1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:05,599 Speaker 1: What's going on? 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,080 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,839 WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,160 like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily 6 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:19,480 show prep with all the links, become a patron, go 7 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:23,399 to dpeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,320 Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. 9 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:29,280 And again, thank you so much for your support. So 10 00:00:29,399 --> 00:00:35,399 Democrats had their Momo moment yesterday. You guys really should 11 00:00:35,439 --> 00:00:41,000 think up some new tactics. I will say, the little 12 00:00:41,439 --> 00:00:47,759 circle paddleboard Brazilian steakhouse looking cards you guys had. 13 00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: That was new. I will give you that. You had 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,159 the little like little. 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: Popsicle stick attached to a round circle with you know, 16 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:56,000 printed out words on them, and. 17 00:00:57,479 --> 00:00:59,799 Speaker 1: Like, yeah, keep the proteins coming. No, no, I don't 18 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:00,479 want any. 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:05,079 Speaker 2: More of the proteins. Yeah no, that was a new tactic. 20 00:01:05,159 --> 00:01:11,879 But the but the moral Munday movement stuff, it's not effective, 21 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:17,959 and I don't like, I'm not sure I've ever seen 22 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:24,599 a group of ostensibly politicians. I mean, that's what I 23 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,959 understand them to be. But and like I assume if 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,640 you get to the US House of Representatives that you 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,799 have some knowledge of you know how to do the politicianing. 26 00:01:35,879 --> 00:01:39,920 But I don't know if I've ever seen a larger 27 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:50,560 group of assembled politicians who are so easily led into traps. 28 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,760 I don't know if this was Donald Trump and his 29 00:01:54,159 --> 00:01:58,680 you know, famous seventy seven dimensional chess going on here 30 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:04,280 or what. But if Donald Trump and his speech writers 31 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,080 know that you will resist anything he says. 32 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:15,199 Speaker 1: Because you are the resistance, right that you're the resistance. 33 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 2: You're going to object everything, and you're gonna boo and 34 00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:21,360 cat call and hiss, and you're going to disrupt, and 35 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,639 you're gonna flash signs. You're going to turn your back 36 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,199 on the president when he walks in all these little 37 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:33,080 games that you play. They know that, right, The speech 38 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,719 writers know that. And that means that you can be 39 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:41,759 easily made to be well. I was going to say fools, 40 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,599 but greater fools because you are predictable. 41 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: It is so predictable. 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 2: That they can write a speech to make you look 43 00:02:54,479 --> 00:03:00,960 like dumbasses and mission accomplished guys. Really just sincerely bang 44 00:03:01,039 --> 00:03:07,960 up work, refusing to applaud the thirteen year old brain 45 00:03:08,039 --> 00:03:14,319 cancer survivor. That was awesome. Yeah, you guys showed him. Huh, 46 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:20,840 multiple families of murder victims. Take that, victims' families. We're 47 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:28,759 not gonna applaud you because Donald Trump recognized you declaring 48 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,280 war on the cartels. Nope, can't applaud that cartels are good. 49 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,280 I guess the reduction in illegal border crossings, which I 50 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:42,879 thought you guys said you wanted to see those numbers 51 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:45,560 come down too. That's why you told us we had 52 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,039 to pass that bill, right, you said that in order 53 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,400 to get control over the illegal immigration crisis at the 54 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:56,439 southern border, we had to pass Biden's bead Border Bill, 55 00:03:56,759 --> 00:04:01,080 the bb BB. And then you attack the Republicans is 56 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,199 not wanting to quote solve the problem when they did 57 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,560 not go along with it because it was, as I mentioned, 58 00:04:07,599 --> 00:04:12,400 a bad border bill. So when you see the numbers 59 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:14,240 come down, you would think that would be a good 60 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,120 thing because that's what you wanted to see happen. You 61 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,879 wanted to see these crossings be reduced. 62 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 3: Right. 63 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:24,439 Speaker 2: No, No, no applause for that either. Oh, how about 64 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:30,720 the freed hostage out of Russia. That's a good story. 65 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:33,079 He was a teacher. You guys are all about the 66 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,040 teachers and all of that stuff. And he he was home. 67 00:04:37,079 --> 00:04:38,879 They brought him home. They brought him to the Uh, 68 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,279 don't call it a State of the Union speech last night, 69 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:44,120 it's a it's an address to the Joint Session of Congress. 70 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:48,319 Speaker 1: He was up there with his wife and h No, 71 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,399 can't applaud that guy. Sorry. 72 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,399 Speaker 2: You know Trump got you home, so screw you too. 73 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,639 A foster parent. The announcement that we have arrested the 74 00:05:01,759 --> 00:05:04,279 terrorist that was behind the planning of the Abbey Gate 75 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:10,439 attack in Afghanistan during the botched Biden withdrawal, that's not 76 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:16,199 good news, I guess. Don't applaud that either. Oh, how 77 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:19,600 about ending the war in Ukraine? Nope, that doesn't get 78 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,720 a round of applause. Orange man bad after all. Any 79 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:29,399 kind of citation of waste or fraud or abuse that 80 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:34,160 has been identified and cut, Nope, No, no applause for that. 81 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,279 No applause for an increase in military recruiting, Nope, don't 82 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:44,439 get any of that. Sorry, or related the high school 83 00:05:44,519 --> 00:05:48,319 kid who just had his dream come true by getting 84 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:57,120 accepted to West Point Boo, you kid. Resurrecting the shipbuilding 85 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,680 industry in America. I'm old enough to remember when Democrats 86 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,279 were really happy that there would be these types of 87 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:11,800 manufacturing jobs, particularly like union jobs. No, that was before 88 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,519 the Orange Man came down. The golden escalator. 89 00:06:15,399 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: Is the escalator gold? I think it is gold actually, 90 00:06:20,319 --> 00:06:21,839 And once again Corey. 91 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:29,519 Speaker 2: Comparatore, who died at Butler, Pennsylvania during the assassination attempt 92 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,240 on Donald Trump's life, his family was there again, and 93 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:38,240 once again Democrats refused to give them a round of 94 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:44,639 applause to stand and celebrate what could I think rightfully 95 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:51,240 be described as positive developments for America. Everything I listed 96 00:06:52,160 --> 00:07:00,240 seems like to me positive developments for America. But I 97 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,680 guess if Donald Trump is responsible for any of it, 98 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,199 or even if he just mentions this stuff right, like 99 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,800 they didn't want to go to Mars, right I did 100 00:07:07,879 --> 00:07:11,519 hear Elon Musk scream that was you could totally tell 101 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:14,040 it was him when Trump made the comment about going 102 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,560 to Mars, and you heard like one guy start yeah, 103 00:07:16,639 --> 00:07:19,160 and then everybody starts cheering like that was totally Musk. 104 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:24,480 These are things that are good for America. And there 105 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,240 used to be a time when even if you didn't 106 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,639 vote for the guy that was, you know, at the 107 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:35,720 front of the room making the speech, you could recognize 108 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:43,399 the value of a good thing for the nation. I was, 109 00:07:44,079 --> 00:07:47,839 I gotta tell you, I was surprised last night. I 110 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,480 watched the whole thing, so you didn't have to You're welcome. 111 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,040 I was surprised at one particular response that I got 112 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,199 when I listed all of the things that I just 113 00:07:58,279 --> 00:08:00,839 listed for you right now. I went on to the 114 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:05,439 Twitter machine and I wrote down. I kept the list, like, 115 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,240 here are the things the Democrats have refused to applaud for. 116 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:15,480 And in the case of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the video 117 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,720 I saw was that she rolled her eyes when Trump 118 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,240 was talking about the thirteen year old kid who was 119 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:27,959 made an honorary Secret Service agent, and that kid was 120 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,759 so excited. He was dressed he was dressed in like 121 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,320 a police uniform. The kid had brain cancer, probably still does. 122 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:40,200 It's glioblastoma, I assume, and so that's like the chance 123 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,519 of that coming back very, very very high. And he's 124 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:50,879 had multiple brain surgeries. And so he was there and 125 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:53,080 his dad held him up, and the place was cheering 126 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,440 for him. And he wants to be a cop. He's 127 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,960 thirteen and he wants to be a police officer. And 128 00:08:59,399 --> 00:09:02,600 apparently hundreds of police departments all over the country have 129 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:07,399 made him an honorary officer, and so last night they 130 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:10,879 made him. Trump made him an honorary Secret Service agent. 131 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,639 His eyes got all big and he. 132 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,799 Speaker 1: He gave the Secret Service leader a hug. 133 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 2: And then when Trump announced that the high school kid 134 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,799 was going to go to West Point DJ Daniel is 135 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,759 his name, the thirteen year old, he went up and 136 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:32,759 gave the kid a fist bump, high fived him. Isn't 137 00:09:32,799 --> 00:09:36,679 that a good story? Isn't that representative of the kind 138 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:38,279 of country you want to live in? 139 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 3: No? 140 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 2: Can you not set aside your personal hatred for Donald 141 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,720 Trump to recognize a good thing for your fellow countrymen, 142 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:57,120 and in this case that child. This was a good 143 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,039 moment for that kid, and you robbed him of a 144 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,600 full house standing ovation for him. That certain people, in 145 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:11,600 certain situations and stories that they have transcend politics, and 146 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,759 you couldn't do it. And it is to your eternal shame. 147 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,799 And I was surprised when I made this list last 148 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:25,840 night at one particular response from a local Charlotte City 149 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:31,559 council city councilan, but a former state senator. I believe 150 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,399 it's him I'll double check he doesn't have a blue 151 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:40,879 check mark, but I'll double check they cannot put their 152 00:10:40,919 --> 00:10:46,240 personal animosity aside. It's said, this is what I mean 153 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,440 when I say Trump has broken people's brains. All right, 154 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,279 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 155 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:53,080 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 156 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,159 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 157 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,440 say get your news from multiple sources. 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So I 175 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:59,200 posted onto Twitter this list of the times that I 176 00:11:59,279 --> 00:12:04,679 feel like Democrats as Americans first, as you know, empathetic 177 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:08,639 human beings or even people with just like the awareness 178 00:12:08,759 --> 00:12:12,559 that people would expect them to show some empathy in 179 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:17,759 these situations should have applauded. And so I posted this 180 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:21,720 list onto Twitter last night, formerly known as X, and 181 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:30,039 I was surprised to see a response from now confirmed 182 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,320 Charlotte City councilman Malcolm Graham. I've known Malcolm Graham for 183 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:37,600 twenty years. He was on the city council when I 184 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:40,600 was a reporter and I sat through many many meetings. 185 00:12:40,639 --> 00:12:44,000 I've interviewed him many times over the you know. 186 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 3: The. 187 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:52,639 Speaker 2: Decade of two thousand through twenty ten. And he posted 188 00:12:52,679 --> 00:13:00,919 a response saying, quote, he's an international embarrassed talking about 189 00:13:00,919 --> 00:13:04,960 Donald Trump. And then he's got a big like AI 190 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:11,279 generated photo of the Lincoln Memorial statue, except Lincoln's got 191 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,679 his hand over his face. 192 00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: He's like putting his head in his hand, you know, like, oh, 193 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,840 my gosh, right, And. 194 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,399 Speaker 2: I was like, wow, okay, so you're you're trying to 195 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,080 deflect away from the fact that Democrats did not stand 196 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:34,559 or did not applaud like the thirteen year old with 197 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,720 brain cancer. Okay, and you're going to make it about 198 00:13:37,759 --> 00:13:41,679 Donald Trump. And I so I said, I'd like to 199 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,639 think you would applaud a thirteen year old brain cancer survivor. 200 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,559 So I gave him an off ram like where he 201 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,279 could have said, you know, yes, I would have applauded. 202 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: But I understand why what if? 203 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 2: That's what I expected the response to be, because Malcolm Graham, 204 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,080 I'm also a politician. I would expect a political kind 205 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:10,799 of a response. But what I got was a response 206 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,840 that said, I would think you would agree that he's 207 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,799 an He is an embarrassment to the country. It's not 208 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,200 about the kid. It's Donald. 209 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:21,519 Speaker 1: See. 210 00:14:21,639 --> 00:14:24,519 Speaker 2: But here's the thing in that moment, it is about 211 00:14:24,519 --> 00:14:27,919 the kid. It's not about Donald. This is why I 212 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:32,279 say Trump has broken people's brains. That child up there 213 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:40,000 in the balcony that was recognized for his battle against cancer, right, 214 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,639 you know, wanting to be law enforcement, they and this 215 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:47,440 has been going on. They bring people in all the time, right. 216 00:14:47,519 --> 00:14:50,320 They make it a part of their speech. Every single 217 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:56,159 president does this. It's been going on my entire adult life. 218 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,240 It's never been something that was controvert. You never took 219 00:15:01,279 --> 00:15:05,000 it out on those people that were brought. Everybody would applaud, 220 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:07,519 you know, unless you brought like some activist. I know, 221 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:09,879 you know when Trump brought Rush Limbaugh up there, the 222 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:11,399 Democrats didn't celebrate that. 223 00:15:11,559 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: I understood that. 224 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:18,799 Speaker 2: But this is a kid, this is an a political kid, 225 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,679 and you can't even bring yourselves to give that kid 226 00:15:23,759 --> 00:15:28,840 in that moment, a moment of unity. You can't even 227 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,240 bring yourself to do it. Everything has got to be 228 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,279 about how much you hate Donald Trump. I get it, 229 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:38,840 I get it. You hate Donald Trump. I understand. Are 230 00:15:38,879 --> 00:15:42,360 you a child? Are you a child? 231 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:43,799 Speaker 1: Can you not. 232 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 2: Separate that from that person up there? You realize they 233 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,559 are two different people, right, One kid's way over there 234 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,960 and one guy's up on the stage, two different people. 235 00:15:58,279 --> 00:16:01,519 So after Councilman Graham said, I would think you would 236 00:16:01,519 --> 00:16:04,240 agree that it's that he is an embarrassment to the country. 237 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:08,240 It's not about the kid, it's Donald I said, in 238 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,360 response to which he then he has never responded. 239 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:12,559 Speaker 1: To me after this. 240 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 2: I pointed out that my tweet listed the times that 241 00:16:18,759 --> 00:16:22,639 your fellow Democrats refuse to applaud things that should have 242 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:27,279 gotten universal applause. I thought Joe Biden was a cognitively 243 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,080 impaired embarrassment. But if he celebrated a kid with brain cancer, 244 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,080 I'd applaud, wouldn't you. Of course you would, because it's 245 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:41,440 the kid, it's it's his moment, and applauding for that 246 00:16:41,639 --> 00:16:45,720 child doesn't mean anything with regards to your hatred of 247 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:49,519 Donald Trump and the fact that you can't see that 248 00:16:50,559 --> 00:16:53,120 you deserve everything that you're gonna get now, you do. 249 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:58,360 You deserve all of it. You deserve every single Democrat 250 00:16:58,399 --> 00:17:02,080 that was in that that was in the Congress last night, 251 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,960 and everybody like Counselman Graham who is defending their behavior. 252 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,440 You deserve everything you're going to get. And I'm talking 253 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,279 about political ads against you, I'm talking about dragging you 254 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,240 on social media because you deserve it. 255 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:16,319 Speaker 1: You deserve all of it. 256 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,519 Speaker 2: You rob that kid of a moment because you are petty, 257 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,799 petulant children. That kid is more mature than you are. 258 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,680 And I say that as one who and this is 259 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:37,160 not hyperbolic, literally risked his job arguing against Donald Trump 260 00:17:37,319 --> 00:17:41,480 with his own audience for the better part of four years. 261 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,359 If you can't tell the difference between that child and 262 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,319 Donald Trump, shame on you. Here's a great idea. 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But 290 00:19:20,759 --> 00:19:25,759 you know, Pete, when I watched that address last night, man, 291 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:30,920 I was like, it really held up the reasons that 292 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:34,319 I'm not a Democrat and that I cannot align myself 293 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:39,920 and vote for people who you know, call themselves democrats. 294 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:44,079 I mean, you know, not to stand up or applaud 295 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,839 a single thing like you said. They didn't have nothing 296 00:19:47,839 --> 00:19:50,359 to do with Donald Trump. And a lot of the 297 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:56,079 people that Donald Trump recognized what they've suffered tragedies and 298 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,880 misfortunes in life because of the policies, the actions of Democrats. 299 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,359 You know, I mean, it just blew my mind. But 300 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,119 it Pete, I believe I'm gonna be a lifelong Republican 301 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,079 because from what, from what has happened in the last 302 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,839 four years. You know, even when Biden, you know, when 303 00:20:15,839 --> 00:20:19,000 he couldn't find his way off stage and he hid 304 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:22,920 through the whole, you know, he hid in his basement 305 00:20:23,079 --> 00:20:26,000 when he was running for president, and you know, and 306 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:28,400 they did all these things, and they lied to us. Well, 307 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,720 Biden's in good shape, but yet he couldn't put two 308 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:34,200 senses together. He can't find his way off stage. So 309 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,200 we're gonna put him on a bicycle and show you 310 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,279 how fit he is. And he pulls up on the 311 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:41,880 bicycle and falls over. And you know, they lie to 312 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,359 the American people through all that, and thought that we 313 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,640 couldn't see with our own eyes, and told us what 314 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,640 we were seeing wasn't true. I mean, I'm done with them. 315 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:54,960 I don't believe I'll ever. You know, I'm ashamed to 316 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,680 say I ever voted Democrat, but in my youth, being 317 00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:03,160 stupid and uninformed, I have. But I just don't see 318 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,920 myself ever going back the other way. 319 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,519 Speaker 2: Well, that's it, you know, Tim, that's a very It's 320 00:21:07,559 --> 00:21:10,240 interesting you brought that up. That's the old adage. You know, 321 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,079 if you are are not a liberal when you're young, 322 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,319 you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative 323 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,240 when you're older, you have no head. And right, but 324 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:22,960 that's always been that, I mean, that adage, right is 325 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:26,519 predicated on the idea that Democrats have a heart. And 326 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:29,960 what we saw last night was like a repudiation of 327 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:35,559 that thing that was always their brand, that they were sympathetic, 328 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,119 empathetic towards people, right, that they cared. And what we 329 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,079 saw last night was just a complete surrender of that 330 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,319 political position, that branding position. 331 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 3: But if you pay attention to what they say in 332 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,640 their actions, just like now, I don't know how true 333 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,839 it is, but I heard back during the days when 334 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,759 you know, this country was fighting over slavery or whatever, 335 00:21:57,319 --> 00:22:01,559 the Democrats were defending slavery saying who's going to pick 336 00:22:01,599 --> 00:22:03,799 our crops? That was, you know, when we need them 337 00:22:03,799 --> 00:22:06,960 to pick our cross, we need slaves. And now modern 338 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:11,200 day they're defending illegal aliens coming in saying, well, who's 339 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,039 going to pick our crops? You know, I mean, it 340 00:22:14,079 --> 00:22:15,319 blows my mind. 341 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, no, it's true. And that's why, you know, 342 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:18,519 I've heard it said that. 343 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:22,279 Speaker 2: You know, Democrats are very angry right now, especially over 344 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:25,759 the illegal immigration issue, and they haven't been this angry 345 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:29,599 since the last time Republicans tried to take their slaves right. 346 00:22:29,799 --> 00:22:34,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're they're like little powdy kids, you know. 347 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:35,759 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. 348 00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 3: I put up with you know, Biden one one way 349 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,319 or another, and he won in twenty twenty. You know, 350 00:22:42,599 --> 00:22:44,559 we had to put up with it. We had to 351 00:22:44,599 --> 00:22:47,279 watch them and I was like, wait and see, and 352 00:22:47,319 --> 00:22:50,640 they proved exactly what I thought would happen. They durned 353 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,000 to run the country in the shambles. Well they did. 354 00:22:53,519 --> 00:22:56,920 And now that we have strong people on with the 355 00:22:57,039 --> 00:22:59,079 right minds to get it back on track. 356 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and there used to be and Tim, I 357 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,440 appreciate the call, buddy, thank you, thank you, Yes, sir, 358 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:09,000 there used to be a time in my lifetime when 359 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:14,759 a president won, particularly when a president won the popular 360 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:17,640 vote and the electoral college, obviously, because that's how you 361 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,759 become president. The popular vote does not make you president, 362 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,480 but when you win both of those things that there 363 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:27,400 is a deference paid to the fact that this is 364 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,440 the expression of the will of the people, and. 365 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,039 Speaker 1: We don't see that. 366 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,759 Speaker 2: We have not seen that, really, I mean, aside from 367 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:39,720 a brief moment after nine to eleven, not in my 368 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:44,960 lifetime have I seen that with a Republican president. And 369 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,880 it is amped up to an entirely different level altogether 370 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:54,920 under Donald Trump, right, this resistance. We're not going to 371 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,400 let him do what he wants to do, right, but 372 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,559 the people put him there, especially this time. And the thing, 373 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,640 you know, when the speech started last night and al 374 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:09,319 Green had his Momo mo moment, his moral Monday movement 375 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,640 moment where you know, he got himself tossed out, which 376 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,319 was by design. He did what he intended to do, 377 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,880 which was to be removed because then he can use 378 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:24,440 that to fundraise in his liberal congressional district back in Texas. 379 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:30,119 Like this impeding of the work and this refusal to 380 00:24:30,279 --> 00:24:33,759 accept the outcome of the election. And he was objecting 381 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:37,680 and screaming his head off about Trump not having a mandate. 382 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,920 And of all people, Stephen A. Smith, the sports guy, 383 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,799 he was on the View the other day and Joy 384 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,039 Beare said something about how he doesn't have a mandate, 385 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:54,920 and Stephen Smith, to his credit, just completely filayed her, 386 00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:58,839 just gutted her right there on her own show. And 387 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,279 he's like, I'm not a supporter Donald Trump's. But the guys, 388 00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:03,640 he won every swing state, He won the popular vote 389 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,920 for the first time a Republican has done so in 390 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:11,440 like twenty something years, and and he won the electoral College. Right, 391 00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:14,519 the American public are with him on all of these 392 00:25:14,559 --> 00:25:15,319 major issues. 393 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:16,559 Speaker 1: That's a mandate. 394 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 2: And you guys are in denial, and you're denying what 395 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:27,279 most Americans want to see happen, what most Americans agree with. 396 00:25:28,039 --> 00:25:30,440 You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 397 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,920 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 398 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,039 people of our past while transcending generations. They help us 399 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:40,160 process the meaning of life, and our stories are told 400 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,319 through images and videos. 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How are you? 419 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:40,519 Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm good. 420 00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 3: You know. 421 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,279 Speaker 4: I was watching last night, Pete, and I I think 422 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:47,440 I kind of concluded that if you take the Democrat 423 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,039 Party and their ideology of what they are today and 424 00:26:51,799 --> 00:26:55,480 the word freedom, it seems that they're the only organization 425 00:26:55,559 --> 00:26:58,880 that can take the word freedom, oh well, something you 426 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,119 know that allows us to do pretty much what we 427 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,920 want to do and turn it into evil. I mean, 428 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,119 I saw the scows on their face, I saw the 429 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,160 hate in their eyes, I saw the anger. I mean, 430 00:27:09,519 --> 00:27:11,359 it's almost rather just evil people. 431 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 2: So I try not to ascribe motive to people. All 432 00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:20,680 I can judge them by is their behavior in words, 433 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:28,079 and their behavior last night was misguided at best and 434 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,720 maybe at worst would be evil. 435 00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: But I don't know. 436 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,319 Speaker 2: I think like they had organized a plan before where 437 00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:40,400 they said, nobody applaud, We're not going to applaud anything, 438 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,680 and they thought this was going to be a brilliant strategy, right, 439 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,359 and they had all these different ways that they had 440 00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:51,759 organized to protest, right, So it's performative, right, They're trying 441 00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:55,000 to send the message that we hate Donald Trump, which 442 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,160 we know you guys hate Donald Trump. So I think 443 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,880 it's the there is an incompetence that exists in the 444 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,559 Democrat Party all the way up through the ranks for 445 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,119 them not to have realized how bad this would look. 446 00:28:10,839 --> 00:28:12,559 And I think it goes back to you know, I 447 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:16,160 always say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold, and I 448 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,000 think that because they have been in control of so 449 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,680 many of the institutions of our society for so long 450 00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:27,200 and they never had to make the arguments, and so 451 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,519 they are left now with basically theater kid performances, right, 452 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,400 Like that's what they're doing, and they're not formulating any 453 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,640 actual arguments. They're just acting out. They're throwing tantrums. 454 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,559 Speaker 4: You know, I think though, even if you're trying to 455 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:48,240 stay on an agenda, and that agenda is that you 456 00:28:48,279 --> 00:28:50,680 don't like Trump and you're not going to clap, if 457 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,920 you got any kind of compassion, you know, in your heart, 458 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,680 a little bit of flicker of it, and there's a 459 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,559 thirteen year old child with cancer and he just totally 460 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:03,720 snubbed him and ignore him, then your agenda has become 461 00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,079 evil in my opinion, because you have now shown and 462 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,720 proven that you don't have any flicker of compassion for 463 00:29:09,839 --> 00:29:11,799 anything other than your own selves. 464 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. 465 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 2: I do wonder because there is an opportunity here for 466 00:29:16,559 --> 00:29:19,119 the Democrats if they want to take it, which is 467 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:23,079 for them to come out and say, yeah, we didn't 468 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:25,319 mean for it to come off like that, you know, 469 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,640 like to apologize and say that wasn't our intention. And 470 00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:32,480 you know, we had we had this idea that we 471 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,359 were not going to applaud anything. You know, the White 472 00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:37,920 House didn't give us any advanced copies of the of 473 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,880 the script of the speech, and so we didn't know 474 00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:44,519 who these people were going to be that he recognized, 475 00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:47,279 and we didn't want to, you know, we didn't want to, 476 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:49,880 you know, go up there and applaud for somebody and 477 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,319 then have Trump say, you know something, as we're applauding, 478 00:29:54,599 --> 00:29:58,400 and you know, trick us basically, But we shouldn't have 479 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,960 done that that way. We would should have been different. 480 00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: Whatever. 481 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 2: They could try to clean it up a little bit, 482 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,359 but that would require I think anybody in the legacy 483 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,799 media to ask them right to make them defend their 484 00:30:11,839 --> 00:30:14,720 actions last night, and so far I haven't seen anybody 485 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,480 asking them to do so. 486 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,799 Speaker 4: So well, the only thing that I've seen as far 487 00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:23,240 as the follower from the media so far is and 488 00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:26,400 I can't remember, I think it was NBC, but the 489 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,240 person on there said that, well, it's wonderful that he 490 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,079 wants to be a police officer, but I hope he'll 491 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,680 not be a police officer in a circumstance like Trumpet 492 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:34,880 in January sixth. 493 00:30:35,119 --> 00:30:36,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he kills himself. 494 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,119 Speaker 4: Yeah. 495 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:41,279 Speaker 2: That was Nicole Wallace at MSNBC, who's just an awful person, 496 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,359 Like this is how awful she is. John McCain did 497 00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:48,400 not want her at his funeral, Like that's how she's 498 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,160 a former Republican On MSNBC's John McCain, of all people 499 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,720 did not want Nicole Wallace at his funeral. That's how 500 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,519 bad she is so and that yeah, that's what she said, like, oh, 501 00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:02,920 you know, it was a you know, a good story 502 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,279 and all of that. But I just hope he doesn't, 503 00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:07,839 you know, ever work the capital and have a j 504 00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:10,279 six for him and then he ends up killing himself, Like, 505 00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:13,480 oh my gosh, really it's just awful, Marty. I appreciate 506 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,680 the call. Yeah, they're there, and she was trying to 507 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:21,240 to salvage some sort of moral high ground and you 508 00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:22,200 just don't have it in this. 509 00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: You don't have it. All right. 510 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,359 Speaker 2: That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 511 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,440 for listening. I could not do the show without your 512 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,240 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 513 00:31:32,319 --> 00:31:35,079 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 514 00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:36,799 and tell them you heard it here. You can also 515 00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:39,440 become a patron at my Patreon page or go to 516 00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:43,279 thepetekallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, 517 00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:49,240 and don't break anything while I'm gone.