1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 I daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeatclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,440 your support. We had a caller, Steve, but I didn't 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,479 have time to get to him beforehand. And I don't 11 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,039 know if he dropped off or our phones are dropping people, 12 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:38,759 So I apologize if it's our phone system. Not sure 13 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:41,640 what's going on. But Alan is on the line and 14 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:44,039 now joins the program. Hello, Alan, welcome to the show. 15 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:45,799 Speaker 2: Hey, how are you doing? 16 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,439 Speaker 1: Hey? I'm good. What's going on? Well? 17 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,359 Speaker 2: I would like to project a nomination to the listeners 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,119 of the nomination for mayor. 19 00:00:57,119 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Okay, for which city? 20 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: Well it'll be for w BT. We need to nominate 21 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:08,599 Tee Solendar for mayor of real Will we need to 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,920 we need to make this happen. 23 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,799 Speaker 1: Well, there's only one mayor of Realville and that was 24 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:19,079 Rush Limbaugh, So I would accept. I would accept a 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,079 nomination for Aldermen, though I could be Aldermen. 26 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, well Rush has been gone. Yeah, I think he 27 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,000 would gladly hand that gavel off to you. 28 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: And because well, I appreciate the kind words. I would 29 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,359 never presume to know that, but I appreciate the sentiment. Uh. 30 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:42,760 And look, Rush Limbaugh formed a lot of my a 31 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,920 lot of the way I, uh, the way I do 32 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,480 the show. The way he tried to have, you know, 33 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:52,879 have fun doing the show, because like I remember the 34 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,040 early days especially, it was just funny. There were a 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,000 lot of things that were funny, the bits that he 36 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,719 did and all of that, and so I try to, 37 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,079 you know, I try to be humorous. But uh, you know, 38 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,280 he definitely influenced my trajectory. And I would not have 39 00:02:08,319 --> 00:02:11,080 this job right now but for him just working in 40 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:14,120 AM radio for as long as I have, this medium 41 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:15,960 was dead before him. 42 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: Okay, well i'd be sheriff. 43 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,759 Speaker 1: Oh there you go. Yeah, and then I would cooperate 44 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:28,319 with Ice. All right, Alan, I appreciate the call, buddy, 45 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:32,159 thank you. All right, all right, take it easy. I 46 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:34,319 will go ahead and get to a couple of these messages. 47 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,680 So I made a comment in the last hour, and 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,840 I wrote a obed about this. It was over at 49 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:43,439 the Blaze before the election, and this is how I 50 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,800 came to UH to decide to vote for Donald Trump. 51 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,280 He is the only major party candidate that I've ever 52 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,479 voted for for president ever. And I did that because 53 00:02:57,719 --> 00:03:00,080 my view of the media, the role of the me 54 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:08,080 is rooted in the constitution right. The press is responsible 55 00:03:08,159 --> 00:03:11,639 for educating the citizens so we can self govern. And 56 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,520 if you have media, you have press that fails to 57 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,479 do so, then that actually harms the democracy, if you will. 58 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:25,919 And I know what I'm going to get with a 59 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,840 Donald Trump presidency and a you know, Kamala Harris presidency. 60 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,280 With regards to the media coverage, I knew what I 61 00:03:33,319 --> 00:03:40,840 was going to get. I was going to get over examination, overreach, misconstruing, motivation, 62 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:46,319 all of that stuff with Donald Trump. Absolutely, But I 63 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,159 also knew I wasn't going to get anything with Harris. 64 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,960 I was not going to get anything except cover ups 65 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,000 and glamour pieces, hay geographies. I was not going to 66 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:04,080 get any kind of accountability for a Harris administration. And 67 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:07,280 so when presented with those two options, I didn't know 68 00:04:07,479 --> 00:04:11,560 any other way to punish the media for the way 69 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,479 they've been behaving during the Biden presidency with the cover up. 70 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:18,240 I said it the other day last week. It's to me, 71 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:24,160 it's the biggest scandal in American political history, the cover 72 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,360 up of Joe Biden. It is up there with the 73 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:31,240 cover up of Woodrow Wilson. Right, It's like it's worse 74 00:04:31,319 --> 00:04:34,959 than the FDR cover up. At least at that point, 75 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,439 we were in a war, you know, and there were 76 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:41,959 people that knew they just didn't take his picture. They'd 77 00:04:41,959 --> 00:04:45,319 have him sitting down or whatever. But when you have 78 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,560 a president and that was just a physical infirmity. If 79 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:53,480 Joe Biden's infirmity was only physical, it wouldn't be that bad. 80 00:04:53,519 --> 00:04:57,839 But he had mental decline, mental cognitive decline, and you 81 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:02,040 had a media apparatus that that protected him by not 82 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,920 telling the people about it as he was going to 83 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,720 seek another term. That is scandalous. And at that point 84 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:15,199 it's like, Okay, you cannot be trusted at all. You 85 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,959 have to be punished somehow. So I know you're not 86 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,560 going to do this for a Democrat president. So I'm 87 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,240 going to give you the Republican and it's Trump and 88 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,600 I know you're going to You're going to quote hold 89 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,560 him accountable. You're going to go after him, and I'm 90 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,240 going to disagree with the way you do so sure, 91 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,600 But with a Trump executive overreach and a Harris executive overreach, 92 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:43,000 only one scenario protects the people more than the other, 93 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:48,040 and that is a Trump executive If Trump overreaches, I 94 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,639 know the media is going to go after him. If 95 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,800 Harris does, I know they won't. And that's the danger, 96 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:59,399 that's the actual danger to democracy. So Joseph asked me 97 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:04,519 that he didn't get the logic behind that argument. So 98 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,000 I think I fleshed it out there, and it is 99 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,120 of concern when I see Trump doing executive orders. I 100 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,920 have been on the record for years. I do not 101 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,480 like these executive orders of any kind. I don't like 102 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,120 them when they start trying to write law, just like 103 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,800 I don't like it when courts try to write law. 104 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,720 We have a branch of government to do that. Now, 105 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,279 just because those lawmakers have decided they want, you know, 106 00:06:27,759 --> 00:06:32,040 to do TikTok videos instead of legislate, that doesn't mean 107 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:36,199 that that power goes over to the executive or to 108 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:41,920 the judicial branches. You don't get to write laws. So, 109 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,199 and this is not an indictment on everything. All the 110 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,040 executive orders Trump has done, some of them I think 111 00:06:46,079 --> 00:06:49,000 are perfectly fine, and some of them I understand. What 112 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,839 he's doing is to try to force the issue into 113 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:55,920 the courts to get the rulings. And what was it 114 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:59,439 on the birthright citizenship issue? We covered that in depth 115 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:03,160 last week. You know the pros and cons of those 116 00:07:03,319 --> 00:07:09,439 arguments and the history of it. But the Congress somebody 117 00:07:09,439 --> 00:07:13,480 introduced a bill to end birthright citizenship and that is 118 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:17,959 the appropriate mechanism to go through. And so if his 119 00:07:18,079 --> 00:07:24,480 executive order induces this kind of response, then okay. But 120 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,319 you know, like Biden wiping away debt for student loans, 121 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,519 you don't get to do that. You don't get to 122 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,040 do that. And the media treated it as if it 123 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:38,720 was completely within the boundaries of the norms and it 124 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,600 was not. It is not, so like that's where that 125 00:07:44,079 --> 00:07:48,240 So that's how I got to that got to that decision. 126 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,759 And then who's this from Thomas who says the modern 127 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,720 big media speaking truth to power. Really this sounds pretty 128 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,600 hollow right now. I guess the reporters you are reporting 129 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:02,720 on are doing just that. But I guess they don't 130 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,560 have to stipulate who, what, when, where, why, and the 131 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:08,959 important how in a timely fashion. Yeah. And the same 132 00:08:08,959 --> 00:08:12,680 thing occurs when these reporters get embedded into campaigns and 133 00:08:12,759 --> 00:08:19,040 they they they omit details and stories that they learn 134 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:24,040 during the campaign that the public should know about before 135 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,240 casting a vote for or against that person. But the 136 00:08:27,319 --> 00:08:30,879 reporters sit on it so then they could write the 137 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,360 book afterwards and get people to write or to buy 138 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:40,000 their books. Right, So they're covering up stories that the 139 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,320 public should know in order to make money. I find 140 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:49,240 that to be completely inappropriate, highly unethical, and this is 141 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,200 sort of par for the course now in our modern 142 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,039 media landscape. Thomas goes on to say, finally, I guess 143 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,240 it depends on who you are speaking the truth to 144 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,919 and about. Truth about conservatives, yes, truth about liberals in 145 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,159 the swamp no. Yeah. I think that was what those 146 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,879 reporters were were outlining, is that when it came to 147 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:13,039 certain stories about the Biden family, politico from came from 148 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,399 up on high. As one reporter said, like this was 149 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,840 the mandate that came down. 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Hello, John, 176 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:56,519 Manny Johnston, Yes, GP, Yeah, what's up? 177 00:10:56,759 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going? I'm going to be hey, I 178 00:10:59,039 --> 00:11:00,679 just want to say, I'm I know you were kind 179 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,480 of ragging on the legacy media covering up for Biden. 180 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,000 I think they were actually covering up for the pullet Bureau. 181 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,200 I don't think we've had that's fair. 182 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: Now, that's fair. 183 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,759 Speaker 3: See now since president and we've been a country being 184 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,600 run by committee with nobody able to say, yeah, this 185 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,799 is my decision, et cetera. And like you said earlier, 186 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,039 with Trump, you know, no president's going to know everything 187 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,600 that's going on everywhere, but he does a heck of 188 00:11:27,639 --> 00:11:30,960 a lot more than Biden ever did. And yeah, it 189 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,320 was a bunch of radical left progressive Committee members that 190 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,080 have been running our country for the last two and 191 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,480 a half three years and look where it's gotten this. 192 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:40,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and look, I mean, say what you 193 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,600 want about Barack Obama and his policies, but nobody had 194 00:11:43,639 --> 00:11:46,240 any doubt that he was in command. That he like, 195 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,639 if there was an executive order signed that that was 196 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,399 his signature, he read it, he understood it. This was 197 00:11:52,399 --> 00:11:55,360 something he wanted to do. But we played the clip 198 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:59,120 from House speaker Mike Johnson where he talked about going 199 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:02,120 into me with Biden and talking about Liquid Natural Gas 200 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,399 band and Biden said, no, no, I just signed it 201 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,720 in order to study it. He didn't even know what 202 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,360 he had signed. So, yeah, like, this is the problem 203 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,519 is that, Yeah, Joe Biden was not in command. And 204 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,159 then the next natural question is, well, who was and 205 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:19,960 who was putting stuff in front of him, who was 206 00:12:20,039 --> 00:12:22,840 drafting it? Why were these things being done? And yeah, 207 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,960 so the media covering up for the cognitive decline of 208 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:31,320 Joe Biden necessitates the follow up stories of who's actually 209 00:12:31,399 --> 00:12:32,279 doing this stuff? 210 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, and I know everybody's upset about 211 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,279 the J six pardons, but here's the deal, you know, 212 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,840 with Biden parting the Jay six Committee. I do think 213 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,360 he's left open the door for people to go look 214 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:48,639 at who was responsible for keeping his condition away from 215 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,039 the public. To me, that's probably more dangerous than any 216 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,440 of those other events. Well, if I'm a president that's 217 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:55,279 not in command. 218 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go back last week and pull the podcast, 219 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,320 we covered the story in debt that was written up 220 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:05,720 by the New York Times and uh they did actually 221 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,240 two stories, one with Schumer and talking about how like 222 00:13:10,279 --> 00:13:13,120 the Democrats in the Senate they knew, like they they 223 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:18,120 were pressuring Chuck Schumer before Joe Biden bailed, right, but 224 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,639 they they were like, we need uh, we need you know, 225 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,279 he's not talking to us. We don't have confidence in him, 226 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,679 we don't think he's leading, and all like the Democrats 227 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:27,919 in the Senate knew what was up. And the other 228 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,600 New York Times story talked about the six people that 229 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,159 were the closest around Joe Biden, and they were the 230 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:38,879 ones that were managing the affairs. They were the ones 231 00:13:38,919 --> 00:13:43,320 that were in charge. And it includes Jill Biden, it 232 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:49,799 includes Donalin. I remember Mike donaldin I think is his name. 233 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:51,720 I think Hunter Biden was in there. So like he 234 00:13:51,759 --> 00:13:53,960 had these six people around him, and they were the 235 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,120 ones that managed it, and they were the ones that 236 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,679 that blocked access. Yeah, and that's why I say it's 237 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,840 it's a huge scandal. And I'm hoping, you know, some 238 00:14:04,039 --> 00:14:06,799 media outlet now can write the story because he's out 239 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,960 and Harris is out, and so now maybe somebody will 240 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,559 write the story that they should have written three years ago. 241 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:12,279 But we'll see. 242 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:13,759 Speaker 3: Well, let's keep our fingers crusted. 243 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we'll see. John. I appreciate the call man, 244 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:21,240 all right, thanks, yep, you too. So I said at 245 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:27,480 the beginning, what a difference a week makes. And I'm 246 00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:31,120 gonna throw something out there, all right, if you are 247 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:33,879 a friend of mine, or let's say, okay, if you 248 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:39,399 are my neighbor, and we have an agreement that you know, 249 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:42,639 I won't throw a bunch of garbage in your yard 250 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:46,679 and you won't throw a bunch of your trash into 251 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,120 my yard, right, and so we have this agreement and 252 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,720 most of the time, you don't even have to kind 253 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:55,559 of articulate this. It's just understood. Like you share a 254 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,000 property line on the lawn, and you know I'll mow 255 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,399 my side, you mow your side, and every now and 256 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,159 again I'll I may, you know, do a little weed 257 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,440 whacking to help out on your side or whatever. But 258 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,799 it's an amicable arrangement where we both kind of benefit. Now, 259 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:14,720 if I throw my trash over into your yard and 260 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:19,559 you say, pete, take that garbage and move it back 261 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:24,919 onto your property, and then I say no. And then 262 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,720 when you scoop up all the garbage and you try 263 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,600 to you try to bring it back onto my property, 264 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:34,320 I prevent you from coming back on my property. You 265 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,519 have now or I in this situation, I have now 266 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:42,200 changed the nature of this relationship. So if we are 267 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,720 being neighborly or we are being friendly, I would not 268 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:49,000 do that to you in the first place. And if 269 00:15:49,039 --> 00:15:52,960 you attempt to clean up the mess and give the 270 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:56,360 trash back to me for me to dispose of properly, 271 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:01,879 then and I refuse, then the nature of our relationship 272 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:07,039 is fundamentally altered. And that is what has occurred with 273 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:12,600 the US relationship with Columbia, right, And so Columbia, you 274 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,080 don't get to have a bunch of your people come 275 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,120 to a friendly country such as America. We are friendly 276 00:16:20,159 --> 00:16:22,320 with Columbia. You don't get to have a bunch of 277 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,519 your people come and then we were like, hey, these 278 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:28,200 are criminals. We've arrested them. They weren't supposed to be 279 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,360 in our country. We're giving them back to you. And 280 00:16:30,399 --> 00:16:33,759 if Columbia says no, well now where we are, we 281 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,919 are in a different relationship. And that's what happened over 282 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,559 the weekend. But I eventually took the I did take 283 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,200 the trash back. All right. I hope you had a 284 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:46,879 happy holiday season. But tell me if something like this 285 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,240 happened at your house. 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Columbia backs down on accepting deepes 306 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:07,160 on military planes after Trump's tariff's threats. So Columbia backstown. 307 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,319 Here is how Euroews, the European Broadcasting Union, here's how 308 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:17,799 they said. The US backs down on tariffs after Columbia 309 00:18:17,839 --> 00:18:24,880 agrees to deportation flights. So note the different framing. CNN 310 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:29,359 says Columbia backs down, but Euronews says the US Backstown. 311 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,359 But the US is backing down after Columbia agrees to 312 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,759 do what the US said. So is that is that 313 00:18:38,839 --> 00:18:43,039 the US backing down there? Euronews. Now the German government, 314 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,119 they put out a what they call their news compact, 315 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:54,039 and they said USA and Columbia settle tariff dispute. Is 316 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:56,440 that what it was? Was it a tariff dispute. I 317 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,039 don't think it was a tariff dispute. I think it 318 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:04,680 was a dispute over whether or not Columbia would allow 319 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:13,400 the repatriation the return of its own citizens. Right. So 320 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,680 here's CNN. Columbia has walked back from the brink of 321 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,039 a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an 322 00:19:20,039 --> 00:19:25,440 agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes 323 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,000 after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that 324 00:19:29,079 --> 00:19:33,839 included steep tariffs. By the way, I think that this 325 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:38,920 focus on the use of the military planes. I think 326 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,720 this is the this is their excuse. I think they're 327 00:19:42,799 --> 00:19:45,440 using this as an excuse. They're like, if it was 328 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,279 on a commercial flight, I mean, first class travel, we 329 00:19:48,279 --> 00:19:50,480 would have been totally fine with it. I know you 330 00:19:50,519 --> 00:19:53,839 would not. Okay, no, you would not. If you are 331 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,079 a friendly country with US, and you're enjoying the trade 332 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,680 benefits of being a friendly country with us, then you 333 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:06,799 should not be sending people to our country illegally. And 334 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:12,519 most importantly, if we catch some of these criminals that 335 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:16,200 have come from your country and have come to our country, 336 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,799 and we are like, we don't want these people. Take 337 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:21,599 them back. You don't get to say no, and you 338 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,640 darn shore don't get to say, well, it's because they're 339 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,039 traveling by military plane. Now it doesn't matter, they're yours, 340 00:20:27,079 --> 00:20:31,480 these are your citizens. You take them back. So Columbia 341 00:20:31,599 --> 00:20:34,799 said that it wasn't going to take them back on 342 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,559 the military planes. They would not allow the military planes 343 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:41,519 to enter Columbia. And that's when Trump said, well, then 344 00:20:41,559 --> 00:20:43,599 we'll slap you with a bunch of tariffs. And then 345 00:20:43,599 --> 00:20:45,799 Colombia's like, oh yeah, well we'll slap you with some 346 00:20:45,839 --> 00:20:48,640 tariffs too, and then Trump is like, well the tariffs 347 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,160 just got ten feet taller. And then they're like, okay, fine, 348 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,440 we'll take the We'll take them back. That's that's what happened. 349 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,880 And one of the things that I find notable in 350 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:06,759 this entire drama as it played out was that there 351 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:11,079 seems to be very little recognition that a trade war 352 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:16,960 or tariff battle between the United States and Columbia would 353 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:21,759 hurt Columbia as well. Like I understand how tariffs work, 354 00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:25,480 I am not of the opinion that tariffs hold harmless 355 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,519 the people of the country that implements them, Right, we 356 00:21:29,559 --> 00:21:32,079 slap a bunch of tariffs on Columbia. That means the 357 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:34,440 price of their goods coming into our markets is going 358 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:39,480 to be more expensive. I recognize that no solutions, only 359 00:21:39,519 --> 00:21:45,640 trade offs. So I recognize that as a negotiating tactic. 360 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,960 I understand what Trump was doing because that's what he 361 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,559 does with a lot of countries. Right. He's going to 362 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:58,000 punish you, and he's going to assert maybe not dominance 363 00:21:58,079 --> 00:22:02,599 per se, but like equality. Because if we had a 364 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:05,160 bunch of people that were in Colombia and they were like, hey, 365 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,039 take your people back, we would not refuse them. We 366 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:11,359 would take them back. So therefore you should take yours back. 367 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:16,920 That's what neighbors do. That's what friendly countries do. And 368 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,839 if you're not going to do that, well, now you're 369 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:22,799 not a friendly country to us anymore. You are changing, 370 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,000 You are altering the terms of the relationship. Okay, so 371 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:31,000 we shall alter our terms as well. And when the 372 00:22:31,039 --> 00:22:37,200 Colombian president tried to out Trump Trump, he learned what 373 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:40,599 basically every other Republican has already learned that you can 374 00:22:40,799 --> 00:22:46,000 there's only one Trump. Okay, There's only one, and doing 375 00:22:46,039 --> 00:22:49,160 a tariff battle with the United States is going to 376 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:54,279 harm a lot of people in your country. Is the 377 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,920 juice worth the squeeze? Is it worth it? And Colombia decided, 378 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,920 I think logically so it is not. It is not 379 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:10,119 worth it to penalize all of your law abiding citizens 380 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:16,720 in order to protect the travel accommodations of criminals. That's 381 00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:20,119 not a good trade off, and that's what the Colombian 382 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,799 government came to recognize. But I note the lack of 383 00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:28,319 this information now. CNN, to its credit, they did have 384 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:33,400 a quote here from economic and foreign policy analysts also 385 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:37,039 urged Colombia to avoid a diplomatic feud with the US. 386 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:41,319 The Colombian Council on International Relations, which is a think 387 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,440 tank of former foreign ministers and analysts, warned that commercial 388 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,039 retaliation would only harm Colombia and warned the country's government 389 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,720 to preserve its relationship with Washington. Right, why would they 390 00:23:55,839 --> 00:24:00,160 risk it? Why would they risk it? And CNN, while 391 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,680 it does mention this in this at the very end 392 00:24:02,759 --> 00:24:08,200 of their three page story. The focus in our media 393 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:11,960 generally has been about the impact on the price of 394 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,079 coffee and flowers in America, Like do you want your 395 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,640 coffee to go up a dollar? Well, like to me, 396 00:24:20,839 --> 00:24:23,480 there's more of a fundamental principle here, which is that 397 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,079 a friendly country is refusing to take back their own 398 00:24:27,079 --> 00:24:32,400 citizens from US. So yeah, I'll just I'll buy coffee 399 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,279 from some other region. But then again, I don't place 400 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:42,920 like a high value in the origin nation of my coffee. 401 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,720 I don't go out looking specifically for Colombian coffee. I 402 00:24:46,799 --> 00:24:50,680 hear it's a good coffee. I've had Colombian coffee. I've 403 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:54,279 enjoyed that Colombian coffee. But I have also had coffee 404 00:24:54,279 --> 00:24:57,200 from other parts of the world, I suspect, and it's 405 00:24:57,319 --> 00:25:00,680 just fine too. I mean, I'm it's just a caffeine 406 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,079 delivery mechanism for me. Okay, that's it. It's like a 407 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,759 good cup of coffee is good, and if I have 408 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:09,920 to pay an extra dollar, I will do so if 409 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,920 it means that criminals get sent back to the countries 410 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,720 that they are from when they came here illegally, So 411 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,000 to me, that seems like a good deal. Now, your 412 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:23,400 mileage may vary. Maybe you're not a coffee drinker, in 413 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,960 which case then it shouldn't even really affect you, right, 414 00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:30,039 But I buy a lot of flowers. That was the 415 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:33,799 other one that they were yeah, yeah, it would hurt 416 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:36,000 the people in those industries in your home country. And 417 00:25:36,039 --> 00:25:38,599 if you are the government looking out for Columbia first, 418 00:25:39,319 --> 00:25:42,920 then you should say this is going to hurt more people, 419 00:25:44,079 --> 00:25:47,079 and then you take these criminals back, and then maybe, 420 00:25:47,079 --> 00:25:49,480 I don't know, just free advice, you probably should lock 421 00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:51,440 them up because they're criminals and that would be a 422 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,640 bad thing for your country. Also to let the criminals 423 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,279 just run wild in your country, which might actually be 424 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,839 why you allowed them to come two hours hmmm. Interesting. 425 00:26:02,279 --> 00:26:04,079 All right. 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Got 446 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:11,200 a tweet here, It's a Pete tweet from It's all 447 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:15,519 a distraction. Who says, why wouldn't Columbia want to take 448 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:19,599 Sorry Colombia, why wouldn't Columbia want to take back their 449 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,759 people made? According to the mainstream media, they're adding value 450 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:28,799 to our country. Right, that's a very good question. Oh 451 00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:30,400 and by the way, just a heads up for all 452 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,240 of you lefties that are making these arguments about who's 453 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:35,640 going to pick our crops? That's really racist. You should 454 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,799 stop making that what never mind, keep making that argument, 455 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,160 you guys, just yeah, keep going, you guys, just keep 456 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:49,000 doing that. By the way, CNN's Harry Enton, He's the 457 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,599 guy that stands in front of the big digital board, 458 00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:54,519 and he circles stuff and does numbers and stuff on 459 00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:57,559 the big board, you know. And he anyway, he had 460 00:27:57,599 --> 00:28:01,680 some polling that he was going over I guess yesterday 461 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:07,240 or today. This was based on polling a comparison back 462 00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:10,319 in April of twenty seventeen, so the initial months of 463 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,440 the first Trump presidency versus today. Okay, So he's got 464 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,039 two sets of data. And the question is which party 465 00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:22,880 do you trust more on immigration? And four years ago 466 00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:28,920 or no, yeah, twenty seventeen, April twenty seventeen, eight years ago, 467 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:34,319 seven years ago, eight years ago, Democrats enjoyed an eleven 468 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:41,000 point margin over Republicans when asked which party is trusted 469 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,519 more on immigration? Democrats were up eleven points a plus eleven. Okay. 470 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:53,079 Now Republicans are up plus twenty two. So that is 471 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:59,960 a thirty three percentage point swing. And he sent out 472 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,079 his you know, his video of him going over these numbers, 473 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,640 and he says that the GOP has turned an eleven 474 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,240 point deficit on who Americans trust on immigration in Trump's 475 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,559 first term, roughly the same point as now, into a 476 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:19,759 twenty two point lead. Now, so the GOP turned an 477 00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:24,000 eleven point deficit into a twenty two point lead, and 478 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,680 I would submit humbly sue that was really the Democrats 479 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,640 that did that. I don't know if that was all 480 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,799 Republicans that did that. I think Democrats have I think 481 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:39,119 they should get all of the credit for blowing a 482 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:44,799 thirty three percentage point swing, you know, because the Republicans 483 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:49,279 have been pretty they've been pretty consistent on this issue 484 00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:53,559 for the last eight years, and Democrats have been in charge, 485 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:57,480 and I think they really deserve the credit for this. Yeah. 486 00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:01,640 So oh, and then there was this clip. This was 487 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,799 from a Fox News report. This is a guy who 488 00:30:04,839 --> 00:30:08,240 got busted as part of the immigration sweeps and he 489 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,960 is from Haiti. I'm not going back to Hayden. 490 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 3: One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti. 491 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,559 Speaker 2: I says he's a gang member with seventeen criminal convictions 492 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:19,599 in recent years. 493 00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:23,319 Speaker 1: So you feel, I mean, go Biden forever, bro. Thank 494 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,759 Obama for everything that he paid for me. Blim so 495 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:33,319 bleep Trump Biden forever bro, and thank Obama for everything 496 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:40,680 he did for me. Again again, I don't think Republicans 497 00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:45,319 deserve all the credit for the thirty three percentage point swing. Okay. 498 00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:51,240 Also another example of what a difference a week makes 499 00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:58,920 this from the UK Telegraph. Iran has ordered its proxy 500 00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:03,880 forces across the Middle East, So this would be well, 501 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:10,119 basically all of the worst actors Ksbolla, Kamas and the Jutis. 502 00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:13,400 How come they don't get the how come they don't 503 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,519 get the sound the houties Anyway, Iran has ordered its 504 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:23,160 proxy forces across the Middle East to exercise caution as 505 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,119 the Islamic Republic fears an existential threat following Donald Trump's 506 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,920 return to the White House. Officials have told commanders of 507 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:37,759 Iran backed militias to avoid provocative actions that could escalate 508 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,920 regional tensions. Quote. Forces and allies in the region have 509 00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:48,200 been instructed to act with caution as the regime feels 510 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:55,119 an existential threat with Trump's return, said one senior Iranian official. Quote. 511 00:31:55,559 --> 00:32:00,319 In Iraq and Yemen, forces have been told not to 512 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,720 target any American assets, and if they do, they are 513 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:11,119 explicitly warned against using Iranian weapons. They have been told 514 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,480 to keep defensive positions for a while and to avoid 515 00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:25,599 any actions that might provoke the Americans. Yeah, I saw 516 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,279 somebody analyze this. I apologize for not having their name 517 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:32,400 at the ready, but they said like here's the difference. 518 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,039 Like the way things would normally go, whether it was 519 00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:39,799 Columbia or whatever, it'd be like, oh my gosh, Colombia 520 00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:41,480 don't want to take the flights. Oh my gosh, we 521 00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:43,160 got to have a meeting. All right, get all these 522 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,480 agencies together, Okay, draft a report, come up with some options, 523 00:32:46,519 --> 00:32:48,839 and the interagency reports take like a couple of weeks, 524 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,519 and then they come up with some options, and then 525 00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:51,960 it goes up the chain. Then they're like, oh it 526 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,119 make some changes, we get some other options. They swap 527 00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:56,799 out options, then goes back for more review, goes to 528 00:32:56,839 --> 00:33:00,240 a different agency, they make changes, and after like a month, 529 00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:03,039 two months or something, it finally gets presented to the president. 530 00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:04,640 It's like the worst of all the options and it 531 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,160 doesn't actually do anything. And that's the difference now with 532 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,319 Trump is Trump is just like I'm gonna slap a 533 00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:15,839 tariff on you, Like I'll slap a tariff on you, Okay, Well, 534 00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:19,160 I'll slap a bigger tariff on you. Okay, fine, we'll 535 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:24,519 take the military jets like fine. Like that's it's there 536 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:28,400 is a different mindset in the business world versus the 537 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,759 quote public sector. It's just a different mindset. There's almost 538 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:36,960 like this analysis paralysis that takes root in these government 539 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,519 agencies and in business. It's like, oh, here's an obstacle, 540 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,480 here's a problem. Okay, fix it, move on, move on. 541 00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:48,160 What a difference a week makes? All right, that'll do 542 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,759 it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 543 00:33:50,839 --> 00:33:53,000 I could not do the show without your support and 544 00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:55,759 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 545 00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:58,200 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 546 00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:59,839 them you heard it here. You can also become a 547 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,640 at my Patreon page or go to dpetecalanarshow dot com. 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