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also making national news for being the jerks that they are.
Speaker 1: Give it up for Ashville. Yes, you guys, I.
Speaker 2: Know it's been a while since anybody really cared to
hear anything you had to say about politics, and good
to see you may be urinating away some of the
goodwill that people had had for you after the Hurricane
Heleen disaster. But that's the thing about Asheville, Like there
may be some lulls, but eventually the moonbats do go
on the March, and they were on the March last night.
They went to a town hall that was held by
Congressman Chuck Edwards. Chuck Edwards, you may recall he beat
Madison Cawthorn in a Republican primary for this congressional seat.
A couple of years back. Chuck Edwards was a former
state senator, and so he's been in congress now.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Was it twenty four, No, twenty two, I guess is
when he first won. Yeah, I guess it was twenty two.
So he goes to a b tech, the community college Ashville,
Buncam Technical College. He goes to a b tech for
a town hall. They got a big you know, theater
there and or an auditorium, and they packed the place.
The leftist turn out and pack the place completely grassroots,
I am certain. And the thing, if you haven't been
up to the Ashville area or you've never lived in
the area, you probably even though, are still aware of
the reputation that Asheville has the blue dot in a
sea of red. It is ground zero for the most
virulent leftist kind of political ideologues and nimbiism, by the way,
not in my backyard, and I mby not in my
backyard nimbiism, which has exacerbated their housing shortage up there
because people they move from high tax, progressive left wing
states like New York and California and they retire to
the mountains of Ashville and they their little slice of
paradise on the side of a mountain, and then they
want to ban anybody else from building anything that would
you know, enter their field of vision as they look
out their you know, million dollar balcony out over the ravine,
and they don't want to see anybody's house, and so
they're going to do whatever they can to block anybody
from building anything else. And that's I mean, and that's
a huge problem in Ashville. They also hate the tourists,
which is very odd because the whole economy there runs
on the tourism industry.
Speaker 1: Because people like to go and look at.
Speaker 2: The mountains like you do right when you bought your
house in the mountains, so you can look out over
the mountains and enjoy that view. You are not the
only person. But the other people don't want to live
there or they have a good life someplace else, so
they would just like to visit. And a lot of
the leftists do not like the tourists coming to Ashville
and spending all of their money. They like the money,
and so they would like you to just give them
that money. There is that envy again, so just give
them the money, but don't actually do anything don't hang
out here whatever. They don't like the idea that they
are this tourist place. So when I worked up there,
I saw this all the time. I watched their city
council meetings, went to a few of them, and virtually,
I would say probably about eighty to ninety percent of
the people who came to speak to the city council,
they would always start off by saying something to the
effect of I moved here ten years ago, and then
they would have their statement. So they were all like
coming from someplace else, and then lobbying against new apartment buildings,
new subdivision development. So they were anti development. They didn't
want anything to have happened. They didn't want anybody else
coming here. It's like I got here eight years ago,
ten years ago, and so I don't want anybody now
following me. It's like I got up here and now
I want to pull the ladder up behind me so
nobody else can follow up. So Chuck Edwards, Congressman Chuck Edwards,
he goes to a town hall meeting and the left
mobilizes to shout him down. That was the purpose to
create the very story that now has gone national, which
is that Chuck Edwards was shouted down by a bunch
of angry leftists. Now they don't say that part. They say, oh,
you know, his constituents, or they'll say, you know, voters
were mad and that sort of thing. But these are leftists, Okay.
That's what Ashville produces and detracts, is these hardcore militant leftists.
And if you doubt me, just go down to Pack Square,
which is sort of like the Trade and try on
if you will, Like right there in the heart of
the downtown area, not the Drum Circle. It's pretty close though,
but not the Drum Circle. But Pack Square used to
have the Vance Monument there, but they tore that thing
down because you know, he was the governor from Buncom
County during the Civil War and so they had to
take that down, even though he did a whole bunch
of stuff to in support of Jewish people who are
being discriminated against after the Civil War, and he went
around the world delivering a speech. I think it was
called a Scattered People or Scattered Nation.
Speaker 1: Was the name of the speech.
Speaker 2: And anyway, like Jewish people would make pilgrimages down to
the Vance Monument for decades and lay wreaths at this
monument to honor him in thanks for what he did
to help raise awareness of anti Semitism. But anyway, so
they tore that monument to him down and that's where
they used to have the protests all the time. It
is right at that monument, and they would just have
protests like every single Saturday. I think they had a
schedule at one point, so like there'd be like a
swapping out of the signage. It was all the same
people usually. I suggested that they replace the Dvance monument
with just a big white board, you know, sorry, a
dry erase board of a non descriptive color. So you
would have this big board there and you could just
like erase it and then write whatever the thing you're
protesting at that given time slot. And this way, yeah,
it's environmentally friendly. You're not having to redo the posters
and like it's just very wasteful. So you just have
a big, you know, dry erase board there and then
you can swap out the messaging as needed. But this
is what they're always doing. They're always out there saying,
look at me, look at me, I care about this
more than you.
Speaker 1: I'm better.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the whole point of all of those protests. Sorry,
raise awareness, right to raise awareness?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The only awareness that is raised by a bunch of
people screaming at tourists as they walk past on their
way to Rhubarb is is Rubarbi.
Speaker 1: Even still open? I don't even know if it's still
open anymore.
Speaker 2: But the only awareness that is raised is the awareness
that there is something very wrong with Ashville, okay, and
very wrong with a lot of the people there. It
is a I have said this for years. It is
a case study in long term drug abuse. That's what
Ashville is. It reminded me when I first went to Ashville.
It reminded me of I lived off campus in college,
and I had a couple of different houses with different
roommates and stuff. We were off campus, about a block
or two from the campus, and you know, these were
old millhouses that have been turned over to into rental
properties and such, and there were you know, couches on
the front porch with a keg right next to it.
Like that whole vibe, that whole scene that's Ashville. And
then all the professors who you know, live in the
multimillion dollar craftsman's and stuff. Anyway, I'm not here just
to denigrate Ashville.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's just a it's one of the it's gravy, it's extra.
So Ashville does what it does in all of these
types of situations, which is to show their took uses
their tushies. All right, that's what they did last night.
It went viral, It went national because the media and
the Democrats, but I repeat myself, were like, oh, I guess.
Speaker 1: This makes us feel so good. Look at us yelling
at somebody. We're yelling. Look at me yelling.
Speaker 2: We're raising awareness. I mean, sorry, we're raising Now. What
you're doing is shut up ory, that's what you're doing.
And I don't think you have received the message yet.
That crap doesn't work anymore. It did for a little while,
but nobody is listening to you. All right, Well, I
do have a couple of clips that are safe for air.
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Speaker 1: Got a message from Trent on Twitter. It's a Pete tweet.
He says, Rhubarb just closed down.
Speaker 2: Pete and all the Reddit locals are happy because they
were a tourist spot. Every restaurant at that location is
a tourist spot because it's literally right there in the
heart of downtown Nashville.
Speaker 1: And Rubarb was pretty good.
Speaker 2: It was all, you know, local sourced food and farmed
to table stuff like ninety percent of the words on
the menu. You didn't even understand like that. I mean,
they checked all the boxes. But this is one of
the things too about there. There's actually an organization up
there called Unchained and they oppose any chain stores from opening.
It's like, well, except okay, except for two. One was
when they were they tore down a little shopping center,
little strip mall had like five stores and it or
something all local small businesses, the kind of places that
would normally get the Unchained Ashville people and all of
the NIMBI folks to turn out and support of those businesses.
But it was part of a rezoning for I believe
it was a Trader Joe's, and so they were like,
tear it down, get rid of that old dress shop. Yeah,
just level it. We want our Trader Joe's. So they
looked the other way for that one. And then oh,
the other one was fud Ruckers. You always got to
make sure you pay attention when you're pronouncing that one
on the radio, because they wanted to build apartments. And
you know what the branding effort to oppose that rezoning was.
They were tearing down a chain restaurant and putting up housing,
and it got all this backlash because it's on the
way to the Grove park in on that on that road,
and so they were all upset about it because they
said the branding effort was don't Charlotte our Ashville. That's
what they said. I kind of took offense to that.
I was a little offended by that, Like, oh, no,
you're getting apartment buildings built. That's what you considered to
be Charlotte, a mixed use, right, apartment buildings on top,
retail on the ground level. But because it's going to
be a new building with apartments, that's Charlotte. I mean,
I would understand if it's like, hey, we're tearing down
this historical building, because that I mean, to be fair,
that is Charlotte, right, But like you're gonna tear down
the building, it's a fud Rucker's right, For the love
of me, It's just a fud Ruckers, that's all it is.
This isn't some sort of architectural masterpiece. No offense to
the architect that designed every single fud Rucker restaurant. I
feel like I'm doing a very good job of pronouncing
that name correctly. During all of this rant. I feel like, okay,
I'm not asking for praise. I just feel like I'm
doing a decent job of I'm gonna move on before
I mess it up. So Chuck Edwards goes in front
of this crowd, okay, and they come from all over
his district, all of these transplanted leftists from other states
that became too burdensome to live in because of leftism.
They come and retire to the mountains around Ashville, and
they hate Donald Trump. Oh boy, do they hate Donald Trump.
And so they went there and they spent ninety minutes
cursing and screaming and chanting and pounding on doors and
blocking a motorcade, all to tell everybody that they are stupid.
I think here's a quote from last night, one of
the more intelligible. Yeah, there you go. That was last
night's highlight. I think that was the least of Oh wait, now,
hang on a second, I have another one here. This
is the Okay, okay, that makes sense. That's a good argument.
Speaker 1: There you suck. Oh okay, well there you go.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was essentially what they did last night
to Chuck Edwards, and they feel like this is a win,
and the media coverage of it. Here's the AP headline.
North Carolina GOP town hall gets rowdy as attendees hurl
scathing questions on Trump. They hurl gating questions. No, they
were cursing, they were screaming. They were unintelligible, They were
not making arguments. They were asking, like almost as if
in a socratic fashion, like.
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Speaker 2: Here is an email from Tim Ashville leftist transplants. This
is so common in the South Northerners movie. Look it's
not just Northerners. You got Californians as well, right, You
got West Coasti's that come down or come over anyway.
Northerners move here to escape high taxes. Then they start
to demand more GOV cost services while telling us how
great it was up north. I told one from Philly
if he didn't like it, he knew where I ninety
five is. Unfortunately he never left. Yeah, this is I've
talked about this for years, because you may not be
aware of this, because I have worked very hard to
eliminate the accent from my mouth.
Speaker 1: But I grew up on Long Island. Now.
Speaker 2: I left when I was seventeen. I came down south.
I went to college at Winthrop University, and I never
went back. I mean up to New York. I mean well,
I would go visit.
Speaker 1: I visit, but that was enough. Like I came down here.
I liked it. I like the pace of life, I
like the people. I liked the.
Speaker 2: Region, and so I stayed. But I did not attempt
to make it into a Long Island South. Why would
I do that. I just left there. I did not
want to be there anymore. So I'm not knocking anybody
that does go back, or that does stay up there
and live up there. My parents are still up there.
So a lot of my family is still up there.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 2: They they're happy to be there. I think, well some
of them not so much. But but you're free to
go wherever you want. But I never thought it was
It didn't make any logical sense to me to come
here and then tell everybody that this is the way
you need to do it because this is the way
it was done up north. It doesn't matter, It doesn't
make any sense. I came here and I like the
way things were done here, so I stayed. And you know,
it's just it's a lot to move again. Oh yeah,
I don't understand that either. I don't understand that mentality.
Maybe it's the same kind of vibe like when you
hear like the h the American tourists that goes over
to Europe and people, you know, some people don't like
American tourists over there. Maybe it's that same sort of
thing going on.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But the AP covering this story out of Ashville on
the town hall that got rowdy quote unquote Chuck Edwards,
Congressman Edwards, here's how the story goes before answering an
attendee's question about President Donald Trump's quote destructive and disastrous
trade war. US representative Chuck Edwards made a plea to
the rowdy crowd at his Thursday town hall in Asheville,
North Carolina. Quote let me answer, and then if you
don't like it, you can boo or hiss or you know,
whatever you want to do. And yo, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Booo right boo. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, here's the other thing too, about all of their
their jeering and their sneering and their booing and cat
calling and such. I've seen what you cheer for. Leftists.
Your booze do not matter to me, he says, So
let me answer. If you don't like it, you can
boo or hiss or whatever you'd like to do. Edward said,
visibly exhausted as he expanded on Trump's use of tariffs
as a negotiating tactic. It took less than a minute
for the crowd to break out in outrage. He down,
to be fair, leftists are just in a perpetual state
of outrage, so I don't know if they broke out
into outrage there ap. He continued to plow ahead in
his response and eventually punctuated it by telling attendees that
he would stop there and you can yell, and the
crowd gladly took him up on the offer. For about
an hour and a half, Edwards endured a constant barra
raj of jeers, explotives, and sharing questions on Trump administration policies.
About three hundred people crammed inside a college auditorium for
the town hall, while the booze from more than one
thousand people outside the building rumbled through the event. These
are people, by the way, in that audience that did
not vote for Chuck Edwards. Right, The vast majority of
people at that event were not Edward supporters. They already
hate Edwards. They hate Donald Trump, they hate Republicans, they
hate a lot of things. That is the vibe you
get among leftist Democrats in Asheville. It is a constant
they hate a lot of stuff, and then they demand
that you quote listen to them while they tell you
to shut up, because that's what they did last night
to Chuck Edwards. Think about this, What is the purpose
of holding a town hall meeting with constituents. It's to
go there and hear from constituents. Right, Ostensibly, that's the purpose.
You're the congressman, you show up, hey, we're working on
some things. I want to give you some information, and
now I'll open it up for Q and A. And
what do you think the message that he got from
last night is except that you are a bunch of
immature children that you do not know how to conduct
yourself in a public venue like this. But he needs
to know I'm angry. Already knows it. Guys, We already
know that the left is angry. The left has been
angry my entire life. You're not breaking any new ground here,
So we know you're mad. We know you're angry. We
know you're a little unhinged. We know you like to
curse in front of mixed company. You do it all
the time.
Speaker 1: We get it. But you need to hear us.
Speaker 2: You need to listen to us. I've said this before,
I shall say it again. When the Left talks in
this way about you need to listen to what I'm saying.
They don't mean it, as in, you need to hear
the words they mean it, as you need to obey
my command. Much like a parent tells a child, listen
to what I'm telling you, they're telling the child to
do something. Listen to me, right, And that means obey me.
That means I'm telling you what to do. You need
to hear what I'm saying, Listen to what I'm saying,
and then obey what I'm saying. That's what the left means.
They don't mean hear it. We've heard it.
Speaker 1: We have heard you.
Speaker 2: My gosh, everybody has heard you for the last twenty years.
You guys have been screaming in every public venue you
can find. It's not a lack of us hearing it.
We just don't agree with you. And no amount of
further screaming and scream wach and cussing is going to
make me agree with you. You're not winning hearts and
minds here, lefties. It's just not happening for you.
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representatives last week to skip out on town halls, saying
demonstrations outside of them were the work of professional protesters.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, that.
Speaker 2: Would actually be a really good story to track down
if like, all right, I'm just spitballing here, but let's
just say there was some sort of an entity that existed,
like an organization or a business or something, and like
the model or the service is that you hire some people,
and they would go out and find out stuff and
then put them down in some sort of a report,
maybe public consumption, and then people could know more things
about what's going on around them. It's okay, it's kind
of bare bones, but I don't know, maybe flesh it
out later. But Edwards but that it seems like that
would be a good thing to maybe track down find out, Hey,
is this or is this not the work of professional protesters?
And this used to be something that the left would
scoff at as if it's like a fever dream of
the right wingers. But we've actually now found thanks to
all of the AI and the publication of the various
FEC documents and the reporting and all of this, we
now trace we can trace where the money is going
to it. It's just a matter of you know, running
these things through the algorithms to find the connections. And yes,
as a matter of fact, I do have a story,
not about the Ashville protests, but about some other organizations.
I'll get to that in the next hour. So Edwards
addressed the Republican leader's advice, saying he didn't want to
shy away from conversations with the people of western North
Carolina even if they disagreed. But less than thirty minutes
into the town hall, Edwards started to change his tune
as a majority of attendees interrupted him with vitriolic disruptions. Again,
what are you there for to yell at a congressman?
What do you think that accomplishes? You know, you're not
changing that guy's mind by screaming and yelling at him, right,
that never works. So as a tactic, I don't understand
if you're trying to actually affect change, why you would
engage in this behavior. So if you don't understand the results,
re examine your assumptions, reassess the assumption. So my assumption
is they're trying to affect change. Hah, they are not.
They're actually just doing it for themselves, for their own pleasure.
In that sense, it's sort of masturbatory. So like you
have this need, this itch, and you just need to
start it. And oh, I feel so much better now
that I got to yell and scream and throw cuss
words around an auditorium, And I feel so much better,
And I'm morally superior to that guy and everybody that.
Speaker 1: Agrees with him.
Speaker 2: It's so performative, it's so performative, and we don't believe you.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. We don't believe You're not morally superior.
You're not.
Speaker 2: You're just acting like a jerk, that's all. Asheville is
a deep blue dot amid a sea of red in
North Carolina's mountains. North Carolina went for Trump in the
twenty twenty four election. Edwards said, quote, and you wonder
why folks don't want to do these town halls right, Well, see,
then they would claim he's scared of us. No, it's
not productive, and he did say that last night. Edwards
pointed out, like this is not productive. It's a waste
of time. And what the shouters are doing is they
are engaging in what is called the heckler's veto. Right,
they're going to scream at you and prevent you from
doing the thing that you came here to do, to
tell people about western North Carolina recovery, right, the funding
and where that stuff stands and how that's going at
the federal level. People showed up there maybe wanting some
information on that, and they're not going to be able
to hear it because the hecklers are shouting down this congressman.
Because they hate the Orange Man so much as Edwards
touted the work he and the Trump administration has been
doing for the region's recovery, which could include the President's
proposal to dissolve FEMA. And that's how the AP leaves it,
to dissolve FEMA, Yeah, and give the money directly to
states AP. Why'd you leave that part out anyway? Attendees
shouted him down and demanded he address questions immediately.
Speaker 1: We don't want to hear what you have to say.
We've got questions, I got questions. Why did you think
so much? That's what they were doing last night, and
the media is like, oh my gosh, this is so democracy.
Speaker 2: One person was escorted out of the venue after hurling
expletives at the congressman. Several people screamed from various parts
of the room, quote listen to us now, which again,
listen to us. In other words, obey, obey.
Speaker 1: When you're just.
Speaker 2: Screaming listen to me, listen to me, listen to me.
That's actually not productive. You're not because once when somebody
hears you say that, Okay, I heard you say that,
and you just keep saying listen to me, and I
hate you, and I hate Trump. That's okay, noted Let's
move on. No, I need to keep saying it, which
is asked. Actually one of the rules of public hearings,
which is everything has been said, but not everybody has
said it. Edwards said Trump and Musk were over the target.
In a news conference after his event, he said, I
take away from what I heard today is that we're
doing exactly what the American people sent us to DC
to do. Right, So the screeching performances did not change
a thing. Congratulations asheville leftists.
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