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 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,359 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live 5 00:00:16,399 --> 00:00:18,719 stream I daily show prep with all the links. Become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to vpeteclendarshow 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 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,439 Speaker 2: We talked a great deal about these these Charlot operations, 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:38,679 Charlotte's web and Mayor Lyles consistently being opposed to any 12 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:41,799 action to clean up the crime and the city unless 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,479 it comes from within, and no interest in enforcing immigration laws, 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,920 even though she took an oath to off oath of 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,280 office to defend the laws of the United States. It's 16 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,159 picking and choosing the laws you want to figure, Nat, 17 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:55,880 I guess just Trump's bad. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,079 Speaker 3: Therefore anything that. 19 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: Comes from that administration must be opposed. I wonder if 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,840 she would oppose accepting money from the federal government because 21 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:10,239 Trump's the president. Methinks no me thinks she'll take the money. 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,159 Would she oppose anything that Charlotte receives from the federal 23 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:16,040 government because Trump is president, of course not. But what 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,560 she doesn't want to do is add law enforcement or 25 00:01:18,599 --> 00:01:21,359 help her own law enforcement team. And it's interesting because 26 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:22,959 I'll bet you a lot of folks in law enforcement 27 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,200 want the help. They feel like they're being undermine, they 28 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,400 feel like they're being you know, they don't like to 29 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,480 see these stats go up. They don't like to see 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,040 people suffer. They don't want to see families, you know, 31 00:01:35,079 --> 00:01:39,200 and criminals in you know, left out there to commit crimes. Now, 32 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:42,200 the interesting thing, and I ask it I prefaced in 33 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,760 the last hour, was that do our people satisfied again? 34 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,120 Charlotte's a Democrats said, the Democrats are going to reign 35 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,079 supreme There no challenges or really no significant challenges to 36 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:55,480 her fifth term for her, And this is not a 37 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,840 monologue against her. It's against wanting to support the laws. 38 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:06,560 It's against city officials. It's against their perspective that Trump 39 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,879 is bad. Therefore we don't want to enforce the laws. 40 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,319 And the question I think charlottean should ask, is there 41 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:19,080 anything that that council could do that would make would 42 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,680 make folks turn against some other than the public corruption stuff. 43 00:02:21,719 --> 00:02:26,479 But can they just continue tacking? I mean, if Chicago 44 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,360 could go back thirty years and look at where it's 45 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:31,879 murder rate and violent crime and all that was, and 46 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:36,400 then say do we and show people what it ultimately 47 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,360 would look like, would they still make the same decisions. 48 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 3: I think they would. I think they would. 49 00:02:42,039 --> 00:02:46,599 Speaker 2: I think that cities reach a certain size, and for 50 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,840 the most part, they inevitably start tacking to the political 51 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,599 left and eventually, and in the irony is if you 52 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,840 look at New York and where New York was when 53 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,080 the Towers fell, and then look at where New York 54 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:03,759 is now, and it elected a socialist mayor that is 55 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,319 somewhat sympathetic to the cause of those who took down 56 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,759 the towers, and that guy sounds terrible, doesn't It sounds 57 00:03:10,759 --> 00:03:13,240 like I'm really condemning him. But the perspective being how 58 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,639 quickly perspectives change and how far left ward the city 59 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,680 has gone since that point in time. One of the 60 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,439 most anti Semitic mayors, probably the most anti Semitic mayor 61 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:25,879 they've had, in one of the largeh that New York 62 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,560 has more Jews than anywhere outside of Israel as a concentration, 63 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,000 eighteen percent or so, I think of the voting public. 64 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 3: It's just. 65 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: That's the question that always gets me. And I'm not 66 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:41,879 surprised by it because I think largely Americans are not 67 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,960 dialed in on political stuff, and I think it's you know, 68 00:03:45,039 --> 00:03:46,879 there reaches a point where the majority of people say, hey, 69 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:49,280 I get some free stuff. What can I get? I 70 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:52,080 can get some stuff, and if I can get some stuff, 71 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:53,560 then I'll vote for the person who's going to give 72 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,639 me the most stuff. That's the failure, and this has 73 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,680 been well documented Alexander Tittler did two hundred years ago 74 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:02,280 when they said, hey, democracy exist until the point where 75 00:04:02,319 --> 00:04:05,439 the public realizes they can vote themselves stuff out of 76 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:08,800 the public treasury, or in this case, they can just say, hey, 77 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,520 those rich folks are the bad guys, and I want 78 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,319 to vote for people that will take stuff away from 79 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,639 them and give it to me. And that's when the 80 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:21,279 downward spiral really transpires. That's where, luckily in this country, 81 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,800 a lot of folks will become aware of that, and 82 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,879 the people who can leave, who do have, who have 83 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,920 income or money or net worth, will leave, and then 84 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:33,600 the city really falls down quickly. 85 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:34,319 Speaker 3: At that point. 86 00:04:34,319 --> 00:04:37,519 Speaker 2: If big money pulls out of any given city, whether 87 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,800 it be New York, Chicago, even Memphis, or Charlotte, Atlanta. 88 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,480 Then the spiral the spiral downhill because there's no there's 89 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,920 no one to take money from. They run out of 90 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:50,439 pockets to pick his market. That you would say, you 91 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,759 eventually run out of pockets to get money out of. 92 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,680 And so again, I wish Charlotte would have a different perspective. 93 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,879 And it's not that I want them to become arch conservative. 94 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,920 That's not going to happen. Realism would say. Other So, hey, 95 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:03,759 you know, you guys want to have discussions about the 96 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,720 affordable housing, You want to have discussions about mass transit. 97 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:08,439 I may disagree with you on those, but when it 98 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:10,279 comes to crime and protecting the public, it shouldn't matter 99 00:05:10,319 --> 00:05:12,120 who's in the White House. You guys should be held 100 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,879 been on protecting citizens period and stop full stop right there. 101 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:18,879 What can we do to make law enforcement better, to 102 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,120 prosecute crime at the highest level so that someone can't 103 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:25,079 go through the system thirteen times and then go kill 104 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:27,279 somebody on a subway or not subway but light reel. 105 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 3: I don't know. 106 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 2: That's the kind of perspective that I just wish we 107 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,959 would have more of I mean, I really do. She 108 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,480 took an oath to protected to Fenn. And by the way, 109 00:05:38,519 --> 00:05:41,000 Fox News did reach out to Mayor Leles for comments. 110 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,560 She either she refused or just didn't return the phone call. 111 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,160 It may have been a slip, an oversight maybe, but 112 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:50,759 I don't think she would have responded to a Fox 113 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,319 News request. They did reach out to her and her 114 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,920 office and there was no comment. So now, when we 115 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:58,920 get back from the next break in a few minutes, 116 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:01,879 I do want to talk talk a little bit about affordability, 117 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:05,319 because it is interesting that in a time when inflation 118 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,040 was at double digits through the Biden administration, and the 119 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:13,600 gas was a dollar gallon higher, the issue of affordability 120 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,199 did not seem to resonate with the political left. Now, 121 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,920 it's not hatred, it is that when things were spiraling 122 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,759 completely out of control, the political left they passed an 123 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,920 inflation Reduction Act, which was like pouring gasoline on a fire. 124 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:30,120 It just set it on firement worse. And when they 125 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,480 talk about that there's not a problem in the cities 126 00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:33,480 they want to stop ice. 127 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:35,519 Speaker 3: When American cities. 128 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: Burned during the summer protests and stuff like that, the 129 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,199 Democrats weren't concerned billions of dollars lost, cities were burning, 130 00:06:43,879 --> 00:06:47,279 and the Democrats weren't concerned about crime. They weren't concerned. 131 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,439 It's just this juxtaposition of Democrats. 132 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:53,399 Speaker 3: I don't know. 133 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,399 Speaker 2: It's hard to reconcile because they hate the inhabitant of 134 00:06:57,399 --> 00:07:00,680 the White House. Rather than have an assalient discussion about 135 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,199 what we what do we do next, how do we 136 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,360 make society better? But all they want to do is 137 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:12,199 I don't get it. And what's even stranger to man, 138 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,079 it's not that I hold the elected officials to some 139 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,279 kind of high and lofty idealism. 140 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 3: I don't. 141 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 2: It's that the people that put them in office. What 142 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,839 kind of people say it's okay to burn cities, and 143 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,160 yet you're upset when we start enforcing laws of deporting 144 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:29,399 immigrants and the cities aren't burning, or you know that 145 00:07:29,439 --> 00:07:32,399 inflation is double digits, and then when it's kind of 146 00:07:32,399 --> 00:07:34,879 getting under control, then you complain about affordability and how 147 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,759 terrible things are. Those are the perspectives out of it. 148 00:07:37,879 --> 00:07:38,920 And so when we get to the other side of 149 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,399 the I want to give a perspective on the cost 150 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:43,360 of Since it's a week of Thanksgiving, so why don't 151 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,839 we talk about that, Why don't we talk about the 152 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:48,120 cost of Thanksgiving because there's some really good information out there. 153 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:48,639 Speaker 3: Now. 154 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 2: Am I going to pretend that affordability is an issue? 155 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,240 I think that after years of inflation under the Biden administration, sure. 156 00:07:56,519 --> 00:07:57,079 Speaker 3: It's there. 157 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:00,279 Speaker 2: But you also have to look at what is happening 158 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:01,959 in the economy, and there's some pretty good things. I mean, 159 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:04,079 it looks like they're you know, the labor stuff came 160 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,120 out September is better. 161 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 3: There's some disconcerting things. 162 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 2: About where that is and where white collar labor labor 163 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:12,439 is right now, but that's that's the nature of economies 164 00:08:12,439 --> 00:08:14,439 in general. But there are some really good things in 165 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,160 the economy. And when we get back from the break, 166 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,399 we're going to talk about the cost because the far 167 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:24,079 not farmuer, but the American Farm Bureau Federation has released 168 00:08:24,519 --> 00:08:27,040 what the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten 169 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:31,079 people is this year compared to last year. 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This was two days 191 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,840 ago and I'm just adding it kind of at an 192 00:09:40,879 --> 00:09:45,480 afterthought to remember I was saying that it would be interesting. 193 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:48,000 I think it would be easy if even if you're 194 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,120 a Democrat led city, to say, you know what, we 195 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,919 want to make sure that we are protecting our citizens. 196 00:09:54,039 --> 00:09:56,919 We have enough criminals in our citizen population, and we 197 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,639 don't need interlopers from other countries that are not supposed 198 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:03,080 to be here. So let us just enforce. And again 199 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,960 there would be no operation in Charlotte's web. Remember this 200 00:10:06,039 --> 00:10:09,559 is prompted by two issues, and one is that the 201 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,759 city of Charlotte was kind of sanctuarying itself through through 202 00:10:13,919 --> 00:10:19,279 through things, and they easily could have just cooperated and 203 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,639 then deported people that they arrested it were criminals, but 204 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,759 they didn't, and then they released criminals that should have 205 00:10:23,759 --> 00:10:27,000 been deported, criminals that should be in jail, child molesters 206 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,320 and stuff. So anyway, this to me is a an 207 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,559 easy solution. Like there's some complicated things like healthcare out there, 208 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,320 There's some pretty complicated issues. Foreign policies is dicey at best. 209 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,000 This Ukrainian Russia deal pretty dicey situation piece in the 210 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:44,200 middle least dicey even dealing reading the tea leaves on 211 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,639 the economy. That's why you have Wall Street and lots 212 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:47,879 of firms that disagree on things. 213 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:48,879 Speaker 3: It's dicey stuff. 214 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 2: But this this is one that you just this is 215 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:54,039 a softball out into left field, past the fence. You know, 216 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,879 an easy pitch. This is an out of the park, or, 217 00:10:56,879 --> 00:10:59,399 as the Carolina Panthers would love to believe is possible, 218 00:10:59,399 --> 00:10:59,960 it's a touchdown. 219 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,159 Speaker 3: It's an easy touchdown. 220 00:11:02,039 --> 00:11:04,279 Speaker 2: Charlotte City leaders are providing a total of one hundred 221 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:07,000 thousand dollars for people who were financially impacted by the 222 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,919 US Customs and Border Patrol operation during last week. The funds, 223 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:13,639 dispersed in partnership with Crisis Assistance Ministry, are to be 224 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,879 used to support of rent and utility bills for households 225 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:20,960 impacted by what the city calls ongoing economic disruptions across 226 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,679 the community. The border patrols operation in Charlotte's webs was 227 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:30,519 began as over the weekend, reportedly targeting criminals who were 228 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,559 in the country. According to the Department Homeland Security, over 229 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,440 three hundred and seventy people in the Charlotte area are 230 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:38,799 being deported or in the country illegally as of Thursday afternoon, 231 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,120 but this is last week. As a fallout, many in 232 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,279 the city's Hispanic communities feared any interaction with the agents, 233 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,960 leading to many businesses to close, like Manilo's Bakery and 234 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 each Charlotte. So the point is a lot of the 235 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,480 people that are here this is a tricky one. A 236 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,080 lot of people who were here legally worked very hard 237 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,320 to be here legally. A lot of the people who 238 00:11:59,399 --> 00:12:03,200 are foreign nationals that came here and I have become citizens, 239 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,919 are in the process of becoming citizens. It's interesting that 240 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,320 rather than Charlotte say, you know what, we really want 241 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,960 to help and then we can deal with the fallout 242 00:12:12,039 --> 00:12:14,360 or whatever, rather that what they're doing is just opposing 243 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,080 what's taking place and then trying to politicize it in 244 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,399 this way. And that's to me just kind of said. 245 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:26,720 Last week's city staff began outreach to community stakeholders to 246 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,919 better understand the potential economic impacts. So what you've done 247 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,879 is you've communicated people, hey, we're going to give you money. 248 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:32,679 If you can show us that something bad happen to 249 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,200 you will give you money. Give it away, give it away, 250 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,559 give it away now. So you're encouraging people to and 251 00:12:38,639 --> 00:12:44,480 again the point, last week's city staff again outreach to 252 00:12:44,519 --> 00:12:47,519 community stakeholders to better understand the potential economic not that 253 00:12:47,519 --> 00:12:50,519 they had economic impacts, but there might have been and 254 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:52,879 on families and understand what needs the City of Charlotte 255 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:55,720 could help address this approach, which was influenced by the 256 00:12:55,759 --> 00:12:59,080 feedback we received from community stakeholders and is aligned with 257 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,799 established City Council priorities related to housing stability, allows the 258 00:13:02,799 --> 00:13:05,039 city to provide rapid support to households and need, and 259 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:07,440 is consistent with the city's track record of supporting residents 260 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:10,480 during extraordinary times. Interestingly enough, the city hasn't come out 261 00:13:10,519 --> 00:13:13,320 and said that crime is an extraordinary thing that should 262 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,519 be dealt with daily. The city's not coming out and 263 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,639 saying crime and the crime committee against our citizens, the murders, 264 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:24,240 the per snatching, the violent crimes that is not doesn't 265 00:13:24,279 --> 00:13:31,039 seem to be consistent with supporting residents during extraordinary times. Crime, 266 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,879 criminal activity is an extraordinary time. Have you ever been robbed? 267 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 3: I have been. 268 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 2: It's a horrible thing. It leaves the lasting scar on you. 269 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,240 You never forget that. So that's pretty extraordinary for all 270 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:47,720 the citizens and Charlie have been robbed. I feel for 271 00:13:47,799 --> 00:13:50,080 you because the city doesn't seem to really care that 272 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:54,120 much about you encouraging this. Is encouraging this instead of that, 273 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,639 and it should be out there protecting citizens. And again, 274 00:13:56,759 --> 00:13:58,879 that sounds like I'm condemning them. I'm just shocked that 275 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,639 they have an easy path and instead what they're doing 276 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,200 is trying to ramp up divisiveness. They could easily bring 277 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:08,080 the city together and say, you know what, we want 278 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,320 to protect our citizens. We want to make sure there 279 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,120 is we have enough criminals on the street right now 280 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,480 that we need to prosecute. We need to make sure 281 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:18,240 we do that, and we need to work with customs officials, 282 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,399 immigration officials to make sure anyone that's here illegally should 283 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:27,279 go back to their country or being incarcerated. But that's 284 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,279 not what we see. 285 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,399 Speaker 3: That's just not what we see. 286 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:37,759 Speaker 2: So just very it's an odd prioritization. This seems to 287 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:40,320 me to be an easy one now. And I drugged 288 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,879 this one out a little bit because I do think 289 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:44,279 it's important. I think we see this in all its 290 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,720 expanding to Raleigh. There's going to be I don't know 291 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:49,720 if the Democrats, and for Josh Stein, the Democrat governor 292 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,080 of North Carolina, it's putting him in an interesting position. 293 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,080 He's a former attorney general, does he and I think 294 00:14:56,159 --> 00:15:00,000 Republicans are good to kind of push him on this issue. 295 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,879 Does Josh Stein, former Attorney general whose policies, some of 296 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:07,279 whose policies have not made it easy to prosecute this stuff. 297 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:11,679 Does he decide and he might, and he might. He 298 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:14,320 hasn't really taken too harsh a stand against it, but 299 00:15:14,399 --> 00:15:16,559 he hasn't gone forward. He's kind of trying to stay 300 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,320 away from it as people are trying to drag him 301 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,759 into this issue. And it wouldn't be the first time 302 00:15:20,799 --> 00:15:23,759 that activists there or you know, partisans have drug a 303 00:15:23,919 --> 00:15:29,039 North Carolina governor into a Charlottean situation house built too. 304 00:15:30,159 --> 00:15:34,480 But josh Stein's has to ultimately decide where he is 305 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:37,080 on this issue. Does he deploy the National Guard to 306 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,159 deal with criminal elements and to deal with crime, get 307 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:39,919 it under control? 308 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 3: Because here's the truth. 309 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: If he did, it would bring crime under control very quickly. 310 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:50,159 Would It would drive those statistics down, and it could 311 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,919 give someone like josh Stein the opportunity to take the 312 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:55,360 very high road of saying, you know what, if any 313 00:15:55,399 --> 00:15:57,159 of our cities get out of line and get beyond 314 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,279 law enforcements control, we're going to stop it. We're going 315 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:02,720 to put our job number one, protect the citizens, the 316 00:16:02,799 --> 00:16:05,000 job of the Charlotte City Council, the mayor, work of 317 00:16:05,039 --> 00:16:06,879 the police department stop and there's a lot of PD 318 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:09,200 folks that are find folks out there, police officers that 319 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,840 are trying to do their jobs every day. It's a tough, 320 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:16,320 tough job and the thankless nature of what they do. 321 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 3: Man, I feel for them, all right. 322 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,159 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 323 00:16:20,159 --> 00:16:21,960 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 324 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,039 I know you do too. And you've probably heard me 325 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,320 say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because 326 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,000 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 327 00:16:31,039 --> 00:16:34,360 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 328 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,480 it's a website and it combines news from around the 329 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:40,200 world in one place so you can compare coverage and 330 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,120 verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, 331 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,480 dot news slash pete. I put the link in the 332 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,720 podcast description too. I started using ground News a few 333 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:53,480 months ago and more recently chose to work with them 334 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,279 as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how 335 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:59,759 stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot features 336 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:02,519 shows you which stories get ignored by the left and 337 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:06,599 the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news 338 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,079 slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 339 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,200 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 340 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,680 get unlimited access to every feature your subscription. Then not 341 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,720 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news 342 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:22,359 as they make the media landscape more transparent. 343 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,599 Speaker 2: I have not gotten to the story yet, but I 344 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,119 appreciate your patients and letting me get to it. This 345 00:17:29,279 --> 00:17:34,359 is from Realclear Energy dot org and it is a 346 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,000 some stats from the American Farm Bureau Federation just for perspective, 347 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,680 because I think context and perspective is important as we 348 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,319 both sides look to jockey to say, look, we're doing great, 349 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:45,720 and the other day, look they're terrible. 350 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:47,319 Speaker 3: And it is unfortunately. 351 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 2: I talked about neighbors yesterday, how we've become a nation 352 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,039 of neighbors that seem to want to just eviscerate and 353 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:53,759 gut each other. 354 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:55,759 Speaker 3: And it doesn't need to be that way. 355 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 2: And it's a shame that we've reached the point where 356 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,400 it's it's more about hate than love. It's more about 357 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,200 just not even not even wanting to learn. It's that 358 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:09,759 whatever I believe, I'm only going to look at stuff 359 00:18:09,759 --> 00:18:12,480 that agrees with what I believe. And the facts be damned, 360 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,599 but this is worth knowing. My opinion, Thanksgiving twenty twenty 361 00:18:16,599 --> 00:18:18,920 five brings something America hasn't seen much in recent years, 362 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,759 lower prices. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the 363 00:18:21,799 --> 00:18:24,880 cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped 364 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,759 about five percent this year, landing at fifty five eighteen 365 00:18:29,079 --> 00:18:32,160 after years of grocery store sticker shock. That's welcome relief, 366 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,440 as it stands in sharp contrast to twenty twenty two, 367 00:18:35,559 --> 00:18:37,359 when the same meal hit a record high of more 368 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,079 than sixty four dollars, the most expensive Thanksgiving in US history. 369 00:18:41,519 --> 00:18:43,759 Food prices don't rise or fall in a vacuum. 370 00:18:44,079 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 3: Energy. 371 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 2: Now, this is again perspective worth knowing. Food prices don't 372 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,319 rise or fall in a vacuum. Energy is baked into 373 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,599 every step of the supply chain, the fertilizer, the transportation, 374 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:59,599 the processing, and the packaging. When energy costs drop, families 375 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,359 feel it, and when energy costs spike, families feel that 376 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,640 even more. That's why Thanksgiving affordability is a story about 377 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,440 more than Turkey prices. It's a story about American energy dominance. 378 00:19:09,799 --> 00:19:12,440 Look at the gas pump. The national average gasoline prices 379 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,200 in November during the Biden years has hovered around three 380 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,039 forty seven a gallon compared to two sixty eight during 381 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:22,319 Trump's time in office. That difference is real money for 382 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,640 families traveling for the holidays, and it shapes the cost 383 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,039 of everything on the table. More affordable energy means more 384 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:30,839 affordable food. It's very simple. If you think about the 385 00:19:31,079 --> 00:19:32,920 cost of filling up a truck and driving it from 386 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,279 point A to point B cheaper, The cost of running 387 00:19:35,279 --> 00:19:38,039 tractors in the fields cheaper. The cost of growing stuff 388 00:19:38,039 --> 00:19:38,960 it's cheaper. 389 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 3: Because the tractors are constantly working. 390 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 2: So the cost of energy and I just touched two 391 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,240 of like a thousand different points of the supply chain 392 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:48,920 is cheaper. And here's the part that the left wants 393 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,319 you to really forget. When Thanksgiving dinner hits its record, 394 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:55,440 hit its record in twenty twenty two, not a single 395 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,920 Democrat expressed any outrage about affordability. 396 00:20:01,519 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 3: Nothing. 397 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 2: The same ones that are screaming about affordability today, they 398 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,920 didn't say a word back then when gas prices shattered 399 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,440 records and families were getting crushed at the pump. Did 400 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,440 the eco leftists say anything? No, it was bulk silence, 401 00:20:15,519 --> 00:20:17,920 wasn't it. It was across the board. The same politicians who 402 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,599 now pretend to champion kitchen table economics did not care 403 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,200 when American families were feeling the pain. They claim to 404 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,160 love the word affordability now, But while they were pretending 405 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,319 to care, they might want to look in their own backyards, 406 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,039 because state level green mandates and fuel standards still punish 407 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:38,400 consumers still using Triple a's state averages. The five most 408 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,240 expensive states for gas, they're all blue states. The five 409 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,920 cheapest are all solid red states. When you look at 410 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,799 where gas is most and least affordable, there's a Grand 411 00:20:46,839 --> 00:20:49,680 Canyon level divide in states where the eco lefts mandates 412 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,960 and fuel standards dominate. California, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon. Drivers 413 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,440 are paying the highest prices in America about four nineteen 414 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,400 per gallon, but in states like Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, 415 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,640 in Arkansas, the average is two sixty three a gallon 416 00:21:03,279 --> 00:21:07,359 same gas. You don't have to be a political expert 417 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,119 to see there's a premium charge for Philip of the 418 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,960 states that embrace the green agenda. That's a dollar fifty 419 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,039 six per gallon penalty for living with those eco policies. 420 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,240 It's not ideology. 421 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:18,799 Speaker 3: That's math. 422 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 2: It's not about left or right. 423 00:21:20,559 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 3: It's just math. 424 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 2: You're paying more. You fill up there, you pay more. 425 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:25,920 You fill up in the other states you pay less. 426 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,759 And it means a family driving a few hundred miles 427 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,200 for Thanksgiving in California is paying dramatically more than a 428 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,799 family traving the same distance in Oklahoma or Mississippi, even 429 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:38,480 North Carolina, by the way, or South Carolina. So as 430 00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:40,920 we gather this year, we have a lot to be 431 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,359 thankful for we live. And I've said this before, I'll 432 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,599 continue to say it. We live in the greatest country 433 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,640 in the world. Are there things that can be better? 434 00:21:50,079 --> 00:21:51,880 Being the greatest country doesn't mean you live in a 435 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:57,400 perfect country, right Living in the greatest country doesn't mean perfect. 436 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,200 And the beauty of our country as we are able 437 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:03,920 to criticize it, we are able to improve it. We're 438 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,680 able to make it better. And I think that history 439 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,839 has shown that we continue to become a better country. 440 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,559 In many ways. We get lost sometimes right now, I 441 00:22:13,599 --> 00:22:19,240 think all this DEI and transgender issue is has forced 442 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,279 the country to go down a lost trail of a 443 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,960 lacking common sense. But I think that there's a course 444 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:26,720 correction and Americans are seeing it. 445 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 3: I think getting back. 446 00:22:27,799 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 2: To Christian roots do matter, doesn't mean everybody needs to 447 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,640 be Christian. It just means that that was part of 448 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,279 the makeup of the country. It's part of what makes 449 00:22:34,319 --> 00:22:37,160 this country great. We live in the greatest country in 450 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,480 the world. The Thanksgiving meal this year is cheaper. Thankful 451 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:44,960 for that. Travel is more affordable and the planes running, 452 00:22:46,079 --> 00:22:48,920 and America's energy workers continue to prove that when politicians 453 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,759 get out of the way, the result is lower cost, 454 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:53,920 stronger supply, and more green in our wallets. This Thanksgiving, 455 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:59,279 the green agenda loss and American families won, and American 456 00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:02,880 families won one. And that's a that's a beautiful statement. 457 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,640 If you if you let if you let yourself go 458 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,599 down that road. A little bit is that those polities, 459 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,279 uh solar wind, all these subsidies, they didn't make power cheaper. 460 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,880 The transition to this is not made power cheaper, and 461 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,119 it's not paying off. 462 00:23:19,759 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 3: And yet the fuel. 463 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 2: That drives a capitalist society is the cost of production, 464 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:27,279 and the cost of production is driven by energy cost. 465 00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:30,200 And that's why you see the Germans that are that 466 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,480 are failing, you see Europe floundering. It went all in 467 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,039 could it have built a lot more nuclear facilities. We 468 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,400 should have been building nuclear facilities for the past twenty 469 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,279 five years, cheap, abundant, affordable energy. And we now know 470 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:44,920 that tech there for nuclear facilities is better than it's 471 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,000 ever been, safer than it's ever been, and we can 472 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:50,359 make them smaller. We can make the scale of nuclear 473 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,240 facilities far smaller than they used to be. So there's 474 00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:57,559 just so much we can do. But again, the point being, 475 00:23:57,599 --> 00:23:59,720 when you go to the grocery store for Thanksgiving, it 476 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,759 doesn't it may not feel that way to you. And 477 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,920 sure prices can come down. Prices are tough on folks, 478 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:10,319 and if wages have gone up too, so that means 479 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,160 Americans have more money in their pocket, But that doesn't 480 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,680 mean it's for everybody. Doesn't mean everyone that's hearing this 481 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:19,200 it's good for them, because we're not in all country. 482 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:21,519 We're a sum. Some people are doing very well. We 483 00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:24,400 hope what we hope is the bulk of our citizens 484 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,359 are doing better, and we hope that all of them 485 00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:32,880 can have some form of opportunity through hard work, diligence, sacrifice, 486 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:38,160 the right attitude, and realizing that it takes hard work 487 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,000 Overnight successes about fifteen years. But we hope that your 488 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:44,119 kids have that. We hope that you have that. So 489 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,000 there's just so much opportunity out there, and again I 490 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,400 just want to bring that to your attention. This is 491 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,720 written by Larry Barns as an energy expert in the 492 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,039 communications director for Power of the Future. Has been on 493 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:58,039 Fox News, Zero Hedge, Newsmax and he defends the energy sector. 494 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,440 By the way, and we're producing more oil, we ever 495 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,440 have more to fuel the economy. 496 00:25:02,519 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 497 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,720 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 498 00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:11,000 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 499 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,359 Asheville is your connection. 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A 519 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,279 weird one that's percolating up. It's just one of those 520 00:26:23,319 --> 00:26:26,039 that you almost kind of scratch your head and say, really, 521 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:27,799 is that really a story? 522 00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 3: And it is. It's a New York Post. 523 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: More folks are carrying it. I think even some of 524 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,759 the three letter legacy media are like, oh, we gotta 525 00:26:34,799 --> 00:26:35,200 carry this. 526 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,759 Speaker 3: It's a real story. Is that the. 527 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,279 Speaker 2: I can't It's hard to believe it's a real story. 528 00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 3: But it is. 529 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 2: Just when you thought the Biden administration couldn't get a 530 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,920 little weirder, you see a story like this the Biden administration, 531 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,319 this is the And I don't like headlines that say bombshell. 532 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,319 Speaker 3: You know that's what they're bombshell. Oh my god, breaking news. 533 00:26:55,839 --> 00:26:57,720 That's just to me. It's a story and it's worthy 534 00:26:57,759 --> 00:26:59,799 of discussion. So that's why we'll talk about it. 535 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 2: And Biden administration allegedly pressured US airports to house migrants 536 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,799 despite warnings that it could compromise safety and put travelers 537 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:11,839 at risk, according to a bombshell Senate report. The forty 538 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:15,319 seven page document Flight Risk, released by the Senate Commerce Committee, 539 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,920 alleges the White House directed the Department of Transportation, the FAA, 540 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,799 the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Federal Transit 541 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:26,119 Administration to find airport facilities for shelters or processing centers 542 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,720 for migrants. According to the report, the administration instructed DOT 543 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,319 and FAA to inventory available facilities that both federally owned 544 00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:38,400 and local airports and to divert federal resources to support 545 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,079 migrant arrivals. Internal email side in the report show concern 546 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,640 among staff. On October six, twenty twenty three, one FAA 547 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,240 official wrote to Massport, we have received this request from 548 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:50,599 the White House to determine if there are available facilities. 549 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,240 This is an immediate risk, so please prioritize this effort. 550 00:27:54,319 --> 00:27:58,599 Another dot staffer said, yikes, this is definitely Fox news fodder. 551 00:27:58,279 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 3: In the making. 552 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 2: The committee found at least eleven airports, including Boston, Logan, Chicago, Haare, 553 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:06,400 New York's JFK, were asked or even pressured to put 554 00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:12,160 migrants inside the terminals of their airports. FA officials, according 555 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,880 to report, recognized that such use would you usually need 556 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,279 federal approval under grant assurance rules. Instead, they ignored them 557 00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:21,359 most of the time when airports used their facilities to 558 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,759 house aliens. Despite that warning, the report says Logan hosted 559 00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:26,839 up to Logan Airport in Boston three hundred and fifty 560 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:29,400 two migrants overnight in Terminal E, and they spent seven 561 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,039 hundred seventy nine thousand on security, cleaning and transportation. Chicago's 562 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:37,640 Ohair nine hundred migrants were sheltered between April twenty three 563 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,519 and February twenty four. The report says they logged three 564 00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:43,079 hundred twenty nine service calls, twenty six arrests. Anyway, the 565 00:28:43,119 --> 00:28:48,319 point being, what were they thinking? Again, and I say 566 00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:54,680 this with disbelief, I guess the Biden administration was in 567 00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:57,640 full control at that point. They had everything they needed. 568 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,799 They were running, allegedly running the government, not just an 569 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:01,920 autopen presidency. 570 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,759 Speaker 3: But it appears that way they. 571 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 2: Could have easily said, let's just enforce the law, let's 572 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,759 just deport people, let's secure the border. But rather than 573 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:13,279 doing that, you send Kamala Harris down to Guatemala to 574 00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:16,279 talk about root causes. You don't enforce the border. Millions 575 00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:19,119 of people flow across as like an invading force, and 576 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,920 then you decide the way to deal with it is 577 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,319 to put some migrants in airports across the country, in 578 00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:27,640 dangering US citizens. Yeah. Yeah, you can't make this stuff. 579 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:29,759 I mean, you can't make it up, but it wouldn't 580 00:29:29,759 --> 00:29:32,799 be believable. Chapter one, how to screw up. Let's just 581 00:29:32,839 --> 00:29:36,119 take let's not enforce immigration, let's tear the border down, 582 00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:38,599 and then let's put a couple of them. Let's put 583 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,160 them in airports. 584 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Put them in airports. Who comes up 585 00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:42,640 with this? 586 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 2: And here's the part and I get. I get with 587 00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,119 the mag of faithful. I get why they're upset when 588 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:49,960 they say, you know, arrest them, they need to be 589 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:50,359 in jail. 590 00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:51,279 Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. 591 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 2: I just want to know what happened. We don't even know. 592 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,200 We're hearing bits and pieces between the auto pen between 593 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:00,440 Hunter and Notice that the Hunter Biden's artwork isn't really 594 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,480 selling for anything. If you want to, if you want 595 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:07,880 like kind of some knowledge that it's not going well 596 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,759 and that they were paying for access, I'll bet you 597 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:13,200 any kind of stock in Hunter Biden's paintings has just 598 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:13,640 gone away. 599 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:14,359 Speaker 3: They're worthless. 600 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:16,759 Speaker 2: You know, you were paying him an excess amount of 601 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:20,640 money for access to his dad. And again that's my assertion, 602 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,240 but I'm sure, I'm sure you can probably get a 603 00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:25,920 deal on Hunter Biden's paintings. 604 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,759 Speaker 3: Right now because it's not giving you access to anything. 605 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,759 Speaker 2: But again, when faced with the opportunity, and I would 606 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:36,160 go back to Mayor Lewles. And I'm not saying I'm 607 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,359 not being mean to the mayor. I'm just asserting that 608 00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:42,960 wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to have 609 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000 these discussions, that we were on the the same It's 610 00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:48,880 the same page. 611 00:30:49,039 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 3: But we're not. 612 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:59,799 Speaker 2: It's just it's just uh sad, It's kind of pathetic, Maya. 613 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:02,200 I didn't mean to belabor that too long, but it 614 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,559 is to me. There are things, there are legitimate things 615 00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:06,160 that we can have discussions about. But it looks like 616 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,200 the political left hates Donald Trump so bad that they'd 617 00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:12,920 rather just release videos telling the military to disobey orders. 618 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,319 They'd rather, you know, make hay about giving you know, 619 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:20,000 on not enforcing the border stuff or immigration stuff. They'd 620 00:31:20,079 --> 00:31:22,720 rather attack the guy in the White House than actually 621 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,920 put their nose to the grindstone and help solve some problems. Say, 622 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,200 let's get through this, Let's figure out a way to 623 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,680 solve some of these problems. This isn't to me, it 624 00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:34,759 isn't overly complicated, and it certainly is. But again, we're 625 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:36,839 in such a politically charge and I get the President 626 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:37,720 drives you bonkers. 627 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 3: He says stuff. 628 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,079 Speaker 2: I mean, even today during the Turkey partying, which was 629 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,400 absolutely hysterical, he took the opportunity to take a shot 630 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:44,759 at JB. 631 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 3: Pritzker's size. He should he have done that? 632 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:47,119 Speaker 2: No? 633 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:48,599 Speaker 3: Should he be. 634 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 2: Nicknaming everybody like a third grader? No? Is it part 635 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,240 of what he is and who he is. Yes, but 636 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:56,759 you know what when other people call him a fascist 637 00:31:56,799 --> 00:32:00,640 and a Nazi, they're doing They're not better than him, 638 00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:05,119 they're not elevating their cause. And so when someone asked 639 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,000 him in the White House, Mundani, didn't you call him 640 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,640 a fascist? And Mamdani starts to give a political answer, 641 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,480 and Trump says, yeah, yeah, you did, just say it. 642 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,000 It's easier than trying to explain it. And he brushes 643 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:17,039 it off because what he's interested in is actually having 644 00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:20,880 the discussions. I mean, the Ukraine rushes stuff. I mean, 645 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,720 they go back to the table again and again and again. 646 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:25,720 They know Putin's the bad guy. They get concessions from 647 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:28,799 Ukraine at some point. You know, Putin's really good at 648 00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:30,880 being a bad guy. He's very very good at being 649 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,160 a bad guy. But maybe Trump is leveraging g Over 650 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,319 in China to try to get the Russians. 651 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:36,599 Speaker 3: To be at the table. 652 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 2: Right now, we have an agreement from the Ukrainians. This 653 00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:43,799 could be golden, this could be you know, the Abraham Accords, 654 00:32:43,799 --> 00:32:46,640 getting Saudi Arabia and other countries on board. Beautiful diplomacy. 655 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,440 It's not pretty, but it's consistently hitting those phone lines 656 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,119 and never giving up. He is whether you hate him 657 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,799 or not, He's tireless and relentless. Look at the energy 658 00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:56,519 he brings to the table compared to the guy that 659 00:32:56,599 --> 00:32:57,680 has just left the White House. 660 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,519 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 661 00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:03,599 so much for listening. I could not do the show 662 00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:06,119 without your support and the support of the businesses that 663 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,319 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 664 00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:11,000 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 665 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,640 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 666 00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:17,359 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 667 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,799 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.