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Democrats had their Momo moment yesterday. You guys really should
think up some new tactics. I will say, the little
circle paddleboard Brazilian steakhouse looking cards you guys had.
Speaker 1: That was new. I will give you that. You had
the little like little.
Speaker 2: Popsicle stick attached to a round circle with you know,
printed out words on them, and.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, keep the proteins coming. No, no, I don't
want any.
Speaker 2: More of the proteins. Yeah no, that was a new tactic.
But the but the moral Munday movement stuff, it's not effective,
and I don't like, I'm not sure I've ever seen
a group of ostensibly politicians. I mean, that's what I
understand them to be. But and like I assume if
you get to the US House of Representatives that you
have some knowledge of you know how to do the politicianing.
But I don't know if I've ever seen a larger
group of assembled politicians who are so easily led into traps.
I don't know if this was Donald Trump and his
you know, famous seventy seven dimensional chess going on here
or what. But if Donald Trump and his speech writers
know that you will resist anything he says.
Speaker 1: Because you are the resistance, right that you're the resistance.
Speaker 2: You're going to object everything, and you're gonna boo and
cat call and hiss, and you're going to disrupt, and
you're gonna flash signs. You're going to turn your back
on the president when he walks in all these little
games that you play. They know that, right, The speech
writers know that. And that means that you can be
easily made to be well. I was going to say fools,
but greater fools because you are predictable.
Speaker 1: It is so predictable.
Speaker 2: That they can write a speech to make you look
like dumbasses and mission accomplished guys. Really just sincerely bang
up work, refusing to applaud the thirteen year old brain
cancer survivor. That was awesome. Yeah, you guys showed him. Huh,
multiple families of murder victims. Take that, victims' families. We're
not gonna applaud you because Donald Trump recognized you declaring
war on the cartels. Nope, can't applaud that cartels are good.
I guess the reduction in illegal border crossings, which I
thought you guys said you wanted to see those numbers
come down too. That's why you told us we had
to pass that bill, right, you said that in order
to get control over the illegal immigration crisis at the
southern border, we had to pass Biden's bead Border Bill,
the bb BB. And then you attack the Republicans is
not wanting to quote solve the problem when they did
not go along with it because it was, as I mentioned,
a bad border bill. So when you see the numbers
come down, you would think that would be a good
thing because that's what you wanted to see happen. You
wanted to see these crossings be reduced.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: No, No, no applause for that either. Oh, how about
the freed hostage out of Russia. That's a good story.
He was a teacher. You guys are all about the
teachers and all of that stuff. And he he was home.
They brought him home. They brought him to the Uh,
don't call it a State of the Union speech last night,
it's a it's an address to the Joint Session of Congress.
Speaker 1: He was up there with his wife and h No,
can't applaud that guy. Sorry.
Speaker 2: You know Trump got you home, so screw you too.
A foster parent. The announcement that we have arrested the
terrorist that was behind the planning of the Abbey Gate
attack in Afghanistan during the botched Biden withdrawal, that's not
good news, I guess. Don't applaud that either. Oh, how
about ending the war in Ukraine? Nope, that doesn't get
a round of applause. Orange man bad after all. Any
kind of citation of waste or fraud or abuse that
has been identified and cut, Nope, No, no applause for that.
No applause for an increase in military recruiting, Nope, don't
get any of that. Sorry, or related the high school
kid who just had his dream come true by getting
accepted to West Point Boo, you kid. Resurrecting the shipbuilding
industry in America. I'm old enough to remember when Democrats
were really happy that there would be these types of
manufacturing jobs, particularly like union jobs. No, that was before
the Orange Man came down. The golden escalator.
Speaker 1: Is the escalator gold? I think it is gold actually,
And once again Corey.
Speaker 2: Comparatore, who died at Butler, Pennsylvania during the assassination attempt
on Donald Trump's life, his family was there again, and
once again Democrats refused to give them a round of
applause to stand and celebrate what could I think rightfully
be described as positive developments for America. Everything I listed
seems like to me positive developments for America. But I
guess if Donald Trump is responsible for any of it,
or even if he just mentions this stuff right, like
they didn't want to go to Mars, right I did
hear Elon Musk scream that was you could totally tell
it was him when Trump made the comment about going
to Mars, and you heard like one guy start yeah,
and then everybody starts cheering like that was totally Musk.
These are things that are good for America. And there
used to be a time when even if you didn't
vote for the guy that was, you know, at the
front of the room making the speech, you could recognize
the value of a good thing for the nation. I was,
I gotta tell you, I was surprised last night. I
watched the whole thing, so you didn't have to You're welcome.
I was surprised at one particular response that I got
when I listed all of the things that I just
listed for you right now. I went on to the
Twitter machine and I wrote down. I kept the list, like,
here are the things the Democrats have refused to applaud for.
And in the case of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the video
I saw was that she rolled her eyes when Trump
was talking about the thirteen year old kid who was
made an honorary Secret Service agent, and that kid was
so excited. He was dressed he was dressed in like
a police uniform. The kid had brain cancer, probably still does.
It's glioblastoma, I assume, and so that's like the chance
of that coming back very, very very high. And he's
had multiple brain surgeries. And so he was there and
his dad held him up, and the place was cheering
for him. And he wants to be a cop. He's
thirteen and he wants to be a police officer. And
apparently hundreds of police departments all over the country have
made him an honorary officer, and so last night they
made him. Trump made him an honorary Secret Service agent.
His eyes got all big and he.
Speaker 1: He gave the Secret Service leader a hug.
Speaker 2: And then when Trump announced that the high school kid
was going to go to West Point DJ Daniel is
his name, the thirteen year old, he went up and
gave the kid a fist bump, high fived him. Isn't
that a good story? Isn't that representative of the kind
of country you want to live in?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Can you not set aside your personal hatred for Donald
Trump to recognize a good thing for your fellow countrymen,
and in this case that child. This was a good
moment for that kid, and you robbed him of a
full house standing ovation for him. That certain people, in
certain situations and stories that they have transcend politics, and
you couldn't do it. And it is to your eternal shame.
And I was surprised when I made this list last
night at one particular response from a local Charlotte City
council city councilan, but a former state senator. I believe
it's him I'll double check he doesn't have a blue
check mark, but I'll double check they cannot put their
personal animosity aside. It's said, this is what I mean
when I say Trump has broken people's brains. All right,
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posted onto Twitter this list of the times that I
feel like Democrats as Americans first, as you know, empathetic
human beings or even people with just like the awareness
that people would expect them to show some empathy in
these situations should have applauded. And so I posted this
list onto Twitter last night, formerly known as X, and
I was surprised to see a response from now confirmed
Charlotte City councilman Malcolm Graham. I've known Malcolm Graham for
twenty years. He was on the city council when I
was a reporter and I sat through many many meetings.
I've interviewed him many times over the you know.
Speaker 3: The.
Speaker 2: Decade of two thousand through twenty ten. And he posted
a response saying, quote, he's an international embarrassed talking about
Donald Trump. And then he's got a big like AI
generated photo of the Lincoln Memorial statue, except Lincoln's got
his hand over his face.
Speaker 1: He's like putting his head in his hand, you know, like, oh,
my gosh, right, And.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, okay, so you're you're trying to
deflect away from the fact that Democrats did not stand
or did not applaud like the thirteen year old with
brain cancer. Okay, and you're going to make it about
Donald Trump. And I so I said, I'd like to
think you would applaud a thirteen year old brain cancer survivor.
So I gave him an off ram like where he
could have said, you know, yes, I would have applauded.
Speaker 1: But I understand why what if?
Speaker 2: That's what I expected the response to be, because Malcolm Graham,
I'm also a politician. I would expect a political kind
of a response. But what I got was a response
that said, I would think you would agree that he's
an He is an embarrassment to the country. It's not
about the kid. It's Donald.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing in that moment, it is about
the kid. It's not about Donald. This is why I
say Trump has broken people's brains. That child up there
in the balcony that was recognized for his battle against cancer, right,
you know, wanting to be law enforcement, they and this
has been going on. They bring people in all the time, right.
They make it a part of their speech. Every single
president does this. It's been going on my entire adult life.
It's never been something that was controvert. You never took
it out on those people that were brought. Everybody would applaud,
you know, unless you brought like some activist. I know,
you know when Trump brought Rush Limbaugh up there, the
Democrats didn't celebrate that.
Speaker 1: I understood that.
Speaker 2: But this is a kid, this is an a political kid,
and you can't even bring yourselves to give that kid
in that moment, a moment of unity. You can't even
bring yourself to do it. Everything has got to be
about how much you hate Donald Trump. I get it,
I get it. You hate Donald Trump. I understand. Are
you a child? Are you a child?
Speaker 1: Can you not.
Speaker 2: Separate that from that person up there? You realize they
are two different people, right, One kid's way over there
and one guy's up on the stage, two different people.
So after Councilman Graham said, I would think you would
agree that it's that he is an embarrassment to the country.
It's not about the kid, it's Donald I said, in
response to which he then he has never responded.
Speaker 1: To me after this.
Speaker 2: I pointed out that my tweet listed the times that
your fellow Democrats refuse to applaud things that should have
gotten universal applause. I thought Joe Biden was a cognitively
impaired embarrassment. But if he celebrated a kid with brain cancer,
I'd applaud, wouldn't you. Of course you would, because it's
the kid, it's it's his moment, and applauding for that
child doesn't mean anything with regards to your hatred of
Donald Trump and the fact that you can't see that
you deserve everything that you're gonna get now, you do.
You deserve all of it. You deserve every single Democrat
that was in that that was in the Congress last night,
and everybody like Counselman Graham who is defending their behavior.
You deserve everything you're going to get. And I'm talking
about political ads against you, I'm talking about dragging you
on social media because you deserve it.
Speaker 1: You deserve all of it.
Speaker 2: You rob that kid of a moment because you are petty,
petulant children. That kid is more mature than you are.
And I say that as one who and this is
not hyperbolic, literally risked his job arguing against Donald Trump
with his own audience for the better part of four years.
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phones and speak with Tim. Hello, Tim, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Pete, I hope you are too. Thanks
for taking my call, Sir, I didn't want to pull
a zelenskin, not thank you for taking my call. But
you know, Pete, when I watched that address last night, man,
I was like, it really held up the reasons that
I'm not a Democrat and that I cannot align myself
and vote for people who you know, call themselves democrats.
I mean, you know, not to stand up or applaud
a single thing like you said. They didn't have nothing
to do with Donald Trump. And a lot of the
people that Donald Trump recognized what they've suffered tragedies and
misfortunes in life because of the policies, the actions of Democrats.
You know, I mean, it just blew my mind. But
it Pete, I believe I'm gonna be a lifelong Republican
because from what, from what has happened in the last
four years. You know, even when Biden, you know, when
he couldn't find his way off stage and he hid
through the whole, you know, he hid in his basement
when he was running for president, and you know, and
they did all these things, and they lied to us. Well,
Biden's in good shape, but yet he couldn't put two
senses together. He can't find his way off stage. So
we're gonna put him on a bicycle and show you
how fit he is. And he pulls up on the
bicycle and falls over. And you know, they lie to
the American people through all that, and thought that we
couldn't see with our own eyes, and told us what
we were seeing wasn't true. I mean, I'm done with them.
I don't believe I'll ever. You know, I'm ashamed to
say I ever voted Democrat, but in my youth, being
stupid and uninformed, I have. But I just don't see
myself ever going back the other way.
Speaker 2: Well, that's it, you know, Tim, that's a very It's
interesting you brought that up. That's the old adage. You know,
if you are are not a liberal when you're young,
you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative
when you're older, you have no head. And right, but
that's always been that, I mean, that adage, right is
predicated on the idea that Democrats have a heart. And
what we saw last night was like a repudiation of
that thing that was always their brand, that they were sympathetic,
empathetic towards people, right, that they cared. And what we
saw last night was just a complete surrender of that
political position, that branding position.
Speaker 3: But if you pay attention to what they say in
their actions, just like now, I don't know how true
it is, but I heard back during the days when
you know, this country was fighting over slavery or whatever,
the Democrats were defending slavery saying who's going to pick
our crops? That was, you know, when we need them
to pick our cross, we need slaves. And now modern
day they're defending illegal aliens coming in saying, well, who's
going to pick our crops? You know, I mean, it
blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, no, it's true. And that's why, you know,
I've heard it said that.
Speaker 2: You know, Democrats are very angry right now, especially over
the illegal immigration issue, and they haven't been this angry
since the last time Republicans tried to take their slaves right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're they're like little powdy kids, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: I put up with you know, Biden one one way
or another, and he won in twenty twenty. You know,
we had to put up with it. We had to
watch them and I was like, wait and see, and
they proved exactly what I thought would happen. They durned
to run the country in the shambles. Well they did.
And now that we have strong people on with the
right minds to get it back on track.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and there used to be and Tim, I
appreciate the call, buddy, thank you, thank you, Yes, sir,
there used to be a time in my lifetime when
a president won, particularly when a president won the popular
vote and the electoral college, obviously, because that's how you
become president. The popular vote does not make you president,
but when you win both of those things that there
is a deference paid to the fact that this is
the expression of the will of the people, and.
Speaker 1: We don't see that.
Speaker 2: We have not seen that, really, I mean, aside from
a brief moment after nine to eleven, not in my
lifetime have I seen that with a Republican president. And
it is amped up to an entirely different level altogether
under Donald Trump, right, this resistance. We're not going to
let him do what he wants to do, right, but
the people put him there, especially this time. And the thing,
you know, when the speech started last night and al
Green had his Momo mo moment, his moral Monday movement
moment where you know, he got himself tossed out, which
was by design. He did what he intended to do,
which was to be removed because then he can use
that to fundraise in his liberal congressional district back in Texas.
Like this impeding of the work and this refusal to
accept the outcome of the election. And he was objecting
and screaming his head off about Trump not having a mandate.
And of all people, Stephen A. Smith, the sports guy,
he was on the View the other day and Joy
Beare said something about how he doesn't have a mandate,
and Stephen Smith, to his credit, just completely filayed her,
just gutted her right there on her own show. And
he's like, I'm not a supporter Donald Trump's. But the guys,
he won every swing state, He won the popular vote
for the first time a Republican has done so in
like twenty something years, and and he won the electoral College. Right,
the American public are with him on all of these
major issues.
Speaker 1: That's a mandate.
Speaker 2: And you guys are in denial, and you're denying what
most Americans want to see happen, what most Americans agree with.
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me go over now and chat with Marty. Hello, Marty,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Hey Pete, I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I am. How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I was watching last night, Pete, and I I think
I kind of concluded that if you take the Democrat
Party and their ideology of what they are today and
the word freedom, it seems that they're the only organization
that can take the word freedom, oh well, something you
know that allows us to do pretty much what we
want to do and turn it into evil. I mean,
I saw the scows on their face, I saw the
hate in their eyes, I saw the anger. I mean,
it's almost rather just evil people.
Speaker 2: So I try not to ascribe motive to people. All
I can judge them by is their behavior in words,
and their behavior last night was misguided at best and
maybe at worst would be evil.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think like they had organized a plan before where
they said, nobody applaud, We're not going to applaud anything,
and they thought this was going to be a brilliant strategy, right,
and they had all these different ways that they had
organized to protest, right, So it's performative, right, They're trying
to send the message that we hate Donald Trump, which
we know you guys hate Donald Trump. So I think
it's the there is an incompetence that exists in the
Democrat Party all the way up through the ranks for
them not to have realized how bad this would look.
And I think it goes back to you know, I
always say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold, and I
think that because they have been in control of so
many of the institutions of our society for so long
and they never had to make the arguments, and so
they are left now with basically theater kid performances, right,
Like that's what they're doing, and they're not formulating any
actual arguments. They're just acting out. They're throwing tantrums.
Speaker 4: You know, I think though, even if you're trying to
stay on an agenda, and that agenda is that you
don't like Trump and you're not going to clap, if
you got any kind of compassion, you know, in your heart,
a little bit of flicker of it, and there's a
thirteen year old child with cancer and he just totally
snubbed him and ignore him, then your agenda has become
evil in my opinion, because you have now shown and
proven that you don't have any flicker of compassion for
anything other than your own selves.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do wonder because there is an opportunity here for
the Democrats if they want to take it, which is
for them to come out and say, yeah, we didn't
mean for it to come off like that, you know,
like to apologize and say that wasn't our intention. And
you know, we had we had this idea that we
were not going to applaud anything. You know, the White
House didn't give us any advanced copies of the of
the script of the speech, and so we didn't know
who these people were going to be that he recognized,
and we didn't want to, you know, we didn't want to,
you know, go up there and applaud for somebody and
then have Trump say, you know something, as we're applauding,
and you know, trick us basically, But we shouldn't have
done that that way. We would should have been different.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: They could try to clean it up a little bit,
but that would require I think anybody in the legacy
media to ask them right to make them defend their
actions last night, and so far I haven't seen anybody
asking them to do so.
Speaker 4: So well, the only thing that I've seen as far
as the follower from the media so far is and
I can't remember, I think it was NBC, but the
person on there said that, well, it's wonderful that he
wants to be a police officer, but I hope he'll
not be a police officer in a circumstance like Trumpet
in January sixth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he kills himself.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was Nicole Wallace at MSNBC, who's just an awful person,
Like this is how awful she is. John McCain did
not want her at his funeral, Like that's how she's
a former Republican On MSNBC's John McCain, of all people
did not want Nicole Wallace at his funeral. That's how
bad she is so and that yeah, that's what she said, like, oh,
you know, it was a you know, a good story
and all of that. But I just hope he doesn't,
you know, ever work the capital and have a j
six for him and then he ends up killing himself, Like,
oh my gosh, really it's just awful, Marty. I appreciate
the call. Yeah, they're there, and she was trying to
to salvage some sort of moral high ground and you
just don't have it in this.
Speaker 1: You don't have it. All right.
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