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listen to the second half of the last hour. If
you want to know what I'm referencing here with caller Tony,
I really got the sense of goodness and the Lord
just exuding Tony's presence, you know, it just it really
came through as a self described, you know, religious person,
as he said he was praying all the time for
the Lord to take out Donald Trump. Yeah, because that's
what Christians do, although he didn't actually say Christians, so
he may believe in a different kind of God maybe,
so I might be assuming that, but for the record,
because I know I wasn't on the air here in
Charlotte in twenty fifteen, in twenty sixteen, in twenty seventeen
and twenty eighteen, In twenty nineteen and then twenty twenty
when I was saying all sorts of critical things about
Donald Trump, I was not a fan of Donald Trump.
In twenty fifteen, I told my boss at the time
up in Ashville that I might very well lose my
job over this election because I was going full bore
against Donald Trump in their GOP primary. I brought out
all of the stuff that you could think, all of
the attacks, all of the information from the bankruptcies to
the eminent domain stuff, to the affiliations with the no
neck Eastern Europe bodyguards that would follow him around, the
mafia ties. I mean, look, the guy was a casino
owner in New Jersey. Give me a break. He's building
buildings in the Tri state area. You think that he
doesn't have connections like that. Of course he does. About
the fight, the near brawl that occurred backstage at a
Rolling Stones concert at one of the Trump properties because
they refused to play if Trump showed up and then
Trump showed up, there's going to be the big brawl,
and Keith Richards was picking up a knife to go
stab some people his tiny hands. That was remember that
with the fight that Marco Rubio had with the tiny
hands and all of that, because Trump was apparently very
sensitive to it. I have gone through all of the
anti Trump stuff. I have did it all and with
full understanding and recognition that my audience, a majority I
think of the audience wanted Trump. They wanted Donald Trump,
and it put me at odds with a large portion
of my audience for almost two straight years from the
primary and then through the election. But when he won,
it's like, okay, now let's see what happens. See here's
the thing, though, I recognized that, Okay, this guy won
and there are people that like him, and so I'm
going to be critical of things that he does, which,
by the way, I have I've like, remember we did
a couple of shows here on the tariffs. Didn't think
that's a great idea. So I am critical of Donald Trump.
See here's the thing, though, I don't allow Donald Trump
to dictate the way I think about an issue. Just
because Trump says something doesn't mean I have to agree,
and it doesn't mean I have to disagree. That's called
Trump derangement syndrome. It goes both directions. It goes both directions.
People think in terms of oh a TDS is only
you know people who hate Trump.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: No, it goes the other direction too. When anything that
Trump says you have to believe because Trump said it. No,
then you're allowing this man right to control your brain
as well. Don't let anybody do that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: He's going to be wrong on some things, He's going
to be right on some things. Make your own assessments.
Been very clear about that. See but Tony, he doesn't
listen to every single you Know episode, which is very
hurtful because you can download the podcast for free at
the peapod dot com and then you can hear me
talk about the various things. See here's here. Here's one
of the things that I sort of try to use
as a as a guiding star for myself is and
this is in in not just the aspect of doing
the show, but in all kinds of news assessment and analysis.
It is to not really talk so much about the individuals,
but rather the ideas and if you if you take
the individuals out of it. I'm not saying you ignore it.
I'm saying if you take the individual personalities out of
a particular issue, and you try to assess the issue
strictly based on the merits of the idea, right, what
are the arguments for and against it, what are the
different angles, and then layer into that your incentives. You
try to look at the people, their personalities, their you
know their past performance, things that they have said, and
you layer that in, and then you layer in what
is as best you can tell the the incentives that
these people may have to take various positions. But I
also try not to ascribe motive, which Tony seems perfectly
willing and happy to do when it comes to Donald Trump.
And the motive is always evil, right, But that's another thing,
is like when you're talking about human beings, we're complex, right.
People do things that are good and they do things
that are bad. And so this black and white view
that Trump said something or Trump did something, and so
there and I hate Trump, and so therefore it's because
fill in the blank. You're ascribing a motive as Tony
did there ascribing a motive to Donald Trump, which was racism.
He said he's racist. And what was his example, Well,
that he took money from it's what charity program or
aid program or grant program that affected minorities. And what
did I say in response? I said, they're cutting stuff
for everybody. It's across the board, it's every department. They're
trying to cut everything, so it's not targeted. And he
didn't care about that. It didn't matter. Facts shall not matter,
because once I ascribe the motive of racism, then I
reject all information. There is no difference here in the
mental protocol that Tony is running than conspiracy theorists. They
take all information and the information that supports their theory
they incorporate, they adopt and believe it to be true,
and if there's any evidence that proves otherwise, then that
becomes evidence of their conspiracy in that somebody must have
planted it. Right, They come up with excuses to ignore it,
to dismiss it. Oh, that's what they want me to think, right,
is so it becomes an unprovable theory or unfalsifiable. That's
what Tony is trapped in. And it's sad to me.
That's sad, especially when you think of like how much
anger he must carry, and misery he must experience to
have all of these thoughts and feelings tied to a
single guy up in Washington, d C. That Tony has
no way to influence or impact. He's impotent and it's
just impotent rage. And that's said. And so I'll pray
for you, Tony, for healing, for guidance, right for comfort
and peace, because you shouldn't let you shouldn't let other
people dictate your emotions and your feelings on a day
to day basis. But this is a problem I think
with so much of the folks on the left. This
is where they live because they don't handle loss in
elections very well. They just don't. No, I'm not saying
everybody on the right does either, but by and large
people on the left, I mean, you guys call yourselves
the resistance. You're being led around by a bunch of
overgrown theater kids that are captive to their emotions, that
are stunted. Grow up, seriously, grow up, think for yourselves.
And everything that Donald Trump says doesn't have to be
evil or incorrect. He can say things that are incorrect, sure,
I know he does. However, not everything he says. And
you could be wrong too. Always keep that point in mind.
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of messages regarding Tony call her Tony D S. Stewart says,
Tony qualifies as a great candidate for the Charlotte City Council.
It's all a distraction, It's a Pete tweet. It's all
a distraction, says Will Tony believe Uh? Oh, will Tony
believe it? Out of Pelosi's own mouth? I doubt it,
but yes, Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi on not having the
National Guard at the Capitol on January sixth, quote, I
take responsibility for not having them. Just prepare for more.
Andy says, Tony needs to know that the Capitol police
up in d C had asked Pelosi for the national Guard.
It was well over an hour before she gave a response,
which was no. And then Michael says, Tony using his
direct connection to God to destroy what he dislikes. It's amazing.
He openly admits that he prays that God basically kills Trump,
as we say in the South, bless his heart. Yeah,
there is a certain kind of derangement delusion. I think
when people think that somehow or another they can call
upon God to kill people for them. I think you've
got that relationship inverted. You know. Again, I'm not sure
what religion he is or thinks he is, but that
does not comport with with any iteration of Christianity that
I've heard. The Hellian calls it trump arousal syndrome. Yeah that, yeah,
that might be closer to the Russ says, it's probably
not fair. But the pattern I'm seeing in your callers
has me questioning actual longtime friends of mine who are
named Tony.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a couple of them some emails now.
Jason says, the left have an issue with how they
see themselves. They see themselves as ultimate good, so anything
that opposes them is bad, and in the service of
accomplishing something good, it is okay to do something that
is bad. It's a progressive paradox. Yeah, I've talked about
this too. This was the you know, the framing of
Donald Trump as literally Hitler, right, And it was the
same thing during the punch and nas punch a Nazi craze.
And in philosophy there's and ethics discussion, there's a there's
a long time example. You know, you have a time machine,
you can go back in time and do you kill
baby Hitler? Right, that's the question, and then you test
various responses based on ethics and such and whatever. And
I'm not going to get into the actual you know,
hashing out of the question. But when you give a
permission structure under this heading of so and so is
Hitler and all their supporters are Nazis, you've now created
the permission structure to do any manner of things because
you've elevated this person to like the worst person that
ever walked the earth, responsible for tens of millions of
people's deaths. And so, now, what wouldn't you do to
prevent the next holocaust? What wouldn't you do to save
the lives of ten million people? Now? I would also
point out that they never play this game with Stalin.
They never play this game with Marx, Karl Marx, not
Richard like. But they never play this game with those figures.
It's always Hitler because to the left, Hitler is of
the right, even though he was a socialist national socialist.
And then they reject that too. Socialism has never really
been tried, you know. So that's the reason why they've
got this violence fetish that has been bubbling up and
has now rerupted. Whether it's you know, on college campuses,
whether it's you know, dousing people with gasoline because they're Jewish.
You know, whatever the rationale is they are murdering a
healthcare CEO in the middle of the street, doesn't matter.
They because they've given themselves permission to do these things
because you are so evil, and they are the determiners
of what is evil. They're not evil. Your evil. You
want to stop me from, you know, if I'm on
the left and you want to stop me from, you know,
pumping some thirteen year old with hormones and you know,
having them go through transition surgeries and stuff, and you
want to stop me from doing that, Well, that makes
you the evil person, right. They are always the hero
or the victim, never the villain. Never the villain. Kirk
wants to know what is it with dudes named Tony
who call your show? Oh, I don't know, I don't know,
and this is from you, I don't know who this
is from Steve. Tony's Trump derangement syndrome is so bad
that he has justified in his mind that it's okay
to pray for somebody to be killed. This has to
be a new level of low. I don't know what
Bible Tony reads, but it can't be the same one
that I read. He's so messed up that he can't
stand the thought that Trump could be saved and would
be in heaven with him. How backwards thinking is that
if he thinks Trump is that bad, instead of praying
that he comes to know the Lord instead, yeah, instead
of praying that he comes to know the Lord as
a savior, he's praying for him to be killed. I
don't care how you justified medical or not. That's wrong. Yeah. See,
Tony thought he was being clever by having this little
carve out. No, no, no, I'm not saying somebody needs to
do go do something to him. I'm just hoping that
God does it like That's That's not a carve out, Tony.
Doesn't work like that, doesn't work like that. John says,
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but mostly peaceful protest slash riots slash rallies scheduled for
around America. They are already underway. It's kind of a
staggered start, if you will. But like, for example, we
had one the other day right here in Charlotte. I
mean nobody really came, but still they had one. Yeah.
So East Charlotte resident Vincent Colb is interviewed by The
Charlotte Observer by Abby Pender, and Colb says his grandmother
crossed the border without documentation so illegally. She was an
illegal alien one hundred years ago, and her dream was
simple to not get caught. No, I'm kidding, it was
a better life for her children. That's the real immigrant
story of America, not the one that is being purposed
and propagandized by the current administration. See there you go.
That's what we call in rhetoric. That is a false dichotomy.
It is a false choice. I have more than two options, right,
your abuela story that she crossed just for a better life.
And then there are also some who cross for different
reasons like human trafficking, drug smuggling, set up operations across
the border to expand their criminal enterprise. There are different
reasons why people come. I don't have to pick between
whatever two choices you want me to choose from. So
Vincent joined about forty people. Forty there are tens of
us okay, outside of the Charlotte Mecklelberg Government Center on
Monday to rally against ice raids across the country and
President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. Yeah,
so we're to the reporter here, Abby Pender and all
reporters covering this story. When people go out and say
that they are protesting the ice raids, what they are
protesting is the enforcement of law. And honestly, it's not
that big of a surprise. These are the same people
that were protesting five years ago law enforcement officers. So
it's very much on brand to oppose enforcement of the law.
Right California, So I went over the details on the
California Attorney General Rob Bunta, who sued over the deployment
of the National Guard and they wanted an injunction to
stop it. They lost. That case will be heard tomorrow.
And there's another guy, the lead organizer for the Charlotte rally,
Jacob Plittman, lead organizer with SEIU thirty two BJ I
guess that's the chapter he said today. We are here
to show that this is not going to fly in
this country. It's not going to fly in the city
of Charlotte, and we demand that they stop the reids. Okay,
how about no pound sand buddy. Just because you demand
it doesn't mean it happens. Just because you say it
doesn't make it true. God, but I'm the SEIU. I
know you got a lot of sway in California look
at Los Angeles, but not so much here. Okay, just
because you don't want your roles to be depleted? Oh
did I mention that? Yeah? The unions, the SEIU, they
benefit greatly from illegal immigration. You know who else does?
The teachers Union. That may be why they are one
of the organizers of the Big Rise Up Day, the
nationwide Day of defiance slated for Saturday, a thousand protests.
They're calling for everybody to rise up and stand in
solidarity with Los Angeles. How about no on that one too.
The primary organizer has received millions of dollars from George Soros.
According to Corey DeAngelis, the Indivisible Project, I mentioned them
last hour. One of their representatives was quoted by the
Charlotte Observer as merely an activist, just an activist who
was at the legislature, but also was part of Democracy
Out Loud Indivisible. That's this. The Indivisible Project has received
millions of dollars from George Soros and Randy Winingarden, the
head of the AFT. The American Federation of Teachers just
held a town hall mobilizing protest with the Indivisible Director
executive director Lee Greenberg. So those are your connections the unions. Oh,
and the reason why the teachers' union relies on illegal
immigrants is because student enrollment. Yes, student enrollment figures are
inflated when you have more legal immigrants coming into the
country and sending their kids to the schools. That population
count increases the amount of teachers that have to be staffed.
That then increases the union's ability to extract money from
their paychecks. See look for the incentives. That's what I
was talking about earlier. Look for ideas try to get
at what is the idea and then look at the
incentive structure that exists for people to behave in certain
ways that benefit themselves. Plitman, one of the the SEIU
guy here in Charlotte, says the economy of the United
States does not function without immigrants, saying, Charlotte grocery stores,
airport operations, and cleaning services all rely on immigrant labor, right,
and that's illegal. That's illegal. They're not supposed to be.
Charlotte's growth, he says, is thanks to immigrant labor. He
called on local officials to better support immigrants and on
count community members to peacefully demonstrate. This is part of
the Rising Up Day of Action. It's set for Saturday,
the AFT they're calling it No King's Day. Yeah, okay,
it's so stupid. I swear like theater kids are governing us.
I am sick of it. I am not going to
be led by theater kids. And I say that as
a former theater kid myself, so I know them all right.
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Speaker 2: Hello Dave, Hey, Pete. Thanks you having a good afternoon.
Speaker 1: No, you know it's a fair to Midland. That's all right.
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you. Well, Hey, I got
the four to one one on Tony. Oh, I've been listening.
I've been listening to BT for twenty five years and
he he's a call in during Larsen's show. His name
is Sean. That's probably not his real name, but anyway.
Speaker 1: But he's a Sean too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Sean, and he used a couple of names
on on. But I know the voice he called in
so many times on Martians show.
Speaker 1: I know the way.
Speaker 2: It's the same guy. It's the same guy. He's just
if I can call him this. He's just a twarp.
I hope the SEC doesn't call you.
Speaker 1: No, No, you're fine. Twarp is totally allowed to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just a he's a twarp seminar caller. Yeah, no, anyway.
Speaker 1: I know I appreciate it. It look I like, I know
when somebody when I start engaging with him and he
starts saying the stuff he says, like, I know how
the call is going to go, And so all I
do is, you know, I let him. I let him
try to make his argument. Of course he doesn't, he's
incapable of doing so. But I do it because I
want people to hear Dave hung up. Thanks for the call, Dave,
I do it because I want people to hear. Because
I get messages from people that say, why do you
let him on? I hate him, he's terrible, he's an idiot, whatever.
You shouldn't waste time with him. But see, I want
to hear it. I want to hear what they're saying.
This is why I look at what they say on
social media. I read their publications, right, I want to
see all of the angles. I want to hear their arguments.
And that's why when people like Tony or Sean whatever
his name is, when he calls in and people you
know of that political philosophy call in, I am not
blindsided by their arguments. I already know what their argument is,
already know the weaknesses of their arguments. That's the point.
And I do that so this way, hopefully you hear
these arguments and the way I engage with the argument
and the person making it, and that equips you. That's
the point. That's what I like, seriously, and I have
never been shy about telling people like I do not
have those debates with Tony or Sean or whoever, like
I don't have those debates in order to convince him
that he is wrong I'm doing it for the other
people that are hearing the debate. Some people may get
something out of it. Oh that's a good argument. Oh
that's a good response. Oh Pete really screwed that one up.
He should have said this something else. Whatever. That's the
reason I do it, and that's the reason I try
to be as prepared as I can be after, you know,
only working three hours a day, as I am known
to do. Community members are calling on Charlotte Mecklenburg schools
to do more to protect immigrant students. Once again, Charlotte Observer,
this is reporter Rebecca Noel. It's not immigrant students, it's
illegal immigrant students. Illegal immigrant students because if they are
birthright citizenship kids, they were born in America. Well, they're
not immigrant students, they're Americans. So your headline groups ask
CMS permission to pass out immigration information. And then the
story begins that they want CMS to do more to
protect immigrant students after a parent was detained near a
school this month, like, oh, it's just some parent, right again.
This muddying of the truth journalisms students are doing it
is so destructive. This is why people don't trust you.
They go on to say a key point for multiple
public speakers at the recent Board of ED meeting is
that CMS is the only school district of the twenty
largest in the nation that prohibits community organizations from giving
out know your Rights information to families. That's according to
an analysis by Amy Hawn Nelson, an education researcher at
the University of Pennsylvania who lives in Charlotte. That's a
nice gig, I guess. The information typically tells people, regardless
of immigration status, how to exercise their rights, particularly when
interacting with law enforcement and immigration officials. Parents and community organizers,
of course, said they've been prohibited from distributing information about
people's immigration rights. Organizers said the district claim the materials
provided legal guidance and therefore violated policy. Yeah that you're
not allowed to provide legal guidance because you're not a lawyer.
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