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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, listeners, and welcome to the show. Final day
of the year, and I appreciate you. It's gonna be
an interesting one, though, We'll see. We'll see how it
how it all shakes out. A lot going on out there. Finally,
you know what could go wrong in the last I
don't know less than twelve hours Eastern Standard time, So
we'll see if we get that straightened out. And I'll
tell you how it went for me. So I got today.
It was a great day. All days are great days.
I'm lucky, I'm for boy. I sounded I sounded a
little trump in there, and I cannot do. All days
are great days to the most amazing days you'll ever have,
you know, But it is I'm truly blessed each and
every day. I'm thankful, thankful to be here. I A
if I have a phenomenal life, I could not have
imagined it would be as amazing as it is. Having
said that, I get up this more, but it's still
fraught with peril. That Make no mistake, No matter how
good your life is, never underestimate your ability to screw
things up. Not that other people. Other people will do things,
but by and large it's it's we screw things up.
So you know, like when you you don't calculate that
step and you stumble a little bit, or you you
you run into something as you're putting a shirt on. Things,
Things like that just kind of the stupid things we
do to ourselves. Next time you get in an argument
with someone, remember you did a lot of stupid crap
before that argument happened. With it, whoever it is. So
we don't have a lot of high ground as humans.
We are the most imperfect, you know, I think you know,
when you see an animal screw up, they kind of
keep going. They don't have that element of oh my god,
I can't believe I just did that. So I'm getting
ready for the show By the way, my name's Chad Adams.
I'm sitting in for Pete Callan erb been doing so
for the past week and a half or SOAP. You'll
be back next week. News Talk eleven ten ninety nine
three WBT. If you would like to get in on
the conversation seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten,
five seven oh eleven ten, you can do so, And
I'm going to dovetail with it with On Vince's show,
we had a caller Earl that was kind of giddy
about all this stuff that Biden has done, which is
and we'll dovetail a little bit there because I listened
and the Infrastructure bill is an absolute disaster. Democrats love
to pass massive legislation that accomplishes nothing but sounds really good.
The Infrastructure bill is one of those. Obamacare is won.
There's a great article today that Obamacare has just become
overpriced insurance. It really has. There's a lot to look
forward to, but let's not pretend that these massive government
programs accomplish a whole lot except to make things more
expensive and more distant from reality. Now back to my
screw up. So I'm getting ready for the show. Love.
I've become. I'm not quite a coffee stop because I
don't like to go to high end coffee shops. I
was really proud of taking my dad. My dad loved
to beat up on Starbucks quite a bit, and so
I took my father out one day to it's east
of like Charlotte, but you can find them poor city Java.
I said, hey, Dad, let's go get a cup of coffee.
He loved coffee, probably ten cups plus a day. Used
to make fun of him on the radio. So we
go in and he's like, oh, it's going to be
four out of their coffee and I was like, no,
it's buck sixty nine. He's like, oh, okay, buck sixty nine.
I can see that. So we get a cup. He's
happy and he's like, well, I bet the second cup
would cost a lot more. And I'm like, nope, Dad,
second cup is already paid for. It's free. Refills are
free as long you're sitting in the store. He couldn't
believe it. Happiest guy. We had a great day. I'll
never forget that day. It's one of the many fond
memories I have so through pass forward A couple of times,
I've been fortunate to travel in a lot of countries
that have great coffee and coastr Equo one of my favorite,
Puerto Rico, has phenomenal coffee. But I was I'm not
a coffee snob, but I like making different types of coffees.
I was making on this while I was making my
own cappuccino. I was doing my milk. I was being
you know, I was not snobby. It's me. I'm not
trying to impress anybody. But I made it, got it perfect.
You know, it's doing my show prep. I'm ready to
roll for the day. It's the last day of the year.
Just stirred it, just right looked at it because I
had a glass they could see through the mug. And
I turned and I caught the spoon with my hand
as I turned, and it went everywhere. And when I
say it went, everyone all over the cabinets, who went
all down on the floors, and it was an absolute
train wreck of a mess, dripping down the counters into
the cabinets. I couldn't believe it. And you know what,
no one to blame. It's not like I could blame
anybody but me. It was my own dumb assery that
did that. But it's one of those things that keeps
you humble, you know. And as I'm older, I'm not
as good being on my hands and knees doing things.
Cleaning this up on my hands and knees not my
strong suit. Now I'm doing it. I'm getting it. You
got to You gotta clean it up first, wipe it up,
five thousand paper towels, and you gotta spray the cash.
You gotta clean that. And even the dogs looking at
me like, you know, what the hell happened here? What's
wrong with you? You got something wrong? Dog is being very introspective.
It's a new year approaching, and the dog's completely aware.
I'm kidding, of course, but it was just so Yeah,
I finally got my cup of coffee, you know, thirty
minutes later after cleaning up. So there's the the humbleness
with which I kind of approach every day. Like I said,
it started out, everything absolutely perfect, the workout, being outside,
being with friends, phenomenal. I'm ready for New Year's I
hadn't decided one of the memes I saw, I can't
can't claim credit for it, but I would have said it.
I can't, you know, I haven't decided what outfit I'm
going to wear into my living room tonight to fall
asleep before New Year's But that's me, not necessarily you.
That is me, and that's my plan. I planned to
go eat and then get home and we will chill.
So everyone's working. It's a work day, one of the
least productive days of the year. I think everyone's kind
of haunted by, you know, last day of the year.
And I don't know, maybe you're one of those people
that you look forward to this day. It's another day.
I'm kind of surprised we get off for New Year's Day.
I think it's the weirdest holiday. Did anything great happen
that day? No? Was it celebrating a historical achievement. No,
the Earth made it around a circuit around the Sun
without getting destroyed by an asteroid. That's the accomplishment. That's it.
It's a recognition even when it's just not. I don't
know why it's a holiday, but that's me Earth, oh white,
We didn't die this year, so that's this. But I mean,
you know, biologically speaking, it's when we make our circuit
around the Sun that we measure stuff. But that's the
way it is, so just wanted to mention that you
have it too. We all have it. So next time,
one of the things you can do if you want,
if you have a one a realistic New Year's resolution,
try it. And this is mainly well, it's directed at
any of you that have severed a friendship because of
political disagreement. And I find that I haven't found any.
I don't know of any of my conservative friends that,
even through the Biden years and the Hunter Biden disaster
and all of the lawfair that was thrown at Trump,
I don't know any of my conservative friends that cut
off their liberal, more liberal counterparts their friends are family.
I don't know any. But I do know several lefties
that have done so, I mean in the irony is
it's it's kind of patience and understanding and all that stuff.
So I'm really surprised the left, which claims to be tolerant,
are the ones that are saying, here's how you avoid
the political people you disagree with. It's not tolerance, it's
the opposite. So I'm hoping we can all be a
little more tolerant and have some great discussions that's coming yere.
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including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a
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Speaker 1: Is that wagon wheel? I don't know. You never know
what you guys are gonna throw up there is. I'm like,
I'm playing my own version of Shazami or Ivy. I
can get my sister's deadly in that game. She's a
music researcher, so she beats Shazam every time. But I
was like, I think that's yesterday. I got one wrong.
They got me corrected, So thanks for that. Chad Adams
here setting in for pete calender, and appreciate that you
hear my papers wrestling in the background there. Yes, occasionally
I do print out some papers and I am enjoying
my coffee. By the way, So this, this accident I
mentioned earlier, happened recently. It wasn't early today, it was earlier,
but it was not long ago that I had just
recovered from that train wreck. Now, I was kind of
listening to I was listening to Vince earlier and the
caller earl who has called this show is called other shows,
and he was kind of giddy about the Biden. I
guess you know, the year wasn't so bad. They got
the infrastructure, which was actually a bill from twenty to
somewhere there. That infrastructure bill has been a nightmare. But
let's let's backtrack a little bit. Here's the thing that's
hard to reconcile if you are a if you are following,
if you're trying to put pieces together in your head
about things that make sense. You know, you the sun
comes up in these makes sense. You know, the tides
up down makes sense. Traffic and Charlotte makes sense. What
is hard to comport is that when you look back
at Biden's four years in office, we now know, as
has been reported on their own propaganda media, that he
was not all there and the staff has spent an
exorbitant amount of time covering up for his mental deficiencies.
We know that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, we know all
of them, Kareem John Pierre, Kamala Harris, they all knew
that Joe's pencil wasn't real sharp. They knew he was
incapable of doing most of the duties of the presidency.
Anyone really paying attention new news media. So what it
tells you, if you have a very strong bias in life,
you will And it depends on how strong that bias
is and whether it's an article of faith for some people,
whether it's you know, America first, whatever it is, it
is very hard. It can show you the depth of
your inability to overcome bias. And the media was very
illustrative of its inability to overcome its bias to straight
up report there were problems with the president. That's a
dangerous media because it means that they're either propaganda or
they are selective in their ability to discern truth because
their mind's already made up. Trump's the devil. Biden's a
good guy, classy guy, not corrupt. Now now, in the
waning days here, the Justice Department has released some photos
that showed Biden with Hunter, with Jiji Ping from China
and one of Hunter's business partners. That happened when he
was vice president under Obama. Can you imagine if that
had come out during the twenty twenty election. He's denied
ever meeting with his son's business partners for being a
part of that. They were the photos there. Now you
could say, well, he's an old guy, doesn't remember things
real well, but he was there. The denial was a lie.
So many things have been lies from this president. And
I don't think history is going to look at the
Biden presidency as anything substantial. It was a placeholder between
Trump one and two. Now remains to be seeing what
Trump two will be like. Trump one was just live,
you know, these incendiary, relentless attacks on him, impeachment hearings
that we now know were fake. You know, so much
of what was circling around the Democrats. Here's the part
I'm making a very long story only slightly shorter, and
that is that here's what you must reconcile in your
head that somehow Joe Biden, the wanderer in chief, received
more votes than any president in history, more people supported.
Now you get it with Clinton, right, and again, the
American population has grown, But I'm saying it's a percentage
of people that vote and everything. Even the sheer numbers
that he allegedly got seventy one million, that Kamala. Somehow
seven million people that voted for Biden didn't plus the
you know, added roles of people who were born, not born,
but came of age during that time. I don't know,
maybe Democrats filled out some people that were just born. Kidding,
it was a joke. The point being you have to
you look at him, and you look at him then
or look at him now, and you you have to
imagine that he got the most votes of anyone in history.
That's the hard part. The least charismatic president in our lifetime. Well, maybe, hey,
Reagan Bush, maybe George Bush. The first is in that
you know, he's a former CIA spook, you're n CI,
a very secretive guy. But as far as sheer charisma,
Biden is one of the least charismatic we've ever had,
but the most votes ever. And then Trump comes back
and just dominates in a way that the Democrats still.
I mean, I looked at if you look at if
you want to see an example of someone in free
fall mental well, other than Keith Oberman, who's absolutely in
mental free fall, you look at at Rick Wilson, the
head of the Lincoln Project. He is he is admired
by people like for Supreme Court Justice Bob or who
retweets Rick Wilson stuff. I can't play a lot of
what Rick Wilson says on Eric. It's got a very
foul mouth. But anyway, he is the head of the
Link project and he completely predicted on election. Oh it's over.
The Trump be there in disarray. I know for a
fact that they've thrown people off, certainly that Corey Lewandowski
threw someone off an airplane. They knew they were gonna
lose Mark my words, you can count on it. And
he was completely wrong. I mean to stake his entire
reputation and then afterwards act like you didn't say those things,
and then go through time and time and go, well,
look now he's appointing all these horrible people. It's going
to be terrible. You got to stand up, We got
to get maybe we can get him not elected. And
it's just this constant litany of hate, a derangement syndrome
of sorts. And back to my point though, when you
when you look at Biden and you think he got
eighty one million votes, Coma didn't even come close. We've
got a second term coming. The left tried to stir
something up about the H one B visa program, which
Elon and Vivek kind of set off and pushed that
envelope and a lot of people pushed back, and it's
kind of all settled down a little bit. The speakership,
I think the left really wanted to make something of
the Mike Johnson being Speaker of the House and wants
the president, the president to be weighed in and said, hey,
you know, we're going to we've got to work with Mike.
You know, as much as you may not like some
of the things he does, I'm going to need him
to carry this agenda forward. So those are practical decisions.
This President Trump knows what it's like to be president.
He's assembled a team that's ready on day one. He's
ready on day one. They're trying to put the pieces
together to make sure they can execute that agenda. They're
going to need Speaker Johnson. They don't need twenty days
of delays. They don't need twenty days of what I
mean delays. I don't mean twenty days of delay on
the agenda. I mean twenty days delay of finding who
the speaker is going to be or disrupting the inauguration.
So it looks like they definitely have their ducks in
a row. And if you don't like Johnson and Trump does,
and Trump's pushing him, what you've got to be concerned
about it is will Johnson carry out Trump's agenda? He
has signaled he would. It looks like, you know, now
we're going to find out what it's going to look
like over in the Senate because Mitch McConnell is definitely
out to lunch. I don't know what that's going to
look like. But the Senate, they have enough votes in
the Senate, they have enough votes in the House they
can carry forth their agenda. And meanwhile we have to
wonder what's going on in the White House. We don't
know who's running things. But in the final two minutes,
I just want to mention something about the infrastructure bill
because someone who called in was Earl. I've spoken to
before who's been a caller, but this was the fact.
Sarah Bedford wrote it at the Washington Examiner that the
trillion dollar infrastructure bill has been an absolute failure. It's
spent a lot of money. Democrats towed to the infrastructure
bill from twenty twenty one as a signature accomplishment, but
so far it hadn't really accomplished anything. A massive program
to expand rural broadband access has failed to connect any
homes to the Internet. A push to electrified school bus
fleets has proved costly and inefficient. A multi billion dollar
effort to build thousands of electric vehicle charging stations has
only built a handful of them. The Infrastructure Investment in
Jobs Act had one point two trillion in spending on
what the White House called a once in a generation investment,
but it hasn't accomplished. And that if if you want
to look at it. We'll talk about Obamacare later, but
if you want to look at these bills, and again
I kind of harped on it a little bit yesterday,
but we have to come to terms with the fact
that our government has not is not the arbiter of
efficiency at this point. Now we'll see what DOGE accomplishes.
But our government has become unwieldy, it has become unresponsive
at the federal level, It has become unable to execute
these big things. At least Kennedy I'm talking about John
Kennedy had the temerity to say we're gonna do it.
We're gonna do what a once in a lifetime thing.
We're going to put a man on the moon. By
the end of the decade. He realized the logistics and
the cost everything would be out there. But this stuff
where people shoot for these large programs and there isn't
an agency around they can execute these large bills. The
Inflation Production Act was a disaster. Much more to discuss.
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Speaker 1: We're heading into twenty twenty five cc You know what's
interesting about that is that if you think in terms
of the eighties, if you were playing like Bill Haley
in the comments, that would have been let's see ten,
twenty thirty some years if you had have been playing
that fifties music in the eighties, we're playing music now
that's even older than that would have been, like somebody
in the eighties playing music from the thirties. That's just
it's almost unfathomable to think that that we're playing music
as bumper music. It's what fifty plus years old? This
isn't fifty well it is, I guess CCR is about
fifty plus or fifty, Yeah, almost sixty. That's astounding the sixties.
If you're playing Beatles as bumper music, it's sixty years ago.
It would be like playing stuff from the twenties. Can
you imagine playing the you know as bumper music music
from the twenties or thirties, and I'm not about to
try twenties. I'm talking about the nineteen twenties. Chat outams
here for Pete Callender having a blast here in news
Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT and it it it.
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many things WBT does and is a part of. Now
there's so many directions to go and as here we're
wrapping up the end of the year. Do you and
by the way, if you want to get in on
the conversation at seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven,
ten and looking at you know, you'll see the top
ten list, And for the next I guess for the
next couple of weeks they'll be you know, the year
in review, the music of the year, events of the year,
things of this nature. I don't see up Politically, I
think the Democrats find themselves in a very fascinating time.
I think the Biden administration that's being run by the
activists are going to do everything in their power to
gum up the works. They're going to try to get
as many things under the wire and make things difficult
for the Trump administration. I thought when the Democrats saw
the election results that they would they wouldn't have to
govern to the right or anything, but they would certainly
they committed themselves to a smooth transition. They have not
acted that way. They have not acted in a way
that would lead you to believe that they learned anything
except animosity and hatred for the right. You would have
thought it would have been smooth. And maybe the president
has no ill will toward I think he has more
ill will toward his own party right now. I think
that Biden is steaming, stewing, angry, better methodically conniving. I
don't think he can stand Pelosi out. You know, what's
left of his mental capabilities is not in a good place.
There's nothing about what happened and the way the Democrats
did him in that would lead you to believe he's a
happy guy. But in the meantime, the activists that are
making the decisions and sliding bills in front of Biden
are not bills, but executive directions, are saying, hey, just
sign this, and it's just coming up the works, whether
it's border patrol issues or expenditures. I mean, sliding two
point four billion dollars over the Ukrainians as we're in
the midst of possibly getting a peace deal put together
is crazy. That's the kind of nonsensical stuff what happens
when you have a committee that's running your country and
not an elected representative, and none of the people that
are running the country and the executive branch right now
were elected. Biden, I don't know if he's in Saint
Croix or where he is now. Having said that, you
heard in the break, you heard a little warning, pay
attention to it, because I heard my sister was talking
about it. I hear it in passing and just beware
of it. Is that this bird flu or the flu,
either one all of the above. Are you know it's coming? Oh? No?
In fact, Peter Sweden just tweeted shortly ago, hospitals in
Great Britain are now telling people to wear face mask
to stop the flu. We're seeing this more and more
and you have to wonder are you going to fall
for it again? And there's a lot of common sense
people are saying, wait, we're not going down this road again.
There's no way we'll fall forward again. And yet you're
finding people that are trying to do this. So if
you didn't beat Trump at the ballot box, you're going
to declare a public health emergency and go down that route. Now.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but we've seen it's not
a conspiracy if you've actually seen this executed before and
the way it was conducted before. And the Democrats right
now don't have many options politically unless they can stir
something up. Now. I think that, you know, I think
you're gonna hear whenever this happens in Russia was really
good at summarizing this whenever you find a conservative tilt
to American politics since the eighties, what you will find
is that the Democrats, instead of regrouping and finding a
way to move forward, will find a way to just
get things like homelessness will become a bigger issue. The
fentanyl thing, which was largely not covered during the Bide administration,
will get more coverage. Human suffering stories will get more coverage.
Under the Trump this second Trump, you will find they
will find the issues and that existed for the past
four years and bring those to the forefront rather than
covering the success stories. I mean, I'll give you an
example of a minor one that you're not seeing a
lot of coverage right now. As of tomorrow, the income
tax for the state of North Carolina will drop yet
again to four point twenty five percent. Now it's not
a huge drop, it's a quarter of a point, but
it's been dropping over the past five years or so.
The goal at the beginning was to get rid of
the state income tax. It drops a quarter point this
year next to January first, it drops below four percent
to three point nine to nine. That won't get a
lot of coverage, but I'll guarantee you anything a Republican
does to screw things up will be front page news.
And that's the kind of that should be a good story.
Wrl or Charlotte Observer, News Observer, same newspaper, different name,
same newspaper. They should be running stories like that's a
great story. Your your income tax rates. You're gonna have
more money. It's not huge, but it's more money to keep.
And this this kind of world, it's it's worth knowing.
Now I'm gonna turn our t well. I don't. I
don't want to, but I will when we get back.
I do want to get So health insurance will become
a big issue this year, I predict, and because it
is a more left lengthing education The Democrats lost on
education in school choice, so it won't be about school choice.
It'll be about something as the right continues to push
DEI and all of this wokeism out of the classroom.
So there'll be some pushback against that. But I do
want to get to Obamacare. Here we are fourteen years
into it, fifteen years into it. Is it making a
big difference or is it just another cost with no
end in sight. We'll talk about that good afternoon. But
rolling along toward the top of the first hour with
us on the phone. I think we have Walt who
called in again? You want to call in at seven
o four five, seven h eleven ten, Walt, are you
with us?
Speaker 3: Yes, there are, Oh howdy. I just wanted to get
your I just wanted to get your thoughts. So, if
you remember back to the transition team of President Trump's
first term, the FBI had a lot of people inserted
into the transition and if you look back at what
we find out now that there was almost two hundred
people in the J six crowd that were either informers
are indirectly working for the FBI, do you say that
that could happen again the way that it happened. If
you remember, General Flynn gets set up, and you know,
I guess I'm on a conspiracy loom here, but it
just seems too coincidental that all this stuff is coming
together now.
Speaker 1: Well, Walt, I'll give you high praise for this. When
I saw that your call was in the queue, I thought, Okay,
we're gonna have someone that's very conspiratorial. You know you're
going to say things. But you know what you said
that gave in my mind, gave you a lot of
credibility was you identified correctly what the FBI said they
had twenty six plus and that's the bottom line, informants.
They didn't have agents. They claimed they had twenty six
informants in the jc J six crowd. You correctly said
that the FBI did have agents in the Trump transition team.
You correctly said that or informants. I should say, so, hey,
I'll give you did your homework on that, And it
does rise to the level of a specious behavior in
the way it conducted itself. From an inside state standpoint,
I don't believe with the what happened this time, with
the knowledge of what has occurred, and with the knowledge
of who's getting ready to take over the FBI, I
think the FBI a lot of the people that were
of that mindset are leaving. I mean, Christopher Ray's resigning.
There's a bunch of people that are that are leaving
high tailing it out of Dodge. There's a couple more
that are very concerned Trump. Trump has not indicated that
he's going to be that vengeful, but I do believe
some lawbreakers that have been involved in some of this
stuff will see a day in court. And I can't
wait to see when Hunter Biden appears before Congress because
he can't claim the fifth and that may be a
gift that keeps on giving. He can't say I declare
the fifth because he's been he's been pardoned, So that
may throw a couple of people under the bus. But
I like what you said, and it's a reasonable thought.
I don't think you're being conspiratorial at all, because we've
seen how they conducted themselves. We saw with the Fanny
Willis stuff, we now are seeing that it was kind
of coordinated with the White House. We did see how
Judge Barshawn acted and how Da Alvin Bragg went above
and beyond it take misdemeanors and make them felonies to
get criminal convictions out of things. So it's not beyond
the pale to have exactly the thoughts you have. It's
all conspiracy until it happens, right, Yes, sir, I mean
I thought that was a stute Waldon.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate your thoughts and I wanted to wish
everybody at WBT a very happy new Year.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Walt, and from our family to ears
so thank you again for sharing that we hope you
have a great new year as well. Thank you. So
with with what Walt had to say, he's absolutely right
and worth knowing. So, the FBI had twenty eight or
twenty six informants that were there, two of them, and
so it's weird the way you read this, and this
is from Axio's not exactly a right leaning source. The
report that twenty six informants confidential human sources were not
employed by the government were in DC on January sixth.
Three of the informants had been tasked by the FBI
Field Office to travel to DC. The informants were not
authorized to ender the Capitol building or restricted areas otherwise
break the law. Yes, but two did enter the restricted
area around the building and a third entered the capitol.
Twenty three other informants also traveled to DC, but not
the FBI's directions. None of the informants who entered the
capitol or restricted area have been prosecuted. Four of the
twenty six entered the Capitol, thirteen entered the restricted area,
nine were in DC but didn't engage in anything. Many
of the twenty six provided information relevant to January sixth
before the day, but if anything, there is so much
about January sixth that still and the really sad reality
of what Adam Kinsinger and Liz Cheney did with the
January sixth Committee. One the Democrats stacked it. The Republicans
were not allowed to put their people on that committee.
It was so tremendously lopsided. If the Democrats had wanted
to have the American people on their side, they could
have easily had a balanced committee. It wouldn't have been
that hard to appoint a few people the January sixth
Committee to have balance. But they they not only created
a committee that wasn't balanced and had two Republican Trump
haters on it who have now you know they're gone.
They're now more in Congress. Cheney, I don't know what's
gonna happen to her, but when you look at that committee,
then they brought in a Hollywood producer to make this
kind of a reality show that favored Democrats and even
moderates have been chagrined by the way in which that
was done. If you wanted, if you really felt like
January sixth was completely a one sided obliteration of the
Constitution and everything you want to believe on the left,
the way in which you conducted that investigation didn't work
out so well because it made it should have been
a slam dunk. It should have been a slam dunk
for both parties to go in and say this was horrible,
but the way it was done made it look. It
gave people that wanted to see it another way plenty
of political cover to say it wasn't. It wasn't what
you told me it was. That's I think things like
that that if you couple that with the Russia Russia Russia, UH,
with the collusion, with the Hunter laptop story, with the
way Fanny Willis Da Bragg, with the way Letitia James,
the way Jack Smith, the way all of these conducted themselves,
and the way they covered up Biden's clear mental missteps.
All of that. When you put that in a soup,
there's no other way for that soup to be tasted
other than you guys had a coordinated effort that had
nothing to do with policy, that was directed at one individual,
and it was hate based. That's the only way that
thing comes out of the kitchen. And you can look
at it, you can smell it, Yep, it smells like
a setup, and you glint you. You gave credence to
your political enemies, the people on the right to say,
you guys are completely full of it. That was That
is Ultimately history will say. You know, if he was
as bad as you say is, you don't need to
go that far. If Trump was as bad as you
on the left said he was, you wouldn't have had
to use political mechanizations. You wouldn't have had to do
this kind of machiavellian routine to convince the American people.
The American people figured it out. In fact, they figured
out you guys were whackado. They figured out your DEI
stuff was whacka do. They figured out all of your
wokeness was whacka doo. They figured out putting drag queens
in front of kindergarten students isn't a great idea. They
figured out that meritocracy matters. They figured out the border matters.
They figured out that foreign policy leading from strength matters.
They figured out that Biden White House was a sham.
They figured it out in spite of you guys having
everything at your disposal, most of the media at your disposal,
a screwed up FBI that has wonderful agents and field
Agents had a great organization led by people that clearly
acted in political ways. Generals at the Pentagon acting in
political ways. And one of the chief guys, a former
cracked out, I mean just criminal advising the president in
the form of his son. It didn't make him honorable
or decenter any of those things. So I know it
sounds brutal. It's a brutal, it's a but it's a
truth when you add all that up. Like I said,
the ingredients in that suit, the American public figure, the
public just figured it out and they flushed the toilet
on that stuff and they said, no, we're done with you. Guys.
Now you can say, well, it was close. It was
way you looked to, you know, to Mike Johnson stood well,
the way Congress is drawing up state by state, it's
a it's a gerrymanagered country. I don't care where you're from.
It is in North Carolina, included Jerrymander for Republicans not
Otherwise it would just be a bunch of expensive one
point races, wouldn't it. But we'll see, I think the
other the other headwinds, so the Democrats and as we
get to the top of the hour. I'll say this
about where they want to go, because I want to
get to some other stuff here at the end of
the year. How the Demos the sky is falling, they're starting.
You'll see these stories the sky's falling stuff. I've got
a great one on the other side of the break.
The Democrats hope is to make DC estate in Puerto
Rico State. That would give them four more senators, that
would give them at least two more congressional seats that
they would love to have. That But with the folks
that are in office right now, that's not going to happen.
That is a pipe dream. It's just not going to happen,
even if you if you tried. And I don't see
it happening for American Samoa or Guam either or the
US Virgin Islands. But the two they wanted to get
was d C d C statehood and Puerto Rico statehood
not going to happen. Secondly, is they have a serious
problem with congre with people that are moving, as we've
mentioned many times, from California to Texas and east and
from New York New Jersey, those northern Democrats states south
and they are folks that tend to have a conservative
tilt to their world, and so they're losing congressional seats
and congred they'll keep their Senate seats, but they're losing
about four or five six seats. Now that's a twelve
seat around. If you take six and you add six,
that's a twelve seat turnaround. So the Democrats are facing
a very difficult challenge in twenty eight, in twenty six
and thirty, we will see. And then not to mention that,
you know, funeral homes are making the rounds up in
DC through the halls of Congress. It's basically a geriatric
center on both sides of the aisle. And so I
don't know who the fresh young faces are going to be.
But when you have a JD Vance up there and
you have a lot of people like the facan others,
you have a plethora of young, vibrant Republicans that are
kind of cool and hip and relate to younger folks
and the Democrats right now the squad is where the
younger folks are on the left and those folks that's
not got a high level of appeal. I don't see
AOC bringing in the next the next fifty years of
Democrats rule and they're terrified of her. The people on
the left are because she She and the squad are
just two of them lost their seats, So we'll see
how that pans out. Much much more to go here
on the Peak Calendar Radio show second hour. We're getting
ready to bend Away and we will get to the
Michael Mann piece, which I think is worth knowing, so
stay tuned. We'll be right back after this.
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