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Last hour I went over a lot of 10 00:00:31,879 --> 00:00:35,359 the details of the East Wing demolition and plans for 11 00:00:35,439 --> 00:00:40,000 the construction of the new ballroom that has prompted outreach 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,159 among people who hate Donald Trump, and so I won't 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,320 go over all of those details, but highly recommend you 14 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,119 get the podcast and go back and listen to that. 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,600 We have some people who have called in want to 16 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,119 weigh in on this, and you can as well. Again 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,320 seven oh four five, seven zero eleven ten, I have 18 00:00:57,359 --> 00:00:59,759 text messages on the text line I will get to also. 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,359 Let's start with Dennis. Welcome to the program. 20 00:01:03,439 --> 00:01:06,079 Speaker 2: Hello Dennis, Yeah, Hi, Hey, thank you for taking my call. 21 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,239 And I'll thought by saying I'm not the Trump painter, 22 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,760 I'm whatever Republican. I'm off on this good stuff that 23 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,200 he's doing. However, the one thing I don't understand is 24 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:16,159 I realize it's being publicly funded, but you know, there's 25 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,799 a long precedent for the government teaming up with private 26 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,120 money and all that, but usually it's for infrastructure where 27 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:23,799 they get something back. Now over here, I'm just concerned 28 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,879 about undue sort of influence. You know, it's kind of 29 00:01:25,879 --> 00:01:27,840 like a lobby. You don't just give up two hundred 30 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,200 and fifty and I know it's not a signal in 31 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,239 to be your person. That's an awful lot of money 32 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,719 being given to the government, and you'd think that, well, 33 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,879 you probably can't write it off as a tax write off. 34 00:01:35,879 --> 00:01:37,840 I'm not sure, but I wouldn't think you could. And 35 00:01:37,879 --> 00:01:39,280 it's like, where are they getting back for it? Are 36 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,959 they get in some type of favor or what have you? 37 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,879 Just it just seems cleaner, neater. You have two undred 38 00:01:43,879 --> 00:01:45,319 fifty millions, a lot of money. But I don't think 39 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:47,719 the United States folks would have really objected to it 40 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:48,359 if it went I. 41 00:01:48,319 --> 00:01:51,879 Speaker 1: Don't even hang on, Dennis, you don't think you don't 42 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:54,000 think people would have objected if you well. 43 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 2: They probably would but yes, billions and trillions of dollars 44 00:01:57,079 --> 00:01:58,920 are sent and given no over But. 45 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: Dennis, you can say that probably right, Yeah, like you 46 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,480 you can say that because you say you don't hate him, 47 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,640 so you could say that, you know, probably wouldn't matter 48 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,199 to you, but for people who hate him, it would 49 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,439 just be another another line of attack. And so by 50 00:02:13,479 --> 00:02:16,360 doing it at no cost to the taxpayers, then he 51 00:02:16,439 --> 00:02:19,360 takes that argument away, which then leaves him obviously open 52 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,319 to the argument that you've expressed. And I've heard, you know, 53 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,000 I've heard as well that like, who are these who's 54 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:26,479 who's donating the money. 55 00:02:26,319 --> 00:02:28,039 Speaker 2: His friends that he's getting kicked back. 56 00:02:28,039 --> 00:02:29,759 Speaker 1: Well, there's a whole bunch of out. 57 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 2: Himself up to that he wouldn't necessarily otherwise. And I 58 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:34,479 realized it's sort of you go left to get kicked. 59 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:36,479 You're right, you get kicked. So he probably chose what 60 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:39,599 he considers to be, you know, the easier path or 61 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,960 the yeah, and he's the general public. 62 00:02:42,159 --> 00:02:44,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's done that path with you know, not 63 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,800 taking a salary, right, so he like there's a pr 64 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,240 value to not having the taxpayers funded. 65 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:49,759 Speaker 3: Uh. 66 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: The the flip side, as you say, is that like 67 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:53,960 people now want to know, well, who's donating the money, 68 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,759 and there is a list. I've seen the list, and 69 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:58,639 uh there are all these different you know, companies and 70 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:00,599 leaders and so there's a bunch of them that are on. 71 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,599 Speaker 2: The list, and why are they doing it? 72 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,199 Speaker 1: Okay? So, uh, well, I mean I don't know the 73 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:09,520 I don't know every motivation of all of the people 74 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:12,840 or companies involved, but I mean I can I can assume, 75 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,120 like one would be one motivation would be staying Donald 76 00:03:17,159 --> 00:03:20,719 Trump's good graces, right, But also another motivation might be 77 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:23,960 that you get you know, you get your name or 78 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,560 your company's name listed. You know, they usually put. 79 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,039 Speaker 2: A say you sell navy rights like the station. No. 80 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: No, but but look if you go you go to 81 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,520 any public works project like Charlotte Mecklenberg City Hall. You 82 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,439 go to Charlotte City Hall and there's a plaque there 83 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:41,879 on the wall for and it has all of the 84 00:03:41,919 --> 00:03:46,039 elected uh city council members, county commissioners that were in 85 00:03:46,199 --> 00:03:48,520 office when the project was done. So they put their 86 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:51,680 names on the wall. So I assume that the donors 87 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:54,800 would have their names listed someplace, you know, on a 88 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:59,039 donor wall, thanking them for uh for making it possible, right, 89 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,000 And and also there might be some people who donated 90 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:06,560 in order to just help build this ballroom. Maybe they've 91 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,280 attended the events at the White House and there is 92 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:11,400 no ballroom and they have to go outside in the tents, 93 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,800 and they're like, yeah, you know what, we should have 94 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,160 a state ballroom. And they wanted it, they wanted to 95 00:04:16,199 --> 00:04:18,160 see it get done. And maybe there are others. 96 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:21,199 Speaker 2: Phrase I think, yeah, I think you and I are 97 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,000 on the same page. I'm just concerned that there's going 98 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,360 to be because almost everything he's touched in his life, 99 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,319 and maybe some of it had a little bit of 100 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:30,399 I don't know where to smoke this fire in certain instances, 101 00:04:30,519 --> 00:04:32,519 but it just seems like he's really opened himself up 102 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,600 for so many more questions and lawsuits and always are 103 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,360 going to be grafted. And as his friend, as his 104 00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:39,399 cousin and his brother in law, is this that one, 105 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,000 you know Kushner and he's a builder himself. Has he 106 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:43,959 got his old guys in there, goombos and he's getting 107 00:04:43,959 --> 00:04:46,279 money back. But I'm glad he's getting it done. And 108 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:47,800 I just want to, you know, sort of raise that 109 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,079 with you, because I seriously doubt there's a tax right off. 110 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,720 It's just another avenue of questions that no matter what 111 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,680 he does, he's going to get kicked to ther fort. 112 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,879 And he doesn't he doesn't care. Obviously he doesn't exactly. 113 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: I was just going to say that bless him. Yeah, 114 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:01,639 I was just going to say this guy, I mean, 115 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:04,160 he's very nice. What is he like, seventy eight, seventy 116 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,800 nine years old? Like, he does not care at this point. 117 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,120 Right he's got his second term elected. He's he doesn't 118 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,959 care if people are going to attack him. He's turned 119 00:05:12,959 --> 00:05:15,839 the business over to his son. He's running the Trump 120 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,360 Enterprise now. So it's it's like he just wants to 121 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:21,959 do this and look for a guy who has been 122 00:05:21,959 --> 00:05:24,680 a builder his whole life, I could see why this 123 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,600 is he gets to kind of relive his old passion, 124 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,360 his old glory, like he now he gets to be 125 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,680 in charge of a building project right there at his house. 126 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:35,920 And he loves it. I mean he said it yesterday. 127 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,360 I think he was like, oh, I love the sound 128 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,399 of the construction equipment, you know, going on in the background. 129 00:05:40,519 --> 00:05:43,279 And I think he does. I think he probably does. 130 00:05:43,439 --> 00:05:45,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll just send a memo to Congress and say 131 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:49,959 we're building this. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Well, 132 00:05:49,959 --> 00:05:51,639 thank you so much. I'm sure you got other calls. 133 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:52,800 I appreciate you taking the time. 134 00:05:52,879 --> 00:05:54,759 Speaker 1: Yes, it's good here for you. Yeah, I have a 135 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:55,319 great weekend. 136 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 3: Yeah. 137 00:05:55,959 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: No, I think there are different motivations for all the 138 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,560 different donors. I don't know. Is it possible that you 139 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:04,079 know there's a quid pro quo and corruption in all 140 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:07,160 of this stuff. Yeah, that's possible. I don't know. I've 141 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:09,439 not seen any evidence of it, but that's totally possible. 142 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,639 I've said this since he came down the Golden escalator, 143 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,439 which is, you don't do real estate in New York. 144 00:06:14,519 --> 00:06:18,120 You don't open a casino in Atlantic City and not 145 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:23,319 have some connection to unsavory people, right, That's just the 146 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,759 comes with the territory. So if you know that is 147 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,000 the reality on the ground, right, then I'm sure you're 148 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,759 going to be able to find some connections along the way. Now, well, 149 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,000 we'll have to wait and see. See. I like this 150 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,160 is my approach to Donald Trump because I would have 151 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,879 gone crazy over the last decade if I were to 152 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:47,839 not accept things as they are right, And that's why 153 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,240 I think a lot of people suffer with TDS Trump 154 00:06:51,319 --> 00:06:56,040 derangement syndrome because they have this idea that reality is 155 00:06:56,199 --> 00:07:01,160 not real. Like again, if you are building a massive project, 156 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,959 you are probably going to encounter certain elements in that 157 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:12,120 world that may be a bit unsavory. Just throwing that 158 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,160 out there. All right, Lee, welcome to the program. 159 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,759 Speaker 3: Hello, Lee, Hey, thanks Joing. 160 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: I need to turn my radio down, Yes you do, 161 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,160 as is customary in the radio business. 162 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, all right, hold only. 163 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,199 Speaker 1: All right, this is counting towards This is counting towards 164 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:31,600 your time. 165 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: Lee. 166 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:34,519 Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know this is counting against your clock. 167 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:38,399 Speaker 3: All right now, now, can you hear me? 168 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,399 Speaker 1: Yes, I can hear you. 169 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,839 Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Yeah, I was calling. I've been listening to 170 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:47,120 you for a long time. Actxlan from Ashville. Nah. Actually 171 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,120 I'm driving between Charles Ashville quite a bit and I'll 172 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,560 always listen to your program. 173 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: Well, thanks, I appreciate it. 174 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,759 Speaker 3: I was calling to uh, you know, I agree with 175 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:03,399 the fact that we need a ballroom state to those 176 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,279 people instead of using tents outside. That that is great. 177 00:08:07,639 --> 00:08:09,680 And I know that the outside of this building is 178 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,879 going to sthetically look like the White House. Are similar. 179 00:08:14,399 --> 00:08:16,759 The only thing I'm worried about is going to be 180 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:18,920 you know, and I'm not going to tell you about 181 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,360 my views on Trump, but I am worried that the 182 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:26,519 inside of this thing is going to have a signature 183 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,519 of mor Lago or Trumps signature. You know. You talked 184 00:08:30,519 --> 00:08:33,279 about the book that his son wrote that he loved 185 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:36,600 beautiful thing. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 186 00:08:37,639 --> 00:08:41,759 I just don't want this thing to be gaudy. And 187 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,039 when the next administration come, next president comes in, he's 188 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,759 going to change it. That is my concern. And I 189 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:50,799 want to thank you also for clear enough the fact 190 00:08:50,799 --> 00:08:54,440 that it's not taxpayer money, because I was I was 191 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,840 having a hard time with that. Yeah. No, yeah, I 192 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,600 hate Johnny those type things. 193 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. Donald Trump's preferred esthetic is not mine. Okay. I 194 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,240 am not a fan of the gold plated everything. Not 195 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,960 a fan of it. He is, whether you know, whether 196 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,440 he puts too much of it in there. I know 197 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,399 people are complaining about all the gold that he put 198 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,799 in the Oval office. Yeah, I mean, like, but that's 199 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:18,279 like you said, it's in the eye of the beholder. 200 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,799 That's what he thinks looks pretty. He thinks his beauty 201 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,679 And yeah, another president comes in, they want to change it, 202 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,840 want to redecorate it. They're going to be able to 203 00:09:25,879 --> 00:09:28,519 do that too, just like they just like they change 204 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,039 the interior of the White House. They do that, right. 205 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,879 So you know, we'll see. I mean, that's that's my 206 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,879 approach to virtually all things Trump is we'll see you. 207 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 3: I agree that we need a place like that. Yeah, 208 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,799 and so in that way. And it's not taxpayer money, 209 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,200 because if it was taxpayer money, I would have a 210 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,639 hard time with that with people not getting paid. 211 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, no, I got you, Lee. 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So let me get to some of the 233 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:06,039 massages from the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC. 234 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:11,000 And this is from Marty who says, why does the 235 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,399 White House need so many steak dinners? Well, they serve 236 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:19,039 chicken too, and salmon, probably all sorts of fancy for 237 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:24,840 thinking it's not just steak. Oh okay, that's probably a 238 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:27,879 voice to text thing going on there. He probably means 239 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:31,080 state dinners. So why does the White House need so 240 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,320 many state dinners? Well, I mean that's kind of what 241 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:40,000 leaders of state do. They host all sorts of the 242 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,120 meetings with foreign leaders, especially Donald Trump. I mean, the 243 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,639 guy definitely an extrovert, a bit of a party animal, 244 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,000 if you will. But he doesn't drink, but like he 245 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,879 likes to socialize, he does his You know, it's about 246 00:11:53,879 --> 00:11:58,440 personal relationships. Politics is about personal relationships. Okay, I've said 247 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,879 this for years. And you're more likely to get stuff 248 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,639 done when you know the person, even if they're across 249 00:12:04,639 --> 00:12:08,000 the political aisle. Right, if you know them, you can 250 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,799 call them up, you can talk with them. You've got 251 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:15,240 some sort of a relationship that goes beyond just the politics, 252 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,279 especially partisan politics. Right. And so leaders of state do this, 253 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,879 They welcome other leaders to the White House. They do 254 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:26,519 it all the time. Right, So if you're going to 255 00:12:26,639 --> 00:12:32,600 do the big state dinner, then like, why not have 256 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,720 it in the ballroom because it also you could use 257 00:12:34,759 --> 00:12:37,120 the ballroom for all sorts of other things. It doesn't 258 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:39,320 have to just be a state dinner, right, you can 259 00:12:39,399 --> 00:12:42,039 have other gatherings when you like, say you want to 260 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,480 host when you're doing the Purple Heart ceremonies and stuff, right, 261 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:48,960 you're doing stuff like that, you're giving out awards, you're 262 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,159 having you know, you're bringing like they had, you know, 263 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,600 a bunch of the people who had been targeted by 264 00:12:56,639 --> 00:12:59,639 Antifa for example, and you know they stick them in 265 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,639 some conference room. Well, now you'd be able to go 266 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,039 into this larger space and you could do a larger 267 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:10,679 gathering like that. So look, every hotel has a ballroom 268 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,200 for a reason, right, I mean, yes, to rent it out, 269 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,679 but people, you know, when organizations are looking to do 270 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,879 stuff and you've got a large number of people coming, 271 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:21,240 you need that kind of space. And so rather than 272 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:24,559 pitching tents out on the lawn, a ballroom makes sense. 273 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:27,639 And by the way, if you can also you know, 274 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:32,200 refortify the underground bunker which is under there, and you 275 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:36,480 can harden the building so if God forbid, there ever 276 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,159 is some sort of attack, that it's protected in a 277 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:45,600 better way and you can create more defensive installments on 278 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:51,159 the roof and around the building and stuff like. Yeah. Again, 279 00:13:51,279 --> 00:13:54,159 like I don't see any real downside to this. The 280 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,399 only thing, you know is that people were mad that 281 00:13:56,519 --> 00:13:59,399 oh this this building got torn down. And that's why 282 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,000 I said last time. This is like every development debate 283 00:14:02,039 --> 00:14:05,320 that I've ever witnessed in local politics. Whenever somebody comes 284 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,240 in for a rezoning or they want to do a project, 285 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:10,240 you always get people that are like, you know, I 286 00:14:10,279 --> 00:14:13,039 don't want anything to change. I like that thing just 287 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,399 the way it is. It's the same I see it 288 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,879 at you know, the HOA level, city level, state level. 289 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,960 It's the same stuff all the time. I mean people 290 00:14:22,039 --> 00:14:25,759 on our neighborhood Facebook page. In my neighborhood that was 291 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,320 clear cut right, forests and stuff that were just just 292 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,080 leveled in order to put all of these houses there. 293 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:36,440 And all these people move in over the last fifteen years, 294 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,639 and then there's another area of woods and another builder 295 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:44,440 comes in and levels that to build, and the people 296 00:14:44,559 --> 00:14:49,440 in my neighborhood are angry that we've disturbed the environment 297 00:14:49,519 --> 00:14:54,879 and habitat for the deer. It's like, well, you did 298 00:14:54,879 --> 00:14:57,759 that too, right. This is why I called it. You know, 299 00:14:57,799 --> 00:15:00,519 this is nimbiism, not in my backyard. It's this idea 300 00:15:00,519 --> 00:15:02,200 I got my little slice of heaven. Now I'm going 301 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,279 to pull the ladder up behind me. And that way 302 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,600 of thinking is prevalent in all of these rezonings and 303 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:13,200 all of these development projects that I've seen throughout the 304 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,279 last twenty five years. I've said this before. I would 305 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:22,879 watch city council meetings in Ashville, and about ninety eight 306 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:26,240 percent of the time the public speakers against any development 307 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:29,279 project would start off by saying something to the effect 308 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:34,159 of I moved here eight years ago, and now I 309 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,440 don't want you to do anything to change the way 310 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,080 things are. I don't want you to allow for more 311 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,039 building of housing. I don't want any new development. It's 312 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,720 like you just got here. You came here and bought 313 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,639 a house because other people built those houses before you arrived. 314 00:15:49,759 --> 00:15:54,240 You know. Let me see here. I did get an 315 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,120 email from John I cannot believe that Donald Trump just 316 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:02,240 bulldozed the East Wings. So much history is lost. That 317 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:05,639 is where George Washington planned and wrote the Gettysburg Address. 318 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,600 That very room is where Abe Lincoln told fireside bedroom 319 00:16:09,639 --> 00:16:12,720 stories to Teddy Roosevelt as a young child. Hundreds of 320 00:16:12,799 --> 00:16:18,960 years of history just wiped out. I believe that is 321 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,480 also where the President learned that the Germans had just 322 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,240 bombed Pearl Harbor. Here's a great idea. 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God 352 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,480 is an artist, and if you have that gift but 353 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,440 no connection with God, it shows in what you create. 354 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,880 I see that point in all sorts of creative expression. Now, yeah, 355 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,000 this is why I call it art by explanation that 356 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:29,799 it doesn't actually have any kind of intrinsic beauty. The 357 00:18:29,839 --> 00:18:36,160 beauty is therefore not conveyed to the viewer, and therefore 358 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,039 it needs some sort of a placard in front of 359 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,039 the piece to tell you what the artist was trying 360 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,880 to do. So an explanation of why this is worth 361 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:52,519 your time and detention. And then once explained, oh wow, 362 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:56,359 this heap of trash is supposed to symbolize whatever you know. 363 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,920 I've i over the years, I have had a great 364 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:08,000 deal of fun highlighting awful things that are paid for 365 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:16,319 with taxpayer dollars that masquerade as art. I'm not going 366 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,519 to go over all of them right now, although the 367 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:23,880 classic one was at the Police Academy when they hired 368 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,960 some quote unquote artist who made some chicken wire structure 369 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:33,000 that was supposed to look like the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police 370 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:38,039 Department shield, which is like representative of the hornet's nest, 371 00:19:38,279 --> 00:19:40,440 which dates back to the that's a callback to the 372 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,839 Revolutionary War, you know, as a corn wallace came in 373 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:48,279 and stirred up a hornet's nest, that whole thing, and 374 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:51,359 it was so obviously not a piece of art that 375 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,920 a janitor threw it away. He did not know it 376 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:01,119 was art, Yeah, because it wasn't. So this is from Melissa. 377 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:04,359 It's a Pete tweet. Everything should have beauty, whether it 378 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,960 be functional or not. I watched my father spend twenty 379 00:20:08,039 --> 00:20:11,279 years of his life restoring an eighteen fifties Victorian home 380 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:14,000 to its original glory. I grew up with the smell 381 00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:17,640 of a butane torch as he stripped baseboard after baseboard 382 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,519 of years and of lead paint every evening after he 383 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:25,839 came home from work. Recall the words of the patron 384 00:20:26,319 --> 00:20:29,680 and artist of the Sistine Chapel Pope Julius. The second, 385 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,440 when will you make an end? Michelangelo said, when I 386 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:39,960 am finished. Well, look Thomas Jefferson, right, he never completed Monticello. 387 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:43,599 That guy was always doing improvements on his home, like 388 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,039 it was in a constant state of construction all the time. 389 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:52,200 M Yeah, the helliat says. The orange discs by the 390 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:55,279 light rail. Yeah, like I said, I have done this. 391 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:57,359 I have done this topic so many different times over 392 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:01,480 the years. And the orange the big Claye discs along 393 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:04,359 the light rail line is one of the examples that 394 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:13,000 I cite. Pat McCrory called it corridors of crap. Anybody 395 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:15,400 that brings up cost of the project will not want 396 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,720 to talk about why it's that expensive in that town. Yeah, no, 397 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:21,000 that's true. Don't forget about the interactive art piece in 398 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,240 the Mecklinburg County Courthouse that broke shortly after it was made. 399 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,279 But yeah, I have cited that one as well. It's 400 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:30,119 all these little heads on strings dangling over the lobby, 401 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,960 and it was supposed to like change. It was a 402 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,559 neat idea. It just it broke immediately, and so they 403 00:21:36,799 --> 00:21:39,599 like when you're on the floor looking up at it, 404 00:21:39,599 --> 00:21:41,319 it looks like a face and then it just kind 405 00:21:41,319 --> 00:21:47,880 of it keeps changing and uh and yeah it broke. Yeah, 406 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:53,440 DEI artists, it's rich. This I don't know who this 407 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,440 is from seven oh four number. It's rich when libs 408 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,559 are complaining about the loss of history in the White 409 00:21:57,599 --> 00:22:01,319 House renovations, when all the historical staff choose were removed 410 00:22:01,319 --> 00:22:03,279 from the country a couple of years ago. Yeah, that's 411 00:22:03,279 --> 00:22:05,920 why it's I don't believe that they are outraged at 412 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:13,000 the loss of this historical office building. You know, let 413 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:20,000 me see here to do on topic, people, pete everybody 414 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:24,680 has short term memory loss forty four, So who would 415 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,079 that be forty four? That would have been Obama spent 416 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,279 over three hundred and sixty million dollars ripping up the 417 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:33,359 front lawn and other White House changes taxpayer funded. 418 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:33,559 Speaker 2: All. 419 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, presidents do this all the time. I think 420 00:22:37,559 --> 00:22:39,799 what they have a problem with is the fact that 421 00:22:39,839 --> 00:22:41,559 he's going to leave his mark on the White House 422 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:45,559 for decades to come, and that's killing them. That's exactly right. 423 00:22:46,039 --> 00:22:54,319 That is from David And I'm trying to u this 424 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,000 is seven oh four number. Has nothing to do with 425 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,759 preservation of the building, per se, or the east wing 426 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:03,079 per say, it's all about hey, hey Trump, I guess 427 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:07,240 hating Trump. That's what That's what it is. They hate Trump. 428 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:09,599 Anything he does, they hate him. The thing is being 429 00:23:09,599 --> 00:23:17,599 paid for by donors, that doesn't matter. They hate Trump. Okay, So, 430 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,160 and John says here the caller that was worried about 431 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,119 the reasons behind the private donations to the White House renovation. 432 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,720 If you recall, back in the eighties, the Statue of 433 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:29,079 Liberty was refurbished, and that was all done with private 434 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,079 donations as well. Things like this happen all the time 435 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:35,119 when it is something of national interest like that. Yeah. No, 436 00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:38,359 it's a good parallel, all right. If you're listening to 437 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,920 this show, you know I try to keep up with 438 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,079 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. 439 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,759 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 440 00:23:44,839 --> 00:23:49,400 multiple sources. Why. Well, because it's how you detect media bias, 441 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,039 which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 442 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,799 It's an app and it's a website and it combines 443 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,920 news from around the world in one place, so you 444 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,319 can compare coverage and verify information. 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I use 454 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,559 the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 455 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:37,519 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 456 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:40,680 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 457 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,279 more transparent. Alrighty, So the Democrat strategy on the shutdown 458 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,279 is pretty obvious at this point. And in case you 459 00:24:49,319 --> 00:24:55,000 were unaware, the number two Democrat in the House Catherine Clark, 460 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:00,799 she is the Deputy whip. I believe she said in 461 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,200 an interview the other day that there will be families 462 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,680 that are going to suffer, but it's one of the 463 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,759 few leverage times we have. And by the way, over 464 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:14,640 in the Senate, the Democrats once again blocked a vote 465 00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:17,480 to open the government up, and in this case they 466 00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:21,960 blocked a vote I think yesterday to pay government workers 467 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,559 that were affected by the shutdown, and Democrats blocked that 468 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,759 it was just a straight up measure to pay employees, 469 00:25:29,559 --> 00:25:35,680 and Democrats rejected it, and this video clip went viral, 470 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:40,759 and the Speaker of the House has been They rolled 471 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:44,880 a TV out in front of the Speaker, Mike Johnson's office. 472 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,359 There's a little hallway there and they rolled a TV 473 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,519 screen out and they just put this clip on repeat. 474 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,720 And so now that's what you see when you walk 475 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,720 up to the to the Speaker's office. Because remember Democrats 476 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,680 were going to the Speaker's office doing these are stunts, 477 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,359 these viral videos they were trying to make like, you know, 478 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,920 open a government up and all this. They don't want 479 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:10,039 the government up, opened up unless they get this demand 480 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:14,759 of theirs, which is to make permanent the temporary subsidies 481 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:20,720 for the Affordable Care Act Obamacare. That's what this is about. 482 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,319 The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that over the next 483 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:29,119 ten years, the Democrat's permanent subsidy expansion would cost taxpayers 484 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,960 three hundred and fifty billion dollars on top of the 485 00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:37,799 billions and permanent subsidies that's already on the books. David 486 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,279 Winston wrote a piece at roll call dot com and 487 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,680 he tracks. He documents the history in case you weren't 488 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,759 aware of how this all played out with Obamacare. I 489 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,240 remember this. I was covering this at the time. Okay, 490 00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:59,119 this is a crisis of democrats own making. Goes back 491 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:04,279 fifteen years. Obamacare was rammed through on party line votes 492 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:09,759 in twenty ten. Okay, in December of two thousand and nine, 493 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,559 in the Senate, Democrats had a filibuster proof majority of 494 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:19,000 sixty seats, so they had passage all but guaranteed. It 495 00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:22,319 passed on a strictly partisan vote without a single Republican 496 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,920 on board, and it included a subsidy for low income users, 497 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,000 but not the enhanced subsidies, so more subsidies today. Shortly 498 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:36,000 after that, Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election, 499 00:27:36,599 --> 00:27:39,079 and Democrats now did not have their sixty votes, so 500 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,039 they could not end the filibuster on a partisan vote, 501 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,079 and that forced the House Democrats, a lot of whom 502 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,880 had reservations about Obamacare's design. It forced the House Democrats 503 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,559 to vote for the Senate bill as is. Additionally, the 504 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,319 loss of the Senate seat in Massachusetts worried Democrats about 505 00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:02,480 whether or not Obamacare was going to cost them control 506 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:07,039 of the Senate and the House. The healthcare bill went 507 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,519 back to the House, which eventually passed the Senate version. 508 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:17,279 All Republicans opposed it, along with thirty four Democrats. That's 509 00:28:17,279 --> 00:28:21,240 how that happened. Okay, the bipartisan vote was against Obamacare. 510 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:24,839 The temporary enhanced premiums that are at issue today are 511 00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:27,119 the result of COVID nineteen and were added as part 512 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,079 of the American Rescue Plan, which was proposed by Biden 513 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:36,319 passed by Democrats in March twenty twenty one. Democrats had 514 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,319 the White House, they had majorities in the Senate. In 515 00:28:38,359 --> 00:28:41,079 the House, but they did not have a filibuster proof Senate, 516 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,119 so the American Rescue Plan was turned into a reconciliation 517 00:28:46,359 --> 00:28:50,759 bill so they could avoid the filibuster. Democrats included language 518 00:28:50,759 --> 00:28:53,839 that the enhanced premiums were supposed to be temporary. They 519 00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:56,640 would expire at the end of twenty twenty two, and 520 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,640 then came twenty twenty two, and they didn't want them 521 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,480 to buyer, so they did the Inflation Reduction Act. Part 522 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,160 of that got spun off as a reconciliation bill so 523 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,240 they could pass it on a party line vote. Didn't 524 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,000 get any Republican votes in the Senate. This required you'll 525 00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:18,039 recall Kamala Harris to cast the tie breaking vote for passage, 526 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,359 she being the Vice president at the time. The bill 527 00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:27,720 extended the temporary premiums the enhanced premiums through twenty twenty five. 528 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,240 See so Democrats, when they were in control, they kept 529 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:37,839 doing this. They kept creating increased subsidies, and they kept 530 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,200 sunsetting them. They kept making them temporary. They could have 531 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:44,640 made the credits permanent back then or extended them for 532 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,359 ten years. Instead, they chose to extend them only three 533 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,799 because there was others spending in the Inflation Reduction Act 534 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:58,680 that Democrats prioritized over these premiums. Despite Senate majority leader 535 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:03,240 John Thuns offered to discuss the enhanced subsidies issue as 536 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,400 soon as government reopens, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have 537 00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:12,759 refused to budge on their demand for a permanent extension 538 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,039 that would add three hundred and fifty billion dollars to 539 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:21,160 the Continuing Resolution. And here is what Jeffries was asked 540 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,440 on CNBCS. 541 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 4: It said, what you are asking the Republicans to do 542 00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:27,880 right now when they control the White House, the Senate, 543 00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:32,319 and the House is effectively what the Democrats could not 544 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,960 do when they controlled all three of those heads of 545 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:41,039 government themselves. The ten year setup for this, for these 546 00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:44,599 the three year setup for the expiration of these credits 547 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,759 was intentionally put in. It was put in when you 548 00:30:46,839 --> 00:30:50,200 controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate. You 549 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,359 couldn't get it passed for longer. And so this is 550 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,079 a setup, the kind of your own creation that you 551 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,759 all couldn't extend beyond that. Now you want the Republicans 552 00:30:57,799 --> 00:30:59,640 to do something you didn't do when you were in power. 553 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,279 Speaker 1: Yes, it's not a setup. 554 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 5: It is beyond what we could do. We extended the 555 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,519 Affordable Care Act tax credits in twenty twenty two for 556 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:10,279 three years. 557 00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: Right. 558 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 5: The program is working. It's providing healthcare to tens of 559 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,359 millions of people in an affordable way. 560 00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:20,119 Speaker 1: Right. That's why everybody's complaining about the cost of its skyrocketing. Right, 561 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,680 And then why the additional subsidies are now needed. Now, 562 00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:29,880 this was always an albatross. This was always sold to 563 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:35,640 us as better and cheaper than it actually is. Democrats 564 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,240 want Republicans to do the thing that Democrats could not 565 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,880 do when they controlled more power than Republicans currently enjoy. 566 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,039 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 567 00:31:48,119 --> 00:31:50,079 so much for listening. I could not do the show 568 00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:52,640 without your support and the support of the businesses that 569 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,759 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 570 00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:57,519 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 571 00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:00,240 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 572 00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:03,880 go to dpeteclenarshow dot com. Again, thank you so much 573 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,119 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.