sentencing hearing. Right now, it's scheduled for November 26th. But they agree that with Donald Trump's position as president elect that that this needs to be put on ice, but they don't want to put it away altogether. Prosecutors say that they acknowledge that a sitting president is immune from prosecution that's been the long-standing DOJ position. But they write it does not mandate the dismissal of a post trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at the time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution. And that is based on unofficial conduct. They say that they deeply respect the office of the president, their mindful of the demands and obligation of the presidency, and acknowledge that the defense and defendant's inauguration, Donald Trump's inauguration, will raise unprecedented legal questions. Now, I don't see how you can possibly just put this thing on ice. I don't know, I mean, we've just never seen anything like this, where a prosecutor's office for whatever reason just puts the proceedings on hold for any length of time for years, so that when Donald Trump comes out of office in 2028, that he'll be sentenced as soon as he gets out. I just don't, I don't understand the legal standing for that. And again, there is no precedent for this. There is no blueprint for this. It is, it is completely unprecedented. So man, Alvin Bragg's office wants to put this thing on ice until Donald Trump gets out of office to then sentence him. 808590957, back to the phone to Marx and Lavonia. What's up, Mark? Yeah, I just want to two quick comments, one on the Electoral College and the Supreme Court, and the Electoral College, it was a brilliant thing that the framers did many years ago. And I think of John James, when he ran for Senate the first time, that he won, I think, 67 districts out of 80. And so I always thought the Electoral College should go through Senate too. No, he lost to Debbie Stavina, who won 12 districts and he won 63, I think. So you mean kind of like, not quite, but kind of like what Nebraska does, where they, they elect these, they elect. So who, who put Debbie Stavina, you know, in her position? Flint, Detroit, planning act, because those are the high, where most of the people live, but they don't represent the rural areas of the farmers and the things like that. And that's why it's a brilliant, it was a brilliant thing. Well, it's a brilliant thing. And here's the thing, Mark, and I'll let you finish. But, but, you know, people who are on the national vote side, like let's elect people based on the national vote. I mean, the realities are in Michigan, if you get the most votes, you get the electoral votes, like the winner of a state gets the prize. Now, you have to, you have to appeal to everybody, which means that even people out in Montana, where there aren't as many people, or South Dakota, North Dakota, Idaho, that they have equal representation. I, I agree. It's brilliant. Yeah, it was. And then I just wanted to make, on a Democrat day's point on the Supreme Court, Joe Biden appointed a woman on the Supreme Court, who couldn't, I, who couldn't, uh, give, uh, couldn't explain what a woman was. Now, how was she going to make her decision on maybe a transgender person getting a taxpayer, a sex change in prison, or in the military, or if that person could be on, um, you know, in, in sports, or in somebody's bathroom? How could, if she can't define what a woman is, how could she make, you know, so, um, I think it goes both ways as far as that goes. And then it doesn't Congress and that everybody, uh, they ask her questions and they, you know, they say, okay, go ahead, you know, go ahead in a pointer and the Republicans allowed Joe to have it be that they could have fought it, like the Democrats always do. Well, the Democrats did have control of the Senate, so they're in charge of those appointments. Yeah, but I mean, still, they said, okay, go ahead, you know, and look, and again, I think that, uh, there's no doubt that, that each individual judge, and Mark, I appreciate the call, my friend. I, I think that there is, there's no doubt that these judges come at the law from a different perspective, but it's, it's how they apply the law that I think makes a lot of these cases meaningful. Take a break, come back from law. All right, jam-packed lines right back two at 800-859-0957, John and Chesterfield. What's up, Johnny? Okay, the Democrats, they want to pack a Supreme Court because they, they, uh, don't want to be accountable if they're elected officials for what they, the decisions they make. So they turn around and put it to the court, and they say that's the law. And this is like the Supreme Court justice, the other caller was talking about. She couldn't define what a woman is, what a woman is. Why is she on the Supreme Court? Trump won. Let Trump have his way. That's all I have. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks, John. I mean, um, look, I, I think of people again, these judges view the law in a certain way. They interpret the law in a certain way. And yeah, I mean, that's a political talking point. I don't know how that would impact a particular case one way or the other. Um, but I think that all of these judges, their job is to interpret the law. Now, sometimes they have precedent. Sometimes they have cases that they can go back and what lower court said or what, what other Supreme Court justices have ruled in certain cases. Um, and so there, there is this kind of amalgamation of different viewpoints and how you interpret the law. I mean, I don't know that anybody, I don't know anybody should just like have their way, but part of the job of a president, part of the job of a Supreme Court is to nominate and and go through the nominating process and give the thumbs up or the thumbs down. That's how it works. Um, and again, I, I, I think we're kind of straying from the original point, which is, I just brought up the idea that there are states that are going to lose congressional seats. There are states that are going to lose electoral votes in five years. I mean, we're coming into 2025 and we're five years away from another census. And you've got a couple of nonpartisan groups saying that, you know, places like California and New York are going to lose seats and that, that's going to be a problem for Democrats. Now, will it? I don't know who's leaving these states, you know, are there people that are voting red and leaving New York or California and you're just going to leave a state that's going to be more solidly blue. I possibly are, are Democrats leaving and going elsewhere and that's going to make states, you know, shade a, a, a purple or a light red, maybe I don't know what the, the inevitable ramifications are, but there are going to be ramifications. And if you, if the, if the prognosis is, well, California is going to lose four seats, New York's going to lose four seats. It, it, it changes the way I think people and, and, and politicians in states govern. It has to change the way that they look at governance in each individual state. And then you've got a couple of Democrats in Capitol Hill saying, well, we should expand the house so that more representatives can be here and that more of people are being represented and, and their districts are lower numbers. I disagree. I don't know why we need more. I think we need better. I think we need better representatives that listen to the American people. Let's go to Paula Novi. What's up, Polly? Just real quick. Yeah. Everybody must remember Biden and Harris turned their back on hard working American people that worked every day with that Southern border. When they opened it up, not only did they turn her back on the American people, but those people that come in to work our fields. Now, people that are coming in to work our fields from Mexico, I mean, use them as an example in Michigan, they come up here every year, worked their hands up, you know, butts off and they send that money back to Mexico where they go back and live in a very decent area. Okay. What I'm saying is we're making those people that have come in here illegally being targets. They're kicking the jobs away from the people that come here legally and work the summer and work our fields, not just here in Michigan, but all throughout the country. Yeah. You know what I'm saying there? Sure. I mean, well, yeah. And, yeah, Harris and Biden, they turn their back on those people too. Well, look, and, and Paul, and Paul, I think, I mean, again, I think it was probably more than just that. I think that probably that absolutely played a role. There's no doubt. But I think that I don't know that there was ever a real clear stance on how you fix the tightening of the dollar for middle America. And I think middle America's shrinking. And I think that there's a lot of people that were disillusioned by the fact that there just really wasn't a plan. And I think all that comes into play. Paul, I appreciate you. Let's go to Vince and Northville. What's up, Vince? Thanks for taking my call. Look, you're talking about the representation of the people and all the representation of the house, the Senate. And you want to know something that's all great. But if you want to fix this problem, you have to get lobbying reform. Okay. These lobbyists buy and sell these freshmen, congressmen, and senators coming right out of the gate. They're hunting these people. Okay. Now, these people may that we elect right now, the freshman class getting ready to go in. These guys are going to be targeted like targets. Look, if you do this and you help us get this corporation, this battery plan in, we could kick back over the next couple of years. It could be worth a couple hundred million bucks to you for your future campaigns. And until we get some lobbying reform, we have better representation. We have better representation in foreign countries with our house and Senate than we ever did for the American people. Vince, I tell me I'm wrong. No, you're not wrong. I couldn't agree with you more. I think getting money out of politics is a huge. It's, it's, it would be the, it would be, I don't know if it's number one, it would be very high on my list in a way to clean this thing up. Rocket Swami, I, in fact, cannot pronounce that guy's name. That's all right. You get those two to do corporate lobbying for, you want to do waste. That's great. Then you get, then you turn those two people loose on the big lobbying corporation. You know, you get these guys, they're getting a hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year in 10 to 15 years. They're walking away from government. We're 300, 350, 400 million dollars. And these guys are government employees. Yeah. And America, you need to wake up to that because when we solve that problem, we're going to get this country back on track. Yeah, fair. Our events appreciate you. Let's go to Super Acide and Detroit. What's up, soup? Hey, what's up, Chris? What's up, man? Hey, man, there's a couple of things to go over with, go over with you. But let me say this first, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, of course. A point as many judges as possible. And so your other, and so your other caller, let Trump have his way. What is wrong with you? We're not letting Trump have nothing. Period. We're going to fight him every step of the way. Believe that. So there is no, let him have his way. Yes, the Democrats need to do everything they can do right now to get their way and make it happen before that Senate and that Congress switch over. And the next two years, we'll be ready to take it back. Both of them, Senate and the Congress. But until then, yes, let's get as many judges as we can. Democrats get them passed through. Now, let me say this too about inclusion, Chris. And because we talked about Republicans and Democrats kind of meeting at the middle of the road. I got an idea for you suggesting. Talk to Al Sharpton. Bring Al Sharpton onto your radio show, which is one of my heroes. Why not talk to Al Sharpton? You can go on his show. You can come on your show. We can have like a middle of the road rhetoric about ideals, ideologies, and Donald Trump. What do you think about that? Soup. You know, I'm all for talking to anybody. I talk to everybody. And I want to hear everybody's point of view. Yeah, Al Sharpton is one of the greatest, man. He doesn't like double. He doesn't like double standards. So a lot of people might say, say he's a racist because he calls out double standards and unfairness in America towards black and brown individuals. But yeah, Al Sharpton, another thing, Kwame, man, we want to make we want to bring Kwame back. And whatever we got to do to fix that rule that says that he can't run for mayor again, we're going to work on that. Sue Donald Trump brought Kwame back. No, I mean, he got him out of jail. We're talking about bringing him to back to Detroit so he can run for mayor again. Okay. And just think about this. Think about the possibilities. If he runs for mayor again and then brings this current guy back out of retirement, it'd be like Obama going against Donald Trump. Give it a great sneak up. All right, Sue. Sue, I appreciate you, my friend. Thank you. Yeah, I'm not I'm not on board with getting rid of or just putting an unlimited number of Supreme Court justice. I think that gets a little silly. All right, take a break. Come back for more here on Jerry afternoon. All right, Steve Courtney. Hi. Hey, Chris. Hey, man, do we want to I don't I mean, I'm pretty sure I know how tonight's going to go. Um, I don't know. Do you want to do you want to do you want to put a little something down on this? I feel like we're going to be pretty much in lock stuff. Let me just do this first. Business. You think about your wager? Okay. 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He and I got into it a little earlier over the results of the manager of the year, which I went to Stephen Voked in the American League and Pat Murphy, skipper of the Brewers for the National League. It's a matter of fact. There will be no Kim Brown slander. Uh, yeah, turn off your mind for me. Stephen Siri has a problem with you. Uh, uh, AJ Hinch. Please uninstall me from your phone. Please turn in your phone. Yeah. AJ Hinch got one, one first place vote. That's wild to me. Okay. Okay. Homer Homer, Homer Simpsons. Okay. Wait a second. The guy finished third. He got, he got third, right? That's fine. Okay. The guy who won beat us in the playoff series, right? It's fine. And the guy who finished second by record and tiebreaker beat us in the regulation season. Okay. Look at the rosters of those two teams. Bingo. Okay. Who did more with less? Who had expectation going into this year? Certainly not the tigers and the royals. Okay. I'll do the royals too. I'm not. I mean, the rows are pickle for last. I'm not living a diet on whether AJ Hinch wins mandatory. You look like it. It doesn't matter to me. It looks like it, but I'm just saying. Oh, no more loves. A little water in your eyes right there. Is that what? I feel a little tear in your eye right there. I think he wanted a day off the ball because he's so distraught. No, I wouldn't go that far. He needs to go to a safe space. By the way, maybe by now. Are you going to one of those, those professional cutlers? You got a room? I don't know. What have you heard? A professional cuddler. Tigers are indeed going to remain on fan dual sports network Detroit, formerly Valley Sports Detroit. That will be for the 2025 season under a revised deal with Diamond Sports Group, the parent company of the regional sports network. You know, all about them. They're trying to emerge from months of bankruptcy proceedings, but the bottom line is this. The tigers join the Pistons and Red Wings in staying with fan dual sports network Detroit. That's great. You won't have to, you know, God lover, my mom's 89 watches every single good tiger game. And I thought for a minute, I was going to have to use my radio check knowledge and find a way to get Amazon prime on her TV next year, which probably wasn't going to happen. All right, back to noted tiger hater Ken Brown. There's a bit of construction going on down at Copa. What are your thoughts on this? They're going to put in sweets, basically at field level, right? Not the man's ready. I'll feel no, I think like at the side, the sides of the stadium. Where are they going to put those on the side? They're not putting they're not putting them under the dugouts. You say it's street level on field level. It's going to be a home plate club. Oh, okay. So all those stupid people behind home plate always wave when you're watching a 350 seats, which can be heated and cooled. Okay. Can you borrow the email for all hate mail is canken.no. You got to admit it. Not even just tigers, but every baseball shot when they come in and throw the pitch, the people that are right there, they're always waving at the game. They're just idiots. Yes. Yeah. They are. All right, I got to throw this into the mix because this made my blood pressure rise. Some guy Nick Wright, I don't actually Nick Wright owns Fox Sports one. Yes. Had the dumbest first things first, the dumbest take on Jared Goff and this lines team that I've ever heard. All right. Here's what he said. I do not think you can be considered the best team in the league if you have a civilian at quarterback. What I mean is the other teams you're in the debate with, the chiefs, the bills and the lions with the other two teams have super heroes at quarterback. It doesn't mean you can't win the Super Bowl, but it does mean you're going to be fighting uphill in the biggest games of the year when everything goes wrong. Can your guy make it right? There's only a handful of human beings alive that that applies to unless Stafford can tap back into Stafford from a couple of years ago. The NFC doesn't have any superheroes. I think Detroit's awesome and I don't, I think they've done a great job building a team perfect for Jared Goff. It's so hard for me to say you are actually the favorite. You're actually the best team if you don't have one of those guys as your signal caller. Jared Goff, just a civilian. How long was that cut? That was a one minute long cut. You could have cut it in five seconds. A minute in our lives will never be said. Unless it was the Army Navy game, a civilian will be okay as a quarterback. What cockamamie? Uninformed take is that? That's not informed because in the realm of TV sports now, the hot take realm, when they get on his shoulder, what is a hot take? Because it's stupid. So it's a hot take and getting the other three people argue with them about it. And now you feel 15 minutes there. No, a hot take. Right. Here's a hot take. Ready for this? Yes. I think Pavel Datsuk is the greatest red wing ever. That's a hot take. No, this is dumb. He contradicted himself, man. He's running Jared Goff down. Then he says, well, I appreciate, you know what the Lions have done. I know. It's who is the one that enables quarterbacks to be the super in civilian. Yeah, I don't know. Apparently Nick Ryan is Brock Purdy, not a civilian. Does it deserve a comment? No, I'm out. No. All right. What do we got coming out? We're going to talk about bathrooms and transgenders. We're going to talk about ESPN coming over. We're also going to talk about the CNBC and NBC being sold out. Yeah, we're going to talk about that. All right, Mitch, I'm the crew coming up. See you tomorrow, Same time, same place, have a goin'.
November 20, 2024 ~ JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick On this episode: Chris opens the listener lines and take your calls.