WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.000 Email. Why are you gonna do this this morning? You 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:05.000 gonna do this? You can do this, You're not gonna 3 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.439 do Okay, all right, thank you. I'll look at that. 4 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.320 I got both program directors send me email this morning. 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.920 You guys need to go to sleep till nine and 6 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.559 you can get up. Don't worry about stuff, all right. 7 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:28.039 Uh so well we'll do our normal Friday thing as 8 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:33.640 you can imagine. Uh, there is about nine hours worth 9 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.039 of radio in just little a collection of little things. 10 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.679 Well there, I guess technically they wouldn't be little things 11 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:46.280 in any other administration, but little things the Trump administration 12 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.240 was up to yesterday. So we'll try to fit it 13 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:51.200 all in there, and of course we'll get some help 14 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.200 coming up. At eight oh five. Pete Callander will joined us. 15 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.359 As we just look at the look at the week 16 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:05.760 that was and and I cannot tell you the joy, 17 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:09.439 the open laughter that took place as I was sitting 18 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:13.799 here reading this New York Times piece about Tom Tillis yesterday. 19 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:17.879 And you have to understand they wrote this as a 20 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.560 hit piece, right. What they want to show is they 21 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.799 want to show that Trump's a monster and if you 22 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:29.400 cross him, then he will he will meddle in other elections, 23 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.959 specifically for members of Congress. The irony, of course, is 24 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:42.000 that's all of them, right, That's what they do. That is, 25 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.640 you saw Nancy Pelosi, you didn't fealty to her, you 26 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.319 didn't get a committee assignment. The same happened under Mitch McConnell. 27 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:58.959 The same happens under Mike Johnson. So you already have 28 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.359 that influence there, and the White House has a lot 29 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.760 of influence. You can like it or not like it, 30 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.439 but the White House is when it comes to the 31 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.039 things that they send down, because they don't originate legislation. 32 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.319 They may suggest it, but what they do originate is 33 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:20.520 they originate cabinet you know, people to be confirmed or 34 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:24.360 not confirmed under the advisement stuff. And the line has 35 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:28.360 long been crossed that they will go out there and 36 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:33.599 they will horse trade or they will threaten to basically 37 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:38.000 say they don't like you, and if they're popular, it's 38 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.120 not good for you and it could get you primaried. 39 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.639 So that's what happened, and so New York Times wrote 40 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:48.800 this big p oh, can you believe this is going on? 41 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:52.680 It's basically it's Soviet you know, it's Russia. It's Hitler 42 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:57.439 or whatever. I just laughed, you know why, because it's 43 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:03.000 not any of those things. It's clearly the way that 44 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:07.680 these things work, which isn't pretty. But the reason that 45 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.080 we were there, and the reason that Tom Tillis has 46 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:16.439 been running around posting a saga of like a street 47 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.919 sign he found in Washington, DC. I don't know if 48 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:20.919 you followed any of this. I didn't talk about it. 49 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:27.199 And on the point Tillis is right, somebody something bought 50 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.319 one of those little like you know, like we're at 51 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.240 a bus stop and they have the little stand up 52 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:37.759 billboard thing there which essentially said we need to stop Elon, 53 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.319 but like the wording was like, well, what do you 54 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:42.840 mean you need to stop him? What's going on there? 55 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.199 And they had a little X through a cartoonish picture 56 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.800 of Elon and so he posted He's like, can you 57 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:49.960 believe this is happening? And then it is gone now. 58 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.120 I don't know if somebody stole it, the advertiser removed it, 59 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.319 some Rando Trump Elon fan removed I don't know, but 60 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.639 it's just like I saw all these tweets all week 61 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.439 and then I saw him, you know, glowingly voting for 62 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.000 the various folks who have come before him this week, 63 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.759 and then like putting, you know, like speaking to how 64 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.720 excited he is to do it well. According to the 65 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:23.680 New York Times, this is how we got here. You ready, 66 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:28.279 before Senator Tom Tillis voted to confirm hag Seth as 67 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.639 Defense Secretary, he worked with accused. This is the New 68 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.959 York Times. He worked with accusers to make the so 69 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:37.480 in reality, I guess it's New York Times, so all 70 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.040 of it could be made up, But I tend to 71 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.480 believe that a lot of this is true. He worked 72 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:45.639 with accusers to make the case against him, right, remember 73 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.720 the sister in law, and we already had the story, 74 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:54.079 and then I believe I believe mister Tillis's response was 75 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.439 he just wanted to explore it or something. I don't know. 76 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.439 Four days after President Trump was sworn in for a 77 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.319 second term, his nominee for Defense Secretary was teetering on 78 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.519 the brink of defeat on the Senate floor, and the 79 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:14.120 President was on Air Force One talking about political retribution. 80 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:16.639 In this case Air Force one. Do you know where 81 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:21.240 they were flying? North Carolina? This was the President's Friday visit. 82 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:26.319 Remember when he came first first official visit after he 83 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.759 was sworn in. What does he do? He comes to 84 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.959 western North Carolina. But it's not just him. It's never 85 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.319 when they do visits like that, it's never just them. 86 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.399 And that's why members of Congress and senators, if you 87 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:41.279 ask them, hey, have you had a chance to fly 88 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.279 on Air Force one, a lot of them will have 89 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:48.800 or the VP's plane or whatever. Because when they go 90 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:52.040 to do these visits for something like this in Western 91 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:57.680 North Carolina, they haul a contingion of other federal elected officials. 92 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.399 He got in for the photos, but also so there's 93 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:03.839 the responsiveness side that he hey, i'm your congressman. Look 94 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:07.480 I brought the president, which which is good, good, right, 95 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:11.480 that's as long as it's not right when the disaster happens, right, 96 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.839 it's the normal course of things. But it's not normal 97 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.279 because Trump's on there, and so he's got this whole delegation. 98 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:20.360 I don't know who's all on the plane, but he's 99 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.720 got a delegation and a lot, you know of Republican 100 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:28.319 congress people, congressmen and women. I gotta think Virginia Fox 101 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:32.079 was on there too, so and he's talking to him. 102 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.079 A Ted Bud might have been on this flight because 103 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.040 I think he was down for that visit. I know 104 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.079 Tillis was not or not in the same on the 105 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:44.439 same but whatever. All right, So, mister Trump had just 106 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.240 gotten word that Senator Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, planned 107 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:54.959 to oppose Pete Hegseth, the former Fox and Friends weekend host, YadA, YadA. 108 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:00.439 If mister Tillis could not be brought to heal by that, uh, 109 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.720 there would be enough Republican no votes to sink mister 110 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.040 heccess confirmation, which would have been a humiliating defeat at 111 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:12.040 the dawn of Trump's second term. So here's what Trump did. Okay. 112 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.279 And when I say this is you, this is you? Right, 113 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:21.519 because things get back to Trump. I had a phone 114 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:26.199 call yesterday with somebody and it's really and and I 115 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.680 can't really disclose everything that was going on. It's not 116 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:33.800 super important. But what was interesting from it is how 117 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.920 when information gets to Trump, what he does with it, 118 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.360 and and and like he just because he's a business guy, 119 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:42.759 He's saying, oh, you know, Bob, what are you coming 120 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:45.279 to my office? Bob's got a problem, Boomy, handle it right, 121 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.680 So and he'll do it. He'll do it in his 122 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.639 own little way, and so now he's on his plane. 123 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.560 He's got a bunch of other Republicans from North Carolina, 124 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.680 you know, members of Congress, and he just simply turned 125 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:03.639 to him, according to the article here, and said which 126 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.560 of them wanted his endorsement to primary Tillis for the 127 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:20.079 Senate seat next year. Hmm, yeah, there you go. And 128 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.319 then he's been Tom Tail has been running around. He's 129 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.439 just like the biggest cheerleader for all of Trump's people. 130 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.199 Now New York Times says it's corruption. Some would argue 131 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:33.720 that Trump won the state and he didn't really hide 132 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:35.879 what he was going to do, and so is it 133 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.759 the will of the people that's for you to decide. 134 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:42.519 You know, there's a lot of arguments there. There are 135 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.399 states that Trump won by thirty points where you have 136 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:49.679 local elect officials going, you know, doing the opposite. Why 137 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:54.159 is our attorney general in North Carolina joining in every 138 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.320 single lawsuit? Trump won this state, but also he won 139 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:03.600 this state like these are there? These are the political headbutting, 140 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:08.039 the disagreements that are going to happen. And uh, we 141 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.919 may have mentioned on this show that the idea of 142 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.759 Tom Tillis getting primary wasn't the worst. Although I have 143 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.480 many of you that sent me emails basically telling me 144 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:20.120 that the Democrats are going to win. It's going to 145 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.759 be all my fault. President of the United States, Blame 146 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:29.679 it on him if that happens. It's not his fault, arguably, 147 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.279 because people are evaluating the like way say, I voted 148 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:33.840 for this guy, but I also voted for this other 149 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.720 guy for a higher office, and this guy is making 150 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.200 the other guy not be able to do the thing 151 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:47.320 I've voted for. So that was that? That is that 152 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.799 I'm not saying. That is that, like, you know, a 153 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.960 lot of people don't have necessarily trust in Tillis, and 154 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.480 I you know, it's not like, you know, after after 155 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.039 the election, then he's just reading do whatever he wants 156 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:02.799 and he can wait out Trump because we'll have another 157 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:06.440 six years if he wins. So that's another aside issue. 158 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.960 But if you're wondering why all of a sudden he's best, 159 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.519 he's with all these folks, I think this New York 160 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:15.519 Times article is a good theory as to why that 161 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.000 may be. And apparently in this article they also say 162 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.720 that Tillis was actively trying to persuade other Republican senators 163 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:32.240 to oppose hag Seth. So there you go, and then 164 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:34.840 they go, oh, it explains a broader dynamic at play 165 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.240 with mister Trump back in the White House, as Republicans 166 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:42.399 in Congress fearful of reprisal, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama 167 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:47.080 back in his were they would gut you. They would 168 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.879 gut you if you didn't fall in line. Right, this 169 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:55.600 is not a new thing in Washington. And you could 170 00:10:55.720 --> 00:11:01.559 argue the independence there, the independent Joe Biden wanted to 171 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:06.440 run right after Barack Obama, and they basically told him, no, 172 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:11.080 it's Hillary's turn, and if you run, we'll crush you. Right, 173 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:15.159 That's how these things go. So you can't pretend they 174 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.159 you know, this is some new thing here. If it 175 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.679 bothers you, then you need to be consistent with It 176 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.360 is all that I'm saying. But I wanted to provide 177 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.519 you an explanation as to why, all of a sudden, 178 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.840 not only is he voting for everybody, he's running around 179 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:32.919 He's like, oh, we got to protect elon it all costs. 180 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.639 Look at this sign I found I'm a warrior. Sounds 181 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:41.000 like this may have been it. This may have been 182 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.440 it right here, all right, coming up on the show. 183 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.480 How the hell do you not see Nimets class aircraft carrier? 184 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.720 I do not know, but somebody didn't, So we'll get 185 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:55.720 into that. Oh where is this? Do you guys want 186 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:59.120 to drive faster? Do you ross? 187 00:11:59.159 --> 00:11:59.519 You don't know? 188 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:04.440 I've, like Grandma asked. I don't mean that as an insult. 189 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:09.440 You're just very You want to drive faster, like five 190 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.080 miles an hour faster legally? Are you cool? No, they're 191 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.960 at least on your commute. Yeah, let's row five miles 192 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.879 on there, and I don't know, maybe even more. That's 193 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.840 what they're talking about here in North Carolina. So we'll 194 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.799 get into it. And good news real quick. Remember how 195 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.960 you got upset because your kid couldn't go to school 196 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.399 several days because the ACU was broke. Apparently Wake County 197 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.559 Schools thinks they should probably get around to fixing that. 198 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.360 So they're gonna do that. They just need a bunch 199 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.480 more of your money, which brings up some questions that 200 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.759 I have and probably some of you have, So we'll 201 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:48.360 get to that. And a surefireway to get pulture geys 202 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.159 Poultergeist in your house. So all that and more coming up. 203 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:54.320 CaCO Day Radio program because they're mad at well, they're 204 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:56.919 mad at everybody. Linda McMahon is just like, they don't 205 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:58.639 really like, they don't even know why they're there. But 206 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.919 you got to signed some moonbats with signs to go 207 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.879 over there to scream at her. I appreciated the fact 208 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:10.320 that they attempted to do a heckling and a disruption 209 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:17.519 of government, but with W. W. E. Blair, just to 210 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.440 make things a little different. So maybe that's just me, 211 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.919 but yeah, So Linda McMahon, who obviously served, I think 212 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:29.159 we interviewed we interviewed her right a couple of times. 213 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:34.360 I think served the first Trump administration, right, and then 214 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.279 obviously McMahon, you understand the name there and who she is, 215 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.360 so they're bringing her back. But at the same time, 216 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.000 you know, the Department of Education, or at least the 217 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:49.080 version that exists now is probably on its way out. 218 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.600 We don't know all the details yet, so I guess 219 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:56.759 that really kind of pumped them up. But yeah, here 220 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:58.399 she is, because you know, they got to do all 221 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:04.519 the swearing inns and the various things, and they they 222 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.960 they decided to heckle and disrupt with the toy. 223 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.080 My daughter Stephanie McMahon, Paula Veck, her husband, and my 224 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:16.279 son McMahon. I'm so happy to have them here, and 225 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.440 many friends from I have come from far places, so 226 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:22.519 I welcome having them here today and appreciate that they're here. 227 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.559 So thank you Chairman Cassidy, ranking Member Sanders, and distinguished 228 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.200 members of the committee. I'm honored to have your consideration 229 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:36.799 to serve as the Secretary of the Department of Education. 230 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.039 And I'd like to thank both Senators Scott and Britt 231 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:46.639 for their introductions. 232 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:49.559 I don't know why you had to, why you need 233 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:55.360 an audience contain heckler's for this or whatever. So the 234 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.000 sign that one of them is holding, what does it say? 235 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.600 Can you hear what Linda McMahon is cooking? All right? 236 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.399 So speaking of Linda McMahon and the Department of Education 237 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:11.639 and all that stuff, again, they were hackling her, but 238 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:16.759 they were doing it with wrestling themes, so at least 239 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.320 it was different. They also, you know, they shouldn't do it. 240 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.240 And and the fact that literally none of the McMahon 241 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:27.600 kids went and you know he hit the protester with 242 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.240 a fake folding chair. I probably took a lot. Plus 243 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.000 you know, she had backup there. Do you think the 244 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.480 do you think the moonbaths can take a bump? I 245 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:42.240 don't know. Triple H's right there, dude, I'm sorry. I 246 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.200 will never not be funny. These do even if you 247 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.440 stick them in a suit, they look like absolute like 248 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:51.440 monster gorillas. These guys. He's just sitting there. It's just 249 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.960 who's the who is the Who's Cane? Cane's the mayor 250 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:59.440 right in Tennessee? Is it Tennessee or Kentucky? Right? I 251 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.960 have ever seen remember just how crazy it was watching 252 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.039 that dude, Like when he got elected. He's just in 253 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.600 his mayor suit, barely the suit's like what, I don't know, 254 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.240 I'm gonna be able to hold out for this. So 255 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.000 the Department of ed the narrative is, and the protester 256 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.840 was alluding to it, is that they're gonna get rid 257 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.399 of it and then anybody's kid who's not a traditional student, 258 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.000 they're just gonna dump them in the woods or so 259 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.120 I don't know, right, because you don't need you don't 260 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.159 need it. Whatever you want that to be open to interpretations. 261 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:37.320 So the parents panic, absolute panic. And we discussed this 262 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.039 the other day, and I think the most compelling point 263 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.360 if you come to somebody like that if in fact, 264 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:49.120 the Department of Ed Responsibilities and moneies get transferred back 265 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.960 to the states so that they facilitated. The strongest point. 266 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:54.879 You don't have to get into any of the woods, 267 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:57.679 you know, any of the details, the minutia, any of 268 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:03.080 the rest. The strongest point is very simple and ross. 269 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.079 This was your point. So if you want, I will 270 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:08.480 let you explain it. But it is the most compelling 271 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.519 way to get somebody to calm down. I think what 272 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.920 happens if the State of North Carolina is now in 273 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:20.400 charge of all of the kids, right, special ad children 274 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.160 who need alternative learning for you know, because they're struggling, 275 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.759 all of those kids, all those kids. What happens in 276 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:29.160 the State of North Carolina gets the money and they 277 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:33.240 just they don't have a class for them. All the 278 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:34.519 lawmakers go away. 279 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.359 Yeah, I mean that's a political suicide. And even if 280 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:40.480 you don't have a kid in special education, because you're 281 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.119 a good person, which most parents are, they're going to 282 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:46.039 be down there to Capitol with pitchforks and torches. Yeah, 283 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:47.680 because it ain't right and most people know that. 284 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:49.960 Yeah, I don't even have kids, I mean, what the 285 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:54.440 hell are you doing? So which is so you have 286 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:58.279 to remember if you believe this narrative, which is promise 287 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.759 is crafted in so I guess Mark Elias set up 288 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.799 a whole new thing where all of these lawsuits and 289 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.279 all this insanity is getting funneled through this guy. What 290 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:12.599 the most one of the most injurious people in all 291 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.759 of politics is somebody was never elected. His name is 292 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.000 Mark Elias. I've watched this dude do his things since 293 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.839 I first learned about him when he came to flip 294 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.000 the Senate seat for Al Franken, right, and where they 295 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.799 were literally finding ballots in trunks and that's not me, 296 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.240 you know, just throwing out something. They literally had ballots 297 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.839 that they found in trunks in a in a poll 298 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.680 worker's trunk in Dinkytown, which is the University of Minnesota. 299 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.680 So they were all it's They were overwhelmingly as you 300 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:48.039 can imagine, for Al Franken, just as that district was. 301 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:50.000 And whoop, see how they was getting my trunk and 302 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.119 let's go get those counted, right and this, so this 303 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:57.160 dude is ramping up. So all of these attacks are 304 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:01.720 they're tested, right, they crack and test. This is super 305 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:06.319 sophisticated man, and so they think the strongest narrative is 306 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.799 if Trump does this, all the special led kids don't 307 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:12.920 go to school anymore, right, And that's and that's terrifying 308 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:17.160 to obviously parents. But to Ross's point too, that the 309 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:21.880 idea of that is also something that most people would 310 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:24.799 reject because they realized, well, that ain't right. If you're 311 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:30.359 gonna have this, you're gonna have public education, you got 312 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.720 you gotta handle your business. You can, but you can 313 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.200 arguably do it in a much more efficient way, in 314 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:39.480 a closer to home way, so there's more accountability for 315 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.599 the people in charge. So, uh, this is this is 316 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.839 what they're gonna go with. But other people have other theories. 317 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:50.759 I don't know, like the uh, the cackling hyenas over 318 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.400 at the view that okay. 319 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.480 You know, getting rid of the Department of Education is 320 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.799 actually the first goal listed in the location section of 321 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.799 Project twenty twenty five. We were talking about Project twenty 322 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:04.279 twenty five. 323 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.839 Also the also literally the thing that a lot of 324 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:12.039 Republicans have promised for a lot longer than twenty twenty 325 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.640 five has been there. So but whatever you think, you 326 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:16.839 got a theory, why is Trump doing it? 327 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:19.680 Helped me understand, We warned everybody that that was the playbook, 328 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.160 and it remains the playbook, and they are playing. 329 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:24.960 By that book. It is also the smallest of all 330 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:28.319 the government agencies, so if you get rid of the 331 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.279 Department of Education, you really don't have this sort of 332 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:34.240 financial boon that they're telling you that you're going to have. 333 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:39.519 Nobody's really telling you that it's a financial boon. And 334 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:43.119 also it may be the smallest, but it's the one 335 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:46.960 I could least tell you what they do. And I 336 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.319 sat in years when I was doing the reporting. I 337 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.519 had to cover the school boards meetings, and so that's 338 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:57.039 why I know things like what title one dollars are 339 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:58.920 and all of these things. I still don't know what 340 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:02.240 the hell they do. It couldn't literally just be done locally. 341 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.359 So there's that. But this is the view. You ladies 342 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.119 ain't just gonna be like it's twenty twenty five. I 343 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:15.200 want to hear a much more insane theory. Do you 344 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.200 have it? Insane theory? That's what we come to you 345 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:18.680 for Give me an insane theory. 346 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:22.240 It's not really about saving money, No, I think there's 347 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:25.240 a much more nefarious reason for it. I think it's 348 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:30.319 because they without education, you get cheaper labor. I think 349 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:32.559 what they want to do is create in the United 350 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:39.960 States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce because educated 351 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.960 workers cost more. That is the bottom line, and that's 352 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:43.519 what they're doing. 353 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.759 So they want serfs. That's let's just they want serfs. 354 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:48.920 Maybe they'll share crops some stuff, and then you can 355 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:50.720 beat them. You used to be able to beat the serf. 356 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:55.119 So that's that's what you think they want. You think 357 00:21:55.440 --> 00:22:01.400 that there is a conspiratorial plan to create eight A 358 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:03.839 an endless supply. I just want to I just want 359 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:06.759 you to understand what you just said, an endless supply 360 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:15.519 of cheap, idiot, uneducated UH labor that that you can 361 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:22.880 they can exploit, because that sounds that sounds a lot 362 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:27.880 like everyone whining that nobody's gonna make their smoothies with 363 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:30.799 the blueberries for the smoothie because nobody's there to pick them, 364 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:34.279 or to clean your house or all of the jobs 365 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:38.799 which clearly only fall into these menial labor descriptions that 366 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:42.559 you use as examples UH in talking about why you 367 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:46.240 don't like his immigration policies, because you see that as hey, 368 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:50.480 who's gonna pay who's gonna I need blueberries for my smoothie. 369 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:56.119 I need blueberries. Who's gonna pick them like that? That's 370 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.319 you now, don't get me wrong. 371 00:22:58.839 --> 00:22:59.039 Uh. 372 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:01.720 The one of the bigger problems with immigration before Joe 373 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:03.920 Biden put it on steroids. But just going back to 374 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:07.960 you know, really how it was working. Absolutely, both parties 375 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:13.799 had people within them who were benefiting from you know this, 376 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:17.559 this cheap labor often much cheaper too if it's being 377 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:21.920 done off the books. That's why it was harder to kill, 378 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:27.160 harder to get a handle on. And I was perfectly 379 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.279 fine because they'd making it all or nothing. They'd be like, oh, 380 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.799 if you're going to go after the people, go after 381 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:33.680 the businesses, and like you won't do that. I'm like, yes, 382 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:39.640 do that, do both those things. That's fine. But when 383 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:43.000 it comes to who has been beating my brains in 384 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:47.039 every time this issue comes up over creating a permanent 385 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:52.480 underclass of cheap labor that you can exploit, it's you 386 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:56.079 all with your veget who's gonna pick my vegetables? Crap? 387 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:00.920 You know we're not gonna have let us at the store. 388 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.319 What are you going to do? Well? One, I don't 389 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.160 need lettuce? Ugh, the beef going to be oh, the 390 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.319 steaks are still there. Good, But no, on a serious side, 391 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:14.319 that's also not true. What you have is you're going 392 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:18.079 to have in any of these industries, you're going to 393 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:22.279 have a course correction because you are arbitrarily able to 394 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:28.440 maintain a much lower operating costs versus other businesses. If 395 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:34.519 you chose to hire people illegally to do stuff, and 396 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:36.799 that was good for you. So the course correct means 397 00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:39.480 that whatever it is you do, the people you're going 398 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:41.880 to hire are going to cost more. It'll be on 399 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:47.519 par with other businesses who use lower unskilled labor. They 400 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:53.200 are currently having to compete against you, and that may 401 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:57.000