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 --> 00:00:09,599 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 00:00:12,519 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,199 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:31,120 your support. It is Monday, and so it's two o'clock 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,520 and that means we talk with a pet Dylan, a 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,159 reporter for the North State Journal. You can also read 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,159 her substack newsletter called more to the Story ap. How 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,079 are you great, Pete? 14 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: How are you? 15 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:44,719 Speaker 1: I am well, hope you had a good weekend and 16 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:48,280 I got a bunch of stuff. I saw you were 17 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,880 cranking out a lot of pieces, both on your substack 18 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,320 and at North State Journal. So let me start with 19 00:00:55,479 --> 00:00:58,479 oh gosh, where to start. Let's start with the anti 20 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,119 Trump protests in North carol. I wonder if we took 21 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,000 all of the protests that we saw on Saturday all 22 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,359 around the state and we put them all in one place. 23 00:01:08,439 --> 00:01:10,480 Do you think it would be as large as the 24 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,920 Momo Moo, the Moral Monday movement. 25 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: Yes, probably one of their larger ones. I know that 26 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:21,319 there were dozens of protests across the state. The biggest 27 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:25,560 one was in Raleigh. There was another one in Durham, 28 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,560 and there was another one in Asheville, which should have 29 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:34,799 made more headlines than it did, featuring a tableau of 30 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,799 individuals dressed up like the MS thirteen gang members who 31 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,640 were deported to the Seacot prison in El Salvador, and 32 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,359 the white shorts and shirts and everything. And they've got 33 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,239 a banner in the background that has nineteen forty five 34 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:53,799 German concentration camp on one side and the twenty twenty 35 00:01:53,879 --> 00:01:56,959 USA funded concentration camp on the right side, which is 36 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,439 the El Salvador in prison, so carrying violent MS certain 37 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,719 gang members being put back into prison in their country 38 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,199 of origin with Nazi concentration camps. 39 00:02:07,959 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: Right, and they're both these these two old white dudes 40 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:18,199 are wearing face masks, white T shirts, white shorts, and 41 00:02:18,479 --> 00:02:21,039 white socks, which I guess is the that's the prison 42 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:24,840 uniform of the El Salvador And sorry, you have to 43 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,639 call it the Notorious. It's always the notorious prison in 44 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:33,800 El Salvador. So yeah, they they do not. They do 45 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:37,960 not represent actually very well, the the makeup of the 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,599 people in the the seacot you know, they're yeah, they're 47 00:02:41,759 --> 00:02:44,639 they have way too few tattoos, for example. That's one 48 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,360 of the things I see. Uh, they're they're very pudgy 49 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,039 and they're very old. So and one of them has 50 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,560 like he's not even bald. He didn't even shave his 51 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,840 head for the tableau. He's like he's got some silly 52 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:01,159 little fake bald cap on that. It's just I don't know, 53 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,080 like that's Ashville though, it's so performative. It's just it's 54 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,080 like theater kids that are now like seventy. It's just 55 00:03:10,199 --> 00:03:11,120 kind of said. 56 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: My teenage saw them actually called it cosplay. 57 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: It is absolutely, yeah, it is cosplay. So all right, 58 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:22,639 so we had you mentioned that's the Ashville one with 59 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,919 that tableau, but also the same demographic seems to be 60 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,319 popping up. I saw photos from Huntersville where they had 61 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,960 some people, and by some I mean like twelve. I 62 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:35,039 think that we're standing on the side of a road, 63 00:03:35,759 --> 00:03:40,439 also fitting a particular demographic profile. I saw there was 64 00:03:40,479 --> 00:03:43,240 one down in rock Hill, South Carolina, just across the 65 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:49,159 border here, same demographic profile. I'm not the first one 66 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:52,400 to notice the kinds of people that are coming to 67 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,240 these rallies. You've noticed it too, right, I have. 68 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: It seems to be an older set of individuals. The 69 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:04,360 women was cited as having brought children to it, young 70 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,199 children actually, but it seems to be an older set 71 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:13,680 of people. That could be partly due to who's organizing 72 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:16,720 these I know that the Durham Democrats have been big 73 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:20,519 in organizing their protests and they have an older set 74 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,439 of individuals in that group. And the Poor People's Campaign 75 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,839 has generally been older individuals too. If we go back 76 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:32,000 to Moral Monday, those protests definitely were you know, people 77 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:33,600 fifty five to sixty five and older. 78 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. And the Poor People's Campaign for people who don't know, 79 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:45,199 that's that's Reverend Barber's operation, right, yes. 80 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he started that almost a decade ago I think, 81 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:50,279 and that. 82 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:53,439 Speaker 1: Was after the Moral Monday movement if I recall correctly. 83 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 2: Yes, it was he decided that that was that thing. 84 00:04:56,399 --> 00:04:58,160 It served its purpose, It was a vehicle that had 85 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,600 served its purpose and he was moving on with this 86 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:04,600 national Poor People's Campaign, which of course has seen money 87 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,000 flow into it. And I have to confirm this, but 88 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:11,040 it looks like there were taxpayer funded dollars. 89 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:16,639 Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, what a shock. WRAL live streamed the Raleigh protest. 90 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,120 That was helpful of them, That was very nice. 91 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to see all the speakers, but they 92 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,160 didn't pan into the crowd at all. So the Poor 93 00:05:24,199 --> 00:05:27,879 People's Campaign and actually posted one of the crowd photos 94 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,519 from about midway through. As of ten minutes before it, 95 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,800 they had posted a photo of an empty Halifax mall. 96 00:05:34,759 --> 00:05:37,439 But afterwards it looks like, you know, there's probably two 97 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,600 or three hundred people there, not the thousands that the 98 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,399 media seems to be portraying. 99 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and this you say was not of these protests 100 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,079 were not nearly as big as the one that was 101 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,560 held earlier this month either. 102 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 3: Yeah. 103 00:05:52,759 --> 00:05:54,639 Speaker 2: No, definitely not as big as the April fifth one. 104 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,319 That one actually was pretty big. This particular protest. Also, 105 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:01,240 they told their folks who were coming not to bring 106 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,319 signs that had swastikas or Nazi symbolism on them. You know, 107 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:09,000 I don't know who needed to hear that, but uh, 108 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,600 we're told about to bring that kind of material. 109 00:06:12,399 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: I did see some though, I did see some swastikas 110 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,240 that were out there. But yes, yeah, you've got the 111 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,600 protest signed guidelines that were issued by five oh five 112 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:22,680 oh one or fifty. 113 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty fifty one, fifty stage, fifty day, fifty protests one, 114 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:29,680 you know, one movement or whatever it's cod right, it 115 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,240 was terrible name launched on Reddit. It wasn't launched on Reddit, 116 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:37,079 it was it was it was platformed there, right, So. 117 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: Okay, so you do know about this because I looked 118 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,079 into this as well this morning, because I've seen this 119 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,680 hashtag fifty to fifty one, and it's a terrible name 120 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,360 because when you say it, like as I say it, 121 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,439 it sounds like I'm saying two numbers, fifty and then 122 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,680 fifty one, but it's five oh five oh one, and 123 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,360 it's fifty protests, fifty states one movement. And they claim 124 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,160 that the Reddit originator uh is somebody who goes by 125 00:07:04,199 --> 00:07:09,160 the name of evolved fung Guy Fun Fun fun guy, Yeah, 126 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,800 who has not responded to an interview to a Rolling Stone, 127 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,000 and in other posts he described himself as an engineer 128 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,519 by day with a degree in marketing and a fascination 129 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:24,079 with virality. And I'm thinking he means like stuff going 130 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,279 viral on the internet. 131 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,879 Speaker 2: So yeah, no, that pretty much means to be some 132 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,720 campaign guy, right who does day who did data analytics 133 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,279 for a campaign. That's what that says to me. 134 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it sounds an awful lot like the Occupy formation, right. 135 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:42,439 Speaker 2: Well, Occupy was a testing ground. We're saying all the 136 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:44,839 same chance, all the same signs, all the same complaints, 137 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:48,000 and no one are able to articulate any real reason 138 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,399 why they're there. But then you know that then we 139 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:52,319 saw Black Lives Matter, and we're seeing some of the 140 00:07:52,439 --> 00:07:55,199 violent side of the Black Lives Matter, you know, protest 141 00:07:55,319 --> 00:07:58,720 kind of things, you know, with the Nazi symbols and 142 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,160 you know that call for violence and that sort of 143 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:05,279 thing that we're starting to see coming out of left 144 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,879 leaning groups. And you know, Indivisible is involved, yep, with 145 00:08:10,079 --> 00:08:13,360 these protests. The Democratic Party is involved with these protests. 146 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:15,399 These things are you know, they're trying to make it 147 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:19,040 seem like it's organic. Some random redditor did it. Now 148 00:08:19,759 --> 00:08:20,759 I'm just not buying that. 149 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:24,519 Speaker 1: No, I'm not either, not at all, And I did, 150 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,480 like in their protests signed guidelines as you mentioned, you know, 151 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,679 no swastikas, limit the use of offensive or vulgar language, 152 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:36,519 don't not do it, just like limit it and consider 153 00:08:36,639 --> 00:08:39,639 language suitable for children and families. So I'm guessing they're 154 00:08:39,639 --> 00:08:42,399 gonna like read a bunch of the dirty books at 155 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,360 these events and they would be okay, Like if you 156 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,480 can find it on the bookshelf at at your kid's 157 00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:49,240 kindergarten class, then you can read it at the protest, 158 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:53,240 Like what does count as suitable for children among these people? 159 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,600 I don't even know, some very good questions. Yeah, yeah, 160 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,039 where do you draw the line on that? Can I 161 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,240 show the gay porn sketches from the Yeah, from the 162 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:04,559 comic books. I don't know. 163 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 2: There were a lot of signs there that had to 164 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,039 do with immigration too, which actually ties into the shutting 165 00:09:11,039 --> 00:09:17,200 down of the Greensboro intake facility that DHS had leased 166 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,200 since June of twenty twenty two. 167 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:22,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked about this, my Grreantcholder. 168 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,799 Speaker 2: And not a single child was How was there right? 169 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:26,399 Speaker 1: So that to me, I was not aware of this. 170 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,480 So this was the former American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro. 171 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,600 You wrote about this at North State Journal NSJ online 172 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:37,120 dot com that was originally supposed to it is like 173 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,240 converted to this like ice facility or something, right, and 174 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,679 they were supposed to be housing all of these kids 175 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,799 and nobody they never put any kids in there. I thought. 176 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:50,080 We saw images and video of vehicles rolling up with people. 177 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 2: That was the thing the entire time. Sorry DHS and 178 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:03,399 the Office of Refugee Settlement under DHS, they basically said 179 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:06,840 that no children had ever been housed there yet. About 180 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,720 a summer ago, I had someone who lived in the 181 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,480 neighborhood in that area send me a bunch of photos 182 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,960 of buses with blackened out windows heading in and out 183 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,879 of that facility. So who or what was on that 184 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,480 on those buses, I don't know. I've never gotten an 185 00:10:21,519 --> 00:10:24,639 answer out of out of the federal agencies or of 186 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:28,879 Greensboro Academy. We actually went and visited that place a 187 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:31,159 year ago. We walked up to the gate and asked 188 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:33,639 if someone could come talk to us, and it was 189 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:39,320 staffed by contracted you know, security personnel who basically told 190 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,000 me and know on certain terms, no, no one's going 191 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:42,159 to come talk to you, and you need to get 192 00:10:42,159 --> 00:10:42,759 off the property. 193 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: They did get though, right, I mean the right that right, 194 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:50,679 You've got some contracts for that service deployed services. 195 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 2: Deployed services. Yeah, there was a couple of million dollars 196 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,440 that went to them. There was six hundred thousand dollars 197 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:00,159 in handymanned services dated back to a September twenty twenty two, 198 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:06,399 various support and upkeep for leasing and repairs. And what's 199 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,399 interesting about that property is that the there was a 200 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,799 loan document on that original property when it was the 201 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,320 American Hebrew Academy, and the loan documentation ping pong back 202 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,679 and forth over the last two years between two Chinese 203 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:26,039 tied entities that have their counting in the Cayman Islands. 204 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: That is not at all shady whatsoever. 205 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, two of them had directed their their documentation 206 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:38,519 was actually signed in the American embassy in Beijing, China, 207 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,559 and one of them had direct ties to the Communist Party. 208 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,360 And so I'm sure anyone's really looking into that anymore. 209 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:49,120 But it's I reported on it. We'll see where that goes. 210 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,320 That The overall lease itself is for millions of dollars, and. 211 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,159 Speaker 1: So it's supposedly just empty now. 212 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, supposedly it's just empty. They had used it after 213 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,159 Hurricane Helen. They had used it for a couple months 214 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,200 in order to do staging and hurricane relief operations. I 215 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,759 think it was from October to February, so October of 216 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:12,840 last year through February this year. And they announced recently 217 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,519 that it's closing down on April one, So it's closed 218 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:16,000 US now. 219 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: Maybe we can sell it off to El Salvador. I 220 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:20,919 don't know rented out, knows. 221 00:12:20,799 --> 00:12:22,639 Speaker 2: What's gonna happen with that, but I'm just watching it 222 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:23,600 all right. 223 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: Ap Dylan. You can read her work at North State 224 00:12:25,879 --> 00:12:29,679 Journal nsjonline dot com and also subscribe to her newsletter 225 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,360 at substack dot com. 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So the piece by ap dyllon there 247 00:13:42,639 --> 00:13:46,320 at the North State Journal. We talked about this with 248 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:52,279 her in the past. In Greensboro, it's this sprawling campus 249 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,279 it's called the American Hebrew Academy. But they closed down 250 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,320 and then word got out that there were buses coming 251 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,639 in and what is being used for, you know, some 252 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,960 border patrol operations or whatever. And this was at the 253 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,279 height of the the Biden administration, you know, busing people 254 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,279 all over the country basically engaged in human trafficking, right, 255 00:14:17,919 --> 00:14:21,279 And we started seeing buses with people getting you know, 256 00:14:21,679 --> 00:14:24,240 let off of them in the dead of night, and 257 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:30,240 this became one of those same types of sites. FEMA 258 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:33,120 staff did use it for a bit after Hurricane Helene 259 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,799 ap reports that the original lease for the school, which 260 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:44,440 was renamed to the Greensboro Influx Care Facility or the ICF, 261 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,240 the lease for it was five years beginning June twenty 262 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:54,399 twenty two. The lease was entered into by the Biden 263 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:58,720 Administration's Department of Health and Human Services for just under 264 00:14:58,919 --> 00:15:03,759 fifty million million dollars. More than two hundred forty one 265 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:09,720 million dollars was spent on leasing, repairs, security, and general 266 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,159 upkeep starting when the lease began in twenty twenty two 267 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:16,120 through its termination, So we spent a quarter of a 268 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:20,360 billion dollars in taxpayer money. It sounds like for this 269 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:26,279 facility that never housed any of the migrant children, because 270 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,200 this was supposed to be a more humane thing, right 271 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:37,039 than the kids engages. Right the Office of was it 272 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:44,200 Refugee Resettlement or THEERR or the or They claimed that 273 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,679 the site had remained unused for migrant children, but residents 274 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:52,120 living near the facility told the North State Journal that 275 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,080 charter buses with blacked out windows had been seen coming 276 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,879 and going from the facility during the twenty twenty three 277 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:03,279 year and you heard talk about that. And then to 278 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:10,159 go into the property transactions. This is very interesting. While 279 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,480 the former American Hebrew Academy property has not seen much 280 00:16:13,519 --> 00:16:17,080 physical activity in the past three years, it has seen 281 00:16:17,159 --> 00:16:23,840 transactions involving foreign actors. Property records showed twenty six million 282 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:27,600 dollars in loans related to the property had changed hands 283 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:32,240 between two companies with ties to the People's Republic of China. 284 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:37,559 Around fifteen million of an original twenty six million loan 285 00:16:38,639 --> 00:16:43,639 assigned to Puchsin Limited or Pucksen, pux I N or 286 00:16:43,679 --> 00:16:49,240 Pushin I guess it might be Pushin Limited. So fifteen 287 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,200 million of the twenty six million dollar loan was transferred 288 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:59,639 from Pushin to Meta Broad International Group and HEI Holdings. 289 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,679 Some of the transfer documents were actually signed at the 290 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:10,400 US Embassy in Beijing. This is all super shady, super shady. 291 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,480 It just it looks shady. 292 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 3: Now. 293 00:17:12,759 --> 00:17:15,799 Speaker 1: It might not be right. It's possible it might not 294 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:19,440 be It's like it's like these fifty to fifty one 295 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:25,960 protests that we're seeing. CNN calls it fifty to fifty 296 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,960 one demonstrations condemning what they describe as Trump's executive overreach, 297 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,440 including deportations without due process, the dismantling of federal agencies, 298 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:38,240 and threats to higher education. By the way, am I 299 00:17:38,319 --> 00:17:43,359 supposed to understand? This is the standard now that you 300 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:49,119 can violate any rule whatsoever to enter, but we cannot 301 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:54,279 remove you unless we run you through a trial. Is 302 00:17:54,319 --> 00:17:58,880 that the idea? Like the people who come in legally, 303 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,440 they go through a process that takes them years, like 304 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,079 a decade or so, and they have to jump through 305 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:09,119 all the hoops, right, they got to constantly prove who 306 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,319 they are and what they're doing and everything else. And 307 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,119 you can break all those rules. You don't have to 308 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:21,319 follow any of that stuff. And then when you get here. No, no, no, 309 00:18:21,319 --> 00:18:24,960 now you demand that we follow the rules that you 310 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:28,519 ignored to arrive here. That's the standard, So I get 311 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:32,599 to break all of the rules. Yeah, Like to me, 312 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:37,640 it's very simple. Who are you? We've identified you. You 313 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,160 are not in this country legally. That's very easy to determine, apparently, 314 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:46,440 and then we send you back. The issue arises when 315 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,839 you have people who are criminals from other countries and 316 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,000 those countries don't want to take them back while we 317 00:18:53,039 --> 00:18:56,240 have no we have no diplomatic relations with that country 318 00:18:56,319 --> 00:18:59,599 like Venezuela, and they refuse to allow our planes to 319 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,839 land there. They won't take their people back. What do 320 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,000 you do with them? Do we just have to leave 321 00:19:05,039 --> 00:19:07,799 them out on the streets in America because they've committed 322 00:19:07,799 --> 00:19:12,839 no crime in America? Right? What do you do with them? 323 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,720 What do you do with somebody who is to be 324 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:20,440 deported back to Venezuela. Venezuela won't take them and they've 325 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,960 committed no crime here? Did they just get to stay? 326 00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:26,400 It seems like that's the standard that I'm being told 327 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,440 we have to now have, and I feel like, I 328 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,079 don't know, there should be some sort of a law 329 00:19:32,079 --> 00:19:34,599 written about that before we just adopt that as the standard. 330 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 331 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,200 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina? 332 00:19:41,319 --> 00:19:43,480 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 333 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,880 Asheville is your connection. 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But they took 360 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,559 him because he was an activist leftist. After his high 361 00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:38,240 school was the scene of a shooting, right, the Marjorie 362 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:43,079 Stone in Douglas High School down in Parkland, Parkland, Florida, Right, 363 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:49,000 And so David Hogg became one of the three kids 364 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:54,880 from that school that started the what was the name 365 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,640 of that group, not the People's Choice, that's no, those 366 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:05,359 are words, But I forget what he is. What their 367 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,160 organization was called. It's still around, but you never see 368 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,240 the other two. One of the guys. There was a guy, 369 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:20,400 a girl, and Hog And I didn't mean it like that. 370 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,720 That's his name. Hog. I didn't mean it anyway. So 371 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:27,200 the guy he kind of disappeared. Oh, March for Our Lives. 372 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,880 That's the name of the organization, March for Our Lives. 373 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,319 And so the guy just kind of disappeared. And the 374 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:41,319 last thing I ever remember reading about him was that 375 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:47,200 he was trying to educate himself on guns because after 376 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,519 the shooting at the school, he you know, they launched this, 377 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,279 you know, March for Our Lives, you know, protect the schools, 378 00:22:55,319 --> 00:22:58,240 save the kids' lives, all of this, and he started 379 00:22:58,319 --> 00:23:05,599 getting a lot of challenges from Second Amendment rights advocates, 380 00:23:06,279 --> 00:23:09,519 and he became very aware that he did not know 381 00:23:09,599 --> 00:23:12,480 what he was talking about as it relates to firearms, 382 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:16,559 and so he went out to a shooting range. Somebody 383 00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:18,559 took him to a shooting range and he I remember 384 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,039 him talking about it, or I read an interview with 385 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:25,359 him about it, and I remember coming away, I don't 386 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,759 remember what he said. I don't have the story in 387 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:28,319 front of me. This is just off the top of 388 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,799 my head from memory, which was that he had expressed 389 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:35,039 something that seemed an awful lot, like, huh, that was 390 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,440 kind of fun. I can see why people like doing this. 391 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,759 And then I never heard from him again. I don't 392 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:47,519 even know if he's still part of it. And the girl, 393 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,920 the last I heard, she was like, I'm not buying 394 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,000 area everybody, and they were like, oh, so brave. And 395 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:54,920 then I never heard from her again, and now it's 396 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:01,680 just hog So anyway, Democrats think that this guy, and 397 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,440 I think he's now probably late twenties, they think he's 398 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,039 gonna be the one that's gonna, I guess, like win 399 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,400 back the youth male vote. I mean, have you seen him. 400 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:18,759 He's very No. Yeah, a stiff breeze will knock this 401 00:24:18,839 --> 00:24:22,400 kid over. Okay, he looks like a que tip. I 402 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,519 don't mean to I don't mean like it's just like 403 00:24:24,599 --> 00:24:29,359 a because he's so skinny. He has like nobody fat 404 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,960 or muscle. He is skin and bones, and he's got 405 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,839 a very large head with a haircut that he can control. 406 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,960 He can control that haircut, and the haircut makes his 407 00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:42,559 head look even bigger. So he looks kind of like 408 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:45,200 a q tip to me. I'm not trying to be mean, 409 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,920 I really am not. I'm just saying he just strikes 410 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,759 me like that. So anyway, he's also really annoying and 411 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:58,240 wrong about like everything. So this is a piece by 412 00:24:58,279 --> 00:25:02,079 David Strom hotair dot Com. Annoying hero of the Democratic 413 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,680 left isn't on a mission to get Democrats elected. He 414 00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:10,039 is determined to move a party that is already far 415 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,519 left of the country even more leftward, and that is 416 00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:17,599 not sitting well, with a lot of Democrats who actually 417 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:24,119 want to win. This is so fantastic. Remember, don't call 418 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:29,240 it a civil war. Those only happen inside the Republican Party. 419 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:32,799 This is Democrats in disarray. Although I think, well though 420 00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:34,440 the name of the piece at hot air dot Com 421 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,480 is the Democrats civil war rages on because it like 422 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:40,359 it is when I have said that we are witnessing 423 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,880 a realignment of the political parties. Right, it's not just 424 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,839 the Republicans. Republicans started on this path earlier than the 425 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:51,240 Democrats did. I think we are now seeing this is 426 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:55,079 the they are reaping what they have sown. And the 427 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,319 movement away of all of these demographic groups away from 428 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:06,559 the Democra Party is leaving sort of the old guard 429 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:09,799 that has the power, the more moderate Democrats, very few 430 00:26:09,799 --> 00:26:13,880 of them remain right, and then these far leftists. Because 431 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,680 when I've talked about this before, this phenomenon happens in 432 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,119 all sorts of organizations where you have a bunch of 433 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,880 people that join, they're all united in a cause or whatever, 434 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,880 and then as people peel away. You saw this with 435 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,799 like the LGBT movement as well, where after gay marriage 436 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,119 was legalized, a lot of your more moderate centrist types 437 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,839 of people left the movement quote unquote, they didn't feel 438 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,079 the need to go and participate in the marches or 439 00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:46,119 to speak at government meetings or make donations and such, 440 00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:49,799 and so what you had left was the more radical 441 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,480 fringe elements in that organization, and that's what you're seeing 442 00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:59,079 in the Democrat Party right now, and David Hogg being 443 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:04,440 elevated to vice chair is proof of that. Let me 444 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,839 get James on real quick. Hey, James, welcome to the show. 445 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:11,799 Speaker 3: Hey, mister Hogg one of our all time favorite pets. 446 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,960 He built his entire political career, although I understand his 447 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,000 father was a big time left winger, on the fact 448 00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:29,240 that he survived the park when shooting but in the 449 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:30,000 school that day. 450 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,559 Speaker 1: Correct, he was not at the school at the time 451 00:27:32,599 --> 00:27:35,160 of the shooting. He did arrive after with a video 452 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,599 camera and that's what made him famous. 453 00:27:39,079 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 3: So his entire, his entire political career is based on a. 454 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: Lie, it would seem. So I don't know if he 455 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,640 goes out there and says that he was there, he 456 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,680 like what I've heard him say are things that are 457 00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:55,920 nebulous enough where he can claim, like he'll say, oh, yeah, 458 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,799 I was at the school that day, and that's technically true, 459 00:27:59,279 --> 00:28:02,119 but he wasn't at the time of the shooting. But 460 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,119 he gives this illusion. He allows people to believe that, 461 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,880 you know, he witnessed the murders and such like. That's 462 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,720 the that's what he lets people believe. That's part of 463 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:18,759 his persona, his public persona, his origin story. 464 00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:22,799 Speaker 3: And he knows almost as much about guns as my 465 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,400 one and a half year old house cat. 466 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: Well, that is on brand. Yeah, James, I appreciate it, buddy, 467 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,920 Thank you. No, it's exactly right. So it's one of 468 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,279 the things that's always rubbed me wrong about David Hogg Ugh. 469 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:37,920 He has two g's on his name. That's why I 470 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,839 say it that way. 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There's a group called Leaders We Deserve, a 492 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:57,039 political group which Hogg co founded. In twenty twenty three. Okay, 493 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:03,720 Leaders we Deserve announced plans to spend twenty million dollars 494 00:30:04,119 --> 00:30:11,279 to assist in electing younger Democratic leaders, including primary challengers 495 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:17,480 to incumbent House Democrats. So to let's just chart this 496 00:30:17,599 --> 00:30:20,000 out like we're going to do a little flow chart here. Okay, 497 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,880 David Hog for the Democrat Party vice chair. Okay, David 498 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,000 Hogg is the Democrat Party vice chair. He also co 499 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:30,519 founded a group leaders we deserve and that group is 500 00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:34,000 going to primary members of the party that David Hogg 501 00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:39,359 is the party vice Chairoff. As party vice chair, you're 502 00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:41,720 supposed to be going around trying to get Democrats elected, 503 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:47,960 and I guess technically you would if you are trying 504 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,200 to primary a Democrat with another Democrat in a Democrat primary, right, 505 00:30:54,359 --> 00:31:01,119 But this is not sitting very well with Democrats, particularly 506 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,480 the older generation Democrats who actually want to win elections. 507 00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:10,400 And they're like, if you primary moderate Democrats or whatever 508 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,799 passes for moderate Democrat nowadays, you primary those guys and 509 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,880 gals with far left moonbats, you're going to lose the 510 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,960 general election. You're going to further marginalize our party. The 511 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,400 New York Times or sorry, No, this was from Politics 512 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,839 War Room podcast and The Raging Cajun James Carville. He 513 00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:38,279 said that Hogg should resign from his post as the 514 00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:42,359 DNC vice chair for targeting members of his own party. 515 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:49,440 He said, quote may many the site money that's a 516 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,839 little bit more like strom Thurman. I apologize that was 517 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,000 my first run at a Carville impression. He has a 518 00:31:57,079 --> 00:32:02,519 lost chaplain of the Democratic National Committee. Well, anyway, and 519 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:06,640 he's talking about raising twenty million dollars to primary other Democrats. Well, 520 00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:09,319 when I look at the DNC, ideally it should be 521 00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:13,160 an organization that's trying to beat Republicans, not other Democrats. 522 00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:15,720 When you're talking about using the power of the DNC, 523 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,200 whatever power it has, not very much, but you're using 524 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,920 that and we are paying the Democratic donors, are paying 525 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,400 David Hogg's salary, they are paying David Hogg's staff. And 526 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:32,000 he wants to run against Democrats. He says, oh, look, 527 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,720 run against who the bleep you want to, but resign 528 00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:41,079 your position. Have guts, man, have guts, stand your ground. 529 00:32:41,319 --> 00:32:43,680 I don't think that's part of the Democratic coalition. I 530 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,799 don't think they're redeemable. I don't think they want to 531 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:51,400 be redeemed. Carvell then repeated a prior suggestion that far 532 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,200 left individuals should just formally break away from the Democratic Party. 533 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:01,119 All look at Carville trying to re in and beg 534 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,519 for mercy from some leftists. That's adorable, dude. You know 535 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,720 they don't do that. Mercy is not one of the 536 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:15,640 things they do. Sorry, I just find this rich because 537 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:21,000 being on the right right seeing the way the leftists 538 00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:24,720 behave towards the right and the quote moderate Democrats and 539 00:33:24,759 --> 00:33:28,720 the Democrat Party and all that. They have ignored the 540 00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:32,079 abuses of the leftists against people on the right because 541 00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:38,519 it allowed the Democrats to achieve and detain and retain power. 542 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:44,160 But now now, well, you've been feeding that alligator hoping 543 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,839 it would eat you last. The leftward lurch of the 544 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,599 Democrats has a long history, writes David Strom, and what 545 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,039 is happening now is a recapitulation of what happened in 546 00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:58,000 the sixties and seventies, a move that put them in 547 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,920 the political wilderness. It spawned the Demococratic Leadership Council, which 548 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,799 gave us Bill Clinton and a partial Democratic Party revival. 549 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,800 But such a revival will be much more difficult this time, 550 00:34:11,559 --> 00:34:15,360 given that the working class base of the party has 551 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:20,480 shifted right word, the working class base of the party. 552 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,239 Do they go back? Are they going back because they 553 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,440 voted for Trump because the Democrat Party wasn't left wing enough? No, 554 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,639 of course not. The current base of the party now 555 00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:40,119 is really far left, and Hogg is proof of that. 556 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:46,119 The DNC, you'll recall, had to rig the nomination process 557 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,440 to install Hillary Clinton, and then they did the same 558 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,280 in twenty twenty to install Joe Biden, hoping he would 559 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,320 be a moderate president. But he wasn't or his handlers 560 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:01,760 weren't right. President Auto Pen wasn't right. He lurched far 561 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,639 left on social and economic issues and was only tempered 562 00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:09,360 by the greed and corruption of the Democrat oligarch class. 563 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,119 Kamala Harris's loss has crippled even that wing of the party, 564 00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:17,519 now giving power to the awfuls, the affluent white female 565 00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:24,639 liberals and the Democrat brown shirts who embrace socialism, political 566 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,119 violence and who might find AOC a bit too moderate 567 00:35:28,159 --> 00:35:33,159 for their tastes. Liberals are frothing in furious rage, and 568 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,199 not only at Republicans. A record number have lost faith 569 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:42,519 in the Democratic Party. Its favorability has never been this bad. 570 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,960 Liberals are begging, pleading for new leaders and a new direction. 571 00:35:50,119 --> 00:35:56,639 They want to go further left, They want to go 572 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:02,000 to war Hog. David Strom says Hog is not the 573 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:07,119 cause of this shift. He's a symptom basically right. Bernie 574 00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:12,119 Sanders not the cause. Barack Obama was the most effective 575 00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:14,599 of the bunch and did further the cause, but he 576 00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:18,960 at least presented himself as a center left, acceptable Democrat 577 00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:25,079 who incrementally pushed the party leftward. Wasn't really a hardcore revolutionary, 578 00:36:25,199 --> 00:36:30,159 didn't speak the language of the revolutionary like AOC screeches 579 00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:34,599 from the podium after getting off of her first class 580 00:36:34,599 --> 00:36:38,880 plane ride. The consultant class and the oligarchs are now 581 00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:43,880 panicking seeing the face of the party becoming the aocs 582 00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:49,039 instead of the leftist but boring Pete Bootages. Bootages may 583 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,239 be in the lead right now for the presidential nomination, 584 00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:56,519 but that's only because the leftists are split. He's not 585 00:36:56,599 --> 00:36:59,480 that far ahead of AOC. And as people drop out 586 00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:02,880 of the Democrat primary running right these and it's way early, 587 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,760 I know, but people are already starting to, you know, 588 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:12,079 make their moves. And once the you know, people make 589 00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:14,519 their moves, they announce their candidacies, and then they drop 590 00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:17,400 out because they're not getting enough support. Then the far 591 00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:21,239 left will coal less around somebody more like AOC than 592 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,239 Pete Budajuj. All the energy is on the side of 593 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,400 the leftists who think political assassinations of Trump or Musk 594 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:34,360 would be justified. And that's not hyperbole. Fifty five percent 595 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,920 of liberals told Rutgers University that this would be fine 596 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:43,280 with them. The assassinations of Trump and Musk fifty five 597 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:49,679 percent of liberals. They applaud riots, They worship Luigi Mangioni 598 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:56,119 and Carmelo Anthony, right murderers, assassins. Look at the way 599 00:37:56,119 --> 00:38:01,000 they're handling this, you know, MS thirteen guy. Democrats who 600 00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:03,199 want to win are desperate to move to the center, 601 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:09,719 but the Democrat base wants hog. That's the problem for 602 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:10,679 the Democrats now. 603 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 3: I don't know. 604 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,679 Speaker 1: Look, I'm not here to advise them on how to win, 605 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,800 because I would prefer they don't. I don't want them 606 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,119 to win. And so to that extent, the further to 607 00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:24,960 the left the Democrats go as a party, I think, 608 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,960 the better it is for the rest of the country, 609 00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:32,119 because they become so unattractive that now nobody will vote 610 00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:35,280 for them. But I don't know what's going to happen 611 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,840 with the Republican Party either. Who knows? And Strom says 612 00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:41,760 James carvill is a jerk and not exactly in touch 613 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,000 with twenty twenties America, But on this he is right. 614 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,159 The Democrats are imploding in the civil war will rage 615 00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:52,159 on for quite a while. All Right, that'll do it 616 00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:54,840 for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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