1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to vpetclenarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,000 your support. So last hour I went over a bunch 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,320 of the overrides that were completed today in the North 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,679 Carolina General Assembly. One of those overrides, I said, I 12 00:00:41,719 --> 00:00:44,399 was going to circle back in true jen Psaki style, 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,039 was House built three eighteen And the name of that 14 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,039 is an act to modify eligibility for release and require 15 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:56,200 notification of release to Immigration and Customs enforcement when a 16 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,920 prisoner is subject to an immigration detainer and administer creative warrant. Okay. 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,519 So this is to close the loophole that certain sheriffs 18 00:01:09,599 --> 00:01:15,480 in North Carolina all Democrats in the cities you know 19 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:23,359 Asheville or Bunkham County, Wait County, Durham, and Mecklenburg where 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,519 they do not alert ice before they release some illegal 21 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,760 alien that has been arrested for some violent offense. They 22 00:01:31,799 --> 00:01:35,719 don't tell ICE, Hey, this guy is bonding out. We're 23 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,159 getting ready to release him. And so they wrote a 24 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:41,599 law they tried to force these sheriffs to cooperate to 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,760 keep the community safe. But these sheriffs ran on explicit 26 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:47,799 platforms of not cooperating with ICE, so they have found 27 00:01:47,879 --> 00:01:52,359 every way possible to avoid fully cooperating with ICE. While 28 00:01:52,599 --> 00:01:56,519 Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden continues to claim that 29 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,560 he is cooperating with ICE and that ICE should cooperate 30 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:04,280 more with him, him or something. So we got another 31 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:08,400 law that Governor Stein tried to veto or did veto, 32 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,599 and now it's been overridden. In order for the veto 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,919 to get an override, you got to have three fifths 34 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,840 majority in each chamber. Well, the Republicans in the Senate 35 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:24,520 control three fifths of the seats, so they have a supermajority. 36 00:02:24,599 --> 00:02:28,919 They can override vetos without a single Democrat vote over 37 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,599 In the House, the Republicans are one vote shy of 38 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,000 a supermajority, so they need to get at least one 39 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,800 Democrat to vote with them on any override. And they 40 00:02:40,879 --> 00:02:44,400 got one. And the one they got on this measure 41 00:02:45,199 --> 00:02:52,840 was Carla Cunningham, a Democrat from Mecklenburg County, and she 42 00:02:52,960 --> 00:03:00,199 got up and delivered a floor speech that well, I'll 43 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,039 say it this way. I could see her fellow Democrats 44 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:06,080 around her, because I don't know if you've ever seen 45 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,000 the way the legislature, the House side is laid out. 46 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:12,560 They all have their desks and they're pretty tight together, 47 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:17,840 and so when you rise to speak on something, there's 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,759 a microphone at your desk, and you pick up the 49 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,599 microphone and you just speak right from your chair, right 50 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,199 from the desk, and you're surrounded on She's surrounded by 51 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,400 fellow Democrats and just watching them during this speech. They 52 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,719 were squirming. They were squirming over what she said, and 53 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:38,039 then they were trying to stop her too. Like I 54 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:43,159 mentioned last hour, Destin Hall had to warn the gallery, 55 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,919 this is not an opportunity for you to chant and 56 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,879 applaud and cheer and scream things. This is the time 57 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,439 for the members to debate. These members represent the eleven 58 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:01,560 million people in North Carolina. And so this is what 59 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:04,520 he told them that when you're trying to shout somebody down, 60 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:09,000 you're saying that your voice is more important than all 61 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:12,560 the other people in North Carolina. I mean, just think 62 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:15,479 about the selfishness and narcissism required to do that. Yes, 63 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,560 but Democrats have been doing this for years, ever since 64 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,759 Republicans took control of the General Assembly. They started it 65 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,240 with the moral Monday movements, shut down the operations, try 66 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,920 to prevent the legislative body from working, from meeting, from debating, 67 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:34,000 and so over the years though they have developed. The 68 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:39,199 Republican leadership has now developed this method of you know, 69 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,079 you get a warning and then we're going to have 70 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,959 you removed by the sergeant at arms. And they're like, 71 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,160 they don't put up with this stuff anymore. So Carla Cunningham, 72 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,199 once again Democrat from Mecklenburg County. 73 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 2: Today is a new day, but I'd like to take 74 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,160 a moment to reintroduce myself to each of you. I 75 00:05:00,199 --> 00:05:06,560 am ados American descendants of slaves. I am a Black American, 76 00:05:07,519 --> 00:05:11,720 and i am an American. I'm going to present my 77 00:05:11,879 --> 00:05:16,160 case in support of House Built three eighteen as it 78 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,120 is time for my unapologetic truth to be shared with 79 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,360 all of you. First, as a people, we need to 80 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,879 recognize that it's not just the numbers that matter, but 81 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,480 also where the immigrants come from and the culture they 82 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:37,959 bring with them to another country. As the social scientists report, 83 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,439 all cultures are not equal to Some immigrants come and 84 00:05:43,519 --> 00:05:49,720 believe they can function and isolation, refusing to adapt. They 85 00:05:49,759 --> 00:05:52,920 have come to our country for many reasons, but I 86 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:57,959 suggest they must assimilate, adapt to the culture of the 87 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,399 country they wish to live in. No country is going 88 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,560 to allow people to come in and not acknowledge it's constitution, 89 00:06:07,439 --> 00:06:12,839 legal systems, and laws. They were not tolerated. So do 90 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,920 you think I can go to another country and set 91 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,600 up my own rules to live by, use the language 92 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,680 I choose, and then tell that country that you must 93 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:30,680 speak my language. That's not going to happen, nor should it. 94 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,439 As a country, the United States has been more tolerant 95 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:40,800 than most other countries. Other countries are making it much 96 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:43,279 more difficult to get citizenship. 97 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:45,639 Speaker 1: We have been naive. 98 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,639 Speaker 2: We have been exploited and abused by the different tactics 99 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:57,680 to gain citizenship in America. It's time to wake up. 100 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,319 Global migration in the past was not projected to be 101 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,480 as it is today. We must establish new rules to 102 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,360 address us distinct type of migration that we are facing 103 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,240 in our country, state and cities. It's time to turn 104 00:07:16,279 --> 00:07:17,839 the conveyor belt off. 105 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I wonder if any of her colleagues 106 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:30,839 actually listen to what she's saying with an open mind. 107 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,959 Why would she be saying these things. This is stuff 108 00:07:35,959 --> 00:07:39,360 that some radical right wing nazi would say, right. 109 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 2: And adopt a global migration suitable for the times that 110 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:51,399 we're in and that is not destabilizing our communities. A 111 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:55,759 large number of people entering a country can change it forever. 112 00:07:56,959 --> 00:08:01,759 In conclusion, let me share with you all what happens 113 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:08,360 when a woman lawmaker like myself choose to move differently. Yes, 114 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,720 I was degraded for my vote. Yes I was called 115 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:16,399 racist for my vote, and yes I was said I 116 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:21,839 was trash. However I figured it out. They want me 117 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,199 to stop elevating my ancestors history. They want me to 118 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,839 be silent in my country. They want me to line 119 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:39,240 up behind their priorities while my people and communities continue 120 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:41,279 to struggle in our country. 121 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,279 Speaker 1: All right, so you probably can hear a little bit 122 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,879 in the background there some of these frequent flyers, these democrats, 123 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:53,120 these leftists that packed the gallery for these things they've 124 00:08:53,159 --> 00:08:59,039 now started like fake coughing in order to disrupt her speech, 125 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,600 and the speaker of the House testin hall, he's about 126 00:09:04,639 --> 00:09:08,240 to shut that down in quite comical fashion. All Right, 127 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,080 if you're listening to this show, you know I try 128 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:11,879 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 129 00:09:11,919 --> 00:09:13,960 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 130 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,240 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 131 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,919 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 132 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,279 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 133 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,399 it's a website and it combines news from around the 134 00:09:27,399 --> 00:09:30,080 world in one place so you can compare coverage and 135 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,039 verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, 136 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,399 dot news slash pete. I put the link in the 137 00:09:37,399 --> 00:09:40,639 podcast description too. 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Sorry, I fell behind on the 149 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:22,639 the text line a little bit. Okay, So this was 150 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,799 in reference to Laura Bud saying that it's not a 151 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,080 god given right to possess a gun, to own a gun. 152 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,879 That representative it was speaking, probably went to a school 153 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:33,679 where they did not teach her the Second Amendment to 154 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,440 the Constitution. That's possible. She's an attorney though, That's what's amazing. 155 00:10:38,519 --> 00:10:42,480 Not really, though, Does Laura Budd seriously think people in 156 00:10:42,519 --> 00:10:44,960 private schools would not be vetted properly who they would 157 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,080 have volunteer with a conceal carried permit? I have a 158 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,200 conceal carried permit and had to go through proper training 159 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,519 for it. Common sense. She must have been left out 160 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:57,000 in the common sense department. I don't know what happened 161 00:10:57,039 --> 00:10:58,840 to House Bill fifty. I don't know which one that 162 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,600 is off the top of my head. Okay, so I'm 163 00:11:02,639 --> 00:11:05,039 caught up on the text line, So let me resume 164 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,159 this audio clip. This is Carla Cunningham Democrat from Charlotte 165 00:11:08,159 --> 00:11:13,840 Mecklimer County here, and she voted with all of the Republicans, 166 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,039 seventy one of them, to override Governor Stein's veto of 167 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:24,440 this Cooperation with Ice bill, so this will now become law. 168 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,279 And she played the first chunk of it, and she's 169 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,320 wrapping up, and you can start to hear these leftists 170 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:38,759 in the gallery start doing these fake coughs and sound 171 00:11:38,759 --> 00:11:44,120 effects to register their displeasure with her, and she is 172 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:49,080 calling out people like them, if not them, specifically for 173 00:11:49,279 --> 00:11:53,360 the abuse that she has been subjected to for daring 174 00:11:53,879 --> 00:11:58,039 to cross the Democrat line. Because when she voted for 175 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,480 this bill originally before it went to the henor for 176 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,720 his signature or veto, which you got, Vito, she started 177 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:08,120 getting the kind of abuse that Tricia Cotham got on 178 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:14,480 the school voucher issue. Tricia Coffam, educate, former educator, right 179 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:19,320 state representative, and she switched parties to become a Republican 180 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,559 because she was subjected to this kind of abuse from 181 00:12:23,639 --> 00:12:28,840 her own party members. So now you've got the Speaker 182 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,679 of the House who's about to interrupt Carla Cunningham in 183 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,559 order to shut down this behavior that these democrats in 184 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,360 the gallery are engaging in mister. 185 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:46,879 Speaker 3: Speaker, lady will spin momentarily. Members, it's not a kindergarten class. 186 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,519 I look up and I see full grown adults, many 187 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,240 of you senior citizens, and you're clearly trying to make 188 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,039 noise like a young child might when there's having to 189 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,360 sit in a classroom and listening. So please, you're not 190 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:09,320 doing anything by making these noises. And if the sergeant 191 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,759 in arms sees the lady who just was making the noise, 192 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:14,279 the sergeant arms has the chairs direction to go ahead 193 00:13:14,279 --> 00:13:18,120 and remove the lady. Again, folks, please, you're allowing folks 194 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:21,840 on both sides of this issue to speak. If you 195 00:13:21,879 --> 00:13:24,399 want to come down here and debate, go run for 196 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,720 bublic office. Thank you. Lady continues to have a. 197 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:32,399 Speaker 2: Floor, Thank you, mister speaker. As I was saying, they 198 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,360 want me to line up behind their priorities while my 199 00:13:36,519 --> 00:13:41,840 people and communities continue to struggle in our country. Is 200 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:47,720 this not your country? This is my country, with the 201 00:13:47,759 --> 00:13:51,559 good and the not so good. This is my country. 202 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,960 It is a bee now. If you want to adapt 203 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,960 to my country, not isolate yourself, and come here, I 204 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,759 welcome you. But today I am telling you I am 205 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,159 not going to be silenced by those who disagree with 206 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,240 my ideology on the issue at hand. 207 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 3: Mister speaker, Representive Cunningham, what purpose is the lady from 208 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:20,559 New handad repsent of Butler? I feel like. 209 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:24,759 Speaker 4: We're getting into personal territory and maligning the character of 210 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:26,039 the members of this body. 211 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: Well, I think the lady is speaking of the personal 212 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,399 attacks that she received from folks outside of this body. 213 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,879 Unless I misheard what she said, and the lady is 214 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:38,919 correct that it's not appropriate to talk about personal attacks 215 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:41,559 of members of the body. Again, I understand her to 216 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,519 be saying some personal things that she received from outside. 217 00:14:44,519 --> 00:14:46,559 Speaker 5: But mister speaker, in that case, I would move the 218 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:47,360 previous question. 219 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 3: Okay, ladies not recognized formation Representive Cunningham. 220 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,279 Speaker 1: All right, So what that was? Deb Butler? Deb Butler 221 00:14:56,399 --> 00:15:00,679 from New Hanover County, most famously of the I will 222 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:05,559 not yield biscus Speaker. Remember that it's been a few years. 223 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,080 This was when they overrode former Governor Roy Cooper's veto 224 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,159 on something when the Democrats failed to show up in 225 00:15:14,279 --> 00:15:17,799 sufficient numbers and Republicans looked around and they were like, hey, 226 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,879 we got enough votes right now to override that veto. 227 00:15:20,159 --> 00:15:21,799 So they pulled it up and they were like, let's 228 00:15:21,879 --> 00:15:26,679 vote on this, and by refusing to, she grabbed the 229 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:28,879 mic and she's like, I refuse do you just went 230 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,679 on this rant. It went viral, of course, and she 231 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:36,159 made appearances on MSNBC as a defender of the democracy. 232 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,360 And the kicker on it was that had the Democrats 233 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:42,759 just left, there would not have been a quorum and 234 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,559 then they would not have been able to vote on anything. 235 00:15:44,879 --> 00:15:50,679 But because she had this tantrum, this meltdown, they took 236 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,960 the vote and they override the governor. They overrode the 237 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,679 governor's veto. So Cunningham now concludes here just forty seconds. 238 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 3: He could change it down the floor. 239 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,279 Speaker 2: Thank you, just to speaker. 240 00:15:59,799 --> 00:16:02,879 Speaker 1: Oh and note how she tried to silence Carl Cunningham 241 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:04,759 as well there by calling the question. 242 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 2: See, it was my ancestors who came over as slaves, 243 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:15,120 built this country with a strain on their backs. They 244 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:18,600 sweat pouring from their bodies in the rice fields, the 245 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:20,639 cotton fields, and the tobacco farms. 246 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: For this country lived as servants. 247 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,799 Speaker 2: And was the footstool, I said, the footstool for far 248 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,279 too many feet to step on so today, if you 249 00:16:34,519 --> 00:16:38,759 asked me to line up behind another group of people 250 00:16:39,639 --> 00:16:44,559 to raise awareness about their plight, I don't apologetically say no. 251 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: There you go. Me thinks the Democrat Party has some 252 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,559 bit of a riff. Here's a great idea. How about 253 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:55,840 making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway 254 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:58,320 in western North Carolina. 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Here's an email from John up 275 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,079 in Jersey for you have given me hope for a 276 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,680 Democrat to so eloquently articulate what sensible conservatives have tried 277 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,240 to express for so long. I now have to rethink 278 00:18:15,279 --> 00:18:19,960 my position that we might be in the end times. Well, 279 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:27,559 you know, you never know. Maybe from the text line, 280 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,640 I don't know. It's from somebody in Wisconsin. This week's 281 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,039 Hero of the Week Carla Cunningham. Finally another crack in 282 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,640 the North Carolina Democrat Party, or in the another crack 283 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:46,759 in the party dam Kudos to Carla Cunningham for truly 284 00:18:46,799 --> 00:18:48,559 standing up for common sense, the rule of law, and 285 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,400 doing what's right for her constituency and North Carolina citizens. 286 00:18:52,559 --> 00:19:01,119 At large. Oh James, that's James in Waxaw. Well, the 287 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,000 phone number is identified as a Wisconsin number on the 288 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:09,519 text line, so that's all it says. Gary on Twitter says, 289 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,559 I one hundred percent support the Democrat representative from Mecklemburg 290 00:19:13,599 --> 00:19:16,720 County speech. She is correct. Our country is being flooded 291 00:19:16,759 --> 00:19:20,960 with cheap labor is going to far more harm anyone 292 00:19:21,079 --> 00:19:25,079 without a college degree. It was the cause of fewer 293 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,680 jobs and decreased pay while driving up the cost of 294 00:19:28,799 --> 00:19:32,799 used vehicles and housing. Yeah, that's one of those things. 295 00:19:32,799 --> 00:19:35,319 I'm always amazed how nobody ever makes the connection between 296 00:19:36,079 --> 00:19:41,319 the housing crunch and allowing millions and millions of extra 297 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,119 people into the country every year. Like that's like I 298 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,839 kind of feel like that's related. Right, all right, So 299 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,920 you heard Carla Conningham's speech, and one of the things 300 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,759 that she said a couple times there at the end 301 00:19:54,079 --> 00:19:56,599 was she was talking about my country. This is my country. 302 00:19:56,759 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 6: Right. 303 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:04,519 Speaker 1: That prompts a response from former judge Marsha Morey, Democrat 304 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:12,160 from Durham, and this awful is going to rebut her 305 00:20:12,279 --> 00:20:14,759 fellow Democrats argument. 306 00:20:16,319 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 4: We've heard passionate debate about this, and I'm going to 307 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,480 be from the first one to say, this is not 308 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:25,440 my country. This is our country. 309 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:37,319 Speaker 1: Oh so brave, just please stop, just stop. You're not 310 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,920 like this. That's not clever, right, it's our Well, who's 311 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:47,519 our Who do you include in our will? She tell us. Oh, 312 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,160 I bet she does, and I bet her definition is 313 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,880 a bit more, shall we say, expansive than mine. 314 00:20:55,200 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 4: This is our country. Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, we 315 00:21:05,519 --> 00:21:07,640 have all built this country. 316 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,839 Speaker 1: Okay, so you hear what she just did there. She 317 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:19,039 conflates all immigrants legal with illegal. Right, she conflates them 318 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:26,480 all together, because most Americans are fine with legal immigration. 319 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,640 Most Americans understand that this is a nation of immigrants 320 00:21:32,039 --> 00:21:35,240 coming from all over the world, attracted by an idea, 321 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:40,880 a concept, the free market, guaranteed rights endowed by our creator. 322 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,200 Despite what that Democrat lawyer said from the House floor earlier, right, 323 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:49,079 these are god given, inalienable rights, and our constitution limits 324 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,160 the government in a way that it does not do 325 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:57,680 so for like any other country on the planet. It says, 326 00:21:57,839 --> 00:22:01,039 this is it like these are the enumerated power. Everything 327 00:22:01,079 --> 00:22:05,079 else is reserved to the states and the people. Right, 328 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:10,000 these concepts, this ability to work, hard play by the rules, 329 00:22:10,279 --> 00:22:16,799 get ahead. That's the draw freedom right. In one word, 330 00:22:16,839 --> 00:22:22,680 it's freedom. It's not the democracy, it's freedom. So when 331 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:27,960 Carl Cunningham is up there talking about illegal immigration and 332 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:31,599 this creating all sorts of problems, and it's displacing her 333 00:22:31,759 --> 00:22:35,359 people who are black Americans who have borne the brunt 334 00:22:35,839 --> 00:22:40,119 of the competition for the lower paid positions because the 335 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,599 illegal aliens that come in, they get taken advantage of 336 00:22:43,799 --> 00:22:48,599 by disreputable employers that are willing to pay them less 337 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,680 money to do the same job that an American would 338 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,720 require more to be paid. And so she's pushing back 339 00:22:56,799 --> 00:23:01,000 on this, but she's got the the apt white female 340 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:03,400 liberal from Durham who's going to tell her how it 341 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:07,160 really is. It's our country, don't you see. And then 342 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,000 she conflates legal with illegal immigration. 343 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 4: But what does this bill do? It denies that immigrants 344 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,640 are an essential part of our community. 345 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: It doesn't. 346 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 4: It denies that they are neighbors, that they are co workers, 347 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:27,480 that they are our friends. 348 00:23:28,799 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: Doesn't that they are any of that family. No, none 349 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:32,039 of that. 350 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 4: We all agree we wan't safe communities. But as we 351 00:23:37,599 --> 00:23:40,599 have heard, that's no longer the issue with this bill. 352 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:47,519 It is scapegoating. It is scapegoating immigrants, and research has 353 00:23:47,599 --> 00:23:51,920 shown us that the immigrant community is less likely to 354 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:54,559 commit crimes than the US citizen. 355 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,319 Speaker 1: She never says the word illegal. It's always just immigrant community, immigrant, 356 00:23:59,359 --> 00:23:59,920 this immigrant that. 357 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 2: That is a fact. 358 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 4: We need to work towards finding solutions, not creating divisiveness 359 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:17,839 and ignoring community concerns. This is furthering an anti immigrant 360 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:23,799 agenda no matter what the cost, and when police act 361 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,920 as immigration agents, witnesses or victims of crime are going 362 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,240 to be less likely to report crime, to be protected 363 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:39,359 by our communities, and forcing law enforcement to cooperate with 364 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:46,240 ICE has led to racial profiling of black, brown, and 365 00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:52,880 immigrant communities, with law enforcement targeting people based on appearance 366 00:24:53,599 --> 00:24:55,319 and not criminal behavior. 367 00:24:56,519 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: Again, this is to ensure that the sheriffs call ICE 368 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:04,680 when an illegal alien has been arrested for something violent 369 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,359 and they're in the jail. 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I regret to be the bearer of bad News. 396 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:43,799 But apparently American Eagle, the clothing manufacturer, apparently they're Nazis. 397 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,440 I've been reliably informed of this by multiple media outlets today. 398 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,480 I had no idea, which is weird because I think 399 00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:56,279 it was founded by some Jewish guys. But Nazis so 400 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,920 and they know the media and the these TikTok influencers 401 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,279 that are driving the the legacy media. Apparently they know 402 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:17,720 this because they put Sidney Sweeney in an ad and 403 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,640 the ad says that she has good genes, and American 404 00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:25,559 Eagle makes genes and they show her in the genes. 405 00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 3: Right. 406 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:32,799 Speaker 1: See, so like you see the obvious Nazi connection here, right, 407 00:27:32,839 --> 00:27:35,640 I mean it's like it's very blatant. So, in case 408 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:40,359 you don't know, Sidney Sweeney is what may be referred 409 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,599 to in some circles as a quote unquote smoke show. 410 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,839 She's very attractive and at least if you were into 411 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,279 the you know, the voluptuous good looks that sort of 412 00:27:52,319 --> 00:27:56,519 thing as attractive. Okay, So she also has blonde hair 413 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:59,640 and blue eyes. See Nazi, Nazi, Nazi all over the place. 414 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,599 It just like screaming Nazi at us. Yeah, MSNBC headline 415 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,799 Sidney Sweeney's edge shows an unbridled cultural shift towards whiteness. 416 00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:14,559 Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they 417 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:21,000 reflect is ugly and startling. Here was Yeah, here is 418 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,599 ABC's Good Morning America. They did a they did a 419 00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:26,880 brief piece on this as well. 420 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,279 Speaker 7: I'm check the pulse. We begin with the backlash of 421 00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:33,920 our new ad campaign featuring actress Sidney Sweeney. 422 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:34,279 Speaker 3: Yeah. 423 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:36,759 Speaker 8: The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is 424 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,799 Sidney Sweeney has great genes. 425 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 6: Now. 426 00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 8: In one ad, the blondehair, blue eyed actress talks about 427 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 jeees as in DNA, being passed down from her parents. 428 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:49,799 Speaker 7: The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda 429 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,720 with racial undertones. 430 00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:54,759 Speaker 5: The coun good cheat. 431 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: This is this is uh, let me see your name. 432 00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:02,000 Robin landa professor at Keen University, never heard of. 433 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 5: It activates a troubling historical associations for this country. The 434 00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:11,480 American eugenics movement and it's prime between like nineteen hundred 435 00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:16,160 and nineteen forty, weaponized the idea of good genes just 436 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:18,559 to justify white supremacism. 437 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 3: You know what. 438 00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: It also justified planned parenthood. Yeah, uh huh do you 439 00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:30,880 know Charles Krault, the newsman guy. His father, I believe, 440 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,000 was the Mecklenburg County Director of Health and he was 441 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:39,240 a big Eugenesis guy. They named a building after him, 442 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,440 I think at one point here. Yeah, so there's a she. 443 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,240 So the ad campaign is she's dressed in all denim 444 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:51,279 and she she talks to the camera and she's like, oh, 445 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,720 you know, my parents gave me good genes or something 446 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,519 because she's attractive. See, like that's why. Oh I'm attractive 447 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:02,480 because my parents passed down the good genes and then 448 00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:05,680 good genes. And then she crosses out g E n 449 00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:09,200 e S on one billboard and writes Jenes j e 450 00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:12,559 a n s. Right, you get it, good gens. It's 451 00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,519 a play on words. She has good genes because she's attractive. 452 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:20,839 She has good genes because they're American eagle. That's literally 453 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,200 all there is to this people. But no, we can't 454 00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:27,279 have nice things. So here's a sample of the kind 455 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:31,319 of dumbassery that has been occurring. You guys are complaining 456 00:30:31,359 --> 00:30:34,400 about that Sydney's Sweeney jeans, and so I went and 457 00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:38,359 saw it. That's Nazi propaganda. 458 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,319 Speaker 2: Wow. 459 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be like kind of fad 460 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:46,640 that's gonna be in history book. 461 00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 6: I will be the friend that's two woke because those 462 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,759 Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ads are weird, like fascist weird, 463 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,759 like Nazi propaganda weird. Would we be surprised that a 464 00:30:57,839 --> 00:31:01,799 company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist 465 00:31:01,839 --> 00:31:02,720 propaganda like this? 466 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: Probably not okay. So just to paint the picture here, 467 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,240 both of those women that you just heard speaking have 468 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,839 nos rings ones in front of a trans flag. They 469 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,559 both have the big glasses. It's right, like right out 470 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:25,680 of Central Casting. Here, only the dog, here's the dog whistle. 471 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,240 I'm not sure how many times we have to go 472 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:36,119 over this, but only the dogs hear the whistle. If 473 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,480 you are hearing a whistle about a jeans ad with 474 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,960 Sidney Sweeney saying I have good jeens because she's attractive. 475 00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:51,000 But you see white blue eyes and you think, oh 476 00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:54,759 my gosh, they're you genesists and Nazis, Like you're the 477 00:31:54,880 --> 00:32:01,319 dog in the dog whistle metaphor. David Harson at the 478 00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:06,400 Washington Examiner. He says, I'm not a sociologist, but I 479 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:10,039 think the Sweeney ed shows an enduring cultural desire to 480 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,960 see hot people on TV. I think, yeah, I think 481 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,160 that might actually be it. I think that's all that's 482 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,319 going on here. But yes, in case you are, if 483 00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:26,359 you are wondering, we have indeed entered the zone, in 484 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:32,400 the zone of dumb mass. Now, on the bright side, 485 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,920 this one's probably only going to be very short lived. 486 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,319 I don't see this one having a lot of legs, 487 00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:43,680 unlike Sydney. So I'm sorry. That's terrible joke. Terrible joke. 488 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,960 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 489 00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:50,079 so much for listening. I could not do the show 490 00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:52,599 without your support and the support of the businesses that 491 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,799 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 492 00:32:55,839 --> 00:32:57,480 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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