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All Right, so the two topics 10 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,719 covered in the last hour're going to kind of keep 11 00:00:34,759 --> 00:00:36,960 them sort of in the pan here cooking for a 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,640 little bit because it ties into a larger issue, which 13 00:00:39,679 --> 00:00:44,039 is this loss of trust, social trust, loss of trust 14 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:49,840 in institutions. And I really do, I do believe that 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:59,560 social media has really done more to help the faux 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,359 lead as I call them because they're not really elites, 17 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:08,359 they're fox leads. Has really helped them to just light 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,200 their own credibility on fire. They go on to Twitter, 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,799 they go on to Instagram or TikTok and they say things, 20 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,760 they behave in certain ways. People who have phones now 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,280 have cameras and they catch you. Gavin Newsom at the 22 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,000 French laundry during the COVID lockdowns, and Roy Cooper walking 23 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:33,079 around the Governor's mansion with his mask dangling from his 24 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:37,799 ear while he celebrates Black Lives Matter during a lockdown 25 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,879 where he said, no more than twelve people could gather outside, 26 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:44,959 except if you're marching for social justice, and then you 27 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,319 could have one hundred people gather together outside. And then 28 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:52,640 maybe if you get a little fiery but mostly peaceful, 29 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:55,400 and the cops have to use some pepper spray on 30 00:01:55,439 --> 00:01:58,120 you or something, you'll be hacking and coughing out your lungs. 31 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:02,200 But don't worry. As I went over in great detail, 32 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:10,240 COVID knows. COVID knows if your cause is righteous. See 33 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,520 if you're going to just attend church service on a Sunday, 34 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:18,840 for example, No, no COVID shall smite ye down. But 35 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:21,639 if you are marching for Saint George Floyd and to 36 00:02:21,759 --> 00:02:25,879 defund the police and make our cities more dangerous, COVID 37 00:02:25,879 --> 00:02:29,680 knows that, and it shall. It shall not affect you. 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,960 It shall not smite ye. Worth thee I guess it 39 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,159 would be. It was the smartest virus ever developed in 40 00:02:37,159 --> 00:02:43,159 a lab. Oh okay, fine, that's racist. Batsup fine, whatever. 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 People saw these things happening, and because of the democratization 42 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:55,159 of media, there are no longer these gatekeepers, right, and 43 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,919 so people see this stuff and the gatekeepers are like, 44 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,240 you know, the kid trying to put the fingers in 45 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,599 the dam, and yeah, they're too many holes. You do 46 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:11,759 not have enough fingers. Without the gatekeepers to protect these 47 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:18,280 faux leads, people have lost confidence in them and their 48 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,840 expertise as well they should, right, remember trust the science 49 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:26,599 two weeks to flatten the curve. Same thing as going 50 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,759 on with the crime stories the light rail system, Like 51 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:35,280 we expected that the people who are running the mass 52 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,199 transit system when they get hired in and they're celebrated 53 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,639 for all their expertise, and this person comes from Pittsburgh 54 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,719 or Cleveland and they have all this experience and whatnot, 55 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,439 and then you find out that they built all of 56 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:52,840 the light rail train stations without any kind of turnstiles. Oh, 57 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:56,319 and they're also not really checking your fare when you're 58 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,360 on the train, and that means anybody can get on 59 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,719 it and just write it around as a rolling shelter. Well, 60 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,360 who's the Einstein who came up with that plan? How 61 00:04:06,439 --> 00:04:11,080 much money have we been missing out? On because people 62 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,680 don't pay. I'm not just talking about you know, homeless 63 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,519 people that don't have any money. I'm talking about people 64 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,959 who do have money and would otherwise be paying, but 65 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,079 they know they don't have to, so they don't. That's 66 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:29,240 what happens in a lower trust society when you start 67 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:33,879 eroding that social trust and people start behaving because well, 68 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,079 everybody else is doing this thing, and everyone else is 69 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:39,399 skating by, and nobody's taking holding them accountable and taking 70 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:42,639 their tickets, so I might as well do the same. Right, 71 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:48,160 you create a permission structure that becomes the norm, that 72 00:04:48,319 --> 00:04:59,399 becomes the acceptable behavior. So the legacy media is no 73 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:04,480 longer acting as the gatekeeper. They can't. You're also seeing this. 74 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:06,519 I got story. I got a story on this too, 75 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:08,959 several stories on this. What's been going on in the 76 00:05:09,079 --> 00:05:13,680 UK that is social media driven? What's going on in 77 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,399 the UK with the with the protests against migration and 78 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:24,040 I my fear is this, this is going to boil 79 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,920 over because the Folites in charge of the UK, they 80 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:35,319 just keep getting stupider, They just keep saying dumber and 81 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:41,120 dumber things and racing towards this fabian socialist paradise that 82 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,920 the people do not want and they are turning out 83 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:48,879 in droves because they fear it's just about too late. 84 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,959 And by the way, it might already be too late. 85 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,040 But the reaction is going to be could be violent, 86 00:05:55,079 --> 00:05:58,399 but it could all it's going to be radical, like 87 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,079 this may propel that guy Nigel Farage from the Reform Party. 88 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:06,480 This could propel him all the way in. He's now 89 00:06:06,519 --> 00:06:09,079 out there talking like Donald Trump. He's going to be 90 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,279 doing mass deportations. So we'll get to that, right, But 91 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:17,279 this is it's all under this category of trust, the 92 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:21,959 social compact. I keep talking about this because you're supposed 93 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,759 to be doing certain things when you're in charge of 94 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,399 the government. You're supposed to be you know, managing it, 95 00:06:28,439 --> 00:06:31,000 but you're also supposed to be acting in the interests 96 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,759 of the citizens of your state. And when Roy Cooper 97 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,959 as governor cannot figure out how to do the recovery 98 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,639 efforts for it, not one, not two, but three different 99 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,879 hurricanes under his tenure, and now he wants to go 100 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,959 to the US Senate and he's like, oh, I didn't 101 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,519 want to have to go. He's been he's really leaning 102 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,920 into this stupid slogan like I didn't want to go 103 00:06:54,959 --> 00:06:59,000 to Washington, but doosh, garnet, Gosh darn it, I have to. 104 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,720 I got to go. You know, they're dragging me up there. 105 00:07:02,879 --> 00:07:05,120 You don't have to go, They're really you don't have 106 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,519 to go. Stop trying to make this like I'm just 107 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,480 being called to serve. You are a career politician. You 108 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:18,319 have like literally been in office for almost my entire life. 109 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:21,480 So don't tell me that, oh, I just didn't want 110 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:24,120 to serve anywhere. That's all you know. That's your whole 111 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:30,279 career is public service. And by the way, when he 112 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:32,680 gets up there and he's like, oh, where's the response, 113 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,720 the federal government's doing a terrible job on Hurricane Helene. 114 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,920 Let me read to you a quote. This is from 115 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:45,959 Tim Wigginton, who publisher at the Blue Ridge Times. Here's 116 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,199 the quote. North Carolina is the first state affected by 117 00:07:49,279 --> 00:07:54,120 Hurricane Helene to start its home renovation and reconstruction program. 118 00:07:54,319 --> 00:07:57,480 In fact, North Carolina is the fastest state in more 119 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:01,279 than a decade since Hurricane Sandy to begin rebuilding homes 120 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:06,319 after a major hurricane using hud cdbg d R funding sources. 121 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,560 That's a quote from the Democrat Governor Josh Stein see, 122 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,319 so when Roy Cooper is out there saying, where's Wadley, 123 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,879 Michael Wadley, where's Trump? They're not doing enough R two 124 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:24,360 D two over here, the governor Josh Stein, he uh 125 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:30,279 like he's touting, he's touting the rapid success. But that's 126 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:32,000 the thing you always got to keep in mind about 127 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:36,799 Roy Cooper. He will sacrifice any and everybody for his 128 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,600 personal political ambition. He did it with HB two, right, 129 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,879 He did it on the the because then he flipped 130 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:48,039 on the HB two right, he told all the Democrats, 131 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,600 don't you do any kind of fix I need this issue. 132 00:08:51,279 --> 00:08:53,279 And then of course he sold out the trans people 133 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,200 and he changed HB two, signed on to that deal 134 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,240 that they didn't want. So he threw them under the bus, 135 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,679 through women under the bus for the access to the 136 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:09,200 women's sports and that sort of thing. He threw all 137 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,240 the teachers under the bus when he kept betowing all 138 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:15,159 of the budgets, holding them hostage for Medicaid expansion. Right, 139 00:09:16,039 --> 00:09:20,679 this is just another example of it. By the way, 140 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,559 the state auditor dashboard shows that North Carolina has already 141 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,840 been making progress and recovering from the storm. So again, 142 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,080 if it was anybody other than Roy Cooper, that they 143 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:35,559 may be able to make this case about slow hurricane response, 144 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,960 but not Roy Cooper. It took him a decade, a 145 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,080 decade and still didn't get everybody back into their homes 146 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,279 from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. So when I was a kid, 147 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:50,120 my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my 148 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,039 mom and my dad took care of him as he 149 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,919 got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and 150 00:09:55,039 --> 00:09:58,039 not much support for caregivers and family. But things are 151 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,720 different today because of the work of so many people, 152 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,320 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great 153 00:10:04,399 --> 00:10:07,679 organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a 154 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,639 supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot 155 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,000 to me. I participate in the annual Walk to end 156 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,919 Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year, 157 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,240 and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign 158 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,519 up and you can join the team and walk with us. 159 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,799 It's on October eighteenth that truest field sign up at 160 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,440 alz dot org slash walk and then you can search 161 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,440 for my team name Pete's pack. There's also a link 162 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,120 at thepetepod dot com. There's also a link in the 163 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,440 description of this podcast. Also, I'll be am seeing the 164 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,279 Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so you can make 165 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,559 a team and join that one too, or make a 166 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,279 donation and help me hit my goal of five thousand dollars. 167 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,440 If you do, I really appreciate it. There are a 168 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,080 bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. You can 169 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,840 go to alz dot org slash walk for all the 170 00:10:53,879 --> 00:10:57,480 dates and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. 171 00:10:57,519 --> 00:10:59,279 Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me? 172 00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:03,399 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 173 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:10,159 This is why we walk. Crime, COVID lockdowns, Hurricane Helene response, 174 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,879 All of these things, just in the last five years 175 00:11:14,399 --> 00:11:20,039 have undermined trust in the institutions and the supposed experts, 176 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:25,240 the foe elites, the faux leads that claim to know 177 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:28,879 what they're doing. Trust them with the power, and then 178 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:34,960 they will be able to govern effectively. One of the well, 179 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:36,320 let me do this. Let me go to the text 180 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,480 line here driven by liberty Buick GMC and let me 181 00:11:40,919 --> 00:11:46,360 get to some of these text messages, um I don't 182 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:48,440 have a name here, nine to a zero number says 183 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,720 I worked sanitizing the light rail during COVID. The homeless 184 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,440 have used the trains as a mobile shelter for at 185 00:11:55,519 --> 00:11:59,399 least that long. Keep in mind, you're not supposed to eat, drink, smoke, 186 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,120 or slip on the trains, and you're supposed to have 187 00:12:02,159 --> 00:12:05,039 a ticket. The homeless do all of those things, including 188 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,879 smoking and doing drugs, as well as urinating, defecating, vomiting, 189 00:12:08,919 --> 00:12:11,440 and fighting on the trains. They've done it for years. 190 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,440 They get on the trains first thing in the morning 191 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,200 and wait to get kicked off at three am. It's 192 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,639 the safest and most comfortable most of them will be 193 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,039 all day. There was even a drunk lady that would 194 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,399 call an ambulance at three am and then tell them 195 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,200 to stop and let her get out when she got 196 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,480 where she was going. All I can say is I 197 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:31,320 didn't know the homeless had a political lobby, but it 198 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,279 must be really powerful. Well, this is the cottage industry 199 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,320 of activists and advocates. Think of them as NGOs, right, 200 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:46,360 These nonprofits that are all about, you know, homeless activism, 201 00:12:47,159 --> 00:12:51,639 and they get government grants, they mobilize votes, and so 202 00:12:51,759 --> 00:12:57,120 the Democrats utilize their services in exchange for taxpayer funds 203 00:12:57,159 --> 00:13:03,279 going to the NGOs going to the nonprofits. And it 204 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,440 almost seems like okay, it actually is, as Michael Schellenberger 205 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,120 documents in the book San Francico. He writes about how 206 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:18,240 there isn't any incentive for these nonprofits to actually reduce 207 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:24,799 homelessness because then they're out of a job. Right, So 208 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,840 why would you put yourself out of a job if 209 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:34,240 you're making a good salary with the government grants. Right. 210 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:41,480 Regarding the lockdowns, Yes, the impact on mental health, people's loneliness, 211 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:45,120 deaths of despair, right. Roy Cooper has never been held 212 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:48,320 accountable for you know the other side of the ledger. 213 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,559 He always gets up there. If he's ever even asked 214 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,519 about COVID and his response anymore. I would love for 215 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:57,039 somebody to ask him. I should have told Don Brown this. 216 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:03,320 Somebody needs to ask him. Did he make any mistakes? 217 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,039 Was every decision you made during COVID the correct decision? 218 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,240 Did you bat a thousand on that one, Roy, Or 219 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,039 were there some things that you did that in hindsight 220 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,559 you look back and say, yeah, we probably shouldn't have 221 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:21,720 done that, just one? Can you name one? Or you're 222 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:25,039 going to claim that you were perfect in all of 223 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,360 your decisions, which would be remarkable, right, absolutely remarkable if 224 00:14:29,399 --> 00:14:42,039 you got every single decision perfectly correct. Shouldn't we expect, Oh, 225 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:44,639 shouldn't we expect the family of the woman that was 226 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,000 murdered on the light rail line to sue the city 227 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,759 if the murderer did not pay for a pass or 228 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,960 ticket and no security or anybody else checks the passes. 229 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,840 I think there may be liability there. There very well 230 00:14:55,879 --> 00:14:59,279 could be there very well could be some liability there. 231 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,240 Maybe that that's why the City of Charlotte has been 232 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:10,600 less than great in its pr response to this. People 233 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:17,679 haven't really been racing to the cameras to express sympathies 234 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,879 and thoughts and prayers and promises of increased security and whatever. 235 00:15:21,919 --> 00:15:24,759 Maybe they're afraid of a lawsuit, and if it's the 236 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:26,480 City of Charlotte, all you gotta do is just threaten 237 00:15:26,519 --> 00:15:28,080 a lawsuit, and they're just they're going to throw a 238 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,399 bunch of money at you. So I would yeah, I'd 239 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,360 say it's probably better than fifty to fifty chances that 240 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,519 they're going to get suited. The city taxpayers are going 241 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:41,679 to have to pay for the failures of the people 242 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:44,440 who said, put me in charge. I know what I'm doing. 243 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:50,679 A mass transit system does not work if people don't 244 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:54,720 ride it because they are afraid for their lives. If 245 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:59,519 they are going to be encountered by psychopaths and mentally 246 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:04,200 derain people, criminals, they're not going to ride your transit system. 247 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,320 And that's a very big problem for people who now 248 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,000 would very much like to triple our sales tax in 249 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:22,320 order to pay for expansion of the system. So until 250 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:27,120 Veto says, until this decade, there were armed G four 251 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,679 special police on the trains and they were asking to 252 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,279 see tickets and passes. If someone was riding without one, 253 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:37,000 they were arrested and usually spent the night in jail. 254 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,440 The next day, at first appearance in court, the ADA 255 00:16:40,559 --> 00:16:43,720 would usually dismiss the charges and then release them. Same 256 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:47,120 for panhandling and similar crimes. They haven't done this though 257 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:51,879 since Saint George Floyd. Yeah, the amount of destruction that 258 00:16:51,919 --> 00:17:00,360 has been wrought with that whole campaign, and I don't 259 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:02,200 by the way, I don't think that you would have 260 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:05,400 seen we would have seen the level of violence and 261 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:11,839 the overreaction had we not been locked down. You know, 262 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,599 you lock people up, and then George Floyd was sort 263 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,680 of the spark that that lit the fuse. You know, 264 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:22,160 I don't think you get there. And by the way, 265 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,160 I don't think you have the J six Riots without 266 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,720 George Floyd and the lockdowns either. It was it was 267 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:36,839 all that same year, same situation in rock Hill with 268 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,759 the free buses. This is Jody uh started out great 269 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:43,920 winter used it had stopped on campus. But now, as 270 00:17:44,039 --> 00:17:47,519 Edwin says, it's a rolling homeless shelter game on Week 271 00:17:47,559 --> 00:17:50,279 one starts now and every touchdown brings you closer to 272 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:53,119 a payout. 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The crime issue as an issue 309 00:19:54,480 --> 00:20:06,880 for politicians. There was another text here, but I'm sorry here, 310 00:20:07,519 --> 00:20:11,119 Mike in Gastonia says, how often do members of the 311 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,559 city council actually ride the light rail? Edwin Peacock, councilman, 312 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,680 pointed out something that's been a problem for a while. 313 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,920 There is a complete disconnect with the leadership in Charlotte, 314 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,599 both political and different law sorry, both political and different 315 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,640 law enforcement, to do what needs to be done. It's 316 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,640 like they put on their blinders and hold out their 317 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,279 hand for people more money only. Okay, So yeah, so 318 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:42,839 this gets to a thing I've referred to as suicidal empathy. 319 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:48,839 It's also called toxic empathy. There was a post by 320 00:20:51,039 --> 00:20:56,640 Matt van Swoll on Twitter. He kind of rose to 321 00:20:57,319 --> 00:21:01,720 Twitter prominence and fame during the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. 322 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:05,319 And he has been red pilled, which is a reference 323 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,400 to the matrix where you know, you take the red 324 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,559 pill and then you see how far the rabbit hole goes, 325 00:21:11,599 --> 00:21:15,240 you learn what the real truth is, or you take 326 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,119 the blue pill and you go back to sleep. And 327 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,680 so people say red pilled. It's a reference to that matrix. 328 00:21:20,079 --> 00:21:22,640 So he has a post about this, but he doesn't 329 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:25,960 he doesn't use the term suicidal empathy that was coined 330 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:32,400 by Gad Sad or toxic empathy, which that was said 331 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,640 Ali Beth Stucky. Stucky. Yeah, Ali Beeth Stucky. She wrote 332 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:42,480 a book called Toxic Empathy. So let me first focus 333 00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:46,200 on this comment about the crime and the voters. Okay, 334 00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:49,519 So there is a poll that ABC News reports on. 335 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,880 It's associated press. NRC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 336 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,000 that while most disapprove of how Trump is handling the issue, 337 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,519 a large majority see crime as a quote major problem 338 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,640 in large cities. Sixty eight percent say it's a major 339 00:22:05,759 --> 00:22:10,440 problem in large cities. The findings underscore the challenge facing 340 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:15,519 Democratic leaders. They must thread the needle between criticizing Trump's policies, 341 00:22:15,559 --> 00:22:19,720 which are deeply unpopular among their base, while at the 342 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:24,960 same time not dismissing widespread concerns about safety, which are 343 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,039 amplified in many news sources and in online forums like 344 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:34,640 Facebook and the popular next door app. That could create 345 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,759 a vulnerability for the party heading into next year's midterm elections. Yes, 346 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:47,559 the defund the police movement was awful for Democrats. It 347 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:52,640 was terrible. Turns out people did not want to actually 348 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,599 defund the police like the radical leftists were demanding. While 349 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,799 Trump remains unpopular overall, the new poll finds as a 350 00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:02,599 coach to crime has earned him high marks compared to 351 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,799 other issues like the economy and immigration. Half of US 352 00:23:06,839 --> 00:23:10,519 adults fifty three percent say they approve of his handling 353 00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:12,640 of crime, and the margin of error on this poll 354 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,759 is like three and a half to four percent, So 355 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,240 it's it's it's a it's a draw, I would say. 356 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:23,640 But the vast majority of Americans eighty one percent also 357 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,880 see crime as a major problem in large cities that 358 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,480 includes nearly all Republicans roughly three quarters of independence and 359 00:23:32,839 --> 00:23:38,400 nearly seven in ten Democrats. About eight in ten Democrats 360 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,480 say it's quote completely or somewhat unacceptable for the president 361 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,240 to seize control of local police departments as he is 362 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:50,960 done in Washington. Okay, it's he didn't seize control, it's 363 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,720 a support role whatever. And it's also it's a federal district, 364 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:56,000 so it's not like he's seizing control of a city 365 00:23:56,319 --> 00:23:58,839 that he has no jurisdiction to do it in. It's 366 00:23:59,039 --> 00:24:04,839 the district of Columbia. There's a woman here, quoted Democrat 367 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,920 Starr K fifty nine lives in Downey, California, near La. 368 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,880 She said, if the president really wanted to tackle the issue, 369 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,480 he would be investing in local police departments instead of 370 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:19,880 diverting resources to immigration enforcement. No, that would be for 371 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,519 your local government to be doing. Oh, but they defunded 372 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:29,519 their police departments. They caved to the woke mob. She 373 00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:31,920 sees the crackdown as part of a broader effort to 374 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,839 bolster Republicans' chances in next year's midterm elections. Okay, fair enough, 375 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,279 and so like, sometimes the right thing to do is 376 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,920 the right political thing to do. As well. She said, 377 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,720 I think he's going to want to have troops in 378 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:54,119 the street to intimidate people not to vote again. The 379 00:24:54,240 --> 00:25:01,359 leftist paranoia and catastrophism. This is deranging. Here's the key 380 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,720 part of the challenge for Democrats is that historically crime 381 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:13,400 has not been a top issue for their base. And 382 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,720 you know me, I'm a why guy. I like to 383 00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:24,319 ask why why is crime not a top issue for 384 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:31,240 the Democrat party base? Why they don't answer that in 385 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:33,559 the ABC News story. They just throw it in there, like, well, 386 00:25:33,599 --> 00:25:37,240 you know, Democrats don't really care about crime. H Is 387 00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:40,920 there a reason for that? What makes the Democrat base 388 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,599 different than say, Independents and Republicans and their views of 389 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:53,440 crime as being very important? Man, that's a brainbuster. I'm 390 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,119 sure it'll come to me sometime. All Right. You hear 391 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,640 me talk a lot about incentives, right, Well, let's talk 392 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,440 about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer employees to 393 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:05,279 fire them up and reward their teams. 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And when the 403 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,200 trip is over, Incentive trip Kit turns those highlights into 404 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,400 a professional storytelling video. So think about it. When you 405 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,400 launch next year's incentive trip campaign, that video becomes your 406 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,839 greatest motivator. Talk about a return on investment. Right, You 407 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,960 got to check out incentive trip Kit for your business. 408 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,960 Visit incentive tripkit dot com because great trips deserve even 409 00:26:58,079 --> 00:27:02,079 better returns. All right? So I asked the question of 410 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:08,039 why historically crime has not been a top issue for 411 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,880 the Democrat base. Why ABC News does not offer an explanation, 412 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,559 But I would submit that the answer can be found 413 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:25,279 in this tale told by Matt van Swoll. He says, 414 00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:27,160 I've been wanting to write this for a long time. 415 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,160 I think now is the time. Empathy is a virtue 416 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,640 and it is being weaponized against those of us who 417 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,480 truly and honestly care. It's insidious by design. Here's how 418 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,799 it works on so many, including me for so long 419 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,759 because he was a self described you know, liberal or progressive, 420 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:52,880 and he Hurricane Helene just redpilled him. And anyway, So 421 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,599 he says, the pattern is always the same. Present an 422 00:27:56,599 --> 00:28:02,880 emotional story, frame any opposition as cruel and harmful, rebrand 423 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:08,160 neutrality as complicity, and then make the policy solution an 424 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:13,480 empathy test. So this was after the school shooting in Minneapolis. 425 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,559 He says, a trans person just shot up a school, 426 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,519 and notice how fast the narrative shifted. It's not about 427 00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:20,640 the victims. It's not about the parents who will never 428 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,079 see their kids again. It's about protecting the trans community 429 00:28:24,079 --> 00:28:29,039 from backlash. It's empathy pointed in the wrong direction. It's 430 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:32,720 not just the trans issue either. Immigration. They say, it's 431 00:28:32,839 --> 00:28:36,319 just families seeking a better life. Okay, but then you 432 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,200 learn about the fentanyl, the gangs, and the human trafficking. 433 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,480 That's not good. But if you bring that up, suddenly 434 00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:47,119 you're heartless and racist. See the game. You see a 435 00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:49,640 homeless person on the street with your kids, and the 436 00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:53,720 kid says or they'll say, they'll say that these are 437 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:57,440 vulnerable people with nowhere else to go. So cities allow 438 00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:01,680 open drug use, tents and crime, and if you disagree, 439 00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:06,160 you're accused of lacking compassion while the entire community suffers 440 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,359 because of it. It becomes even more a parent when 441 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,279 talking about crying they just made a mistake. Suddenly you 442 00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:19,200 discover there is vastly more empathy for criminals than empathy 443 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:24,000 for victims. That doesn't sound right. Where's the accountability, Well, 444 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,400 then you must be ignoring the systemic oppression. And by 445 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:34,359 the way, this was this was what our mayor wrote 446 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,039 vy Lyles in her statement, with the one sentence thoughts 447 00:29:39,039 --> 00:29:42,160 and prayers for the victim, and then five paragraphs about how, 448 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,200 somehow or another we all failed the suspect, the attacker, 449 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:52,119 the alleged murderer. What about foreign refugees, Well, they're fleeing 450 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,000 war zones, have a heart, and of course many truly are. 451 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:02,839 Nobody denies that. But when you rightly raise concerns about vetting, crime, 452 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:07,880 cultural integration, empathy is then used as a shield to 453 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,119 shut you down. Okay, sure, but what about all the 454 00:30:11,119 --> 00:30:13,880 students in debt? And they'll say people are drowning in debt. 455 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,160 They just want a chance at life, and that part 456 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:19,519 tugs at my heart. Nobody likes seeing people struggle to 457 00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:22,599 barely make it. But the second you bring up fairness, 458 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,359 like the plumber who never went to college and would 459 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,519 be having to pay for all of the degrees, suddenly 460 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,680 all that's selfish of the plumber. And after a mass shooting, 461 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:36,440 instead of focusing empathy on the kids who were killed, 462 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,759 we're told the real victims are the group that the 463 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:43,599 shooter belonged to. And that's weaponized empathy at its ugliest 464 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:50,079 possible form, he said. Real empathy does not erase reality. 465 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,000 It cares about all people impacted by a policy or 466 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:57,599 a tragedy. So when empathy becomes selective, politicized, and manipulative, 467 00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:02,200 it no longer is compassion. It is no longer empathy. 468 00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:08,480 It's control. And this is the same pattern that you're 469 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,960 seeing play out over in the UK with all of 470 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,519 the migrants, and the people have had enough, the citizens 471 00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:21,319 or should I say subjects of the UK, they have 472 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,960 had enough and they are making their voices heard, but 473 00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:30,720 the elites keep ignoring them. And that is a recipe 474 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:35,599 for violence, for the overthrow of governments. I mean, I'm 475 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,480 not trying to be hyperbolic here, But this is how 476 00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:44,400 these things happen. You've got hang up before I do that, 477 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,599 because I'm gonna probably re rack and start from the 478 00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:48,279 beginning with the UK stuff at the top of the 479 00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:50,279 next hour. But let me do this. This is a 480 00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:54,240 logical fallacy. Okay, the appeal to emotion, Okay, that's the 481 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:59,759 play here. Manipulation of emotions, fear, pity, anger, and you 482 00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:06,920 you to persuade rather than using reasoning or evidence. And 483 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,359 the point here is to bypass rational thinking by evoking 484 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:16,039 strong emotional responses that cloud your judgment. And that makes 485 00:32:16,119 --> 00:32:20,079 it more likely that you'll accept an argument without scrutinizing 486 00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:25,200 its logic or it's evidence, or it's lack thereof. And 487 00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:28,720 this is bad. Decisions based on emotion can be biased 488 00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:32,759 or irrational and override critical thinking, and it causes you 489 00:32:32,799 --> 00:32:36,720 to accept conclusions that lack logical support or fail to 490 00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:41,640 address the actual issue. This is the do something right 491 00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:44,640 after any mass shooting like this. We always hear from 492 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,039 the Democrats in the media, but I repeat myself, we 493 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,839 need to do something. No more thoughts and prayers, do something, 494 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,240 do something right. And then you say, well, we have 495 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:55,000 all these ideas that we would like to see done 496 00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:56,720 like it. Oh, not that we want you to do 497 00:32:56,759 --> 00:32:58,920 what we want you to do. So it's the use 498 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,160 of emotion in order to get you to surrender and 499 00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:08,440 do what they want. That's manipulation. So you should take 500 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,799 a step back, assess the information objectively, evaluate it based 501 00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:18,759 on logic and evidence. Separate your feelings from your reasoning. 502 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,559 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 503 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,640 so much for listening. I could not do the show 504 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,160 without your support and the support of the businesses that 505 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,319 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 506 00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:32,039 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 507 00:33:32,039 --> 00:33:34,680 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 508 00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:38,400 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. 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