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from the specifics of what we were discussing in the last
two hours. Wasn't planning on doing two hours, but you know,
when the calls come, as they did, you go with it.
You take the layup, as I was instructed a long
time ago by a former program director, and it's good
advice some days. Just take the layup. So anyway, the
North Carolina legislature is now they've got hundreds of bills
that have been filed and the deadline I think is
today for them to fileow all of the bills and
then they'll you know, work them through committees and everything else.
One of the bills was Senate Bill five sixteen, which
is a new push for protecting women's bathrooms and locker
rooms and such, and so we covered that in the
last two hours. But in response to that filing, Okay,
want to highlight a couple of comments from from the
chair of the North Carolina Democrat Party. Anderson Clayton is
her name, and this is the young wiz kid dynamo.
She got all of the publicity because she was this
young girl who pulled off an upset in the Democrat
chair race, like I guess two years ago maybe, and
she became the youngest state party chair in America. And
so she had, you know, a bunch of puff pieces
written about her because you know media and how she was,
you know, going to win back all of the the
rural voters. She was going to win back rural North
Carolina voters that had uh swung for Donald Trump. She
was going to start making inroads because she is from
Person County. See, She's from a rural area and so
therefore she speaks the language of the rural deplorables. She
did not say that, but she said she but she
is from there, so she knows the rural issues, you know. Uh,
And and you know, you really cut your teeth winning
over the rural voters when you work for Elizabeth Warren's campaign,
for example, because Elizabeth Warren has her fingers on the
pulse of the rural Trump voters and so and that
didn't go well. So then she ended up with like
the Kamala Harris campaign. And this was like before Harris
was put on the vice presidential ticket, I believe. So anyway,
that's where Clayton comes out of Person County. Oh she
and here's I forgot key key strategy point. She says, y'all,
that's it. That's like, so that is that is a
key factor here. It shows that she is in touch
with rural people because she says y'all, y'all. She says
it like that. See, so there's that. There is apparently
another prong in the multi prong approach to winning back
the rural voters. And this other prong is to utilize
lots and lots of words, bad words like and also
and for good measure, you're throw in a couple of
and right. See so that's how you win the hearts
and minds of all the Trumpists. The strategy is going
very well, by the way, very very well. In fact,
it's going so well Republicans are now on pace to
surpass Democrats by voter registration come August, a little bit
earlier than anticipated. But you know what, maybe just use
a couple more and and it's going to be than fine.
It's really I think it yeah much success. So keeping
with this strategy, Anderson Clayton in response to the filing
of the bill about the bathrooms, here is what she
posted onto the Twitter machine formerly known as x quote.
I say this with my full chest the Republican legislators
who would rather attack communities than do their jobs and
protect them. How about we house people, feed them, help
them get health care. Why can't we take care of
the people. You have complete and total power in the state.
That's not true. And instead of focusing on economic development
across rural North Carolina, how to revitalize communities or I
don't know, how to not have a budget deficit two
years from now because of corporate tax cuts Republicans have
doled out. You don't dole out tax cuts. It's just
people don't pay. There's no doling out of tax cuts.
People just keep their money. This woman, anyway, Republics are
focused on what harming people and hurting our economy. Meanwhile,
Democrats dropped four pieces of legislation today alone to solve
the housing crisis in our state. Again, what other Republican
priorities if not the people of North Carolina. One of
the bills, by the way, is to raise the minimum
wage to like twenty two dollars an hour. But right,
so that's the strategy, is to curse a lot more,
curse more, although I do in just reading this again,
I realize she did not say y'all in her statement.
She did not. I don't know. It might speak to authenticity,
but this is very popular on the left. It's just
you know, ranting and raving and you know, asking these
questions as if she's engaged in some sort of a
socratic exercise, and she is not. She is not because
the very first thing she does is construct a false dichotomy,
a false choice, which is legislators Republicans would rather attack
than do their jobs to protect that. That's not that's
not the Those aren't the only options here. Number one.
That's a false choice. They would rather attack rather than
do their jobs and protect right. Protecting women is what
Republicans are doing. That community, if you will, that community
of women which is like slightly more than half of
the population. As a matter of fact, those are the
people that the Republicans are working to protect with this legislation.
Now you can disagree that it does that, but that's
what Republicans are doing with the legislation number one, number two.
They're not attacking anybody in that legislation. There's no attack
on anybody. Then she starts throwing out, where do we
do there's other things that the left wants to do.
Why how about we house people? We do? We do?
Like there are all sorts of government programs that help
to support housing people that are homeless all over the state,
all over the country. As a matter of fact, tons
and tons and tons of money. How many trillions have
we spent on the Great Society programs and the New
Deal programs? Right, So that does occur. So once again
another red herring or a false choice. There feed them, Well,
we know we do that, right. There's lots of money
that goes to free and reduced lunch programs at school,
free breakfast and stuff. Even when the kids aren't even
in school, they get fed, right, the SNAP programs and stuff.
So there are all sorts of ways that we do
this not to mention the amount of the private sector
that takes care of these same sorts of issues, the
nonprofit sector that raises millions and millions of dollars for
these types of efforts. Right, But note like her answer
to all of this is more money for government, because
this is how the left gets off. This is what
they want. They like to be seen as caring more
than you, caring more about the unhoused population or the
you know people, you know, the people who need assistance
for food. They want to be seen as as caring more.
It doesn't actually matter if the programs work, and it
doesn't matter if the programs are being defrauded. That's why
the left doesn't even care. Like all the doge stuff
going on, the state level effort called Dave right, the
left doesn't care about that stuff because that's not what
gets them off. What they like is the little dopamine
hits that they get when they know other people have
seen or heard them advocate for helping other people. That's
what they like. That's that's it's the juice. And so
this because there's no cost to them here to say
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so cussing and saying y'all and false dichotomies. That is
the strategy from the North Carolina Democrat Party Chair Anderson
Clayton on the Twitter Now. The party also put out
another statement because look, they are going to use this
anyway they can, right because they got high on their
own supply on the House Bill two nine years ago.
They were all about it. Roy Cooper raised all this
money from outside the state, and this is now their model.
They're going to try to replay it. And I'm sure
they think this is going to lead to electoral improvements
in the state. I am not so sure. I kind
of feel like the vibe has shifted a tad since
HB two nine years ago, but maybe maybe not. Here's
the statement from the state Party that they attribute to
Anderson Clayton as well. She says the title of the
bill is Women's Safety and Protection Act, and that pisces
me off. Mm hm, you want to protect women? Whoa, whoa? Whoa?
Whoa whoa? What do you mean by women? Who are
you calling women? You want to protect women? How about
addressing North Carolina's maternal mortality rate, which is higher than
the national average. You want to protect women. Thirty five
percent of North Carolina women have experienced intimate partner violence
and or sexual violence. Yeah, that's actually part of the
reason why they're doing the safe space is protection for women,
to try to keep those numbers from getting larger as
I went over last years. Then she says, how about
you do something about that instead of making it easier
for domestic abusers to buy and carry guns. See, actually,
if if you're a domestic abuser, you don't actually you're
not allowed by a gun, that you're a prohibited purchaser.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she knows that. It's one of
the other things I have learned over the years whenever
we discuss the gun issue. Is that so many people
on the left do not know actually what the laws
are when it comes to guns. Anyway, Then there was
this This is from libs of TikTok. They posted a
picture of Alison Doll. She is a Democrat state lawmaker
who wants to She introduced legislation to repeal the Parents'
Bill of Rights in North Carolina, and she introduced a
bill to allow kids to get the gender surgeries, right
to get the sex change operations. And Alison Dahl, if
you've never seen her, she looks a little unusual. And
these are all her choices. And I'm not saying this
to be me. These are all choices she has made.
And if you go to the website of the North
Carolina Legislature, you will see her photo. She chose to
wear this stuff. She chose to dye her hair pink,
to wear pink earrings, to wear a pink bandana wrapped
like a scarf, tied off like a scarf around her neck,
and to wear a pink top. So she's got a
whole pink thing going. Oh, and the really large framed
pink glasses, fat frame pink glasses, as is the uniform
of the leftist female in our modern era. And so
the libs of TikTok posted this picture up and this
got a lot of interaction, a lot of people mocking
Alison Dahl's appearance. I am not doing that. I'm just
saying that there was mockery involved. And so Anderson Clayton
takes to the Twitter machine and says, quote, I don't
know about y'all. There it is, but I thing love
Alison Dall. She don't. She won't take from little bullies.
There it is. And by the way, in case you
are wondering, yes, cussing is the strategy. Politico reported it.
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So it is not our imagination that Democrats seem to
be cussing up a blue streak, no pun intended. It
is not our imagination. They are doing this more and more,
and apparently they think this is a good strategy. I
don't know why, but they think it's a good strategy.
In the earliest weeks of Trump's second term, Democrats have
careened from strategy to strategy to respond to him, often ineffectually.
By the way, That's one of the reasons why you're
seeing these bizarre responses and tactics is that they don't
know They literally do not know how to behave right now.
They don't know what the winning strategy is. They're trying
to figure something out. I would submit part of their
problem is that they have short circuited their messaging signals
because the media is so closely allied with them and
their political philosophy that they don't get their required feedback
necessary in order to course correct see Republicans do. Republicans
get it all the time. Republicans get criticized for all things,
so they're constantly getting the feedback, and sometimes the feedback
is correct. Sometimes the criticism is correct, that allows them
to then course correct. Now sometimes it's not. And so
over the years, Republicans have become more adept at filtering
out the stuff that doesn't matter, and that has caused
a lot of frustration on the left because some of
their attack messaging doesn't work. But the problem the Democrats
have is that when they get beaten, they don't know why,
and so then they try different stuff, and they get
a free pass to try all of these things, but
it takes too long for the feedback. For example, it
takes too long for the feedback to arrive, like one
of the things that we're just seeing. Now, what's her face,
Jasmine Crockett? Right, Please, Democrats, please keep this woman as
the face of your party. Thank you. Uh oh, well,
they probably won't know that I said that. All right,
I take it back. Do not make this woman in
the face of your party, Democrats. Okay, So this is
a Democrat out of Texas, and she called her governor,
who is a Republican, Greg Abbott. She called him hot wheels.
Why he's in a wheelchair? Greg Abbott's in a wheelchair,
She called him hot wheels. And the attendees of the
Human Rights Campaign, which is an LGBT activist big time
you know, donors and stuff over there. The audience roared
with applause and laughter when she called them that. The
left does this all the time. They mock people with
disabilities like this. This is And by the way, I
did call out Donald Trump, just for the record, because
I know lefties will ask I did call out Donald Trump,
and I will maintain to this day Donald Trump was
in fact mocking that reporter when he did the pantomime
of the palsy behavior. He yes, he was. I don't
have any doubt that he was mocking that guy. Now
you can arrive at a different opinion, but that's my opinion,
just like it's my opinion that Jasmine Crockett was referring
to the governor in the wheelchairs hot wheels because of
his disability. That's why she called him that, And that's
what the left calls him. You know what they used
to call Madison callthorn up in western North Carolina, also
in a wheelchair. The left up in Asheville used to
call him Sittler. That's what they called him, right, They
mocked him for his disability. Right now, Jasmin Crockett is
out there trying to clean this up, saying she was
referring to him as hot wheels because he uses buses
and planes to transport legal immigrants out of the state.
Planes notoriously known for the wheels. Yes, that's the thing
about planes, right, you think plane, you think wheel right. No,
I don't believe her excuse on that. I believe that
the obvious intent and reference is the obvious answer. She's
also been cussing up a blue streak, and this is
the reason why others are doing it. She is doing it.
The one unifying thread, according to Politico, as the Democrats
try to invigorate their connection to the American voter has
been a reach for profanity. Democrats are cursing up a storm.
The breadth of the swearing is unmistakable, newly fashionable among
members of a party in the wilderness who are looking
for shortcuts to authenticity to channel voters rage. See this
is this is part of the issue. You're trying to
come across as quote authentic, and I'm going to be
authentic by cursing. Here's the problem. If you don't authentically curse,
if it's not in your vocabulary, you don't normally do that,
it comes across really stupid sounding, which is what happened
when one of these Democrat, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter said, quote,
I don't swear in public very well, but we have
to bleep Trump and then said, don't tell my children.
I just did that, and that's kind of it's an
awkward way to phrase that. It landed less like a
diss and more like a proposition. Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa?
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Speaker 2: Hello, Chris, Hey, Pete real quick, so on the whole
thing with Jasmin Crockett and I forgive me about it.
I can't remember when it was actually said, but I
remember Jabe Vance saying something to the effect of, we
need to stop being a paraphrasey, we needn't stop being
so sensitive about show. And I think it was referring
to something that happened either at the inauguration parties or
something prior to when Trump was a nark rator where
somebody told a joke and it was a borderline a
racist joke or an intensive joke, and JD Vance kind
of defended it by saying, you know, we need to
stop being this is a joke. And my point is
what Jasmin Crockett said. I mean, I I honestly think
that in this climate because of not just because of
what Jadie Vance said, but it wasn't a tasteless joke.
In his words, we need to stop being so sensitive
about it. I'm sure there was no malicious intent in
no joke.
Speaker 1: No, no, making fun of a paraplegic is a totally
fair game. I got it.
Speaker 2: I mean it make I mean yeah, I mean if.
Speaker 1: You can't mock a guy for losing the use of
his legs, who can you mock?
Speaker 3: Am?
Speaker 2: I right, Chris, okay, but what but what do comedians do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You get it.
Speaker 1: So is Jasmine Crockett a comedian now? Because comedians are
actually funny, She's she's not funny. It wasn't that. The
thing is, it's not that's not a that's not a joke.
That's that's mockery. Right, it's an insult.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, but we've had into before from from both sides,
and up until now, at least up until now, nobody's
made a fuss about it.
Speaker 1: Until now, nobody's made a fuss about it.
Speaker 2: Nobody's made a fuss.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Anytime?
Speaker 3: Anybody?
Speaker 1: What do you talk?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 1: I just gave you one example of all the fuss
that was made about Donald Trump mocking the disabled.
Speaker 2: Reporter, and nobody and nobody on the right said Jack,
what are you talking about? Nobody on the right said Jack?
Speaker 1: Would you would you would you consider would you consider
me to be on Chris? Would you consider me to
be on the right? Mostly yes, Yeah, So I I
gave Donald Trump a whole bunch of crap about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, so, but I mean knowing that, knowing the character
of somebody that tells the tape of joke like that,
did you elect him as president?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 1: The first two times he ran, I did not vote
for him. The first two times he ran.
Speaker 2: Well, unlike the majority of Americans did not care about
the about the dialect.
Speaker 1: No this right, this time, they didn't the previous two times,
they did not get the majority of Americans did not
vote for him. Right, He lost the popular vote in
each of the last two. In his first two elections,
he won the majority though, So after all that the
American people had seen, they did decide, Yes, you are
correct that that stuff doesn't matter to them as much
as all of these other issues do. Right, exactly, right,
So right, so now yes, open season.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So, look, if you want to advocate for a for
a standard where you mock people's disabilities, if you would
like to advocate for that, then go for it.
Speaker 2: I have a disability and people make jokes about.
Speaker 1: Every day, right, So if you would like that to
be the standard for the society to treat people with
disabilities like that, then then you are free to do so.
I do not agree with that. I would prefer we
have a society that does not mock people for disabilities.
That's the standard that I'm trying to set and buy.
So I would think that that that would be a
better society to live in. So I try to keep
that same standard. But I understand you may have a
different opinion.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately that's not the world that we live in.
And that's not the world that has been created.
Speaker 1: The world that we live in is made up in
part by what we do. You have the ability to
affect the world you live in, as do I. That's
why I say the things I say. Right, So, if
you would like there to be a world where people
are not mocked for their disabilities, then you can be
that change. You can live by that standard, and you
can advocate a consistent application of the standard. That's it. Like,
I'm not disagreeing with you, Chris, Like, if you want
to lament the mockery, that's I'm with you. I don't
like that. I don't want to see that, but I
also am willing to say it on when it's happening
on both sides. And I think that the I think
the comment that jd Vance was talking about was the
U the Pocahontas line about Elizabeth Warren, which is right,
So that is that that is not a disability. In fact,
it was a lie she told in order to take
advantage of career opportunities at the expense of a minority group.
So that's not actually a racist slur or anything like that.
It wasn't like that there is a difference there but
I look, I appreciate the call, Chris, I don't. I
would like to see a standard in our society where
we don't mock people for their disabilities. So I'm holding
Crockett to the same standard that I held Donald Trump to. John,
Welcome to the show, Hello John.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey Pete. A couple issues real quick. So the
issue with the Democrats swearing you're right, they don't know
what to do, so they think the way to be
tough on Trump is to swear. They're out of other
good options. It seems like apathetic.
Speaker 1: It seems like that, Yeah, like, oh, I'm a tough guy.
I can use the cuss word.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know any other reason, because there's no Well,
they say oise.
Speaker 1: They say the Politico piece seems to talk it up
to they don't mention what you just said about acting tough.
But I tend to agree with you. I think that's
probably part of it, if not the majority of it.
But they also claim that it's about being authentic, that
this is it's a sort of a it's like a
code that goes out, you know, to the audience that look,
I'm authentic because I'm cursing.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're trying to reach out to the to the
working guy. I guess using uh, which also doesn't make sense. Well, listen,
can I go back to the bathroom bill?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I didn't listen to all of your thing, and I
don't really know exactly what it is, but I just
want to go through a scenario so I make sure
I understand. So you have a you have a say,
for instance, a woman who is transitioning to a man, right,
so she dresses like a man, she looks like a man, right,
and so this law will say, no, you have to
go into the woman's bathroom because you were born a woman.
So she goes into the woman's he she goes into
the women's bathroom. All the women are like, oh my god,
there's a man in here. They go tell their husbands.
The next thing you know, this woman who is transitioning
to be a man is being confronted, maybe even assaulted
by a group of husbands who think there's a man
going into a woman's bathroom. Don't you think that's a
potential problem.
Speaker 1: It could be.
Speaker 3: I think it's a big problem.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think it's a big problem. And if
we're using the standard, if we're john if we're using no,
if we're using the so if we're using the standard
of the left that it's a small percentage of the population,
it's a tiny little group of people, so the issue
doesn't really matter, then your issue wouldn't matter either.
Speaker 3: Well, what the I think what the problem is? What
what the bill seems to be saying is not only
you know, do you have to go back to your
biological sets, but you have to change your looks too,
because otherwise.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say that, right, No, it doesn't say that either.
I would encourage you to read the bill or go
back and listen to the podcast for the first two
hours because we went in depth. I read portions of
the bill, and we took a lot of phone calls,
some of whom advocated what you I think are espousing
on this issue. But I said at the beginning, we
have competing rights, competing issues interest and that's going to
have to be resolved. So I appreciate the call. All right,
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