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the publisher of a substack newsletter called More to the
Story and Ap welcome. How are you hey?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 1: I am doing all right? I think so. Since we
last spoke, we've gotten now our two heavy hitters in
the Republican and Democrat primaries for the US Senate race
here in North Carolina, completely unexpect Roy Cooper and then
completely unexpectedly Michael Wattley. But it does not look like
unlike in Cooper's case, where the only Democrat that was
running against him. I think we did talk about this
race last week. Wiley Nickel he dropped out. He says
he's not going to run now. I don't think the
same is going to happen in the GOP primary. Yeah,
you got no.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be an issue there.
I think that the folks who have already filed to
run are probably going to stay on there and continue
with the primary, because that's that's just how Republicans role.
Speaker 1: That is kind of how that is how Republican's role. Indeed,
so we've already started seeing he wrote about some of
the comments made by Wattley linking Cooper to the radical Democrats.
The ads dropped almost I think the day Cooper announced,
and uh we saw it this weekend, and I did
my part. I retweeted the old video of my good
friend Ray marching in solidarity with the mascless protesters in
the streets around the governor's mansion. And my prediction is
that ad is going to or that clip is going
to be featured in quite a few ads, I would suspect,
and hopefully maybe some you know, national media outlets, if
they get a chance to interview Cooper, maybe they'll ask
him about the double standard there.
Speaker 2: Well, we tried in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Well you tried it.
Speaker 2: Journal was one of a couple outlets who were shut
out of asking questions during the COVID briefings. So well,
it turns out this time around.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, that's yeah, for real, like people who aren't aware.
AP and I talked about this at the time. They
the Cooper administration implemented a software program that they could
they could segregate reporters into different groups basically, and if
you got stuck in the you know, don't ask, don't
call on this reporter group, then you never got through
on the conference call to ask the questions during the
COVID briefings, and only the software.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. It didn't matter if we were
the very first one logged into the call and had
registered that we wanted to ask a question or not.
We were basically cut out of asking any questions. And
the same three or four outlets got the questions every
single time. And I think we got maybe one question
in all of the COVID briefings that happened for what
were good six months. Yeah, so that was an issue.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope it was a good one, because you
only get one right for six months exactly all right,
So what else over at your sub stack? You've got
a piece about all of the recent resolutions, and I
don't know, I'm not sure if we got around to
discussing the anti Israel resolutions that the North Carolina Democrat
Party Executive Committee adopted and discussed, But there were a
bunch of other resolutions that they did, and the list
is it's pretty crazy, some of these things that really
finger on the pulse, I would say, of the of
the current electorate vibe, like restoring DEI, ending cash bail,
ending youth curfew laws, opposing the unrestricted carrie of concealed
deadly weapons. Oh my favorite though, was the support of
a democratic truth squad of all elected officials asap. What
was that about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they basically wanted a democratic elected officials of Washington
and in North Carolina to push back against the administration,
you know, like a rapid response kind of thing. So
it kind of reminded me of, you know, back in
the Albomides when he had his you know, his little
truth truth squad thing where he wanted neighbors to be
dropping a dime on each other. So that was just
one of them. There was another resolution that these are
all unpassed resolutions. By the way, another one that was
unpassed was in support of Kilmara Brigo Garcia, you know,
the the Maryland.
Speaker 1: Band marylynd Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were also a local opposition to like Senate
Bill fifty and House Bill five. There was one in
particular that was unpassed, and it was opposition a resolution
opposing the Lake and Riley Act. And I think most
folks know who Lake and Riley is, the nursing student
who's murdered very brutally by a illegal alien in Georgia.
Became a pivot point during the twenty four election cycle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Joe Biden was responded when was a Marjorie
Taylor green screened? Say her name Lake and Riley, and
then Biden was like, Lincoln Riley, Oh jesus, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was kind of a mess. So, yeah,
they were opposing that resolution that that act that was
actually signed in the law by President Trump. So it
was interesting that was a I'm a gentleman, He's not
really a gentleman, but the illegal alien who had murdered
her was had been in the country several times illegally
and deported a couple of times I believe had committed
crimes in other states before eventually murdering her in Athens,
Georgia or near Athens, Georgia. They had a couple other
ones in there that were interesting too, I think the
ban and removal of Elon Musk from power in the
federal government and the reinstatement of usaiit. Oh my god, yeah,
those are not going to happen now. Also, raising North
Carolina's minimum wage to eighteen dollars an hour was another one.
Speaker 1: What could go wrong? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What could go wrong?
Speaker 1: And then there was another here you write about ending
the natural Citizens Clause of the US Constitution, which, in
its current form, the Constitution bars foreign born citizens from
being able to be elected president. So Democrats are just
like right out there, They're like, hey, you know, what
would be a great idea allowing people who are not
born here to lead a country? What again, what could
go wrong? This is like this a laundry list of
all the worst ideas. And I'm frankly shocked that the
Democrats did not approve of all of these or any
of these. And you did mention that on the anti
Israel votes. What was it? Cooper and Governor josh Stein,
they did not support they they you say, they disavowed
at least one of the anti Israel resolutions. So I
was a little bit.
Speaker 2: More broad he was he was not a fan of
It seemed like he was talking about them collectively. However,
when Cooper was asked General Daan Peter Reach's he had
an article up that I linked to and he basically
was asked about the anti Israel resolutions, and Cooper really
only said, I don't I don't agree with any with
the resolution that you know Israel. Israel's a partner of ours,
any important an ally of ours, So I don't agree
with that. And it seemed like he was just talking
about the one that was baring weapons and in support
and material military oh that It didn't look like he
sed this about all of them, but just that one.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the first time we've seen something of like
a foreign policy related statement from him, which is going
to be important in a Senate run. So that also
could open him up for some you know, leftist to
run against him in a primary. That's like so you know,
captured by the Palestinian cause they're like, I can't let
this guy get in. I need you know, we need
to run somebody else. I'm just wishing there, but let
me see. And then you had another piece at your
Substack newsletter called more to the story. This was and
I'd seen their press releases actually ahead of time out
of York County, South Carolina. Case people didn't know, which
would be very easy to not know because the protests
were not really well attended. There was a rage against
the regime, get it, rage against the machine, rage against
the machine. Anyway, they did a bunch of these protests
around North Carolina and not too well attended.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not really. I think Raleigh might have been the
biggest one in the state, and they had maybe two
or three hundred people there, maybe three hundred, I would say.
Looking at some of the some of the photos that
were out there, a local news outlet found it, you know,
interesting enough that they had to put their chopper up
so that they could see what was happening on the ground.
They hadn't done that with many of the other protests,
but they did it with this one and happened to
catch the finale of the protest, which was going out
onto the Halleck fact Small and creating a human chain
by holding hands all the way around the edges of
the mall. Well, there had to be at least two
or three hundred people there to do that. But yeah,
that was one of the most well attended ones. There
was one down down near Charlotte where it looked like
about six people showed up to a Circle K gas
station and waved flags, including someone dressed up as a
statue of liberty. Yeah, yeah, and what else was there?
Some of the signs that showed up at this one,
they were obviously ignoring all the sign warnings from the
last one. You've got several of them using foul language.
So readers beware if they see this article on my subject.
If you scroll down, you'll see the image of a
man dressed up in a catch up outfit wearing a
sign that says Trump F's children so lovely.
Speaker 1: Very persuasive argument. I was on the fence until I
saw the image, and then it completely swayed me.
Speaker 2: Now, yep, exactly. Also, it appeared that it was mostly
you know, middle aged to elderly folks that came out
to these protests. I didn't see a lot of young
people at these, and a lot of the signs at
the Raleigh one at least were created and given out
by Common Cause. You can see their logo right on
the signage Black Voters Matter. We the people defending democracy
this kind of thing. So they along with Planned Parenthood
Votes South Atlantic and fifty one fifty and the Deeter
Mediation Foundation and Raleigh Boots on the Ground, those are
the folks who are sort of organizing this, along with
a group called People for Democracy, which really didn't identify
itself very well.
Speaker 1: My favorite part was your reference to the Moral Monday
official unofficial band the Raging Grannies, which they used to
be called the Green Granny's I believe, And then they
did their rebrand and they call themselves the Raging Grannies Now,
and they they kicked it off with a song probably
just like they rewrote the lyrics to some popular song
from the like the nineteen sixties, because that's usually what
they do. And the name of this song was part
of my language. But it says, now you've pissed off Grandma,
which do they not know their name is Raging Grannies Now,
because that wouldn't you just be in a perpetual state
of powedness like to like I don't think I don't
think it's again a compelling or persuasive message there from
these these women who just sang really really bad, barely
written songs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it was all par for the course. Some
of the other protests around around the state. You know,
there were a few of them here and there. I
think there was one in Heywood County which looked like
it had maybe twenty or so people at it wasn't
it wasn't very widely intended, and so looking at national ones,
they were a little bit bigger in some of the
big city some of the bigger urban centers, but the
most of them, those are the ones that got focused
on because the rest of them, you know, there really
wasn't that much going on. Did you see the one
the next one we could look forward to its Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to do it again Labor Day. Yeah.
Did you see the one up in what I think
it was Oaklaw was in Oklahoma City, or maybe it
was in Michigan, I forget where They set up tens
and they had watermelons there and they gave people edgehammer
so they could bash the tents and like they give
him bats or bash the watermelons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of reminds me of that the performance
art comedian what was his.
Speaker 1: Name, Gallagher? Yes, Gallagher, yeah, right, except they didn't even
give anybody like the trash bags to cover themselves in,
so you you go whacking away at this melon and
then you're covered in melon guts for the rest of
the day.
Speaker 2: Like that's oh yeah, I'm sure that.
Speaker 1: Didn't think it through. Yeah, I did not think it through,
all right, Ap Dylan from the North State Journal NSJ
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Here's a Pete tweet from Timoteo, who says, Pete, I
was invited to participate in a counter protest of the
rage against the regime, but decided to go get tacos instead.
That's probably the best decision there. Ben Shapiro calls this,
He calls us the omni cause, which is a great
name for it. You hear me say, the issue is
never the issue. The issue is always the revolution, right.
And what Ben is getting at with his phrase the
omni cause is the same thing, which is that you
have all of these these different causes that are at
sometimes diametrically opposed to each other on a certain issue,
and they all band together though for their omni cause,
and the omni cause is the tearing down of institutions
in the Western civilization. That's the point. And you know,
they all you know, it's kind of like the car.
The dog that catches the car doesn't know what to
do with it when he gets it. Because if you
were to actually destroy, which is easier than building, obviously
it's easier to destroy all of this stuff. So once
you do that, though, what do you want to put
in its place? Well, then all of these factions they
would then splinter apart, you know, because then you would
have to actually fight for the power, and they're all
about power dynamics, and that's where all of these communist
revolutions always fall apart. And then you end up with
the most vicious strong man that takes over the one
who is willing to do what the others won't. They
assert that power, They then control all of the others
and they wipe out all of their enemies. That's the
antithesis of Western civilization, which is the protection of the
individual right that we all are endowed with, inalienable rights
endowed by our creator, not from the government equal protection
under the law, like these are the fundamental structures that
underpin our society. So I did get the press release
from This was out of York County, South Carolina, right
across the border from Charlotte. And they messed upon their dates,
which may actually explain why they didn't have such great
turnout because they said Thursday, August one, but August first
wasn't Thursday, so they messed up on the dates. So anyway,
they had a gathering first in downtown rock Hill in
coordination with what they were calling was going to be
a general strike Thursday. They were calling for national anti
ICE sick Out. I think they actually meant Friday, August first,
and what they demand they were going to go, then
they're going to write postcards, and then they were going
to march to Representative Ralph Norman's office, demanding abolition of
ICE and end to deportations, defund immigration enforcement and local
police cooperation with ICE, and legal status and permanent protections
for all undocumented people. So amnesty. That's what their first
march was going to be. And then was the Rage
against the Regime, where they had similar demands reject MAGA authoritarianism,
fund schools, healthcare, housing, not billionaires all of that. So
that was the rage against the regime. But again I
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previous topic, got a message from John A Pete mail
Pete at the Pete Kalander Show dot com. John says
was the person wearing that statue of liberty costume part
of the rage against the regime protest? Or was it
one of those liberty tax signed spinners that just happen
to be standing near the protest. I always feel bad
for those people every year I see them out there
in those costumes. I did see the video. They did
not have a sign that they were spinning. They had
an American flag they were waving around. They were obviously
part of the protest. They were not there advertising liberty
tax services. Also, it's not tax season, so I'm just
using my context clues on that one. All right, let's
go over and speak to John. Hello, John, welcome to
the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, how are you doing? Pete?
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good. What's up?
Speaker 3: Okay? I just thought I should call wdt UH to
try and save people from being scammed by a very
frightening and legitimate looking text. Okay this this came in
yesterday on my phone.
Speaker 1: Don't the link?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, okay, So okay, it's got it's got
a very well done layout. It has a blue and
white logo. North Carolina Department of Transportation with the seal.
North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. Final notice enforcement penelties
began on August the fifth. Your traffic violation remains unpaid.
If not paid by the fourth, the following consequences will
follow as outlined the North Carolina Code one five C
DASH one six point zero zero three violation documented in
the DMV system. Your registration will be suspended, thirty day
suspension of your license. Your debt will be forwarded. The
collections plus a thirty five percent commission, possible legal action
and negative impact on your credit. Pay immediately at this link.
So something told me this was a scam.
Speaker 1: It is and so there because the NCDOT will never text.
Speaker 3: You that, of course not. And so I went over.
I just throve over to the sheriff's office. I live
in Union County. I went and said, listen, I got
this from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. What's going
to happen to me? And the lady immediately recognized it
was a scam. So I thought, I cannot be the
only retired person in North Carolina that has received this
threatening message. I understand that communicating threats, there's there are
laws against that.
Speaker 1: I think those are physical Yeah, I think those are
physical threats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, so what I I just figured I give
a call to BET because y'all get a lot of
people listening. Indeed, I personally enjoy it. I enjoy your
your shows. I listened on a regular basis. Uh, and
I'm happy that you're on because they can't listen to
Rush anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh that's very kind. Yeah. But yeah, so I will
tell you. Yeah, the ncd MV has sent out an alert.
They sent this out June. I want to say, early
June a surge in fraudulent text message scams targeting residents,
So not just retirees, but everybody. I got one of
these a couple of months ago. The scams falsely claimed
to request payment for fees, fines, or tolls. That's one
I got was a toll you yeah, you got to
pay your tolls or whatever. And I was like that,
it's not how that works. They just auto drafted, So
you're not going to get You're not going to get
that kind of a message on your text exactly. And
so you are urged to report any suspicious texts as spam,
delete them immediately. Do not click on any links. See
I always tell people this, like you can write me
in an email or on the text line or something,
but if you put a link in there, and I
know people do it, they're like, oh, this is a
good story, you should look into this whatever. I'm not
going to ever click the links ever. Yeah yeah, yeah,
So like you can tell me, like there was a
story the title was this, and it was at you know, NBC.
Go look it up and then I'll go look it
up myself. But yeah, people just never click the links
ever from anybody.
Speaker 3: Right, right, So I just thought you guys would probably
have a big reach. And Okay, you've already been on this,
so you know it's a scam and people are probably
falling for it.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's why they're doing it. And now with AI
available to help them craft the scripts and make things
look legitimate, it's going to be it's gonna become a
lot easier. The one I've been getting recently is I
get these random emails that Okay, hey, you know your
meeting has been booked, and then there's like a calendar
you know, there's like a calendar RSVP box there. They
want you to click yes or no, and it's like,
I don't even know this person, I don't know this
website and you look at their email and it's like
a whole bunch of numbers and letters and stuff like
obviously scam. Uh So that was Yeah, that was one.
That That's one that I'm getting a lot, and so yeah,
always report it. You can do that in the text
message on your phone. There should be like a way
to report it as phishing because that's what they're doing, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I will. I'll look at my menu see
if I can forward it too.
Speaker 1: But I don't forward it, just report it, block it. Yeah,
if you report it, and then that should block it
as well and deleted out of your are you using
an Android or an Apple.
Speaker 3: It's an Android.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there should be you know, the three dots
that open up the menus. There should be. Yeah, there
should be like the three dots or something that you'll
be able to tap on that and then you can
you can report fishing.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I enjoy your show. Exser I know I
personally know some people affiliated with WBT. The Reverend David
Chadwick married me and my wife a number of years ago.
We're still legal.
Speaker 1: Oh well, good, all right, congratulations. How long has that been?
Speaker 3: Oh goodness, thirty five years almost.
Speaker 1: Congratulations. Good for you.
Speaker 3: Well, you have a great you have a great afternoon YouTube.
Enjoy you and enjoy your evening.
Speaker 1: All right, you too. Take care. I appreciate the heads
up on that. In fact, there's a I got this
the other day from the US Department of Justice. The
FBI Charlotte Field Office, and the US Attorney's Offices for
the Eastern, Middle, and Western districts of North Carolina are
warning the public about a jury duty scam involving fake
federal arrest warrants. The scammers will call or send emails
claiming that you miss jury duty, and then there's a
federal warrant for your arrest. To add credibility to their claims,
the fraudsters either text or email a fake arrest warrant
with the names of actual North Carolina federal law enforcement officers, prosecutors,
or judges. The victims are told to pay a fine
via a virtual currency machine or kiosk to avoid jail time.
That's a huge red flag. The government is not going
to tell you to go to a bitcoin machine at
the circle k all right. I don't know if circle
k actually has those machines, but like, you do not
pay all fines in bitcoin. Scammers often direct victims to
make virtual currency payments, which are more difficult to trace
and easily moved to other wallets that are controlled by
the fraudsters. Also, they may manipulate or spoof the call
a ID information to make it appear that the call
is from a legitimate source, like a courthouse or a
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dot Com. From the WBT text line, Melanie says, I
got that same scam text supposed to be from NCDMV
and I noticed it was sent from a foreign country number.
And that's a good good eagle eye there, Melanie, thank
you for sharing. And Mike W says scam texts can
also be forwarded to seventy seven twenty six. I did
not know that you can forward them to seventy seven
to twenty six. U. This is a good but I
don't know who wrote this. It's a seven oh four
number who says NC Motor Vehicle Code is chapter twenty,
which that was when John was reading that scam text
and excited the statute. I was going to stop him,
but he was rolling, you know, and so I was like,
just forget about it. But that would have been like
one of the first things I do if I was
actually worried about it, is I would go and look
up the General Statute because it's a defining piece of
information and if I can, if I can look that
up and say, like, what exactly are they accusing me
of being guilty of? Then I look at the General
Statute and it doesn't actually show anything. Then it's like, oh, okay,
this is a scam. Another seven oh four number said
they got the jury duty scam. So yeah, we'll all
we are all going to get them, and you know,
we're all going to get taken in by probably one
of them in our lives. So hopefully it's not a
terrible one and hopefully you're only out a couple of
bucks or something. But it can be devastating, It can
be very very bit Let me see here, oh, let
me get to this story. This is from Corey Vallancourt,
journalist up at the Smoky Mountain News in western North Carolina.
A blistering letter signed by four Democratic candidates for Congress
in North Carolina is eleventh Congressional district. This is where
Oh my gosh, why am I drawing a blank on
his name? It's in the story. I'm drawing a blank
on his name, Chuck Edwards. This was the Madison Cawthorne seat.
Chuck Edwards then primaried him, and so he's the Republican.
He owns the seat. You got a bunch of Democrats.
They keep thinking they can flip this seat. Democrats do.
So they got a bunch of Democrats running in the
primary up there, and they had they had one of
their they had a meeting in the eleventh Congressional District
and they only invited one of the candidates to speak.
A guy by the name of Jamie Ager, son of
John Ager, who's a state representative. They own, I think
one of the farms up there that's very well known,
and so he was allowed to be the keynote speaker
at the NC eleven Democratic gala, and these other candidates said,
that's deeply unfair and fundamentally at odds with core party values.
They wrote this letter saying, we the undersigned Democratic candidates
for Congress, right to express our collective and unequivocal disgust.
And this is why I call it the Democrat Party,
because they don't behave democratically. You know. The letter was
signed by candidates Mo Davis. Oh my gosh, Mo Davis.
Mo Davis, this was the guy that's got the violence fetish.
This is the guy that was running against Madison Cawthorn
Lo those years ago. This would have been twenty twenty,
and nobody had thought to ever researched or look at
his tweets. Now I had seen his tweets, but I
went through his Twitter timeline and I found the most
horrible things he was saying about Republican voters, one of
them which I read to him when I was allowed
to ask questions at at a moderated debate, and I
read to him his tweets and the one, the worst one,
was that we should step on their necks and grind
them into the ground until you can hear the snap
of their necks. Like That's how he talked about Republican voters.
And so my question was like, why would Republican constituents
think that you would be a good representative for them?
And his answer was, well, you know, you're in the
media like I was at the time, because he was
a talking head pundit guy for MSNBC for a bit.
And I was like, no, I don't talk about people
that way. That's you're talking. You're you're encouraging and describing
violence towards your political adversaries. These are your fellow Americans.
Just because you disagree with them doesn't mean that they
deserve to have violence enacted upon them. But yeah, and also,
if they're so upset about the way this played out
in NC eleven, wait until they hear what their own
party did in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four in
the presidential primaries. Oh boy, all right, that'll do it
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