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your support. Last hour, we talked about leftist violence, how
it is escalating, and how the Democrats and the liberals
inside the Democrat Party are unable and unwilling to simply
call it out for what it is, to say it
is unacceptable, and to end their statement at that. They
cannot do it. I believe it is indicative of an
underlying belief that actually violence is okay when we do it.
Sometimes it's the language of the oppressed or something. Remember
like we all saw what happened in Trump's first term,
whether there was the BLM riots or it was the
vandalism and the attacks and the fire bombings of cars
in DC at the inauguration. It started immediately right. The
left cannot handle being out of control. This is a symptom.
It's a symptom of something else larger in the society.
Here's another example of it. Played in the last hour,
a clip of Charlie Cook, National Review writer and Meghan
Kelly played a clip from former vice presidential candidate Tim
Walls appearing on the podcast hosted by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: You got to respect people you disagree with, even you
can't just dismiss that's Gavin Well this most of their
ass I do that.
Speaker 1: I know if you wrong, but.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we're going to fall into that
place where we want to Okay, we challenge you to
a do you know, a wwe fight here type of thing.
Speaker 2: It is, it's a natural reaction. I think it's one
of the reasons we're losing so many men. And again
it's multi ethnic. It's not just white men we're losing them.
We're losing them to these guys online. That's why these
are bad guys though. These are the guys. But they exist,
and we could deny the exist. They exist. Not only
they exist, they persist, and they're actually influencing young kids
every single way.
Speaker 1: Some of those guys back under a Rock.
Speaker 2: I think we have to first understand what their motivations are.
I think we have to understand what they're actually doing.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's a racism and misogyny. Okay.
So that's Tim Walls, the standard bearer, the vice president
of candidate, the guy who supposed to be the avatar
for masculinity, for what a real man was. He was
gonna win over men in rural areas. Remember that was
the whole thing, and then they launched this whole thing
like oh jd Vance is weird and everybody's like, wait,
you're weird. So that's Tim Walls. Notice what he says
at the very beginning there. He talks about there because
Newsom is trying to get him to discuss why the
Democrats are not doing well with men, and they're not.
They've lost across all the demographic cohorts for men. They're
losing more and more male support. And Newsom is at
least trying to figure out, what do we need to
do differently to try to win some of these dudes back?
And Tim Wall says I could probably kick their butts.
He didn't say butts, right, Wouldn't that be toxic masculinity.
Here's Charlie Cook's response. I thought he brilliantly gutted Waltz
in his schizophrenic rhetoric. Here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it will never cease to be weird that having
put together a ticket that consisted of Kamala Harris and
Tim Walls, the Democrats went on a two week offensive
where they described verbatim jd Vance as being weird. Tim
Walls is one of the most weird people I've ever
seen in politics. I've lived in two countries, I've spent
some time in a third, France, which is well known
for having strange politicians, and Tim Walls may well take
the cake. He also can't decide there, which I think
is genuinely interesting whether or not he wishes to condemn
what he sees as toxic masculine men or emulate them.
It's an odd thing to do to say we need
to put them under the rock. They're bad people. Those
sort of men have no place effectively in our politics.
But to start the segment saying I'm going to kick
their ass, because the vast majority of the people he's
talking about.
Speaker 1: Would not say that. Now, if you threaten.
Speaker 4: Their girlfriend, they'll tell you. They'll kick your ass. But
they wouldn't start with that, it wouldn't be the opening gambit.
So he seems somewhat confused as to whether he wants
to eradicate them or to become them.
Speaker 1: Right, this is the problem the Democrats have. They want
to talk tough, but they are also condemning the very
thing that they are themselves doing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Later on in that podcast with Newsom and Walls, Newsom
said that the Democrats have to work on not conflating
masculinity with toxicity. They're not the same things, and Walls
replies to him, I think I scare them a little
bit because I can fix a truck. Once again, this
is like he's he's trying to intimidate or to flex
at conservative dudes or something. I can beat you up,
I can fix your truck. I can fix my truck.
And that's what that's what they're really scared of. Right,
So he's a tough guy, but also tough guys suck, right, Like, dude,
make up your mind here, okay, make up your mind.
This is the same double standard applied with the violence.
It's the same thing comes from the same place. Let
me go over to the phones and get a couple
of calls on before the break, We go to Ed first. Hello, Ed,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Yeah today, Hey, I'm good.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Thank you? All right? Thank you? You will be response
to you about Elon Musk and the violence that haspening
me cancer the vehicles. Yeah, and you talked about where
people are not happy for this division, they resort to violence,
and that's just American as we know. First of all,
Elon Musk is not an elected officiate.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Excuse me, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about decisions on American policy.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: No, so, Ed, is it or is it not acceptable
to fire bomb car dealership?
Speaker 3: Right? It's totally wrong. Okay, Okay. The next thing is
the ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent in
America that still exists. And I don't hear anybody say
anything about their violence.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Do you need me to tell you that
the clan sucks too? I'm happy to tell you that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Please, I need to hear you say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just did I know it is a difference. Hang
on there, it is a default position among I would
submit probably north of ninety percent, probably ninety nine percent
of Americans that the Klan is terrible, that nobody wants
to be a part of the plan. That's a default position.
That is not a default position on political violence.
Speaker 3: Though. So when the Klan did their violence against people,
because the decision was made at their weren't happy with,
I didn't see an outrage going against them. They still existed.
Speaker 1: To me talking about why do you you know the
Notre Dame basket of the school, the Notre Dame College,
right they they're called the fighting Irish, right you know why?
Speaker 3: I have no idea?
Speaker 1: Okay, because the Irish took up arms against the Klan
when they showed up in their town. Okay, So the
idea that the Klan was never pushed back on is
not true. They were.
Speaker 3: And that's great, and I'm glad I just learned something new, Toy.
But I'm talking about gentlemen like yourself talk radio in
our American government not pushed back against an organization that's
been around for years and continues to be around for
years that was violent violin based I.
Speaker 1: What do you want? What do you want people like
me and people in the government, what do you want
them to say? Specifically?
Speaker 3: Well, we got. We first have to understand that a
country is violent. So we don't like a decision, what
do we do? We resort to violence. That's America. So
it's only going to happen that people are going to
start doing it against our government because they're not happy
with a decision. And what's happening in Elon Musk and
Tesla is totally wrong. When you mentioned I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, what's the butt Also when you do
violence against our capital and then it is see this
is my problem, ed, This is the problem is that
you can't just say that the violence is unacceptable, end
of sentence. You're trying to conflate it and equate it
and play this what about January sixth game? And it
doesn't matter because I have said it. No, because I
have said it. I have said that about the January
sixth riot from the get go, from the day it happened.
So what exactly do you want? What is it you're
demanding in order to just simply say call out the
lefties for attacking the dealerships and that's it, and then
we just agree that that's it, that's unacceptable. Why why
do you have the need to then try to ask
me about the Klan, asked me about Jay six, asking
me about these other things. You're trying to deflect away
from this thing because it sounds like.
Speaker 3: Said again, what they're doing with Tesler is wrong. That's violence.
But that's what we know that I reread than us
when we're not happy with a decision.
Speaker 1: That's not true. That's not true. No, that's not true.
Speaker 3: I just gave you to examples.
Speaker 1: Of January sixth. So, okay, so you said anytime we
don't like something the government does.
Speaker 3: It's not any time. Okay, Well, that's what you say,
and we know that sometime we roll with it and
sometime we don't.
Speaker 1: America, so the pro yes and the vast majority of
the time the people roll with it. You know how
long pro life activists wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. Fifty
something years. They protested that fifty years, and they worked
their way through the courts in order to get it done.
That's so. So it's not always yes.
Speaker 3: It does. Some some things do take a long time.
Speaker 1: About all the riots after Obamacare, any riots after Obamacare
got pushed down on us? No, No, there were no.
There were tea party protests, there were demonstrations. There were
no riots, there was no violence. People didn't fire bomb
the you know, the Department of Health and Human Services.
People didn't do that.
Speaker 3: Well, they fire bombs a lot of bushing clinics and
things of that nature.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric Robert Rual did.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, also right, you have a lot of violence
that goes on in America. We can't pick and choose
where we're not happy about a party that doesn't get
their way. They decision.
Speaker 1: I agree, that's and that's what I've been saying, is
you don't get to commit the political violence.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: The difference is the difference is is that when it
happens with J six, we get all of the people
on the left coming forward and you know, round them
all up through everybody in jail. They're all guilty. Right.
There's this mass push through the institutions, through the media
to tell us that this is wrong and that's it,
and they demand that we disavowed. They demand that we say,
just as you just did to me, that I am
on your side. And with this, with this, we get
jokes and we get people up there excusing it. Well,
you know, people are upset about these decisions. I don't
care if you're upset about the decision, that doesn't matter
to me, because it doesn't because it didn't matter to
me on any of the other decisions that it went
the opposite way. You don't have people bombing courthouses right
now because of all of the temporary restraining orders that
are being issued against the Trump administration. You don't see
violence up there right exactly, right, So let ith yeah, no,
go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 3: No. I was just saying that in America we have
Republican and Democrats, all right, we just have to stop
and then make when something is wrong for the parties,
and that's what's corrupting our American government that Democrats can
admit when something is wrong and Republicans will not admit
when something is wrong, like pardoning January sixth people that
did things against our law enforcement people.
Speaker 5: That's wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't agree with the parties for the violent offenders.
Speaker 3: Exactly, but again, totally wrong. But we have to admit
that Republicans won't admit it that it was wrong. That
was wrong, Bill and violence when they start fire bombing
and burning cars, that is wrong. The protests, the peaceful protests,
because what happened to the individuals by the police are good.
But once you invoke violence, burning this and looting and
all that, we have to say it is wrong. In
our American government, we would sit up there and make
excuses and give it a million reasons why something is wrong.
But we're going to keep telling.
Speaker 1: You how right, all right, and I gotta run. I
appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, man'na keep listening.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, No, it's fair. I agree
with you that all of the violence, all political violence,
is to be shunned. I completely agree, is to be disavowed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, how you doing it there?
Speaker 1: I'm well, how are you right?
Speaker 5: Pretty good?
Speaker 3: Pretty good?
Speaker 5: You know, I was listening to the last caller a
couple of minutes ago, and listen you talking about America.
Speaker 1: And balance, right, I mean generally, I guess sure.
Speaker 5: Right, right? America is the most violent country in the world.
I mean, that's how America gains its power is through violence. Okay,
So why would you think that it would be such
a I guess, a out of character thing for that
to be taking place within these boundaries, within these borders.
Speaker 1: Did I say that it's out of character at any point?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: That's the way you described it.
Speaker 1: No, I said, no, I said it should be No,
I said, I said people should not accept Brian, Brian,
I said people should not accept political violence.
Speaker 5: People shouldn't accept political viole. How do you think America
got his power?
Speaker 1: Should we accept political violence?
Speaker 5: Brian, Yes, we should.
Speaker 1: There you go. Thank you very much. I appreciate the call, Brian,
proving my point.
Speaker 5: I do not.
Speaker 1: I do not accept political violence. I reject the idea
that we should do. You have a different opinion. And
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on the left, such as yourself, Brian, you're okay with
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from Russ, who says, if Gavin Newsom is trying to
position himself as a reasonable option for a presidential run,
he really needs to stop having fellow Democrats like Tim
Waltz on who can't hold back the crazy. I don't know.
Maybe he looks better by comparison, Maybe that's the play,
or maybe he just wants to be a podcaster after
he's done being governor. I don't know. Jeff says, I
wonder how all of these fools would feel if all
of us with the guns acted the same way towards them. Yeah. Now,
so again, this is the rise in the political violence
we are seeing is a symptom. It's a symptom of
a larger phenomenon. I'm gonna explain this or the theory
behind this, but first New York Times they send out
their morning updates or whatever. And in Wisconsin, where Democrats
have turned Elon Musk, the billionaire, into the main villain
in a high stakes Supreme Court race, turns out it
sounds a little crude. Governor Tim Wall's Democrat of Minnesota
was an uh claire for a town I think that's
how they pronounced that, for a town hall style event
intended to rive up Democrats about the race, which could
determine the ideological balance of the state's top court. Groups
backed by Musk have poured millions of dollars into the
race on behalf of the conservative candidate Brad Schimmel. Democrats
are now framing the contest as the people versus Musk,
see because he's a criminal, get it. Wolves began is
on stage appearance by saying that name calling does not work,
and then he called Musk a dipstick, but he didn't
say stick, because that's how you appeal to the rural voters, Right,
that's what the Democrat party chair in North care Or
Alina says, or seems to think she's gonna win back
all those all those rural Republican voters y'all by saying
y'all and cussin. Right, That's that's the strategy. Apparently, don't
blame me for the strategy if you think it's a
terrible strategy. Later on, he called Elon Musk an unelected
South African nepo baby, which is a nepotism baby. So
in other words, he didn't make any of the money himself.
He didn't earn it himself, which is that's like so
divorced from reality. But and the crowd roared in approval
when it called him an unelected South African because Musk
was in fact born in South Africa. But he has
been a US citizen for more than two decades, so
he's an immigrant. So now we're gonna what send everybody back,
all the immigrants back or something. Representative Idea Vallesquez of
New York said Musk should quote go back to South Africa,
and then at a different protest, representative Don Bayer of
Virginia said, We're gonna send Elon back to South Africa. Okay,
So let me get this straight. We're gonna deport Elon Musk,
but not Trendy Arragua. Okay. That's how that's the position
the Democrats are taking here. Also, this immigration stuff, it
ties into the phenomena that I just mentioned that we're
also with the rise of political violence. They go hand
in hand, and I will explain this in the third hour.
I will explain it, but I'm laying the foundation here.
This from ICE, the office out of Atlanta, which has
jurisdictional control over the Charlotte area. We are in the
Atlanta region. They put out a press statement saying that
ICE apprehended twenty four legal aliens in Charlotte during an
enhanced targeted enforcement operation. This operation ran from March first
through March eighth, So for one week they made twenty
four arrests. The people they picked up had the following
charges thirteen aggravated felonies or other violent offenses, three illegal
firearms or weapons offenses, two were MS, thirteen gang member affiliates,
one for assault on a federal officer, five for property crimes,
and eleven on DWI charges. Of these criminal aliens, the
twenty four that were picked up, six of them had
active immigration detainers, which the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office, under
the leadership of Gary not my fault McFadden, refused to honor.
So six of these people were back out on the
streets because our sheriff refused used to give a heads
up to ICE when they had them in the jail
and they were about to be let go. The detainer
requests specifically, I've gone over this many times. The detainer
request specifically asks for a call to ICE from the
sheriff within forty eight hours of an impending release of
an illegal alien that had the detainer request on them.
And McFadden does not believe he needs to follow this law.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 1: This ignoring of the law. This is essentially a nullification play.
That's what he's doing. Nullification that's going to become important
in the third hour. Nullification. It's one of the key aspects.
Also along with the political violence increasing the idea of nullification.
ICE has been unable to locate eighteen additional targeted aliens
who are still at large, who also had detainers that
were not honored. So because of the nullification practices of
our sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden. Not only do
we see the state legislature looking to close a loophole
that he is exploiting in order to advance his nullification policy,
which I still think we should call it Gary's law,
we also have eighteen people that had detainers on them
that were released back out onto the street, and God
only knows what charges those guys had. They remain at large.
They pose a potential danger to the community. ICE says
these aliens could have been safely and deficiently transferred into
ICE custody if their detainers had been honored. Right, because
it occurs at the jail. You already have the person
in custody, you've got them in handcuffs, and you could
just have them, you know, do the paperwork. And you
just transfer them right over and send them to a
different facility. But because our sheriff refuses to honor the
detainers and refuses to cooperate with ICE by telling them, hey,
we're about to let this guy out come get him.
He posted bail, he's leaving in forty eight hours. And
because our sheriff refuses to do that, because he doesn't believe,
according to his own statement that he put out. His
own press shop put out a statement saying deportation is
not the solution. He disagrees with deportation, and that's why
we are where we are. And then there's this bit
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Speaker 6: Hello, Bruce, hey p, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 6: I agree with most everything you say. I just have
one exception today with I don't like the comparison of
J six defenders being in the same basket as those
people who are burning tailts of cars and burning down
charging stations and committing the acts of violence they do.
I believe most of the J six defenders, most of
them did not commit any act of.
Speaker 1: Violence, right, I didn't lump them all together. Okay, No,
I specifically said the violent offenders on J six, the
J six okay, yeah, the violence anybody. Yeah, yeah, because
there are people that walked in and did nothing. There
are people that that did absolutely no violence whatsoever. They
were invited into the capitol. I agree. But then there
are people that you know, picked up weapons and bashed
the heads of capitol police, like that's not acceptable.
Speaker 6: Yes, and I agree, but I also I'm also concerned.
It's a very complicated issue. But there were a lot
of FBI assets in that crowd, MAGA supporters, and I
would like to get to the bottom of the people
who did commit acts of violence. Were they actually organically
involved people who were there to protest, or were they
FBI assets that were put in there to agitate the crowd.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were both. I'm sure there are both. Yeah.
I mean there were so many people, right, I mean
how many arrests and charge people charged were there? I
mean it was over a thousand, right, There were so
many people. Now, and so that's why I don't have
any problem doing the pardons for the non violent J sixers,
no problem whatsoever. That's I think completely appropriate because of
the very reason now, the ones who were charged and
convicted on the violent ones, I would have preferred that
the White House go through those cases individually. That's what
I would have with you.
Speaker 6: I agree with you on that, But but I don't
think it's a mal equivalent.
Speaker 1: No, I I no. I mean I think if somebody
is going up and you know, breaking through the window
of the Capitol building in order to go in and
commit vandalism, I think that is very on par with
people busting out windows and keying up Tesla's.
Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, I would agree with you. Yeah, I'm just
meant in the general scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, it's just like you know, people who
go out and stand in front of a Tesla dealership
and and chant and protest and march around. That would
be the equivalent of the people the non violent people
at J six in my opinion, right right, And that's fine.
You can demonstrate. And a lot of the people that
were walked that walked into the Capitol, they were they
were waved in by Capitol police, so they had no
idea what they were doing was it was illegal, so
they shouldn't have been charged with anything. So that's what
I mean They're like, there's a conflation going on with
all of the violent defenders and all of the non
violent offenders on J six. That's not appropriate in my mind.
Speaker 6: Well, Pete, I appreciate you, sir for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, absolutely, yes, sir, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Bers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is the problem. I remember when I
first started hosting, the left would always talk about, oh,
you know, you were right wingers are always about black
and white, never shades of gray and all this. But I,
in fact do explore the shades of gray right, all
fifty of them from what I understand there. I think
there are fifty. That there was a book or something
about it. I have not read it, but that's my understanding.
So I explore the nuance because, like, these issues are complex.
Not everybody that was at the Capitol engaged in bad behavior,
but I don't think the ones that did engage in
the bad behavior, however many that was two, three dozen, whatever,
I don't think those people should have gotten off the hook.
Because the non violent people's cases, their charges were so egregious,
and if they could go through the all of the
cases of the you know, the violent ones and find out, okay,
did you take these plea deals? Did you get overcharged
and you get threatened and such to take the deals?
But you were still claiming innocence and that like was
the process corrupted? So that would have given you the
opportunity to explore that and then root out that injustice.
But they didn't do that. They just pardoned everybody. All right,
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