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 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to vpeteclenarshow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,559 much for your support. So last hour was talking, I 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:39,159 went over the release of another trunch or trove of 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,600 documents that were released. These were provided to Senator Chuck 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:48,679 Grassley by a whistleblower inside the government that showed the 13 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:51,840 FBI issued nearly two hundred subpoenas targeting more than four 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,320 hundred Republican entities and individuals as part of the probe. 15 00:00:56,159 --> 00:00:58,119 And some of the more egregious stuff occurred with the 16 00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:03,320 signing off of subpoenas in a court order to keep 17 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:08,959 it secret from the targets of those subpoenas, including US senators, 18 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:14,319 because they the judge Bosburg, or as I call him 19 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,920 bo as Berg, I just find it more fitting and 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:23,840 it's more fun to say, but he alleged in this 21 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,159 ruling basically to keep it secret that somehow or another, 22 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,560 Ted Cruz among others would destroy or tamper with evidence 23 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,120 and it would intimidate witnesses or something, and so he 24 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:40,280 couldn't be told that all of his records were being 25 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:45,359 subpoena his phone records. AT and T refused to comply. 26 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,040 Verizon not so much. Verizon did comply with the subpoenas. 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,079 AT and T did not, at least with Ted Cruz. 28 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,560 So a couple of messages regarding that, Todd says on 29 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,879 the text line, laughing at them, calling Trump a dictator 30 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,719 and no kings. Right, Biden was and will go down 31 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:15,120 in history as the most corrupt administration ever. Yeah, this 32 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:21,479 is why the no Kings rhetoric does not persuade me 33 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:27,719 one bit. It just doesn't because it's ridiculous when you 34 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:32,479 look at what Biden did, and now you have people 35 00:02:32,479 --> 00:02:34,639 accusing Trump, Oh my gosh, he's going to do these 36 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,080 things that like Joe Biden was doing, like oh, we're 37 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,360 so afraid of the weaponization of the DOJ and going 38 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,599 after political enemies. Yeah, tell me more about it. You've 39 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:51,400 got now multiple times where the Democrat controlled DJ went 40 00:02:51,439 --> 00:02:57,840 after Trump and now hundreds of Republicans sitting lawmakers, think tanks, nonprofits, 41 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,960 and I'm supposed to believe that, oh my gosh, this 42 00:03:02,039 --> 00:03:03,800 is something that Trump is going to do and this 43 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,120 would be unprecedented. Yeah, if I hadn't been paying any attention, 44 00:03:07,439 --> 00:03:10,599 like over the last minute, then I guess that might 45 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:17,759 be persuasive. Jason says, I am growing more and more. 46 00:03:19,759 --> 00:03:23,560 I'm growing more and more on leaning towards completely deconstructing 47 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,960 the DOJ and the FBI. There has been no evidence 48 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,280 that this won't happen again. I'm not saying abolish, but 49 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,080 these organizations have to be reduced and localized in my 50 00:03:33,159 --> 00:03:35,919 humble opinion, and this is always the problems, and it's 51 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,800 especially one that conservatives grapple with because conservatives are the 52 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,680 ones who seek to conserve before tearing down and replacing. Right, 53 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,960 that's kind of in the conservative genetics, you know, it's 54 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,719 to not just willing nely blow stuff up. It's to Okay, 55 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,120 we want to preserve this institution because obviously it was 56 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:06,159 created for some reason, and if it has flaws and 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,520 it's doing things that it shouldn't be doing, then we 58 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,479 should rain that in, but we need to go at 59 00:04:10,479 --> 00:04:13,280 it with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer, that kind of approach. 60 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,519 But I said probably several years ago now, and I'm 61 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,079 still not convinced that I was in error when I 62 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,720 said it, But I became convinced that the FBI needs 63 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:32,560 to be just dismantled, just taking apart, because I don't 64 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,199 know any other way to address it. You're going to 65 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,519 put people in there and they're going to try to 66 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:42,040 make changes. Okay, great, but there's nothing to prevent these 67 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,560 kinds of bad actors from getting in there and doing 68 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,680 it again as soon as the change agents are gone. 69 00:04:51,199 --> 00:04:55,199 You heard Senator Ron Johnson. I played the SoundBite in 70 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,879 the last hour. He said, some of these nefarious bureaucrats 71 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,120 and bad actors in the DOJ, they have burrowed in. 72 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,560 How do you like, how do you identify them? How 73 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,120 do you get them out? Like? It's a problem, It's 74 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,120 a very big problem. There are a lot of people 75 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:20,639 that participated in these efforts across multiple jurisdictions, all across 76 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,000 the country, at all levels of the DOJ and the FBI. 77 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:27,519 You have people in the CIA and the various alphabet 78 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,600 intel agencies all over the place. This is a very 79 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:36,240 big problem, and you've got conservatives that want to see 80 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:39,319 heads roll. People need to be held accountable, and if 81 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:43,079 you don't hold them accountable, then it guarantees that it's 82 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,240 going to happen again. I said this last night at 83 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,560 the News and brus event. It's a quote from Jordan Peterson, 84 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:56,720 which is, unguarded stores of value will be set upon 85 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,879 by parasites. You have to protect that which is valuable, 86 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:06,040 whether it's an institution right that has built up credibility 87 00:06:06,079 --> 00:06:12,000 through many decades of important and solid work to then 88 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,959 just be taken over from the inside, whether it's the 89 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,439 judicial system. When you get a bunch of critical race 90 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,199 theorists and Marxists that infiltrate and take over. This is 91 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:27,199 what parasites do. They go in and they infest and 92 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,639 they feed off the host because it was an unguarded 93 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,600 store of value. That value had been accumulated by people 94 00:06:38,199 --> 00:06:43,079 over decades or centuries, and then they left it unprotected 95 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:49,279 and then it gets ravaged. This is why the Fabian Socialists, 96 00:06:49,319 --> 00:06:53,040 by the way, had as their original mascot and then 97 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,319 realized at some point a couple of years down the road, 98 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,319 they were like, yeah, I don't think we should use 99 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,279 this as a mascot anymore because it may be giving 100 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:03,199 away the game. It was literally a wolf in sheep's clothing. 101 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,000 That was their mascot. I'm not kidding. It's a cartoon, 102 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:10,399 it's drawing, but that was their mascot. A wolf in 103 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,439 sheep's clothing and the sheep. Remember the sheep is dead. 104 00:07:15,439 --> 00:07:17,079 See people kind of think like, oh, look at that, 105 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:18,680 he's just dressed up like a sheep. Like he went 106 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,959 down to the five and ten. Do they even have 107 00:07:21,079 --> 00:07:24,759 those anymore? Anyway, he went down to the store and 108 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:29,279 bought a sheep costume. No, no, no, no, the wolf 109 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:34,720 killed the sheep and then wore the sheep's skin as 110 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:40,399 a costume. That's the point. That's exactly what Jordan Peterson 111 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,360 was talking about. You wear this skin of this respected 112 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:48,439 institution and then demand the respect that that institution had 113 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:51,759 acquired even though you did not do anything except kill it. 114 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,720 You gutted it, and you wear its skin. You can 115 00:07:56,759 --> 00:08:01,639 see this replicated all across institution, whether it's K twelve education, 116 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:08,600 whether it's colleges, whether it's churches. That's happening a lot, right. 117 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:13,079 You've got these outside groups they come in, they agitate, 118 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:18,800 they take over, and then they gut. They gut that church, 119 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,360 and then they walk around with its skin and demand 120 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:26,160 everybody respect it like they had earned it. When they 121 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:32,360 did not, they simply killed the original institution. Now there 122 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,080 is a bit of good news. We do have some 123 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,600 charges that have been brought against a far left activist 124 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:47,840 podcaster streamer chick who's running for Congress in Illinois. Her 125 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:55,879 name is cat A bug has a lay. That's her name. 126 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:07,320 How nou has a lay? Abug haz a l e 127 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:12,480 h A bug has a lay. That's what it says. 128 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,360 I'm just saying that's what it says. So this woman, 129 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,759 along with five other protesters, some of whom have ties 130 00:09:19,799 --> 00:09:24,320 to local politics, were indicted on federal charges after attempting 131 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,919 to block a US Immigration and Customs enforcement vehicle from 132 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,120 driving into a federal immigration facility and damage the vehicle 133 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,840 in the process. The six people were all indicted on 134 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:38,840 two counts of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal 135 00:09:38,919 --> 00:09:43,320 law enforcement officer and forcibly impeding, intimidating, or interfering with 136 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,960 a federal law enforcement officer while engaged in official duties. 137 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,080 So the Illinois congressional candidate kat A Bug has a lay. 138 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:57,759 She has gone to her or her streaming platform where 139 00:09:57,759 --> 00:10:02,440 she is saying, You'll never guess it's political persecution. You know. 140 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:05,039 Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 141 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:08,480 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 142 00:10:08,519 --> 00:10:11,840 our past while transcending generations. 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It's 161 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,360 like someone steals your car, you have them arrested, and 162 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:20,840 then they say, you're just trying to get back at 163 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:26,840 me for taking your car. Yeah, that's that Moral Compass's tweet. 164 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:29,960 There was about the topic from the first hour about 165 00:11:30,159 --> 00:11:33,639 going after the people that weaponize the DOJ and they'll 166 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:39,480 claim now political persecution. Yet that is precisely what this 167 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:44,600 Illinois congressional candidate kat A bug has a lay. That's 168 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:50,879 what she's claiming because she got indicted on two counts 169 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:54,600 of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal law enforcement 170 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:59,159 officer and forcibly impeding, intimidating, or interfering with a federal 171 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,759 law enforcement office while engaged in official duties. This was 172 00:12:02,799 --> 00:12:07,519 based on an incident that occurred September twenty sixth when 173 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,879 this when her, along with five others, tried to block 174 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:17,080 an ICE agent from entering the Broadview Illinois Immigration facility. 175 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,919 This is all on video. She's on video. The group 176 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,639 banged aggressively quote unquote on the vehicle, pushed against the 177 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,279 vehicle to hinder and impede its movement. According to the indictment, 178 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:34,159 it was also reported that the word pig was etched 179 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,240 into the vehicle right, so keyed. They keyed the vehicle, 180 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,440 and the group damaged not only a side mirror but 181 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,600 also the back windshield wiper. So they damaged the vehicle. 182 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,840 They attacked it right. They were attacking the vehicle. They 183 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:54,639 were trying to impede the vehicle. They were trying to 184 00:12:54,799 --> 00:12:58,799 prevent the law enforcement officer from carrying out their lawful duties. 185 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,480 If convicted, there is the potential which I doubt this 186 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,519 would happen, but there is the potential to serve up 187 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,320 to fourteen years in prison, up to six years for 188 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:15,000 the conspiracy charge and up to eight for the intimidation charge. 189 00:13:15,159 --> 00:13:19,480 A Bug Hazila, running for Illinois's ninth congressional district, is 190 00:13:19,519 --> 00:13:22,480 one of the many Democrats vying to win the seat 191 00:13:22,919 --> 00:13:28,279 after incumbent Representative Jan Schakowski decided to retire. In a 192 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,639 recent social media post, she characterized the indictment as quote 193 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,919 political persecution, saying this case is a major push by 194 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,799 the Trump administration to criminalize protest. That no, you are 195 00:13:43,879 --> 00:13:47,360 free to protest. It's right there. I feel like I'm like, 196 00:13:47,399 --> 00:13:52,799 I'm channeling that dude eating the dry ramen noodles, pointing 197 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,399 to the screen behind him where it shows the First 198 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:01,320 Amendment to peaceably assemble. You can peaceably assemble, but when 199 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:08,320 you start attacking vehicles, that now is not peaceable. That's 200 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:14,440 the difference. Engaging in violence means you are not peaceably assembling. 201 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:23,000 Oh my gosh, words are violence, but violence is not. Meanwhile, 202 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:28,360 US Immigration and Customs enforcement officers are facing a surge 203 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,879 in death threats and violent attacks as they carry out 204 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:38,279 the crackdown on illegal immigration. This from foxnews dot Com. 205 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,559 Statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security yesterday show 206 00:14:42,639 --> 00:14:48,399 that ICE officers are experiencing an eight thousand percent increase 207 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:55,639 in death threats. Eight thousand percent increase, Assistant DHS Secretary 208 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,559 Tricia McLaughlin said, quote from bounties placed on their heads 209 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:05,320 for their orders, threats to their families, stalking, dosing. Our 210 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:11,919 officers are experiencing an unprecedented level of violence. There was 211 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:17,519 just recently the other day. Eduardo Agualar, a Mexican national 212 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,720 living in the US illegally in Dallas was arrested for 213 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,440 allegedly as soliciting the murder of ICE agents. He put 214 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:30,759 it up on TikTok, so he's not the smartest. He's 215 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,279 not the smartest guy looking for a hit job. But 216 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,240 I have found that to be the case, like when 217 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,240 people people try to hire hit men, you know, like 218 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,519 you hear about these stories all the time. They're usually 219 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,080 not very bright. But maybe that's just the ones that 220 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,840 we find out about, you know. The post was written 221 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,559 in Spanish and did offer ten thousand dollars for the 222 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,039 murder of an ICE agent and called for quote ten 223 00:15:55,159 --> 00:15:59,320 dudes in Dallas with determination who are not afraid to 224 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,720 and they and he's got little skull emojis. Also in Texas, 225 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,919 an ICE officer's spouse was threatened over the phone when 226 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:11,080 a caller said, quote, I don't know how you let 227 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:13,879 your husband work for ICE and you sleep at night? Bleep, 228 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:16,279 you bleep your family. I hope your kids get deported 229 00:16:16,279 --> 00:16:19,240 by accident. How do you sleep? Bleep? You Did you 230 00:16:19,279 --> 00:16:21,639 hear what happened to the Nazis after World War Two? 231 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:26,080 Because it's what's going to happen to your family, so 232 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:33,519 they're calling ice agent spouses. Meanwhile, over on Blue Sky, 233 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,399 the social media platform, apparently all of the calls for 234 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:50,240 death and attacks on Trump and Republicans and such that's 235 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:56,440 apparently not just allowed, but now it's protected. I mean, 236 00:16:56,519 --> 00:16:59,559 I can only assume this is the new norm. Welcome 237 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:05,119 to the new norm. Because a jury acquitted a man 238 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,680 accused of soliciting Trump's assassination on social media, on Blue Sky, 239 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,920 which is that fever swamp of leftism. 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This is a legacy 268 00:19:01,279 --> 00:19:04,400 outlet's I'll tell you she has nothing to do with 269 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,599 this case. The charges were brought before she got there, 270 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,720 before she was installed. She did not try this case. 271 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,519 She didn't have anything to do with it. Prosecutors tried 272 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:23,039 to establish that Peter Stinson's February eighteenth post on Blue Sky, 273 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:28,359 along with dozens of other anti Trump posts going back years, 274 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,680 amounted to evidence that he was inducing others to commit violence. 275 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:36,519 Why would they think that, Well, here's the post from 276 00:19:36,519 --> 00:19:40,319 February eighteenth, quote take the shot, We'll deal with the fallout. 277 00:19:42,839 --> 00:19:45,440 But that is not evidence that he's trying to induce 278 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,920 people to commit violence. When he tells them take the shot, 279 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:55,359 that's not telling people to take a shot, see right. 280 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,440 His defense lawyers said that those comments are protected by 281 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,519 the first and that he never took actual steps to 282 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:10,319 carry out an assassination. You see, he's a former Coastguard officer. 283 00:20:13,599 --> 00:20:16,519 I think I saw I believe I saw a report 284 00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:21,799 that said he was a sharpshooter. So here's a former 285 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:28,119 coastie who is telling people to take the shot online, 286 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:33,759 along with you know, scores of other posts encouraging people 287 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:39,160 to exact violence on Trump. But that's not an inducement 288 00:20:39,319 --> 00:20:43,039 of some kind. The government pointed to Stinson's history of 289 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:48,839 incendiary posts on Twitter formerly known as x as well 290 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,440 as Blue Sky, because Blue Sky was the platform that 291 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:55,759 was set up by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, 292 00:20:56,079 --> 00:21:00,200 after he was ousted from Twitter I think twice, and 293 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,519 then he went off and started blue Sky, and that 294 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,720 then immediately had this migration of all the lefties from Twitter. 295 00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:10,359 When Elon bought Twitter, They're like, I hate to Elon, 296 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:14,920 You're letting Republicans to post on Twitter. And so then 297 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,319 the lefties go over to blue Sky. And I'm going 298 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:21,799 to get into that a little bit in a minute. 299 00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:29,960 But this guy Stinson, after Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, 300 00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:34,759 he posted a bunch of stuff like three inches to 301 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:38,000 the right and the shot would have gone through his eyeball. Practice, 302 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,000 practice practice. That's not an inducement, that's not an incitement, though. 303 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,480 He's just encouraging people to be a better shot when 304 00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:50,599 they happened to completely on their own, without any inducement 305 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:57,759 or incitement, to be better at murdering somebody. The primary 306 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,119 expert witness for the defense as a psychologist specializing in 307 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:07,640 online radicalization and social media violence, and this expert argued 308 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:13,000 that prosecutors targeted Stinson without charging all of the other 309 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,839 people who post similar sentiments about the president without ever 310 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,839 acting on them. See so if you don't charge every person, 311 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:25,119 then you can't charge this guy. Quote. That's just incredible 312 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,279 to me that anyone in good faith would say that 313 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,960 the fact he posted a bunch of times that he 314 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 wished the president to be dead, that that's a solicitation 315 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:39,920 of murder. This is University of Maryland professor Jen Goldbeck Stinson, 316 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:46,200 who was indicted before Halligan arrived in the prosecutor's office. 317 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,240 He faced a charge under solicitation statute that requires the 318 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:53,920 government to prove his advocacy for the violence is strongly corroborated. 319 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,680 One attorney not associated with this case said, the solicitation 320 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:05,039 requires that kind of proof to distinguish idle chatter and 321 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,240 protected speech from communications strongly corroborating the speakers intend to 322 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:13,720 have the president killed. In Stanton's case, such evidence would 323 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,279 have included, you know, the defendant communicating with somebody that 324 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:21,000 he felt was capable and willing to assassinate Trump. See 325 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,319 so that's the standard. Now, so you can go online, 326 00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:26,759 you can call for people to be murdered. I guess 327 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,720 as long as you don't know who's reading your tweet, 328 00:23:32,039 --> 00:23:35,000 and as long as you don't know that somebody reading 329 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:40,400 the tweet is capable and willing, which is impossible to 330 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:46,640 know due to the nature of online discourse. Right, you 331 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,279 post something up there and you have no idea who's 332 00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:53,000 going to see this stuff. This is why it requires responsibility. 333 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,200 This is something that people I know a lot of 334 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,039 people may roll their eyes at this, but this is 335 00:23:59,079 --> 00:24:02,759 something that people in my line of work, we are 336 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:07,880 taught this. You have a responsibility to not say things 337 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,799 that can be construed as inciting violence because you don't 338 00:24:12,839 --> 00:24:16,599 ever know who's going to hear it, and you don't 339 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,880 ever know how they're going to be maybe motivated by 340 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,599 something that you say. So you don't want that on you, 341 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,119 and so you watch what you say and you make 342 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,359 sure to say that I am not for this thing. 343 00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:33,480 But now everybody's got their own printing press, their own 344 00:24:33,599 --> 00:24:36,480 radio station, their own TV station, everybody has their own 345 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:41,920 social media platform and they don't understand that responsibility. And 346 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,559 due to the nature of the social media world, you 347 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:48,839 post some stupid stuff up there, it goes viral. You 348 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,240 have no idea who is hearing or reading what you 349 00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:57,160 are saying. This seems like a pretty absurd standard, now 350 00:24:57,599 --> 00:25:00,079 it really does. So I can get on there. I 351 00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:02,039 can say all sorts of stuff that I could never 352 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,359 say on the radio, but I could say stuff on 353 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,160 social media, knowing that it may have actually a much 354 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:14,119 wider reach because it's not contained by you know, an 355 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:20,119 FCC regulated radio footprint. It goes far beyond the Charlotte 356 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,200 metro area. So I can go on there and just 357 00:25:23,519 --> 00:25:26,000 throw all of this stuff out there and incite people 358 00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:28,359 towards violence and then say, well, I didn't actually have 359 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,759 a direct communication with them. I couldn't know that, you know, 360 00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:35,319 one of the million people that saw my call for violence, 361 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,680 I didn't know that they were actually willing and capable 362 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,119 of performing the violence I was calling for them to do. 363 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:45,880 So now I get to walk away. Yeah, I think 364 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:50,359 there probably needs to be some sort of reinterpretation of 365 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,759 what of what the responsibility is I really do. Speaking 366 00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:00,480 of Blue Sky, Nate Silver did a write up on 367 00:26:00,519 --> 00:26:03,400 a couple of weeks ago, and he dubbed a term 368 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,839 called blue skyism. Blue sky Ism. Blue Sky is this 369 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,960 Twitter knockoff that was once billed as a kinder gentler 370 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,640 alternative to what is now known as X. He says, 371 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,160 it's probably not on death's door, but after a burst 372 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,039 of growth around the election, it's shrinking and steadily declining 373 00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:28,160 an influence even as other corners of the left thrive 374 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:31,079 during Trump's second term. The life and death of social 375 00:26:31,079 --> 00:26:34,960 media platforms are dictated by network effects. Although there can 376 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,799 sometimes be inflection points, for the most part, their trajectory 377 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,400 is pretty predictable. You join them because other people are 378 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,160 joining them, and that in turn makes them progressively more useful, 379 00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:49,480 and you remain on them out of habit until and 380 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:57,000 unless a critical mass leaves for somewhere else. Did that 381 00:26:57,079 --> 00:27:02,880 happen with Blue Sky? The evidence suggests no. All right, 382 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,720 if you're listening to this show, you know I try 383 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,519 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 384 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:08,599 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 385 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,839 say get your news from multiple sources. Why. 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The blind spot feature 396 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,039 shows you which stories get ignored by the left and 397 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,160 the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news, 398 00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:54,640 slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 399 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,759 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 400 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:01,240 get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not 401 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:04,240 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 402 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:09,079 as they make the media landscape more transparent. Russ says, 403 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,960 I was telling my wife about the ice threats swirling 404 00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:19,640 on Blue Sky and accidentally called it lefty socialist media site. 405 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,839 I'm going to keep making that mistake. That's a good 406 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,279 mistake to keep making. It's not a mistake. Actually, since 407 00:28:25,319 --> 00:28:29,359 the election, the platform has lost ground. The number of 408 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:35,200 unique posters has dropped by more than a half since 409 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,079 the election. That's when it was really at its peak. 410 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:44,119 And while a dedicated troop of Blue Sky regulars are 411 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,880 still skating up a storm, is that the word for it, 412 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,160 they call it. When they post over a blue sky, 413 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:54,799 they call it skating skate ski. Okay, they are gaining 414 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,599 less and less traction, preaching only to the converted. Blue 415 00:28:58,599 --> 00:29:02,640 Sky was popular among the Twitter refugees who hate Elon Musk, 416 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:08,160 and this self selection created a certain type of user, 417 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,319 people who adhere to an attitude that Nate Silver dubs 418 00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:18,279 Blue skyism, and it should not be mistaken for general 419 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:24,200 left of center political views. It statistically is significantly higher 420 00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:28,440 in states with a large white population. It's where most 421 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,160 of the use occurs white population and where the percentage 422 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:38,400 of people with advanced degrees is higher. Does a sound familiar? 423 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:45,039 Blue Sky is disproportionately popular in Washington, DC, also in 424 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:50,599 crunchy white states like Vermont and Oregon. Demographics alone only 425 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,359 goes so far and explaining Blue Skyism, though it's not 426 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,920 a political movement so much as a tribal affiliation, a 427 00:29:57,359 --> 00:30:02,680 niche or niche set of attitude and style of discursive norms. 428 00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:07,519 Here's the key that almost seemed designed in a lab 429 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,319 to be as unappealing as possible to anybody outside of 430 00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:18,079 the click. It is so right if you have ever 431 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:22,559 been over there, It is just thoroughly obnoxious. This is 432 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:24,519 a very lengthy piece, by the way, it's over at 433 00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:29,920 natesilver dot net called what is blue Skyism? It isn't 434 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,279 very influential today. He says, what I call blue skyism 435 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:35,880 has a longer history and predates the platform. It once 436 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,480 did have a lot of purchase on Twitter at a 437 00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:41,400 moment when Twitter was more influential than it is now, 438 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,839 as it often served as the assignment editor for the 439 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,960 mainstream media. He is exactly right on that blue Skyism's 440 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,480 peak actually came before Blue sky was even a thing, 441 00:30:55,319 --> 00:30:59,880 around twenty nineteen twenty twenty. You'll notice that blue skyists 442 00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:03,960 often have a lot of nostalgia for this period, the 443 00:31:04,119 --> 00:31:07,960 one and perhaps only time when they improbably became the 444 00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:17,799 prom king this time, yeah, because they were canceling all 445 00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:20,880 of the conservatives off of Twitter. Right. This was at 446 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,039 the time when you had the social media platforms that 447 00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:29,920 were banning and shadow banning conservatives left and right based 448 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,799 on all of these lefties that were in these NGOs 449 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:36,759 that were pressuring the tech companies. And they have to 450 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:39,039 do their part and make to make sure that you know, 451 00:31:39,119 --> 00:31:41,440 Donald Trump doesn't win re election and all of that 452 00:31:43,839 --> 00:31:46,920 the time he coincided with the twenty twenty presidential primary, 453 00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:49,359 when there was a huge gap between the most prominent 454 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,359 voices on Twitter and those of the actual Democrat base. 455 00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:57,920 The ultimate result was the rejection of various more online 456 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,519 and left wing candidates for nostalgia and more centrist Joe Biden. Right, 457 00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:08,240 So this was like the first like coalescing of these 458 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:14,400 radical left wingers outside of the you know, the more 459 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:20,160 establishment leaning Democrats. What really matters in elections is simply 460 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,200 being popular and winning over new converts. Blue skyism, with 461 00:32:24,319 --> 00:32:31,119 its intolerance for dissent, is the opposite of that. Why 462 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,000 it had such a foothold on Twitter. As a complicated question, 463 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,039 he says, I'm not so sure. He goes on to 464 00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:42,160 say Blue skyists love the drama. These pylons that they 465 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,839 love to participate in, creates an impression of false consensus. 466 00:32:47,519 --> 00:32:50,839 If you were a young journalist, say first year on 467 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,279 the job, not having built up the audience to spin 468 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,000 a failed cancelation attempt into a popular sub stack, which 469 00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:04,799 is so true, Yeah, then they had to have a 470 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,319 chilling effect when you would see the pylons happen. If 471 00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:10,440 you're a reporter, you don't want that happening to you. 472 00:33:11,079 --> 00:33:14,759 The COVID pandemic then further accentuated this by turning everybody 473 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,799 very online out of necessity. That gave the Blue skyists 474 00:33:18,839 --> 00:33:22,640 a sort of home court advantage. But as we've seen 475 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,839 over the past few months, blue Skyist attitudes are not 476 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,920 actually winning out in the marketplace of ideas. He claims, 477 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,799 as some Blue skyists like to think that, but it's 478 00:33:32,839 --> 00:33:35,119 not true. If they were, it would not be the 479 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,359 case that Blue Sky is getting just one sixtieth the 480 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:45,359 traffic that Twitter does. The three essential characteristics of Blue 481 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:54,599 Skyism Number one aggressive policing of dissent and censorship okay 482 00:33:55,279 --> 00:34:00,559 number one, Number two appeals to authority, and number three 483 00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:11,840 humorless scoldy neuroticism yeah, check, check and check yes. Policing 484 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,719 of dissent, particularly of people that are just outside the 485 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,960 circle right, who might have broader credibility on the center left. 486 00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:22,719 This is interesting, see because a lot of conservatives like 487 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,239 they're not on Blue Sky there's no reason to be 488 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,760 there because of the Blue sky Ism. Who wants to 489 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,440 be a part of that? And if you do go 490 00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:36,920 over there, you get banned immediately. People who are not 491 00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:41,320 even conservative, but are like center and center left leaning. 492 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:45,000 They set up an account and then they are dog 493 00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:48,679 piled immediately with report. You know, they get their accounts 494 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,119 get reported for hate and problematic thoughts and such, and 495 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:56,320 then they get they get banned. There was one guy, 496 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,519 I'm trying to remember who it was. I don't remember 497 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:03,199 Jesse Singaal I think it was. He's like, I think 498 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,199 it's him. I think he's center left, but he's done 499 00:35:06,199 --> 00:35:09,480 a lot of stuff about the transgender issue that is 500 00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:15,599 not trans affirming. And he set up his account. He 501 00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:18,639 was banned within a minute. As soon as people found 502 00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:21,119 out he was there, they banned him. They just kept 503 00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:24,679 report mass reporting his account. That's what they do to 504 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,719 the people that are just outside the circle of far leftism. 505 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,679 Their biggest enemies are people on the center left like 506 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,679 Nate Silver, Matt Iglesias, as reclined, or center left media 507 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,559 institutions like The New York Times. And now that means 508 00:35:45,559 --> 00:35:49,039 blue skyism is losing the battle of ideas. It just 509 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,920 draws the tent narrower, and it ensures that it will 510 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,800 remain obscure. There's nothing more Blue skyist than this literally 511 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:04,599 creating a list of shame of Blue Sky posters because 512 00:36:04,639 --> 00:36:10,119 they remain on Twitter. They created like how dare you 513 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,719 have an account on Twitter as well, and so they've 514 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:19,960 created a list of shame of Blue Sky people. The 515 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:27,360 appeals to authority, particularly academic authority, centering of the suitability 516 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400 of the speaker based on his or her credentials and 517 00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:33,239 or identity characteristics as opposed to the strength of his 518 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,360 or her argument. That's what they are about over there. 519 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,199 He talks about a subculture like Blue Skyism that sees 520 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:48,039 depression as a rational and even virtuous response. Is going 521 00:36:48,079 --> 00:36:51,880 to select for a lot of miserable people. And that's 522 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,480 who's over there. Being depressed is virtuous on Blue Sky 523 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,480 And that's going to mean that you are a self 524 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,639 selecting a lot of miserable people. And what do we 525 00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:08,000 know about misery? It likes company. So the Blue Skyists 526 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,559 gather in a corner exchanging tales of woe while the 527 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:18,159 rest of us just slink away. That is Blue Skyism. 528 00:37:18,639 --> 00:37:22,400 And whatever you think about Nate Silver, I think he 529 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,519 nails it here. All right. That'll do it for this episode. 530 00:37:26,559 --> 00:37:28,639 Thank you so much for listening. 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