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smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for

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your support. At the end of the last hour, I

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went over Nate Silver's piece on Blue Skyism and on

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the text line, Doug sent me a screenshot. I guess what.

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I guess Doug did a search on Blue Sky. He

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tells me I should get onto Blue Sky, Like, why

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would I bother setting up an account just to get

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banned immediately? So apparently, I guess you ran a search

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of my name and this popped up. I guess this

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was from I can't really, I can't read the whole name.

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Tom Servo is my dot dot dot. I don't know

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what that. Tom Servo is my dot dot dot that

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could be in anything, your relative, your spirit guide, your

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fake name. I don't know. But the the account is

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m h A. E. L. M. Hale, Blue Sky Social Anyway,

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I fell down a rab This is what this person

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wrote on Blue Sky is apparently about me fell down

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a rabbit hole the other day of digitized copies of

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my old Alma Maters newspaper. And I find it fascinating

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that the conservative op ed guy Pete Callaner apparently hasn't

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learned a GD thing about how to be a guy

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who says GD and then he's gonna say that he

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hasn't learned it GD thing about how to be a

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decent human being in thirty years since he graduated. Once

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a Nazi dot dot dot, I wrote a well, not

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only did I write an op ed, I drew a

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cartoon as well for the school newspaper at Winthrop. It

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was the Johnsonian newspaper. And the columns that I wrote

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we would actually do a it was I'm trying to remember.

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His first name was Jeff, I don't remember his last name,

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and he was a progressive. I was writing from a

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more libertarian view, and we would argue. We would take

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a topic and we would argue the topic and yeah, yeah,

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couldn't even tell you what. I don't believe I wrote

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anything that was Nazi adjacent, not that I but then

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again to a Blue Sky person, everything, you know, everything

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to their right is Nazism. This has always been the problem,

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and this is why people like me when the Left

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was running around saying, punch a Nazi, punch a Nazi,

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and a Nazi is everybody that I disagree with, Well, like,

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that's a problem because what you're just calling for is violence.

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And I also talked about in the last.

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Speaker 2: Hour the.

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Speaker 1: Jury acquitting a guy who had posted these death threats

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against Donald Trump, and a jury acquitted him from his

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post on Blue Sky, and essentially this is from polymath

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on Twitter. He says, basically, the argument is that we

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live in a culture where making death threats is normal.

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Therefore death threats aren't really functional. They're just quirk, quirky

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little part of the cultural fabric. That was essentially the

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ruling or the verdict rather, and the argument that defense

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ran with, and that the jury was so insane that

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they agreed with There's a lot of people online rooting

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for Trump to die, and in that context what he

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posted is so common that it feels like an alternate

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universe that he would be charged with anything, let alone

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solicitation of murder. On one hand, I would not encourage

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anybody to post those thoughts on social media. But on

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the other hand, I can't count the number of people

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who I saw post similar things. It's a very common sentiment.

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There's a social there are social media accounts dedicated to

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tracking whether the president has died. See. So, I mean,

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it's just normal, like all of us lefties, if we've

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just been, you know, calling for the assassination of Trump,

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it's just so prevalent that you can't really charge all

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of us. And if you can't charge all of us,

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then you can't charge any of us. And that's just

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the world we live in. Okay, then this from Jonathan

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Turley as Democrat leaders like Representative Dan Goldman, Democrat from

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New York, insists that Antifa does not exist as a group.

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Two Antifa groups put out a hit list. But you know,

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that's just the culture we live in, everybody, So there's

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nothing to be done about it. I guess two Antifa

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groups that apparently I'm not really sure how they how

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this happened because they don't exist. Antifa is just an idea,

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but somehow or another, the idea either, I guess it

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got behind a keyboard. It manifested some posters, it printed

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them out or something and hung them around actual physical

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spaces in our temporal plane. I'm not really sure how

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that all occurred, but it did. Front Range Antifa and

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Colorado Springs Antifa, which are not organizations, they are just ideas.

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They put out a hit list poster on a University

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of Colorado sophomore who happens to be a leader in

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the Turning Point USA organization on that campus, and he

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was then promptly attacked by a person wearing a black

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outfit on rollerblades who used a hockey stick to beat him.

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Just an idea. People, He was whipped up on by

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an idea dressed all in black on rollerblades with a

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hockey stick. According to a press release, Boulder police are

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looking for a suspect accused of attacking nineteen year old

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TPUSA student leader near the University of Colorado Boulder on

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Thursday evening. The attacker is suspected to be an Antifa

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member and to have followed the victim in a premeditated attack.

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The Antifa flyer that was posted accused this person of

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being an active member of a quote neo Nazi organization.

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There you go. I've mentioned this analogy before Rwanda, right

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the Rwanda. The Rwanda genocide was whipped up and fomented

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by Rwanda radio and they were constantly on the air

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dehumanizing this other. I don't know if it's a clan

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or ethnicity. It was the Hutus and the Tutsis, and

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I forget which one genocided the other, I don't remember,

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but the one that had the radio station power. They

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were calling their opponents cockroaches all the time. That was

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like they just they kept just hammering away, calling them cockroaches.

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And when you dehumanize people and you deperson them basically,

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and that's what this kind of language does to half

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of the country. That's what that's what half of the

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country is doing to another half of the country. And

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one half of the country that's using these words like

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Nazis and fascists. They have the amplification platforms that the

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targets of these slurs do not. So this kid is

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accused of being responsible for white supremacist, anti Semitic, and

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anti LGBTQ vandalism on campus and across Boulder, claiming that

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this kid and his neo Nazi organizations participated in white

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a white supremacist boxing tournament. I have no idea what

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that is like only whites were allowed to box? Or

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was it just that they did a boxing tournament in

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New Turning Point, USA, and that's Nazi and so therefore

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anything they do is Nazi. The Boulder Students for a

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Democrat Radeck's Society reportedly shared the flyer on their social media.

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They encouraged followers to share it widely and tag the

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school to notify them of Nazi activists on SEU Boulder campus.

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So they targeted this guy. They named him and targeted him,

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and then he was attacked. Here's a great idea. How

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the text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC seven oh

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four number says, I bet that dude. I bet the

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dude that calls in all the time with different names

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is on Blue Sky. You could argue with him there

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as possible. Yeah, so the uh the Antifa flyer UH

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that was posted all around UH University of Colorado, identifying

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this leader of the Turning Point USA chapter, then precipitates

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the kids attack. Somebody rolls up to him on rollerblades,

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dressed all in the Antifa black and attacks him with

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a hockey stick. Now, luckily he was not seriously injured,

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probably because the Antifa guy had very limp wrists, I'm assuming,

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But the point was made by Antifa that any of

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their critics can be tracked down and attacked. That's the point.

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It is essentially the Heckler's veto right or the assassin's veto,

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we will intimidate you into silence. This is all just

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under the category of shut up ory. Just shut up,

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stop talking, stop disagreeing with us, Just bend the knee,

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shut up, surrender, acquiesce right. And this is what people

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do when they can not defend their position with their words,

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usually because their position is illogical, goes against human nature,

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is unseemly, does it make people feel good, leads to

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bad outcomes historically, and people don't want to keep doing

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the thing that you're telling them to keep doing, and

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that they don't want to do it you'll notice there

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is a common thread once again, the Red Green alliance right,

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where you've got the leftists and Islamists in bed together. Right.

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The perfect candidate, the manifestation of that candidate is Zora

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Mamdani up in New York City. And so what do

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those two things, What are these two isms, leftism and Islamism?

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What do they have in common? You're not allowed to

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disagree that you will be told to shut up. In

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Islamist's case, you might lose your head. So you are

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prohibited from criticizing their profit. You are prohibited from criticizing

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people of a certain protected status. You can't criticize, for example,

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the transgender stuff. You can't do that. If you do that,

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then you're a phobic of some kind. Right, Jonathan Turley

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said recently he had a debate with a colleague of

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his professor, Mary Ann Frank, on free speech. I objected

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when she repeated the often used claim on the left

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that if you oppose antifa, then you are by definition

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a fascist. And by the way, that argument is shut

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up ry. It is meant to shut down the argument.

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It's a false construct that I call myself this thing.

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then you must be for this bad thing, because I've

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called myself the opposite of the bad thing, and that's

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just a complete fabrication. You picking a name that is

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not in line with your actual behavior does not make

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me the thing that you claim to oppose but are

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actually doing. Because Antifa actually engages in fascism. That's the

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whole irony there. But he noted that many in the

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free speech community have been threatened by this very group,

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which is the most violent anti free speech movement in

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the United States, Antifa is. At the same time, the

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Democrat leaders are ramping up denials of the very existence

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of Antifa as a group in an effort to deflect

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criticism from their own increasingly rage filled rhetoric at a

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time of rising political violence. Right, so this is why

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you you have this this disconnect where you've got you know,

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guys like Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General, saying that

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you know, Antifah doesn't exist yet somehow or another, he

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had posed for a picture on his own social media.

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He took his own picture of him you holding up

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the Antifah handbook, Like that's pretty impressive. That somebody would

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have a handbook for something that doesn't exist. It's just

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an idea. Why do you need a handbook for an idea?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: A handbook indicates that there are some strategies, there are

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some things in there that people would need in order

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to organize themselves. That's what a handbook is about. Why

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else would you call it a handbook? And probably that's

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why the author of said handbook fled America. He fled.

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He's a professor I think at Rutgers, I want to say,

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and yeah, he fled the country because he takes money,

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a certain percentage of all the sales of this book,

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and he pumps it into Antifa related organizations, which would

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mean that he's funding a designated terrorist organization now that

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Trump has designated as such. Now, Jonathan Turley, who I'm

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reading from this piece at his website Jonathan Turley dot org.

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Jonathan Turley does not agree with Trump's designation of Antifa

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as a terrorist organization, and he says he's got concerns

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free speech concerns, but he also understands that it Antifa

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is very much real, Okay, And so these politicians on

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the left that were once touting Antifa didn't seem to

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have any kind of misunderstanding about its existence or not.

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Now all of a sudden, they're going back to this

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idea that, oh, it's just an idea. Well, they have

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to because now that it's been designated as a terrorist organization,

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now the Democrats have to step aside from it because

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they can't be associated with it. By design, Antifa avoids

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your typical leadership, hierarchies, and your typical organizational structures. That's

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by design. Antifa was created in the nineteen twenties, and

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it was associated with the pre Nazi the Weimar era

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German communist group Kammis started Antifa. Okay, with Antifa violence

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on the rise, he says, Democrat leaders have gone back

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to denying its existence even as Antifa deploys its signature

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black hoodies and masks. The Colorado case shows just how real,

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how violent, and organized this group is in the United States.

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You'll recall former FBI Director Christopher Ray. He was asked

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about this during a congressional hearing and he said, quote,

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Antifa is a real thing. It is I mentioned earlier.

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Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General, he proclaimed that Antifa,

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let me back up Here, Turtley says, while many on

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the left are not denying its existence, they are rallying

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their members or actually selling antifah merchandise. When they're not

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denying that it exists, they're selling Antifa merch. Former Democrat

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National Committee Deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Attorney general

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in Minnesota, had proclaimed that Antifa would quote strike fear

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in the heart of Trump. But the idea would strike

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fear in the heart of Trump. That's weird, an idea

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would make Trump tremble. His own son, who serves on

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the Minneapolis City Council, Jeremiah Ellison, actually declared his allegiance

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to Antifa in the heat of the protests this past summer,

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which I was unaware Minneapolis is still protesting. What do

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you guys or is this just anti Trump protests? But

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it doesn't exist. It's just an idea, don't you see

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that has a handbook and organizations like Front Range Antifa

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and Colorado Springs Antifa that print posters targeting Turning Point

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got some more mailers from the partnership to advance Charlotte

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and let me see who sent this one to me?

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U coalition for a better twenty to fifty two different addresses,

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but they both have the same message wanting me to

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vote to approve an increase in the sales tax in

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Mecklenburg County. So this this flyer from the Partnership to

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Advanced Charlotte based out of the Sweet one five eight

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Park Road, Charlotte. There's a woman leaning out of her

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car window with her hand raised. She's screaming at other

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cars or something. She's not very nice and there's a

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whole line of cars behind her, and it says traffic sucks.

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Vote for the solution, learn how, and then you flip

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it over here. Vote to stop the traffic congestion. Vote

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for the solution. Traffic in Mecklenburg County is awful. Voting

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for the one and send sales tax referendum will fund

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seven point eight billion in local road improvement. Cut down

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on traffic and commute times. That's not true. Synchronize green

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lights for effective travel, Increase funding for safety and security

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on the roads. Will increase funding for safety and security

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on the roads, or would that be safety and security

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on something else, maybe in some other mode of transit.

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That's not part of this flyer. It's very interesting, the

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whole thing. Yet again, another mailer for the one sense

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sales tax that makes zero mention of the trains, which

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is what the sales tax was designed for, the one

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send sales tax proposal. And the transportation plan was supposed

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to be all about the light rail line, and then

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the legislature said, no, it can't just be about trains.

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You got to put some road money in there. And

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so the city had to rework the plan and they

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came up with this forty forty twenty split. Forty percent

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for the trains, forty percent for roads. And by the way,

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the roads do not just include you know, adding new lanes. No, no, no, no, no, no,

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it's about signalization, it's about bike lanes, sidewalks. Yeah, all

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of that stuff falls under the category of roads. And

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by the way, I saw in the Charlotte Observer article

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today they mentioned something about the roads. Now, they did

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not give any kind of a list of prioritization. There

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wasn't a link to the transportation plan for you know,

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what road projects would be done. You can find it.

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The city has it at their website, but it's only

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for the city council districts. Anything outside of the city

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is not included in there. Because they just targeted like,

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here are the city council districts, because the district reps

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wanted to know, obviously, well how much is coming to me?

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How much can I campaign on that I got for

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my constituents. You know, now there is an orphan road component.

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Orphan roads are these roads that were built to city

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standards back when the city was going to gobble up

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everything that touched their borders through forced annexations. And then

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the legislature flipped control and the Republicans were like, no

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more forced annexations. If the city wants to annex property

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into city limits and raise everybody's property taxes to be

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in the city, well then you're going to have to

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get approval from you know, more than half of the

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people you want to annex in. It's got to be voluntary. Surprise, surprise,

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nobody really wants to be inside the city limits. And

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so now you have a bunch of roads that were

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built to the city standards that cannot be turned over

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by the private developers. They can't hand them off to

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the city because they're not part of the city. Okay,

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well how about we hand them off to the NCDOT, right,

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because Becklimber County does not do roads. So if you're

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in the county and you had a developer build your

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neighborhood and they built these roads, and you can't turn

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them over to the city, We'll turn them over to

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the state. Ha ha, No, you cannot do so because

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the state has specific rules about the road design. And

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one of those very big detail is what I like

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to refer to because this affects my neighborhood too. Street trees.

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These are the trees that were planted between the sidewalk

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and the curb, that little planting strip. You know, the

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City of Charlotte requires you to plant trees there, which

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is the stupidest thing ever. It is such a stupid idea.

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Why well, when you plant trees between a sidewalk and

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a road, the tree grows. And as the tree grows,

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stop me if you've heard this before, its root system

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grows and you can't see it because it's underground. And

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so the root system keeps growing and growing, and then

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it grows under the sidewalk, and it grows into the

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curb and gutter and sewerage and the drains, and it

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grows under the asphalt, and then it starts buckling up

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those things. It starts pushing up against the sidewalks and

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the roads, and that creates a lot of maintenance cost

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because you've got to keep coming back in and shaving

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down the sidewalk so people aren't tripping all over them

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all the time. Very expensive, and that's what the city

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requires to plant the trees. So says you cannot plant

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those trees, we will not maintain that road. We will

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not take that road from you developer if you planted trees.

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So you have a lot of these neighborhoods, again mine included.

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So I'm very familiar with this orphan road issue where

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the roads are now just turned over to the HOA

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if one exists, and if one does not exist, then

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it's just abandoned and nobody maintains it. Now the builder

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doesn't get their bond back. But it's a problem. There

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are apparently one hundred and eighty miles worth of roads,

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one hundred and eighty miles of roads in Mecklimer County

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that are orphan roads. And Mecklimber County commissioners actually asked

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about this very issue in a letter in a Q

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and A with the city a couple of months back,

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and the city said, oh, yeah, yeah, we'll totally look at,

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you know, working out some solution with NCDOT. They don't

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tell us what that is. What could it be you

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going to cut down all those trees, because that would

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be a violation of the Tree Ordinance also City of

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Charlotte Tree Ordinance. You're gonna allow everybody to cut trees down,

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or you're gonna try to force the NCDOT to take

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control maintenance control, or maybe you're gonna make the City

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of Charlotte take maintenance authority over these roads even though

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they're not part of city limits. So if that's the

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if you go that route, then for example, if I'm

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out of outside of city limits and my neighborhood has

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one of these orphan roads or say, you know, five

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ten miles of them or whatever, and now the city's

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going to maintain them, what happens if the city messes

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it up? What happens if the city does not maintain them?

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What if they just ignore us? Who exactly do I

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go to to lobby for relief because I don't have

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a city council representative. There isn't anybody that represents me

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on city council. M Yeah, no, I'm not really buying

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this argument either see I'm not really buying your flyers

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that tell me this is all about traffic. I know

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it's not about traffic. This is about trains. Okay, this

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is about trains, about getting that North line built, but

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for some reason they're selling it all as roads. All right,

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If you're listening to this show, you know I try

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to keep up with all sorts of current events, and

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I know you do too. And you've probably heard me

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say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because

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it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've

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been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and

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it's a website and it combines news from around the

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verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground,

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months ago and more recently chose to work with them

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as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how

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stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature

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as they make the media landscape more transparent. I still

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have this other flyer. I haven't even gotten to the

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second flyer, paid for by a different coalition, also only

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focusing on roads. Let me jump over here first to

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the phone lines and chat with Jeff. Hello, Jeff, Welcome

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to the show.

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Speaker 2: Hey Pete, I just want to thank you for giving

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the common sense assessment of this whole thing. It's a joke.

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It's the biggest boondoggle I've ever experienced. And I've called

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and written to all the media, individual media, the Observer

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and the Charlotte Lee stories and all of these, and

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they're all putting out articles and now they're looking a

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little more balanced. But when you covers it's like you're

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doing you see that, it's it's all. It's just all

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about the trains. It's the trains, period. And here's one

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more common I wanted to make is if it's going

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to be about the trains, and the least thing you

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could do is provide us with demand numbers. Yeah, and

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the demand equates to ridership, and none of them will

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talk about ridership.

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Speaker 1: Well, they won't talk about they won't give us the

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ridership numbers because when they built, like I was here,

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I was a reporter when the half sent sales tax

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was approved for the transit plan, and that included the

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South Corridor light rail but also other lines. That was

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supposed to fund all of this stuff, right, yeah, and

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it didn't. It didn't even fund the light the Blue line.

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And they gave ridership numbers and projections at that time

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which turned out not to be true, and so of course, right,

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And so that's why I assume they're not giving us

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ridership numbers projection for the Red line all the way

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up to the north side there. I suspect that's because

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they know that if they give numbers, they're not going

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to hit them. And I think that it's even less

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densely populated along the Norfolk Southern Line, the rail line

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that they just acquired.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be less accessible and less attractive and all that.

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It's just that I grew up in Charlotte, was born here,

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and they're just strangling us with more taxes and more

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absurd things like this. But hopefully maybe the voters will

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wake up next week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, so we shall see, Jeff, I appreciate the call, buddy,

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thank you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man Sea.

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Speaker 1: Part of the deal back then, in what was it,

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early two thousands, they have sent sales tax. Part of

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the promise was also to have this pedestrian bridge that

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crossed I two seventy seven, and just this week they

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unveiled the sketches of what this thing is going to

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look like. Now I'm unclear as to the actual cost

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because I've seen on the city website it's is twenty

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one point three million dollars, but then there's also these

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releases that say sixteen point four million dollars. So I'm

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not sure what the funding breakdown is where it's coming from.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: I've seen no breakdown. How much is coming from the city,

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how much is coming from some of these other entities,

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these private entities that have helped kick in funding for it.

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It looks like it's going to be it's going to

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look It looks like it's going to be nice like looking,

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you know, it's going to be aesthetically not an eye

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sore so good job on that from the Charlotte Observer.

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This project has been discussed for almost two decades. On Tuesday,

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city officials and stakeholders celebrated the groundbreaking of the Rail

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Trail Bridge project, which will connect users from Uptown to

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South End through the Charlotte Rail Trail and give criminals

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on another hunting ground as well as an escape route.

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I'm just kidding, I headed that last part. Also, leftists

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are going to be able to use this as a

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location for them to protest. They're going to hang their

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banners and stuff over the railings, you know, so it

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creates congestion and traffic slow downs and everything on two

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seventy seven on whatever day where these leftists not working

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of course, will be able to go out there and

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just you know, jam up traffic by you know, unfurling

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banners over the side of the bridge. So looking forward

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to that impact as well. Yeah. This other flyer that

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I got in my mailbox paid for by the Coalition

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for a Better twenty to fifty. They are located out

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of three point thirty South Trion Street and their flyer

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says take the wheel steer towards safer roads and less traffic.

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Vote yes on the transportation referendum. And it's like an

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image from inside a car, like showing the dashboard. It

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says vote votes, got a little vote stickers, and it says,

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our community's future is in your hands. Don't wait, make

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your plan to vote yes. More green lights, faster commutes,

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less congestion, better roads and sidewalks. Again, no mention of

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the trains, No mention of the streetcar project, the Anthony

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Fox streetcar. I call it that. I call it that

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because the streetcar got leapfrogged above the other higher priority projects,

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because Anthony Fox made a bunch of promises to the

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east Side in order to get their votes, and part

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of that was to have the streetcar run to the

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east Side. It still hasn't happened, but I mean, that

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was the promise that he made. And look, the important

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thing is that it got him the mayor's race, right,

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It helped him win the mayor's race over John Lasseter,

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the Republican. And really, can you put a price on that,

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you know? Because Fox was able to parlay that into

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you know, a position in the Obama administration. Him knowing

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so much about you know, transportation and such, he went

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to work in the transportation department up there in d C.

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So I mean it worked out for him. Now, on

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the flyer, it says, take the wheel our community's futures

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in your hand. Vote yes on the referendum. Passing the

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transportation Referendum will mean more green lights, less congestion, upgraded infrastructure,

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into brighter future for our community. But it's up to

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you to make it happen. Vote yes, don't wait, get out,

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vote early, or request an abstentee ballot. And then it says,

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you know, vote yes for more green lights and less traffic.

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Who would be against that? Vote yes for safer roads

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and better pedestrial in safety features, Vote yes for new sidewalks, crosswalks,

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and street lights. And then there's a picture of a

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family I assume in a minivan, all smiling and laughing,

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little babies in the background or in the back seats

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and stuff, And so I mean, who could be against this?

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Except in the Charlotte Observer story they point out that

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the road projects would not start until late twenty twenty six,

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maybe early twenty seven, when the money starts becoming available.

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And again, no prioritization, no criteria, and no mention on

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the flyers of the biggest outlay, which is the forty

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percent for the trains and another twenty percent for micro

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transit options and such wonder why all right? That'll do

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it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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