Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the great American. Scott Powell, one of my
Speaker 1: frequent guests, makes so much sense. I like to get
Speaker 1: them all as much as I can. And of course
Speaker 1: his views are expressed on townhall dot com. Tariffs, tariffs
Speaker 1: and more tariffs. The headline of his story protesters are
Speaker 1: wrong and whether it's doge and tariffs and law and
Speaker 1: orders should be applauded. And Scott Powell, welcome again to
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, you begin
Speaker 1: your colum by talking about.
Speaker 2: The honeymoon period.
Speaker 1: Every president has one hundred day honeymoon period lasting until
Speaker 1: around around April fifteenth. Has Donald Trump been given a
Speaker 1: honeymoon by the mainstream media, by the Democratic Party, by
Speaker 1: those in control of the major newspapers. What happened to
Speaker 1: the honeymoon? Hell no, he has no honeymoon. Let's get
Speaker 1: right to the fight.
Speaker 3: No, there's no honeymoon, honey moon, as they said, you know,
Speaker 3: going back tough. You know his first election. You know,
Speaker 3: the knives were already being drawn even before inauguration in
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. You know, we had the Russia Russian hoax issue.
Speaker 3: But this time the guns are drawn. I mean he's
Speaker 3: had assassination attempts on his life before the election on
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 4: So, honeymoon, are you kidding?
Speaker 3: They want And now this is a really sad moment
Speaker 3: in American history where one of the major parties, that's
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party.
Speaker 4: It is still it's not as it's not.
Speaker 3: The party it was, but it's still the second major
Speaker 3: party in America. Polls show that fifty five percent of
Speaker 3: Democrats which support the elimination of Donald Trump, the killing,
Speaker 3: the assassination of Donald Trump. That is a very very
Speaker 3: sad commentary on the current state of America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty five percent won him killed. And then there's
Speaker 1: forty eight percent they say they want Elon Musk killed,
Speaker 1: they want him murdered, they want a bullet in his head.
Speaker 1: And that's that's not some fringe element. That's not the
Speaker 1: John Birch Society or the Communist Party. These are These
Speaker 1: are Democrats, registered Democrats who say it would be justified
Speaker 1: for someone to kill the president of the United States.
Speaker 1: And it isn't that like a big if I'm CBS
Speaker 1: Evening News when they don't cover these, I would say,
Speaker 1: look at this, that fifty five percent of the of
Speaker 1: the Democrats.
Speaker 2: When Donald Trump eliminated? What does that mean? Eliminated?
Speaker 1: That means shot. That's the Democratic Party. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how we how we get over it? And then
Speaker 1: how do you work with someone that you want to kill?
Speaker 1: And I watched Chuck Schumer walk around the Senate being
Speaker 1: asked questions Elon Musk about the violence committed against against
Speaker 1: Tesla and he he can't answer the question because indirectly
Speaker 1: he's the one that called for the for the I
Speaker 1: won't say the killing, but maybe the assassination of two
Speaker 1: US Supreme Court justices in front of the building. Then
Speaker 1: a few weeks later, an assassin picked up that idea,
Speaker 1: traveled to Brett Kavanaugh's home to try to kill him.
Speaker 1: And it just it just was found guilty the assassin.
Speaker 1: And I'm living in this world thinking Scotto, this cannot
Speaker 1: continue like this. Someone's got to reform their behavior before
Speaker 1: it's too late. In fact, Trump's been shot, but nonetheless
Speaker 1: Democrats won him eliminated.
Speaker 2: What does eliminated mean?
Speaker 3: What means just as you described it, It means the uh,
Speaker 3: the killing, the assassinations of a human being.
Speaker 4: First and foremost, you know, we we.
Speaker 3: America was celebrated as as a country that would be different,
Speaker 3: as a country that would have a system of transition
Speaker 3: of government that would be done peacefully and respectfully, and
Speaker 3: that you know that the people would be sovereign. The
Speaker 3: people would choose their who would govern, and then those
Speaker 3: who would those who would govern, would be allowed to govern.
Speaker 4: And if they did a good job.
Speaker 3: And life improved in America, chances are they would re
Speaker 3: elect those people. That's how the system is supposed to work.
Speaker 3: It's not supposed to work that we have an election
Speaker 3: and then we sabotage the government, because then we have
Speaker 3: no mechanism for understanding what works and what doesn't work.
Speaker 3: It's thuggery. Thuggery works. That's always worked in the Third World.
Speaker 3: Do we want the United States to become a third
Speaker 3: World country? Well, we're well on our way.
Speaker 2: I look at this.
Speaker 1: I look at Brian Thompson, his CEO of United Healthcare
Speaker 1: last Decemmer, being hunted down by Luigi Maggioni and being
Speaker 1: there's over a million dollars. I guess mainly Democrats have
Speaker 1: contributed to his defense fund. The majority of Democrats believe
Speaker 1: that the murder of a father and a husband in
Speaker 1: cold blood on the streets of New York City is
Speaker 1: justified because he works. And the CEO of United Healthcare
Speaker 1: that is justified too. And I'm thinking, if I'm a
Speaker 1: CEO of a company, the cost of protecting me, it's
Speaker 1: not worth it.
Speaker 2: What does this say about America?
Speaker 1: When the opposition party, the loyal Opposition, not only wants
Speaker 1: to eliminate the president and Elon Musk, they also support
Speaker 1: the assassination for political purposes of Brian Thompson.
Speaker 2: What does that say?
Speaker 4: Well, it's very it's really sad.
Speaker 3: You know, politics is really downstream of the culture, and
Speaker 3: culture is downstream of the spiritual orientation of the country.
Speaker 3: And you know, before we could win the War of
Speaker 3: Independence from Great Britain, we had to have a spiritual revival.
Speaker 3: That was the Great Awakening. Before the Civil War we
Speaker 3: had a second Great Awakening. We need a spiritual revival
Speaker 3: in this country because our culture has gone to hell
Speaker 3: and now our political system has gone to hell. Well,
Speaker 3: it would be helpful we the restoration of good things, right,
Speaker 3: you know, what do you look for in culture? In
Speaker 3: a cultural renaissance, you'd expect to see a flourishing of
Speaker 3: things that are beautiful things that are edifying. You'd expect
Speaker 3: to hear more great music where we right now. Music
Speaker 3: is dark, art really is darker, and there seems to
Speaker 3: be no course correction. The course correction will come when
Speaker 3: American people recognize that when you drive God out of
Speaker 3: your culture, it creates a vacuum that gets filled with
Speaker 3: evil spiritual influence.
Speaker 2: It would be helpful.
Speaker 4: In spades.
Speaker 1: It'd be very helpful if the leaders of the Liberal
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, from the Obamas to the Clintons to the
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosis and the Chuck Schumers stand up is one
Speaker 1: and saying political violence against those who we disagree with
Speaker 1: must stop immediately, instead of saying that they implicitly allow
Speaker 1: it and encourage it. And I look at some of
Speaker 1: the funding of these radical gris groups, these hands off
Speaker 1: groups who just pop up in a thousand cities all
Speaker 1: over America, and your column talks about this. How are
Speaker 1: these so called hands off groups, how are they funded?
Speaker 1: How does it happen? First of all, my question is this,
Speaker 1: I would like to think political leadership would stand up
Speaker 1: and say we can't have a country and which the
Speaker 1: majority of my party wants the opposition leader to be eliminated.
Speaker 2: We can't do that. But they won't do that.
Speaker 1: Why won't the leader of the Democrats say this is wrong,
Speaker 1: don't do it, don't attack dealerships, don't scratch the sides
Speaker 1: of tesla's, don't advocate for the assassination of the president.
Speaker 1: We don't want them eliminate it. We want to challenge
Speaker 1: them on the battlefield of ideas and win. Why don't
Speaker 1: the Democratic leaders tell its flock don't do this.
Speaker 3: Well, the answer to your question, Bill is they know
Speaker 3: they can't win legitimacy. Legitimately their ideas, the platform of
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party is so far left, so destructive.
Speaker 4: You know, to most Americans that they can't win.
Speaker 3: They're in a party of severe decline, and they're like
Speaker 3: cornered rats that all they can do is conduct themselves
Speaker 3: in this way. And it's very very sad. But so
Speaker 3: we need a tough Supreme Court. We've had five victories
Speaker 3: in the Supreme Court in the last ten days or so.
Speaker 4: Amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Where the Supreme Court has come out and defended the
Speaker 3: position of Donald Trump to be the president and to
Speaker 3: exercise is executive not just privilege, but his executive authority
Speaker 3: the president is given authority by the constitution because it's
Speaker 3: essential that we have a powerful commander in chief not
Speaker 3: only in military affairs, but also in other security matters.
Speaker 3: And for any judge to try to subvert Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: you know, deporting of not just the illegal aliens, but
Speaker 3: the worst elements. The trend of dog Guang Doagua terrorists.
Speaker 3: These people they need to be They need to be
Speaker 3: removed as quickly as possible. Why is there a judge
Speaker 3: that would block that and say, oh, oh, I'm giving
Speaker 3: an order to turn the plane around and bring them
Speaker 3: back to America.
Speaker 1: Can't happen. Let's talk about the funding. You have a
Speaker 1: great part of your column Scott Powell and townhall dot
Speaker 1: com about funding these protests. Explain how much money they're
Speaker 1: paid and what the purpose is the hands off protests
Speaker 1: that are going to happen every month, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: because this is astro turf, their protesters are paid and
Speaker 1: they're out there protesting, and the media covers it as
Speaker 1: if everage middle class people just on their own come
Speaker 1: out of their homes, their apartments, their condos, their trailer parks,
Speaker 1: they just kind of leave their work and just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden show up together and start protesting. Is
Speaker 1: that the way it works?
Speaker 4: I just want to pray it hasn't.
Speaker 3: It hasn't worked that way for a long time. We're
Speaker 3: just finally waking up to it. And I would just say,
Speaker 3: you know, fool me one, shame on me, but fool
Speaker 3: me twice, shame on you. You know, the hands Off protest,
Speaker 3: which runs under monikers such as the teslaa takedown or
Speaker 3: ending the billionaire power Grab. Look, the billionaire poor grab
Speaker 3: is more more on the left than the right.
Speaker 4: Now, that's where the money is.
Speaker 3: It's in the high tech industry that tends to support
Speaker 3: the Democrat agenda. But this is anything but a grassroots
Speaker 3: movement or it's spontaneous. You know, many progresses are protests
Speaker 3: are paid in as much as three hundred dollars a day,
Speaker 3: and then there's funding from one hundred and more.
Speaker 4: Than one hundred and seventy five NGOs.
Speaker 3: The real number was I think one hundred and eighty nine,
Speaker 3: but since you can't really verify it, I just said
Speaker 3: we'll give a number a little less than that, you know,
Speaker 3: and the different protest groups involved in the hands offf
Speaker 3: protesting hands Off Protest campaign. You know, they've been assisted
Speaker 3: and coordinated by an organization known as Indivisible that has
Speaker 3: received millions of dollars from George Soros's Open Society Foundation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So here we have Soros funding das and the campaigns
Speaker 3: of federal judges and getting them, you know, get getting
Speaker 3: getting them into office, and then running the street gangs too.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is my gosh.
Speaker 1: I tell you, I don't know, and you have a
Speaker 1: great part of your column about the organization.
Speaker 2: What are the goals? I like to know. What is
Speaker 2: the goal? It's the goal to have more bankruptcies? Is
Speaker 2: the goal? To have more illegal aliens? Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: I often say every now and then I might taken
Speaker 1: issue with a thing or two that Donald Trump has done,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, well, that's.
Speaker 2: Not quite right. But the bull goat is great.
Speaker 1: But I'm thinking, what if the shoe was on the
Speaker 1: other foot and about five hundred thousand votes changed hands,
Speaker 1: and that Kamala Harris was in the presidency right now,
Speaker 1: and that Tim Waltz was the vice president right now?
Speaker 1: What would the southern border look like right now? Using
Speaker 1: the same laws available to Joe Biden. The southern border
Speaker 1: is closed in fact, we're now getting it's going to
Speaker 1: take two or three years to get all them out
Speaker 1: of here. But none of the los us that we
Speaker 1: were told by the Democrats and the media that the
Speaker 1: only way to fix the southern border was to pass
Speaker 1: all these brand new laws that called for the hiring
Speaker 1: of ten thousand more federal employees, including the fact that
Speaker 1: everyone in the country could stay here and wait for
Speaker 1: their hearing to be held. There was going to be
Speaker 1: two thousand more administrative law judges. They have hearings on
Speaker 1: each individual. This would stretch out for five to ten years.
Speaker 1: We found out the laws in effect when Biden was
Speaker 1: the president have been sufficient when used correctly by Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And the media doesn't cover that at all.
Speaker 4: Of course not the media is full of useful idiots,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Lenin called Lenin called the people, you know, the average
Speaker 3: people that get mobilized for these demonstrations, and of course
Speaker 3: these are media events.
Speaker 4: Remember this is terrorism is a media event.
Speaker 3: Do you know that that the terrorists win not because
Speaker 3: of the killings that they do, but because of their effect.
Speaker 4: On the media globally.
Speaker 3: So, you know, our biggest challenges Americans is this normalcy
Speaker 3: bias that we all have, you know, we all, especially
Speaker 3: as adults, we.
Speaker 4: Have long memories of the way it used to be.
Speaker 3: And this is America, and this couldn't possibly be happening
Speaker 3: in America. We have this normalcy bias that prevents us
Speaker 3: from seeing the leadership of the left, the Democrat Party
Speaker 3: for what it is. These are destroyers. These people want
Speaker 3: America totally restructured. They want us merged into some new
Speaker 3: global order. They want a pure democracy, not a constitutional republic.
Speaker 3: And you know, the founding fathers were scared to death
Speaker 3: of a pure democracy. Why because it always devolves to
Speaker 3: a mobocracy. Can't we see this now that we have
Speaker 3: a mobocracy running America on the.
Speaker 4: Street, this is a color This is.
Speaker 3: A color revolution in America to prevent Donald Trump, the
Speaker 3: elected president, from being able to carry out what the
Speaker 3: people wanted.
Speaker 4: So we'll have a color revolution.
Speaker 3: Will will obstruct through through law, there will obstruct through demonstrations,
Speaker 3: will obstruct through assassination threats.
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of people get intimidated.
Speaker 3: I think Amy Colly, Barrett and maybe Brett Kavanaugh, they
Speaker 3: they backed down from being tough because they were afraid.
Speaker 2: It does a democratic America that.
Speaker 5: That that we knew in our childhood and we've got
Speaker 5: to corrected sky about minute remaining. But a Democratic activist
Speaker 5: compelled indirectly by Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats
Speaker 5: in the Senate, hunted down at the home of Brett
Speaker 5: Kavanaugh to kill him and his family.
Speaker 1: And that wasn't a major deal. And in fact, the
Speaker 1: guy just was found guilty about a week ago.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows about it.
Speaker 1: Lastly, on the teriff issue, if tariffs are so wrong,
Speaker 1: how come every country in the world has them except us?
Speaker 2: If those are wrong?
Speaker 1: And secondly, if Americans pay for the tariffs, why would
Speaker 1: these other countries care. The fact is the tariffs are
Speaker 1: born by lots of parties along the way. But tariffs work,
Speaker 1: That's why other countries use them. And secondly, Americans don't
Speaker 1: pay completely for the tariffs. If they did, the other
Speaker 1: countries wouldn't care. If the Americans paid for the tariffs,
Speaker 1: why would Canadians care? Well, have any tariff you want
Speaker 1: the American consumer pays, right, The answer is no, tariffs
Speaker 1: work and Americans pay a small part. In fact, inflation
Speaker 1: has gone down in the month of February and go
Speaker 1: down on the month of March. And that will not
Speaker 1: be reported. But Scott Powell, we got to run once again.
Speaker 1: I love your term the mobocracy, and that the media
Speaker 1: covers the mobocracy as if that's the bow. It's the
Speaker 1: soul of the American people, just unilaterly arising. Ser it's
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden to go out there in protest,
Speaker 1: when in fact it's paid for because the mob rules,
Speaker 1: because the George Floyd riots, because the hands off these
Speaker 1: useful idiots of march around because they're paid. Well, Scott Powell,
Speaker 1: you got me all urinated off right now. So I
Speaker 1: got to go. But uh but once again, uh, somehow
Speaker 1: sanity must rule, and somehow Donald Trump must.
Speaker 2: Bill out to be you.
Speaker 4: Bill, you are you.
Speaker 3: You are a great voice of sanity in this country.
Speaker 3: And I just say, keep it up, man, don't give up.
Speaker 3: Don't retire on us. Bill, No, I'm too young to retire.
Speaker 3: I got I got too much, I got too much vision,
Speaker 3: I got a voice, and damn I'm gonna keep talking.
Speaker 3: Scott Powell, You're a great American and thanks for coming
Speaker 3: on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Scott. Than as Americans, we can't let the
Speaker 1: mobocracy rule. It works with George Floyd Riots. Is it
Speaker 1: going to work again? Bill Cunningham on seven hundred w
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