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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to all of you. Congratulations on making it through.
You've made it through Christmas and now a whole year
of what the heck can happen next? No way, no
wahether you're sitting at home or wherever you are right
now going You know, I knew exactly what was going
to happen this year. I knew exactly what was going
to happen. Everything that happened exactly what I thought was.
Trump was gonna win, Biden was going to drop out,
Harris was going to be the candidate. I knew all
of that. I knew that CNN's ratings would be worse
than some diseases. You know that more people would like
disease than CNN that's terrible. Hate to say it that
way sounds horrific, but their ratings are in the dumpster.
There were so many different aspects. The climate change stuff
didn't end the world. We had two horrific hurricanes that
just happened to be where they were, not what they
were ed. And I never would have believed that the
country would have been more apt to want to help
other countries than the people struggling in our own, especially
after a huge disaster like that, although I truly impressed.
I tell you every time there's a disaster abroad, and
I'd say that there's a reason I bring this up
every time there's a disaster abroad. Oh. By the way,
my name Chad Adams. I'm sitting in for Pete Callender today.
It's been an honor and pleasure been here this week.
I'll be here tomorrow and next week as well. Here
on News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT seven
four five seven oh eleven ten the call in numbers.
Should you find a desire to be a part of
the conversation today, we will cover many topics, not the
least of which will be this is kind of the
end of the year. You hear a few more of
these shows, you're you're going to start seeing top ten list,
top twenty list, worst, best, most unusual. But I did
not dream that we would have. I could not have
predicted that the endless amount of money being plowed into
Ukraine over this horrific war would have been done. Now,
it's not that I couldn't have predicted we did it.
What I had trouble understanding and still do, is that
we plow that endless amount of money from Americans to
Ukraine without a goal, without a here's what we're going
to do. Here are our expectations as that money and
those arms come in. Here's what our expectations are. We're
going to be able to hold this region. We're going
to be able to end it. The end of the
war was never a discussion with Congress. They never sat
and said, if you give this money, the war will
be over. They never It was never discussed. I wouldn't
have predicted that. I wouldn't have predicted it. Western North
Carolina would be heading into winter, and believe it or not,
there is a winter up there. In spite of your
climate change cult members asserting things to the contrary, gets
really cold up there and a lot of people without homes.
I also wouldn't have predicted this. One I would have
predicted is that all of that and you haven't probably
thought of this, or at least most of you haven't
that all of those people that had their homes damaged, destroyed,
washed away, whatever it was, their businesses. And again, as
you go through the mountains, it's an eerie world because
on ones, you can go through certain parts and it's
as if nothing happened. It's because of the terrain, it's
because of the slope and what angle it is relative
to the direction of the storm and the damage that
was done. But you can head through some parts and
it's like everything's fine. You hit through others and it's
absolutely a third world country. But here's the knife twist
in this story is that all of those people whose
homes were damaged or destroyed, whose businesses were they're still
liable for the property taxes assessed on their property. So
the county didn't say, Okay, we're going to suspend the
property tax issue. Well, the county can't survive without property taxes.
At the same time the city is and can't survive
paying it, or they're going to lose their property. But
your property tax is based on what's on the property.
If there's no house there, then you have to go
to the Board of Adjustments and say, hey, look, I
can't pay it because there's no house there, and thus
the value of that property is nothing. I'm paying property
taxes on land that now is washed out. There's nothing there.
So one of those things you can't really have predicted.
But it's the side of fact. Bureaucracies and governments in
general are not good at the pivot. As fans of
the show friends would say, pivot, pivot, pivot, They're not
good at that. There's slow they turn like a cruise ship.
They turn very slowly. There's no degree of alacrity with
respect to how governments move. They don't respond quickly. Usually
they don't adjust very quickly, and it's why novel and
new ideas take forever to get implemented. It's also why
whatever ideas are implemented. As we discussed on Tuesday, these
multi billion dollar government programs that go nowhere, there's very
little follow up and accountability because most of the agency's
task with implementing these brand new whatevers don't have the
staff they don't have the depth of knowledge. They don't
have a way to implement and make these things happen.
So it sounds good. I'm going to go fix every
bridge and road in the country. I'm going to have
got the money to do it. I'm going to fix
them all. But the way you go through the request
for proposal to make sure you're not playing favorites, although
they end up playing favorites, and the way you implement it,
the way you make sure it's done, the quality is done.
It just doesn't happen that way. Government does not operate
like a business. It just doesn't. You could make the
argument this would tick off everybody up in the Huntersville
area and other places where you have these toll roads
and say, well, the private sector, if you turn it
over the private sector, it can do things like build
roads and do it more quickly and more efficiently. But
that doesn't necessarily mean it's wanted by folks. Folks expect
their roads to be paid with tax dollars, not with
additional fees. And if you get now the other thing
to remind you, and I'm not going to dwell on
the subject, but it's just things to think about as
we head into the new year about what your governments
can and can't do, and what political parties claim that
they can promise you but that they can't do or
can do. Are that great projects from the past one
hundred years that in some way got done. Like if
you were to go through the Blue Ridge Parkway and
you see the lynvill Aca Viaduct, that's a beautiful piece
of engineering. It's the way that that bridge wraps around
the side of the mountain. It's absolutely picturesque. It's an
amazing piece of engineering. It's very nice. You probably couldn't
build that today because of environmental regulations and concerns. If
you were to go down to the coast and look
at the Inner Coastal Waterway where you can stay inland,
you can take your boat up up all through North
Carolina on these inland waterways that were built, you know
during the time of FDR, these public works projects. You
could not build those today because there would be a snail,
I don't know, or clam or something that you would
think it would be the end of the world. The
island where I live wasn't an island eighty years ago.
The it was. It was trenched through like the Panama
Canal on the backside of this what is now an island,
and that's the inner coastal water right the ICW. You
could not build that today, couldn't build it, and so
government can both serve. It is as much a hindrance
as it is a help. In many ways, it doesn't.
It often stands the way if you were in the
Raleigh area the belt line. The reason the belt line
wasn't completed in a timely manner. It still isn't completed.
But the south side of it around Raleigh carry that area.
If you ever traveled in that area, it's beautiful now
that you can get around Raleigh without having to go
into Raleigh or through Raleigh. Is there what there was
a snail? There was a snail or a clam or
something like that that that was a question in a
very small area of that beltline. Couldn't do it? Not
gonna happen. Wouldn't be prudent not going to go through there?
And there was it was. It was. It made the
project soar in price. And by the way, this is
all a toll road around that. So part of the
bett if around the outer belt line of Raleigh, part
of it is toll road, and part of it free,
or part of it is taxpayer funded, and part of
it is taxpayer funded plus tolls just the way you're
And so if you question that, you go, why is that? Well,
there are a million reasons, many of which are political,
that you just don't know the answer to. And I
can't tell you because I'm not gonna take the time
to figure out, because that only go on it once
or twice a year. When I go around Charlotte. It's
always a fascinating thing. Every time I am in and
out of Charlotte, I'm amazed. Do you go through all
the traveler? Do you pay the extra a couple bucks
to get around on the massive toll roads that go
from east to west or west to east whatever? It
is always a hmmm, I just want to get the
hell around these stop lits. Am I willing to pay
that price? Or is my time so worthless that I'm
gonna sit in twenty stop it stoplights and offend on
my global warming climate chained zealots because I'm sitting in
traffic spending more see emitting more co two.
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Speaker 1: I'll make one prediction. I do think so this is
kind of a step back thirty thousand foot view of things.
I think the Democrats, that's the vile and vulgar nature
of their divisiveness will diminish quite a bit. I think
the Democrats have found themselves in free fall right now.
I think many of the things that they have wanted
to accomplish for a while under the auspices of their
battling bigotry. They're battling homophobia and transphobia and race and
men and women and dividing them and saying, this group's
out to get you. I think they overplayed that hand
for the past I don't know, forever, and it's finally
come home. And when they see the number of minorities
that have supported Trump, they see the number of Hispanics
that they cross the the number of union members that
cross the isle, number of women, the number of young
people that cross the aisle, I think it leads the
Democrats down a very dark reconciliation with themselves until they
look in the mirror and realize that they are the
ones in trouble. There's no there's no maturing right now.
There's no humility. Not that I mean there are people.
There are people that have said that. I mean there
are a number of Democrats that have said, hey, let's
look even Bill Mars, like, hey, it's us, It's our problem.
But there's the tone deafness of CNN and MSNBC and
many others to say, hey, we're we were wrong, We're
still wrong on these issues. So I think there's going
to be a great degree of competence. Now that doesn't
mean that there still aren't going to be, you know,
in Napoleonic terms, the old guard that's going to constantly
try to say no, we are never going to surrender,
and then they get surrounded and obliterated. Politically speaking, there's
one of those right now at the Hill. There's a
column this morning in the Hill. And I remember, you
know a few days before Christmas when I was on
and the New York Times had written a column about
that the virgin birth wasn't a virgin birth, and it
was she was raved, or it was a it was
a Roman guard that was the father of Jesus, and
and just the timing of it. You would never see
the New York Times do that against Muhammed. You would
not say Old Mohammed was a fraud the bringing you
when they when he dreamed that Israel picked up and
came to him, it never happened. You know, they would
never write that kind of stuff because it would incite
that group that they know isn't tolerant, but it's okay
and it's trendy, and it's hip to go out and
bash Christians for whatever reason. It's okay to pick on them,
kick them, call them names, call them stupid, ignorant, because
there happen to be many of them that support Trump,
and so by you know, Kevin Bacon's seven degrees of
separation or whatever, every anybody connected to Trump in anyway
is fair game for the Times. I think that's going
to diminish them. I think many there are a lot
of people moderates that have said, hey, we're tired of this,
but it doesn't mean the old Guard isn't still out
there and they're going to be pushing. And one of
those was today there's these Evan Davis and David Shulty,
they both wrote their former Yell Law Review. Guys there.
They're Obama acolytes, they're they're they're hardcore demns, and they're
the ones on the field of battle as the troops
are retreating and what's left of the Old Guard is
on the field, they're staying behind, not realizing that their
way of looking at the world is not is not accurate,
that their way of looking at things is not coherent.
And so their column is Congress, then you're not gonna
believe the headline. This is over the hill today. Congress
has the power to block Trump from taking office, but
lawmakers must act now. And what they're trying to assert,
and nowhere in their column do they admit that any
of their assertions were partisan base. They're saying that the
Constitution is the reason they ought not to let Trump.
Can you imagine. I mean, they admit it's a long shot,
it's not going to happen. But the fact that they
would waste time riding this and making this assertion that
this is what Democrats should do. This would create a
true civil war. This would be the undoing of DC
and the fabric of the nation. But they don't care
because to them, it's more important. It's more important to
destroy the country. Then recognize that the country's doing quite
well or will be doing quite well, that it survived
four years of their bad policies in Joe Biden. So
they're saying it's that the Constitution can be used. They're
saying because the impeachment trial, which was extremely partisan, was
that he had incitement for insurrection. Never mind that insurrection
was never proven in a court of law. Never mind
that the majority of the conviction, you know that there
wasn't a conviction in any kind of but these partisans
where you had Lynn Cheney and Alan Kinsinger, and there's
plenty of problems with that. That that's one of the grounds.
The second contested proceeding was the Colorado the hack political
five day judicial due process hearing where the court found,
by clearing convincing evidence that President Trump engaged in insurrection.
Now interesting, as the Colorado Supreme Court very partisan, very
left leaning against they don't care about the means testing.
They found partisan ways to go after Trump, and therefore
they're correct and the constitution should be used to remove
Trump from being able to serve. Now, the Supreme Court
looked at it and said that that doesn't even have standing,
that the federal offer, that the federal legislation was required
to enforce that section of the Constitution, that the Colorado
courts had no right. But this is interesting. The authors
of this don't care about whether the Supreme Court of
Colorado had the right to do it. They're saying they
were correct in doing so, and that because the Supreme
Court didn't address what they said. Therefore Trump was convicted
of insurrection, which is again not true. And then the
House Select Committee that they referred to, obviously was was
very partisan in nature. It was the only, by the way,
the only council, I mean, I'm sorry, the only committee
that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats would not allow the
Republicans to put their choices on that committee. So when
you saw the January sixth hearing, it was a completely
staged production. And these Yale Law Obama loving Democrats that
wrote a column in the Hill said, well, that's proof
those people were so. In other words, every Democrat activist
action is absolutely true in anything that disagrees with it
is not. And that would install Kamala Harris would be
elected if all the votes for Trump were not counted,
Kamala Harris would be elected president. So boom, there she
should be. And that's the editor in chief of the
Columbia Law Review, which is Evan Davis, and David Shulti
is the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal.
Both of them are in fact, I think Davis ran
for Attorney General from State New York as the Democrat
hardcore Democrat. But I predict that that will become the
view I just expressed to you about how partisan that
is and how divisive that is, that that is going
to become a more common view. I think Democrats would
be wise, and I think John believe it or not,
Fetterman from Pennsylvania, the Democrat who has said, hey, you know,
we want the president to be successful. I think Democrats
would do themselves well to find ways to make these
new ideas work. In other words, embrace the Department of
Government efficiency. Democrats can say, hey, we want this to
work because those programs we care about should benefit the
citizens that they're designed to do. And DOSE is going
to say, look, it's going to recommend some programs probably
go away, but many others. You want the money to
be let on target. You think Democrats would embrace that.
I don't see that happening, but it's a good suggestion.
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Speaker 1: Now, I said, the Democrats are you know, these grasping
at straws and the truth of the matter keep Pete
says that many of us on the right say it.
It's different when the Dems do it. If Trump, you know,
they would claim Trump tried to, you know, change the
election outcome all this Stuffhillary Clinton said it was stolen
from her. Stacy Abram said it was stolen from her.
She never did admit she wasn't the governor of Georgia.
She may still think that, by the way, but this
is the nature of politics, unfortunately. And I think we're
going to find out more about what happened in January
sixth as time moves forward, we'll find out if that's
what happened, because the FED has now admitted the federal
agents that they had twenty six or twenty eight imbedded,
but that wasn't the number, the number that was the
low number, that was the floor of number of federal
agents in that crowd. So I'd like to see more
about it. I'm not saying I know less about what
happened now than I thought I did, but that's just
the way it is. But this thing with Democrats screaming,
you know, the squad members saying I'm still going to
be a squad member moving forward, which means you're going
to be less relevant than you were before. I think
you're going to find out more about what happened during
the Biden presidency. There's already people that are stepping out
of Kama's campaign, leaving saying, oh my gosh, it's like
a cult in there. There are people in Biden's campaign
that people around him coming out of the work. You're
going to see books, You're going to see columns, You're
going to see interviews about how indecisive and what a
lack of command and control that Joe Biden had throughout
his presidency. That we were an activist run, reactionary group
of people in the White House. And I don't know
who ultimately, I don't know if it was the chief
of staff or who has been making the decisions and
determining what the president would do, what he would say,
where he would show up at, and what you know, scripted,
because when he got off script it was clear, you know,
it was like a penguin trying to figure out how
to fix a V eight or an eight cylinder engine.
So I don't know, it was just one of these
things that is very clear. He was off the beaten path.
So the prediction there is that the left, there will
be more screaming and gnashing of teeth from the left,
and that at some point they're going to have to
decide would they rather think that they're right or would
they rather move forward. I think that there's going to
be a group that's going to to want to move forward.
They're going to be marginalized, and this may and again
I hope that I keep a recording of what I'm
saying today, is that as this moves forward, I do believe,
for the first time in a while, I don't want
to be wrong on this. I don't know if this
is wishful thinking, confirmation bias, or abstually in astute observation.
I think there is a startlingly good chance that the
Republicans if they do not, and they can screw things
up as much as anyone can, if they act with
the agenda that's been brought forth, declaring war on wasteful spending,
that the debt and deficits do matter, that the American
public exist outside of the DC Beltway, that there are
limits to what lobbyists should be able to accomplish if
they go into that. With the rejection of the DC
insider game, there's a once in a generation opportunity for
Republicans to actually in control for the next three three
plus election cycles. And it sounds wha could do. I
absolutely agree it sounds crazy, but we've seen this before
where Democrats held generational control. I think they're republic the
libertarian Republican wing, which is what we've now seen. It's
far more libertarian, far less war mongering, far more diplomatic.
It's far more America first. What we should be doing.
What does the Constitution say? That's where we find ourselves.
We need to secure our borders, we need to look
at after our citizens, we need to be focused on us,
and that's okay. In fact, it's preferable. That's why you
see Javier Malay down in Argentina doing a remarkable job
of doing this. He's looking after Argentina. That's his job.
He's president of Argentina. Same thing with Trump. He's president
of the US. So his interests our interests aligned, and
it's good for our citizens to do so. So I
think there's a once in a generational opportunity for if
Republicans will not stray and not try to be mushy
moderate or be a afraid of the Democrats. They've always
been afraid of the media and the Democrats, and for
the first time in our lifetimes, they should be afraid
of neither. They should embrace the anti DC feeling of
the nation and tear down the institutions at the federal level,
realign things at the state level, start being the federalists.
They embrace their inner federalists, look back at the what
the founding was intended to be. And I think that
they can have this generational win and not get distracted
when people call them names, because they're going to call them.
They're going to try to call them names. You see
it now when you see the left saying, oh, it's
President Musk or it's Diveks going too far. When they're
trying to distract. When they're calling you names, they're trying
to distract you from what you're intending to do. And
the more you focus on that, the worse off you're
going to be. Just just don't let them get to you.
Just you know, at some point they need to debate
the issues. Right now, Democrats do not want to debate
the issues. They do not want to debate things about
the border. They don't want to debate things. They want
to find a way to say, look at this poor,
helpless child. And Trump wants to tear this family apart.
He wants to kill your children. You know, when it
comes to the vaccine stuff, you're going to see that too.
The attacks on Robert Kennedy. Oh, he's a vaccine nut job.
He wants to get rid of all vaccines so your
children can die of measles and mumps and every other
horrific disease ever known to mankind. In fact, Bobby Kennedy
wants to spray a bola on your children. I mean,
that's the kind of moon back, crazy rhetoric. And whereas
what we do know is that there's more and more
coming out about the COVID vaccine that hasn't been good,
the COVID vaccines that haven't prevented infections that may have
contributed to significant side effects and disease and death. We're
going to fight. But not all vaccines are horrible, they're
just not. We know that. So and it's the same
thing with climate change. Whereas the left wants to say
it's all bad and the Earth it's all man made,
they don't want to admit that the Earth is highly
geologically active, that the Sun is too. These are both
these aren't static things. The Earth isn't static, the Sun
isn't static. It's always doing different things. So you have
to say, well, there's a natural component to the ice age,
there's a natural component to the mini ice age. There's
a natural component to hot times as well. There's hot
there's a natural component to sunspot activity, and even some
of the coronal ejections that happened and knock out radios
and create the northern lights down south. But less I digress.
The point is that I think we're going to have
a lot of scientific inquiry debate that's going to open
up this year, in the next couple of years, and
that will be a beautiful thing to witness and absolutely
stellar thing to witness if you think about how close
we came to what Democrats truly wanted to achieve. Think
back over the past year. So you had a guy
that was in mental decline, that was known to have
been in mental decline by those closes, the only reason
he was removed. So they had this odd really early
before the two parties had even picked their respective candidates,
meaning that at the conventions they formally accept the nomination
in June. And you have to believe it was there
were enough people that were concerned. They're like, Okay, we
know Biden's failing. We knew that when he got elected
the first time he told us who was going to run.
Once he's now our nominee, we hit star wagons there.
We've thrown everything we have thrown. I think they really
counted on the fact that they threw everything at Trump.
They threw Congress at Trump. They threw you know, the
DA and the Attorney General in New York, the DA
in Manhattan. They threw Fanny Willis sitting and then he
tried something in South Florida with Jack Smith. They threw
every lawfair political obstacle in the world at him. Obstacle,
said with intempt, by the way they threw everything at him.
And then when that did not work, when when May
emerges as Trump's going to be the nominee, He's going
to flip and be we can't put him in. We
can't get rid of this guy. He's persistent from their perspective,
like a disease from ours, like the rising sun. So
it's just different perspectives. And so as the contagion spread
and they knew things were bad, they said, we've got
to do something because they didn't count on that being
a problem, because they thought, well, Trump will go away,
there'll be some facsimile of a Trump want to be
that'll be the nominee, and Biden will and we'll be
able to control him like the sock puppet we know
we have. And it didn't work, so they I think
there were forces around Biden that kind of made this early,
and I think it was probably the only miscalculation Trump
made almost anything his team made was having that debate early.
Had they made it later, had they allowed Biden to
become the nominee, they would have crushed him. It probably
would have been the same either way. But my point being,
when Biden appeared on stage and had the intellectual ability
of a pine tree. It became apparent the Democrats had problem,
I think, and that's when the pelosis and all of
the other the King's horses and men couldn't put him
back together and said we've got to make a different choice.
And at that point the Democratic they're not the Democrats
realized that they showed themselves what they really are. They
are a committee that doesn't really care about people. They said, well,
all those people who voted for him, you guys are irrelevant.
We're going to pick the person we need. And then
their Dei mentality got in the way and they had
to pick Kamla because they couldn't They couldn't bypass the
fact that she was a woman, that she was black,
or at least close enough. They couldn't bypass all of
these things. The standby might have been Boudaget, as she
at least checks a few boxes. But they their own
way of looking at the world, they're checked box. Dei
hiring practices all bundled into Instead of picking the best candidate,
they picked the candidate that satisfies the inclusion part. So
you don't pick the best person to fly a plane
or be a surgeon? Did they checked the right boxes
before they gotten the cockpit or before they started, you know,
cutting you open? And the American public saw that and
they saw what a shame it was, and so the
exposure was complete. And then since then it's been free fall.
But we came very close to that being an acceptable
way to do business. And if had they won, the
Democrats would have said, well, heck, we can do anything
we want. Now, why even have a nomination process, Let's
just pick, Let's just pick the person it worked for
us last time, Why when to work again? And think
about the stuff they would have shoved down our throats.
I mean, it would have affirmed to them that we
don't need borders. It would have affirmed to them that
the Paris climate, you know, we should go further. I mean,
think about what the implications were. And I'm not trying
to fear monger here. That's what the Democrats wanted from
Josh diin, from your local city council, all the way
to the White House and back down again across the
congressional spectrum. We would have seen these things. It would
have been a fundamentally different country. But it's not. So
where do the Democrats go from here? Because it was
a shellacking and they and regain the House, they lost
the Senate. So right now the only people that can
really screw things up would be the Republicans, and they can.
But let me give you an example of a cult
mentality that still exists around us. Now. You don't see
it as much in North Carolina, but it exists. I
was traveling recently and I love to people watch. For
those of you listen to me regularly, I'm a people watcher.
So i sit in the airport and I'm watching in airports.
Airports thirty forty years ago, there was a certain type
of individual that you saw travel more often. Nothing. Nothing
to me is illustrative of the success of capitalism like
air travel because forty years ago, thirty years ago, even
twenty five years maybe a little more, but twenty pre
to nine to eleven, the type of individuals that traveled
there was a much different segment of society. There weren't
as many budget airlines. Air travel was. It was confined
really people who could afford it. And and it's become
so much more affordable because of competition and discount airlines
that airlines and airports. It's truly a melting pot. It's
an amazing melting pot that if anything cuts through all
of the bs about race or spot you know, sexual choice,
all of these things, it's airports. So I'm watching. But
there are things that creep out in airports that show
you the diversity of the nation and also how some
people do. Now, it's one thing if an eighty five
year old goes by me and has a mask on,
you know, because you think, oh, they may have a
health condition, they may have they may have something, they
may have some health and they're getting from point A
to point B and try not to get sick. But
it's another one. You see a family of perfectly healthy
twenty somethings that mask up their three year olds and
the kid's still trying to get his hands around. It's
all tangle, and you think, what is it about those
people that makes them this way? What is it? So
that doesn't just happen on the left coast, it happens
across the country. So that would say that about three
to five percent of travelers are still utilizing this myopic
and misguided mask in way of this covidian fauciest way
of looking at the world and we and it's like,
I know how you voted, I know what you I
know how you feel, I know how you feel about
the climate, I know how you feel about the environment,
I know how you feel about DC, I know how
you feel about a cadre of issues. I know you've
probably defriended people because they voted for Trump. I know
so much about you when you put that mask on.
And it's not an assumption, it's not a faulty assumption.
It's an absolutely accurate assumption that puts you in a
different class of individual And here's a good example of that,
and the libs of TikTok, one of my favorite social
media groups out there, a group of COVID cautious, that's
how they call themselves, COVID cautious. People in Oregon rented
they rented out a bowling out and they had every
one mass up, including the employees of the bowling alley.
They set up air purifiers inside the bowling alley, and
they separated the kids from adults. This happened just in
the past week or so. And there's actually video that
shows you all of this, that shows you that these
how misguided all these people they live. I tweeted this
and said, this is like these people live in a
sci fi novel. They absolutely live in an alternate view
of octave version of noun. These are cult people, and
these aren't people that decide to be like Amish yourself.
These are cult people and they live amongst us like
a Ray Bradbury novel. I don't know, worse, maybe a
Clive Barker novel that would be really bad.
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