Ep. 1801 - How This American City Was Reduced To A Total Humiliating Clown Show

**Matt Walsh** (0:00)
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Yes, you heard that right. It sounded exactly like you heard it. Blah, blah, blah, transfemicide state of emergency, blah, blah, blah. Just drops it in there like it's a real thing. And then he continues right along as if nothing ever happened. And based on the implication contained in this post, it appears that a transfemicide state of emergency, whatever that is, has been ongoing for quite some time in Chicago. And everyone's just kind of missed it. But now we know. So I had to look this up to make sure that it wasn't an elaborate prank. Turns out that as advertised, Brandon Johnson first signed an executive order declaring an ongoing transfemicide state of emergency in 2024 And the order is entitled Executive Order No. 2024-2, Declaration of Transfemicide Emergency and Establishment of Working Group on Transfemicide and Protections for the Transgender and Gender-Diverse Community.