Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZST radio.
Speaker 2: All right, Don, if you were in downtown Boston today,
Speaker 2: it's been cold day. There was a demonstration, and the
Speaker 2: demonstration has kind of it was a lot of the
Speaker 2: progressive groups were demonstrating. As a matter of fact, Madison
Speaker 2: Rogers covered the demonstration for w b Z Boston's news radio,
Speaker 2: and we will get to Madison's report in just a second.
Speaker 2: But this is a group that is uh they are
Speaker 2: calling themselves, I guess, well, a bunch of different names.
Speaker 2: Three point fifty mass will rally with allies across Massachusetts
Speaker 2: to protest the illegal coup happening right now in Washington.
Speaker 2: Join us tomorrow in Valentine's Day at the Parkman House
Speaker 2: of the Boston Common and then they marched to the
Speaker 2: Kennedy Building in downtown Boston. Uh. No, no one elected
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. The cruelty of this administration impacts all of us.
Speaker 2: Us all join us. So it talks about the bandstand
Speaker 2: on the Boston Common. Stop the coup goals. Do you
Speaker 2: remember the Trump people got in trouble with stop the
Speaker 2: Steal back in two thousand and one when you had
Speaker 2: the riot at the Capitol. Now today, everybody seemed to
Speaker 2: be in fairly good order. They I think that they
Speaker 2: marched a little bit and might have impacted traffic somewhat,
Speaker 2: but not in the way that I think it has
Speaker 2: been done in the past and maybe done in the future.
Speaker 2: But what I thought was interesting was these were the
Speaker 2: frontline groups. Now they their phrase the impacted slash frontline groups.
Speaker 2: There were nine of them that made up this demonstration.
Speaker 2: The Boston Dyke March, the Boston Coalition for Palestine, Green
Speaker 2: Roots Home for All Massachusetts if not now, Boston North
Speaker 2: American Indian Center of Boston, the Palestinian House of New England,
Speaker 2: the Palestinian Youth Movement, and the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition.
Speaker 2: So there seems to be some pro Palestinian groups here,
Speaker 2: some climate groups. And then they have those are the
Speaker 2: nine impacted groups. This is from their press release. And
Speaker 2: then they have fifty six groups some of them you know,
Speaker 2: well the first one is three point fifty mass So
Speaker 2: whatever that is, that's the group I guess that was
Speaker 2: heading the group today. The American Civil Liberties Union of
Speaker 2: Massachusetts understand that Boston Democratic Socialists of America, Okay, Canton
Speaker 2: Residents for a sustainable, equitable future. That would be craff
Speaker 2: if that's a tough acronym. The Communist Party of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: That's group number eleven. Now I didn't realize we had
Speaker 2: an active Communist Party of Massachusetts, but I guess we do.
Speaker 2: The Extinction Rebellion Boston. Don't know what that means, friends
Speaker 2: of the Notch Forest, they probably had a big delegation
Speaker 2: there today. Some of these groups I can't even pronounce,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. Indivisible Boris and beyond. I have no
Speaker 2: idea what that is. Indivisible Melrose Wakefield plus indivisible mass Coalition,
Speaker 2: individual indivisible Upper cap Cape. So I guess that's a
Speaker 2: whole lot of indivisible visibility. I guess the mass Power
Speaker 2: Forward Coalition. That is not Boston Celtic players who play
Speaker 2: Power Forward. Okay, it's a group called the Massachusetts Powered
Speaker 2: Forward Coalition. I assume that is, I mean the Celtics.
Speaker 2: You only have a couple of power Forwards. Anyway, what
Speaker 2: else we got here? Just some of the ones mother's
Speaker 2: outfront Massachusetts got some mothers in there, north Shore for Palestine.
Speaker 2: Next one is north Shore individuals. We get a lot
Speaker 2: of Palestine. A lot of individual groups here. Progressive Democrats
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts, that is, that's a very important group because
Speaker 2: they are destroying the Democratic Party as we know it.
Speaker 2: Progressive Massachusetts, Progressive mass of Western Norfolk County. I don't
Speaker 2: see Progressive mass of Eastern Norfolk County, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: there is such a group. What else do we have here?
Speaker 2: The Sierra Club of Massachusetts. That's a very legitimate organization,
Speaker 2: the Stop Bullying Coalition. I mean, everybody should be in
Speaker 2: favor of that. Trees as a public good network. Okay,
Speaker 2: and the Workers were Party of Boston. I did skip
Speaker 2: across someone, but that gives you a sense and to
Speaker 2: give you a sense of how it all went down.
Speaker 2: His report filed today by w b z's Madison Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Hundreds of people thought bitter Wins through downtown, crossing in
Speaker 3: a march from Boston, come into the JFK Federal Building.
Speaker 3: They're rallying cry. They accused President Trump and Elon Musk
Speaker 3: of an authoritarian power grab, and they're not happy with
Speaker 3: the response from Democrats either. A blow after blow, each
Speaker 3: headline allounds to my heart, charting the rapid descent of
Speaker 3: our country into fascism and Authothecy Niantin Narowitz is with
Speaker 3: the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition, one of close to one
Speaker 3: hundred organizations that took part in this rally. Speakers here
Speaker 3: say they want this Valentine's Day to be a day
Speaker 3: of community and resilience downtown. I'm Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 3: News Radio.
Speaker 2: A lot of passion there, a lot of passion. Now,
Speaker 2: I'd love to get your reaction to this because I
Speaker 2: think we're going to see more of it again. We're
Speaker 2: going to see words like coup and fascism that those
Speaker 2: words were used in some part during the campaign. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: the campaign. There was a presidential election about three months ago.
Speaker 2: What December January Field, it's a little bit one hundred
Speaker 2: days ago. Now, actually, I think it would almost be
Speaker 2: exactly one hundred if you did the math, which I'm
Speaker 2: not going to do, but that's okay. You you have
Speaker 2: December January, that's sixty two days right there. We have
Speaker 2: November fifth, so that's another twenty five days, So that's
Speaker 2: probably eighty five days and it's the fifteenth. It's exactly
Speaker 2: probably one hundred days since the election. And we deal
Speaker 2: with presidential election every four years, and sometimes we vote democratics,
Speaker 2: sometimes we vote Republican and just as crazy as the
Speaker 2: January sixth election was, and we certainly have talked about
Speaker 2: that a lot. Here at nightside, I look at these
Speaker 2: demonstrations that are beginning to sprout up. You can sense
Speaker 2: they're getting a little bit of momentum, the Communist Party
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts and the Socialist Workers Alliance. I didn't see
Speaker 2: any legitimate union organization there today. None was represented. They
Speaker 2: had a list here again of how many groups. It
Speaker 2: was over sixty five groups, sixty five groups. Some of
Speaker 2: the groups sounded the same, but there were sixty five groups,
Speaker 2: and it looked to me like they probably were one
Speaker 2: hundred people at the demonstration. As best I could tell,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a huge demonstration, but certainly it was loud, noisy.
Speaker 2: So my question is why where were these people last September,
Speaker 2: October and November, And did they participate in the demonstration
Speaker 2: in the election or did they sit on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: If they participated in the election, and they if they did,
Speaker 2: I don't know that they did, why would they not
Speaker 2: sit back and say, Okay, we lost, just like the
Speaker 2: Republicans lost, and the Republicans did lose. Trump lost in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, and let's see what it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: That's my first question. If they didn't participate, if they
Speaker 2: sat on the sidelines and for whatever reason wasn't happy
Speaker 2: with either the Trump fance or the Harris Walls ticket,
Speaker 2: what do they have to complain about? So I'd like
Speaker 2: to open up the conversation. How much more of this
Speaker 2: street theater are we going to see in Boston and
Speaker 2: elsewhere around the country. What purpose is served? And did
Speaker 2: they not get the message from the voters in America? Now? Again,
Speaker 2: the Trump campaign likes to say they have a mandate.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have a mandate, but I do
Speaker 2: think that they have been given the authority to lead.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump seems to be doing exactly what he said,
Speaker 2: and I know that it's shaking some people up. But
Speaker 2: I would ask those in the audience who are sympathetic
Speaker 2: to this group, and if you are, I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear from you. We have a thirty seven trillion dollar
Speaker 2: national debt, We have a GDP, an entire GDP every
Speaker 2: year of about twenty five trillion. We are in Banana
Speaker 2: Republic territory here from an economic point of view, when
Speaker 2: you're debt a nation's debt exceeds its GDP, that's a problem.
Speaker 2: We used to talk about what percentage of the GDP
Speaker 2: can the federal debt rise to? Before we should be
Speaker 2: really worried about it. I mean when when George Bush
Speaker 2: took over twenty four years ago or twenty yeah, twenty
Speaker 2: four years ago, our national debt was five trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: It's now thirty seven trillion dollars, so it has increased
Speaker 2: seven times. Now you may say our day numbers, I
Speaker 2: don't get numbers. I don't get numbers. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you a billion dollars, okay, is a thousand million dollars,
Speaker 2: and a trillion dollars is a thousand billion dollars. And
Speaker 2: we have thirty seven trillion dollars. That is generating interest
Speaker 2: that we are going to owe more and more. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe not my generation, but if you're younger than the
Speaker 2: baby boomers, it's it's gonna come. It's gonna come sadly
Speaker 2: for young people. And I think a lot of young
Speaker 2: people are beginning to understand that. And you can march
Speaker 2: in the street, and you can protest, and you can
Speaker 2: use whatever language you want. I don't think a coup's
Speaker 2: going on. I don't think that where in any jeopardy
Speaker 2: of becoming a fasci estate. I think Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: Elon Musk are trying to cut federal government a lot,
Speaker 2: and I think they want to send a lot of
Speaker 2: the obligations that the federal government have now assumed, like education,
Speaker 2: back to the States. That's a philosophical difference, simple as that.
Speaker 2: It's not fascism. It is a philosophical difference. They have
Speaker 2: felt that maybe there's too many people who are in
Speaker 2: this department or that department. Seventy five thousand people have
Speaker 2: tendered early resignations. They have been given an incentive by
Speaker 2: the Trump administration, which I hope the Trump administration follows
Speaker 2: through on. I know that there's some question about how
Speaker 2: certain the promises were or will be. They're talking about
Speaker 2: giving people their salary all the way through September. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of people. By the way, Federal Judge Georgia O'Toole,
Speaker 2: I think did the right thing here in Boston. He
Speaker 2: looked at it pretty closely and he said, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't see a problem with this. It's better that
Speaker 2: people voluntarily decide to resign. I mean, if you're an
Speaker 2: older worker and you're looking to retire, maybe all of
Speaker 2: a sudden you feel that your health is not what
Speaker 2: it once was five ten years ago, and you want
Speaker 2: to enjoy some retirement as opposed to working and dying
Speaker 2: at your desk. Different people have different motivations. I know
Speaker 2: that there are some people who were down there in
Speaker 2: a probationary role. They took the job realizing that they
Speaker 2: couldn't achieve permanent status or tenure whatever the phraseology would be,
Speaker 2: that have to work a couple of years, and there's
Speaker 2: that period of time. So again, it's not a fascist state,
Speaker 2: it's not a coup, but you have all of these
Speaker 2: wild eyed, crazy, radical progressive organizations which you're going to
Speaker 2: try to make a lot more noise in the next
Speaker 2: few weeks. They see it as an opportunity and the
Speaker 2: next type demonstrations you'll see today it was a demonstration
Speaker 2: in a march. When the weather gets better, I predict
Speaker 2: could be well, I'm not gonna be wrong, but I
Speaker 2: always leave open that possibility. These demonstrations will begin to
Speaker 2: block traffic here in Boston and elsewhere. They've run that
Speaker 2: play before it's been effective, they were oftentimes treated with
Speaker 2: kid gloves. I don't think they're going to be treated
Speaker 2: with kid gloves this time, but we'll see. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna open. If all lines up, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: this for an hour. Then we're going to talk about
Speaker 2: love at ten o'clock with Carrie Brett. Carrie Brett, who
Speaker 2: has written a new book actually released today. It's entitled
Speaker 2: Shot at Love. She's a great photographer and she's going
Speaker 2: to talk about the ups and downs within her own
Speaker 2: life and how love comes and love goes. And I
Speaker 2: know Valentine's Day, everybody assumes everybody is perfectly happy. It's
Speaker 2: not true. Some people have great Valentine's Days and some
Speaker 2: people have Valentine's Days where they were alone. Whether you
Speaker 2: are listening tonight with a loved one or you're sitting
Speaker 2: there by yourself, we're here for you throughout the night,
Speaker 2: and we will have Carrie Brett with us. At ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: We're going to do maybe forty minutes here of serious
Speaker 2: political talk. Then we're gonna talk about affairs of the heart,
Speaker 2: and then later on we'll talk about what grinds your gears,
Speaker 2: and then we'll be at midnight. My name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: Here are the number six one, seven, two, five four
Speaker 2: ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Demonstration today wasn't a big demonstration. It was noisy, maybe
Speaker 2: inconvenience some people a little bit who might have been
Speaker 2: driving in automobiles. But the worst is yet to come.
Speaker 2: Trust me on that. The worst is yet to come.
Speaker 2: And these groups, I want to know, how can you
Speaker 2: spend an entire friday? How much what these people have jobs?
Speaker 2: Or did they have Fridays off? Did they take a
Speaker 2: long weekend? Valentine's Day is not a holiday as far
Speaker 2: as I know. Monday's a holiday. If you're gonna do
Speaker 2: a demonstration, do it on Monday. Maybe they'll be back
Speaker 2: on Monday. You never know. I'll be back on Monday,
Speaker 2: and if they are, we'll talk about that on Monday
Speaker 2: night as well. Coming back on night Side, let's get
Speaker 2: the phones going back right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about a demonstration in Boston today. Madison
Speaker 2: Rodgers file a report. We have another report from her
Speaker 2: was similar. Basically, you heard about it. I want to
Speaker 2: know what you thought about it. We're gonna go to
Speaker 2: Chris and chelmsaid, first off, Chris, you're first this hour
Speaker 2: on Nightside. Go right, hey, Chris.
Speaker 4: The one question is I hear did you say it
Speaker 4: was three fifty? There's only three hundred and fifty cities
Speaker 4: and towns. How I heard you say earlier than the
Speaker 4: nine o'clock I were that there were sometimes that were
Speaker 4: demonstrated and awesome too, wasn't it a demonstration? Can't go
Speaker 4: three four years ago? That block ninety three or one
Speaker 4: twenty eight?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that that that was done I think during
Speaker 2: Trump's first administration, and that play will be you'll see
Speaker 2: that replayed again. No, what I said was that there
Speaker 2: were some of the the groups here Chris, are are they?
Speaker 2: They seem to associate themselves with a group, for example,
Speaker 2: the Cambridge Citizens Coalition. Now I don't know how many
Speaker 2: people in Cambridge belonging to the Cambridge Citizens Coalition. You
Speaker 2: and I could start a group if I lived in
Speaker 2: Chelmford called the Chelmford Citizens Coalition, and it could be
Speaker 2: two people. I was just trying to say the ones
Speaker 2: that struck me most interestingly is you had the Communist
Speaker 2: Party of Massachusetts. I didn't even know that they still existed.
Speaker 2: Me too, Workers World Party of Boston. How many how
Speaker 2: big a group is that they could have a meeting
Speaker 2: in it if they still had telephone booths, they could
Speaker 2: have a meeting in a telephone booth.
Speaker 4: Exactly. I'm pretty six years old, and I'm like, could
Speaker 4: give me a break. They can't believe it, Oh manez
Speaker 4: so is going for the weekend.
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm sure they had their their, their their
Speaker 2: demonstration today and I suspect they'll probably have one on
Speaker 2: Monday because Monday's a holiday. I don't know how all
Speaker 2: of those people able to spend today demonstrating. I thought
Speaker 2: today was a work day, but that's okay. They did
Speaker 2: their demonstration, and I just wanted to point out who
Speaker 2: they are, and again, they had I don't know, sixty
Speaker 2: five supposed organizations. There are a lot of the groups
Speaker 2: that were the Boston Coalition for Palestine, the Palestinian House
Speaker 2: of New England, the Palestinian Youth Movement, so there were
Speaker 2: a lot of groups that associated themselves with Palestinian rights
Speaker 2: along with the Communist Party in Massachusetts, Boston, Democratic Socialist
Speaker 2: of America. I don't know how many of those people,
Speaker 2: but when you add up the groups, it probably was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know one hundred or one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: people there. If you have sixty five groups coming, you think, man,
Speaker 2: that's going to be a huge demonstration. It was a
Speaker 2: nice demonstration, but it wasn't a huge demonstration. And for them,
Speaker 2: basically what they're trying to say is there's a coup
Speaker 2: going on in Washington. No, there was an election on
Speaker 2: November fifth and and Donald Trump and JD. Vance won,
Speaker 2: and they have some ideas about how they would like
Speaker 2: to shrink the role of the federal government. That's what
Speaker 2: they're doing.
Speaker 4: And hey, you blame them.
Speaker 2: We have a federal debt of thirty seven trillion dollars.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, Yab, I just can't believe it.
Speaker 4: What is going on here? Well it is. It's actually
Speaker 4: ninety four days. It'll be many five day tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Well whatever, it's about one hundred days. I think if
Speaker 2: the math, if you do the math, today's the fifteenth.
Speaker 2: They were twenty five days. Yeah, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: argue over the days. Plus it's one hundred days. But
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter where were they during the election.
Speaker 4: Okay, exactly, good question, very good questions. Then, Ray, all right,
Speaker 4: and this is the first time today on night day,
Speaker 4: the first time what I have heard this. There is
Speaker 4: this demon station there who is not mentioned on the
Speaker 4: news tonight on Channel four or five or seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are some stories about this demonstrat. No no,
Speaker 2: no no. I watched the evening news tonight and I
Speaker 2: know Channel five carried it on their newscast, and I
Speaker 2: think Channel four did as well. I know w b Z.
Speaker 2: Did you heard the Madison Rogers piece.
Speaker 4: Hey, Chris so I got a scool Okay, you too,
Speaker 4: Limits ANDIGND you too.
Speaker 2: There's there is good news. The Red Sox signed Alex Bregman.
Speaker 2: So that's that's good news. Okay, thanks, good night. It's
Speaker 2: nine thirty. We got Tom coming up on the other side.
Speaker 2: Sean and Habel got some room for you. I got
Speaker 2: one line at six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
Speaker 2: thirty and a couple at six one seven, nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. My suspicion is we're going to see
Speaker 2: a lot of this, a lot of this. There was
Speaker 2: very few. These were the pol This was the hardcore
Speaker 2: left that was demonstrating today. This wasn't even the anti
Speaker 2: immigration folks per se, this was the hard core left.
Speaker 2: These were the people that probably will help Donald Trump's ratings.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the point the Democrats, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: for Chuck Schuman to be out there with uh with
Speaker 2: a Corona beer, uh and an avocado, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you heard him yet, we will win. I
Speaker 2: mean it's normal Democrats right now do not know who
Speaker 2: the leaders are. And that's the subject that might take
Speaker 2: up on Monday night. We'll be back on night Side
Speaker 2: right after this, after the news at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the calle for go to go
Speaker 2: to Tom in West Virginia. Tom, you were next on Nightside,
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, Tom.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks for telling Dan. You know, I think a
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of these leftists, a lot of
Speaker 5: them are just malcontents that are just in perpetual revelation.
Speaker 5: Now I'm I'm a union member, and I can remember
Speaker 5: in the eighties and nineties in Boston, organized labor when
Speaker 5: it came to the building trades would really distance themselves
Speaker 5: from communists. And I mean that goes back to the
Speaker 5: nineteen fifties when the organized purge, the rank and filed,
Speaker 5: We got to get the reds out of here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they still do. There was there was
Speaker 2: no one at this demonstration today from any legitimate labor
Speaker 2: organization that I could see. I read off the names
Speaker 2: of the group's tom they It's like it was like
Speaker 2: a compendian and you know radical groups you could find.
Speaker 5: Right And you know, if you go back, you know
Speaker 5: one hundred years ago, Yeah, you had the industrial Workers
Speaker 5: of the world, one big union will rule the world. Well,
Speaker 5: you know, we have a capitalist society that has really
Speaker 5: brought people from abject poverty into the middle class. And
Speaker 5: you know, back when I was a Democrat in the
Speaker 5: eighties and I went to the state convention twice nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty eight in Springfield when the police had the picket
Speaker 5: line and then Walter Brown arena as a delegate both times.
Speaker 2: How does that? How does that relate to what we're
Speaker 2: talking about tonight?
Speaker 5: Okay, well, people the high believe about Elon Musk and Trump.
Speaker 5: What I'm to do is expose the waste, fraud and abuse,
Speaker 5: and progressive should be celebrating that they're not going to
Speaker 5: take away your social security, you know. In other words,
Speaker 5: I have elderly friends that are just recently got their
Speaker 5: social security. They haven't had any issues with that, so
Speaker 5: they haven't.
Speaker 2: And when you have the fact, you know, Donald Donald
Speaker 2: Trump earlier this week was talking about coming to an
Speaker 2: agreement maybe to end the hostilities in Ukraine. Normally the
Speaker 2: left in this country wants to see, you know, hostilities ended.
Speaker 2: I would think that they'd be celebrating that that, you know,
Speaker 2: after after Joe Biden muddling through this situation and giving
Speaker 2: Ukraine some military support and withholding some military support, and
Speaker 2: they've been grudgingly giving him the military support that they say, gee,
Speaker 2: this is interesting. Trump's talking to Putin. Pruton's a bad guy,
Speaker 2: but maybe if Trump can get him to back off
Speaker 2: Ukraine and stop the killing over there. You would think
Speaker 2: that some of these groups, we see that's that's okay,
Speaker 2: that's a good thing, but no, they want us.
Speaker 6: That they.
Speaker 5: If we go back twenty years ago, these are the
Speaker 5: same people that were calling George Bush a war criminal,
Speaker 5: a murderer, and a racist. Okay, when George Bush gave
Speaker 5: Michelle Obama at Trump's first inauguration, all of a sudden
Speaker 5: he became a responsible Republican. Like I said, these people
Speaker 5: are malcontents and there is not a fascist movement going
Speaker 5: on in this country.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The the other thing, the other thing, which I just
Speaker 2: want to have a conversation with you. The other thing
Speaker 2: which I think is really important today is here. It
Speaker 2: is Friday. This is not a holiday. Where do these
Speaker 2: people work? I mean, they they're there from noontime, I
Speaker 2: guess until one point thirty? Are they working? Do they
Speaker 2: have jobs? What are they doing? I mean, how how
Speaker 2: are they surviving?
Speaker 5: They're professional protesters, many of.
Speaker 2: Them, and then profession At some point next month or
Speaker 2: next week, we're going to wake up and be told, well,
Speaker 2: traffic has stopped on the Southeast Expressway because people are
Speaker 2: out there linking arm and arm and they have their
Speaker 2: hands and cement. But you know, that's that's they're going
Speaker 2: to go right back to the same place.
Speaker 6: I remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well they did that in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 5: and in I believe it was Suffolk County, a judge
Speaker 5: slapped them on the wrist and congratulated them on their
Speaker 5: social justice attitudes. But here's the reality that if they
Speaker 5: do do that, and let's say there's a heart attack
Speaker 5: patient in an ambulance, it's held up. The public outcry
Speaker 5: is going to be no, we want them sentenced to prison.
Speaker 5: They can't have these public temper tansions like that. If
Speaker 5: they want to have a massive rally on Boston Common,
Speaker 5: be my guest. It's a free country, which they did today,
Speaker 5: which don't have the today.
Speaker 2: But once, once time, once, once Elon Musk doesn't, you know,
Speaker 2: decide that he's going to give up his American citizenship
Speaker 2: and move back to South Africa. They won't be satisfied.
Speaker 2: And the next thing they're going to be doing is
Speaker 2: they are going to be out blocking traffic on ninety three,
Speaker 2: on the Expressway wherever they can do that, and there
Speaker 2: will be people in ambulances who will be adversely impacted.
Speaker 2: I talked to people the last time this happened. There
Speaker 2: was one couple who had to abandon their car and
Speaker 2: literally run to the exit and then try to flag
Speaker 2: down anyone so they could get to the hospital where
Speaker 2: I guess the mother was undergoing surgery. The eighty nine
Speaker 2: year old mother was going undergoing surgery. There was one
Speaker 2: woman there last time, a few years ago, when these
Speaker 2: clowns did this. She had two kids in the backseat,
Speaker 2: trying to take them to a doctor's office. Both of
Speaker 2: them had double ear infections, and anyone who's had kids
Speaker 2: knows that when the kids have double air infections, they
Speaker 2: are screaming in pain. And this woman was stopped in
Speaker 2: dead traffic, and that's that's the position she found herself in.
Speaker 2: The demonstrators don't care about those people. They don't care
Speaker 2: about people into the ambulances. They just care about their
Speaker 2: ability to mess things up for other people.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, all I can say is be careful what
Speaker 5: they wish for, because I will tell you one thing
Speaker 5: in my situation, if they see they see my Trump
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four sticker on the back of my pickup
Speaker 5: truck and they bust my windshield, I can't say what
Speaker 5: over the air is gonna happen. No, absolutely, But with
Speaker 5: the great imagination, it's the Great Malcolm X. As the
Speaker 5: Great Malcolm X once said, I will defend myself by
Speaker 5: any means necessary.
Speaker 2: All right, on that point, I'm gonna zero overnight. All right,
Speaker 2: Thank you to thanks very much. Talk later. I got
Speaker 2: a couple of lines at six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. We will change topics at ten o'clock, so
Speaker 2: I give you fear warning. Now. Sean is up next,
Speaker 2: followed by Paul. We can probably get you in if
Speaker 2: you want to die right away six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four to ten thirty or six one seven, nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty b right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones. Let's go to Sean, who is
Speaker 2: joining us from haverl Massachusetts. Hey, Sean, welcome, next on Nightside.
Speaker 8: Hey, how are you doing, Dan?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thanks for calling in, Sean. What's your
Speaker 2: take on what I think will be more more of
Speaker 2: these demonstrations.
Speaker 9: I tell you I'm gonna I'm gonna just share this.
Speaker 9: To start off with, it must be good to have
Speaker 9: time to not go to a job, not being able
Speaker 9: to pay, you know, like if you have if you
Speaker 9: have a mortgage, you know, taking the time off so
Speaker 9: that way you're not earning the money to do that
Speaker 9: and protest. I mean, you know, it's crazy. It's crazy,
Speaker 9: and you know that when it comes to the last
Speaker 9: four years, I'll say, especially with I just want to
Speaker 9: throw this out there with us just throwing money at Ukraine,
Speaker 9: uh and not asking for anything in return, as well
Speaker 9: as US leaving mass full of weapons behind in Afghanistan,
Speaker 9: you know, everybody.
Speaker 2: Million dollars worth of weapons. I mean, oh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you'd think that that would be an investigation
Speaker 9: for an impeachment on that front.
Speaker 2: But you know that put it out the the the
Speaker 2: president who oversaw that debacle is no longer president. So
Speaker 2: that's that is a movie the.
Speaker 9: Lord for that. And Dan, I just want to say
Speaker 9: one thing. If you were to, if you were to
Speaker 9: scroll through some of the social media posts over the
Speaker 9: past couple of months, I'll tell you it just seems
Speaker 9: like the people on the left are not paying attention
Speaker 9: to what's going on. They think that Elon Musk is
Speaker 9: a bad person, you know, all this other stuff. He
Speaker 9: doesn't need the money, you know, and he's not getting
Speaker 9: paid for helping out Donald Trump and the American people,
Speaker 9: you know, and people just aren't getting that, and they I.
Speaker 2: Think the far left is so far out of it
Speaker 2: is even funny. I'm happy to see them out of
Speaker 2: touch because the longer they stay out of the country
Speaker 2: will be.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, no, I get it. And it's just like
Speaker 9: and the.
Speaker 2: Democrats have to figure out. The Democrats have to figure
Speaker 2: out who in their ranks is going to lead them
Speaker 2: back to reality and whether or not it's Governor Shapiro
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania or Governor Cooper in North Carolina. It's not
Speaker 2: going to be AOC and and it's certainly is not
Speaker 2: going to be Chuck Schumer. Ernie No, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: Bernie's just going to age out at some point, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. But God loved Bernie. With Bernie, you know,
Speaker 2: he's he's been preaching the same doctrine for his entire life.
Speaker 2: He is a socialist at his at his core, he's
Speaker 2: really a communist. But but he's sworn enough to say, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm just a socialist. He's not stupid stupid, and he
Speaker 2: also has a whole bunch of properties. He's he's he's
Speaker 2: probably one of the wealthiest socialists in this country.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't doubt the politics had been very, very good
Speaker 2: to Bernie. If you if you remember the GA Saturday.
Speaker 8: That well, yeah, right.
Speaker 9: One thing I just want to say in closing is
Speaker 9: why don't we have term limits on some of these politicians?
Speaker 2: They're making the people that have who's going to vote
Speaker 2: the term limits. The po we're asking the politicians to
Speaker 2: vote themselves term limits never gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I mean, the presidents of the United States didn't vote
Speaker 2: themselves term limits that was imposed by Congress. But they
Speaker 2: weren't on term limits on Congress. They were voting on
Speaker 2: term limits on the other branch. Gotta go. Sean loved
Speaker 2: the calls. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 7: Hey, good get the talk.
Speaker 9: He Dan, call.
Speaker 2: Again, Thanks much. Let's go to Paul Paul and Dorchester
Speaker 2: Paul next on NIGHTSI goright ahead.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dan, I called make a couple of points. I
Speaker 7: got like five or six emails today asking me if
Speaker 7: I would like to go to a demonstration in Boston,
Speaker 7: and I'm like, no, delete it. And then I got
Speaker 7: another one. I'm like, all these different organizations were fishing
Speaker 7: for people to go, and I think that this was
Speaker 7: organized and by one larger group perhaps, but they were
Speaker 7: just empty barrels get together and make a lot of noise.
Speaker 7: And that's one thing.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: Number two is that in my sixty seven years of
Speaker 7: dealing with politicians and politics, it's been the goal of
Speaker 7: every budget person to make to spend all their money
Speaker 7: because if you didn't spend your money, you didn't do
Speaker 7: your job, and you couldn't ask for more next year.
Speaker 7: And that's the goal for everything. And the other thing
Speaker 7: is power is derived from jobs. Okay, you're gonna get
Speaker 7: your daughter is getting married. Well, you know your son
Speaker 7: in law is going to need a good job. Oh
Speaker 7: sixty thousand not enough. Let's make them an executive. They
Speaker 7: give out jobs, they put these organizations out there, they
Speaker 7: funnel this money out there. It's it's it's almost like
Speaker 7: Simon says, and and and and simple Simon says that
Speaker 7: change the sea and democrat to end and you got
Speaker 7: demon rat and and and that's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: There's good democrats. These people are insane in my opinion,
Speaker 2: they're not insane.
Speaker 7: They used to be.
Speaker 2: They would like, yeah, they would like to take over
Speaker 2: the country and take us down a road towards Cuba
Speaker 2: or or communist China. That's where they would like to
Speaker 2: get to us, where everybody would be equal, but some
Speaker 2: would be more equal than others. That I feel that
Speaker 2: I've seen that I got to get a couple more
Speaker 2: in Okay, thank you.
Speaker 7: For one last thing, one last thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul, what's that.
Speaker 7: Well, Happy Valentine's Day, sweet hut. Let everybody out there.
Speaker 2: Right back as thanks man, all right, I got to
Speaker 2: try to get two in here. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Mike and Arlington and then Bernie in New Hampshire. Mike,
Speaker 2: go ahead, I'm gonna get you in along with Bernie.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Mike, Hi, Dan, great show. Just one point,
Speaker 8: there is already another demonstration scheduled on the Boston Common
Speaker 8: this Monday, and it's called not My President's Day.
Speaker 2: Perfect. How about that. That's good to know that. See
Speaker 2: if they start to block traffic, they may not block
Speaker 2: traffic because it's a holiday. They're just testing to see
Speaker 2: what they can attract at this point. So stay away
Speaker 2: from the Common, don't do anything stupid, don't count to demonstrate.
Speaker 2: Let them have their demonstration that's which they have every
Speaker 2: right they have, and let's see how many people they
Speaker 2: can turn out.
Speaker 8: Thanks Dan, good night, Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. Mike, excuse me, thank you, Mike. Let
Speaker 2: me go finally wrap it up the hour with Bernie
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. Bernie, welcome back.
Speaker 6: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 6: Thank you? I hope you're having a good evening.
Speaker 2: I'm having a great evening. Thanks for calling. What's your
Speaker 2: take on all of this?
Speaker 6: Well, I remember I consistent. Me and my wife made
Speaker 6: a sacrifice that she would say home and race the kids,
Speaker 6: and I had a job that I could work as
Speaker 6: many hours as I could and I.
Speaker 2: By and by the way, again, how is that son
Speaker 2: of yours doing?
Speaker 6: Oh, he's good, doing great, he said, he's doing really well.
Speaker 6: He has just the ambling and a forge left and
Speaker 6: he's and he said, he's kind of going through it
Speaker 6: very easy. But he's put an extra employed so when
Speaker 6: he goes to rast training, he's in really good shape.
Speaker 6: So he's really enjoying it.
Speaker 2: Excellent, next one, please again send him everyone out on
Speaker 2: night side our best. We're rooting for him. Uh, young
Speaker 2: man just joined the military. Give me I'll give you
Speaker 2: a final comment here on this demonstration and what to
Speaker 2: look for. Whatever you'd like to say, go right ahead. Bernie.
Speaker 6: Well, I was just like when they did Occupy Boss
Speaker 6: that I remember being seven o'clock in the morning driving
Speaker 6: to Boston watching these people on tent. So I'm the
Speaker 6: Rose Kennedy greet Greenway, like just smoking marijuana or doing
Speaker 6: whatever they weren't working, And my buddy says, hey, next
Speaker 6: time they have one of these, Berney, why don't we
Speaker 6: just not work and go and hang out here and
Speaker 6: might do nothing. And it's funny to a point, But
Speaker 6: you know what about us, people who chose to work
Speaker 6: for a living and do the right thing and try
Speaker 6: and just instill all these great qualities that make this
Speaker 6: country great.
Speaker 2: For years and years, people like you have not been
Speaker 2: appreciated or you've been underappreciated. And for years and years
Speaker 2: and years, a lot of people have given all the demonstrators,
Speaker 2: let him do this, let him do that, Let them
Speaker 2: demonstrate in the common, But when they start to block traffic,
Speaker 2: bust them, arrest them and give them some real jail
Speaker 2: time for real simple that in my li And that.
Speaker 6: Was the point I was trying to make. Four years ago,
Speaker 6: I was working at Mystic Station in Charleston and I
Speaker 6: had a heart attack and thank God, like they weren't
Speaker 6: doing it that day because I was from Mystic Station
Speaker 6: and Charles, somebody arm Court Casino to the to the
Speaker 6: mass General will Kadi yak Here unit, which happens to
Speaker 6: be one of the best ones in the world. Within
Speaker 6: twenty two minutes. Now, if them idiots were blocked in
Speaker 6: traffic and I might have had different results. I had
Speaker 6: the best box movies out of kids.
Speaker 7: OK, thank god, Yeah we did twenty two minutes.
Speaker 2: Again, our best wishes to your son. Keep us posted.
Speaker 2: We will talk again. Thanks Bernie, thank you.
Speaker 4: I have a good night.
Speaker 2: I we come back. We're going to talk with Kerry
Speaker 2: Brett shot at Love. It's gonna be a great hour. Ladies,
Speaker 2: this is one that you should pay very close attention to.
Speaker 2: Everyone should. We'll be back on Night's ad after this