1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow 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 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,560 your support. All right, now, I've got like thirty texts here. 10 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:38,679 That's my own fault. I have all of these text 11 00:00:38,679 --> 00:00:43,200 messages because I can't I got thirty one now I 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,079 can't keep up with It's it's like the matrix here. 13 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:52,240 Let me see this all right, So I'm just gonna 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,759 go with These are the ones that just came in here. 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,520 I'm very curious to hear from Charlotte policemen publicly and 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,920 privately about the mayor's election. I don't believe they like 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,640 ender policies at all, says Alan. Susie says, what about independence? 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,760 They outnumber Republicans and maybe even Democrats. They don't not 19 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:12,359 inside city limits. Did they turn out for this election? 20 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,200 Seems like they would be key to either side. Didn't 21 00:01:15,239 --> 00:01:18,680 they swing to Trump last election? Not in Charlotte, the 22 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:23,200 independence So okay, Number one, they're unaffiliateds. I know it's 23 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:26,040 a little thing, but people say, oh, I'm independent, you're not. Okay, 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:32,200 you're unaffiliated. You're not independent, you're unaffiliated. I'm unaffiliated, but unaffiliated. 25 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:33,959 When you look at how they break down, all the 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,920 data shows unaffiliateds vote actually in a more partisan fashion 27 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:45,200 than the registered Republicans and Democrats. So just because you're 28 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,400 labeled unaffiliated doesn't mean you ever vote for the party 29 00:01:48,439 --> 00:01:51,280 that you most closely identify with Number one. Number two, 30 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:56,280 unaffiliateds generally speaking, break half and half. Okay, so it's 31 00:01:56,319 --> 00:02:03,599 a wash, although in Charlotte, I would say it probably 32 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:10,599 breaks like Democrats outnumber Republicans by like a three to 33 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,039 one margin, so I would suspect that unaffiliated also break 34 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,360 in a similar way two to one, three to one 35 00:02:18,439 --> 00:02:23,360 for Democrats. Also, again, these are the data points, and 36 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:25,919 I'm only like, I hate to be the bearer of 37 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,280 the bad news, but I have to tell you that 38 00:02:31,039 --> 00:02:33,680 if you are a conservative, if you are a Republican, 39 00:02:34,159 --> 00:02:37,159 you are not going to have representation in your local government. 40 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:41,120 There isn't going to be anybody there that's going to 41 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,000 espouse anything that you believe in from a policy standpoint, 42 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:52,280 Then you don't have enough numbers. So and Democrats have 43 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,599 drawn the districts such that only one of the seven 44 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:01,599 districts can ever be won by a Republican. Let me 45 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:05,199 see here. I love the show as someone who grew 46 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,199 up in Charlotte since eighty six. We saw the writing 47 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,599 on the wall and moved to Charleston two years ago. 48 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,919 It's sad to say when I go back to visit friends, 49 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,479 I don't miss it or recognize my old neighborhood in Sedgefield. Yes, 50 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:22,680 Sedgefield's gone crazy. This is from Chris. It's not that 51 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,759 people are necessarily happy with the way Democrats run things. 52 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,199 I just believe that the Democrats do such a great 53 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,520 job of convincing people that they are victimized, oppressed, and 54 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,680 that everything that goes wrong in their life is because 55 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,560 of racism. Well, look they are satisfied with You don't 56 00:03:38,639 --> 00:03:42,960 vote all of the incumbents back in unless you think 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,319 they are doing a good job. Right, that's it. People 58 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,080 may have some you know, Oh I want this improved. 59 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,960 Oh I'd like to see this change, but they are 60 00:03:55,039 --> 00:03:59,319 satisfied with the leadership. They're satisfied with the way Charlotte 61 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,319 is and they prefer to have the fight internally inside 62 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:07,719 the Democrat Party. Waiting for you to congratulate me on 63 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,240 the blue wave last night, says Shirley the lefty even 64 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:14,120 District six. Why would I congratulate you on the blue wave? 65 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:20,079 Did you do that? Did you vote in all those places? Also, 66 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:26,079 I'm not sure blue states electing Democrats is signs of 67 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:34,959 a wave, like Virginia's blue and New Jersey is blue. 68 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,560 Like the last New Jersey Republican governor was Chris Christie, 69 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:45,439 right like twenty years ago. It's not. Yeah again, these 70 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,399 are the numbers. Now, the numbers change, you know, and 71 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:51,720 we may see that when more people that are fleeing 72 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,839 from those states, Republicans are fleeing from those states. I mean, 73 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:56,759 look at Florida has picked up all of these seats. 74 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,240 It's gone and it's gone redder, It's picked up a 75 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,439 lot of congression seats because of the population growth, because 76 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:11,480 Republicans are leaving states where they have no representation. Pete, 77 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,079 you are absolutely right about Charlotte Mecklimberg going blue. The 78 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,839 past several years. I have noticed this also. That's why 79 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,199 we no longer live in Mecklinburg County. This is not 80 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,560 just about Trump. People who make that charge are too 81 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:27,000 obsessed with him. We live in Union County. There's a 82 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:32,160 picture of a cat. Thank you that I'll continue to 83 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,079 vote with my wallet. Charlotte didn't have much to offer 84 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,000 my family's lifestyle to start. Now we have to stop 85 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:43,199 buying sports tickets too. So I was thinking about this 86 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:48,120 during the break because I live right at the county line, 87 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:51,879 and so yeah, like, I will now make all of 88 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:56,519 my purchases over in the next county. But does that 89 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:02,000 count also for online purchases because I'm in Mecklenburg, So 90 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,399 if I buy something, it's all Mecklenburg County. It's so 91 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:06,120 I'm going to get I'm going to pay that tax 92 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,759 for online purchases. That stakes no, sorry, Amazon, not going 93 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:22,959 to be using you anymore, Mike says uh. Caller Randall 94 00:06:23,079 --> 00:06:25,879 from the last hour wasn't all that far off. The 95 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,639 first step is for Republicans locally is to grow some 96 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,199 and talk openly about what they believe in programs they support. 97 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,360 We have to be viewed as normal and be more 98 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:38,800 positive and visible. It's not safe or smart for me 99 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,560 to put a Republican sign in my yard. There are 100 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,079 too many consequences, including inside my house. Local organization efforts 101 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,439 aren't good enough. Are there resources that can be shared 102 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,360 so people can get involved? Right? So this speaks to 103 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:57,959 a structural problem inside the GOP that, like the donor class, 104 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,319 inside the GOP does not fund the things that actually work. 105 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,079 Throwing a couple thousand dollars out of particular candidate every 106 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:10,120 other year. That's that's not how you build a long 107 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:17,800 lasting movement, right, you have to build the infrastructure seven 108 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:20,079 oh four number. I'm a Trump voter, but I agree 109 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:22,800 wholeheartedly on your views about Trump wanting to do away 110 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:28,680 with the filibuster. It's not a good idea. Brian. Uh. 111 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,560 Maybe Randall doesn't realize that ICE has to be going 112 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,240 around cities to round up ten million people. Biden let in, 113 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:37,600 he does. It's just talking points. He's just vomiting up 114 00:07:37,839 --> 00:07:40,879 or he was. He kept talking about last night's elections 115 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:43,839 rejecting MAGA. So then we can also say that last 116 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:46,639 November is the rejection of the radical leftist. You're a 117 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,800 saint for taking his call, but it's also very entertaining. Hey, 118 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:55,120 thank you, Brian. Jeff says, thanks for calling out Edwin Peacock. 119 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,519 When I heard him say that last night, I immediately thought 120 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,319 blaming Trump was wrong. Yeah. I don't know how you 121 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,120 would even know that. You're watching election returns come in 122 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,399 and you're like, this is obviously a Trump backlash. Really, 123 00:08:08,519 --> 00:08:12,240 like Republicans have been coming in fifth and sixth place 124 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:17,079 in a five and six member field for a decade. 125 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:19,199 I don't know why this would be on Trump now, 126 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,839 Allen says, this has nothing to do with Trump at all. 127 00:08:27,879 --> 00:08:30,439 There was no reasonable expectation of winning most of these 128 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,159 races nationally in the first place. They have recovered their 129 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,240 own fumble over there on the left and are trying 130 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,440 to make it the play of the game. Off year 131 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,759 elections always benefit the leftist kind of like it's by design. 132 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:44,480 Well that's not always the case. It used to be 133 00:08:44,639 --> 00:08:47,399 the other way around. So now they have gotten a 134 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,919 little wind in them and they can't wait to blow 135 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,720 it out while saying something stupid, Yeah, look they're going 136 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:54,879 to be They're going to be out there spiking the 137 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:59,960 ball today. Absolutely, but this happens. Remember this happened, Glenn. 138 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,720 You let me say this way, Glenn Youngkin was the anomaly, 139 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,000 He's the outlier. Okay. Also, Democrats have kept the federal 140 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,360 government shut down, and northern Virginia is filled with government employees, 141 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:19,159 so like you put them out of work and you 142 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,039 blame Donald Trump and they hate Trump anyway because of 143 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,279 the DOGE cuts and all of that stuff. Also, so yeah, 144 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,120 you've animated that base. Like I said, Virginia is blue. 145 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,840 It's been blue for a while. It's been trending more 146 00:09:32,879 --> 00:09:36,120 and more and more blue for years because it has 147 00:09:36,159 --> 00:09:40,639 such a massive federal workforce that relies on that funding. 148 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:44,840 They make a lot of money. The richest zip codes 149 00:09:44,879 --> 00:09:49,440 are all around DC. So no, that's not a surprise. 150 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,159 Ellen says, it doesn't change the fact that Democrats offer nothing, 151 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,639 no solutions, no resolutions, just emotion, protest, resistance. They have 152 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,879 caused most of our problems. They want more, They want 153 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:06,159 power and access to tax payer money. Mine as well. 154 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,360 Renamed Charlotte little New York. Well, there was a Jeff 155 00:10:10,399 --> 00:10:13,720 Taylor was his name. He was an old blogger in Charlotte. 156 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,039 He used to write the mech deck de c K 157 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:23,919 and he used to call us Detroit on the Catawba, 158 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,080 and that was twenty years ago, but he was very conservative. 159 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,080 What do you think City and County is doing here 160 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,159 in relationship to the increase one percent? They are stealing 161 00:10:34,159 --> 00:10:39,080 from someone, They're they're not stealing from anybody there. They've 162 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,440 taxed us, they've threw it. Well, we've taxed us twenty 163 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,039 two percent of voters decided we're going to raise It's 164 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:48,840 not even twenty two percent because the sales tax actually 165 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:52,639 only won by like four points. That was a very 166 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:57,679 slim majority win. And I heard Pat McCrory last night 167 00:10:57,759 --> 00:11:00,399 with Bow and Beth on the air here and he's like, 168 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,559 that's not really a mandate, you know, and and that 169 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:08,799 I agree with him. When they put these things up 170 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,279 to voters in the past, they won more comfortably. My 171 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,960 recollection was they won more comfortably than what we saw 172 00:11:15,039 --> 00:11:20,759 last night. So like, that's that's not a lot of 173 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:24,440 support for the plan. I know it's fifty four percent 174 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,159 and you got your tax, but there's going to be 175 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:33,840 a lot of eyes watching this thing now. Younger generations 176 00:11:33,879 --> 00:11:37,600 want others to pay for them. So do the older generations. 177 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:43,159 Though the older ones, Hello, Like, what do you think 178 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,679 this shut down in the subsidies for Obamacare all about 179 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,679 it's for people of you know, who are older and 180 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,960 of higher economic income brackets that are getting subsidies for 181 00:11:55,039 --> 00:11:58,440 their healthcare benefits, which I was told when they rammed 182 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,840 it through on a partisan vote that Democrats told us 183 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:03,879 that this was supposed to lower all of our costs, 184 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:07,240 and in fact it has exploded costs exactly as Republicans 185 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:11,679 said it would. So now everybody wants stuff from other people, 186 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,759 and that's the problem. And it's amazing that anybody who 187 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:17,759 comes along and says I'm not going to steal from 188 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:20,720 other people and give it to you win any elections 189 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:23,879 at all. I mean, it really is pretty amazing, Like 190 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,519 I'm offering you nothing, all right, if you're listening to 191 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,080 this show, you know I try to keep up with 192 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,240 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, 193 00:12:32,399 --> 00:12:34,840 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 194 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,559 multiple sources. 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Because Trump came out last night 214 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,799 and this morning and is saying, well, you need to 215 00:13:51,799 --> 00:13:53,919 get rid of the filibuster so I can get everything done. 216 00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:58,240 It's like, oh, that's such a dumb idea. No, I 217 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:00,960 was against it when Democrats tried to do it, and 218 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,919 wanted to do it so they could pack the Supreme 219 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:05,879 Court and they could add a bunch of states so 220 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:08,879 they can get themselves a permanent majority. They could grant 221 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:15,120 amnesty to illegal aliens. No, could you comment on why 222 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,120 the Republicans don't just enforce the filibuster rules to require 223 00:14:19,159 --> 00:14:21,759 the Democrats that have to actually physically stand and deliver 224 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:25,120 the filibuster speeches until they drop, rather than not requiring 225 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:28,679 anybody other than the threat or anything other than the threat. 226 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,679 I've been saying that for years. If you want to 227 00:14:30,679 --> 00:14:34,480 get rid of the legislative filibuster, then you have to 228 00:14:34,639 --> 00:14:37,799 make it so they actually speak. But getting rid of 229 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:43,080 the filibuster as a tool then completely disarms the minority. 230 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,360 And if you think Republicans are not going to be 231 00:14:45,399 --> 00:14:48,799 in the minority sometime in the very near future, you're crazy. 232 00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:52,080 They will be. The Senate has flipped control, the House 233 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,000 has flipped control. Why would you think it would be 234 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,960 any different again, unless you're going to end the filibus 235 00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:03,480 and then put up all sorts of walls to prevent 236 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:09,200 Democrats somehow from ever winning control or blocking them preemptively 237 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:12,279 from trying to do things like putting it into law 238 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,960 that the Supreme Court is only nine seats and shall 239 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,159 never be more than nine seats unless there is an 240 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:21,440 affirmative vote in both the House and Senate of you know, 241 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:24,519 seventy five percent approval or something like that. Unless you 242 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:28,279 write the law like that, then I'd like this, this 243 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:35,120 is such a fool's Errand let me see here from 244 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:41,399 the text line vy Lyles, Yeah, I just heard a 245 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,759 SoundBite of her from the news where she's like, now 246 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:45,759 I'm gonna be a I'm gonna be a better mayor. Like, 247 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,000 oh my gosh, this woman just won with like seventy 248 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:49,440 percent of the vote and she's like, I'm going to 249 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:54,440 be a better mayor. Now that's quite that's quite the admission. 250 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,159 You know, I deserve all five of my terms. My goodness. 251 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:05,320 How's that for strong language from vy Lyles? Crime is important. 252 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,000 We need to have a conversation, We need to be inclusive. Yeah, 253 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 what could be stronger? Yeah? But the chamber likes her. 254 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:17,399 I guess the establishment likes her. Everybody I know who's 255 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,519 moved down from New York or role Republicans and vote Republican. 256 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,240 Maybe that's just everybody down here in Union County that 257 00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:25,519 moved from New York. Yeah, I mean chances are well, 258 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:28,080 I mean that's the thing I think. If people are 259 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:33,399 moving from a state like New York and they are 260 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,240 Republicans in New York. Chances are they move to a 261 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:43,639 jurisdiction in North Carolina that is more Republican. They're like, 262 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:49,559 why would you leave New York City and move to Charlotte? Right, 263 00:16:50,279 --> 00:16:52,840 if you're a Republican, why would you do that? You're 264 00:16:52,879 --> 00:16:57,000 just moving to it Like a same scenario. The people 265 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,679 who are moving into Charlotte are moving from these other 266 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,519 cities and they are Democrats. Democrats that can no longer 267 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:08,720 afford to live under the rules that they have promoted, 268 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,960 the policies they have endorsed, the candidates they have elected. Right, 269 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,960 they set up those cities for the failures, and then 270 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,240 they flee them and come to a different city and 271 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,079 proceed to vote for the exact same thing. That's the problem. 272 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:26,359 That's why we were trying to come up with a 273 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:34,359 name for this phenomenon, like bluemonia, where it infects the host. 274 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:38,359 It's parasitic, is what it is. It's parasitic. Here's a 275 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,279 great idea. How about making an escape to a really 276 00:17:41,319 --> 00:17:44,559 special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a 277 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,240 quick drive up the mountain and cabins of Asheville is 278 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:51,160 your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe 279 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,519 you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family 280 00:17:53,559 --> 00:17:56,240 and friends together for a big old reunion. 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Alrighty, I've got all 297 00:18:55,079 --> 00:18:58,240 this stuff on New York City, on Virginia, on New Jersey. 298 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:00,839 But all I've been talking about really is, well, we 299 00:19:01,079 --> 00:19:07,079 have touched on the filibuster a little bit, but mainly 300 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:15,759 it's been Charlotte Mecklimber overall, though, And I think this 301 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,319 is going to be a well, it's the redistricting fight. 302 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,119 That's one of the one of the losses in the 303 00:19:24,839 --> 00:19:29,200 Virginia race is that Democrats flipped a bunch of seats. 304 00:19:29,279 --> 00:19:34,319 They won the governor's race, lieutenant governor's race, attorney general, right, 305 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,920 so they are fully blue, deep blue, and they will 306 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:45,799 be redistricting as well. Now, California's ballot measure that passed, 307 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,839 and so they're going to be oh in the north 308 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,960 or sorry. The California GOP has already filed a lawsuit 309 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:55,200 over that, but it's California, so I doubt they'll win 310 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,240 because Democrat judges, I don't even know that. I don't 311 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,759 even know if it as any but you know, they 312 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,119 they went to voters to basically ignore their constitution. Please 313 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,079 let us ignore the constitutional requirement to have an independent 314 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,440 redistricting commission draw the districts just temporarily, just this one time, 315 00:20:15,599 --> 00:20:19,200 or maybe two or something and led us to our maps, 316 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:24,359 which will cut the number of Republican representatives in California 317 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:31,799 from nine down to four. Hugh hewittt talk show host. 318 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:36,680 He said GOP legislators have got to see the flare 319 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:41,359 going up. Redistricting is not a choice to be debated anymore, 320 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,400 but a necessary duty to be done if they believe 321 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,759 in center right to conservative policy. California and Virginia are 322 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,359 going to out jerrymander Texas. Where red states can help 323 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,759 keep the House GOP majority, they have to act. Jerrymandering 324 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,039 is in the Democrats genes. Look at mass Choosetts, look 325 00:21:01,079 --> 00:21:05,200 at Illinois. There is zero upside to losing for fear 326 00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:10,119 of offending coastal elites, draw districts to win seats, or 327 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,680 prepare for Mamdani madness to take control of the House. 328 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:18,880 In January twenty twenty seven, US Senator Katie Britt from 329 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,960 Alabama said, tonight Democrats elected a communist to run the 330 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,640 financial capital of the world and an attorney general who's 331 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,279 on the record fantasizing about murdering children. These elections aren't 332 00:21:29,279 --> 00:21:32,359 a referendum on where the country is. They're a referendum 333 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,359 on where the Democrat Party is. And I agree with 334 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:43,440 both of those sentiments. The turmoil that this country is 335 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:49,480 going to get put through when Democrats take back control 336 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:53,599 of the House under a Trump presidency in twenty twenty six, 337 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:59,440 well twenty seven, really beginning of the year, they're going 338 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,799 to impeach again, maybe three times, you know whatever, just 339 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:06,480 run up the score as much as they can, lots 340 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:11,400 of subpoenas, investigations, not to mention thwarting his entire agenda. However, 341 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,920 they can look for more government shutdowns and such which, 342 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:21,319 by the way, that's now clear that the shutdown Democrats 343 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:28,160 use the shutdown to mobilize their voters in Virginia Jersey, right, 344 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,079 And that's why I call it the Hamas strategy. They 345 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:36,559 were willing to starve their own people in order to 346 00:22:38,599 --> 00:22:41,559 in order to win the pr battle. And now we 347 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:45,559 get reports that Schumer said, no, wait till after the election. 348 00:22:46,279 --> 00:22:49,079 Dick Durbin wanted to break ranks. He said, don't do it. 349 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:55,799 We've got now Democrats senators who are reportedly now making 350 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:04,200 overtures to the Republicans. Hey, let's talk now, right. No, No, 351 00:23:04,559 --> 00:23:08,119 you can sign the clean CR. You guys played this game. 352 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,240 You guys did this. Sign on to the clean CR. 353 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:13,400 Now you got what you wanted. You got your little 354 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,160 blue wave, which was expected by the way, because these 355 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,519 were all blue states. But like you got your election victories. 356 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:24,240 Now it's time for you to cave. If you're not 357 00:23:24,279 --> 00:23:26,200 going to cave and you're not gonna support the clean 358 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:28,000 CR and you're not going to work for whatever these 359 00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:31,839 other things are, like, run on a campaign, right, run 360 00:23:31,839 --> 00:23:35,920 a campaign that. Sorry, we didn't actually fix healthcare. Sorry, 361 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,160 we actually made it worse. Sorry we didn't on the 362 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,279 three occasions when we had the opportunity to make the 363 00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:45,720 subsidies permanent, we did not do so. Sorry we didn't 364 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,960 do any of that. But we will totally do it. Now. 365 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:57,079 Use that as your campaign platform. What is this? Oh Alex? 366 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,480 Hello Alex, Welcome to the show. H How are you doing? Okay? 367 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,799 I have a name for the spreading liberalism and Marxism 368 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,079 that's overtaken the country. I call it blue Rot. No, 369 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,440 that's a good one. Blue Rot. I saw what was 370 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:16,920 the one? Uh it was called Gang Green. But Gang blue, 371 00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:18,880 I think is what somebody called it yesterday as well. 372 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,960 That was another good one. Yeah, all right, Alex, I 373 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,559 appreciate the call. Yeah, it's just this, it's parasitic. It 374 00:24:25,559 --> 00:24:29,119 comes into a city that's been built up. I went 375 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,480 over this with Charlotte. Republicans aided and abetted it. The 376 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:35,920 Chamber of Commerce aided and abetted it, made Charlotte attractive, 377 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,000 handed out a bunch of services for free. Quick story. 378 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,440 I was at a county commission meeting back when Republicans 379 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,000 were in control and they were trying to trim the budget, 380 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,839 and a guy came down there and spoke in the 381 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:55,640 public hearing. He said, I'm homeless. I'm from Cincinnati. Don't 382 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,519 cut any of the homeless services, don't cut any of 383 00:24:58,519 --> 00:25:05,079 my benefits. You have such a good program and safety 384 00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:07,640 net here for me, all of these benefits for me. 385 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,519 That's why I told my brother, who's also homeless in Cincinnati, 386 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,559 that he should come down to and he has. That 387 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,640 was fifteen years ago. The writing was on the wall here, 388 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,880 you know, Republicans kept pointing this out, like you can't, 389 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,200 this is not sustainable, and here we are. You know, 390 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:31,799 stories are powerful. They help us make sense. Of things 391 00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:35,279 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 392 00:25:35,319 --> 00:25:38,640 our past while transcending generations. They help us process the 393 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,119 meaning of life and art. Stories are told through images 394 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,960 and videos. 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As a native, 412 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,720 I have been warning the Charlotte Uptown booster crowd since 413 00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:54,319 the early nineties to be very careful what they wish for. 414 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,000 Charlotte was a wonderful city to grow up in the 415 00:26:57,039 --> 00:27:00,480 seventies and eighties, but the booster crowd wasn't satid, and 416 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:02,559 surely there was tons of money to be made, so 417 00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:04,440 they put out the big beacon. And as you said, 418 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,480 it wasn't just the desirables with money in industry they 419 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,480 expected to come. And eventually the parasites got wind of 420 00:27:10,519 --> 00:27:13,960 this wonderful store of unprotected assets, and here we are, 421 00:27:14,319 --> 00:27:19,680 very sad and very unnecessary. No. Look, I understand like 422 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,119 people who are from here have memories of the way 423 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,839 it was, but I've also been here in the area 424 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,799 since nineteen ninety two, and Uptown Charlotte was not exactly 425 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,720 great shakes in the nineties, okay, So we would rarely 426 00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:39,400 ever come to Charlotte for anything. Living in rock Hill 427 00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:43,119 we would like, And when I first got here, wasn't 428 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,960 a lot happening in uptown. But that changed, that changed, 429 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,279 and it's starting to change again. And you know, I'm 430 00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:56,079 of the philosophy that cities, like any kind of organism, 431 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,519 they well, I guess mammal. They breathe, they inhale, they exhale, 432 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:04,400 they grow, they shrink. It's like all things in life, 433 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,160 almost like there's some sort of a unifying theory there 434 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:16,839 of life and creation. Anyway, So I think cities kind 435 00:28:16,839 --> 00:28:21,799 of they expand and contract, they breathe, they die, and 436 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,039 we see examples of it all over the place, and 437 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,440 I think, I don't know. I'm like, I'm afraid. We saw, 438 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,880 you know, Charlotte with the inhale, and now what they inhaled, 439 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:40,960 maybe maybe choking them. Regarding the shutdown, the Senate Republicans 440 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,599 pointing out that Democrats are solely responsible for the skyrocketing 441 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:49,839 health premiums. No Republicans voted for Obamacare or the Biden 442 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,960 COVID bonuses. We are happy to discuss why Obamacare is failing, 443 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,720 but Democrats must reopen the government first. That's very clear, 444 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:04,200 and that's true. And Democrats may be willing to do 445 00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:07,599 it now that they got their turnout in the election yesterday, 446 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,240 they got past the No King's rally. They didn't want 447 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,079 to anger that radical base. They didn't want to paint 448 00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:18,039 any targets on themselves, so they kept the government shut 449 00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:20,640 down through the No King's Rally, then through election day, 450 00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:24,240 and now we are getting reports now they are interested 451 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,680 in coming to the table and ending the shutdown. And 452 00:29:28,759 --> 00:29:34,519 I say give them nothing. If you wanted, if you 453 00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:38,759 want to discuss how you broke healthcare and how it 454 00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:42,640 can be fixed, we can have that discussion, but it 455 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,920 is not part of a clean cr You would be 456 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:55,400 rewarding the Hamas tactics. Meanwhile, out of Kansas, the top 457 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,359 Republican in the House says he's dropping the effort to 458 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:04,640 force a redraw of the congressional districts. The announcement was 459 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,559 made by Speaker Dan Hawkins. It ended a week's long 460 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:12,480 push by GOP lawmakers to circumvent the Democrat Governor Laura 461 00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,920 Kelly and call themselves into a special session on redistricting, 462 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,319 which could have convened on Friday. It would have targeted 463 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,440 four term US Representative Sharise Davids. She's the only Democrat 464 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,039 in the state's four person House delegation. Now, Republicans still 465 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:37,599 could draw a map, and the state Senate president promised 466 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,480 that it would be a top priority early next year, 467 00:30:42,559 --> 00:30:46,440 and they can do it early next year. The constitution 468 00:30:46,559 --> 00:30:50,400 allowed Republicans to bypass the governor's refusal to call for 469 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,079 a special session if they got two thirds of the 470 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:56,559 members of both chambers to sign a petition. So it 471 00:30:56,599 --> 00:31:01,079 seems like they're dropping that, but they are able to 472 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,920 come back when they are in regular session and do 473 00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:07,880 it then, so we'll keep an eye on that. There 474 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:13,599 is some good news from yesterday for Republicans and anybody 475 00:31:13,599 --> 00:31:18,519 who believes in voter integrity. Voters in Texas approved a 476 00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:27,599 ballid question that required citizenship to vote, which sounds crazy 477 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,480 that you would actually have to put that up for 478 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:37,599 a vote to only allow citizens to vote. And when 479 00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:41,880 North Carolina ran this same question, we heard people on 480 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,920 the left and the media, but I repeat myself saying, well, 481 00:31:46,079 --> 00:31:49,680 federal election law already requires you to be a citizen, 482 00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:57,039 and that is true. However, there are things called local elections, 483 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:01,920 and we have seen cities around the country blue cities 484 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,799 start to implement a more lax attitude where if you 485 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,759 are an illegal alien, you too can vote in your 486 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:16,519 local races. And that's now not going to happen in Texas, 487 00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:21,200 so good for them all. Right. That'll do it for 488 00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:23,960 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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