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your support. Got a story here out of Buncome County
where apparently they've been prioritizing Helene relief money by race.
Speaker 2: Shocking.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second, but first we
have a call from Jeff calling about something I talked
about last hour regarding Margaret Brennan's stupidity. Jeff, welcome to
the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for taking my call to a certain extent.
Ms Brennan does have a point. When the Vymar Republic
was founded after World War One, there was free speech.
They had multiple parties. The Nazi Party didn't get started
until I think around nineteen twenty three, and most of
these parties did have something of a private militia and
their job was basically to bust up rallies and so Hitler,
you know, he had his storm troopers that would stop
the opposing parties rallies. And have you found the speech sir?
Speaker 1: Have you heard of the Vymar fallacy? What the Vymar fallacy?
Speaker 2: Have you heard of this fallacy?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: No, sir, I haven't.
Speaker 1: This is what you are describing, this idea that freedom
of speech led to the rise of Hitler, when in fact,
the Viymar Republic had speech codes and they cracked down
on specifically the Nazis. They threw them in jail, they
banned them for Hitler was banned from public speaking for years.
There were various organizations that would act as sort of
like the like there was a Jewish organization similar to
the Anti Defamation League that would identify, you know, the
targeting of Jewish people in speech, and then the government
would crack down on them. So, yeah, they had they
had speech. They had anti free speech laws in the
Weymar Republic.
Speaker 2: Well, I wonder about Hitler being banned from speaking. I
think part of that was his punishment for initiating that
rebellion Inich.
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is there's a there is it
is such a it's such a theory that it then
it then grew or it spawned a response which is
dubbed the Vymar fallacy, which is addressing the very thing
that you're outlining, which is that the Bymar Republic had
free speech and that allowed the Nazis to go around
and do their pamphlets and cartoons and all this other stuff,
when in fact, Theymar Republic did not have free speech
as we have it. They actually had speech restrictions and
censorship efforts, and people were fined and thrown in jail
and such.
Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate you enlightening me on that. I'd never
heard of that. I've just read a lot of books about,
you know, the rise of Right Hitler and the Nazi.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, go look up. There's a I played a
clip of it yesterday. It's called the fire dot Org.
It's fire organization. It's a free speech organization, and they
had a clip on it talking about the Vymar fallacy.
So if you just look up Ymar fallacy, you'll probably
find it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I appreciate.
Speaker 1: It, Yes, sir, all right, thanks Jeff, Yeah, you two
appreciate it. All right. So a North Carolina citizen group
this is, by the way, from the Daily Wire dot
com piece by laithe Lemahieu. I think he's Spanish. A
North Carolina citizen group is asking the Trump administration to
intervene after local leaders prioritized Hurricane Helene small business relief
grants on the basis of race and sex. I can't
believe that Buncom County would do such a thing. Actually,
I totally can believe it. It is completely captured by
the left Western North Carolina Citizens for Equality, that's the organization.
Citizen group filed a complaint with the Treasury Department last
month after Bunkhom County announced that it would focus on
supporting small businesses damaged by Helene that were BIPOCK and
women owned. BIPOC stands for Black Indigenous people of color right,
So different, three different groups there, I guess, although I
kind of feel like black would fall into the POC right,
and wouldn't also indigenous fall into POC. Wouldn't they all
just be POC? But I don't know whatever. BIPOC is
what they go by, at least for leftist leftist women
that control these governments in Bunkhom County. Bunkhom County home
to liberal Ashville funded the program by using repurposed federal
COVID relief funds. Quote. In this situation, there is no
doubt that Buncom County intended to discriminate against white business
owners in its Hellene relief project. The county directed that
the funds be used in a manner that prioritizes one
group of business owners over another based solely on skin color.
That's according to the president of Western North Carolina Citizens
for Equality President Karl Mumpower, who was a former city
councilman Republican. I think he may have actually been the
last Republican ever elected to the Ashville City Council, although
I think technically it's a nonpartisan ha. That's a non
partisan race, so nobody knows what political affiliation these candidates are,
except everybody really knows. So they have filed a civil
rights complaint with the Treasury Department. The Bunkhom County Board
of Commissioners, all Democrats, now rolled out its small business
relief grant program in November, announcing that it would prioritize
helping businesses not owned by white men. The program would
make business owners eligible for tens of thousands of dollars
in repurposed American Rescue Plan Funds or ARPA funds. The
county said that the focus area of the small business
Support program would be BIPOC owned businesses, women owned businesses,
and sole proprietorships. So I guess if you're a white
dude and you're a sole proprietorship, then I guess you
could get access to the money. Maybe. From November thirteenth
through the seventeenth, the county partnered with the nonprofit Mountain
biz Works, and that is spelled biz Works biz works.
I yeah, I don't know anyway, they were, So Mountain
bis Works is going to administer the one point five
million dollars in funding appropriated from the ARPA. The nonprofit
Mountain Bisworks says that it focuses on working with quote,
people of color, women, and immigrant entrepreneurs and works to
promote racial equity. It's also targeted in the complaint by
this citizens group. Statistics shared by the county showed that
grants were disproportionately awarded to women and minorities. Well, of
course it would be, because that's the focus, right, that's
the intent of the one hundred and thirty seven awards
given out twenty eight and a half percent were given
to minority owned businesses. About sixty one percent were given
to women owned businesses the county. By the way, in
case you are wondering, which has always been a point
of hilarity to me, when I worked in Asheville for
eight years and all of the focus on race and
ethnicity and equity and diversity, like all of their focus
on this stuff, and you know, just the denigration of
whites and Republicans and all of it. Bunkhom County is
ninety percent white, like it.
Speaker 3: It's so much wider right, which it's where these leftist
white people retire to to then virtue signal to everybody
else about how they really do care about all these
minority people just as long as they don't live in
my county, they just stay over there. Mumppower believes that
the process not only violates federal law, but also Bunchom
County's very own anti discrimination law. That ordinance describes discrimination
as treating people differently for a number of different.
Speaker 1: Factors, including race and sex. Yes, you are not allowed
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let me find it here from Trudy who sent me
a picture. And it's just a pile of logs and
branches in front of the Asheville town Hall, city Hall
and the government building whatever. They're right next to each other,
but so you got like two trees. It's probably separated
by about fifteen feet, these two trees, and then in
between the two trees, just this pile of you know, debris, logs, branches,
just all piled up like a big bonfire or something
that's getting ready to be had. And so Trudy says,
I see so much Helene debris every day, and I
thought that this pile of debris was some of that. Right,
that's obviously, you know when you hear hoof beats, thing courses,
not zebras, Right, obviously you would think this is just
a pile of debris left over from Hurricane Helene. But
Trudy says, I have now been informed that it is
an art installation. It's called the Eagle's Nest, she says. Now,
most people here in the mountains know that a pile
like this attracts vermin, snakes, et cetera. Yeah, Like, I'm
just waiting for some of the local activists or homeless
folks to go light the thing on fire, you know,
because they're not going to know. I mean, the homeless
folks are probably not going to know that that is
an art installation, you know. The Again, this is what
I call art by explanation. You know, if I can't
tell that this is artwork unless you put some sort
of a placard in front of it that tells me
specifically this is supposed to be art. You know, here's
its name, and this is what it represents or whatever. Like,
if I can't look at something and immediately know that
this is a piece of art, then it's not art. Sorry,
Like I make the rule on that for myself, okay,
Or as somebody else told me one time, it's not
art if I can do it rights. It's just a
pile of yard waste, people. Really, it's just a pile
of yard waste. It's not art. Although I'm sure the
taxpayers coughed up a couple grand for this. I mean,
it is ridiculous. It is like literally just a pile
of logs and or branches, probably no bigger than like
four four inches dynameter branches, and it's just all piled
up like a bonfire. But somebody's going to come along
and light that baby up. Somebody is going to do it. Okay,
they bathe in the water fountains like twenty feet away
from here. Don't tell me they're not going to light
this puppy up to stay warm at some point, all right,
I'd be like yeah, and then the scandal would be
like eating the banana duct tape to the wall. Right, Okay,
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out in Ashville. Do you know what reddit is? Reddit
dot com. It's a it's a website forum people post
threads and stuff and they're all sorts of these subreddits.
They call them Reddit threads, where you know, they'll be like,
you know, they all start with like an R and
then a slash and then a topic or something, and
so like R slash Charlotte and so people will go
in there and talk about Charlotte and then it can
get very specific about different things. You have subreddits of
different you know, more specific categories or whatever. But anyway,
there is there is one for Ashville, as there are
for like most cities, and somebody posts it up over there,
a hitlist of businesses to boycott because the businesses are
at least perceived to be conservative owned. That's it. So
they're now posting lists. And this is not just Ashville,
by the way, there were lists like this all over
the country because Reddit has become what virtually all of
these types of forums become when the moderators boot all
conservatives off the platform. Up in Asheville, there were when
I first got there, and I don't even know if
this I guess I could check and see, but I
really don't care to. There was a Facebook group, well
actually before the Facebook group, there was a website called
Scrutiny Hooligans, and one of the guys who started the blog,
who went by the online name of Screwy Hooy, actually
became a city councilman. That's the kind of people you're
dealing with in Nashville. He became a city councilman, just
a nasty guy online. But the same thing happened at
that website where they would boot off any kind of conservatives.
Who would you post comments after the blog posts and stuff,
and so they would just ban all of these conservatives,
much like the Germans are doing now right, but without
the force of law. So they would ban them. And
then there was a Facebook group started up by a
couple of leftists and it was called Asheville Politics and
a lot of people and it was like and so
when I got there, Ashville Politics then started up. I
joined Ashville Politics and I made it, I want to say,
about six months, and they the one of the like.
The first interaction I had though, was the moderators accusing
me of running some other account because this other account
was some conservative guy who happened to like my page
or was a friend of mine on Facebook or something,
and that was it. That was the that was the
only friend and follower the guy had. And so they
said that I was running that account and I said,
I'm not running that account. I don't have any other accounts.
This is my account. I don't know who this person is.
And they didn't care. The evidence was overwhelming for them,
and so they kicked that guy off, accusing him of
being a sock puppet of mine, which he wasn't. And
then they kicked me off because they would allow personal
attacks against me. In fact, the moderators would engage in
personal attacks against me, and then when I started responding
in kind, because you know me, I would prefer to
have the conversations about policy and philosophy and such. But
if you are interested in only the name calling, well,
I'm your huckleberry there too. I can engage like that
as well. I prefer not to, but I am skilled
at it, so I proceeded to employ those skills. They
didn't like it very much because some of them we're
kind of They stung a bit, particularly the uh, you know,
the twisting of one guy's one of the moderator's names.
He didn't like the name that I thought his name
was Shad, and I thought that that sounded very similar
to another word, and I just would call him that
word instead because he would call me different names. So anyway,
they banned me. So what ends up happening on all
of these types of sites is that they kick off
everybody that disagrees with him, and then the site dies.
It's what happened to Scrutiny hooligans. The astral Politics page
became a freaking ghost town. And that's what Reddit is now.
Becoming because there isn't any there's no disagreement permitted, and
if you cross, you know, even if a lefty crosses
another lefty, then they file complaints against each other and
one of them gets booted off or they get warned
or something. So it just becomes this echo chamber of
moon battery. Right, So they have this list, and I'm
actually kind of surprised that they got as many names
as they did because it is Ashville, so I didn't
think there were that many Conservatives or Trump supporters in Ashville.
But it doesn't make some bit of sense because these
are business owners. So anyway, so I figured, well, you
made the list, So I'm going to go ahead and
tell my audience who these businesses are so they can
go support them because they're obviously being targeted for a boycott.
So if you would like to support these companies, I'll
give you the names. So if you're going to Ashville
to spend some tourism dollars, you want to spend it
at these places to help out people that aren't crazy,
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targeted businesses by leftists in western North Carolina because these
business owners have made the unforgivable sin of not being
a leftist. So they created this hit list on Reddit.
And I don't know how accurate it is, but if
these businesses are being targeted for boycotts, I figured, why
not pass the information along to you so you can
go to them if you so choose. So here they
are Earthling Coffee, affordable mufflers and brakes, I mean obviously,
like if you need a muffler of breaks, but anyway,
Laurel Ridge Country Club, Rivertop Landscape, WNC Tire, Granddad's Apples
Workout Anytime. I believe that's a gym, the Pizga in
Frank's Roman Pizza, Arabella's fast Track at Irwin Hills, which
fast Track I think is a gas station, which, like, guys,
you're really struggling if you have to. Does anybody check
the political affiliation of the gas station owner? Anyway? Uh, Piza,
p I e z Aa, Allen's Jewelry and pond Odem,
Locksmith's Dragon Puff, Smoke and Vape Shop, Apafca, Vicious Biscuit,
and Montford Deli. That's it. That's the massive list that
they could come up with of business owners that I'm
not really sure, like some of the comments here that
got them on the list. Let's see here. I mean
because some of us like always has right wing news
plus radio on pro Trump's stuff inside the store, right
employees wearing MAGA gear while working like this is the
stuff that's got them WNC Tire. They don't even have
a reason. They're the reason that they give is reason
question mark, question mark, question mark. They don't even have
a reason. They're just they're just on the list. You
right on the list. That's it on the list. I
think some some more people might be getting added to
the list if this is true ABC eleven dot com.
It's actually an associated Press story published at the ABC
eleven dot com site. Some in western North Carolina hit
by Helene embrace President Trump's push to abolish FEMA. No really,
Why could it be that the people those directly impacted
and affected and had interactions with FEMA might know a
thing or two about their effectiveness. They're open to President
Trump's suggestion about getting rid of FEMA. It's a common
sentiment in the mountains of western North Carolina. Days after
Trump took office on January twentieth, he surveyed the fallout
from wildfires in California and the hurricane in North Carolina
and suggested that states primarily manage the response to natural disasters.
As a candidate, he had disparaged FEMA's work in the
southern states hit by Helene. That criticism, which began almost
as soon as the wind stopped blowing, has not stopped.
See again, the scandal is not the story. The story
is the Republican reaction to the scandal Rule number two
of journalisming. More recently, the AP reports FEMA has criticized
or was criticized by Trump advisor Elon Musk over payments
to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants.
Four FEMA employees were fired, accused of circumventing leadership to
make the transactions which have been standard for years through
a program that helps with costs to care for a
surge in migration. Guy really shoehorned the word care in there,
didn't They helps with costs to care for a surge
in migration. Yeah, it's overrun. And also, as Musk pointed
out the other day at that Oval Office press briefing,
the Roosevelt Hotel, which is where the fifty nine million
dollars went to After Trump said, freeze all the funding,
and then they still push the money out the door.
That hotel is completely full and they're paying twice the
market rate. So yeah, like that's that's not to care
for a surge in migration, Okay. During his remarks, Trump
said he may sign an executive order to fundamentally overhaul
or get rid of FEMA. North Carolina's government estimated that
Helene caused a record sixty billion dollars in damages. FEMA
has contributed about three hundred and eighty million through public
assistance grants to the state and local governments, as well
as approximately three hundred and seventy two million directly to
North Carolinians as of February eleventh. According to the agency,
famous responsibilities include direct financial assistance to individuals and reimbursements
to governments for recovery tasks like debris removal and rebuilding roads, which,
by the way, the Army Corps of Engineers this is
not in the AP story, but the Army Corps of
Engineers has made more progress in two weeks with debris
removal than in the previous four months. Right, there are
people posting videos and pictures all over Twitter, all over
social media showing the Army Corps of Engineers rolling in
and clearing out debris that had sat there for four months.
What happened in the last two weeks? How did the
Army Corps of Engineers all of a sudden be able
to deploy all of these trucks to get out there
and start scooping up all the debris out of the
lakes and off the sides of the roads. What happened something?
I feel like something important happened within the last I
don't know month, less than three weeks, married three weeks.
Now it'll come to me. All right, that'll do it
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