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your support. So let me turn our attention to or

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let us turn art. I mean, I'm not going to

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force you to turn your attention. You could, You could

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keep thinking about other things while I turn my attention

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to Iran. Have you heard what's happening in Iran or

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I Ran? Depending on where you are? And I'll say

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it both ways here because I just I'm not consistent.

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I'm not disciplined enough to remember how to say it

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in every case. So if you hear me say Iran

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or I Ran, I'm not trying to offend or anything.

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I'm just an American whose birthright is to not know geography. Okay,

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So mass protests have erupted all across Iran. They're chanting

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things like death to the dictator, which that's a that's

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progress in my mind, because like they usually are chanting

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death to Israel or death to America, and so death

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to the dictator means now they're not happy with their

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own leadership. The Iyatola komine tear gas was used to

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disperse protesters as a whole bunch of businesses closed down

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in Tehran's Grand Bazaar and their main markets. Tehran, the

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capital of Iran. University students called on their peers to

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join the demonstrations, while chance echoed from rooftops in several cities.

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And the Iranian real that's their their money, is it real?

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Or riyal? It's r i a l ryle real. Their

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currency is plummeting. The value of their currency is trash,

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record lows now, all against the backdrop of ongoing threats

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from Israel and the United States. Okay, it's also okay,

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this is from the UK Telegraph, Okay, British publication. You know,

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it's also against the backdrop of like, oh, I don't know,

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fifty years of oppression, repression, hundreds of billions of dollars,

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if not a trillion dollars probably spent on creating a

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nuclear program so they can kill all the Jews. You know,

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it might be part of the backdrop. Also also their

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inability to modernize, their inability to keep things that were

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built prior to the Islamic Revolution. They they've been unable

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to maintain these this infrastructure, which, by the way, not

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to go down a rabbit hole here, but that is

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kind of that, that is kind of the historical norm

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as Islam, you know, spread off of the Arabian Peninsula

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and began you know, conquering and colonizing everybody along their borders.

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It was an expansionist, you know, colonizing ideology, and as

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it moved forward over you know, fourteen hundred years, they

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would they would take over a place that had you know,

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had that had advancements, they had cultures, religions and whatnot.

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You know, they would force everybody to convert or they

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would have to pay a tax. So a lot of

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them just a lot of people just converted or they

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would pay the taxes or whatever. But a lot of

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the you know, sort of the golden age that you

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may have heard about of like the the Islamic world.

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You know, those advancements were made by the people that

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were in those geographical areas before they were conquered, and

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then in the decades after they were conquered. Right like

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the Islamic world quote unquote gets credit for those things.

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But the people that were there that got conquered first,

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they weren't Muslims first like they got like in Iran.

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They were the Zoroastrians, the Persians, and Persia has a

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very long and rich and deep history, a lot of

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technological advancements, scientific advancements and stuff. But when the Islamic

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Revolution came in, they they kind of stagnated. And that's

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the historical norm. So here's an example of it. You

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may not have heard it. I haven't covered it on

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the show, but if you, if you pay any attention

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to what's going on in Iran, they have been dealing

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with a drought for I guess it's now approaching six

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years and it has it's now like a very severe crisis,

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and it really peaked about I want to say, about

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three months ago. That's when I started seeing stories where

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the president of Iran said that the capital, Tehran, the

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capital probably needs to move. They're talking about moving the

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capital of their nation because they cannot provide water to

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the inhabitants, and you're talking about fifteen million people. They're like,

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we're just going to move the entire city to the

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capital to a different place because we can't give water

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to the fifteen million people that live here. They've got reservoirs,

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but the reservoirs are running dry. Some of them are

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like eight percent capacity eight percent. And this obviously prompts

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residents of Tehran and Iran to uh question, Hey, why

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are we spending all of this money on on building

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nuclear weapons to kill Jews when we're all gonna we're

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all gonna die due to lack of water. See, it's

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not really an economic thing, right, These are these are

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the fundamentals of any civilization. Right, Tehran had a water system,

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They have infrastructure, but they haven't maintained it. So the

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stuff is is decaying. Well, that's because of US sanctions. Indeed,

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why well, because of the whole thing. Right, Like when

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when the Islamic Revolution takes over, first thing they do

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is well, first thing they did was, you know, wipe

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out the opponents and the leftists that had helped them

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take control, which a lot of lefties don't realize that

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as you're marching with the you know the Hamas holaes

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as I call them. Uh. You know you're marching against Israel.

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You're marching for the UH, for the Gozens and such.

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You're you know, river to the sea. Totally not a

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genocidal chant. No, no, no, Like you're part of the

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first wave of the murdering that occurs after the revolution

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is successful. I'm not sure the lefties are aware of that.

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The only thing that the Islamists and the the leftists

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share is a desire to destabilize and tear down Western civilization.

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So they ally themselves as they did in Iran, and

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then when when the revolution comes, the lefties are all murdered. Okay,

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you're all you're you're you're done, because the Islamis don't

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want destabilization anymore. Right, the missions successful, we're in charge,

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and now you've got to go. Okay, so the infrastructures crumbling.

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They're not able to provide water. I mean there's like

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these stories where like if you live in a tall building,

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if you're on like the eleventh or twelfth floor in Tehran,

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like there's no water pressure to get the water up

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to your floors. So now you got people they're all

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over the place for years. This has been occurring. Apparently

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they've been drilling wells, they've been diverting water away from

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reservoirs and stuff because the system hasn't been modernized and

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it hasn't been updated to you know, to service the populations.

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And so by the way, Israel said, hey, we have

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desalinization technology and we can help you with some of

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like like if you guys are willing to abandon this

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jihat against us, like, we are totally willing to help

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you get water to your people. They've been offering this

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for a while and Iran refuses to the leadership refuses

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to do it. The Mulla's okay. So, residents in one

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city near Tehran told the UK Telegraph that a heavy

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presence of armed motorcycle mounted security forces was visible around midnight.

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So you got all these bikers taking to the streets

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to put down all of the all of the students,

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Speaker 2: UK Telegraph, reported by Oktar macquahie McCue Makawaii because how

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he pronounces that.

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Speaker 1: At several universities in Tehran, students urged their peers to

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join demonstrations. After protests erupted at Tehran's University's dormitory complex,

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security forces surrounded the dorms yesterday evening, closing the gates.

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With heavy security presence around the campus. Students living at

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the complex chanted slogans like women, life, freedom. By the way,

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all of you tend to fada folks, you hamas holles.

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Where are you guys? It seems like if you are

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for you know, the Arab people in Gaza, you should

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be for these people that are rising up against the

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tutalitarian state a couple hundred miles away right in Iran.

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No tend to fada for the Persians, for the Iranians.

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What's up with that? I almost get the feeling like

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there's a different reason for your demonstrations. Anyway, Back to

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the UK Telegraph, the protests began on Sunday afternoon, after

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mobile phone and electronics shopkeepers in Tehran shut their stores

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as the currency fell to a record low of one

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point four to two million realls. Their their currency their

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unit currency, so one dollar in America, one dollar will

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get you one point forty two million realls or ryals.

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I'm thinking maybe I pull a Tucker Carlson and move

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to Iran. Not sure my wife Christy is going to

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be on board with this decision, but uh okay, maybe

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just a summer home. Well probably not in Tehran given

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the water shortage thing. But the currency did recover. It

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did recover a little bit yesterday evening after they fired

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their central bank governor where he resigned, but I probably

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think he was maybe pushed, didn't just jump on his own,

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probably pushed like you know, a gay person from a

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rooftop in Tehran, because that's what they what they do

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in Tehran, well really all over the Middle East, but

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mainly Iran has made it into like a huge thing.

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So anyway, the Islamic Republic's central bank governor resigned and

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this led to an improvement in the value of their currency.

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So instead of being at the record low of one

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point four to two million reawls to the dollar, it

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is now one point three eight million reals to the dollar.

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So okay, Iran's currency collapses, compounding severe inflation. The State

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Statistics Center reported inflation reached You think inflation is bad here.

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You hear this number, forty two percent inflation in December,

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in one month in December, forty two percent. Now this

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is the part where I think a Democrat administration would say,

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let's ease off the gas here people, let's give them

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some room. And but this is not a Democrat administration.

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This is the Trump administration. So uh, he's not taking

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his foot off the gas. In fact, he's cheering on

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the Iranian people. As am I. I am standing with

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the Iranian people that are sick and tired of being

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ruled over and oppressed, tortured, killed right by this oppressive regime.

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And so if they can overthrow their own government, more

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power to them. That is like that would be a

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hopefully a stabilizing factor in the Middle East because Iran

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their number one export is terrorism. And so if the

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regime goes, then the funding dries up Forsbala Hamas the

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Tutsi or sorry, not the Tutsi's the who are the

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guys that we just bombed in Yemen? Hutis right, the hooties,

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not of the blowfish. They they keep exporting terrorism. And

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you've got this normalization that is occurring in the Middle

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East with relationship to Israel and America. That's a positive development.

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So it seems to me like if the people of

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Iran are able to overthrow this molocracy, molocracy, this Islamic

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republic regime, if they're able to toss them out, that

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might be a good thing. I'm not saying we commit

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any troops on the ground, boots on the ground, not

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saying we do anything. I'm just saying I support their

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efforts to overthrow an oppressive government. Food prices surged seventy

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two percent, health and medical items rose fifty two percent

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compared to the same period last year. Iran's President Masud Pezeshkian. Pezeshkian,

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the President, said Sunday in the parliament, quote, I have

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no motivation to remain in government or to remain president

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if I cannot solve the problems of the people and

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the deprived. Now what does that mean? Is he going

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to resign or something? I don't know it is maybe

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maybe he's got a read on like where this could

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go and he wants to remain president. After the overthrow

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of the Mullahs and you know, the kleptocrats that are

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running the regime and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, like maybe

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this guy is positioning himself to take over the country.

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Yes he's already president, but he doesn't really he doesn't

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really run the show. So if you get rid of

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the theocrats that have been running the show, the mullas,

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you get rid of all of that, and then maybe

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he can help guide Iran into a more peaceful state.

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You know. Iran last experienced nationwide protests back in twenty

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twenty two and twenty twenty three after the death of

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a twenty two year old girl, a woman named Masa Amini.

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She was in police custody hundreds of people. I believe

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she was protesting the forced covering up. She didn't want

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to cover up. And people don't know. For folks who are,

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you know, under the age of fifty, maybe probably don't

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know that. Like, Iran was a very modern country and

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culture prior to the overthrow of the Shaw. So hundreds

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of people were killed, more than twenty thousand arrested during

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the most recent protests a couple of years ago. Several

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were executed in connection with those demonstrations. State media acknowledged

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the protest but said that shopkeepers were concerned only about

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economic conditions See Iran. Their response the Mulla's response to

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all of this is that this is just about economics,

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and it is about economics, sure, but it's also about

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all the other stuff I've talked about. It's not just

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the inflation. It's the water, it's the oppression, it's the

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murdering of people. It's kind of all of it. You know,

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over the weekend and into yesterday, was very happy to

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hear that the two mint Hill police officers that were

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involved in the shooting during a child custody exchange at

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a business they've returned home. They were both apparently shot

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in the head and they were treated and released. It's

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a miracle that they weren't killed. As far as I know,

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the officers have yet to be identified. According to Glenn

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counts Over at WSOC TV, both officers suffered head wounds.

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In one case, the bullet went through and did not

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damage the brain, so I'm not really sure like it

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did it. It kind of just maybe ran along the

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skull or something. And in the other officer's case, the

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bullet exited through the cheek but did not hit bone

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or teeth, which is amazing. Both of them were able

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to walk out of the hospital this weekend to recuperate

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at home. The department did not identify the officers, but

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says one of them is a lieutenant with thirteen years

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of experience. The other is a rookie who has only

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been on the force for about six months now. The

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name of the gunman has been released. He's dead. The

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police shot him and killed him. He was Chammel Ali

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Hamlin from mint Hill, which is for people who aren't

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to wear It's one of the six quote unquote small

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towns which ain't so small anymore that surrounds Charlotte in

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Mecklinburg County, So Minhill's sort of the east southeast side

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of Mecklinburg County outside of Charlotte, and went through the

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E court system and looked up his record like you're

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shooting at two cops, Like does this guy have a

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lengthy rap sheet? He was thirty six years old. He

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was shot and killed in the exchange of gunfire with

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the officers, and going through court, the E courts system,

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it's all he does have. He does have a criminal history,

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but they're virtually all traffic related. Speeding doing ninety one

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in a sixty mile an hour zone up in Clyde,

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that's up in Hey would western North Carolina. That was

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back in two thousand and seven. Next charge a year later,

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driving with license revoked failure to appear, But that was

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in Mecklimber County and that got dismissed. The Heywood County

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speeding charge, he pleaded guilty to that one, paid a

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fine up in Haywood County, but in Mecklimber County dismissed.

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Then let's see here two charges in February twenty eleven,

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speeding doing seventy three and a fifty five no seat belt.

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The no seat belt got dismissed. He did plead guilty

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to improper equipment, which is that's a that's a pleading

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down of the charge of like speeding of seventy three

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and a fifty five, that's a that's a higher charge

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than improper equipment. That's the way like you just plead

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it down. I think it's no points on your license

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improper equipment. That was Mecklinberg. Then let's see here a

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couple months later in mint Hill he's pulled over for

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having no insurance. That got dismissed by the DA. A

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month later Mecklinberg County. Twenty twelve, Mecklinberg County CMPD pulled

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them over for expired tags no inspection. He apparently got

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that corrected and so the charges were dismissed by the

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DA in Mecklimber County again, then in yeah in twenty

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thirteen driving with the license revoked, then failure to appear

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by the year twenty sixteen, that charge gets dismissed. Three

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years later, he also had expired tags and also a

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failure to appear that got dismissed again Mecklinberg County. Then

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up in Cabaris County it's popped in November twenty sixteen

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for marijuana possession. He pleads guilty, there pays a fine,

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and that is the last criminal charge that appears in

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the e court system for this guy. So not a

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violent offender. No idea what happened during this custody exchange

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that occurred, And this happens when you know you've got

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a couple, they've got a child together, or multiple kids whatever,

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and you know, one of them gets custody and so

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they got to hand off the kid. So they do

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it in a public place because maybe there's you know,

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there were threats or something. But none of that ever

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was charged, So there's no indication. I don't know what

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the civil rap sheet might look like, or civil cases

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may look like, but obviously going through a custody dispute,

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they're sharing custody, they've got to swap the kids back

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and forth. So they do it in a public place

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in mint Hill. I don't know if one of I

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don't know if like one of the parents worked at

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a business there and that's why they were doing the

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swap there or what. But for some reason, guy pulls

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out a gun. I don't know if the cops were

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called or if they happen to be there for the exchange.

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Don't know that. Now, Mecklimberg County is pointing out that

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they have a place to do safe custody exchanges, so

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I figured I would pass this along to you. This

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from WCNC TV Vanessa ruffles or ruffs ruffs roofif I

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think that's how she pronounces that. Anyway. Meckliberg County opened

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the county's Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Center in twenty fourteen.

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The center is located at the Valerie C. Woodard Center

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off Freedom Drive near aety five in West Charlotte. It

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is specifically set up to maintain safety, and they partner

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with off duty officers who serve as security and the

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parents do not interact with each other at all. They

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come in set entrances. You know, the kids then are,

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you know, are conveyed to the other parent. The center

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serves about seventy five families a month and can be

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even safer than doing an exchange outside of the police department,

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they say, because you know, if you do it outside

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the police department, there may not be a police officer

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that's there versus this safe exchange site. And so if

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this is something that you may want to take advantage of,

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you can call the center nine to eight zero three

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one four eighty six point eighty. Oh. I got a

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press release the other day from our sheriff, our Mecklamer

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County Sheriff, Gary not my fault McFadden, which I hear

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is it's catching on. The nickname is catching on. Somebody

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sent me a screenshot of a conversation I think it

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was on like next door or something, and somebody referred

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to him as not my fault McFadden, which is awesome.

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We might actually get that to stick before we get

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votainer adopted. Votainer is the word to replace vote getter

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or top vote getter. It's a terrible term. I hate it.

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It's awkward, clunky, clumsy, disgusting. I don't like it. So

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we've been trying to get people to use the word votainer.

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So if you are running in a crowded field and

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you end up number one, you are the top votainer. Right,

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It's much better. It's cleaner, sounds better, sexier, even makes

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you look taller too, and better looking. So anyway, one

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of my big beefs with the Sheriff's press releases has

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been the fact that they are images. It's not a

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word document or something. It's an image, and so you

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can't just simply print the text. You got to print

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the whole thing. And that's a problem because they put

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like a one inch border of green around the entire page.

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So now I'm wasting ink to print what's in the

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middle of the page, and the top third of the

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page is his face, his glamour shot. He's got like

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a glamour shot of himself that takes up like a

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third of the page. And all I want is the

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text if I'm printing it out, so I can do

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it on the show here, because I'm old school at

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everything's paper copy here, I don't need to see his

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face on my press releases. Okay, just give me the

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press release and this press release no border and no

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glamour shot. I think we are making a difference here people.

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It's difficult work, it takes a long time, but I

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feel like we're making some progress, all right. If you're

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listening to this show, you know I try to keep

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up with all sorts of current events, and I know

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you do too. And you've probably heard me say get

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your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how

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you detect media bias, which is why I've been so

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impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website,

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and it combines news from around the world in one

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can check it out at check dot ground, dot news

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slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too.

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I started using ground News a few months ago and

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more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate

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because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered

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and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which

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but it also supports ground news as they make the

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media landscape more transparent. So the Mecklimberg County Sheriff Gary

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not my fault, McFadden. He announced a couple of probably

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like two weeks ago, he called for a public hearing

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to talk about the jail facility in North mech called

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Jail North. This was used for juvenile detention for a

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while and then Mechlenberg County shut it down. And uh,

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you know, McFadden has complained about not having enough staff.

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He's complained about not having enough bedspace. He's complained about

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the passage of the Arena's Law, which is now going

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to force uh, the local judicial system to hold you know,

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repeat violent offenders, to not just you know, let them

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walk on bond or unsecured bond or no bond at all.

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So now they have to put him in the jail.

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And McFadden's like, we need more money, we can't do this.

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This isn't my fault, because nothing is ever his fault.

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That's why I gave him the nickname. So there was

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a guy by the name There is a guy by

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the name of William Lassiter, and he is the North

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Carolina Department of Public Safety. Well, I don't know what

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his title is he's but he oversees the jails and

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detention centers and stuff like that. And he was quoted

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a couple well maybe a month ago now, he was

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quoted as saying, look, we offered to buy Jail North,

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we offered to lease it from them, and McFadden has

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said no. And the reason he says no is what

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was at the time he was saying that it was

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because that the state is not going to be able

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to hire corrections officers to staff Jail North, which is

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not his problem. Okay, if the state is saying they

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will buy the facility or they'll lease it from you

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or whatever, it doesn't matter. If you're not using it

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to house inmates and the state is saying we will

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lease it, we will buy it, will house inmates there.

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That is of no concern to you. You're not using it,

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just let them have it, right, But he won't do that.

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So when things don't make sense, right, when you're looking

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at some outcome and it doesn't make any sense, go

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back and reassess your assumptions. And the assumption is that

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you McFadden wants to hold more people and have you know,

472
00:33:35,039 --> 00:33:38,680
more officers and more bedspace and keep more people in

473
00:33:38,799 --> 00:33:41,440
jail and stuff. And so it doesn't really make sense.

474
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,400
If the state's saying we'll do that, will take the cost,

475
00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:47,960
then why wouldn't you do that? Aha, reassess your assumption.

476
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:51,559
McFadden doesn't actually want to keep people in jail. And

477
00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:54,119
by the way, that's not me saying that. He said that. Okay,

478
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,680
he has said that. He said, you can't incarcerate your

479
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,079
way out of this problem of crime. And I disagree,

480
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,599
particularly when it comes to the repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat

481
00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:09,159
offenders that are sent through the catch and release turnstyle

482
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,559
judicial system that we have here and have that here.

483
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,920
So he called for this public meeting. I want a

484
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,880
public meeting. Well he's getting it, everybody. He's going to

485
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,440
get a public meeting, and I cannot wait. He put

486
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,880
out this press release without his glamour shot. The event

487
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,440
will be held. Oh and by the way, he's got

488
00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:34,920
William Lasseter from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety

489
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,440
coming to this meeting, Okay, to talk about jail North.

490
00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:42,320
The event will be held at the Valerie Sea Woodard

491
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,440
Community Resource Center, All Freedom Drive on January sixth, twenty

492
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:53,960
twenty six. I would very much like to attend, but

493
00:34:54,039 --> 00:35:00,119
I don't know what time it is. So I've I've

494
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:04,760
been doing media now for a while and I have

495
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,360
found it very helpful that if you want me to

496
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,639
go cover your event, you should tell me what time

497
00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:17,400
your event is. I'm glad I got a date. That's nice,

498
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,880
that's good January sixth. That's also a vital piece of information.

499
00:35:21,639 --> 00:35:25,000
That's that's part of the when. But you also need

500
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,320
a time here. So this way people aren't just like

501
00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:32,639
camped out at the Woodard Center. Well, I mean more

502
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:35,880
so than like a lot of the homeless populations, But like,

503
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,719
you don't want reporters just sitting around for you know,

504
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,320
eighteen hours waiting on this thing to start whenever it starts,

505
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:47,000
so maybe we could get a time for that, he says. Media,

506
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,719
key stakeholders and the public are invited to attend, so

507
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,159
basically everybody. It's open to the public. That's another way

508
00:35:54,199 --> 00:35:56,119
you could say that, just in the future, just it's

509
00:35:56,159 --> 00:36:00,840
open to the public. He says. The the Sheriff's Office

510
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:06,000
is convening this panel to address and correct ongoing misconceptions

511
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:09,199
about the closure of Jail North and inform the public

512
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,079
with a clear understanding of the real needs and conditions

513
00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:16,159
for reopening the facility. Specifically, there has been confusion about

514
00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:20,119
the Sheriff's Office's role and responsibility in the facility not

515
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,760
being open. Right, there's confusion, you see, because it's not

516
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,639
his fault. People. For this reason, we want to engage

517
00:36:28,639 --> 00:36:32,480
in a transparent discussion with state leaders regarding the potential

518
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:36,320
reopening of Jail North and emphasize that closing the facility

519
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,199
was not our preference. Hey, it wasn't his fault. We

520
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,719
didn't want to close it. It opened in twenty nineteen

521
00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:47,079
and closed in twenty twenty two. At the time of

522
00:36:47,119 --> 00:36:53,119
its closure, he says, circumstances beyond our control required decisive action,

523
00:36:55,039 --> 00:36:59,239
not his fault. Following a jail inspection, which has always

524
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,239
been a uh, that's always been a burr under his saddle.

525
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,480
Is how dare the state come in and do these

526
00:37:05,519 --> 00:37:10,360
inspections of my jail and cite us for deficiencies. It's

527
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,119
not our fault. All these inmates have died. Sorry, residents.

528
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,679
He calls them residents. He doesn't like the term inmate,

529
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,599
so he always calls them residents. And so whenever a

530
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,400
resident dies, the state comes in and takes a look

531
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,320
around and they're like, oh, you got some problems here

532
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,480
and here and here and here. Now, Uh, not my fault.

533
00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:35,119
Following an inspection, staffing resources at Jail North had to

534
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:40,079
be reassigned to the Big Jail, Central Jail because they

535
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:43,119
didn't have enough personnel and our three year contract with

536
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:47,280
the state had had ended. It's also important to clarify

537
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,880
that Sheriff's office is not statutorily responsible for housing juveniles.

538
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,599
That is the responsibility of the state. Right well, so

539
00:37:54,960 --> 00:38:00,920
lease them back the property man, Lassiter said the reports

540
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,360
in an interview. He said, we have offered to lease

541
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,920
the property to house juveniles and McFadden won't do it.

542
00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:13,719
That's what Lassiter said. That was Lassitter lying. I guess

543
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:19,199
he could be. There has been public speculation that Jail

544
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,760
North is an unused, fully operational facility that could easily

545
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,519
be reopened to house juveniles or serve as overflow for

546
00:38:27,679 --> 00:38:31,679
adult residents. See there, it is not inmates residents. This

547
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:38,000
narrative overlooks a critical reality. Operating the facility requires adequate staffing,

548
00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:41,599
which currently the Sheriff's Office does not have the staffing

549
00:38:41,639 --> 00:38:45,559
capacity to reopen the facility. Yes, we know that. We

550
00:38:45,679 --> 00:38:48,480
know that. Now. McFadden says that this is just a

551
00:38:48,519 --> 00:38:50,719
problem across the board, has nothing to do with him,

552
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:54,559
although I would point out he has been hemorrhaging staff

553
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,599
because like people don't like to work for him. Now

554
00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:01,719
he doesn't believe this, but the people who have quit,

555
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:07,159
including two of his number two people have quit, and

556
00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:12,840
they both wrote public letters and published them calling him

557
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:19,800
a narcissist, a micromanager, a tyrant, unprofessional, ill equipped to

558
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:26,039
manage an office, a terrible administrator. So that's what they're saying.

559
00:39:27,159 --> 00:39:28,760
He also fired a bunch of people when he came

560
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,199
into office almost eight years ago, one of whom was

561
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,400
the woman who ran the jail. That fired her because

562
00:39:36,559 --> 00:39:41,679
she was perceived to be too close to the previous sheriff. See,

563
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,159
none of this is his fault, as I am sure

564
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:48,280
he will tell us at some time to be determined

565
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:53,320
on January sixth, at this public meeting. All right, that'll

566
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,000
do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

567
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572
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,639
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573
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