1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: Stacy Abrams. 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,679 Speaker 1: You'll recall the former seventeen term governor of Georgia. 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,119 Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. She never won, but. 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: Remember she founded that nonprofit and then that made her 14 00:00:42,439 --> 00:00:46,200 like this superstar of the Democrat Party. 15 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:47,719 Speaker 2: Yeah. 16 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: That nonprofit got fined the largest ever fine in Georgia history, 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,159 three hundred thousand dollars for illegally supporting her gubernatorial campaign 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,280 in twenty eighteen. Yeah, all right, I'll get to the 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,159 details on that in a minute. First last hour, I 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,920 did not get to the emails and messages regarding the 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,760 Zuckerberg interview that he gave to Joe Rogan. I will 22 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:16,239 say because I saw I did see your tweets here 23 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:21,000 at Pete Callener from Jonathan, who said I counted forty 24 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,400 seven erms and ums in his response. In the way 25 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:28,159 he speaks, doesn't that mean people are lying when they 26 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:29,319 do that so frequently? 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,719 Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't think. 28 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,079 Speaker 1: So maybe I'm not aware, but I don't think in 29 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,359 this case Zuckerberg is lying. I think Rogan started the 30 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:46,640 podcast and immediately went to this topic, and so probably 31 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:51,200 a little bit of nerves also maybe a little bit 32 00:01:51,319 --> 00:01:52,680 of social. 33 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:54,719 Speaker 2: Awkwardness that Zuckerberg has. 34 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: I think we are all aware of this, right, But 35 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:01,719 also it is a verbal crutch. 36 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:05,079 Speaker 2: I use it. I just did it there. There is 37 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:09,680 also that's also the. 38 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,199 Speaker 1: Way he speaks, I think, because I watched the entire 39 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:17,800 three hour interview, even the parts where they were talking 40 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:23,159 about his fighting. He started training and he does these 41 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:26,520 fights now and he's actually entered competitions and. 42 00:02:26,479 --> 00:02:28,039 Speaker 2: Apparently he's okay. 43 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: He won a match, and so I think, and he 44 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,919 speaks like that the entire time, this halting, almost a 45 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:40,599 stuttering kind of delivery. So I think that's just how 46 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:41,039 he talks. 47 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:41,599 Speaker 2: But I don't know. 48 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, now I'm lying. Oh gosh, I did it again. 49 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,639 So a couple of emails here, Let me get to 50 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:56,080 This is from Jay, who says, so Biden thinks there 51 00:02:56,159 --> 00:02:59,000 is a new oligarchy forming, Well, it's got to be 52 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,840 better than Pelosi, Garland, Schumer, Obama at all that we've 53 00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:04,560 had for the last sixteen years. 54 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, this idea that. 55 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: Maybe he's arguing that there's a new oligarchy that is 56 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,479 replacing him and his and that's what's really God is. 57 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: Dander of Maybe that's the deal. 58 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,199 Speaker 1: Next up, Joseph says Elon Musk is a transhumanist weirdo 59 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,680 who wants to download his consciousness into a robot, moved 60 00:03:28,719 --> 00:03:32,680 to Mars and live forever while his bioengineered progeny lured 61 00:03:32,719 --> 00:03:36,000 over a post homo sapien humanoid population that do the 62 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,199 few things the machines can't. Luckily that's as goofy as 63 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,120 he is. While I voted for Trump, I was way 64 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:46,319 more excited about JD. Vance and the ramifications of Biden's 65 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:51,159 failed presidency lasting several cycles really gives me hope. Unlike 66 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,240 Musk or Ramaswami, Vance is more aligned with the America 67 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:58,639 First Movement, maybe even more than Trump. I suspect he 68 00:03:58,719 --> 00:04:04,360 has more than one X handles amphibian X. It was 69 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:09,000 like a frog that posts spicy memes one of us, 70 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:14,560 one of us. If you will, Yeah, If I had 71 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,879 to bet, I would say it's probably a safer bet 72 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,879 to say jd Vance has a burner account on Twitter 73 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,519 that he uses to poop post. I would suspect that 74 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:26,319 would be how I would bet. If I had to 75 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,079 gun to the head, had to bet, I would do that. 76 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,839 This is from Tim. I think Zuckerberg is a cuck 77 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,560 really who just blows whatever direction the wind blows. He 78 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,560 could I don't know if that's the definition of a 79 00:04:44,639 --> 00:04:48,040 quote cuck as I understand it that means something else. 80 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,240 But no, he's I think more accurate, would be more 81 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,600 of a lady of the night. If you will. He's 82 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,519 just going to who wherever the customer is, he will 83 00:05:01,519 --> 00:05:05,720 service right. Part of this is protection, and this is 84 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:10,360 not new. It's not restricted to just Mark Zuckerberg and 85 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:15,360 Meta owner of Facebook and Instagram. This has been the 86 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,319 case in all industries, in all companies. You don't want 87 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:21,720 the federal government coming after you for stuff, so it's 88 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,240 best to try to play nice with the government when 89 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:25,639 you can. 90 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:29,759 Speaker 2: And every situation is different. 91 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,959 Speaker 1: I'm not advocating it, but I understand why leaders of 92 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,000 companies do this sort of stuff all the time. When 93 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,439 you get so big that now government starts paying you attention. 94 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,879 It's better to be friends than enemies. You know, they 95 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:50,199 have the monopoly on force as it were. Tim goes 96 00:05:50,199 --> 00:05:52,240 on to say, I Kamala had won, does anybody think 97 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,160 Zuckerberg would be on Joe Rogan talking like this? Probably not, 98 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,759 because again that would not be in the best interest 99 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:03,040 of his company and the shareholders. If he were to 100 00:06:03,079 --> 00:06:06,319 go on to Rogan's show and talk about these things, 101 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,639 he would not be celebrated by the left especially or 102 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,839 the media. But I do repeat myself, he would not 103 00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:17,240 be celebrated as a truth telling whistleblower. He would be savaged. 104 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:20,319 He would be targeted. As he mentioned in that clip 105 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,160 that the agencies now just started cracking down and you know, 106 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,519 just bringing down on Facebook and Instagram, you know, the 107 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,720 full weight of the federal government into all of its agencies. 108 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,040 When Joe Biden said they're killing people, that was you know, 109 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:44,079 green light right open season on Meta and that's when 110 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,279 he said it got brutal. So if Kamala had won, 111 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:49,800 I suspect he probably would not have gone on Joe 112 00:06:49,879 --> 00:06:52,319 Rogan and said those things. I suspect he would have 113 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:58,240 gone to the Harris administration and tried to play nice 114 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,240 with them. Sure, does that mean what he said isn't true? 115 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,680 As he pointed out, a lot of this stuff is 116 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,519 on the record already because they've got the emails thanks 117 00:07:09,519 --> 00:07:16,360 to the investigation by Jim Jordan's Committee House Oversight, John says, 118 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:18,279 it just seems to me that he sees who is 119 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:22,480 coming to power and is kissing the appropriate posterior. I 120 00:07:22,519 --> 00:07:26,040 would say, yes, that's probably true. I don't have to 121 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:32,279 pick again, I don't have to pick whether Musk or 122 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:38,360 Sorry Zuckerberg is either kissing but or telling the truth. 123 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:44,519 Sometimes those two things can align, and he can be 124 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,240 telling the truth and kissing Donald Trump's posterior, and both 125 00:07:49,279 --> 00:07:50,360 of those things can be true. 126 00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:51,839 Speaker 2: And I can see that for. 127 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: What it is, right, I don't know if that's true, 128 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:56,959 but it would not surprise me. 129 00:07:58,079 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 2: Does that change what he has said? 130 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 3: So? 131 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,839 Speaker 1: In other words, are you saying that he is lying 132 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,759 about this stuff now? I think it would be harder 133 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,639 for him to lie that this stuff happened when there 134 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:11,519 is in fact a record of it happening. 135 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 2: As he pointed out. 136 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: Mark says, I'm not buying Zuckerberg's golly ge whiz, we 137 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,920 didn't know lyne. This guy's been at the forefront of 138 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:24,000 social media for decades. To now act like some innocent 139 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,639 babe in the woods is a load of horse apples. 140 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,439 He's covering his skinny butt to protect against any backlash 141 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:33,399 from Trump at all. It would be nice to think 142 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,240 Trump is going to go after these insider sleezes, but 143 00:08:36,279 --> 00:08:39,080 the fact is he won't. Why because he's no different. 144 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,480 Trump's first term could be described as the Trump fail. 145 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,720 This second one will be worse. As I've said for years, 146 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,120 whenever the stuff hits the fan, and there's no way 147 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:52,960 to avoid taking blame, it rolls down to whether they 148 00:08:53,039 --> 00:08:54,360 are stupid or evil. 149 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 2: Zuckerberg is now. 150 00:08:56,159 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: In stupid mode of defense, and again I ain't buying it. Yeah, 151 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:04,559 I don't think Facebook is as innocent as he framed 152 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:05,039 them to be. 153 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,519 Speaker 2: I don't. 154 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,279 Speaker 1: Again, he made no mention of any of the people 155 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:17,399 on staff that participated in any of the censorship efforts 156 00:09:17,399 --> 00:09:21,919 and such, and the creation of the fact checkers and 157 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,960 just turning all of this over to them. Now that 158 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:26,919 being said, I will point out they're trying to moderate 159 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:31,360 platforms that every single day, between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, 160 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,080 they've got three billion users a day. So you're trying 161 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,279 to moderate at a scale that is difficult to comprehend. 162 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,519 Human beings cannot do that. So they implement these programs 163 00:09:44,519 --> 00:09:46,799 and these algorithms and such, and they're not perfect. They're 164 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,600 not going to get it all right, So I recognize 165 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,720 that too. That's not an excuse. I'm not making any 166 00:09:51,759 --> 00:09:53,919 excuses for Facebook and the people that went along with 167 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,799 this stuff. However, I do recognize the challenge that they're 168 00:09:57,879 --> 00:10:02,000 under to try to moderate st and when they thought 169 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,120 they had this fix, they turned it over to the 170 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,360 media people. And I can see if you're in a bubble. 171 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:10,799 You grow up, you go through government schools, you go 172 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,159 to the ivy leagues, and you think the media are 173 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,519 truth tellers, you know, firefighters for democracy, and then they 174 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,440 behave in this way. I could see people getting a 175 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,960 red pill in this scenario. They didn't think that these 176 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,519 people that are operating these so called nonpartisan objective media outlets. 177 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:35,879 They wouldn't have assumed that these people were biased because 178 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:40,639 they've never been exposed to that reality. Right, that's possible too. 179 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,480 They don't know what they don't know. Again, not an excuse. 180 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,399 And I don't believe that's everybody. 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Remember this when everybody in state Democrat 212 00:12:41,879 --> 00:12:44,480 politics in red states like North Carolina saw this a 213 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,679 lot in the North Carolina political feed on Twitter, which, 214 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,000 by the way, if you are interested, hashtag ncpol. That's 215 00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:54,879 where all of that stuff shows up. As long as 216 00:12:54,879 --> 00:12:58,960 people tag it, it shows up in that feed. They 217 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:00,639 were all like, oh, my god, gosh, we need this 218 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,000 in North Carolina. We needed a new NC project. Can 219 00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:07,720 we get Stacy Abrams here? The New Georgia Project and 220 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:13,279 its affiliated group, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, admitted 221 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:20,080 to sixteen violations of state campaign finance law. The fine 222 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,960 is the largest ever assessed for violating Georgia campaign finance laws. 223 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,600 According to a consent order approved by the state Ethics 224 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,600 Commission on Wednesday, the New Georgia Project admitted that it 225 00:13:32,759 --> 00:13:37,840 raised and spent millions of dollars to support her campaign 226 00:13:38,799 --> 00:13:44,600 without registering as an independent political committee, which is required 227 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,679 by state law. At the time of the campaign. The group, though, 228 00:13:49,799 --> 00:13:54,919 was led by Raphael Warnock, who later became one of 229 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,799 the state's US Senators in twenty twenty, So a sitting 230 00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:05,759 US Senator was leading this quote nonprofit that was funneling 231 00:14:05,799 --> 00:14:12,399 money illegally to Stacy Abrams campaign. Because of its campaign 232 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:15,639 work for Stacy Abrams, the nonprofit admitted that it should 233 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:18,960 have registered with the state as a political committee. Federal 234 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:23,480 law prohibits tax exempt charities such as this from campaigning 235 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:26,200 for candidates, but this case was focused on the group's 236 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,559 violation of state law, so this is just a state action. 237 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:37,399 An investigation that began in twenty nineteen was met with 238 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,879 cries from the group that this was a politically motivated 239 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:48,480 fishing expedition. They're now admitting, though, quote, that everything we 240 00:14:48,639 --> 00:14:53,759 said was true, said David Emadi, the executive director of 241 00:14:54,320 --> 00:15:01,799 the Commission, the State Ethics Commission. They said this wasn't true, 242 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,720 and now they are admitting that it was. A spokesman 243 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:08,840 for Abrams said in a statement, quote, Stacey hasn't been 244 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,840 involved in the organization's work since she departed in twenty seventeen. 245 00:15:15,919 --> 00:15:17,279 Speaker 2: She didn't do this thing. 246 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,919 Speaker 1: Raphael Warnock's Senate office said that while he was the 247 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:26,759 leader of the New Georgia Project in twenty eighteen, quote, 248 00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:31,960 compliance decisions were not a part of that work. He 249 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,840 was merely in charge drawing a paycheck to be the 250 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,679 leader of the organization. Anything that was going on that 251 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:45,279 was illegal, failing to register appropriately following the law, that 252 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,759 kind of stuff that was beyond his purview. That's not 253 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,240 what he was in charge of doing. That was not 254 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:58,720 part of his job description. Under the consent agreement, now 255 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,519 they have to pay one hundred fifty thousand dollars within 256 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,399 thirty days and then they got to pay another one 257 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,559 hundred and fifty thousand dollars within a year. 258 00:16:09,759 --> 00:16:13,519 Speaker 2: Stacy Abrams. 259 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: David stromover at hot air dot com. He talks about 260 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,399 this case under a piece titled the Democratic Party is 261 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:30,200 an election fraud machine. But no, please, Joe Biden, tell 262 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,360 me more about the dark money in politics and its 263 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,440 corruptive influence. All right, I hope you had a happy 264 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:40,159 holiday season, But tell me if something like this happened 265 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,080 at your house. Your family and friends are gathered around, 266 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,279 Maybe y'all are in the living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, 267 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,279 and then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? 268 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,919 Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room 269 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,759 gets all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 270 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,840 you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just 271 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,320 having hot and around to it. Look, don't let those 272 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,480 priceless memories sit in a box for another year. 273 00:17:05,559 --> 00:17:05,839 Speaker 2: All right. 274 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,799 Speaker 1: Create a Video has been helping families in the Charlotte 275 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:12,640 area preserve their history since nineteen ninety seven. Simply bring 276 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,119 in your old camquarder tapes and Creative Video will transfer 277 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,319 them to a USB flash drive for just fourteen ninety 278 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,680 five per tape. You have a big collection, They've got 279 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,880 a discount for you. And next year, instead of talking 280 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:29,680 about those memories, imagine gathering the family to watch them together. 281 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,559 Talk about a memorable gift. So do what I did. 282 00:17:32,599 --> 00:17:36,720 Trust the experts at Creative Video, conveniently located in Minhill 283 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:39,799 right off I four eighty five and online at create 284 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:44,519 a video dot com. David Strom at hotair dot com 285 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,640 writing a piece about the Stacy Abrams nonprofit getting slapped 286 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,079 with the record fine. Democrats have taken in recent years 287 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:58,920 to spouting platitudes about norms and protecting democrase, But the 288 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,319 fact is the party wants to do exactly what President 289 00:18:02,519 --> 00:18:12,000 Obama said out loud. You'll recall quote fundamentally transform America. 290 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,720 And some people like me pointed out at the time 291 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:21,720 that you don't fundamentally transform something that you love. If 292 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,759 you think something is cool, you don't try to fundamentally 293 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,640 there's a keyword right there, fundamentally transform it into something else. 294 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:39,240 And as Strom points out, norms and fundamental transformation are 295 00:18:39,599 --> 00:18:45,440 opposites of one another. Right, you don't protect norms while 296 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:50,680 also saying we're going to fundamentally transform stuff that would 297 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:56,119 be different. Right, fundamental transformation requires the obliteration of norms. 298 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,400 So with that as a backdrop, Stacy Abrams became the 299 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,839 Democrat party hero by lying for years about how she 300 00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:07,559 totally won that election for governor of Georgia. That's a 301 00:19:07,599 --> 00:19:09,960 perfect example of all of this, he says. The more 302 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,319 she lied and cheated, the more popular she became. And 303 00:19:13,799 --> 00:19:17,119 after years of hiding the fact that she, not her 304 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:21,240 Republican opponent, cheated in her campaign by illegally coordinating with 305 00:19:21,279 --> 00:19:25,799 a supposedly nonpartisan nonprofit run by now Senator Raphael Warnock, 306 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,880 she committed fraud to win an election. Mean, she didn't 307 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:36,119 win despite what she had claimed for years after back 308 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,000 before well, actually no, it was right during the time 309 00:19:39,079 --> 00:19:43,839 period where no, no, So this was first in twenty eighteen, 310 00:19:44,039 --> 00:19:45,839 and she was running around right, So it was before 311 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,119 Donald Trump's claims that he did not win in twenty 312 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,160 twenty and Democrats were like, how dare you undermine the 313 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:55,720 norms of Democrat And it's like, well, you got Stacy 314 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,839 Abrams running around there saying the same thing, and Hillary 315 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,920 Clinton said the same thing, and Democrats have been basic 316 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:05,000 challenging Republican presidential wins since nineteen eighty eight, like officially 317 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,920 challenging in Congress, refusing to certify elections and stuff like that. 318 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,839 So this time, this was the first time since nineteen 319 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,039 eighty eight that Democrats have not done that. Did you 320 00:20:17,079 --> 00:20:19,079 know that first time? 321 00:20:20,559 --> 00:20:21,559 Speaker 2: Yeah? Kind of awkward. 322 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:24,039 Speaker 1: It would be kind of awkward for them to try 323 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,759 to do it now after all of the squawking about 324 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:33,559 you must accept the results of the election. Right, she 325 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:35,920 committed fraud to win an election. Who could have guessed? 326 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,880 He says in the Honorable Reverend Doctor Raphael Gamaliel Warnock 327 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:43,720 was a co conspirator in the scheme. I think, to 328 00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:46,799 be fair, I'm not aware of any evidence that came 329 00:20:46,799 --> 00:20:49,880 out that showed she knew or she was a participant, 330 00:20:50,039 --> 00:20:53,200 but I think chances are pretty good she founded the 331 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:58,359 nonprofit and then turned it over to Warnock, and then 332 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:01,880 oh lo and behold, you're getting all of this assistance 333 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,160 from that nonprofit. I kind of feel like you would 334 00:21:05,319 --> 00:21:10,039 notice something like that. And I did mention in the 335 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:13,440 last segment there that they were all of these lefties 336 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,359 in North Carolina that were clamoring for a similar nonprofit 337 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,720 to start up in North Carolina. Andy, thank you for 338 00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:20,119 the link. 339 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:20,839 Speaker 2: There is one. 340 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,559 Speaker 1: They did set up one, the New North Carolina Project, 341 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:30,480 so they did spin off an affiliate. But spinoffs rarely 342 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:35,119 get as many viewers as the original series, So I 343 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,559 don't know how successful that is, or how much illegal 344 00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:41,079 activity they're engaged in, Probably not any. 345 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 2: I'm not saying I don't know that. 346 00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:48,799 Speaker 1: I'm just saying the spinoffs rarely are as successful. Strong 347 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,319 goes on to say this isn't just about Stacy Abrams 348 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,680 and election fraud in Georgia. He said, this is how 349 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,839 democrats work all day, every day. They skirt the law 350 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:03,759 by using smurfing to guide illegal campaign contributions. They fight 351 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,720 like hell to ensure that voter fraud is impossible to 352 00:22:06,799 --> 00:22:10,240 prevent or detect, and they use hoaxes and lawfare to 353 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,759 smear Republicans and tie them up in court. They harass 354 00:22:13,839 --> 00:22:17,680 politicians at their homes, stir up anger and even riots, 355 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,359 and when given the opportunity, like during COVID, they declare 356 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:28,559 emergencies so they can ignore election laws. This is what 357 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,759 I have been saying about election integrity efforts for years. 358 00:22:32,079 --> 00:22:33,319 Speaker 2: Okay, if you. 359 00:22:33,319 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: Do actually value the democracy, if you do hold it 360 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:43,960 to be this sacrosanct mechanism, then you should want to 361 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:47,440 protect it from fraud. It just makes sense to do so. 362 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:48,319 Speaker 2: That is logic. 363 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:55,319 Speaker 1: You believe that it is so important, and everything that 364 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,240 you're saying, all your rhetoric and messaging is all around 365 00:22:58,279 --> 00:23:02,160 this concept of protecting the Demodus say, well, then shouldn't 366 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:08,599 you behave as if it is actually that important. Abram 367 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:15,119 starts a charity, she gets into the governor's race. Warnock 368 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:20,000 takes over the charities, then illegally use tax free contributions 369 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:23,240 to outright campaign for her. When caught, they fight the 370 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:28,160 charges for now six years, even during a second campaign 371 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,000 that Abrams ran for governor. Then finally they admit that 372 00:23:32,039 --> 00:23:34,839 they violated the law and lied about it. After Abrams 373 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,000 is well and truly done with politics and has been 374 00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:40,079 a boatload has made a boatload of money by lying 375 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:45,759 about her supposedly Republican election fraud, right, they settle the case, 376 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,759 presumably paying the fine with the pocket change of big 377 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,119 donors who had maxed out their legal contributions to Abram's campaign. 378 00:23:53,839 --> 00:23:56,680 Democrats get away with it for a simple reason. The 379 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:02,759 media covers for them and is constantly doing a similar thing. Collectively, 380 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:06,640 the partisan media apparatus can mobilize the resources that amount 381 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,000 to hundreds of billions of dollars in propaganda investment. Almost 382 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,400 every TV network pimps for Democrats, almost every newspaper and magazine, 383 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:17,519 most big tech companies, although that might change soon, they 384 00:24:17,519 --> 00:24:20,279 all do the same thing. Corporate media is in bed 385 00:24:20,319 --> 00:24:22,880 with them, and you have the left wing big money complex, 386 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:25,880 and you have the Hollywood elites and such all that 387 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,759 money behind them. We hear lots of talk about Rupert 388 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,200 Murdoch and Elon Musk having too much influence, but combined 389 00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:35,640 their reach amounts to a tiny fraction of what the 390 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:42,000 left can and does mobilize. But if you talk to 391 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,039 people inside the left, they will tell you the media 392 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:46,079 is actually conservative. 393 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. That's what they say. All right. 394 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,279 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 395 00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:54,079 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 396 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,160 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 397 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,440 say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, because 398 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,119 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 399 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,480 been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll get 412 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:45,160 fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan 413 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,640 to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then 414 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,480 not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground 415 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:55,200 News as they make the media landscape more transparent. I 416 00:25:55,279 --> 00:26:00,000 mentioned earlier Marco Rubio. If you are interested in the 417 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:04,559 geopolitical issues and international affairs and stuff, I would recommend 418 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:09,240 you watch his confirmation Q and A Yesterday about It 419 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,559 runs like three hours plus, but a lot of interesting 420 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:14,039 stuff in there, a lot of good discussion. 421 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: I thought, not a lot of gotcha stuff at all. Really. However, today. 422 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: Scott Bessent or Bessent, he's a billionaire money manager from 423 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,039 South Carolina and he went before the Senate Finance Committee today. 424 00:26:31,759 --> 00:26:37,279 Bessent would be the first openly LGBTQ Senate confirmed Cabinet 425 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:41,720 member in a Republican administration. The Treasury Chief helps formulate financial, 426 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:46,119 economic and tax policy and manage the public debt. Here 427 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:54,160 is Senator Ron Wyden questioning him about. 428 00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 2: Fossil fuels. Let's see will it play? Will it play? 429 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:00,319 Speaker 3: Now? 430 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,599 Speaker 4: There is a big effort in the Trump administration to 431 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,920 reverse it. I think that's going to be bad for 432 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,279 the economy, but it is going to be damn good 433 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:10,519 for China because we are in an arms race and 434 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:12,799 clean energy with them. Are you going to be on 435 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,960 the side of people who want to unravel this? 436 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 3: Senator the Senator Widen, Just so we can frame this 437 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,839 for everyone in the room, China will build a hundred 438 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,480 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean 439 00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:33,519 energy race. There is an energy race. China will build 440 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:38,240 ten nuclear plants this year that is not solar. I 441 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:43,119 am in favor of more nuclear plants, and I would 442 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:49,440 note that the IRA, as scored by the CBO, is 443 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,839 wildly out of control in terms of spending on the upside. 444 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,759 Speaker 1: Well, okay, I don't know what those last things I mean, Yeah, 445 00:27:56,279 --> 00:27:57,599 I don't know what those last things I mean. I 446 00:27:57,599 --> 00:27:59,759 know what the CBO is Congressional Budget Office. But the 447 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,839 and the upside stuff and the lingo there. What a 448 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:08,519 fantastic point like you got Ron Wydeen, the sitting US 449 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:11,640 Senator saying that we're in and we are in an 450 00:28:11,799 --> 00:28:14,720 arms race in clean energy. I don't even know what 451 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:18,960 that means. But with China, you know what China is doing. 452 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,680 Rubio talked about this yesterday. China is getting the rights, 453 00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:29,720 the mineral rights for all of these special precious metals 454 00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:32,880 that are used in all of our production, in all 455 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,759 of the production lines for technology. 456 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 2: They're going all around the world. 457 00:28:38,839 --> 00:28:43,119 Speaker 1: They're making inroads in countries in our hemisphere, everywhere, and 458 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,400 they're securing all of these mineral rights. What do you 459 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,920 think they're going to do with all of that stuff? 460 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,880 Do you think they're going to keep manufacturing stuff for 461 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,960 their adversaries or do you think they may use that 462 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:52,960 to their advantage? 463 00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: Don't answer that. I know the answer. It's the latter, 464 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:56,319 of course. They will. 465 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: They're Commis. They're not our friends. The government of China 466 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,920 is a communist government. They are not our friends. They 467 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,279 do not have the same dare I say it norms? 468 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:16,000 They don't as we do. They do not, and so 469 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:20,640 bessent't I like this guy pointing out the false premise 470 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,680 of the question that we are not in a clean 471 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,240 energy arms race with China. If we were, China would 472 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:31,880 be behaving like it is, and they're not. They're trying 473 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:36,359 to put online as many coal fired plants and nuclear 474 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,000 plants as possible because they have to feed the energy 475 00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:44,240 demand of what are they up to now, A trillion people? 476 00:29:44,319 --> 00:29:46,160 I think it's something like that. They got a lot 477 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,079 of people in China. I don't know if you're aware 478 00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:51,200 of this. They got a lot of people there. They 479 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,279 have to keep the energy supply increasing for their population. 480 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,480 That's why they're doing it. They don't care about the 481 00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:00,680 clean and energy stuff. 482 00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 2: They know we do. 483 00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: They know we do, and so they use that against us. 484 00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:11,000 That's the game that we are too stupid to play. 485 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:14,680 This is when Trump says like they're stupid people like 486 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,160 in charge. I agree, this is what he's talking about. 487 00:30:18,319 --> 00:30:22,240 We have stupid people making these decisions. We need to 488 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:27,039 be increasing the energy capacity in America, and we need 489 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:29,160 to be securing mineral rights and we need to be 490 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,319 securing the energy supplies that this country needs, that the 491 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:39,559 world needs, because when you get these developing countries that 492 00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:43,599 make deals with China and then they become attached to 493 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,680 the Chinese system, and how hard do you think it 494 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,079 is for them to break away if China is able 495 00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:51,559 to withhold power from them. All right, that'll do it 496 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:52,559 for this episode. 497 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. 498 00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: I could not do the show without your support and 499 00:30:56,279 --> 00:30:59,000 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 500 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:01,440 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 501 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,160 them you heard it here. You can also become a 502 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,880 patron at my Patreon page or go to dpecleanershow dot com. Again, 503 00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:10,680 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 504 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,400 while I'm gone.