1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:05,599 Speaker 1: What's going on. 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,080 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,839 WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,160 like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily 6 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:19,480 show prep with all the links, become a patron, go 7 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:23,399 to dpeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,320 Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. 9 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:29,440 And again, thank you so much for your support. Sorry, 10 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,079 I was just checking to see why won't this subscription 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,920 work for Politico. I feel like if my tax dollars 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,600 are being used for the pro premium subscription, I don't know. 13 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:43,799 I feel like I should be able to see their stuff. 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,359 Now that's weird. Oh and the New York Times and 15 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:54,399 who else the Associated Press I think is in here. Yeah, 16 00:00:54,719 --> 00:00:55,679 that's a lot of money. 17 00:00:56,159 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: Man. 18 00:00:56,359 --> 00:00:58,719 Speaker 2: I've been paying for subscriptions to The New York Times 19 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:00,320 for a long time, but for some reason, and I 20 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:05,040 keep getting paywalled. I don't understand why they keep blocking 21 00:01:05,079 --> 00:01:06,959 all of my stories. I go, this is your one 22 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:11,799 free article of the month, and then Politico magazine They've 23 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,760 got a bunch of money from me, and I still 24 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,680 can't access their site. I'm not have to probably write 25 00:01:16,719 --> 00:01:23,120 tech support over the issue. But no, seriously, well, apparently 26 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:27,480 we have been spending you me, all taxpayers have been 27 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:33,640 paying for subscriptions for government personnel. 28 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: To have. 29 00:01:35,359 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: At various news organizations somewhere in the neighborhood of like 30 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:44,120 eight million dollars for Politico, New York Times. I saw 31 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:47,400 the Associated Press was in there. So a whole bunch 32 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:49,840 of these media companies that have been getting millions of 33 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:56,439 dollars in taxpayer funds for subscriptions past the paywall, and 34 00:01:56,519 --> 00:02:00,359 we've been paying for it. And I don't know if 35 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:01,760 you're aware of this, So just I'll give you a 36 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,959 little bit of a peek behind the curtain here. I 37 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:11,479 rely on getting information from lots of news sources to 38 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,280 do my job. It's true, No I do for real, 39 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:19,400 Like contrary to what some leftists accuse us, there is 40 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,280 not a talking point memo that goes out every single 41 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,719 morning and telling me what I have to talk about 42 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:28,439 and what I should avoid talking about or whatever. I 43 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:31,280 don't get that, so I have to read a lot 44 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,759 of news publications. In fact, it's why I don't read 45 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,919 a lot of books anymore. And I love reading books, 46 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:42,400 I'm just read out by the time I get home. 47 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:44,840 That's not true because then I start. When I get home, 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,719 I continue prepping. So okay, that's not even true. But 49 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,080 like you know, if you oh, I'm going to curl 50 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:50,800 up with a good book before I go to bed, 51 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,039 I am so tired of all of the reading that 52 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:56,759 I don't want to curl up with a good book, 53 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,479 even though it's a good book and I know I 54 00:02:58,479 --> 00:03:00,560 would enjoy reading it. And that's part of the problem 55 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,000 I have. Like I probably have about thirty books on 56 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:06,280 my shelf right now that I have to read, and 57 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:08,879 I just don't read them all because I read a 58 00:03:08,879 --> 00:03:15,080 lot of news. But I've never had my subscriptions paid for, 59 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:20,520 Like I have never gotten well, I take it back. 60 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:23,759 One subscription and it was like a it was like 61 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,879 a company wide, station wide thing. That's it. That's the 62 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,639 only and it was one new local news outlet. I 63 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,319 have paid for every subscription to every news organization that 64 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,400 I have ever purchased. 65 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:37,719 Speaker 1: I am. 66 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: I've always paid out of my own pocket for that. 67 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:48,039 And I'm in the business, right I Like, I rely 68 00:03:48,199 --> 00:03:51,800 on this stuff in order to help build my show content. 69 00:03:53,960 --> 00:04:00,159 Why on earth are we funding subscriptions for government employees. 70 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,759 I don't get it. They should be paying for that themselves. 71 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:05,960 Let them all go in together. Let people go in 72 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,360 together and share subscription, right, just do what everybody else 73 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:13,240 does and just go incognito, man, clear out your cash. 74 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:13,479 Speaker 1: Like. 75 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:15,719 Speaker 2: There are ways around this people. Okay, I've already said 76 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:17,720 too much. I think there's also a website it's called 77 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,759 like twelve foot Ladder or something like that, that you 78 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:24,720 can use to get around their like archive pages and stuff. 79 00:04:24,959 --> 00:04:29,160 So there are ways to beat the paywalls, depending on 80 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:32,839 what browser you're using. I am not here to help 81 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,720 you do that. There's also the reader version on the 82 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,279 Brave browser. But I'm just saying there are ways around 83 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:46,800 the paywalls. So yeah, no, I'm not I'm not a 84 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,439 fan of this. But here's the thing that chaps me 85 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:54,360 the most, which is these are government entities that are 86 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,360 paying for the subscriptions. Right. So even if you can 87 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,519 make the argum that well, Pete, you know, we work 88 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,839 in the US Department of DEI Expansion, and so we 89 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:12,240 need to know what's happening in the culture. We need 90 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,000 to know if you know Politico is you know mispronouning, 91 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,720 misgendering people. We need to know this stuff, right, and 92 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,000 so therefore we need to have as part of our 93 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,920 business operation, we need to have a subscription to Politico 94 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,040 or The New York Times. Okay, I can understand that argument. 95 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,839 But here's the thing. When the government is cutting the 96 00:05:32,959 --> 00:05:38,040 check to Politico or to the New York Times, those 97 00:05:38,199 --> 00:05:44,800 entities should be disclosing that they are getting money from 98 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:52,600 government agencies. That's disclosure, right, That is to alleviate the 99 00:05:52,720 --> 00:06:00,680 perception of influence or bias in your news product, right, 100 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,800 Because certainly, if you're making tens of thousands of dollars 101 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:11,120 off of a government agency renewed every year, and you know, 102 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,199 basically a guaranteed source of income to basically fund a reporter, 103 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:19,000 and all funds are fungible, meaning it's the same pair 104 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,560 of pants, just different pockets, but it's all still yours, 105 00:06:21,639 --> 00:06:23,319 you know, because you're wearing the pants that kind of thing. 106 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,199 It doesn't matter what pocket you move it around to. 107 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,759 So these news organizations are in fact getting money from 108 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,439 these agencies, and if they are reporting, I'm just kidding, 109 00:06:32,439 --> 00:06:37,639 they rarely. I Look, I am super shocked that all 110 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,800 of a sudden media people and Democrats. But I repeat myself, 111 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:46,240 have wake have awoken. They have woken up to this 112 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:51,600 fact that government agencies exist and that they do stuff, 113 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,399 and that there's all this personnel and there's a bunch 114 00:06:54,399 --> 00:06:57,519 of grant money flowing through stuff. It's all of a sudden, 115 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,439 this new hyper focus on on the work that government 116 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,759 agencies do. And if we get nothing out of the 117 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:10,920 Doge experiment, we will have gotten that, and so I 118 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:13,480 will take that as a win. There are a couple 119 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:15,920 of I saw Brian Stelter, who's a potato and I 120 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:21,160 saw him tweet out that there are some publications that 121 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,319 that do focus. They're very niche, right. I don't think 122 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,839 they get subscriptions from the government though, But they cover 123 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:33,480 these agencies. They cover like real, like like wonky kind 124 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,040 of stuff going on inside the federal government. You know, 125 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:41,839 different agencies and bureaucracies and stuff. And they're now getting 126 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:45,399 tons of new traffic as people try to figure out 127 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:48,480 what the heck is going on? Is this stuff really real? 128 00:07:49,279 --> 00:07:53,800 And by the way, yes, the stuff is real. And 129 00:07:53,879 --> 00:07:59,040 the poster child for the waste fraud, abuse, and I 130 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:04,600 would say corruption and scandal, the poster child is us 131 00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:10,240 AID or US aid. This is the one that you're 132 00:08:10,279 --> 00:08:12,720 hearing the most about because it's really the first one 133 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,759 that Elon Musk and his band of you know what, 134 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,480 nineteen to twenty three year old tech bros that he 135 00:08:21,519 --> 00:08:24,680 brought with him, and everybody's outraged by the way. Why 136 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:28,199 is there so much outrage over a nineteen year old 137 00:08:28,519 --> 00:08:30,879 whiz kid going in there and doing all of this 138 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,960 data mining and stuff and trying to figure out where 139 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,600 all the money's flowing to try to find waste, fraud 140 00:08:36,639 --> 00:08:39,320 and abuse. Like he's only ninety, he's just out of 141 00:08:39,399 --> 00:08:41,360 high school and all this other stuff. But like, but 142 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:45,320 you're saying he's so he's not competent enough to run 143 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,519 the computer coding and all of that stuff for this 144 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:50,279 kind of an operation, but he is competent enough to 145 00:08:51,159 --> 00:08:54,799 cut off his genitals. Like that's okay. I'm like, I 146 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:57,960 just I'm trying to figure out a consistent application of 147 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,919 a standard, that's all. Here's a great idea. How about 148 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,200 making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway 149 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,679 in western North Carolina? Just a quick drive up the 150 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,960 mountain and cabins of Ashville is your connection. 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Oh goodness, all right, so 170 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:21,399 let me start here. Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, 171 00:10:22,519 --> 00:10:26,720 she came out yesterday and held up a piece of 172 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:30,039 paper with some of the items that were being funded 173 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,519 under the us AID program. This is the Agency for 174 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:40,240 International Development, and this is this is just a tenC 175 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,799 ween see little bit of. 176 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 3: It through USAID over the past several years. These are 177 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,960 some of the insane priorities that that organization has been 178 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,360 spending money on. One point five million dollars to advance 179 00:10:51,919 --> 00:10:56,240 DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for a production of 180 00:10:56,279 --> 00:11:01,240 a Dei musical in Ireland, forty and for a transgender 181 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,480 opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand for a transgender comic 182 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:08,080 book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as 183 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,519 an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards 184 00:11:10,519 --> 00:11:12,519 this crap, and I know the American people don't either. 185 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,240 And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by 186 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,519 President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste, and 187 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:18,879 abuse out of our federal government. 188 00:11:20,039 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 2: All right, Bud, Wait, there's more. There is so much more. 189 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,919 This is from the Rapid Response Team of the White 190 00:11:30,919 --> 00:11:36,519 House because as Musk and his merry band of reformers 191 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,720 have gotten into the books over there. And by the way, 192 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:45,360 there are all sorts of freelancers that are also running 193 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:50,200 searches and queries through government databases and pulling tons of 194 00:11:51,039 --> 00:11:53,919 these grants that the USAID has been funding with your 195 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:59,799 tax dollar. Right, this is foreign quote aid, and the 196 00:12:00,039 --> 00:12:04,159 this just keeps getting longer and more and more outrageous. 197 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,600 So here's the list that the Rapid Response. Forty seven 198 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,519 is the Twitter handle of the White House's Rapid Response team. 199 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,919 And rapid Response is just a media deal. It's like, 200 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,279 you know, they're the ones that like deploy immediately when 201 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:22,759 something's going on and you have to, you know, get 202 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:25,360 in front of something from a pr perspective, you employ 203 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:28,759 a Rapid Response team to do that. So that's who 204 00:12:28,799 --> 00:12:33,639 these people are. So let's see what else. Seven point 205 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:37,639 nine million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid 206 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:44,080 binary gendered language, twenty million for a new sesame street 207 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:50,879 show in Iraq. Four point five million to combat disinformation 208 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:56,159 in Kazakhstan. I wouldn't even know what disinformation and Kazakhstan 209 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,360 looks like one point five million for art for inclusion 210 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,960 of people with disabilities, two million for sex changes and 211 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:16,159 LGBT activism in Guatemala, So Guatemalan sex changes. Six million 212 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:22,759 to quote transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles. 213 00:13:23,279 --> 00:13:26,440 Two point one million to help the BBC, which is 214 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:32,039 literally state run media, to help the BBC quote value 215 00:13:32,159 --> 00:13:38,519 the diversity of Libyan society. Ten million dollars worth of 216 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,799 USAID funded meals which went to an al Qaeda linked 217 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:44,799 terrorist group. Well, you got to keep the al Qaeda 218 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:50,080 jihattists fed. They get very angry, they get hangry. See 219 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:56,000 it's soft diplomacy here people. Twenty five million dollars for Deloitte, 220 00:13:56,039 --> 00:14:01,360 which is a massive corporation, and they used it to 221 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:08,159 promote green transportation in the country of Georgia. I don't 222 00:14:08,159 --> 00:14:11,879 know if like didn't Georgia get taken over by Russia 223 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,240 or just part of Georgia maybe I don't remember. Six 224 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:20,080 million dollars for tourism in Egypt. Two point five million 225 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,639 to promote inclusion in Vietnam. Sixteen point eight million for 226 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,840 a separate inclusion group in Vietnam. Oh, and then there 227 00:14:27,879 --> 00:14:33,480 was like ev vehicles in in Vietnam too. Five million 228 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:36,919 to Eco Health Alliance, remember them, Yeah, one of the 229 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,879 key NGOs or non government organizations funding the bat virus 230 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,519 research at the Wuhan Lab. Twenty million for a group 231 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,960 related to a key player in the Russia Gate impeachment hoax. 232 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:52,399 I don't know what that's about. One point one million 233 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,559 to an Armenian LGBT group. One point two million to 234 00:14:56,679 --> 00:15:00,759 help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Develop Agency 235 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:03,080 in Washington, d C. Build a state of the art 236 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:07,519 four hundred and forty seat auditorium. One point so no 237 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:10,559 concerns there about church and state separation, I'm guessing from 238 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:17,159 the Democrats, okay. Two million to promote LGBT equality through 239 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,519 entrepreneurship in Latin America. One point five million to rebuild 240 00:15:21,559 --> 00:15:26,960 the Cuban media ecosystem. One point five million to promote 241 00:15:27,039 --> 00:15:31,679 LGBT advocacy in Jamaica. One point three million to Arab 242 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,559 and Jewish photographers. Half a million to solve sectarian violence 243 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,120 in Israel just ten days before the October seventh attack. 244 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:43,000 By the way, two point three million for artisanal oh 245 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:50,600 God and small scale gold mining in the Amazon. Artisanal 246 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,679 gold mining I have heard it all, man, I have 247 00:15:53,879 --> 00:15:57,120 heard it all. There's more, there's more. 248 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:58,039 Speaker 1: All right. 249 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,919 Speaker 2: I hope you had a happy holidays. But tell me 250 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,720 if something like this happened at your house. Your family 251 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,960 and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the 252 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,159 living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, 253 00:16:11,399 --> 00:16:14,799 remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? 254 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:17,879 And then the room gets all quiet. All eyes are 255 00:16:17,919 --> 00:16:20,679 on Dad, who says, oh, you know, well, I've been 256 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,559 meaning to but I just having gotten around to it. Look, 257 00:16:23,639 --> 00:16:26,840 don't let those priceless memories sit in a box for 258 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:29,679 another year, all right. 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Trust the experts at Creative Video 267 00:16:56,919 --> 00:16:59,720 conveniently located in mint Hill right off I four eighty 268 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,960 five and online at Create a video dot com message 269 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,519 from Melissa who says the government doesn't need subscriptions to 270 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,680 all of these media publications and websites. The government has 271 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,039 been feeding the media information and talking points for decades 272 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,839 like that, It's true, like why well, you just want 273 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:20,839 to see your name in print sometimes, or like I 274 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,759 lead that story and there it is on the web. 275 00:17:22,799 --> 00:17:27,640 Oh my gosh, I kind of kid. But like up 276 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,519 in DC and in Raleigh, you know, in politics, people 277 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,240 get off on that stuff. They really did it. There 278 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,480 are people they just love to be the source. It 279 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:41,400 gives them, like you know, some feeling of access and 280 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,200 import you know. Gary says people need to learn there 281 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,359 are repercussions to telling an autistic billionaire that he can't 282 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,680 do something. That's and then he asks Pete, are you 283 00:17:56,759 --> 00:17:57,920 tired of all the winning? 284 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: I am not. 285 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:04,279 Speaker 2: No, I am not at all. This is honestly, this 286 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,079 is this is one of the most transformational things I 287 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,400 have seen in regard to the or with regard to 288 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:18,359 the executive branch. Now he's he's he's using all sorts 289 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,920 of executive power, which, by the way, was appropriated into 290 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:28,519 the White House by Democrats and Republicans, but really Democrats. 291 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:31,079 This has been their project for a very long time, 292 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,400 moving more and more power into the executive branch. Right, 293 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:40,039 And before you leftist start talking to me about, oh, 294 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,400 Donald Trump can't do this because you know executive overreach 295 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,200 and all of that, I have two examples in my retort, 296 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:55,319 which would be Obama and Dhaka and Biden with DEI okay, 297 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:05,440 those guys used executive orders to massively overreach and implement 298 00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:09,319 all sorts of policies and changes inside of the executive branch, 299 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:14,000 reinterpreting things as they saw fit, right, rewriting law, getting 300 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:18,640 their bureau bureaucrats to reinterpret things with which they disagreed, 301 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,240 rather than going through a legislative process. So I don't 302 00:19:21,279 --> 00:19:23,480 even want to hear it. I really, I don't even 303 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,680 want to hear these arguments from you. I do not 304 00:19:25,759 --> 00:19:31,359 have a soft shoulder for you to cry on. That's 305 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:32,839 mainly because I lost a bunch of weight. Now it's 306 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,400 kind of bony up there. But anyway, what else did 307 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,440 the US AID fund? Well, let's keep going. We have 308 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,440 three point nine million dollars for LGBT causes in the 309 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,960 Western Balkans. By the way, have you noticed how often 310 00:19:50,799 --> 00:19:56,279 the DEI and LGBT stuff is showing up in these grants? 311 00:19:56,759 --> 00:20:01,119 Have you noticed that like there like their redding this stuff, 312 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:04,759 like that's what we're exporting we as America, Like that's 313 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:10,079 what we've been exporting to other countries. Five point five 314 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:16,160 million for LGBT activism in Uganda. Six million for advancing 315 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:21,000 LGBT issues in quote priority countries around the world. I 316 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,960 don't know what those priority countries are. Six point three 317 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,039 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa. 318 00:20:28,839 --> 00:20:32,599 I don't know why it's called that. I guess you're 319 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,680 not allowed to say those words are something in South Africa. 320 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:37,319 I don't know. Or maybe it's not for the lesbians 321 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,160 or the trans it's just for the men. It's just 322 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,319 for gay men. That's it. Eight point three million for 323 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:52,440 us AID Education, equity and Inclusion. USAID's Climate strategy outlined 324 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,640 a one hundred and fifty billion dollar hole of agency 325 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:59,880 approach to building quote an equitable world with net Z 326 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:07,000 zero greenhouse gas emissions. What else? Fifty six million dollars 327 00:21:07,039 --> 00:21:11,680 to boost tourism in Egypt and Tunisia. Forty million to 328 00:21:11,759 --> 00:21:17,119 build schools in Jordan. Eleven million to tell Vietnam to 329 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:25,519 stop burning trash. My gosh, Vietnam has made a ton 330 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:28,640 of money off of us. I've lost track of how 331 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,960 many millions of dollars. They're probably close to, like thirty 332 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:40,079 million right now. Twenty seven million dollars for reintegration gift bags. 333 00:21:40,559 --> 00:21:45,119 What is a reintegration gift bag? Good question, glad you asked. 334 00:21:45,799 --> 00:21:52,119 A reintegration gift bag is given to all of the 335 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:58,160 people that we deport back to Central America. Twenty seven 336 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:03,079 million dollars worth of gift bag schwag, which is amazing 337 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,279 to me because I thought we weren't deporting any of you. Like, 338 00:22:06,319 --> 00:22:10,680 that's the I don't know who you give it a 339 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,799 lot of this stuff. Here's the thing. Well, okay, let 340 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,279 me just read a couple more and then I'll say 341 00:22:16,279 --> 00:22:19,119 here's the thing. Two point five million to promote Dei 342 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,559 in Serbia, seventy grand for a Dei musical in Ireland, 343 00:22:24,079 --> 00:22:29,039 forty seven thousand for a transgender opera in Colombia, and 344 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,559 thirty two thousand dollars for a transgender comic book in Peru, 345 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:38,960 because we all need some Peruvian trans comics. In our life. Look, 346 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,240 here's the deal. Do I think that all of these 347 00:22:42,279 --> 00:22:45,119 funds actually went to all of these crazy things? I 348 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,359 do not. I believe some of this stuff is simply 349 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,200 a mask for what they really want to spend the 350 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,400 money on, which is either like color revolutions to overthrow governments, 351 00:22:55,519 --> 00:23:02,359 destabilize countries and such CIA covert operations, yes, but also 352 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:08,960 payroll payroll for the shadow government. Right. This is where 353 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,839 people like Samantha Powers have been installed, and so she 354 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,839 can bounce back and forth from you know, a USAID 355 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:21,119 supported instant or NGO, and then you just pick them 356 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,000 up and plug and play, put them right into your government, 357 00:23:25,759 --> 00:23:29,559 because they're basically running these government things, you know. And 358 00:23:29,599 --> 00:23:33,720 some of these are like classified. Oh and USAID has 359 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,160 refused to cooperate with Congressional oversight committees. And now we 360 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,079 know why. All right, if you're listening to this show, 361 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,680 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 362 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,680 of current events, and I know you do too, And 363 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:49,559 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, 364 00:23:49,599 --> 00:23:52,319 because it's how you detect media bias. Which is why 365 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,559 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 366 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:58,960 and it's a website and it combines news from around 367 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,400 the world in one place, so you can compare coverage 368 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,359 and verify information. You can check it out at check 369 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:08,839 dot ground, dot news slash pete. 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Your subscription 379 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,599 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 380 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,920 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 381 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,599 There is a fellow who posts I forget his real name. 382 00:24:47,839 --> 00:24:51,880 He's a federal prosecutor. He goes by the Twitter handle 383 00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:58,440 shipwrecked crew shipwrecked crew and twenty two year federal prosecutor. 384 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:05,640 He defended j six cases and was ninety one and zero, 385 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,000 so I kind of feel like he knows what he's 386 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,960 talking about. And he says it'll take a while, but 387 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,319 you're going to find out that many family members of 388 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,200 folks elected to Congress, as well as family members of 389 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,559 folks who have populated senior positions in both Democrat and 390 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:26,119 GOP administrations, have lucrative places within the industries funded by USAID. 391 00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:30,720 This is a forty billion dollar annual operation. By the way, 392 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,519 this has long been the main source of nepo corruption nepotism. 393 00:25:35,799 --> 00:25:39,240 It is much easier to enrich the families of politicians 394 00:25:39,319 --> 00:25:42,839 via public funds sent in their direction than it is 395 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,880 to enrich the politicians themselves. There are many ways to 396 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,839 do the latter, but simply creating government funded organizations for 397 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,079 one obscure purpose or another, which are then headed by 398 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:57,920 members of the extended families of politicians with great benefits 399 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,440 and perks is time tested and bipartisan. The pushback is 400 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,319 going to be the same, and it's going to be nuts. 401 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:09,279 That's why we saw. Look, Democrats never came to western 402 00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:12,559 North Carolina, but they made a freaking b line down 403 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,960 to the USAID Office and the Treasury Department, which was 404 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,799 weird because they were chanting in front of the Treasury 405 00:26:18,839 --> 00:26:20,799 Department to take over the Senate. I'm like this is 406 00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:23,480 the Treasury Department. I don't know what you guys think 407 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:25,240 you're doing this. If you're going to take over the Senate, 408 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:27,480 it's like it's up there. It's a couple of blocks 409 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,799 that way. But Ralph, welcome to the program. Hello Ralph. 410 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: Heye? Hey? Was there a lot item on there for 411 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:41,960 five hundred and fifty million dollars to Afghanistan for like 412 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,839 diesel power generation. I mean, you're probably big units that 413 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,240 would power up a lot of homes and stuff like that. 414 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:54,920 But uh, but then after they got the money and 415 00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:58,559 the and the and the diesel generators, the diesel fuel 416 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,359 was too much and so they quit uning them. So 417 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,960 I wonder if any of the Biden crime family or 418 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,359 the DNC got any of that money. That's that's a 419 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,400 big junk of change. 420 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 2: I don't know that. I mean, that could very well 421 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:16,319 just be chalked up to typical military uh, military poor purchasing. 422 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,359 You know, they kind of have a history of that too. 423 00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:22,200 Wait till he wait till Elon Musk gets into the 424 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,200 defense budget, it's going to be amazing, I'm sure. But 425 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,319 I did hear that story. It had something and a 426 00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:33,920 lot of the generators ended up like they just like 427 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,039 they got siphoned, all siphoned, but they got diverted, and 428 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,359 like the bad guys got ahold of them. And when 429 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,200 they ended up in the places they were supposed to be, 430 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:44,240 the people couldn't use them because it took too long 431 00:27:44,319 --> 00:27:46,880 to get diesel fuel to get into the generators, and 432 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,880 so then they just sold it back to the Taliban 433 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,240 and stuff. Yeah, it's just there's it's just it's just rampant. 434 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,880 It's just rampant and like and this is what you 435 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,440 are hearing in this stuff. And and I don't know 436 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,960 where the money where the generators came from. I don't 437 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,960 know if that was usai D or if it was DoD, 438 00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:07,039 I don't know, but you're hearing a lot of like, well, 439 00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:12,920 the usai D, they're just doing humanitarian aid, right, that's 440 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,759 what they're all about. It's just about food and people 441 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:16,359 are going to starve to death and not get their 442 00:28:16,519 --> 00:28:20,519 HIV meds and stuff. That is Mott and Bailey. That's 443 00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:23,960 a Mott and Bailey tactic. So, Ralph, I appreciate the 444 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:30,400 call Mott and Bailey. That is the It is a 445 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:36,359 tactic where you take a controversial position and when challenged, 446 00:28:36,559 --> 00:28:41,480 you retreat back to an easily defensible one. Okay, it's 447 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:46,680 a It is prevalent in philosophical, religious, political debates and 448 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,799 such where people will make a controversial claim, or they'll 449 00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:56,480 do something controversial and act a controversial policy, they'll they'll 450 00:28:56,599 --> 00:29:00,880 they'll push the envelope and then when challenged, they fall 451 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,480 back to a more easily defensible position. And it has 452 00:29:04,519 --> 00:29:12,359 to It's named after the layout of medieval you know, 453 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,480 castles in the villages around them, the bailey being the 454 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:20,319 wide open area around the castle. That is it's harder 455 00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:23,960 to defend, right, but it's it's farther away, so you're 456 00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:27,039 you're pushing the envelope out right, so you're going out there, 457 00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:30,519 and then when you get attacked on the bailey, you 458 00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:34,240 then retreat to the mott, which is the it's sort 459 00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:36,960 of the stronghold, right, and you go back to the 460 00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:40,880 easily defensible positions. And you see this all the time 461 00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:45,640 in political arguments. You see where it was really pronounced 462 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:52,279 was in dei and transgender debates, right like oh, you 463 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,000 have to like we we should be transing four year 464 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:00,039 olds controversial that's the bailey when when attacked and and 465 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:04,559 people say you shouldn't do that. That's crazy. They then 466 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,440 retreat back to, well, you want kids to die. Well, no, 467 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,319 it's a more easily defensible position that you don't want 468 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,839 kids to die. You don't want them to commit suicide, right, 469 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,920 And it's stuff like that, and that's what this is. 470 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,759 The Bailey is Peruvian trans comic books. And the mot 471 00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:31,039 that they retreat back to is wheat and rice for 472 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:35,640 starving people. Okay, so just be aware that tactic is 473 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,200 being employed in this debate, and it is a form, 474 00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:42,920 if I might say so, of gasline. All right, that'll 475 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,599 do it for this episode. 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