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 --> 00:00:11,919 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,039 Speaker 2: And if you want exclusive. 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: Content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,239 daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,600 your support. Okay, so the national battle to control the 11 00:00:31,839 --> 00:00:37,920 US House shifts to California today. Why because it's election day, 12 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:42,159 and not that there are people standing for election in California, 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,240 but there is a referendum on the ballot, and it's 14 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:53,079 a Democrat proposal to ignore the state constitution. 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 3: Just this one time, just once, just for now, just 16 00:00:56,719 --> 00:01:03,240 a temporary halt to the use of their independent redistricting process, 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,640 which somehow or another just miraculously turns into massive. 18 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: Wins for Democrats. So they want to suspend the constitution, 19 00:01:16,159 --> 00:01:19,959 merely temporarily, so they can then have the lawmakers, who 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,200 are all Democrats, draw even more favorable congressional district maps 21 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,840 ahead of the twenty twenty six midterm. The AP the 22 00:01:30,879 --> 00:01:34,719 Associated Press. I love the way they report on this, 23 00:01:35,359 --> 00:01:40,680 the words they use. They say, this is a Democratic 24 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:45,599 proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts 25 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:50,719 and blunt President Donald Trump's moves to safeguard his party's 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:56,760 lock on Washington power. So, right now, there are fifty 27 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,799 two congressional districts in California. They lost some because of 28 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:06,079 the population decline as people move out of that hell hole. 29 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, did I say that? Yeah? 30 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: Oh I did, so fifty two congressional districts. Of the 31 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:20,360 fifty two districts, Democrats hold forty three seats forty three 32 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:26,039 of the fifty two, so that means Republicans have nine, 33 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,240 and Democrats want to take more than half. 34 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 4: Of those nine. 35 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: They hope to boost, as the AP calls it, hope 36 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,599 to boost that number two forty eight. So they want 37 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,120 forty eight of fifty two congressional seats to go to 38 00:02:42,159 --> 00:02:49,800 Democrats in California, So that would leave Republicans with carry 39 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:57,960 the twelve. That's four four seats. Republican voters make up 40 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,639 like forty percent of the electorate in California, and they 41 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:10,360 get four seats for almost the entire left coast of America. 42 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:19,240 You've got four Republicans in Congress under this plan, the 43 00:03:19,319 --> 00:03:22,879 AP continues, The outcome will reverberate into next year's midterm 44 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:26,960 elections and beyond, with Democrats hoping that a victory will 45 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,960 set the stage for the party to regain control of 46 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,159 the US House in twenty twenty six. A shift in 47 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:38,360 the majority would imperil Trump's Trump's agenda for the remainder 48 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,360 of his term at a time of deep partisan divisions 49 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,360 over immigration, health care, and the future direction of the nation. Now, 50 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,680 the AP does not mention the other likely event, which 51 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:56,439 is another impeachment of Donald Trump. The Democrats will do 52 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,479 another impeachment, I have no doubt about it. It's what 53 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:05,800 they're radical base wants. That's why they're shut down right now. 54 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,560 It's why the government's not reopening. They did another vote, 55 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:11,639 by the way, another vote in the Senate today. This 56 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:16,519 is now fourteen times that Democrats refuse to reopen the government, 57 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,439 all the while clamoring for all of the spending that 58 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,720 an open government would be funding, particularly for food stamps. 59 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,000 And they also want to extend the sunsetting subsidies for 60 00:04:34,319 --> 00:04:40,560 Obamacare policies. Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, the legislation that 61 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:46,079 Democrats rammed through without a single Republican vote, Rammed through 62 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:51,879 with bribes to various Democrat senators to get them on 63 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:56,639 board with it, rammed through with these subsidies that were 64 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,600 to sunset that were to expire in order to pull 65 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:05,639 a budgeting gimmick, a trick so they could make it 66 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,639 look quote affordable, like it's not going to cost us 67 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,000 what it's costing us. So they said, oh, these subsidies 68 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,160 will go away, and then they extended them, but they 69 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:18,079 put another sunset on it. That's why their sun setting. 70 00:05:18,639 --> 00:05:24,240 So Democrats demanding that Republicans open the government by doing 71 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,879 what Democrats refused to do themselves on at least three occasions. 72 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,959 They want the party that opposed them and oppose this 73 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,439 bill and oppose the subsidies and oppose all of it. 74 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 2: They are now the ones that have to They have 75 00:05:37,319 --> 00:05:38,160 to bend the knee. 76 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: They have to vote for this thing that we ourselves 77 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:48,720 wouldn't vote for. Democrats right now are down three seats 78 00:05:49,319 --> 00:05:53,560 votes in the US House. They would have to pick 79 00:05:53,639 --> 00:05:56,480 up these three seats in order to flip the House. 80 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:02,120 Okay for gop led states so far have adopted new 81 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,199 district maps. And here's how the AP describes the Republican 82 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,480 efforts the new district maps to pack more Republican voters 83 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:13,319 into key districts. 84 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:14,199 Speaker 2: See. 85 00:06:14,199 --> 00:06:16,879 Speaker 1: But when Democrats are looking to do it, it's different. 86 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,920 They're not packing. No, no, no, they're not cracking. No, 87 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,439 they're not doing any of the jerrymandering that the Republicans do. 88 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:32,120 Because Democrats they are incapable. They are just morally and 89 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:37,439 ethically incapable of gerrymandering. They just don't engage in this behavior. 90 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,199 Pay no attention to the fact that the entire Northeast 91 00:06:41,199 --> 00:06:45,319 of America is controlled by Democrats and there's not a 92 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:55,160 single Republican representative from all of the Northeast not jerrymandering Maryland, right, 93 00:06:55,199 --> 00:06:58,399 I think Maryland they've got four seats or something something 94 00:06:58,439 --> 00:06:58,639 like that. 95 00:06:58,680 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 2: I don't remember the exact number. 96 00:06:59,879 --> 00:07:02,199 Speaker 1: I went over all this data several months ago in 97 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:07,920 the California Democrats and Governor Gavin Newsom when they first 98 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:13,680 pitched this idea. See, because they're constitutionally constrained, because the 99 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:17,240 voters put into the Constitution the creation and use of 100 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:23,759 this independent quote unquote Redistricting Commission process, which still manages 101 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,399 to give Democrats forty three of the fifty two seats, 102 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,800 even though Republicans make up like forty percent of the electorate. 103 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:34,160 Yet this is the argument that we hear from Democrats 104 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:38,720 all the time whenever Republicans don't draw a map that 105 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:43,639 gives them a proportionate number of seats, Like in North Carolina, 106 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,839 they're like, we're a fifty to fifty state, so we 107 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:49,000 should have, you know, half of the fourteen seats. But 108 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,199 when it comes to California, no, no, no, no, you 109 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,480 don't get a proportionate number of seats. In California. We 110 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:01,240 have an independent redistricting body and they just happened to 111 00:08:01,399 --> 00:08:06,439 draw it, so you only get nine seats out of 112 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,439 fifty two. And now we're going to suspend the constitution 113 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,240 if voters approve, suspend the constitution so we can draw 114 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:16,120 them even more gerrymandered, which even then won't be a 115 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:19,160 jerrymander according to the Democrats. 116 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 2: California's Proposition fifty. 117 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,399 Speaker 1: Asks voters to suspend house maps drawn by an independent 118 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:31,480 commission and replace them with rejiggered districts. I don't believe 119 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,559 I've ever seen that word ever used in a news 120 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:43,679 article before rejiggered districts. Jerrymandered. That's the word you would use. 121 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,480 If it was a Republican state doing it right, those 122 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:51,279 districts would be in place for twenty twenty six, twenty 123 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:57,360 twenty eight, and twenty thirty. The recast districts aim to 124 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,440 dilute Republican voter's power. Okay, they don't have any power. 125 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,519 You guys have already seen to that. But there's another 126 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:10,240 word for this dilution. You guys use it all the time, disenfranchise. 127 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,080 You are seeking to disenfranchise Republican voters. 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So that's 150 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,600 one of the races or elections I'll be watching this evening. 151 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:38,480 Is you know, how does California go on this referendum 152 00:10:38,519 --> 00:10:45,080 to temporarily suspend their constitutionally required independent Redistricting Commission in 153 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,519 order to allow the Democrats to disenfranchise and gerrymander their 154 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,320 maps to get more five more seats for themselves in 155 00:10:53,399 --> 00:10:56,159 order to try to counteract what the Republican states have done. 156 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,480 Republicans picked up a seat in Missouri, one here in 157 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:09,559 North Carolina, maybe two more in Ohio. Republicans also hoping 158 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:13,360 to pick up five in Texas. Now there are five 159 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,480 other Republican led states that are considering new maps. Those 160 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:26,120 are Kansas, Indiana, Louisiana, and Nebraska. Well, they have Kansas 161 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,080 listed twice here, so maybe not five states. On the 162 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,600 Democrat side. You've got Illinois, Maryland, New York, but New 163 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,200 York already got smacked down when they tried to jerrymander 164 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,159 too much. Virginia as well. They've got proposals to redraw 165 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:45,519 their maps, but major hurtles remain. A court has ordered 166 00:11:45,519 --> 00:11:48,919 new boundaries to be drawn in Utah. All four house 167 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,120 districts there are represented by Republicans, but it remains to 168 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:54,000 be seen if the state will approve a map that 169 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:57,080 makes any of them winnable for the Democrats. Okay, so 170 00:11:57,159 --> 00:12:00,240 that's that's what I'll be watching tonight to see how 171 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,200 that turns out. Let me jump over to the text line. 172 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 2: This is. 173 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: From a anonymous I went to vote today in Belmont, 174 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:17,960 small town, very small voting location. The parking lot was packed. 175 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,080 I felt lucky to find a spot. I thought I 176 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,080 would be there for half an hour, but when I 177 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,720 got inside, there were only like three or four voters total. 178 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,399 I was in and out in five minutes. All those 179 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,519 parking spots were filled by the people who insist on 180 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,360 waving their pamphlets in your face, like Hari Krishna is 181 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:37,480 at the airport. I know, do they even do that anymore? 182 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,080 I've not seen one of those, I don't think ever. 183 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,480 I know there are rules as to how close they 184 00:12:44,519 --> 00:12:47,840 can get to the door before they accost you, But 185 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:50,440 aren't there any rules on how many total can be 186 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:55,120 there based on parking availability. No, there are no rules 187 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,879 about that. You can have as many people as you want, 188 00:12:58,919 --> 00:13:00,519 as long as you are out side of the I 189 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,279 think it's one hundred feet, maybe one hundred yards, I forget. 190 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:06,080 I think it's one hundred feet. And you see the 191 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,440 signs there, you know, no campaigning beyond this point. I'm 192 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,919 sure there are some people who wanted to vote but 193 00:13:13,039 --> 00:13:15,799 turned back when they saw how full the parking lot was. 194 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 2: That's a good point. It's a very good point. 195 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: If I'm driving to go vote and I don't really 196 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:23,559 care to vote, and I'm like, well, maybe I'll pull in, 197 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,240 and then I see the parking lot as packed. 198 00:13:25,519 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 2: Maybe I don't vote. 199 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: So yeah, campaigns, you might be uh, you might be 200 00:13:31,399 --> 00:13:40,720 harming your candidates there. Did you you said forty two 201 00:13:40,799 --> 00:13:47,440 of fifty eight? Did you mean forty eight of fifty two? Oh, 202 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,679 this is for the California deal. No, California has fifty 203 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:56,879 two congressional districts and Democrats have forty three of the 204 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:03,080 fifty two A nine, so Republicans have not and under 205 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,720 the maps that Democrats want to put in place, the 206 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:13,639 Republicans would be then reduced to four. They would get 207 00:14:13,759 --> 00:14:18,759 four of the fifty two districts, and the Democrats would 208 00:14:18,759 --> 00:14:22,759 pick up five seats five districts, going from forty three 209 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:29,559 to forty eight. Can Congress not attempt to repeal Obamacare again? 210 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,279 Or do they only get one shot at an appeal? No, 211 00:14:32,399 --> 00:14:35,559 they can repeal it. They don't have the votes to 212 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,480 do it. I doubt they've got the votes in the House, 213 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,919 even among Republicans, and I know that they won't have 214 00:14:45,039 --> 00:14:48,639 enough to clear a filibuster in the Senate. So yeah, no, 215 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:51,720 Obamacare is that we had the opportunity. We had the 216 00:14:51,799 --> 00:14:58,320 chance to repeal it, and John McCain screwed us because 217 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,360 he hated Donald Trump, right like that. That's how that 218 00:15:01,399 --> 00:15:06,039 went down. So you got to get enough seats, you 219 00:15:06,039 --> 00:15:12,600 got to get enough votes. Okay, that's a very lengthy 220 00:15:12,639 --> 00:15:14,240 text I'll have to read during the break. 221 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:17,799 Speaker 2: And people still. 222 00:15:19,879 --> 00:15:22,919 Speaker 1: Talking about how my cat does not know that their 223 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,840 daylight savings time has ended and has been waking us 224 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:31,720 up an hour early. I chose to leave the bedroom 225 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:33,879 door shut one night, and my cat sat by the 226 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:36,600 door and sung the song of his people all night long. 227 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:39,399 Speaker 2: Yeah. 228 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have this, We have this ritual now 229 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,519 where it's like, you know, he tries to wake us 230 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:48,080 up to be fed. We have put the automatic feeder 231 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:54,519 in and set that up, and I adjusted the clock 232 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,000 on it, not thinking that the cat doesn't know how 233 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,159 to read the clock. Although I saw somebody suggest that 234 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,039 I take the cat, pick him up and walk him 235 00:16:01,039 --> 00:16:03,559 around show them all the clocks to try to teach 236 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,679 him about daylight saving time. So I might try that 237 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:10,399 today after work after I vote. But but no, he's 238 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,960 unaware of it, and so now he wants to be 239 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,960 fed at like three p thirty in the morning instead 240 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:15,799 of four thirty. 241 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:16,039 Speaker 2: In the morning. 242 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:21,879 Speaker 1: So yeah, so yeah, so now yesterday or day before, 243 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,279 I went and reset the clock to the old time. 244 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,840 But he's still kind of discombobulated on all of that. 245 00:16:28,039 --> 00:16:30,159 And so we have this whole ritual where like he 246 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,639 he meows and he you know, tries to get fed, 247 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:38,840 and so we now got the feeder and then hopefully 248 00:16:38,919 --> 00:16:40,919 like he's supposed to go out and go out into 249 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,240 the dining room, he's supposed to eat out there, and 250 00:16:43,279 --> 00:16:45,600 then that'll like tide him over for a little while. 251 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:48,440 And then about two hours later, then he starts getting 252 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,480 restless again, so I have another feeder set up for that. 253 00:16:52,159 --> 00:16:54,519 But Christy then if he starts scratching on the floor 254 00:16:54,799 --> 00:16:58,039 knocking stuff up the night stands, then like she'll throw 255 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,919 him out of the bedroom and close the door. And 256 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,400 he does usually stay out in the dining room in 257 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,200 the main floor for a good bit, but then he'll 258 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,680 start scratching at the door, so then we gotta then 259 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,680 we gotta open it again and let them back in. 260 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 2: And then yeah, it's just it's a whole thing. 261 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:18,039 Speaker 5: You know. 262 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 263 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,079 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 264 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,440 our past while transcending generations. They help us process the 265 00:17:27,519 --> 00:17:30,920 meaning of life and our stories are told through images 266 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,799 and videos. 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I think the word you're looking 285 00:18:39,599 --> 00:18:45,920 for is crepuscular, which is twilight times. Diurnal is during the. 286 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,559 Speaker 4: Day, So cats are crepuscular. 287 00:18:50,599 --> 00:18:54,519 Speaker 1: Of course, my cat is usually nocturnal, and I feel 288 00:18:54,599 --> 00:19:00,480 takes joy in keeping me awake. Yeah, so cats are skiller. 289 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:08,440 They hunt at dusk and dawn. That's the idea. I 290 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,079 did get a message and excuse me, that they are 291 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:16,000 repaving the parking lot in the Belmont voting location, and 292 00:19:16,039 --> 00:19:18,480 that's why half of the parking lot was blocked off. 293 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:19,759 Speaker 2: It's due to repaving. 294 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 4: So that's perfectly timed, all right. 295 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: So there are other races around the country, and I 296 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,960 will tell you. You know me, I do not make predictions 297 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000 on elections. I learned my lesson in twenty sixteen, so 298 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:34,839 I'm not going to make any kind of prediction as 299 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,759 to who's going to win. But I can tell you 300 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:44,359 what the conventional wisdom is. The assumption is that Democrats 301 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,119 are going to win in all of these races all 302 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:51,720 across the country. I don't know if that's true. I 303 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:56,880 cannot tell the future. So you have the issue out 304 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:02,799 in California to let Democrats Jerry Mander. You also have 305 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,680 the new Jersey governor's race. I still don't know, is 306 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:13,759 it Mikey or Mickey Sheryl, Democrat running against Jack Chitarell 307 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,519 Chattarelli Chattarelli. The Republican polling I've seen there is close, 308 00:20:20,799 --> 00:20:28,240 but who knows. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, Democrat versus Winsome 309 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:35,480 Earl Sears, Republican. Notably, not a lot of coverage of 310 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:40,960 the historic nature of Winsome Earl Sears if she were 311 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,440 to win, you know, like especially after what we saw 312 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:50,160 yesterday and Friday and Charlotte where the new police chief 313 00:20:50,759 --> 00:20:54,480 a black female, and everyone's touting the historic nature of this. 314 00:20:54,559 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 4: It's in all the headlines, it's in all the coverage. 315 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:58,319 Speaker 2: But we don't get any of that. 316 00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: I guess because win Some Sears is a black female Republican, 317 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:07,559 so you don't want to make her historic first that 318 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,480 angers the left. And then, of course you have the 319 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:13,880 Attorney General's race in Virginia. Jay Jones, the Democrat, he 320 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,759 of the text messages wishing to murder his Republican opponents 321 00:21:17,759 --> 00:21:24,279 and their children, versus Jason Maaris Mears Mayaris Republican he's 322 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:28,319 the incumbent, and then you've got mine. Sorry, Maine Camp, 323 00:21:29,559 --> 00:21:34,319 Main Camp. What's a guy's name, Platner? Uh, the guy 324 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,079 with the Nazi tattoo up in Maine. So we'll see 325 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:43,960 what happens there, but it is expected that Democrats will 326 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:49,880 win most, if not all, of these races. Jeff Blair, 327 00:21:50,039 --> 00:21:54,039 writing a National Review headline, Can anything stop a Democratic 328 00:21:54,160 --> 00:22:00,359 romp tonight? He says, New Jersey Congresswoman Mickey Cheryl aims 329 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,640 to perpetuate the miseries of Phil Murphy's gubernatorial administration and 330 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:08,039 speed the plow straight into a shelf of desolate rock. 331 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:14,799 In Virginia, pod person Abigail Spanberger and obvious psychopath Jay 332 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,680 Jones seek the governors and the Attorney General's office, respectively. 333 00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:22,640 Democrats are almost certainly going to romp in almost every 334 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,640 single major local and statewide race on the ballot, and 335 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:30,480 it's easy to see why, he says, for starters, most 336 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:35,279 of the states that feature important races tonight are distinctly 337 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:43,440 blue right. In addition, midterm backlash against the party currently 338 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,039 in the White House is the most predictable tradition in 339 00:22:47,079 --> 00:22:51,240 American electoral politics, and Trump has only supercharged its effects 340 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,400 on Republicans as their national coalition shifts from educated and 341 00:22:55,519 --> 00:23:00,920 reliably voting suburbanites to working class types. Primary really attracted 342 00:23:01,559 --> 00:23:06,880 to the phenomenon of Trump, and only during presidential election years. 343 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:07,599 Speaker 2: Right. 344 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 1: This has always been a weak spot that's been identified 345 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,200 in MAGA. And I'm not attacking Donald Trump. I'm not 346 00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:19,880 attacking MAGA. I'm not attacking any MAGA voters, Okay, I'm 347 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,039 just simply pointing out that they're not very sticky when 348 00:23:24,079 --> 00:23:29,440 it comes to anybody not named Donald Trump. So I 349 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,759 think that does open the door for Donald Trump Junior. 350 00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:32,279 Speaker 2: Right. 351 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 1: He may he may be able to get them to 352 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,599 keep turning out, but only in presidential races. But this 353 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,000 is a problem. This is always a problem when you 354 00:23:40,039 --> 00:23:45,000 have a populist movement led by a single charismatic figure. 355 00:23:45,599 --> 00:23:50,880 When that figure exits, then the movement is over because 356 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:55,640 he's not there anymore. So this has been We have 357 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,839 seen this over the last decade. Trump coalition voters tend 358 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,880 not to show up to vote if Trump is not 359 00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:09,039 on the ticket. Next year's midterms will prove the ultimate test. 360 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:16,240 But tonight we get a premonition of the outcome, and then. 361 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,039 Speaker 2: There's New York City. 362 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:29,519 Speaker 1: And the kami Jihati adjacent Democrats socialist zoron mom Dana 363 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,240 expected to win. And I did see somebody sent me 364 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:41,880 an email about that. Is it buddy here? No, it's 365 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,559 not buddy, No, that's not it here here It is 366 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,680 a two eight number. So will we wake up tomorrow 367 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,920 with a communist in charge of the financial capital of America? 368 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,559 That's what the polling indicates. Why aren't the powers that 369 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,160 be in Charlotte, nation's number two financial capital not seeing 370 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,079 opportunity to be number one? If the commie wins and 371 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:12,880 the fleeing begins. I have When Zorammdani won in the primary, 372 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,319 which was thanks to ranked choice voting, where radicals end 373 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,200 up winning the ranked choice voting despite all of it 374 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,519 being sold as away for more moderate people to actually win, 375 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:29,079 they don't. They don't actually win. So the primary results 376 00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:35,759 prompted me that next day to say, if every financial 377 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:41,079 enterprise in Charlotte is not doing outreach and recruiting and 378 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,559 headhunting in New York City, you guys. 379 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,519 Speaker 2: Are doing it wrong. 380 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: This is a massive opportunity to poach a ton of 381 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:56,559 talent out of New York. The downside is they may 382 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,640 keep voting for commies. That is the downside, all right. 383 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,559 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 384 00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:03,319 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 385 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,440 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 386 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,680 say get your news from multiple sources. 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The blind spot feature 397 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,880 shows you which stories get ignored by the left and 398 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000 the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground, dot news, 399 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,480 slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 400 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,599 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 401 00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:58,039 get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not 402 00:26:58,079 --> 00:27:01,079 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 403 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,559 as they make the media landscape more transparent. I love 404 00:27:05,599 --> 00:27:09,480 this term for the Zoran Mamdani supporting commie lovers up 405 00:27:09,519 --> 00:27:13,680 in New York City. From Jeff Blair at National Review. 406 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:26,599 Zorin Astrians like Zoroastrians. Zorin Astrians. In fact, let me 407 00:27:26,599 --> 00:27:30,079 play this clip real quick. This is an actual self 408 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,640 identified communist. He's got a T shirt and everything. He's 409 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,359 handing out copies of the communist newspaper in New York City, 410 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:42,559 and he's asked about the government run grocery stores that 411 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,160 Zoron wants to do in New York City. 412 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 5: The grocery store capitalists, which have quite quite a powerful lobby. 413 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:50,839 Speaker 2: Right. 414 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 5: One of the grocery store bosses, he's I think of 415 00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:57,799 Gristidi's right. He said that he was going to pull 416 00:27:57,839 --> 00:28:00,400 out of New York City. If Zoron one right, we 417 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,039 would say, sure, pull out, and we will take over 418 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,839 your grocery stores, right, and we will use them for 419 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,160 cheaper groceries, and we will take over the entire food industry. 420 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,079 Because that's that's something that can be done if the 421 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:13,240 working class is organized. 422 00:28:13,519 --> 00:28:15,839 Speaker 2: Hmm. So that's how that's going to unfold. 423 00:28:16,039 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: See, I had I had my doubts, but after he 424 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:23,440 laid it out, now it all makes sense. Right now 425 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,680 it makes sense. I thought this is just a really 426 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,519 stupid idea. They haven't put any thought into it. But 427 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,400 now that this Kami handing out the Kami newspaper on 428 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:36,119 the street, Now that he explained it, Okay, So the 429 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,240 the grocery capitalist, which is that's a new term. 430 00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 2: I was not aware of. 431 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:46,799 Speaker 1: The grocery capitalist, which, by the way, grocery stores margin 432 00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:51,359 of profit is like two to three percent. 433 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 2: It's not very large. It is very competitive. 434 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:01,079 Speaker 1: So anyway, the grocery capitalist big grocer as it were, 435 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,079 they are going to leave. They're like, screw this, We're 436 00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:04,920 not gonna make any money. 437 00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 2: We're leaving. 438 00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:09,839 Speaker 1: And so he welcomes this because then we could then 439 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:17,160 take control of that grocery store space and sees control 440 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:23,920 of the food production system. There's no explanation given and 441 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:28,440 no plan there, just somehow or another, something happens, like 442 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,000 a couple question marks if you're like charting out the 443 00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:35,720 plan here, like number one, open government, grocery stores, number two, 444 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:45,000 question mark number three communism wins, right, something like that. Yeah, 445 00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:47,519 I'm not really sure what he means. Now the American 446 00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:50,359 left is younger than ever. They are mad, and they 447 00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:53,160 are ready to vote for the left most plausible candidate 448 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,160 presented to them. Right, this is why that guy Graham 449 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,480 Platner in Maine with the Nazi tattoo, they don't care 450 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,519 he's authentic. I've seen his TikTok videos. 451 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:09,799 Speaker 2: Yeah. 452 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: New York voters are in no mood for sensible elder politicians. 453 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:18,079 They are in the mood for fantasies, smiles, promises, and 454 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,759 maybe a little bit of revenge, maybe actually a lot 455 00:30:21,799 --> 00:30:25,640 of revenge. Mamdani is essentially the burn it all down 456 00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:29,000 candidate for large numbers of those who will cast a 457 00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:32,400 vote for him. Today, New York isn't working. It'll never 458 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,440 work for the younger generation. None of the old pieties 459 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,480 apply anymore. So now here's something completely different. There's a 460 00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:47,759 term for this, black pill. That's what this is. Black pill. 461 00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:52,359 They want a scapegoat. Mamdani is pointing to the Jews 462 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:57,839 and to the oligarchs and the capitalists, right, the rich, 463 00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:02,200 this is who you blame. And Jeff Blair says, the 464 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,759 barbarians are not at the gate or even inside the citadel. 465 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:12,960 They are our children. Now, real quick, feel the need 466 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,039 to point out Dick Cheney passed away. He died at 467 00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:20,319 the age of eighty four, and just wanted to quickly 468 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:25,759 play what Charlie Spearing calls one of the funniest debate 469 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,319 zingers of all time vice presidential debate against Joe Lieberman 470 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,240 in the two thousand election. 471 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,039 Speaker 6: I think if you asked most people in America today 472 00:31:35,079 --> 00:31:37,839 that famous question that Ronald Reagan asked, are you better 473 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,160 off today than you were eight years ago? Most people 474 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,000 would say yes. And I'm pleased to say, seed Dick 475 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:46,519 from the newspapers that you're better off than you were 476 00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:47,440 eight years ago to. 477 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 2: Most of it. And I can tell you, Joe that 478 00:31:51,559 --> 00:32:01,960 the government had absolutely nothing to do with wait for it, 479 00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:03,759 guest questions to you. 480 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 6: But I can see my wife and I think she's thinking, Joe, 481 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,559 I wish you would go out into the private sector. 482 00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:11,839 Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to try to help you do that job. 483 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: Then there, it was one of the funniest zingers in 484 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,160 deep debate history. I thought it was pretty good all 485 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,039 off the cuff. It's so weird, though, to watch this 486 00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:30,119 from two thousand. They're sitting there, they're amicable, they're at 487 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:35,000 the same table together, like, Wow, what a bygone era. 488 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,319 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 489 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,359 so much for listening. I could not do the show 490 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,920 without your support and the support of the businesses that 491 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,079 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 492 00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:48,799 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 493 00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:51,440 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 494 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:55,160 go to dpetecallnershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 495 00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:03,519 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.