 All right, quickly, I want to update you news-wise, you know, one of the things making the news today was the fact that Lowy Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, was knocked out of the reelection campaign. Basically, she failed. There will be a runoff with two other candidates to determine who the mayor of Chicago is. This is pretty shocking for I think many Democrats. Lightfoot was a rising star in the Democratic Party. She was considered the first African-American woman to be the mayor of I think a major city. She was considered one of the progressive stars and she won, I think, by fairly comfortable margin when she ran for mayor four years ago. But she was mayor of Chicago during COVID and made a lot of bad decisions during COVID lockdowns. But I think what really made Lightfoot not acceptable to voters is the fact that during COVID she was so, and really during the BLM riots, she was so forgiving of BLM, of the damage that they did, of the stealing that was going on, of the destruction of property. She refused to prosecute, I don't know that she had a say, but she vocally supported the rioters, including when they broke into stores and stole things. She encouraged the police not to prosecute them. I think she was very, very, very friendly to the worst elements within BLM. And then, of course, I think that the BLM riots and the demonstrations, it took a city that was already pretty bad in terms of homicide rates and violent crime. If you remember, Donald Trump had said that he's going to send federal troops into Chicago to clean up Chicago before COVID because of violence. Well, I think her response and her weakness and the response and just generally the weakness of the response to a BLM, I think ultimately encouraged a dramatic spike in violence in Chicago. Chicago has been dealing with a huge increase in violent crime since COVID. It was already high before COVID. Now 2022 was a slight reduction over 2021, but still very high rates of crime. And I think people just fed up with crime. In addition to that, Chicago's schools are notoriously bad, notoriously particularly bad for low-income residents, for the minority populations within Chicago. She did nothing to change that. Indeed, she was aligned with the teachers union, teachers union that I think betrayed children, betrayed their profession, betrayed everything that they're supposed to be as educated during COVID. She betrayed children really every single day in Chicago, Chicago schools, but just horrible. And again, particularly in the low-income areas. And so everything in Chicago was a lot of some of the major corporations that had operations in Chicago have recently relocated. They were living in Chicago. Chicago really gives the sense under Lightfoot, but it started well before her, of a city that is dying. So basically the two candidates that did win the race, that got the most votes and will run in a runoff in a few weeks. One candidate, all of them Democrats by the way, but it's a non-partisan race so anybody can run. But the candidate who won the most votes is actually a guy who was accused throughout the campaign of being a Republican, even though he is a lifelong Democrat. But the reason he was blamed for being a Republican was that he emphasized law and order. And he ran the campaign on, I will stop the violence. I will increase the police budget. I will increase the number of policemen in the streets. I will not tolerate Chicago as this unbelievably violent place. So I think that's a very positive sign. He's not the first, I mean Adams in New York is another mayor who is committed to reducing violence in the city, even though he's a Democrat. I think that many of the, many if not all of the defund the police candidates, whether defund the police candidates for mayor or defund the police candidates for district attorneys have lost, the country overwhelmingly is not supporting defund the police agendas. The country overwhelmingly is not a progressive country. Even in some of these cities that vote Democratic, they're not open to the crazy left ideas. So we're seeing a pattern in city after city, in school district after school district, where the most crazy of the left are being voted out. I'm sure not everywhere. Suddenly I would have liked to see a different outcome in the mayor race in Los Angeles. There was a candidate that was far better, a businessman who lost the mayoral candidacy to a woman who was quite progressive in Los Angeles. But in many cases we're seeing the progressive lose out in elections. I think this is a positive trend and it shows that America is just not ready for the craziness, for the craziness that is the radical left. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com. If you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.