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 --> 00:00:12,519 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 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links. Become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: Hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello hour three hundredway peak caller 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,439 radio show. Here a news Talk eleven ten nine nine 12 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,719 three WBT and around up down a couple steps, so 13 00:00:39,799 --> 00:00:42,240 catching my breath there chat outams your guest sot here 14 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,920 seven o four five seven eleven ten. As we head 15 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,960 through the end of week two of July twenty twenty five, 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,520 it's just flying by. It's just amazing beautiful weather out 17 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,600 there today, so take advantage of it if you can. 18 00:00:56,679 --> 00:00:59,719 It doesn't seem to be anything bad lurking out there yet. 19 00:00:59,759 --> 00:01:02,479 Let's hope it remains that way. But thank you for 20 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:04,040 being a part of the broadcast. I was talking about 21 00:01:04,079 --> 00:01:07,519 AI as we went to the break and it's impact 22 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,480 and technology on our lives, not to mention our politics. 23 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:14,840 It plays or will not necessarily how policy looks at 24 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:18,599 AI and I think it's government. It's always about. I 25 00:01:18,599 --> 00:01:25,319 think as technology increases in complexity and ability, government's ability 26 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:28,120 to react to it continues at about the same pace. 27 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,000 I think probably in the forties, fifties, sixties, government could 28 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:35,920 keep pace with change in society, and about the seventies 29 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,519 eighties that started lagging further behind. And then by the 30 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,840 nineties policies were really lagging because things were moving. And 31 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,480 now if you were to go through your city or 32 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:51,359 county's regulations and look at the read through them sometimes 33 00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:55,879 because there's their onerous there's thousands of them, you would 34 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,920 find many that are outdated. With respect to ride Away's cars. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,400 There so many different things, building codes and just things 36 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:07,439 get outdated and it's hard to update. It's hard to 37 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,680 constantly update, very costly to do so. Software, by the way, 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,479 the software that your local governments use to collect taxes, 39 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:16,759 issue finds, or even to promote its meetings and stuff. 40 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,680 Depending on which county or city you're in, it's very 41 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,000 very costly difficult to keep that modernized. Even the building 42 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:27,560 systems the way counties do building, or the way town 43 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,719 and cities do building. It's constantly in need of upheaval, 44 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,280 even your cars that are on the streets. You know, 45 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:35,479 cities and counties that they're smart have some kind of 46 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:38,719 strategic plan and they're probably replacing about twenty percent of 47 00:02:38,719 --> 00:02:41,199 the vehicles on any given year, so they get about 48 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,319 five years worth of good utilization out of a vehicle. 49 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,000 It'd be nice if they could get six to ten, 50 00:02:46,039 --> 00:02:48,520 but generally they wear them out. It's kind of the 51 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,599 way you treat rental cars, isn't it. They just don't 52 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,120 tend to last. Plus, the tech change is so dramatically 53 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:56,599 in cars these days. They're very outdated at five or 54 00:02:56,599 --> 00:02:57,919 ten years. I look at the stuff that was in 55 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,159 a like a twenty ten Aguar that makes it into 56 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:04,560 a cheap car by twenty twenty. You know, the cheapest 57 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,039 cars have some of the greatest and amazing, most amazing 58 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:11,319 technology built in them. It's the nature of where we 59 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,120 find ourselves these days. And uh, I don't know, I 60 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:17,879 don't know where it all ends up. But you know, well, 61 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:20,840 I'm fearful. I tend to get fearful. I don't mean 62 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,400 to be fearful, but I don't know that I trust. 63 00:03:24,759 --> 00:03:27,240 I'm not a big believer in government's ability to deal 64 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,039 with things. I like us. I think a smaller, more 65 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,159 limited government has a great deal more alacrity. I think 66 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:36,159 the smaller and more tactical a government is that the 67 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:39,879 better able it is to adjust to things. You know, 68 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:43,319 if you have an onerous, large bureaucracy, things slip through 69 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,520 the cracks. And that's where that's what Medicaid has become. 70 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,599 Medicaid has become huge, It's become lethargic, it's become you know, 71 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:55,759 not even necessarily reactive. It just moves so slow, and 72 00:03:55,759 --> 00:04:00,039 the people that want to scam it move much more quickly. So, 73 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,319 I mean credit card credit card theft has become something 74 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,800 that I think from a security standpoint, more and more 75 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,439 people are getting better at the companies are getting better 76 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:10,400 at identifying fraud, getting something done quickly, going after things 77 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:12,719 more quickly. There's still a lot of fraud, but it's 78 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:16,399 a lot better than the Leviathan that his government now 79 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:19,639 on that front. On the medicaid front, you heard what 80 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,439 Tom Tillis opposed, the Big beautiful deal. A lot of 81 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:25,399 it was on Medicaid. A lot of the Democrats. I 82 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:28,120 even heard Hakeem Jeffery's the minority leader, say hey, we're 83 00:04:28,639 --> 00:04:30,959 we're the Republicans. We're not going to let them get 84 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,160 away with this. We're going to stop the big ugly bill. 85 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:36,079 We're going to stop it because some of the worst 86 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,319 parts of it don't go into effect until after the midterms. 87 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,319 And we got to make people aware of how horrible 88 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:44,240 it is. You know, looking at that, I'm just you know, okay, 89 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,279 that's the Democrats tactic this time around. And I was 90 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,439 looking at what josh Stein had to say about it, 91 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,160 and josh Stein was saying, you know, similar things that 92 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,560 we worked so hard. But what is fascinating what what 93 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:57,160 josh Stein had to say was that he said, we 94 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,839 need to not let them kind of get away with this. 95 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,279 He said, North Carolina is facing real risk to the 96 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:06,160 health of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians and the 97 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:09,680 financial stability of our rural hospitals. Do the reconciliation law. 98 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,319 And when you read what Stein says, you know, we 99 00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:17,839 came together to expand Medicaid, we must now come together 100 00:05:17,879 --> 00:05:22,959 to defend it. What is interesting about Keem Jeffries Joshdine 101 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,399 in North Carolina Democrats across the nation that are decrying this. 102 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,800 They did not offer an alternative. They did not offer 103 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,759 a vision, they did not offer an idea, They did 104 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:42,319 not offer any way to be responsible about these big 105 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,079 government programs. Instead, what they decided to do genius maneuver 106 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:50,800 was to just stand back and throw darts at whatever 107 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:54,759 anybody else did. They had no intention of providing leadership, 108 00:05:55,199 --> 00:05:58,079 even at Josh Stein. I don't think that I think 109 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,120 that Joshtin will look at things that come across his desk, 110 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,120 But I'm not seeing from this particular governor solutions to problems. 111 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,879 It'll and the class warfare that's constantly there. You know, 112 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:12,399 you're going to tax cuts for the wealthy. Oh my god, 113 00:06:12,399 --> 00:06:15,160 that's so tired. That's like the worst re tread ever. 114 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:18,319 They're putting square tires on cars with this stuff or 115 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,040 Anothery're not. That's just simply not true. So when I 116 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,399 looked at the Medicaid stuff, because a lot of people 117 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,319 bandied it about, and so Paragon Health Institute has a 118 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,160 really good newsletter out there that's talking about some of 119 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:34,879 the things about Medicaid that are again, so much of 120 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:38,000 this stuff is droll and boring and not sexy. But 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,000 what I think, what I'd like to try to do 122 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,879 is add a little bit of levity to it by 123 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,279 going through some of this because it is, it can 124 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:47,600 be complicated. It doesn't need to be, but it has. 125 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,240 So what does the what does the new bill do? 126 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,079 The reality of this? You know, the critics of it 127 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,079 are saying it's going to cause seventeen million Americans to 128 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,839 lose their health coverage, you know, and what does that mean? 129 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,199 Where does it come from? So what we're gonna do, 130 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:05,959 tell you what we're going to do. If PAM will 131 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:07,759 allow us to do this. I'm kind of setting her 132 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,759 up here. If PAM will allow us, I'm going to 133 00:07:09,839 --> 00:07:12,480 go to her a little slightly earlier than normal so 134 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:14,319 we can check on traffic, and then I'll come back 135 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,120 and I'm going to go through some of these medicaid 136 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,519 myths so that when you hear them, at least you'll 137 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:20,959 be able to, in casual conversation say that's not true. 138 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,480 And here's why the critics are claiming that this is 139 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,600 going to put Americans out, kick them out of their 140 00:07:26,639 --> 00:07:29,079 health insurance. It's going to be a terrible thing, And 141 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,480 that's just not true because of who it's affecting and 142 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:36,000 how it's affecting things, and also what's going to happen? 143 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,759 What about ineligible people and how do we count those? 144 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:41,839 The Congressional Office is pretty bad at predicting these kinds 145 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:44,800 of things, and we'll talk about why they're wrong on 146 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:45,720 this now. 147 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 148 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:49,879 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 149 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,959 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 150 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,079 me say get your news from multiple sources. 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Your subscription 166 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:47,080 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 167 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,399 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 168 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 3: But us, yes today, glad to have you with us 169 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,240 this afternoon, this beautiful, beautiful July day as it were. 170 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 2: And when I went to break, I was talking about it. 171 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,320 It's oh God, I can't it's boring to me. I 172 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,480 don't even want to talk about it. 173 00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:04,799 Speaker 3: But it's going to be a subject matter that comes up, 174 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:06,159 and I just want to give you a little bit 175 00:09:06,159 --> 00:09:07,480 of a high at least one highlight. 176 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 2: So what you're going to hear is what you heard 177 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,159 Tom tillis what you heard the Democrats. They're all screaming 178 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,240 about how terrible this bill is. It's gonna Josh diin, 179 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:17,879 it's going to destroy our hospitals, is going to destroy 180 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:21,519 healthcare for seventeen million Americans. But if you dig deeper 181 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,080 into this bill and the people who help write it 182 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,000 are actually the ones coming out now and defending it 183 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,879 saying this is just not true. And you'll remember in 184 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:32,360 the debate about numbers of deficit, the way the deficit's 185 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,559 going to grow or not grow, depending on taxes. The 186 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,600 Congressional Budget Office took a lot of hits, and it should. 187 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:44,000 Their way of scoring bills has been notoriously bad for decades. 188 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,000 I don't know why. It's like no one ever does 189 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:48,279 anything about it. They're just terrible at what they do, 190 00:09:48,759 --> 00:09:52,120 and so they're the ones who's scoring. Is what the 191 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,799 Democrats and Tom Tillis and others are screaming about. But 192 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,159 they have a terrible track record. So let's go beyond 193 00:09:58,159 --> 00:10:02,519 the Congressional Budget Office. The number that that seventeen million 194 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:04,960 Americans that are going to lose health coverage comes from 195 00:10:05,399 --> 00:10:09,559 is The number includes ineligible enrollies in Medicaid and Obamacare exchanges, 196 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:14,039 in eligible enrolies, people who do not meet the community 197 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,639 engagement requirements, and even those affected by the expiration of 198 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,799 temporary COVID Era subsidies that Congress already chose to get 199 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:23,519 rid of. In fact, many of the individuals counted in 200 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,960 this figure were never eligible for coverage to begin with, 201 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,600 such as unauthorized immigrants or those who misrepresented their income 202 00:10:30,639 --> 00:10:32,320 to qualified. In other words, they made more money, and 203 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,799 they said oh, we don't make enough, but they actually did. 204 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,120 So CBO's track record, I'll looking at that was very bad. 205 00:10:38,159 --> 00:10:40,799 It vastly overstated the number of people who would lose 206 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,559 coverage when the individual mandate penalty was eliminated. It was 207 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,440 not fully accounted for more than ten million ineligible enrollies 208 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,559 currently receiving coverage and exchanges in Medicaid. So this new 209 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,840 bill restores program integrity by ensuring eligibility is verified. So 210 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:04,159 that's just one of the many misrepresentation of what's going 211 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,679 on in the bill. I just wanted to pass that along. 212 00:11:06,759 --> 00:11:08,360 If you'd like to get in on the conversation at 213 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,279 seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten, five seven 214 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,159 oh eleven ten, that's the call in number. It also 215 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,240 happens to be the WBG text line driven by Liberty 216 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,720 b GMC. Exact same phone number, seven oh four, five 217 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,159 seven oh eleven ten. You can text and then the 218 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:26,879 producers will say, chat, hey, look this guy or gal texted. Yes, 219 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,200 guy or gal. He said that with purpose, no agility intended. 220 00:11:31,279 --> 00:11:34,200 It is what it is. It's simple. So if you 221 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,480 happen to text that line, the producer's like, hey, you 222 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:37,960 need to be aware of this, and they'll tell me 223 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:42,000 what you said. Maybe, maybe they'll tell me what you 224 00:11:42,039 --> 00:11:44,200 said if you didn't go off the rails. If you 225 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,279 go off the rail sometimes that can be funny too. 226 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,000 But I did want to pass along one thing I 227 00:11:49,039 --> 00:11:52,240 was looking through. So remember we started the show talking 228 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,600 about the immigrant situation in California and how when they 229 00:11:56,639 --> 00:11:59,120 did the ray they were confronted by protesters who were 230 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:00,919 throwing rocks at them. One guy pulled out a gun 231 00:12:00,919 --> 00:12:03,399 and fired a couple of shots out. In the course 232 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:09,559 of that raid on the Glasshouse potfarm, one of the 233 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:12,759 largest in the country, they came across ten kids. Two 234 00:12:12,799 --> 00:12:14,919 of those kids had parents, but they're working the pot fields. 235 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,879 Eight of those kids had nobody. So you have eight kids, 236 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,480 no documentation, no parents, no guardians, working in a pot field. 237 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:25,720 You have to wonder why. Meanwhile, what they what the 238 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,480 law enforcement in California, especially Sacramento, Here's what they had 239 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,679 to do California. Read this is funny because I'm just 240 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:36,679 juxtaposing where California's priorities are worried about the potform, their 241 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,600 cities are trying to say they're not going to cooperate 242 00:12:38,639 --> 00:12:40,759 with ICE. I'll tell you what their mayor said in 243 00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:45,159 a little while, but California residents who launched fireworks for 244 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,919 the Fourth of July have tickets coming in the mail 245 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,200 thanks to police drones. Now, you would think the police 246 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,759 drones would be interested in helping ice and providing logistical 247 00:12:53,759 --> 00:12:58,039 support and stuff like that. No firework discharges. One resident, 248 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,879 for example, racked up ten numbs are right one hundred 249 00:13:00,919 --> 00:13:03,399 thousand dollars in fines last summer due to the illegal 250 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,039 use of fireworks. If you think you got away with it, 251 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:10,879 you probably didn't, said Sacramento Fire Department chief. Justin Sylvia, 252 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,960 we may have been what may have been one thousand 253 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:17,639 dollars fine for one occurrence last year could well be 254 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:23,200 thirty thousand because you set off so many fireworks. Homeowners 255 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,200 who weren't even present at the property also have tickets 256 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,799 coming in the mail due to the social host ordinance. 257 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,200 Social host ordinance. I want you to think about that 258 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,639 for a second, because a social host ordinance means that 259 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,840 if someone was at your place and set off the fireworks, 260 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,200 you get the ticket. Imagine, I say, if you loaned 261 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,440 your car to someone and they sped and the car 262 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:51,440 got pulled over for speeding, you got the speeding ticket, 263 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:55,759 a social host ordinance. It's one of the most And again, 264 00:13:55,919 --> 00:13:58,000 when I went through a list of things yesterday that 265 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:00,440 the left came up with, only the left could come 266 00:14:00,519 --> 00:14:04,320 up with something the social host ordinance. I was watching 267 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,840 and this is where I'll jump jump shift. But it's 268 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:11,279 the same thing, is that the left comes up with 269 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:16,240 these looney ideas that we then then it becomes part 270 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:18,200 of the standard vernacular. And you know, when you first 271 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:19,799 hear it, you think it's so loony. I don't need 272 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:22,159 to embrace. I don't need to give that the time 273 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,200 of day. But then they keep doing it, and then 274 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,480 they try to justify it, and then they add and 275 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:29,279 they codify it and make policy and things of that 276 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,360 nature out of it. One of the most egregious that 277 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:35,240 I've seen positive is something called a wealth tax. Now 278 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,279 people are going to say, well, you're just opposed to 279 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,039 that because maybe you have more than someone else. No, no, no, no, 280 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,639 I want you to think about the con because Britain's 281 00:14:42,679 --> 00:14:45,200 having this discussion now, it's been discussed. Democrats have put 282 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,879 this forward. Bernie Sanders kind of likes the idea. It's 283 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,120 at the leftist if the mom Donnie mom, Donnie's kind 284 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,879 of of this, of this ilk. He wants government run 285 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:55,759 grocery stores. He wants to pass a tax to wealthy 286 00:14:55,759 --> 00:14:57,919 your neighborhoods. He hadn't quite said wealth tax that and 287 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:01,000 heard it. But if you're a redistributionist, that's your mentality, 288 00:15:01,039 --> 00:15:03,440 is that you have a right to the stuff earned 289 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:07,120 by other people that somehow you in a government position, 290 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:10,639 you've gained power. Therefore you want to grow your power 291 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:13,159 and exert that power over people who earned it somehow 292 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,440 those people need to be shown lesson. So the wealth 293 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,120 tax goes something like this. In fact, it goes exactly 294 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,679 like this. So you pay your income taxes, you pay 295 00:15:21,679 --> 00:15:24,600 your property taxes, you pay whatever you know it takes 296 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:27,039 to keep your stuff from being complicated. And then the 297 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,159 government comes along and says, well, your house is worth 298 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,679 this much, your net savings are worth this much, and 299 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:39,000 so you add all of that your net worth basically 300 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:44,200 minus expenses maybe or you know what you owe, and 301 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,399 that's your net worth. And so then we will pass 302 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:51,200 a tax and annualize tax on what you're worth. So 303 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,840 let's say, whatever reason, you're worth a million dollars and 304 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,679 you're going to pass a two five percent wealth tax. 305 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,679 So five percent wealth tax, you're gonna get, you know, 306 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:09,159 fifty thousand dollars out of that a year forever. That's 307 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:13,159 what a wealth tax. It is an instant collect confiscation 308 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,480 and redistribution. Mental Now, I hope that he gets shouted 309 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,120 down in Britain. It's been pushed a few times in America, 310 00:16:20,159 --> 00:16:21,919 but there are enough common sense people to say, that's 311 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,039 absolutely insane, Ludacris, we don't need to do that. But 312 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:30,720 it will come back. Mam Donnie's elevation in New York 313 00:16:31,399 --> 00:16:33,919 is the tip of the spear, so to speak. And 314 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,080 the reason he's getting a lot of attention is because 315 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,639 Democrats are falling in line to support him and Democrats 316 00:16:40,639 --> 00:16:42,240 that want to say, oh, that's not our party. When 317 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,000 Jim Clyburn from South Carolina said he's the nominee, I'm 318 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,840 going to support him now, to me, it sounded like 319 00:16:47,919 --> 00:16:49,720 Jim was a little confused. He was having a little 320 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,679 bit of a Biden moment, thinking confusing Cuomo for Mam Donni. 321 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,519 But he said in the end when they ask him 322 00:16:54,519 --> 00:16:58,039 to clarify, Mom Donnie is the Democrat candidate, Yes, I 323 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:01,919 will support him. So Democrats fall in lop lockstep with 324 00:17:02,039 --> 00:17:06,400 that part of me wants him to win. That sounds terrible, 325 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,640 doesn't it, Because I don't want to wish bad policies 326 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,279 on anyone. But don't you get tired of trying to 327 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,440 save New York from itself? Don't you get tired of 328 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,559 the constant amount of attention that gets paid to trying 329 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,079 to save the city of New York from its worst inclinations, 330 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:28,440 from rent control, from bad union contracts, from overbearing food 331 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,880 policies like you're not allowed to have a sugary drink, 332 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,359 like having a government grun grocery store, or having food 333 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,559 desert policies. At a certain point, you just let them 334 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,480 go because when the people who pay the bills leave, 335 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,960 New York's going to be left to its own devices. 336 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,079 And often the regression to the mean, and that kind 337 00:17:47,079 --> 00:17:50,079 of situation means a conservative ideology returns in New York returns. 338 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:54,200 It becomes safe again, becomes better again, becomes more successful again, 339 00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:57,880 and that's what we all want. Ultimately. Sadly, a lot 340 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,319 of those people in New York that would leave would 341 00:17:59,319 --> 00:18:01,920 come down south. I think that head to Florida. Maybe 342 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,319 we should put aside and says keep going, keep going. 343 00:18:05,039 --> 00:18:06,440 I know you hit on ninety five. You have the 344 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,680 state line. Florida's only put big sides of every couple miles, 345 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,319 Florida's only eight hundred miles. Whatever it is. 346 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 347 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,920 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 348 00:18:19,039 --> 00:18:21,240 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 349 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,599 Ashville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, 350 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,880 maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get 351 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,839 family and friends together for a big old reunion, Cabins 352 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:33,599 of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you 353 00:18:33,599 --> 00:18:36,200 can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that 354 00:18:36,279 --> 00:18:40,039 truly matter. 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Seven oh four, 371 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:35,559 five seven to eleven ten to call in numbers, five, 372 00:19:35,799 --> 00:19:38,920 seven oh eleven ten to call in numbers. 373 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 3: Uh. One of the interesting things, well, there's so many 374 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,440 interesting things to me. My mind is an infinitely uh 375 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:51,279 infinite wonderment. Uh is the Komy stuff. So Jim Comey 376 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:57,359 and John Brennan, the famous Trump hating dynamic duo, you 377 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,559 know I have said that, you know, Hey, we're they 378 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,480 went after Trump, they created the fake Russian dossier, they 379 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:06,359 did all this, and what's interesting is is their response 380 00:20:07,079 --> 00:20:10,039 to these kind of the thought process that they're going 381 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:11,799 to be that they're they're going to be in trouble. 382 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:15,160 It's kind of interesting. So what you did was you 383 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,359 had him on. He was on CNN with Nicole Wallace 384 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:21,240 and she asked him, Hey, what do you know about 385 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,880 what's going on with all this mess? And in his response, 386 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,799 he was somewhat dumbfounded. His response was this, So so 387 00:20:27,799 --> 00:20:31,799 he said, quite frankly, I don't know what's true, you know, 388 00:20:32,519 --> 00:20:34,759 and I'm not I'm not giving you this out of context. 389 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:37,440 This is literally these are his words exactly from the 390 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,319 transcript of what he said. And I just, you know, 391 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:43,839 and kind of blown away by. 392 00:20:43,839 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 2: What his take is. This supposed to be one of 393 00:20:46,519 --> 00:20:50,240 the brightest guys in DC, former CIA director, the guy 394 00:20:50,279 --> 00:20:53,440 in the know who said there was a Russian rush 395 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,279 rushier thing. He said, you know, I don't know if 396 00:20:55,279 --> 00:20:57,160 it's true. You know, what are there are so many 397 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,640 things that get out in the media bloodstream, and it's 398 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,319 interesting saying that it was. I think Fox News and 399 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,720 the New York Post reporting things like this about him 400 00:21:04,759 --> 00:21:07,640 being investigated. So I don't know whether or not there's 401 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,799 any validity to it. If there was, it was a referral, 402 00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:14,519 if there's an investigation. Presumably, if there is an investigation, 403 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,720 then people will be questioned. I would be questioned about it. 404 00:21:17,759 --> 00:21:20,599 But again I've had no contact with them, meaning the 405 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,000 people investigating. But again I testified. But again, but again 406 00:21:24,039 --> 00:21:25,920 he says, those are his words, not mine. He likes 407 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,240 to use that phrase. I testified, but again in front 408 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,400 of many many congressional committees in the House and the 409 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,119 Senate over the years, and I continue to explain exactly 410 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,720 what we did during the process, why we tried to 411 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,599 make sure we stay true to our intelligence responsibilities and 412 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,960 that we were not going to do anything at all 413 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,160 to try to interfere in that election. And again, it 414 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,039 was a challenging time. But also when I think that 415 00:21:47,079 --> 00:21:49,319 the people who actually worked for this, both in terms 416 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,880 of trying to collect intel prior to the election and 417 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,680 then the ones who put together the intelligent they really 418 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,960 I think showed the best of what the intel community 419 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,039 and the CI is made of. So I'm clueless what 420 00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:02,000 they're investigating. This is one of the two guys that 421 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,680 really pushed the Russia collusion narrative. I mean, I'm blown 422 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:12,559 away by his reluctance to try to say he doesn't 423 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,720 understand why they would be looking at him in any way. 424 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:19,599 It just and listening to him doesn't make it any 425 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,920 more clear at least, I well, I was. 426 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 3: Going to play it for you, but it's uh, it's 427 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,640 having a little, it's struggling a little to show you that. 428 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 2: So that in the background, so we know the years 429 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,839 of persecution. Now the public believes that the public confidence, 430 00:22:35,839 --> 00:22:38,079 by the way in climate change stuff is is that 431 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,279 the lowest it's been. The approval of Democrats in Congress 432 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:43,160 is the lowest it's been the party in general, the 433 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,960 lowess it's been. The Democrats are having a very tough time, 434 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:49,680 So what what does that mean for them? So that 435 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:52,079 what they're hoping and what they've gambled on is that 436 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,279 here's what here's what they've gambled on. We're going to 437 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,839 just oppose Trump and there'll be enough people that hate 438 00:22:57,839 --> 00:23:01,720 Trump that they'll join us and will scoot onto victory. 439 00:23:01,799 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 3: We'll just skate in and we got this, We've got 440 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,039 it all. And unfortunately that's not what things are saying. 441 00:23:09,079 --> 00:23:11,079 This is from the Hill. This was printed earlier today. 442 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 2: The Democrat Party's credibility with voters has plummeted even further 443 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:17,759 since the twenty twenty four election raising alarm bells as 444 00:23:17,799 --> 00:23:19,759 the party looks to rebuild ahead of the midterms the 445 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:22,920 next presidential election. According to a poll obtained by The 446 00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:25,480 Hill The Pole conducted between May and June by the 447 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:29,200 Unite the Country, a Democrat super pack. Okay, so this 448 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:34,440 isn't right leaning optimism. This is the Democrats conducting information 449 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:37,640 on their voters about where they're headed, where they stand, 450 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,319 and what's going to happen. Now, again, it's early. Any 451 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,319 number of things can happen. I'm not I say if 452 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,759 the trend line continues, Democrats are in trouble, but I 453 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:48,240 would be the first to say six months, eight months 454 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:50,240 from now, we could be a year from now, we 455 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:52,200 could be looking at a different world. But right now 456 00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:58,400 it's very difficult for Democrats. The poll commissioned by Unite 457 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,200 the Country perceive the Democrat Party as out of touch, woke, 458 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,359 and weak. The party has seen its support eroad with 459 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,960 white men, Hispanic men, and working class voters across the board, 460 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,799 with approval ratings sitting below thirty five percent across those demographics. 461 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,559 So think about Hispanic men, working class voters below thirty 462 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:23,799 five percent, and enthusiasm within the party continues to be 463 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,680 weak in the wake of twenty twenty four according to 464 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,200 the poll. This is the reality of the perception of 465 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:31,880 us as a party, and until we accept that, it's 466 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,279 going to be hard to move forward, said Democrat strategist 467 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,720 Rhodel Mullinou, who serves as the senior advisor to the pack. 468 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,559 There's a perception out there outside of Democrat elites, and 469 00:24:41,599 --> 00:24:44,960 it's taken a hold in not just the magnet Crow, 470 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:49,119 but people that should be with the Democrats and the party. 471 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,119 Democrats need to realize that in order to improve and 472 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,720 get better, to not only win in twenty eight, but 473 00:24:54,799 --> 00:24:57,519 when in twenty thirty, thirty two and beyond. He said, 474 00:24:58,039 --> 00:25:00,119 Democrats have been searching for a way out of the 475 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,279 wilderness since they're devastating loss last November, when they not 476 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:06,039 only lost the presidency once again to Trump, but also 477 00:25:06,079 --> 00:25:08,839 the House and Senate. Since then, party officials have conducted 478 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,400 a number of post mortems. They love to do that. 479 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,680 After the body's dead, they're what wed's wrong. The problem 480 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:18,160 is they never want to admit it's them. They want 481 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,279 to look for some kind of what it had to be, 482 00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:22,799 something else done by someone else. It can't be we're wrong. 483 00:25:23,079 --> 00:25:25,559 We can't be wrong on men and women's sports. We 484 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,200 can't be wrong about having a poorest porter. We can't 485 00:25:28,279 --> 00:25:31,119 possibly be wrong about letting NATO be week. We are 486 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:34,960 not wrong on any of our issues. It must be 487 00:25:35,039 --> 00:25:39,160 the media. But since that time, the party officials have 488 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,200 conducted a number of post mortems as part of the 489 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,000 party's rebuilding effort. They spend like twenty million dollars trying 490 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,519 to figure out what men think. But Democrats are still 491 00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,839 feeling dejected and rudderless in the early months of the 492 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,000 Trump presidency. The pull out in May reveal that only 493 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,920 thirty five percent of Democrats are optimistic about the party's future, 494 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,119 compared to fifty seven percent the previous July. There's an 495 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,160 overwhelming sense that the party lacks strong leaders. You think 496 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:04,640 Democrat donors and butlers are not cutting checks to candidates, 497 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,920 citing the party's lack of enthusiasm and zero vision unite. 498 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,279 The Country's latest poll was conducted in voters in twenty 499 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:14,039 one battleground counties in ten battleground states. Democrats have not 500 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,319 escaped the shadow of that loss. They look who they 501 00:26:16,319 --> 00:26:21,039 put forth as their candidate for president. They were more 502 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:24,599 concerned about checking a box yep female, then the most 503 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,319 qualified candidate, like a new Summer Shapiro, they went with 504 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,440 someone that was It's like when the party went with 505 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,960 Dole back in the nineties for the Republicans. Democrats have 506 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,720 had opportunities to hit back at Trump, including on tariffs, 507 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:40,319 Big Beautiful Bill, but political observice ay, those were wasted. 508 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,279 The super Pac poll revealed that Democrats' prime emphasis on 509 00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:46,000 fighting for democracy, which is popular within the party, is 510 00:26:46,039 --> 00:26:47,799 no longer going to cut it in the general electric 511 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,799 since their soft on immigration policies have turned so many 512 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,960 people away. It's not about bandoning who we are. It's 513 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,319 not about leaving people behind. We're a big tent party. 514 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,680 But it's about prioritizing the messages and starting where the 515 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,400 majority of people are with them on most issues right 516 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,799 now at all, They're just not You know. 517 00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:07,319 Speaker 1: Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 518 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,799 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 519 00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:14,160 our past while transcending generations. They help us process the 520 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,640 meaning of life, and our stories are told through images 521 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,480 and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in 522 00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:24,400 nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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They 532 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,359 are your life told through the eyes of everyone around 533 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,640 you and all who came before you, and they will 534 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,000 tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video 535 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:06,960 dot com. 536 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 2: As we get to the top of the hour, try 537 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:14,880 to leave with something optimistic. Maybe optimistic not for Democrats necessarily, 538 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,480 Well even that, because I think there was a time, 539 00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:21,160 and I used to like that time, when we debated 540 00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:24,240 how to make the streets safer, how to make education better, 541 00:28:24,599 --> 00:28:28,079 how to better support our country, how to make it stronger, 542 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:32,319 how to do these things that increase the quality of 543 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:35,160 life for our kids and families, and our our and 544 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,400 our fellow citizens. But I think we've strayed away from 545 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,240 that and the age of social media. And it's not 546 00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:44,799 to extol the virtues of everybody on the right, because 547 00:28:44,799 --> 00:28:47,519 there's some Look, the extremes are out there on both sides, 548 00:28:47,519 --> 00:28:51,400 and they're not productive and they're very closed minded and conspiratorial. 549 00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:55,799 But the poll that I just kind of went through 550 00:28:55,839 --> 00:28:58,079 a little bit of it with you is showing that 551 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,720 this drift to the left that is alienating voters from 552 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,200 the Democrats heading in the next year. Now, I say 553 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,720 that because we're you know though there we're in the 554 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:11,759 lull of summer. You know, it's fun, it's warm, it's 555 00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:15,839 hot dogs, hamburgers can be outside and until Labor Day 556 00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:18,680 and then Labor Day. Right now, a lot of different 557 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,559 towns and cities, it's municipal election time, so people are 558 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:22,920 signing up for mayor city council. 559 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:23,519 Speaker 4: That stuff. 560 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: Next year, the big midterms, that's when county commission and 561 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:31,000 everything's on the ballot. Is that at the local levels 562 00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:32,400 where we give up a lot. So you'll have a 563 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,200 lot of these Trump supporters that are out there and 564 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,319 they'll go, ah, I supported him, I'm a conservative. But 565 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,599 when they get into local elections, they all of a 566 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,160 sudden they want, you know, they want to have massive 567 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,839 tree ordinances. They want to look at right away issues 568 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,400 they're looking at. It's kind of this erosion of property 569 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,039 rights and increase in bureaucracy. They never connect their philosophy 570 00:29:54,079 --> 00:29:57,079 at the national level with their philosophy at the local level. 571 00:29:57,319 --> 00:29:59,000 Now Democrats, on the other hand, I think are very 572 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,839 good at this. I think them, by and large, they 573 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,359 love the transactional stuff at the local level. They like 574 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,200 big government, more bureaucracy, and they like it at the 575 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:09,160 state level, then they'd like it at the national level. 576 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,000 That's why I think city councils and county commissions tend 577 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,920 to breed Democrats in many ways that it breeds them well, 578 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,759 gives them a farm team to go to the house, 579 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,680 the North House, North constentated onward and upward. Whereas the 580 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,279 Republican Party's not as good at that because when they 581 00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:26,960 start getting higher up, all the realities of how they voted, 582 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,680 I mean happened. I mean you see that they're not 583 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:33,599 as conservative when they move up the food chain, they're 584 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,279 just not so. I say that because the mayor of 585 00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:40,799 La just came out or I think it was earlier today. 586 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,799 It may have been earlier today where she's talking about, 587 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:46,920 so we knew there was a big situation on a 588 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,920 pot farm where you had kids working on a platform. 589 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,039 But here's how her response to that is, She's going 590 00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:54,160 to do an executive order. Now. I'm not sure that 591 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,839 she's inclined to know what the limitations on being a 592 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,960 mayor are. But I don't care what mayor you're in, 593 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,680 what city. There are limits to you that go to 594 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,920 your state and limits on you to the federal government. 595 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,079 But she wants to act like they don't applied to her. 596 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:11,359 So I want to play what she had to say 597 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,880 in this press conference. And again, this is the same 598 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,599 mayor that was in Africa when while kind of nero 599 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,960 fiddled to why Rome burned, you know, even though there 600 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,119 were no fiddles. But the point being, she was completely 601 00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:24,160 out of touch when the fires were happening and was 602 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,599 indignant when confronted by same mayor, Karen Bass. Here's what 603 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,119 she had to say about the situation with Ice. 604 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:34,759 Speaker 4: I am here today to sign an executive directive, and 605 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:37,039 I just want to point out the irony for a 606 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:41,000 minute that there is a need for me to have 607 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:46,160 an executive directive to help our city understand how to 608 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:50,799 protect itself from our federal government. Just let that sink 609 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:52,200 in for a minute. 610 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:55,599 Speaker 2: To protect the citizens from the federal government. What is 611 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,559 the federal government doing that is so wrong? So she's 612 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:06,400 issue executive order to protect to protect non citizens. There's 613 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:07,319 more what. 614 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,279 Speaker 4: We have seen here over the last now going on 615 00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:15,039 six weeks of raids that pop up and we never 616 00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:18,240 know exactly when and where they're going to happen. 617 00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 2: So she's upset that ICE is doing its job and 618 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,839 showing up in places unannounced. I don't know you're going 619 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,880 to catch bad people, you don't tell them. Hey, by 620 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,359 the way, fellow cartel members, we're going to be there 621 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,640 at one thirty five in the morning, So just want 622 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,240 to let you know. She's complained that she's now this 623 00:32:36,319 --> 00:32:38,960 is the same kind of complaint that Democrats had when 624 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,279 they wanted to know about where the missiles were hitting 625 00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:44,039 in Iran or not the missile, but the bombs whatever missiles. 626 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:47,519 Also before it happened, they wanted to the same kind 627 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:52,960 of you don't do that, You don't communicate surprises, especially 628 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,200 from law enforcement that would endanger their lives. After the 629 00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:57,640 Left has said they're going to show it on a 630 00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:00,440 on a on a on an app and that the 631 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,279 lives of the guys that are serving. 632 00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:06,119 Speaker 4: We've seen them in the general region. I'm sure many 633 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,759 people saw Camarillo yesterday and what broke out there. We 634 00:33:10,799 --> 00:33:15,039 saw Magarthur Park earlier this week, which I think now 635 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,839 after all assessments, it is viewed as just a display 636 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,480 of force, just to put the city in its place, 637 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,480 to say, we are the federal government. We can roll 638 00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:29,079 out troops whenever we choose. 639 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,079 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Byrn the riot, all of the other stuff 640 00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:37,839 that's happened, this is where she's planting the flag that 641 00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:41,880 somehow trying to get. I mean, that farm that she 642 00:33:42,039 --> 00:33:45,319 referenced had ten kids that were working on it. That 643 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:48,839 doesn't bother her at all. And this is the kind 644 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,160 of disconnect that is driving people away from her party. 645 00:33:54,279 --> 00:33:56,799 Speaker 4: So the executive directive that I will be signing in 646 00:33:56,839 --> 00:34:00,079 a few minutes is to help the city family, to 647 00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:04,119 help the city workforce, to help the city departments and 648 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:09,559 all of the general managers essentially develop preparedness plans that 649 00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:16,280 have specific protocols and that help city workers know how 650 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:22,519 to address immigration officials should they approach a city department, 651 00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:26,559 how we abide by the law, but we understand what 652 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,760 our rights are as city employees, how we can provide 653 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:36,440 protection for immigrants who might be attending a city event. 654 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 2: So, if you're reading between the words on what the 655 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:45,159 mayor of La says, she's basically saying, here's the truth, Mayor, 656 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,079 every one of your city employees has the same rights 657 00:34:47,079 --> 00:34:49,880 to every other American. They do. You're treated equally under 658 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,239 the law. But you don't have the right to aid 659 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,519 and to bet criminal activity. I don't care whether you're 660 00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:57,119 a city employee or not. And that's what she's kind 661 00:34:57,159 --> 00:34:58,960 of trying to do because she's what she's saying is 662 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,239 if there's a city event, you know, we don't want 663 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,840 ice coming to a city event. So if you're an 664 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,440 illegal and you want to go somewhere, what she's essentially 665 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,119 saying is we're going to create sanctuary events. Not just 666 00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:15,960 the sanctuary city, We're going to create sanctuary events. We 667 00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:21,760 want to prevent curtail hold back the federal government from 668 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,960 enforcing the laws of the country. She's trying to act 669 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000 as if she wants to stay within the federal guidelines. 670 00:35:27,039 --> 00:35:29,239 The truth of the matter is you're not being terrorized. 671 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,679 Your citizens are not your citizens for whom you swore 672 00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,960 an oath to, you know, protect a constitution you serve. 673 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,519 You know, you swore an oath to serve and protect. 674 00:35:39,199 --> 00:35:42,800 You're wanting to circumvent that for citizens that are not 675 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,199 from this country. Now, the other funny part about this 676 00:35:46,159 --> 00:35:48,360 is there's on a post adjacent to this, there's a 677 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,760 guy who's got a he's being deported. He's got a 678 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,719 flat Mexican flag wrapped around him, and he's not wanting 679 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,159 to be deported back to Mexico. Now. I don't know 680 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,960 about you, but if I were going to be deported 681 00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:01,760 and I wanted to stay in the US, maybe I 682 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,679 would wrap myself in an American flag because that's where 683 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,039 I want to be. You would think you would extol 684 00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:11,599 the virtues and the values of the country you wish 685 00:36:11,679 --> 00:36:14,480 to stay in. And then you're telling people while you 686 00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:16,400 wrap yourself on a Mexican plat that you don't want 687 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,079 to go back to that country. But again, this is 688 00:36:19,119 --> 00:36:21,719 where and as you go through as we ramp up 689 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:22,280 things through. 690 00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 3: Labor Day, because that's what's really going to take off 691 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,639 is after Labor Day, as we ramp up into that 692 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,679 period of time, Please take a closer look at your 693 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:37,679 city council candidates. That's important. It's it's important that you 694 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,480 that they get questioned about property rights. 695 00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 2: It's important not just about the tax rate. The tax rate, 696 00:36:42,159 --> 00:36:44,480 you can do so many different things with the tax rate. 697 00:36:44,559 --> 00:36:47,480 It's about the tax burden more than anything. It's about 698 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,719 what they're doing to protect property rights, what they're doing 699 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,480 to reduce crime, what they're doing to get away from 700 00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:57,000 this woke DEI stuff. Are they embracing meritocracy where they 701 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,440 are rewarding and and and raising through their own the 702 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,800 brightest and the best and the most successful. Is that 703 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,840 what they're doing. Or are they promoting people because of 704 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,559 other things? Are they discriminating against people because of things 705 00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:13,280 that have nothing to do with meritocracy. Those are really 706 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,360 legitimate questions. Those aren't bad questions. Are you going to 707 00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:20,760 work with the federal government to make sure that the 708 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,840 citizens are protected and that if we do, we shouldn't 709 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,800 be harboring fugitives from justice? Period? As I started the 710 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,440 week with full stop, that's pretty much the way. It's 711 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,199 not complicated, but ask the questions. It's the American way. 712 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,480 Just do it. Don't barge into meetings like the left does. 713 00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:46,199 Be respectful, folks. Have a fantastic week, fantastic weekend. I'll 714 00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,320 be talking with you soon, I'm sure. Stay tuned for 715 00:37:48,519 --> 00:37:50,840 Winnable next here on News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine 716 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:51,639 three WBT. 717 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,320 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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