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your support. Congratulations to all of the boomer leftists who

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turned out yesterday for than it was it yesterday or

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is it Saturday? Whenever you guys were out there for

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your no Kings thing? Thank you very much. I woke

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up today and there is no king in America, so

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it worked. I think it worked. Kudos. Good job, good job.

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Want to welcome back to the program, as we always

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do on Mondays at two. It is AP Dylon. She

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is the publisher of a substack newsletter called More to

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the Story. She's also a a reporter for the North

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State Journal. You can read her work at nsjonline dot com.

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AP How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Pete? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great as well? No Kings today. I thought

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it was dicey, Like like Friday night, I was like, man,

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we really want to get rid of this king that

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we got, and then they had the big protest and

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then now there's no king anymore, and so I'm so

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very grateful. Did you did you participate? Did you go

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down hang out with any of the No kingers.

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Speaker 2: In no hard work and grocery shopping?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean neither. I did have walk to end Alzheimer's.

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So we were We did that in uptown Charlotte, and

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we were kind of worried that, like we may get

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caught up because we had like three thousand people or

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something march for the for the Alzheimer's Association on Saturday morning,

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we were kind of worried that, like we were all

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in purple and we would just get swallowed up by

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the No Kings people. But they didn't come out till later,

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so we were fine. But but yeah, we made there

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were there were some jokes about it. So what was

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the what was the Oh, hang on a second, I

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gotta play this for you. This is from the Charlotte

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No Kings and this is a woman who was captured

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uh In an interview with WBTV take a listen. Trump

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is a disastrous president. He's completely breaking our entire country,

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and I am so sick of waking up every single

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day to the chaos that he is creating.

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Speaker 2: We have a beautiful country and I'm here to fight

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for it.

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Speaker 1: All Right, there you go. She seems very well adjusted,

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not at all unstable in any way. So tell us, yeah,

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did that? Yeah? It's like, uh, I think you've got

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something else going on if you wake up every single

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day and you're doom scrolling what Trump did today, you know,

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like I kind of feel like there's some people that

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Trump's Trump has broken their brains and everything in their

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life is now centered around you know, the orange hitler man.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's this phenomenon right now where no matter

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what he does, it's awful and the world is ending.

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It's the end of democracy as we know it. And

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you know, I mean lower taxes, lower gas bills, food

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prices will start to come down as energy starts to increase.

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But you know, hi Middle East peace deal, you know

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he's killing it. You know he's got THE'SE got them

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Cartel's coming out of Venezuela. You know, he's been doing

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the boat bombs yeah, you know. I mean he's he's

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secured the border, the deportations are still going on. You know,

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he's looking to clean up crime in various cities around

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the country, including Charlotte, which Governor Josh Stein isn't too

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excited about, no him possibly sending the National Guard there,

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despite the fact that they've had what like fifteen homicides,

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sixteen homicides in the last month and a half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're yeah, we were, we were down a bit

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and then you know, CMPD was like, look our homicides

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are down, look at us, they're down, and then like

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this weekend we had four more. So uh, yeah, it's

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well I did in the first hour of the show today,

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I walked through the MacArthur Foundation and their Safety and

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Justice challenge. They've they've pumped over three million dollars into

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Mecklenburg County.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I read about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for this for the soft on crime policies, and

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they've been doing it all and it's not just Charlotte,

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Speaker 2: Well, going back to the well adjusted folks, though, I

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don't know if you notice the proliferation of blow up

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costumes inflatable costumes.

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Speaker 1: I have, I have noticed that.

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Speaker 2: I I what I had to find out what that

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was about. So I did from digging around, and I

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found that uh Lee, Antifa folks in Portland, yeah, who

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have been fighting with the ice fiscility there, had been

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doing these rent of costumes and to show that they're

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they're they're peaceful people there. And there was that viral

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clip that went you know that went viral of the

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White Fires post as you're putting pepper spray up to

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the air hole of a frog.

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Speaker 1: Right right. So yeah, but no, we saw this a

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couple of weeks ago. Yeah, like all of a sudden,

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they're not like people are getting out of the black Block,

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although actually I don't know they could still be dressed

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all in black in the costume, I'm not sure. Yeah,

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so there, but yeah, so they were like they were

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ditching the black block scary uniforms and going with these

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inflatable costumes in order to try to flip this narrative,

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this script that Antifa is a dangerous scary organization. Sorry idea.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's where that came from, though. Yeah, but

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what cracked me up though, there was this clip MSNBC

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was out amongst some of the crowd, and they came

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up to one that was looked like a my Little

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Pony unicorn kind of thing, and the reporter literally sticks

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the microphone up into the face of this thing, shoving

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the nose of this inflatable character all the way back

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so that he can get the person's voice camera. And

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I'm watching this and I'm thinking, you couldn't have found

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someone in the crowd without a costume.

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Speaker 1: Right, Why? Yeah, why did you make a b line

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to that person?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's just weird. And you know those

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costumes shut up here in the Triangle and around around

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the state too. There was a frog and a skeletal cat,

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and I think there was also a bee, I think

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I saw, But there was unicorns as well, and horses

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and all kinds of things. And I've just dropped a

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story about all this to my subscribers. Paid subscribers have

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more to the story. We'll be able to check out

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all the images and uh and goodies from from that

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that I collected.

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Speaker 1: It's further confirmation ap that these are theater kids.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're back to We're back to the

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kind of protests where they've got the you know, they've

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got these pithy yet coherent signs. You know, they waved

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them around. We're mad about something, but we're not going

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to tell you exactly what it is. We just know

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the countries being destroyed, but we can't articulate why. And

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when we're asked why, we get mad and call you

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a racist.

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Speaker 1: You know what it's it reminds me of is the

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moral monday Ers. That's what all of this stuff reminds

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me of. Yeah. Yeah, for people who don't remember or

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weren't here at the time, this would have been Pat

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McCrory's first term. So what would have twenty twelve?

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Speaker 2: I guess sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And because you know, first Republican governor in like

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forty years, and they had they had the House, they

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had the Senate, they had the Governor's mansion, and so

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the left and remember the Democrat Party in the state

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had been so hollowed out by corruption and scandal and

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all this stuff. They were like they were about to

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lose their headquarters in raleighcause they couldn't pay the rent,

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and into that breach stet you see what I did.

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They're into the breach a repairer of the breach, Reverend

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William Barber, and he launches this Moral Monday thing, and

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the Democrats, because they don't have anything else and they

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can't mobilize themselves at that point, they just basically like

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offloaded the entire thing to Barber and his poor people's

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campaign stuff, the Moral Monday, and they would march every Monday,

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and the media would go down there every Monday, and

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it was the same sort of thing. They would all

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have different uh signs up there, and it's just this

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omnik cause, as Ben Shapiro calls it, you know, just

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just swap out a different issue. I did not see,

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I will say, for the for the note Kings, I

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did not see as many Free Palestine signs this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Oh there were some. I spotted to various video clips

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floating around on x You can you can see a couple,

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but they're you know, while they didn't have any of

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the bedding.

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Speaker 1: That we saw.

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Speaker 2: So one of the previous ones of a beheaded Donald Trump,

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there was a woman carrying around a couch that had

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a son and that couches against jd Vance. Jd Vance first, first, uh,

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he asked couches. Now he's effing America. Yeah, but it's

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written out and there's little kids right around, so that's nice.

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Speaker 1: Whit she's carrying around an actual couch. Yeah, I got

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a full couch.

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Speaker 2: Yep. I got a screenshot of it from Oh my gosh,

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a guy who posted it publicly on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not gonna lie. That's kind of impressive that

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she's carrying around a full couch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's well, it's more like an armchair part

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of a couch. It looks like it's part of a couch.

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But yeah, she's carrying this thing around and she's got

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you know, she's got her little love little heart shape

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sunglasses on, smiling of.

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Speaker 1: Course, because they are the Party of Love. Yes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the very next post and that that thread by

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that individual on x though had you know, was posing

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with him and his kids, so they were obviously there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I've got some clips from these different speakers around

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the country and yeah, and the funniest part to me

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in uh, the apology that is offered by media folks

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is like all the Republicans are saying that these are

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like hate America. Uh, and they're communists and socialists. And

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I actually saw some website did at I think it's

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called factually or something, and they did a fact check

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in their life, there's actually no connection between the communists

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and socialists with the no Kings, I'm like, what are

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you kidding me? Like, I have their I have their poster,

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and they've got like they got the Freedom Socialist Party

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as a sponsor, the Young Communist League, the Communist Party USA, uh,

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New York City Democratic Socialists of America like don't like,

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don't pee on my boots and tell me it's raining,

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like they're proudly. And then the Climate Defenders it's I mean,

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it's the same thing. League of Women Voters, is there

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Speaker 2: Well, one thing that is blowing around out there too

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is uh, you know pins that say, you know, is

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he dead yet?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And uh and you know Pooh Winny the Pooh memes

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where Piglett asked, pooh, is he dead yet? And they

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mean Donald Trump? Right, And these things are being these

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pins and these cards and these memes are being sold

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at you know, stands by Democratic Party groups in various areas,

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but also you know, circulated on the Internet, Facebook, social media,

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that sort of thing. So we've toned down the rhetoric.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well look right now, they're just they're just wishing

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that the president die a death of natural causes, versus

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openly celebrating the assassination attempt, although some actually did that.

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Speaker 2: Too Sniper's nest today, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some actually are doing that as well. So yeah, it's.

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Speaker 2: A lot to worry about. It's a locked on pack.

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I mean, the protests for the most part seemed like

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they were mostly peaceful, except for those two gals and

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Charlotte who arrested at the may or the June one

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for assaulting on officer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the work mostly peaceful here. I mean they're

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just you know, waving their signs and that sort of stuff.

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time until you know, it gets hijacked by their black

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black friends and they're in more you know, animal inflatables

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show up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it is, as I've been saying with this stuff,

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it's creating a permission ructure when you have media people

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normal mainstream leaders who are saying things like oh, I'm

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not saying they should have assassinated Charlie Kirk, but and

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then they give a rationalization for it. You're erecting a

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permission structure which then sends this message to the the

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more you know, mentally unwell, that this is the way

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that I will gain martyrdom and I will gain approval.

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I mean, look at Luigi Mangioni, that guy right and

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the celebration. Yeah yeah, so yeah, but hey, you know,

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as long as they've got the sign in the front

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yard that their house has no room for hate, all

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as well. All right, AP Dylan, you could reader work

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appreciate it.

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this interesting. They went down to the No King's protest,

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because of course they would. I'm not saying they shouldn't,

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seems like it seems a bit high. They did uh

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like a yeah, three pages on the No Kings and

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it was all just quotes from people. Basically, I'm here

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for this because I hate Trump and I'm I'm here

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for this thing and I hate Trump, and I'm here

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for this thing and I hate Trump. And there was

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not a single counterpoint offered in the In the piece,

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three reporters and you guys couldn't find a single person

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to talk at all about the absurdity of No Kings,

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the absurdity of it, or the funding of it. Right

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the organizations that are putting this thing on because there's

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there's there's no relevant information for that stuff, right, of

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course there is that's providing the full context of the story.

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there are all of these organizations. I listed just a

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few of them, literally, communists and socialists, all the unions,

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they're all in on this. You've got climate change people.

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coverage of this No King's crap is the same as

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they show up, they stick a mic in some rando faces,

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and they get comments about how terrible pamccory is, and

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you know, that's the end of the report. And there's

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William who says, I wish just one of them would

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answer the question at this no King, the No King's protest,

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I wish one of them would answer the question, which

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king in the entirety of the world would have allowed

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your protest to happen? Correct? Yes, I see CNN has

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a crawl going on the bottom of their screen today,

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what forty eight hours after the No Kings and it

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says Trump dismisses no Kings as quote a joke. Correct, yes, correct,

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it is a joke. See. This is why had the

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Charlotte Observers, three reporters that covered the No King's protests,

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had they gone out and asked anybody on the right

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what they think of the No King's protest, they would

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have discovered that people on the right view the No

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King's protest as a punchline. It is a joke. You're

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embarrassing yourselves. We laugh at you. That's what's happening. The

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entire branding is absurd. It's just stupid. We do not

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have a king, and even you recognize this. If we

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had a king that was suppressing your ability to assemble

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peaceably and express your grievances to the government, right, if

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we had a king, you would not be there. If

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you were actually afraid of Donald Trump as a king,

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you would not be out there because you suffer no

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ramifications for being out there. Nobody came and arrested you.

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Nobody is throwing you in prison for your speech and

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your political views are in anything like that. Nobody's even

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deplatforming you like y'all did to conservatives. WBTV. Their story

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does include quote the other side at the end of

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their little blurb. Now, they only spent like three paragraphs

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on this story, so it was just like, yeah, rally

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was held at First Ward Park, and then they say

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Republicans have sought to portray participants in Saturday's rallies as

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far outside the mainstream of American politics and the main

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reason for the prolonged government shutdown now in its eighteenth day.

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I'm not really sure what they're trying to convey there

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with this write up. Kind of got a little mangled there.

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Not sure, but yes, Democrats did not want to move

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on the government shutdown until after this protest because if

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they had reopened the government before the protest, then Chuck

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Schumer wouldn't have had his prime speaking slot at the

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No King's rally right, So they're trying to build a narrative,

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and they are using the moral Monday blueprint, which by

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the way, was also cribbed from the Wisconsin protests in

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the state legislature when they took over a couple of

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years before. We saw it here in North Carolina. We

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saw it up in Wisconsin and with who was the

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Scott Walker, right, the governor, and they were in there

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shutting down operations for the state legislature. And then they

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did it here at North Carolina. And it's the same

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sort of mishmash of these leftist groups, the omni Cause,

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as Ben Shapiro calls it. They have all these different groups, right,

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but they're all like, we're all intersectionaling here at the

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hatred of Donald Trump, and he's a king. We're not

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going to have a king. We're American patriots, no kings.

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But yeah, we don't have a king. If we had

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a king, y'all would have been rounded up already, right,

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So that's the absurdity of your protests. We all recognize

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what it is that you're doing. You're working on earned

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media coverage and all of these groups are getting grants

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and such, and you know, you organize this to prove

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to your donors that you're doing stuff. You're getting stuff

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done from the White House to Capitol Hill. GOP leaders

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disparaged the rally goers as Communists and Marxists. Yes, because

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a lot of them are in fact. Here, I have

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a photo. This is from the Denver No King's March

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and Rally. I guess because they have a booth set up.

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they got their logo on the little tablecloth Denver Communists,

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very stylized hammer and sickle logo there. And then they

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have a placard that says Charlie Kirk had it coming,

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change my mind. And then on the back wall of

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their booth they have a huge banner, very professionally done up.

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It says Globalize the Intifada. And then they've got a

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table with a bunch of books for sale. One I

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can see the title here Palestine and Marxism.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: But this is all in my head right, this is

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I'm not really seeing all of this. By the way,

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you guys, you're just terrible. Comis Why are you selling

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the books? Huh? What's up with that? You just give

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them away? I should just go to these I should

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do this. I'm probably not going to I know myself,

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but somebody could do this. Go to the communist booths

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and just start taking their stuff, like I'm collectivizing this.

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I need this more than you do. I need to

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know what's in this book more than you do. They

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got a bunch of feminism books and stuff. They've got

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one that says unbuilt walls. Okay, so yeah, COMMI literature

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all over the place, Rosa, Luxembourg, Okay, whatever. But that's

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the kind of people that are at the rallies. And

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I read to you the list of some of the

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sponsors and organizers of the event Communist party groups, Socialist

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party groups. So it's not disparaging rally goers as Commi's

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and Marxists. They are. They are proudly so they set

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up booths and I'm not supposed to notice this, but

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if I do notice it, then I'm the bad guy.

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I'm disparaging them as communists, even though they have like

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David Strom at hot air dot com. A couple of

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thoughts on the whole no kings, the absurdity of no kings.

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He says, I absolutely positively understand why liberals dislike Donald

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object to them. I agree with David Strom, he is right. Well,

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here's the thing, though, when there's a legal dispute about

471
00:26:44,599 --> 00:26:49,680
some presidential action, right, the courts get involved, the courts

472
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,759
have their say, and by the way, usually the Supreme

473
00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:56,119
Court rules in favor of the president. Like that's the

474
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normal course that all of this stuff has taken. I

475
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gave you the stat I think it was last week.

476
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,640
It's like ninety four percent of the cases that make

477
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,279
it to the Supreme Court are decided in favor of

478
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the administration. That's hardly the sign of a king. Right.

479
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If Donald Trump was a king, there would not be

480
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:23,480
any court battles. Right. All those judges that make all

481
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:27,039
these rulings against Trump, all those judges would have been

482
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,720
kicked off the bench, imprisoned, disappeared. Right, That's what a

483
00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:35,640
king would do. That's what a tyrant and authoritarian, a fascist,

484
00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:38,960
orange nazi, Right, that's what they would do. That has

485
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,319
not happened. In fact, i'm not sure the left is

486
00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:47,079
aware of this. What they're actually doing is they are

487
00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:53,559
they're building the guardrails. So every time you sue Donald

488
00:27:53,599 --> 00:27:57,079
Trump on anything like some of these policies he's doing,

489
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,640
and you take it to court, you get a lower

490
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:05,680
court it's like, I'm totally with you, aclu or you know, indivisible,

491
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,799
fifty to fifty one, whatever group you're with, and then

492
00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:12,440
you get overturned, and then you appeal and then it

493
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,240
goes to the Supreme Court and Trump wins. Well, now

494
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:21,680
you have a Supreme Court ruling backing Trump's play. You

495
00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:26,359
are erecting the guard rails. And the more you sue,

496
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,039
the more guardrails you end up erecting. I'm not sure

497
00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:32,279
you guys are aware of that. Just the heads up.

498
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If Donald Trump was a king, the Senate Democrats would

499
00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:41,039
not be able to put roadblocks in his way, right,

500
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,880
the courts would not be in a position to even delay,

501
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:51,440
let alone deny any kind of presidential dictate. But speaking

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of authoritarianism and the democracy, who was it that tried

503
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,799
to keep their political opponent off the ballot in the

504
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:06,400
last election? Who did that? That wasn't Donald Trump? That

505
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:12,039
was Democrats literally at the state level tried to keep

506
00:29:12,119 --> 00:29:18,359
him off the ballot. Who was it that canceled their

507
00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:24,240
own primary? Who did that? That? Yeah, that was Democrats also.

508
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,599
Oh and then when they finally had to be dragged

509
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:33,519
kicking and screaming to the reality that the current inhabitant

510
00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:37,440
of the White House was cognitively impaired and could not

511
00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:41,640
do the job any longer, they then democratically, of course,

512
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:48,519
swapped him out and anointed Kamala Harris as the nominee. See,

513
00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:51,559
that's the kind of crap a king would do, right

514
00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:57,880
a line of succession. That's the kind of stuff kings do. Ironically,

515
00:29:58,039 --> 00:30:02,279
Democrats are urging Republicans now in shut down to eliminate

516
00:30:02,319 --> 00:30:06,839
the filibuster. Have you heard this. They've been on social media,

517
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:08,960
they've been doing it in interviews. They've been saying, oh, well,

518
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,799
then the Senate should just get rid of the filibuster

519
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:16,880
so they can pass the continuing Resolution without us. Really so,

520
00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:19,200
not so long ago the Democrats were saying that the

521
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filibuster was vital to preserving the democracy. Well, but that

522
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was after they had said that they had to get

523
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,839
rid of the filibuster to preserve the democracy. But then

524
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,799
before that they were forgetting rid of it. But that

525
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was only after they were against getting rid of it.

526
00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,519
Or anyway, I forget, I've lost track of their position

527
00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:43,880
on eliminating the filibuster. Basically, it comes down to, if

528
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,039
they're in power, they want the ability to get rid

529
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:49,680
of the filibuster so they can get what they want

530
00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:52,039
done without any Republican buy in, you know, like they

531
00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:56,160
did with Obamacare, which now apparently everybody is sort of recognizing, Man,

532
00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:59,440
this thing did not actually drive down costs. And it's

533
00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:05,799
just as if only if only some people were warning

534
00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:13,440
what would happen if Obamacare was passed law fair Remember

535
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,720
that how many trials. Did Donald Trump face at the

536
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:23,559
height of the presidential campaign? But right, but now any

537
00:31:23,599 --> 00:31:30,720
prosecution of Letitia James, John Bolton, Jim comey, Right, this

538
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,759
is proof that we live in a fascist state. But

539
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,920
when you guys were trying to keep Trump off the

540
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,799
ballot and you were dragging him into every courtroom you

541
00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:43,359
could find with a hospitable jury and judge, not a

542
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,680
sign of the fascist state. Right, As many before have noted,

543
00:31:47,759 --> 00:31:50,079
David Strom says, the Democrats are the party of the

544
00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:53,839
third rate theater kids who believe that being overly dramatic

545
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is the same as being convincing. He's exactly right. I'm

546
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,640
not buying your performance. It's pretty terrible. I've seen the

547
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,680
play for fifteen years. It was boring fifteen years ago.

548
00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:15,599
It's insufferable. Now you're not persuading anyone. All right, that'll

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do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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