1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpetclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,320 much for your support. Last hour we started talking about 10 00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:36,759 this story that Channel thirty six WCNCTV broke yesterday. I 11 00:00:36,759 --> 00:00:40,240 think it was newly obtained public records show the City 12 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,119 of Charlotte paid police Chief Johnny Jennings more than seventy 13 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,079 seven thousand dollars in moving expenses after he was named 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,479 to be the police chief in twenty twenty. He moved 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,280 thirty miles from Union County into the City of Charlotte. 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,119 He's required to live inside the city limits as the 17 00:00:59,159 --> 00:01:03,920 police chief. The Reality Caation of Relocation policy rather for 18 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,799 the City of Charlotte allows up to sixty thousand in 19 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:11,280 relocation costs for anybody in a position of a deputy 20 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:16,200 department director and above, so sixty k and twenty four 21 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:21,799 of that goes towards expenses, thirty six goes towards helping 22 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:25,799 with the costs linked to selling an employee's primary home. 23 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,239 And so anything above the sixty k would need city 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,560 council approval and to be eligible, generally, they quote must 25 00:01:35,599 --> 00:01:40,799 be relocating from a distance greater than fifty miles, and 26 00:01:40,879 --> 00:01:45,040 he was not. He was within the fifty miles. So 27 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,879 last hour we got a call from Earl who was 28 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,200 running through a bunch of expenses that he says Corporate 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,920 America usually pays. He says, it's very easy. He said, 30 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,719 it was very easy to accrue seventy seven thousand dollars 31 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:02,239 in moving expenses, because in my limited experience with relocation 32 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:08,199 expenses being covered, I got nowhere near that if my 33 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,400 memory serves, Like when I went up to Ashville, I 34 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,479 think I got fifteen hundred dollars. That was it, because 35 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,479 it was assumed that I would have a I would 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,280 find a place, rent a place, and that's on me, right. 37 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:24,719 But I don't know what the going rate for relocations are. 38 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:30,919 But according to the WCNC story, sixty k is the 39 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,240 is what the city program is generally giving out, which 40 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,520 is still kind of high, it seems. So let me 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,120 just read some of these messages and I'm going to 42 00:02:41,199 --> 00:02:43,360 move on from this topic, but I wanted to kind 43 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,080 of for people listening on the podcast. Now you're caught up, 44 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,800 but I highly recommend you go back and listen to 45 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,080 the first hour. Russ says a friend took an executive 46 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,439 position with an energy company that required a move from 47 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:00,199 San Antonio to Anchorage. He didn't get anywhere close host 48 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:06,280 to seventy seven thousand for that move. This is from 49 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,520 at Patriot girl who says, well, no wonder they keep 50 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,639 jacking up our property tax has got to keep their 51 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,479 little scam going. How many other times has this happened? 52 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:19,000 As a taxpayer? I am furious. GHC says, Oh my gosh, 53 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,439 Caller Earl is definitely drinking the kool aid. His mindset 54 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:24,599 is exactly what is wrong with this world. Good grief, 55 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,280 And perhaps I'm missing something, But when the city of Charlotte, 56 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,280 But when did the City of Charlotte fall into corporation rules? 57 00:03:33,879 --> 00:03:36,719 It's a fair point. This isn't corporate America. This is 58 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:41,800 a municipal government and Chief Jennings was working for CMPD. 59 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:43,759 I don't know what kind of house he had in 60 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:45,879 Union County. I don't know if he built a house, 61 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:49,120 was in the process of building a house. I don't know. 62 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,280 All I have is this information from the story. It's 63 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,159 all a distraction, says, how can I become the city 64 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:01,439 moving coordinator? I would be happy to charge the city 65 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,639 seventy seven thousand dollars and then move the person myself 66 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:13,840 for around twenty k's. That's a good business opportunity, John 67 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:17,519 says caller Earl trying to justify Chief Johnny Jennings seventy 68 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,839 seven thousand. He forgets that Johnny was already working in Charlotte. 69 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:24,360 He knows or should know, where he wanted to live. 70 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:27,319 There's no reason for short term housing. If his kids 71 00:04:27,319 --> 00:04:30,000 were in school, they could have stayed because again it 72 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,759 was just in Union County. They didn't have to move 73 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,240 across the country immediately. All these expenses that Earl is 74 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,920 trying to justify may make sense for a CEO of 75 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,040 a company moving across country, But this is a government 76 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:47,360 employee moving thirty miles down the road. And Dennis says, 77 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,319 Jennings not only moved, but he paid to have his 78 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,839 whole house moved with him. There you go, Pete A right, 79 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,240 I would explain it just just pick up the whole 80 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,519 house and just drive it down the road. And maybe 81 00:04:57,519 --> 00:05:02,600 that's what happened. So we'll see where. We'll see where 82 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,879 that story leads, all right. Yesterday we were going over 83 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,519 this maniac, the story about the maniac up in Minnesota 84 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,480 that assassinated the former speaker of the state House and 85 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:23,319 her husband and their dog, and attempted to assassinate another 86 00:05:23,399 --> 00:05:27,720 member of the legislature and his wife. Those two survived. 87 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,160 He made his first court appearance yesterday. And now, as 88 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:37,160 I said yesterday, and I think I heard Winterable say 89 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,560 this as well on his show, that the Feds are 90 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:47,639 now pressing charges. And the difference there is that there 91 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,360 is a federal death penalty and Minnesota does not have one. 92 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:56,879 The man charged with killing one Minnesota lawmaker and wounding 93 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,519 another meticulously planned the shootings and intended to inflict more 94 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,439 carnage against those on his hit list, driving to the 95 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:07,720 homes of two other legislators on the night of the attacks, 96 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,600 according to a federal prosecutor, but one of those state 97 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,759 lawmakers was on vacation, and the suspect left the other 98 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,480 house after police arrived early Saturday, according to Acting US 99 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:23,439 Attorney Joseph Thompson. Investigators say the Maniac appeared to spend 100 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,319 months preparing for the shootings, the latest in a string 101 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:31,160 of political attacks across the US. This is the Associated 102 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,399 Press report. His list of potential targets contained dozens of names, 103 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:41,480 including officials in at least three other states. In Minnesota, 104 00:06:42,079 --> 00:06:46,160 the Maniac carried out surveillance missions, took notes on the 105 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,279 homes and people he targeted, and disguised himself as a 106 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:58,079 police officer just before the shootings. I I don't believe 107 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,199 that nobody knew. I don't think you can do this 108 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:08,639 kind of a long term operation without anybody knowing. You know, 109 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:15,759 it just seems a little far fetched. You're you're you're 110 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,800 running surveillance missions, You're keeping notes, you're taking notes, You're 111 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,079 you're accumulating all of this these files and paperwork and stuff. 112 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,600 Meanwhile you're you're purchasing all these firearms and stuff, and 113 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,639 like what of the like the whole friend and roommate situation. 114 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,360 That guy, there's something going on there. I'm I I 115 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:42,519 can't figure it out. So maybe we'll get more information 116 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:45,720 on this stuff. But it just it just seems weird. Okay, 117 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:48,519 that thing seems weird. And the guy is out there 118 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,839 doing like a uh press gaggle. He's talking to reporters 119 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:56,360 on his front lawn and I don't I don't know 120 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:58,240 the guy's name, and I don't even care, but like 121 00:07:58,279 --> 00:08:00,959 the I mean, I don't care to publicize his name. 122 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:03,000 But he's out there talking to the press and he 123 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,040 starts he said something like he called him Jim Biden, 124 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,040 and what was the other name he used, Jim something. 125 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:13,920 He said Jim Biden, and then he gave the name 126 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,920 Jim something orund like, I don't know Jim Walls. Yeah, 127 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:25,040 there you go. He called the governor Jim Walls. That's weird. 128 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,439 So we are to believe that he's become radicalized by MAGA, 129 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:34,120 But you don't know Joe Biden's name. He got radicalized 130 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,679 by info Wars. That's the other one that they're citing. 131 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:44,080 He was radicalized by MAGA and info Wars. Federal prosecutors 132 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:47,720 charged this fifty seven year old shooter with murder and stalking, 133 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:52,919 which could result in a death penalty if convicted. He 134 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,320 already faces state charges including murder and attempted murder at 135 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,480 a federal court hearing monday in Saint Paul, the Maniac 136 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:01,759 said he could not afford an attorney, but because he 137 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:04,679 spent all of his money on all of the weapons, 138 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,879 and apparently he bought a car off a guy at 139 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:13,360 a bus stop, like what oh, and an e bike 140 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,440 from one guy. One guy's got a buick and an 141 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,440 e bike and he's hanging out at a bus stop 142 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:24,279 and you bought them from him. It's weird. A federal 143 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:28,000 public defender was appointed to represent him, and he was 144 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:31,440 being held without bail pending a court appearance next week. 145 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,519 As for the quote manifesto, there isn't a manifesto, not 146 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,080 that anybody has found. There was the hit list, not 147 00:09:40,159 --> 00:09:43,399 a manifesto. Authorities have not found any writings that would 148 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,080 clearly identify what motivated him, although the targets were all 149 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:52,080 Democrat elected officials, so it seems like that might have 150 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,519 something to do with it. 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Associated Press story on the maniac in Minnesota 172 00:11:02,159 --> 00:11:06,679 that assassinated two people, tried to kill even more, wounded 173 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:11,600 two others. I'm not giving his name because I don't 174 00:11:12,279 --> 00:11:16,679 I don't elevate shooters and homicidal maniacs. I don't give 175 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,679 them the thing that they want, which is the recognition. 176 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:28,600 So there's some pieces of the story that are weird 177 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,960 to me. I already outlined a couple of them. It's 178 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:38,879 too soon to speculate on the actual motive. But even 179 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:43,759 when we hear what this guy's rationalizations or justifications are there, 180 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,480 I always say this when you know, with all of 181 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:53,759 these shootings, is that rational, logical, decent people always ask 182 00:11:53,879 --> 00:11:56,799 the why because we cannot understand why somebody would do 183 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,440 something like this, and you are often dealing with a 184 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:08,159 deranged mind, and so their excuses, their manifestos, whatever, they 185 00:12:08,159 --> 00:12:12,120 don't make sense because they are deranged. I say it 186 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:16,919 in every one of these cases. I mean to think 187 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,600 about what you have to what kind of frame of 188 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:25,039 mind you have to have to walk up to somebody's home, 189 00:12:25,159 --> 00:12:29,080 ring the bell and just murder them, and then getting 190 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,399 your car, drive to another house and attempt to do 191 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,159 the same thing, and then drive in a car to 192 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,879 another house and attempt to do it again Like that 193 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:42,320 is not what a rational, decent, sane person does. Right, 194 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:45,279 So we're trying to understand this, but we never truly 195 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:50,320 can because this is evil. This is derangement. Okay, So 196 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,519 all of the politicians that were named on this guy's 197 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:00,279 hit list were Democrats, including more than forty five state 198 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:07,320 and federal officials in Minnesota, also Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. 199 00:13:08,879 --> 00:13:11,360 So there were a bunch of these lawmakers all over 200 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:18,720 these four states. The maniac sent a text to a 201 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:23,000 family group chat after the shootings, So I guess at 202 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,919 this point he's on the run and he's texting in 203 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,879 the group chat with his family and he says, quote, 204 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,480 dad went to war last night. I don't want to 205 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:37,879 say more because I don't want to implicate anybody. His 206 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,120 wife got another text that then said, words are not 207 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,279 gonna explain how sorry I am for this situation. There 208 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:49,559 you go. See, this is just this is just a 209 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,120 situation that fell to him. He has no agency, right, 210 00:13:55,399 --> 00:14:00,320 sorry for the situation. No, no, no, you're sorry for 211 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,360 putting your family in harm's way because they could be 212 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,480 shot and killed by law enforcement trying to talk to them. 213 00:14:08,759 --> 00:14:11,559 Right if they think that there's a threat there with 214 00:14:11,639 --> 00:14:14,440 your family members, if they're all in on it or something. 215 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:17,399 He says, there's going to be some people coming to 216 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,679 the house armed and trigger happy, and I don't want 217 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:25,080 you guys around. Police later found his wife in a 218 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:29,320 car with her children. Officers found two handguns, about ten 219 00:14:29,399 --> 00:14:34,080 grand in cash, and passports for the wife and her children, 220 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:38,240 so they were looking to flee. Now, the law enforcement 221 00:14:38,279 --> 00:14:42,639 agents did talk to her and they took them into custody, 222 00:14:42,679 --> 00:14:44,360 I think for a little while. They interviewed them, and 223 00:14:44,399 --> 00:14:47,200 then they released them. So it does not appear that 224 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,600 law enforcement believes that they had any knowledge ahead of 225 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,879 time that this was coming. They just happened to be 226 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:56,399 ready to roll with ten grand in cash and their passports. 227 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,039 Just hours after the shootings, the maniac bought an electronic bike, 228 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:06,840 an e bike, and a Buick Sedan from somebody he 229 00:15:06,919 --> 00:15:15,639 met at a bus stop in Minneapolis. How what you 230 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:17,559 just go to catch a bus because I guess you've 231 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,519 abandoned your fake police cruiser. That's the other thing too. 232 00:15:21,519 --> 00:15:25,039 Did nobody realize that he had equipped that vehicle with 233 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:33,480 the police lights on it? That's odd, right, you're telling me, 234 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:38,120 no acquaintance, his roommate, friend, his wife and kids. Nobody 235 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,639 thought that was odd. Why is hey? Why is dad 236 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:45,360 assembling an arsenal and rigging up his suv to make 237 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:51,120 it look like a police cruiser and then he ends 238 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,600 up at a bus stop in Minneapolis talking to some 239 00:15:53,759 --> 00:15:56,879 random person who happens to be in the market to 240 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:01,720 sell a buick Sedan and an e bike. What are 241 00:16:01,759 --> 00:16:07,200 the odds? Police found the sedan abandoned on a highway 242 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:11,200 Sunday morning. In that car, officers found a cowboy hat 243 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,919 that the Maniac had been seen wearing in surveillance footage, 244 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:17,120 as well as a letter written to the FBI. And 245 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:24,360 the letter said it was written by doctor Maniac, except 246 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:31,799 he misspelled his own last name. That's kind of weird. 247 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,360 Why would you have misspelled your own name? And are 248 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:39,799 you a doctor? No? I think he paid one of 249 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:43,080 these diploma mills or something to get his to get 250 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,559 some certificate. But whatever, But it's weird that he would 251 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,960 use a last name, he would sign a last name 252 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,279 and misspell it. But again, we're dealing with a deranged mind. 253 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,679 So who knows in his mind if he did it 254 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,639 on per who knows? Maybe I don't know, That's what 255 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:06,240 I'm saying. I don't know. This is a weird piece 256 00:17:06,279 --> 00:17:11,920 of information. There's another one stick around. Here's a great idea. 257 00:17:12,039 --> 00:17:14,799 How about making an escape to a really special and 258 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,039 secluded getaway in western North Carolina? Just a quick drive 259 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,880 up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 260 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,279 Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want 261 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:26,839 to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends 262 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:29,799 together for a big old reunion. 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This is according to 283 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,079 two law enforcement officials who spoke to the Associated Press 284 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:54,079 on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to 285 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,599 discuss details of an ongoing investigation. Friends and former colleagues 286 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,319 interviewed by the Associated Press described the maniac as a 287 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,559 devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to 288 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,480 campaign rallies for President Donald Trump. He also is a 289 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,599 former political appointee who served on the same state Workforce 290 00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:20,000 Development Board as one of the victims that he shot, 291 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,160 though it's not clear if they actually knew each other. Now, 292 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,799 what the Associated Press leaves out in that last sentence 293 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,920 is that he was a former political appointee. That is true, 294 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,599 but he was appointed by Governor Tim Walls. Now that 295 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,279 doesn't mean that Tim Walls knew the guy. Right. The 296 00:19:40,319 --> 00:19:44,200 governor makes appointments to all sorts of things, and maybe 297 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:46,960 there weren't a lot of people interested in serving on 298 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:51,440 this Workforce Development board, and he submitted an application, and 299 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,480 somebody in some office said, Okay, yeah, we need to 300 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:57,400 put you know, some Republicans on there, some Democrats on there, whatever, 301 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,720 and they put him on there. Like I'm not I 302 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,400 don't assign any blame to Tim Walls for the actions 303 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,920 of this maniac. I don't hold people accountable for things 304 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:14,079 they did not do. David Strom, I think this is who. Yeah, 305 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,279 David Strom over at hotair dot com. He says, my 306 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:22,200 own impression is that the maniac is a man with 307 00:20:22,319 --> 00:20:27,359 big dreams and small accomplishments. He has portrayed himself as 308 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,359 a mover and a shaker, and he has wheedled his 309 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:35,000 way onto government commissions appointments by Democratic governors Mark Dayton 310 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,319 and Tim Walls. But it's pretty clear that he's all 311 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:43,039 hat and no cattle. His family business is called Praetorian 312 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,599 Security Services. At this point, it looks like it never 313 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:51,599 had any customers, but that's unconfirmed too. He bragged about 314 00:20:51,599 --> 00:20:56,599 having executive level positions in the food industry, but not 315 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,880 so long ago. He was just a manager at a 316 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,759 seven to eleven and until February he was working at 317 00:21:03,759 --> 00:21:09,799 a funeral home removing bodies. He was also the CEO 318 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:14,359 of an NGO non government organization, but it's unclear what 319 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,880 exactly that means. He was, we are told, helping the 320 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:23,160 Democratic Republic of Congo with agricultural issues, but there's almost 321 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,079 no paper trail outside of his claims. There is video 322 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:31,960 of the Maniac in the Congo, but that was part 323 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,799 of him preaching to a crowd about Christianity. Say so, 324 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:39,880 not really sure like what the work he was doing 325 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:46,119 there was it agricultural related? His resume, in other words, 326 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,920 reads to me like he is a loser, a man 327 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:56,079 whose aspirations far outstripped his abilities. He wanted to change 328 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,680 the world and found that the world wasn't that interested 329 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,279 in his ideas for changing it. He seemed to have 330 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,119 bounced around quite a bit, always looking to strike it 331 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,599 big and rubbing up against some important people, but never 332 00:22:09,839 --> 00:22:14,079 hitting it big himself. Now, to be clear and Strong 333 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,160 points this out, this could all be a misreading of 334 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:23,880 these snippets of information. There's so little hard information that 335 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,160 it's difficult to kind of make an assessment at this 336 00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:29,720 early stage. Inevitably the picture will solidify over the next 337 00:22:29,799 --> 00:22:40,279 days and weeks. I just saw also that a mayoral 338 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,519 candidate for New York City just went and got himself 339 00:22:43,599 --> 00:22:47,480 arrested at an Ice immigration court. So this is now 340 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,480 arrest theater. I think I've seen it called busted theater. 341 00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:55,519 This is what Democrats are now reduced to doing, is 342 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,480 showing up and trying to obstruct federal law enforcement from 343 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:05,880 enforce the law. This is part of the permission structure 344 00:23:06,319 --> 00:23:10,160 for violence. And the left doesn't see it like that. 345 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,920 I understand that they don't. This is resistance, any resistance 346 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,440 against the Orange Man, just this war and that sob Johnson, 347 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,519 you know. But this is all part and parcel of 348 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:28,640 the same permission structure. Jesus Mesa had a piece at 349 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,079 newsweek dot Com a couple of days ago. This would 350 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:37,960 have been before the Minnesota attacks. He says, while right 351 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,680 wing extremism is regularly dissected and denounced in mainstream media, 352 00:23:43,039 --> 00:23:46,559 conservatives have long complained that political violence from the left 353 00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:52,359 regularly receives less scrutiny or is reframed entirely to dismiss 354 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,119 the perpetrator's progressive views. This perceived imbalance has fueled a 355 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,920 growing belief, often discussed on conservative sub breddits or right 356 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,880 leaning substacks and on Twitter formerly known as x that 357 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,759 left wing violence is minimized or rationalized, while right wing 358 00:24:09,839 --> 00:24:17,079 violence is amplified and condemned. The Network Contagion Research Institute 359 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:22,400 the NCRII this is a nonpartisan organization that studies the 360 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:28,000 spread of hate, manipulation, and extremism across digital platforms. The 361 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:33,799 NCRI has raised these very concerns. Based out of Rutgers University, 362 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,240 the group uses machine learning and data analytics to identify 363 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:42,160 emerging threats and ideological patterns online. Max Hoorder of the 364 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:47,640 NCRI said quote, we are witnessing the alarming rise of 365 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:53,599 what the NCRI calls an assassination culture. Violence targeting figures 366 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:57,839 like Donald Trump or Elon Musk has gone beyond normalization. 367 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,519 It's being sanctified as re existence by parts of the 368 00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:06,160 political left. And here's the thing. Crazy people, deranged people, 369 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,319 right when when you create the permission structure, it's not 370 00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:16,279 contained just to the left. It spreads beyond any political 371 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:21,599 ideology because they are deranged. The people who are carrying 372 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,880 these things out are deranged and so when they see that, 373 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:29,799 oh well this is acceptable. Oh I'm seeing this these 374 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,599 surveys that democrats are fine with, you know, taking out 375 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:37,440 various political leaders. That was what the polling showed, which 376 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:43,319 is nuts. You create the culture, all right. So spring 377 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,960 is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, 378 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 anniversaries and the special days for mom and dad. 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Celebrate your past. Visit Creative 390 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:31,720 Video today and let them preserve your legacy with the 391 00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:35,640 love and care that it deserves creative video preserving family 392 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,079 memories since nineteen ninety seven. Located in mint Hill, just 393 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,200 off four eighty five, mail orders are accepted to get 394 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,200 all the details that create a video dot com. The 395 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,400 Network Contagion Research Institute the NCRII based out of Rutgers University, 396 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,200 says we're witnessing the alarming rise of what we call 397 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:01,039 assassination culture. It's being sanctified as resistance, mainly by parts 398 00:27:01,039 --> 00:27:04,319 of the political left. The NCRI rose to prominence in 399 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,400 recent years due to its prescient early warnings about far 400 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:11,880 right radicalization, including the growth of the QAnon conspiracy theory 401 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,279 and the risk of political violence, leading up to the 402 00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:17,559 certification of the election. On January sixth, twenty twenty one, 403 00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:22,079 Joel Finkelstein, co founder of the NCRI, recalled in an 404 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,480 interview with Newsweek, quote they weren't an accident. They didn't 405 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,839 come out of nowhere. They were inevitable. Now the group 406 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,319 is raising similar concerns, this time about rhetoric emerging from 407 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,440 the opposite end of the political spectrum. These aren't fringe 408 00:27:35,559 --> 00:27:39,640 beliefs anymore. They're creeping into the mainstream of activist discourse. 409 00:27:40,319 --> 00:27:44,200 A recent survey conducted by the NCRI found that nearly 410 00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:48,839 one third of respondents expressed some level of justification for 411 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:54,200 acts of lethal political violence, with significantly higher support among 412 00:27:54,279 --> 00:27:58,880 those identifying as left of center. Fifty six percent of 413 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,519 those respondents said murdering Donald Trump would be at least 414 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,079 somewhat justified. Fifty percent said the same about Elon Musk. 415 00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:14,400 That's a problem. The poll also found forty percent of 416 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,559 all respondents believed it was at least somewhat acceptable to 417 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:23,759 destroy a Tesla dealership because you don't like Elon. Support 418 00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:27,240 rose to nearly sixty percent of those who identified as 419 00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:34,079 left of center. Think about that, sixty percent left of 420 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,359 center people say it's okay to destroy a car dealership 421 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,240 because you don't like somebody's politics. You don't like Elon Musk. 422 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:44,680 They have a different idea of how to make the 423 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:52,559 country stronger and become fiscally sound. How dare you? The 424 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:56,720 poll also found, oh sorry, I already did that. Part. 425 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,279 Ncri's analysis, based on troves of social media data, reveals 426 00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:04,359 how fringe internet culture has helped build what the group 427 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,359 calls permission structures for violence. These are social environments online 428 00:29:09,519 --> 00:29:13,680 or offline where violent acts are no longer condemned, but 429 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:18,759 tacitly accepted, if not outright and encouraged. I just mentioned 430 00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:22,400 it the mayor now or the mayoral candidate New York 431 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,839 City getting arrested for trying to guy locked arms with 432 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:28,359 an illegal alien that they were trying to take into 433 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,799 custody at an immigration court. And so this mayoral candidate 434 00:29:31,839 --> 00:29:34,440 shows up there, locks arms with him and then resists 435 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:41,039 the arrest. He got arrested. Also, right, you got Padilla 436 00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:47,599 storming a news conference. He had Congresswoman mac Ivor right, 437 00:29:47,839 --> 00:29:51,839 assaulting Ice officials at the detention facility. Right. The rise 438 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,440 of these protests and the violence that we are seeing, 439 00:29:55,359 --> 00:29:59,480 it's all part of the same permission structure. And again, 440 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:01,920 the issue never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. 441 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,640 It's to tear down the infrastructure of the Western civilization project. 442 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,880 Finkelstein said, It's not about who pulls the trigger. It's 443 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,200 about who stays silent, who reposts a meme, who says 444 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,279 nothing when someone jokes about killing a billionaire. That's how 445 00:30:18,319 --> 00:30:23,880 the corridor to violence gets built. One example, obviously, the 446 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:30,039 shooter of the United Healthcare CEO. He says they were 447 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:33,000 acting within a worldview that told them these killings would 448 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:39,599 be celebrated and online they were. Left wing extremism is 449 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,319 often overlooked, said Jacob Goule, the director of policy and 450 00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:46,880 Research at the Institute for a Strategic Dialogue. He says 451 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,680 it's overlooked in part because the worst state abuses and 452 00:30:50,839 --> 00:30:55,240 non state violence associated with proponents of communist and socialist 453 00:30:55,319 --> 00:31:00,359 ideologies happened several decades ago. Some actors on the broader 454 00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:03,279 far left continue to carry out or support acts of 455 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:08,759 political violence and terrorism right, so it's sort of like 456 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:14,240 an echo from the past. Peter turch In, a University 457 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,680 of Connecticut professor leading theorists of structural demographic cycles, said, 458 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:22,640 quote right wing violence is emphasized by mainstream media because 459 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,960 it's perceived as an existential threat to the ruling regime, 460 00:31:26,559 --> 00:31:30,039 whereas left wing violence is often seen as less threatening, 461 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,839 sometimes even as a counterweight to the right. See there's 462 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:37,359 a perfectly reasonable explanation for why I had to murder somebody. 463 00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:41,519 According to Turchin, this perception gap is no accident. Quote. 464 00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:45,599 Narratives around political violence are shaped not just by the 465 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,519 acts themselves, but by the stories that elites and counter 466 00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:54,160 elites build around them. Both he and one of the 467 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,200 founders of the NCRI, mister Horter, agreed that instances of 468 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,279 political violence, wherever they come I'm from, perpetuate a cycle 469 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,079 which each side accuses the other of hypocrisy while excusing 470 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:13,559 the bad actors on their own extremes. I think that 471 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,559 is exactly right. It is exactly right, which is why 472 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:21,119 when you hear the details coming out of Minnesota, right 473 00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:22,759 and you're like, oh, if he's going to be on 474 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:24,880 the right, that's one of my guys. Do not excuse 475 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:31,839 that behavior. That is the path to civilizational destruction. All right. 476 00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:34,200 That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 477 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,240 for listening. 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