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 --> 00:00:12,480 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 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,359 your support. All righty, so I will get to more 10 00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:34,079 of the text messages as they have been rolling in, 11 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:38,960 I promise. First, though, let's set the table because Mayo 12 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:41,799 will be brought back into this because people just really 13 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:44,159 love talking about Mayo for some reason, and not only 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,920 because a woman named Mayo just won the primary yesterday 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,000 in district race in Charlotte, but also the condiment itself. 16 00:00:51,079 --> 00:00:56,240 So this from the Washington Times piece by Matt Delaney 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,679 and Valerie Richardson. A North Carolina man accused in the 18 00:00:59,759 --> 00:01:03,039 dead caught on camera stabbing of a Ukrainian war refugee 19 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:07,439 in Charlotte could receive the death penalty after federal prosecutors 20 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:11,560 brought charges against the ex khan with a lengthy rap sheet. 21 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:15,359 See there's a word. There's a word that we don't 22 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:23,359 use anymore, x khn. That word was ubiquitous when I 23 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,599 was growing up, back in my day. There's x cohn 24 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:30,840 all the time, even when we didn't need to use 25 00:01:30,879 --> 00:01:35,159 it now x khn. And I mentioned in the last 26 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,359 hour Tijuana Brown, the indicted Charlotte City council woman who 27 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:45,120 lost her primary like her campaign two years ago for office, 28 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,239 was focused on the fact that she had served time, 29 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:52,159 that she was an x khan, that she never said 30 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,840 x khan. She called herself a FIP. Well, she didn't 31 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,920 call herself a FIP. She called herself a formerly incarcerated 32 00:01:58,959 --> 00:02:05,760 person FIP. A FIP, so I used the acronym. But 33 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:10,599 this is how this is how the left sanitizes language. 34 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:18,319 They launder the language in order to mask the actual 35 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:25,639 reality of things. Gender affirming care, women's health care. 36 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:27,039 Speaker 2: Right. 37 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: They do this all the time. And that's what I 38 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,039 think they what they mean when they say we haven't 39 00:02:34,039 --> 00:02:36,840 figured out, you know, the messaging. It's not our policies, 40 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:39,319 it's the messaging, right, This is what they're talking about. 41 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:44,000 They can't convince you that, oh, it's totally fine to 42 00:02:44,199 --> 00:02:47,919 you know, abort a baby halfway out the birth canal, 43 00:02:48,479 --> 00:02:50,719 because when people hear that, it's like, oh my gosh, 44 00:02:50,719 --> 00:02:55,280 that's awful. But if you call it women's healthcare or 45 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:00,439 reproductive rights, well that's way dressed up. And now it 46 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:03,840 sanitizes the thing. And that is to tie it back 47 00:03:03,879 --> 00:03:09,759 to this murder on the light rail. Was the release 48 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:13,560 of the video right the way the story the attack, 49 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,360 i should say, was described in the stories. It sanitizes 50 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,759 it because it's simply, you know, a woman on the 51 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,919 train is attacked and murdered, stabbed by this guy, and 52 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,159 it conjures up different images in people's heads, but nothing 53 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:37,120 as graphic and shocking and jarring as the actual video 54 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:43,680 of what occurred. Attorney General Pam Bondi said. Prosecutors filed 55 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:47,199 one count of causing death on a mass transportation system 56 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,759 against de Carlos de Juan Brown, Junior, thirty four. The 57 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,560 repeat offender is accused of killing twenty three year old 58 00:03:54,599 --> 00:03:58,759 Arena Zarutzka in a random act on August twenty second 59 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,759 random attack on a light rail train by the way 60 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:11,319 before I forget on Saturday this Saturday, September thirteenth, three pm, 61 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:14,639 at the East West Links Station. That's the Charlotte area 62 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,560 transit stop. They called the Lynx the Links station. So 63 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:26,920 at that platform, there's going to be a community gathering 64 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:34,959 at the stop called Justice for Arena, asking people to 65 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,240 bring signs, candles and your voice to spread the word 66 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:45,120 demanding justice for Arena, accountability for public officials, and consequences 67 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:51,480 for violent criminals and repeat offenders. So that's Saturday, three pm. 68 00:04:51,519 --> 00:04:55,759 At the East West station, a community gathering is being 69 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,879 planned there. The suspect had been arrested at least fourt 70 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,120 ten times since twenty eleven, served a stint in prison, 71 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,879 already has been charged by the Mecklimberg County DA with 72 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:13,399 first degree murder under state law. Now, North Carolina does 73 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,480 still have on the books the death penalty, However, it 74 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,639 has not executed anybody since two thousand and six due 75 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,759 to all of the legal challenges about cruel and unusual 76 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,720 punishment and racial disparities and the like. So we have 77 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,079 a death penalty, but we just don't use it. FBI specially, 78 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:38,879 a agent in charge, James Barnacle, at a press conference yesterday, 79 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,759 said that Zarutzka chose Charlotte to escape the violence of 80 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,920 her war torn home in Ukraine, she got a work permit. 81 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,040 She found a job on the first day she was 82 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:51,000 allowed to be employed legally. She juggled jobs at a 83 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:56,319 senior center, a senior citizens center as well as a pizzeria, 84 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,879 and she took care of her neighbor's pets. She was 85 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,519 building her young life. She had recently moved in with 86 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,480 her boyfriend. Her family let us know. She graduated from 87 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,600 college in Kiev with a degree in art and restoration. 88 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,720 Russ Ferguson, the US attorney here in the Western District, 89 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:17,480 said that the death penalty could be considered under the statute. 90 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:22,000 The attacker is homeless, has reportedly been diagnosed with schizophrenia 91 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:30,120 and is currently undergoing a competency evaluation, which could preclude 92 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:36,160 a death penalty, could preclude a conviction by reason of insanity, 93 00:06:37,879 --> 00:06:44,720 so insane enough to avoid punishment, but not insane enough 94 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:51,879 to let loose with a promise to appear and murder somebody. 95 00:06:52,959 --> 00:06:56,040 The addition of federal charges came as the Trump administration 96 00:06:56,199 --> 00:06:59,319 turned up the heat on Democrats, blaming progressive policies like 97 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:02,759 cashless hail for allowing a repeat violent offender to go 98 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,759 free despite fourteen arrests. For far too long, this is Trump. 99 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,439 In a video, he showed pictures of Zerutzka and Brown 100 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,800 in the Oval office yesterday. He said, for far too long, 101 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,040 Americans have been forced to put up with Democrat run 102 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,560 cities that set loose, savage, bloodthirsty criminals to prey on 103 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:29,800 innocent people. And by the way, like this really is 104 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:32,319 the point in all of this for me at least, 105 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:39,920 which is Democrats, your policy prescriptions have been attempted, and 106 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,360 like most of your dumbass ideas, they have been shown 107 00:07:45,639 --> 00:07:51,560 to fail. They're not working. The answer isn't more money. 108 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,680 The answer is to stop doing what you're doing. Stop it. 109 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,160 That's what you are facing right now. The backlash you 110 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:03,399 are facing is from people who thought you knew what 111 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:05,879 the hell you were talking about when you were talking 112 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,879 about restorative justice and bail reform and all of these 113 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,839 things that would somehow drive down the crime rates and 114 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:16,519 get at the root of crime. What are the really 115 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:22,800 what are the driving factors to eliminate the systemic racism? 116 00:08:22,839 --> 00:08:26,839 And it was all crap. It was all just garbage. 117 00:08:28,079 --> 00:08:31,399 I tried to warn people, but that's the thing about 118 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:35,279 these types of contagions. You know, people just got all 119 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,840 swept up in the moment. They just got carried away 120 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:42,480 by your narrative and you were wrong. You were wrong. 121 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,840 You need to say that you need to acknowledge that 122 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,960 that these policies, this direction that you started taking the 123 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:56,559 court system was wrong. Brown had previously been arrested for 124 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:02,480 crimes including armed robbery, felony, larcriy ars, breaking and entering, shoplifting. 125 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,240 He was released from prison in twenty twenty after he 126 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:08,080 had served five years for robbery with a dangerous weapon. 127 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,480 Even so, Brown was released in January by a Mecklinberg 128 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,879 County magistrate judge on a written promise to appear back 129 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:18,600 in court after being arrested for the misuse of the 130 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,879 nine to one to one system. That was when he 131 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,080 said that people were putting man made materials into his 132 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,720 body that was directing him when to eat, what to say, 133 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:34,120 when to walk, And the cops were like, that's a 134 00:09:34,159 --> 00:09:36,960 medical thing, that's not a law enforcement thing. You're at 135 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,519 the hospital here, so why not just go inside and 136 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:41,559 talk to people in the hospital. He got angry at that, 137 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,000 called the police again while the cops were still standing there, 138 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,480 and that's what then got him. The misuse of the 139 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,120 nine one one system, and when he appeared in court 140 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,679 before the magistrate, they said, his own lawyer said he 141 00:09:56,759 --> 00:09:59,799 needs a psyche val, he needs a competency test. 142 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:00,519 Speaker 2: And. 143 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: That was agreed to. So the court recognized that this 144 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,720 guy was not well, and rather than do anything to 145 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:15,600 prevent him from walking the streets, his mom had told 146 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:21,679 them he's got schizophrenia, and rather than take him into 147 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,799 custody for an involuntary commitment to do the psyche val, 148 00:10:25,879 --> 00:10:29,360 then in there they said, just promise you'll come back 149 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,799 for a court appearance, and they released him out to 150 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,759 the streets. And while people on CNN were discussing this 151 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:40,480 yesterday and they couldn't fathom the idea of like, well, 152 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,919 just throw everybody who was schizophrenic in a mental institution. No, 153 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,320 but how about the ones that have a violent track record? 154 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,000 How about those? Can we agree on that if somebody 155 00:10:50,039 --> 00:10:52,919 has a rap sheet of over a decade long with 156 00:10:53,159 --> 00:10:59,519 violent offenses and they are schizophrenic, maybe that should be 157 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:06,120 a category. Maybe those elements, those criteria all together, maybe 158 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,559 they could all together form an understanding of the challenges 159 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:15,759 this person is facing. And also to protect the public, 160 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:19,960 because when you defer to the criminal who's brought before you. OK, 161 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,000 psych exam. We'll get that done at some point. Just 162 00:11:23,159 --> 00:11:27,480 make sure you come back. Promise, Promise. You're putting the 163 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,720 rest of the society at risk, as we saw so 164 00:11:31,919 --> 00:11:34,759 when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 165 00:11:34,799 --> 00:11:37,039 and before he died, my mom and my dad took 166 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:39,320 care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, 167 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:42,480 there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers 168 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,039 and family. But things are different today because of the 169 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,279 work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of 170 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:51,919 Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with 171 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,840 huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years. 172 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:58,200 This cause means a lot to me. I participate in 173 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,080 the annual Walk to End alzheimer and I'm leading a 174 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:04,279 Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once again 175 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,720 Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join 176 00:12:06,799 --> 00:12:09,559 the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth 177 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:13,720 that truest field. Sign up at alz dot org slash 178 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,799 walk and then you can search for my team name Petespac. 179 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,159 There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also 180 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,080 a link in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll 181 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,159 be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and 182 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:28,399 so you can make a team and join that one too, 183 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:30,679 or make a donation and help me hit my goal 184 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,600 of five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. 185 00:12:33,639 --> 00:12:36,320 There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. 186 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,080 You can go to alz dot org slash walk for 187 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:41,960 all the dates and locations. We're closer than ever to 188 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,360 stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us get there? Will you 189 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:47,240 walk with me? For a different future, for families, for 190 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:52,399 more time for treatments. This is why we walk. CNN 191 00:12:54,159 --> 00:13:01,360 apparently did an interview with Tracy Brown, the the attacker's sister, 192 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,320 and she said that she told CNN that she asked 193 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,960 her brother why he did it, and his reply, according 194 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,320 to her, was quote because she was reading my mind, 195 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,960 That's what he says, according to her. The possibility of 196 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 a racial motive was raised Tuesday after social media commentators 197 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:30,000 said that audio from the surveillance well yeah, okay, well, 198 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,320 I mean the audio shows it, you hear it. The 199 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,720 surveillance video appears to show the suspect who is black 200 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,720 capital B because remember we always capitalize the bee in black. Now, 201 00:13:42,039 --> 00:13:45,559 thanks to Saint George Floyd, all of the AP style 202 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:49,399 books and everything changed to capitalize the B for black 203 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:58,159 as tribute to the shared experience. Hispanic gets a capital H, 204 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,399 Asian gets capital A. White does not. Sorry, white does 205 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:08,399 not get the capitol W. But he is on the 206 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:11,039 He's on the video. You can hear him muttering to 207 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:17,080 himself after he attacked the victim, saying, quote, I got 208 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,480 that white girl. I got that white girl, although I 209 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,480 would point out the Washington Times does capitalize the W 210 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:26,559 in white, so in violation of the AP style book. 211 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:37,200 And then that brings us to Teresa Stokes, who was 212 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:43,080 the magistrate. And for people who are not aware, magistrates 213 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,759 are nominated essentially like hired on by the Clerk of 214 00:14:47,799 --> 00:14:51,039 court and then appointed to the position by the Chief 215 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:56,720 District Court I believe, and then they answer to the 216 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:03,679 chief judge. That's their It's pretty convoluted. But magistrate's job 217 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:06,440 is to when people come in and they want to 218 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:11,200 take out warrants on somebody or whatever they're supposed to 219 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,960 be setting a bond to ensure that the suspect before 220 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,799 them appears in court for the first appearance. That's what 221 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,519 they're supposed to be doing. And if you have a 222 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:31,440 magistrate who is of the philosophy that systemic racism is 223 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,240 the reason why this person is standing before her, then 224 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,279 she is probably going to apply that philosophy and not 225 00:15:39,879 --> 00:15:41,799 give that person a bail. 226 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:42,559 Speaker 2: Right. 227 00:15:42,639 --> 00:15:48,399 Speaker 1: This is the whole cashless bail quote unquote reform. And 228 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,639 so here in Charlotte, the magistrate, Teresa Stokes was the 229 00:15:54,639 --> 00:16:03,679 one who let Brown out without any kind of bail, despite, 230 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:08,360 as the Independent Journal Review reports, despite every screaming warning sign, 231 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:15,480 decided that he could be trusted for his return for 232 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:18,440 his next court date if he just promised he would 233 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,080 no bond, no ankle monitor, no mental health hold, just 234 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:27,960 a handshake with the system. Basically the result a young 235 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,960 woman dead in her seat, blood on the train. But 236 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,840 now ten North Carolina Republican lawmakers, led by Congressman Tim Moore, 237 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:39,039 former Speaker of the House, are calling for Stokes to 238 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:46,399 be removed. 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Digital games 266 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,680 and commercial use excluded. Restrictions apply additional NFL Sunday Ticket 267 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:24,640 terms or at YouTube dot com slash Go Slash NFL 268 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,119 Sunday Tickets slash Terms Limited time offer. Let's head over 269 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,079 to the phone lines and chat with Rick. Welcome to 270 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:32,319 the program. 271 00:18:31,839 --> 00:18:36,039 Speaker 2: Hello Reck, Hello Pete. Hey love your show, Thanks sir, 272 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:37,880 listen to it about every day that I can. 273 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you. 274 00:18:39,759 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 2: But you know, you've just spent a long time talking 275 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:48,160 about the fact that the Democrats foolish and stupid policies 276 00:18:48,759 --> 00:18:52,759 have failed. They don't work, they're wrong, and I'd argue 277 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:58,079 that they're succeeding wonderfully. 278 00:18:56,599 --> 00:18:58,559 Speaker 1: If they've been lying about the intent. 279 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 2: Yes, right, because the issue is not the issue, right right. 280 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:05,839 The issue is always. 281 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:10,279 Speaker 1: The revolution, so right, So, but I am giving them 282 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:13,240 the benefit of the doubt because I am a I'm 283 00:19:13,279 --> 00:19:16,000 a giver. I'm a nice person, you know. I don't 284 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,319 try to ascribe motive to people. And so when they say, 285 00:19:19,599 --> 00:19:23,200 we are going to reduce crime by doing these things, 286 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,720 and we want to do these things, and they seized 287 00:19:25,839 --> 00:19:28,839 or pounced on the death of George Floyd in order 288 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,279 to advance their judicial reform agenda, and now we see 289 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:37,279 the fruits of that labor is just all spoiled. I'm 290 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:39,680 going to assume that they are just stupid and thought 291 00:19:39,759 --> 00:19:42,359 those things would work when they didn't. And so now 292 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,359 we're saying these things are not working, we're not doing 293 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,440 them anymore. Unless what you say is correct, which is 294 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,079 that they knew this stuff would cause chaos and it 295 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,839 would help to undermine the institutions of the West and 296 00:19:56,599 --> 00:20:01,240 undermine the high trust society that we all enjoy. But 297 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:06,000 that would be nefarious, right, I mean, surely people wouldn't 298 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,680 be acting with that kind of nefarious motive, and. 299 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 2: Arguably most of the ones are not that way, But 300 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,720 the people behind it all who are actually dreaming up 301 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:24,920 these policies and finding ways to get them implemented are nefarious. 302 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. 303 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 2: And the people who are being fooled, the Democrats who 304 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,559 go out and vote for all this garbage, you know, 305 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:38,799 are being misled I think, and have been poorly educated, 306 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,799 which is another nefarious plot. 307 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:42,079 Speaker 3: Right. 308 00:20:42,079 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: Well, they control the left controls the education system as well, 309 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:48,279 so it's easier to get them to believe in yea. 310 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 2: They generate useful idiots exactly. Well. 311 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: And the useful idiots are I mean the first word 312 00:20:53,519 --> 00:20:56,920 there is useful, right right, they need them right, so, 313 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,920 they need so they are. You got your shock troops, 314 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:03,480 your street radicals, your useful idiots, your academics and such, 315 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,880 your journalists, right, these these people that helped to move 316 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,279 the agenda. But you know, if successful and the revolution 317 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,279 comes to pass, all of those people, you know, they 318 00:21:16,319 --> 00:21:18,519 get they get trampled under the jack boots too. 319 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,039 Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, that's always. In the meantime, you know, you 320 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,799 have the politicians who sit there and watch the cities burn, 321 00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:29,240 you know, and smile because it's burning. Rubber smells so great. 322 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,799 Speaker 1: Yes, the mayor or the governor, Tim Wallas's wife who 323 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,519 left the windows open for as long as she could 324 00:21:35,519 --> 00:21:37,920 in her house so she could smell the tires burning 325 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,119 from the Minneapolis mostly peaceful but sometimes fiery riots. 326 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,759 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and most of the smile on our face 327 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:47,039 because of how successful their policies are. 328 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: Paying which, now, to be fair, in her defense, she 329 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,640 has that creepy smile at all sorts of inappropriate times. 330 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:57,319 So all right, Rick, I appreciate the calls. They're good 331 00:21:57,319 --> 00:22:00,640 to talk with you. I see you too. Let me 332 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,440 jump over and get Allen on next. Hello, Allan, Welcome 333 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,839 to the program. 334 00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:07,039 Speaker 4: Hey, how are you doing? 335 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:07,279 Speaker 2: Hey? 336 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:07,759 Speaker 3: Am I right? 337 00:22:07,759 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 4: How are you listen? 338 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:11,759 Speaker 1: Okay? 339 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:16,799 Speaker 4: You know people are blaming the police. We got to 340 00:22:17,279 --> 00:22:21,759 realize that Chief Gettings is down two hundred officers, so 341 00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:25,240 he asked to have officers to answer calls in the city. 342 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,599 Speaker 1: The only well, the only people I've seen coming even 343 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,079 close to blaming police. And I don't think anybody's blaming police. 344 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,240 It's it's democrats. They're saying we need more police. And 345 00:22:37,319 --> 00:22:39,960 that can be true, but that's not that's not a 346 00:22:40,079 --> 00:22:44,240 relevant argument in this case, specifically, because the cops did 347 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:47,279 their job. They arrested this guy fourteen times. 348 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 4: Yes, I agree with that, but I'm talking about a 349 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,599 temporary solution to provide security on the train. Yeah, you 350 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:04,160 could take off duty SEMPE officers, off duty sheriff's deputies 351 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:09,000 and have the mayor call and request a National Guard 352 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:14,839 MP unit to come. And then you team up a 353 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:20,319 deputy with a CMPD officer, a deputy with a National 354 00:23:20,319 --> 00:23:24,359 Guard man, or a deputy with or a CMP officer 355 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,640 with either one of those, and they could control the 356 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:33,160 trains until a better solution, or if that is the 357 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:39,720 solution is found. Having the presence of that uniform on 358 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:44,160 the train walking the train, two people together. That way 359 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:49,000 you have automatic backup that they can enforce the laws 360 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:52,240 on the train. They can help the ticket holder, the 361 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:57,039 ticket checkers enforce the ticket issues, and you'll make the 362 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:04,440 train safer because as I forget who it was, was 363 00:24:04,519 --> 00:24:10,160 talking about how the trains were valuable in making Charlotte 364 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,640 more accessible, but now people are scared to rive the 365 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,160 train because they don't feel safe. Right, But if they 366 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,680 saw two police officers adapty a police I. 367 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: Got you, any permutation of the three and I got 368 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,279 you yeah? No, I mean yeah, you surge the presence 369 00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:29,839 in order to act as a deterrence. Uh No, it's 370 00:24:29,839 --> 00:24:31,599 a good idea. Alan, I appreciate the call. It's a 371 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,200 it's a good idea. I mean, this is what Trump 372 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,519 did in Washington, d C. Right, You surge the the agents, 373 00:24:38,559 --> 00:24:42,880 the officials into law enforcement agents into the area as 374 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,680 a show of force to deter and to let people know. 375 00:24:46,759 --> 00:24:49,559 It sends a signal that we are not going to 376 00:24:49,559 --> 00:24:54,880 tolerate any of this crap anymore. That's the point. That's 377 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,279 the point. And it doesn't seem like that message even 378 00:24:58,319 --> 00:25:00,559 now is still sort of resonating a among a lot 379 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:04,279 of our local elected officials. There's just this kind of 380 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,640 dancing around about, you know, well, we're looking at things, 381 00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:13,119 reassessing safety, blah blah blah blah blah. They don't seem 382 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:19,720 to be passionately animated about We're not gonna put up 383 00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:23,920 with this any more. We are done. It doesn't seem 384 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,599 like some of them have gotten to their breaking point. 385 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:28,319 All Right, You hear me talk a lot about incentives, right, Well, 386 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,880 let's talk about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer 387 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,200 employees to fire them up and reward their teams. If 388 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,359 you own a business or you work somewhere that offers 389 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,400 these incentive trips, first off, good for you. But also 390 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,000 there is a custom app that's a game changer for 391 00:25:43,039 --> 00:25:46,960 these trips. It's called incentive trip Kit. Private group messaging, 392 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,319 shared photos, your itinerary, travel details, all built into a single, 393 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,640 easy to use app. There's even a traveler locator so 394 00:25:54,759 --> 00:25:57,640 Carl from Accounting doesn't get left behind. The best part 395 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,519 about incentive trip Kit it's totally private. No email captures, 396 00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:06,200 no sign ups, no cringe ads. It's simple, clean and secure. 397 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,559 And when the trip is over, Incentive Tripkit turns those 398 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,279 highlights into a professional storytelling video. So think about it. 399 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,079 When you launch next year's incentive trip campaign, that video 400 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,759 becomes your greatest motivator. Talk about a return on investment. Right, 401 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:24,200 You got to check out incentive trip Kit for your business. 402 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,240 Visit incentive tripkit dot com because great trips deserve even 403 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:32,160 better returns. I'm looking at the text line now driven 404 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:39,000 by Liberty Buick GMC. Did I hear that there is 405 00:26:39,039 --> 00:26:41,160 no fine if you get caught on the train with 406 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,039 no ticket. They simply ask you to get off at 407 00:26:44,079 --> 00:26:48,559 the next stop. That's a problem. Yeah, if they even 408 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,200 ask you to show a ticket. Here's another text I've 409 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,960 written the light rail streetcar about fifty times. Well, the 410 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,839 streetcar don't think does tickets. That's designed as a free thing. 411 00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,759 But you're supposed to have tickets for the light rail. 412 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,799 I've writ it fifty times over the last few years. 413 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:07,240 I've never been asked to show a ticket. That's the problem. 414 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,359 When I ride, I've never felt threatened, but it's full 415 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,160 of homeless slash weed smokers. I would never allow my 416 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:19,559 daughter to write it. That's a problem. What I'm wondering, 417 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,000 says Stan is how do democrats ask for more police 418 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,440 and then call for defunding them at the same time. Well, 419 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:30,480 it doesn't have to make sense. That's democrat privilege. From 420 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:34,839 the Independent Journal Review, ten North Carolina Republican congress members, 421 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,119 led by Tim Moore, are calling for the magistrate Teresa 422 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,759 Stokes to be removed from her position. And it's about time. 423 00:27:44,319 --> 00:27:46,839 It's about time somebody started treating this kind of judicial 424 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,319 failure with the seriousness that it deserves. Tim Moore and 425 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,160 nine of his colleagues sent a letter to Chief Judge 426 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,039 Roy Wiggins demanding that Stokes be removed for what they 427 00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:01,279 call a wilful failure to perform her due right. A 428 00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:05,680 willful failure, and they write that it was not only reckless, 429 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,279 but it was prejudicial to the administration of justice that 430 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:13,200 this wasn't an accident. This is the natural consequence of 431 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:19,799 a broken ideology. And what the IJR reports here is 432 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:23,359 that or they what they submit is that unless people 433 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,799 like the magistrate here, Teresa Stokes, unless they are held accountable, 434 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,440 not just scolded, but actually removed from their position, this 435 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,400 kind of stuff is not going to stop, right, It's 436 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,440 just not going to stop. I understand about second chances, 437 00:28:39,799 --> 00:28:41,640 the idea that you know, maybe people can get a 438 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,359 second chance and get rehabilitated, turn their life around in 439 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,039 all of that, But when you've got fourteen priors, I 440 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:51,640 think the second chances expired a long time ago, number 441 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:56,440 one and number two. When you have recent assaults after 442 00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:59,160 you served the time and you come out and then 443 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,880 get assault charges pinned on you for beating up on 444 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:09,720 your sister, and then you get picked up because you're 445 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:17,359 exhibiting schizophrenic distress, I would submit that the mental illness 446 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,839 and the history of violent behavior would deem you to 447 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,160 be a threat to society and you should have been 448 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,960 held until the psyche val at minimum. Let me jump 449 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,920 over here and get sid on. Hello, Sid how are you? 450 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,279 Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, I'm good. 451 00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:36,839 Speaker 1: What's going on? 452 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 3: I just can't get get your opinion on something? 453 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: Well, I've got a lot of those. 454 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,079 Speaker 3: We're good. When the light rail system when they go 455 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,920 to all of it in the upcoming weeks and they 456 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,960 find out that it's not making any money, what do 457 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,519 you what do you think of transpire with it? 458 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,519 Speaker 1: Well, we know money at it, or we know that 459 00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:02,480 they we know that the transit system does not make money, 460 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:05,039 none of them right, Only New York City, I think 461 00:30:05,119 --> 00:30:09,359 actually comes close. So they don't make money, and so 462 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,799 that won't be enough to do anything, right. I think 463 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,480 what they're going to be looking at, According to the 464 00:30:15,519 --> 00:30:18,559 state Auditor Dave Bullock and his press release that he 465 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,319 sent out yesterday, I think what they're looking for is 466 00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:25,839 what is the amount of money that they are spending 467 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,319 on security? What kind of security model are they running? 468 00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:34,839 And how does that compare to other transit systems in America? 469 00:30:35,079 --> 00:30:39,839 Are we spending too little? By comparison? Like what kind 470 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,880 of a system are we running as it compares to 471 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,799 a comparable one, and how much are we staffing. I 472 00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:47,279 think that's what they're going to be looking at. 473 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,119 Speaker 3: They're looking for a breakdown or where every dollar goes 474 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:54,319 to as far as flayers, how is distributed evenly over? 475 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, and if they're not collecting the fares, I think 476 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,519 they're going to identify that. Like you know, if you're 477 00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:01,839 doing ad for example, and you're saying we're going to 478 00:31:01,839 --> 00:31:04,559 collect a certain amount of fair revenue and then you're 479 00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:08,400 not actually collecting the fares like that, like they would 480 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,880 identify that too. I suspect to say, why are you 481 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,480 making these projections for fair collection when you're not actually 482 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,200 trying to do enforcement, you know, stuff like that. 483 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,839 Speaker 3: What would be the repercussions one say, who's in charge 484 00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:22,920 of collecting the fares? 485 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,319 Speaker 1: What would be the repercussions on I'm sorry not following, I'm. 486 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,079 Speaker 3: Just you know what would they be held accountable if 487 00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:34,720 the person in charge of collecting the fairs or whatever 488 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:36,200 group is in charge. 489 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: The Yeah, so cats would be available? Well, I mean right. 490 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,680 So the usually the process goes something like the auditor 491 00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,559 does the they do the investigation, they do the audit. 492 00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:48,640 They then give the agency or city that they're auditing 493 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,079 the opportunity to respond and make any corrections, and then 494 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:55,079 they publish it after everybody's had a chance to respond 495 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:58,279 and go back and forth. Uh so, I mean, I guess, 496 00:31:58,319 --> 00:32:02,720 you know, worst case scenarios, it could have affect ratings, 497 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,240 bond ratings or something. I don't know. That's a good question, though, 498 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,880 said I appreciate the call, but they usually give them 499 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,119 time to respond to then make corrections, and so maybe 500 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,920 that would be sort of the most beneficial short term fix. 501 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:17,880 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 502 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,960 so much for listening. I could not do the show 503 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,480 without your support and the support of the businesses that 504 00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:25,680 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 505 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,359 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 506 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,000 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 507 00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:33,720 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 508 00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:37,359 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.