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 I Daily Show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 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 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:35,520 your support. So when government fails to focus on priorities, 10 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:41,159 you end up with the residents, the citizens of that jurisdiction, 11 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:45,960 suffering the consequences. Now, a lot of politicians will blame 12 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,799 the other guy, the other party, some other branch of 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,159 government or maybe a different level of government. You know, 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,320 the locals will blame the state, and the state will 15 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,719 blame the Feds or whatever. They always try to deflect 16 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:02,759 the blame rather than to acknowledge. Yeah, you know, we've 17 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:07,480 been diverting more money to these other areas and doing 18 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:10,519 other things with it. These things that we want to have, 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,799 but things that we don't actually need to have. And 20 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:18,280 the very first thing that you need to have is security. 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:27,200 These are first order needs. You've got security, and that's 22 00:01:27,519 --> 00:01:36,159 fire protection, police protection, criminal justice, food, water shelter. These 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,200 are the first order issues. Everything else is a nice 24 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:44,400 to have, right I would say your second order, your 25 00:01:44,439 --> 00:01:49,000 second tier is probably going to be your infrastructure, your 26 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:54,319 transportation infrastructure, roads and sidewalks and that kind of thing. Really, 27 00:01:54,359 --> 00:01:58,000 anything outside of that is a nice to have, and 28 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:01,480 if you can afford it, fantastic. But if you can't 29 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,079 afford it, you definitely should not be diverting money away 30 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:08,240 from the first order things to get to the third, fourth, 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:14,919 and fifth level of services. And the problem is that 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,960 the incentives are generally not there for politicians to focus 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,240 only on the first order problems because like for example, 34 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:28,120 out in Los Angeles, and this is also the case 35 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,199 in Ashville, I think that Charlotte has actually done a 36 00:02:32,199 --> 00:02:37,759 pretty good job of maintaining its water infrastructure. Not to 37 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:40,039 say it's perfect, but they've done a better job, I 38 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,759 think than Ashville has. I mean, Ashville's water system is 39 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:47,680 a joke. It's just an absolute joke. And they have 40 00:02:47,759 --> 00:02:52,960 diverted money out of their water fund for decades to 41 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:56,719 fund other projects to subsidize their general fund, keep their 42 00:02:56,719 --> 00:02:59,159 taxes low while they pay for all of these other 43 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,159 things that they want want, you know, like a national 44 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,719 basket weaving monument or whatever. I'm just kidding. They didn't 45 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:08,400 do that, but it wouldn't surprise you if they did. Right. 46 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:12,400 Same thing in Los Angeles. The water system, the infrastructure 47 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:20,759 there is decrepit. So when they start losing focus from 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,919 those core services and start doing all of these other 49 00:03:25,759 --> 00:03:29,240 nice to have projects and spending, what happens then is 50 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,360 that those core services suffer and the people's lives that 51 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,599 live there suffer. And then the politicians blame all these 52 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:38,800 other things and say, well, we need to have or 53 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,960 these other you know, levels of government or the economy 54 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,080 or something else. It wasn't our fault, so now we 55 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,199 need to raise taxes. And if you don't agree with 56 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,560 the raising of the taxes, well, that means you're not 57 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:52,120 going to get fire service. Were that means you're not 58 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,319 going to get police. And they always throw those things 59 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,280 out at you as the threat. I've told this story 60 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:04,800 before up on Long Island, where they still have this 61 00:04:05,759 --> 00:04:09,960 system set up where all of the towns have their 62 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,439 own school systems, And the funny thing is up there, 63 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:16,040 they're like, we should consolidate. That's going to solve the problems. 64 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:17,800 And then I came to Charlotte and it's all the 65 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:21,800 consolidated Charlotte Mecklenberg school system, and people were saying, we 66 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:24,680 need to deconsolidate. That'll solve the problems. I know, the 67 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,399 problem is the model. But they would up there on 68 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,959 Long Island, you would have to put your budgets. As 69 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,040 the school district, you'd have to put your budget up 70 00:04:32,079 --> 00:04:36,079 for a vote every year. So voters were going and 71 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,519 voting on budgets, and of course the school board would 72 00:04:40,519 --> 00:04:46,199 throw out some ridiculously exorbitant budget. It would get voted down. 73 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:49,040 And what would they do? What would the school district do? 74 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:53,879 They would cut the after school activities like football, and 75 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:59,759 they would cut buses, the two things right that hurt 76 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,000 the parents and hurt the kids the most. So there 77 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:09,000 were I think two or three years in my in 78 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,560 my K twelve experience, and maybe maybe more than that, 79 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,319 where I had to walk to school and the schools were, 80 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,040 you know, one was I think over a mile and 81 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:21,360 one was about three miles away, and we would have 82 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:24,279 to walk to school because there were no buses. They 83 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,639 would just scrap all of the buses. No more bus 84 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,399 service as a way to stick it to the parents 85 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,839 to get them to vote for the budget on the 86 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,839 second go round. That's the budget dance. Here in Charlotte Mecklenberg. 87 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,839 It's a little different, where the school district goes to 88 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:43,199 the county and they ask for an exorbitant amount of 89 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,519 money and the county says no, and then they yell 90 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,959 at each other and then eventually the county says okay 91 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,759 to the second to the second number. Right, that's the 92 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,199 budget dance. It happens like every year here. And so, 93 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,639 just like the Long Island, school districts would analyzed the 94 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,839 citizens and threatened them with removing core elements of the 95 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,360 service if they didn't get all the money they wanted 96 00:06:07,399 --> 00:06:11,120 for these other things, so too do cities do this 97 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:20,959 with police and fire. And in Charlotte, after the fiery 98 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,639 but mostly peaceful protests that we saw over the course 99 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,279 of years dating back to even before the BLM stuff, 100 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:33,120 because you had Keith Lamont Scott, you had those riots 101 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,079 that occurred and all those protests and stuff. And I 102 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:37,879 think somebody actually that was one of the protests where 103 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,560 somebody got killed. At one of the peaceful protests, somebody 104 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,319 got shot and killed by another protester or whatever. So 105 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,519 then what did that prompt? Right this backlash? And then 106 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,959 you have the rise of the DEI stuff, and then 107 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,480 you get an inability to recruit more officers. All of 108 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:03,480 these things have an effect that downstream onto the citizens. 109 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:08,079 And all of that is to say that Charlotte Mecklenberg 110 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,360 police reported for the year of twenty twenty four one 111 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,680 hundred and ten homicides, and that is a twenty four 112 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:24,120 percent increase over the previous year. Now that number might 113 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:29,600 change if they get you know, certain deaths get recategorized 114 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,920 or something, but it probably won't change much. One hundred 115 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,959 and ten people are still dead twenty twenty four. The 116 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,680 previous year there was eighty nine. The year before that 117 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,839 there was one oh seven, the year before that there 118 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:44,600 was ninety six, and then going back to the pandemic 119 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:48,600 year twenty twenty, there were one hundred eighteen, so one eighteen, 120 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,879 ninety six, one oh seven, eighty nine, one ten. So 121 00:07:52,959 --> 00:07:54,759 it kind of goes up and down, up and down. 122 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:59,319 It's like a plus or minus twenty every year twenty 123 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:03,399 more deaths or homicides, and then twenty fewer, then twenty more, 124 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:05,839 and then twenty fewer, and it just goes up and down. 125 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:09,160 But it looks like we're averaging a little over one 126 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:16,519 hundred homicides annually. Why is that now? As of January, 127 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,319 CMPD reported and this is reported at the Charlotte Observer, 128 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:25,000 that CMPD had identified a suspect in about seventy five 129 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:30,600 percent of the homicide cases, and some of those identifications 130 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,399 occurred within a day of the homicide. The one hundred 131 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,960 and ten total is more killings in a single year 132 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,080 since the start of the pandemic back in twenty twenty. 133 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:48,399 Looking through some of the data familiar patterns, they say 134 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:53,600 two lives lost. According to the data as reported by 135 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,519 the Charlotte Observer, two thirds of the people killed were 136 00:08:57,519 --> 00:09:01,679 black and eighty percent of the victims. Of all the 137 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:08,759 victims were male. Sixty five percent killed were black, twenty 138 00:09:08,799 --> 00:09:17,279 percent Hispanic, and twelve percent white. Eighty percent are males. 139 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,080 The average age of the victims thirty one, the youngest 140 00:09:21,159 --> 00:09:25,679 less than a year. The oldest was eighty two. And 141 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:33,159 the most cited reason for the homicides arguments an argument 142 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:43,519 there is something going on and government cannot stop this 143 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,960 stuff from happening. People wanting to murder somebody over an argument. 144 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:51,799 Government can't really stop that, right, but what it can 145 00:09:51,879 --> 00:09:55,720 do is it can drop the hammer on people who 146 00:09:55,759 --> 00:10:00,639 get caught after doing it, and maybe the fear of 147 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:05,039 that punishment will prevent somebody from going down that path, 148 00:10:06,039 --> 00:10:09,720 from making a similar decision to take a life. Maybe 149 00:10:09,759 --> 00:10:12,480 here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 150 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:16,000 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 151 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,279 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 152 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:22,679 Asheville is your connection. 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This is over at inside higher 172 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,919 Ed dot com just real quick. The marching band at 173 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:34,519 Mississippi Valley State University they got invited to the inauguration 174 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:41,279 and they said, yes, it's a historically black university and HBU, 175 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:44,559 and so they launched a GoFundMe to raise money for 176 00:11:44,639 --> 00:11:48,480 its mean green Marching Machine band to go to DC 177 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:54,039 for the inauguration. And this prompted all sorts of backlash 178 00:11:54,799 --> 00:12:00,480 because it's a black college and how dare you go 179 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:05,639 and celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump? Like they got 180 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:10,840 invited to inauguration by the President, Like why would you 181 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,000 not want that kind of recognition for your school. So 182 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,200 there is a GoFundMe. They're trying to raise three hundred 183 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,919 and fifty thousand dollars. I think they're somewhere in the 184 00:12:19,919 --> 00:12:23,879 neighborhood of about two seventy two seventy five now, So 185 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,320 if you if you're interested. Gofund me's got a campaign 186 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,399 for the Mean Green Marching Machine. Mississippi Valley State University 187 00:12:33,639 --> 00:12:36,360 getting all sorts of backlash because they said yes, they 188 00:12:36,399 --> 00:12:39,639 would very much like to participate in the inauguration and 189 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:45,519 the route, and HBCU Sports has slammed the decision as 190 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,279 an apparent endorsement of Trump, which of course it is 191 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,720 actually not. It is just participation in a nationally televised 192 00:12:54,480 --> 00:13:00,840 event that would be good for your college. Gosh Focus 193 00:13:00,919 --> 00:13:13,200 People Focus House GOP up in Washington. A member of 194 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,440 the House GOP Leadership Team actually from North Carolina, Richard Hudson, 195 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,360 has introduced a new bill to radically expand concealed carry 196 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,879 permissions for Americans across the country. The National Republican Congressional 197 00:13:27,919 --> 00:13:36,519 Committee Chairman, which is the House Republican campaign arm, they 198 00:13:36,639 --> 00:13:43,759 unveiled the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act yesterday. It's already 199 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:46,879 backed by more than one hundred and twenty House Republicans. 200 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,639 It has gotten support from one member of the House 201 00:13:49,639 --> 00:13:55,639 Democrat Caucus, Jared Golden, Democrat from Maine. Hudson told Fox News, 202 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,039 what we're talking about is just requiring states to recognize 203 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,399 the permit of an other state, just like you recognize 204 00:14:02,399 --> 00:14:05,200 a driver's license. When I drive to d C from 205 00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:08,960 North Carolina across Virginia, I don't stop at the Virginia 206 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,000 line and take a driver's test to get another license. 207 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:17,120 The state recognizes that that North Carolina license. President Trump 208 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,360 has already said that he would sign such a bill 209 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:24,120 if it gets to his desk. The bill previously passed 210 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,799 the House back in twenty seventeen, but it was never 211 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:32,799 taken up by the Senate. Nearly twenty two million Americans 212 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:39,200 have some form of a concealed carry permit, and Hudson 213 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,279 raised the example of Shanine Allen, a single mom from 214 00:14:43,279 --> 00:14:46,799 Philadelphia who got pulled over during a routine traffic stop 215 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:51,320 in New Jersey but was arrested for unlawful possession when 216 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,799 she told officers of her concealed carry permit and the 217 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:58,039 firearm that was in her vehicle. He said, quote, there's 218 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,639 a hodgepodge of different state laws when it comes to 219 00:15:00,679 --> 00:15:04,080 conceal carry, and so this bill just clarifies that and 220 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,080 then rectifies the situation where a law abiding citizen can 221 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:13,679 become a criminal just by crossing an invisible state line. Yeah. 222 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,080 You know, the people who go through the process to 223 00:15:16,159 --> 00:15:21,240 get concealed carry permits commit far less crime than virtually, 224 00:15:21,399 --> 00:15:26,840 if not all demographics. I remember seeing a stat that 225 00:15:26,879 --> 00:15:33,360 they commit fewer crimes than cops. So this just makes sense. 226 00:15:34,159 --> 00:15:36,360 I agree with the rationale. If you're going to go 227 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,120 through the process, you're going to go through the training 228 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:39,960 and the class and everything else, and you're going to 229 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:43,519 go through the background checks and the check and the 230 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,120 mental health facilities and make sure that you are good 231 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,200 to go. And now you're allowed to carry concealed that 232 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,879 that permit should apply no matter what state you go 233 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,559 into that has concealed carry permits. And by the way, 234 00:15:55,519 --> 00:16:02,559 forty nine states allow non resident carry and fifty states 235 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:06,399 all fifty states do issue concealed carry permits now, so 236 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,000 it just makes sense. We'll see how it goes, all right, 237 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,759 I hope you had a happy holiday season, But tell 238 00:16:12,799 --> 00:16:15,320 me if something like this happened at your house. Your 239 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,840 family and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in 240 00:16:17,879 --> 00:16:21,480 the living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then 241 00:16:21,519 --> 00:16:25,480 somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? Did 242 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:28,120 you ever get them transferred? And then the room gets 243 00:16:28,159 --> 00:16:31,720 all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 244 00:16:31,799 --> 00:16:33,799 you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just 245 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,840 having gotten around to it. 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Trust the experts at creat a Video, conveniently 256 00:17:09,559 --> 00:17:11,920 located in Mint Hill right off I four eighty five 257 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,400 and online at create a Video dot com. Email is 258 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:23,119 Pete at the petecallnershow dot com Kirk wants to know 259 00:17:23,279 --> 00:17:25,759 if walking to school when I did it was uphill 260 00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:28,440 both ways in the driving snow. Yes, of course it 261 00:17:28,519 --> 00:17:33,119 was with newspapers wrapped around my feet instead of shoes. 262 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:44,039 So House lawmakers yesterday afternoon passed the Lacaniley Act. The 263 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,160 Lake Andiley Act passed by a vote of two hundred 264 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,359 and sixty four to one hundred and fifty nine. There 265 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,440 were forty eight Democrats that joined with the two hundred 266 00:17:55,480 --> 00:18:01,200 and sixteen Republicans to pass the legislation. That legislation is 267 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:05,279 named after the Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered 268 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,319 last year by an illegal immigrant. It will now go 269 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:15,680 to the Senate. The legislation requires federal agents to detain 270 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:22,119 illegal immigrants suspected of committing non violent crimes. So not 271 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:25,720 violent crimes, nonviolent crimes. If somebody is in the country 272 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,240 illegally and they get picked up for some sort of 273 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,079 misdemeanor charge, they've been arrested, Okay, that's how you come 274 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:35,200 in contact with them. They end up in the jail. 275 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,079 And you know now that North Carolina has told our 276 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,000 local sheriff here, Gary, not my fault McFadden that you 277 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,400 have to cooperate with Ice. Now they're going to have 278 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:52,279 to hold these people and then they can be removed 279 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:58,440 from the country. Last Congress there were thirty seven Democrats, 280 00:18:58,599 --> 00:19:03,079 So what a eight or sorry, nine more Democrats joined 281 00:19:03,079 --> 00:19:07,720 Republicans in voting for this act this year versus last 282 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:11,960 year thirty seven Democrats joined Republicans. So I guess what 283 00:19:12,519 --> 00:19:19,079 eight Democrats got the message from the election. Maybe the 284 00:19:19,079 --> 00:19:22,240 bill did not go anywhere last year because it went 285 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:25,119 to the Senate and that was Democrat controlled and so 286 00:19:25,759 --> 00:19:28,960 it died there. This time around, the bill heads to 287 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,440 a GOP controlled Senate, where it is picking up momentum. 288 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,920 There are actually two Democrats in the Senate now who 289 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,200 have endorsed it. They have signed on to it, Gary 290 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:50,559 Peters out of Michigan and John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. Okay, 291 00:19:50,599 --> 00:19:56,880 I am not on the Fetterman bandwagon yet, but I'm 292 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:03,039 listening this guy ever since he had you know, the 293 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:10,440 stroke and got the brain injury. Now it's right, right, yeah, yeah, 294 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,599 I mean like whatever happened there seems to have impacted 295 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,839 him in some way that he now makes more sense. 296 00:20:21,039 --> 00:20:25,359 This time around, it heads to the Senate, where it's 297 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,359 got a couple of Democrats like Fetterman and Peters. According 298 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:34,440 to Fetterman on Twitter, he said, quote Ice reported tens 299 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,319 of thousands of migrants with criminal records homicide or sexual assault. 300 00:20:40,039 --> 00:20:43,920 Four hundred and twenty five thousand have criminal records in 301 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:49,759 total and should be deported. I suspect or sorry. I 302 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:53,160 support a secure border, he says. I support a legal 303 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,400 path for dreamers. I support the Lake and Riley Act. 304 00:20:58,319 --> 00:21:03,039 So what is happening right now? You have a recognition 305 00:21:03,559 --> 00:21:06,680 that is sort of dawning. I think on more and 306 00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:13,400 more Democrats that these policies and Republican voters I think 307 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:18,799 just got there earlier. But there are different breakdowns inside 308 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:22,799 of the political parties that cut all sorts of ways. 309 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:28,799 But at its core, you have this division between elites 310 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:34,160 and working people and the working class, the so called 311 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,480 elites and the so called working class, and the elites 312 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,079 are pushing and implementing policies and have been, and the 313 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:47,799 immigration debate is the prime example of it, where these 314 00:21:47,799 --> 00:21:53,279 policies are harming the working class, right, and that's why 315 00:21:53,319 --> 00:21:55,839 you end up. You've heard I'm sure some of these 316 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:04,319 elite talking heads journalists or show hosts in the daytime 317 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,160 programs or whatever on the view for example, and they 318 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:12,160 make these bizarre arguments that, well, you know, if you 319 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:15,559 don't have all of the immigrants, then you're going to have, 320 00:22:16,279 --> 00:22:20,480 you know, higher grocery prices. You know, who's going to 321 00:22:20,519 --> 00:22:23,759 cut your grass, who's going to do your gardening and 322 00:22:23,839 --> 00:22:26,240 watch your kids and all this stuff. Now, most working 323 00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:30,000 class people hear that and they think, well, me, because 324 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,960 I'm doing it now. I will continue to cut my grass, 325 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,599 I will continue to watch my kids and raise my kids. 326 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:45,680 And labor, just like any other commodity, right when you 327 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,880 have more supply of it, then the cost goes down. 328 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,359 So the cost of labor drops when you have more 329 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,559 of a supply, and so by importing more and more people, 330 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,039 it drives down the wages the call of the labor 331 00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:04,799 because you have more competition and you've got people that 332 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,599 are willing to work for less money because if they don't, 333 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,599 they get deported back, and they don't want to get 334 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:13,200 deported back. So you actually get to take advantage of them, 335 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,440 which is what the elites do. That's what they've been 336 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:21,240 doing by hiring people and undercutting wage of hiring people 337 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:24,400 in the country illegally who are taken advantage of, but 338 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,839 are doing it willingly, voluntarily. They go in, they put 339 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,119 themselves in that position, to be sure, but they do 340 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,960 it why for a better life for their kids. But 341 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,599 they're also afraid of getting deported back. So they are 342 00:23:37,599 --> 00:23:41,480 willing to put up with the deprivation. They're willing to 343 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:44,319 put up with abuse, They're willing to get taken advantage of. 344 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,880 They're willing to take the risks to live in crummy places. 345 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,359 They're willing to do all of that because the promise 346 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:51,920 is in their minds that the kids are going to 347 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,240 have a better life. It's a rational thing, by the way, 348 00:23:55,279 --> 00:23:58,119 that is a completely rational thing to think, right, because 349 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,599 we as a society have obviously said, yeah, we're fine 350 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:03,640 with this line of thinking. So they make those decisions, 351 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,599 and then the working class people they're not the ones 352 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,960 hiring the gardeners. They want to do the gardening work, 353 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,240 and so who really benefits. It's the people in the 354 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,440 upper income strata, right. And I think some Democrats, guys 355 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,079 like Fetterman, I think they're recognizing this, that they are 356 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,160 alienating this huge core that used to be the Democrat 357 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:33,400 voting base and that's why Trump is peeling them all away. 358 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,640 Will Moore recognize it? I don't know. We'll find out, 359 00:24:38,079 --> 00:24:39,880 all right. If you're listening to this show, you know 360 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,960 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 361 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,079 and I know you do too. And you've probably heard 362 00:24:44,079 --> 00:24:48,160 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, 363 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,880 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 364 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,119 I've been so impressed with ground News. 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They are both from swing states 385 00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:11,920 that President elect Donald Trump won this past November against 386 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,039 Harris and in fact, Peters is up for reelection in 387 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,200 twenty twenty six and that's expected to be a competitive race. 388 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,519 Senator Katie Britt from Alabama is leading the Republican Senate 389 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:26,559 push to get the Lake and Riley Act passed ahead 390 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:29,960 of Trump's inauguration. Now, I am curious to see how 391 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,599 the two senators from Georgia will vote on this measure, 392 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,880 because that's where Lake and Riley was right. She was 393 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:45,640 a Georgia nursing student. Britt introduced the companion legislation alongside 394 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,599 Fetterman and the Senate Majority Leader John Thune, along with 395 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:54,160 Republican North Carolina Senator Ted Budd and the rest of 396 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,319 the Senate GOP. The Senate is expected to vote Friday 397 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,240 on the Lake and Riley Act. It needs sixty votes 398 00:27:01,279 --> 00:27:09,559 in order to avoid the filibuster. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 399 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,920 Venezuelan illegal alien, was sentenced to life in prison for 400 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,920 murdering Lake and Riley as she was jogging around the 401 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:21,720 University of Georgia's campus. Before killing her, Ibarra had crossed 402 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,480 the southern border, received a taxpayer funded flight to New 403 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:29,400 York City, stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel along with many 404 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,240 other new arrivals or newcomers as they are called, and 405 00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:38,000 from there he was given a flight to Georgia and 406 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,039 worked at a Korean restaurant. That all is according to 407 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:46,400 his former roommate, who testified against him at trial, So 408 00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:50,400 we'll keep an eye on that. Then, this story from 409 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,559 Breitbart dot Com by John Binder, illegal aliens, tourists, and 410 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,400 foreign visa workers. Right, So, three categories of people here. Millions, 411 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:07,400 tourists and foreign visa workers delivered nearly four hundred thousand 412 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:13,039 children across the US last year. These are the so 413 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,240 called anchor babies, right, You've heard that term before. These 414 00:28:17,279 --> 00:28:20,839 people who aren't US citizens have a child in the US, 415 00:28:21,279 --> 00:28:26,279 and that allows them this access point if you will 416 00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:29,680 to become a US citizen or to stay at the 417 00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:34,079 very least four hundred thousand. I think the number is 418 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,039 like three hundred and seventy two thousand technically, but so yeah, 419 00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:43,880 almost four hundred thousand quote unquote anchor babies. This according 420 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:49,119 to the Center for Immigration Studies, The term anchor babies 421 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,359 is used to describe the US born children of illegal 422 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,200 aliens and other foreign nationals with no ties to the country. 423 00:28:57,319 --> 00:29:02,839 Anchor babies are rewarded with birth right American citizenship despite 424 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,799 their parents having no legitimate ties to the US, many 425 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,119 having only recently arrived years later, When the child is 426 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,640 considered an adult, they can then sponsor their parents and 427 00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:19,839 foreign relatives to get green cards. That's why it's called 428 00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:25,119 an anchor baby, is that it anchors that family to 429 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:30,400 the US and that is a generational thing. And then 430 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,079 of course, like they have like hundreds of non thousands 431 00:29:34,079 --> 00:29:37,720 of relatives they have now found It's like when you've 432 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:40,319 won the lottery and all of a sudden, everybody is 433 00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:43,519 related to you asking for money. It's amazing how many 434 00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:49,119 people that they can sponsor to come over. In twenty 435 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,079 twenty four, close to three hundred thousand anchor babies are 436 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,079 estimated to have been delivered to illegal alien parents, and 437 00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:58,039 then another seventy two thousand anchor babies were estimated to 438 00:29:58,079 --> 00:30:01,799 have been delivered to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and 439 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,119 foreign students. Now, this is something that Trump has talked 440 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,720 about getting rid of this birthright citizenship. The US Supreme 441 00:30:10,759 --> 00:30:16,960 Court has never explicitly ruled that US born kids of 442 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,200 illegal aliens have to get citizenship. The US Supreme Court 443 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,720 has not weighed in on this specific issue, and in 444 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:30,759 the legal community it is actually in dispute. There is 445 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,440 disagreement among lawyers of good faith. I will even say 446 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:41,119 that right there are good faith disagreements about whether or 447 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,319 not this is legal or not. I don't believe it is. 448 00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:51,240 I don't believe it is. A lot of the conservative 449 00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:56,240 scholars argue that the Fourteenth Amendment and the clause in there, 450 00:30:56,279 --> 00:31:00,000 the citizenship clause, it doesn't provide It does not provide 451 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:06,640 mandatory birthright citizenship because the kids are not subject to 452 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,519 US jurisdiction, as that language was understood when the Amendment 453 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:15,559 was ratified. Right subject to the jurisdiction thereof is the 454 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,680 key phrase in that clause. US and Canada are among 455 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,400 only a handful of developed nations, mostly in North and 456 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,240 South America, that have this birthright citizenship policy for anybody, 457 00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:36,119 regardless of immigration status, born within its physical borders. For example, Australia, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, 458 00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:42,000 New Zealand and Spain reserve birthright citizenship for children born 459 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,359 to at least one citizen parent, and I think that's 460 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,440 a pretty good standard. You should have one parent who's 461 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,160 a citizen. All right. That'll do it for this episode. 462 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,319 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 463 00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:55,519 the show without your support and the support of the 464 00:31:55,519 --> 00:31:58,559 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like 465 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,039 please support them too. Them you heard it here. You 466 00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:03,680 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 467 00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:07,400 go to dpetecallanarshow dot com. 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