1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,800 your support. Eric Ericson is a talk host out of 10 00:00:30,879 --> 00:00:34,560 Atlanta and or out of George. I think he's Atlanta 11 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:39,560 and he wrote a piece on his substack today called 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:46,799 we Arrive at My Fear and he talks about the 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,960 current climate. He says a philosophical festering has taken root 14 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:55,159 in the minds of the left, that their opponents are 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,240 evil and words are violence. A permission structure UH, a 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,920 permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets 17 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,519 that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An 18 00:01:10,519 --> 00:01:15,840 exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other media outlets downplaying 19 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,599 or excusing progressive violence. A triggering event happened with the 20 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,400 election of Donald Trump. Then progressive politicians amped up the 21 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,959 rhetoric to push the disturbed and violent across the line. 22 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,480 What he just described there, by the way, is what 23 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,680 the left called until about a minute ago, stochastic terrorism. 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,560 Writing in The New York Times in twenty seventeen, the 25 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:46,760 psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett argued, quote, if words can cause stress, 26 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,959 and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it 27 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,799 seems that speech, at least certain types of speech, can 28 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:04,239 be a form of violence. Eight years ago Trump's first term, 29 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:13,000 this toxic idea has taken hold, where now people think 30 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:17,560 that anything that causes them quote unquote stress equals violence. 31 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,560 Donald Trump's election triggered the left, he says. Now, media 32 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:26,639 outlets and Democrat politicians insist Donald Trump's rhetoric is to blame. 33 00:02:26,879 --> 00:02:30,120 He's a dictator, and Democrats need to get comfortable doing 34 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:32,680 things they would otherwise not do. In the words of 35 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,599 Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who I think the day before 36 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:41,240 Charlie Kirk was assassinated, said this is war. See they 37 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,439 talk in these terms, and it's okay, see because it's different. 38 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,759 Let me jump over and get Chris on he's been 39 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,599 hanging on for a while. Hello, Chris, welcome to the show. 40 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,479 Speaker 2: Wow, you could not wait to talk to me before 41 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,639 you posted that. That was my exact thought. 42 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:04,439 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, so sorry, Chris. Well, you could go ahead, 43 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:07,000 and you can. You you could steal man this if 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:07,960 you want to go ahead. 45 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: So I do want to make a distinction when when 46 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,120 we say political violence and in say in relation to 47 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,639 I'll get back to Charley Kirk, but in relation to, say, 48 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:21,759 the ICE agents for the bust being shot at, I 49 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,840 didn't I haven't heard the news that did they catch 50 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:27,080 that guy and did he say that he no reason 51 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:27,639 we're doing it? 52 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: They well, they caught his. 53 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,039 Speaker 2: Body, yeah, because yeah, that's right, killed. 54 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: Himself and they found the they found the the the 55 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:38,719 writing on the bullets that he left. And now they've 56 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:42,199 also revealed that they found a handwritten note where he 57 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,560 said his goal is to inspire or to strike terror. 58 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,919 Uh in all ICE agents, so they have to be 59 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:53,199 on the lookout for sniper anywhere they're doing an operation. 60 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,639 Speaker 2: So so and that is just I'm kind of I'd 61 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,520 kind of make a little distinction, uh, not necessulting in 62 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,560 the speech, but in that relation, it's kind of related 63 00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:06,479 to ignorance and the whole lot of ignorance. So we 64 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,840 see the media throwing out there that I say that 65 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:14,280 they're they're catching even Americans and deporting me and all 66 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:17,800 this other stuff. So in that ignorance, there's a little 67 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,079 bit of a I don't want to say a justification, 68 00:04:20,199 --> 00:04:22,639 but a kind of a reasoning of why maybe there 69 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,000 are enemies. 70 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: Right there being yes, they are getting in for like 71 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,959 just like Jimmy Kimmel right when he got on the 72 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:32,279 air and said, oh, they're trying to uh, they're trying 73 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:34,759 to tell everybody that this guy that the shooter of 74 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,079 Charlie Kirk wasn't a MAGA guy, wasn't part of the 75 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,839 Maga crowd. And a third of Democrats believe that. 76 00:04:40,639 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: So yeah, I get that. So and in the in 77 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,759 relation to Charlie Kirk, I mean, everybody's looking at Charlie 78 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,000 Kirk and everybody sees all this guy does is talk, 79 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,639 and that's where that idea is coming in his speech 80 00:04:53,079 --> 00:04:57,560 is violence. And I say that, and you answered, I 81 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,240 was just gonna say you real quick, do you answered 82 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,759 the question? Because I was I figured psychology there was 83 00:05:02,759 --> 00:05:04,720 there was something to this, I haven't heard from it, 84 00:05:04,759 --> 00:05:06,639 and you just kind of enlighten me. So go ahead 85 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:07,480 with what you were going to say. 86 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,399 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, this concept that speech is violence is rooted 87 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,319 in this idea that that you know, words cause you harm, 88 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:19,279 they cause you mental distress, the same uh, it's the 89 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:22,199 same thing that prompted the you know, the trigger warnings 90 00:05:22,519 --> 00:05:23,839 like oh, we're going to say things are going to 91 00:05:23,879 --> 00:05:26,879 make you feel uncomfortable, and so you have some right 92 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:31,319 to be protected from uncomfortable speech. And so if you 93 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,360 are then discomforted, made to feel uncomfortable, then that is 94 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:39,160 some sort of you know, personal physical harm that you 95 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:43,079 are suffering. Hence it's violence, which, of course then when 96 00:05:43,079 --> 00:05:46,240 you start thinking in those terms, you can meet violence 97 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:49,000 with violence to make it stop. And this is the 98 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,319 permission structure that has been constructed. 99 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 2: All right, So here's one more question than do we 100 00:05:54,199 --> 00:05:57,240 have any data from say, twenty years ago and any 101 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,959 thoughts on what people thought of violence at the time 102 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:03,759 are because I get this feeling that this is a 103 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:05,839 new thing five ten years ago that made. 104 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: It it is, Well, it has gotten worse. I mean, 105 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,519 that's the it has gotten worse. And I can just 106 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:14,839 tell from my personal experience, and I know it's just 107 00:06:14,959 --> 00:06:17,160 my experience, but I mean, I've been covering this stuff 108 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:21,639 for a very long time. The idea that that political 109 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:27,639 violence was acceptable was not a wide held a belief 110 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:30,720 that was you know, widespread. And look, even now it 111 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:33,879 should be pointed out that, you know, ninety seven ninety 112 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,319 eight percent of Republicans and ninety percent of Democrats say 113 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,800 that's still the case. However, it has increased. This this 114 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,319 acceptability has increased, and it has increased according to that 115 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:48,000 Carolina Journal poll that I did that I covered in 116 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,600 the first hour, that has become more acceptable among the 117 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:57,279 more liberal educated group inside the Democrat party. 118 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 2: Right well, right quick of a good about education and 119 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,800 we're saying the college campuses and stuff like that. Is 120 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:09,959 there any is there anything that points to the creation 121 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:15,079 or manifestation of this idea there by somebody teaching or 122 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:17,120 or you know what I'm saying, because that seems like 123 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:18,600 this is where a lot of this is coming from, 124 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,639 too and there, But there's no I'm never hearing anything 125 00:07:22,759 --> 00:07:27,639 like it's bringing it into manifestation, you know what I'm saying. 126 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: So, yes, so I would trace the roots of this 127 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:34,120 to the long march through the institutions. This is all 128 00:07:34,199 --> 00:07:38,560 part of critical theory. Whether it manifests as radical queer 129 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:43,319 theory or critical raise theory, it all stems from that 130 00:07:43,399 --> 00:07:47,439 same source. That's where it's all coming from. And over 131 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:51,040 the last you know, forty years, you have K twelve, 132 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:57,160 and you have colleges that have become infested with this 133 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,439 kind of mentality. It is a it's a mark exist 134 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,240 mentality that is rooted in the idea that there is 135 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,079 an oppressor and an oppressed and that all relationships and 136 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:15,920 really all society is best identified and described through power dynamics. 137 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:20,040 And so in any relationship, you have the power or 138 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,240 someone else is exerting power over you. And so when 139 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:27,639 you start viewing yourself like that, as this perpetual victim 140 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,360 in a constant power play at a societal level, at 141 00:08:31,399 --> 00:08:36,039 a family level, at a personal level, it then it 142 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,840 robs you of your ability to empathize with other people. 143 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:41,639 It makes you look inward, if you become self absorbed. 144 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:43,679 And there's a name for this, which is called the 145 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,440 tendency for interpersonal victimhood TIV. And it's a personality i 146 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,159 would say disorder. And once you become, once you identify 147 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,000 yourself as this victim, it becomes almost impossible to break 148 00:08:56,039 --> 00:09:00,480 free of that mentality. You can, but it's virtually possible. 149 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:05,679 And when you have the superstructure that exists with media, Hollywood, 150 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,879 h K twelve, education, college professors, when and everybody is 151 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,759 reinforcing this in your world, then you don't even know 152 00:09:14,799 --> 00:09:17,000 you're the fish that doesn't know it's wet. You don't 153 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:20,879 even realize that you have. You've been sort of indoctrinated 154 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,919 into this way of thinking. Cool good, all right, Yeah, man, 155 00:09:25,919 --> 00:09:30,919 I appreciate the call, Chris. It's it has been a 156 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,320 it has been a long project that the left has undertaken, 157 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:38,039 and people have been talking about it and trying to 158 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,360 fight against it for a long time. 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Democrats are going to have 189 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:28,840 to be the ones to take the lead, To lead 190 00:11:28,919 --> 00:11:35,159 this charge to confront the radicalized leftists and the increased 191 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,879 violence coming from the left. And that's the bad news. 192 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:43,000 I don't think they're able to do it. I really don't. 193 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:48,840 News outlets continue making excuses, blaming Trump and stacking bodies 194 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:53,159 to see which side is more violent. California Governor Gavin Newsom, 195 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,480 after suggesting that everybody should tone it down after Charlie 196 00:11:56,519 --> 00:11:59,840 Kirk was assassinated, then went on to Stephen Colbert's show 197 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:03,120 to declare he really does believe Trump will cancel the 198 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:08,519 twenty twenty eight presidential election. In the meantime, Charlie Kirk 199 00:12:08,639 --> 00:12:12,240 is dead, a gun control activist shot up in ABC 200 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:17,080 station in California. ICE agents have been shot, detainees have 201 00:12:17,159 --> 00:12:21,399 been killed in Texas. Mourners for Kirk were hurt in Arizona, 202 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,919 and explosive device was placed under a local Fox TV 203 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,000 van in Nevada. A federal facility in Oregon was vandalized 204 00:12:29,039 --> 00:12:32,960 and employees assaulted by protesters. And that's just the last 205 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,799 two weeks. Until Democrats police their own side, the violence 206 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:43,919 will only increase. Yeah, he's exactly right, And here's here's 207 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,840 a solution. Maybe. Sean Davis suggested this over at the Federalist. 208 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:54,759 The guy who murdered the detainees at the ICE facility 209 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:00,759 yesterday and then killed himself, he went looking for that app, 210 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,320 which we talked about at the time when it was 211 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,600 when it was developed and people started using it. A 212 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:13,879 guy developed an app to track ICE operations, and the 213 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:17,279 shooter went looking for those apps. I think, I don't 214 00:13:17,279 --> 00:13:19,080 know how many there are, but he went looking for 215 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:27,720 the app. What is the reasonable expectation that the maker 216 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,600 of the app, the developer? What is the reasonable expectation 217 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,480 that the developer had when it comes to how his 218 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,879 product would be used? Well, luckily we don't really have 219 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,120 to wonder about that because CNN did a fawning interview 220 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:51,519 with him and he explained it. It was to beat 221 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:56,879 the ICE operations. Was so people could avoid detection, so 222 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:00,519 people would know where ICE was operating, so then they 223 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:09,960 could avoid that area and escape arrest, which is criminal activity. So, 224 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:18,080 as Sean Davis suggests, maybe go after this guy for conspiracy. 225 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,519 Whoever develops these apps, you then could be targeted and 226 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:30,279 arrested yourself for obstruction, conspiracy, and in this case maybe 227 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,120 even murder. Maybe that would stop people from doing this 228 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:41,440 sort of thing. Jim Garretty at National Review. He said, 229 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,519 considering how quickly a false narrative that a right wing 230 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,360 lunatic had killed Charlie Kirk spread, I wonder if authorities 231 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,320 were eager to fill the vacuum with clear facts about 232 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,960 the crime and likely motive. Right. This is what I 233 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,759 said earlier. I agree with Jim Garrity that the publication 234 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:04,840 of that photo of the AMMO and now the release 235 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:09,559 of the written note from the shooter in order to 236 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,919 get ahead of the false narrative that the left constructs 237 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:19,759 in the immediate aftermath of these events, in order to 238 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:24,919 muddy the waters and to have the lie calcify as 239 00:15:25,159 --> 00:15:28,840 the narrative. He says, while everybody has the right to 240 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:32,360 criticize our immigration policies, and Dice is not above criticism, 241 00:15:32,759 --> 00:15:35,639 you start to wonder whether months and months of calling 242 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,480 ICE agents, fascists and jack booted thugs are convincing left 243 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:42,200 wing nut jobs that this really is the time for 244 00:15:42,279 --> 00:15:47,000 violent resistance to the US government. And then he mentions 245 00:15:47,039 --> 00:15:51,240 The Atlantic, which actually ran an article and a headline 246 00:15:51,879 --> 00:15:56,720 that its lefty readers are not probably happy about. They 247 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,600 would prefer not to encounter this kind of of a 248 00:16:00,639 --> 00:16:04,919 headline and story. The headline read left wing terrorism is 249 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,759 on the rise. For the first time in more than 250 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:11,279 thirty years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by 251 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,840 the far right. Slight problem, a little bit of a 252 00:16:15,879 --> 00:16:18,320 bone to pick, is that some of the data that 253 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,399 they use, and I'm going to go into this deeper 254 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:26,399 tomorrow because these studies it's all about the classification of 255 00:16:26,519 --> 00:16:33,399 the crimes. For example, if you've got a bunch of 256 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:40,519 Aryan Nation gang members in a prison and they murder 257 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,480 somebody in a prison and it doesn't even matter what 258 00:16:43,559 --> 00:16:46,759 the race is of the person they murder, that gets 259 00:16:46,879 --> 00:16:52,240 coded into the data set as right wing violence, political 260 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,879 right wing violence. Do you think that's appropriate? Or how 261 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:01,320 about this one? The murder the assassination of the Minnesota 262 00:17:01,879 --> 00:17:04,559 Speaker of the House, Melissa Hortman. You've heard a lot 263 00:17:04,559 --> 00:17:07,200 of her name and her husband. They were murdered by 264 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:12,720 this nutjob in Minnesota couple of months ago. That guy 265 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:19,519 is coded as a right wing terrorist. However, the guy 266 00:17:19,519 --> 00:17:25,039 who actually did it seems more like a delusional maniac. 267 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,799 He wrote a letter where he said that he had 268 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:33,440 been secretly trained by the US military and had participated 269 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,720 in secret overseas missions, all in the line of what 270 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:38,400 I thought was doing right and was in the best 271 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,640 interest of the United States. 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Remember talking to a black audience 310 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:52,599 during the twenty twelve election I believe, or maybe it 311 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,519 was his twenty twenty race, I forget, but he promised 312 00:19:55,559 --> 00:19:59,240 black people that Republicans were going to enslave them U 313 00:20:00,319 --> 00:20:02,319 which is weird because it was the Democrats who did 314 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:07,359 all that. Anyway, threat to democracy, climate change, everything is 315 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,799 an existential threat, right, suspension of elections, all of this stuff, 316 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:14,200 and people are told there's a dire threat that you 317 00:20:14,279 --> 00:20:18,000 can't stop through the normal political process, and so they 318 00:20:18,039 --> 00:20:20,920 are left with the only reasonable option, which is to 319 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,039 eliminate their opponents. He's a very that is a wise 320 00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:29,799 and astute observation. Rust this is the problem. For example, 321 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:35,319 I mentioned this guy's name earlier, Hassan Piker. You may 322 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:38,400 not know who this is. This is a Twitch streamer. 323 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,720 He is actually I think the number one twitch streamer 324 00:20:43,599 --> 00:20:48,799 on Twitch well the platform. Usually gamers are on Twitch 325 00:20:48,839 --> 00:20:52,960 and they broadcast their games and such. But this guy 326 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:56,079 has turned his platform into a talk show if it 327 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,680 ever was about gaming. I don't know, Hassan Piker. He's 328 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:05,119 got three million followers on Twitch. Here's a quote. Let 329 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:11,839 the streets soak in their bleeping red capitalist blood. This 330 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:19,240 guy has directly called for the murder of conservatives repeatedly 331 00:21:19,559 --> 00:21:24,319 on his streams, and Twitch does not remove him. He 332 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,119 has not been removed. He's been reported, but he's not 333 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:34,640 been removed. So is this tacit approval? Is this? Well, 334 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,119 we don't want to jeopardize the you know, all of 335 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,240 the audience lost and all of that. Is it a 336 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,920 business thing whatever? Right? That's why I say, like the 337 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 left has to they've got to be policed by Democrats. 338 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,960 But the Democrats are not going to do it. They're 339 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,759 just like, I've seen no indication that they're interested in 340 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:54,519 doing it. In fact that it seems like they just 341 00:21:54,599 --> 00:22:00,839 keep ratcheting up the rhetoric, which then leaves what as 342 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,440 a response, You're going to have to have government do 343 00:22:05,559 --> 00:22:10,039 it government when Republicans are in control of it, and 344 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,759 then they'll be criticized. Oh there they go. Look at them, 345 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:18,799 their tyrants, their fascists, their authoritarians. This is from Jim 346 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,960 Garrity talking about the mainstream media's role in all of this. 347 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,559 Why is it that, when confronted with a horrible situation 348 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,680 where somebody who identified with the left did something terrible 349 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,720 and someone on the right is the innocent victim, that 350 00:22:33,759 --> 00:22:40,240 the media feels an apparently uncontrollable urge to romanticize the perpetrator. 351 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:44,279 Why in recent days have we witnessed this full court 352 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:49,039 press from Lawrence Tribe the Lawyer Guy, to Jamel Hill, 353 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:53,680 to Jimmy Kimmel to Reuter's contending that Charlie Kirk's assassin 354 00:22:53,799 --> 00:22:56,319 had to be a right wing figure. Why is there 355 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,799 this reflexive refusal to believe that someone who identified as 356 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,359 being on the left side of the political spectrum could 357 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:09,240 do something terrible and violent. Noah Rothman at commentary dot 358 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:14,119 Com recalled the degree to which the mainstream media downplayed 359 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:19,240 the crimes of those involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. 360 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:22,559 Remember that one, that's a blast from the past. That 361 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:28,920 was fifteen years ago, Noah Rothman wrote, After well after 362 00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:33,000 Occupy exposed its pensiont for violence to all who were 363 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,720 willing to see it, the left liberal intelligentsia reserved most 364 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,039 of its revulsion for the police who were ordered by 365 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:47,000 their superiors to contain displays of public order disorder the Atlantics, 366 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,880 James Fallows mourned, quote what has happened before the world's 367 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,160 eyes at Davis and Berkeley and other recent occupy sites, 368 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,640 by which he meant local law enforcement's efforts to roll 369 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,839 up the illegal encampments. We saw the same treatment with 370 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,400 the Tenti Fada as well, and PR reported the aggressive 371 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,160 new police tactics have focused attention on the ongoing protests 372 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,720 against economic inequality that began in New York City last 373 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:16,960 month that have spread to several US cities. And of 374 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,039 course we know now, and we knew very early on 375 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:25,400 actually that these were astroturfed. Right. These were backed by 376 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:30,240 big money nonprofit organizations with funding from corporate entities and 377 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:36,680 leftist foundations. Right, these were astroturft. People who identify now 378 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,559 as Antifa have a long history of vandalism, attempted arson, 379 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:48,640 successful arson, building, incendiary devices and improvised explosive devices, harassment, stalking, shootings, looting, burglary, 380 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:54,519 even murder. NPR's Mara Eliason, why did you assert that 381 00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:58,240 Antifa are comparable to the Allied forces? Landing at Normandy. 382 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,880 Remember that they fought they fought fascist too, That's what 383 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,519 she said. Why can you not discern that a bunch 384 00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:09,920 of violent guys claiming to be anti fascist does not 385 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:14,200 actually make their actions opposition to fascism? Why do we 386 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,400 get the same argument from julia iafe or whatever her 387 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,960 name is over at Puck as well? He's calling people 388 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:25,799 out here, Jim Garretty is. After the appalling Capitol Hill 389 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,759 riot on January sixth, did you hear anybody in the 390 00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:31,640 mainstream media trot out the Martin Luther King junior quote 391 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,039 that a riot is the language of the unheard? No, 392 00:25:35,039 --> 00:25:38,519 nobody said that. How come when the right wingers riot, 393 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:41,559 the mainstream media can see right and wrong and four 394 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,680 K crystal clarity, But when left wingers riot, everything suddenly 395 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,680 becomes murky and complicated. Why are you like this media? 396 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,480 Be better? Or, as Milanie would say, be best. So 397 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,480 when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 398 00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:01,759 and before he died, my mom and my dad took 399 00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:04,039 care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, 400 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,200 there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers 401 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,799 and family. But things are different today because of the 402 00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:13,000 work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of 403 00:26:13,039 --> 00:26:16,640 Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with 404 00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:19,599 huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years. 405 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:22,920 This cause means a lot to me. I participate in 406 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,799 the annual Walk to end Alzheimer's and I'm leading a 407 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,000 Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once again 408 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,480 Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join 409 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:34,359 the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth, 410 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,440 that truest field. Sign up at alz dot org slash 411 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,880 Walk and then you can search for my team name 412 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,400 Pete's Pack. There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. 413 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,160 There's also a link in the description of this podcast. Also, 414 00:26:47,519 --> 00:26:50,839 I'll be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, 415 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,720 and so you can make a team and join that 416 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,039 one too, or make a donation and help me hit 417 00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:57,319 my goal of five thousand dollars. If you do, I 418 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,720 really appreciate it. There are a bunch of other walks 419 00:26:59,759 --> 00:27:02,079 all all over the Carolinas. You can go to alz 420 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,240 dot org slash Walk for all the dates and locations. 421 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,319 We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help 422 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,079 us get there? Will you walk with me? For a 423 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,279 different future, for families, for more time for treatments. This 424 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,039 is why we walk. I will read some of the 425 00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:22,880 massages here on the text line from Danny. The public 426 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,119 education system, along with universities, have built a wall for 427 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,720 the intrusion of logic. Center we're center right thinking individuals 428 00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:33,759 to join, potentially come to leadership positions, and possibly higher 429 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,119 like minded people to join them. If you're a center 430 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,680 or center right, you have an uphill battle not only 431 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,839 penetrating these institutions, but climbing any type of leadership ladder 432 00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:49,799 is nearly impossible. This person says, I work for a 433 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,200 large healthcare system in the area, and because the leadership 434 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,079 is left leaning, all of the left leaning employees feel 435 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,599 like they can be more outspoken and are without any 436 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,759 repercussions no matter how outrageous or divisive their statements are. See, 437 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:08,920 and this is something that people on the left have 438 00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:12,599 no real comprehension. A lot of people on left don't 439 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:16,759 have any understanding of this. Of this dynamic. Conservatives self 440 00:28:16,839 --> 00:28:21,920 censor all the time in the workplace, family gatherings, and stuff. 441 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,039 They won't say stuff, They won't engage with people, They 442 00:28:25,039 --> 00:28:32,920 won't say things because they fear retribution, particularly in the workplace, 443 00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:37,119 and people on the left, they just say whatever they 444 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,480 want because there's no fear of retribution. It's the same. Look. 445 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,079 It's very logical to me that you have a group 446 00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:50,839 of people in America who believe that there are all 447 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,799 these existential crises, that their political opponents are literally Nazis 448 00:28:55,839 --> 00:29:01,759 and fascists, but they don't behave like that. They will 449 00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:05,440 walk up to a Charlie Kirk memorial and destroy it 450 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:13,359 without any fear of physical confrontation. Right. Those are not 451 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,119 the actions of people who actually believe everyone's trying to 452 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:23,079 kill them. Corey says, we need to get you a 453 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:27,440 bigger soapbox. Keep preaching. Great show today, rich and compelling. 454 00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:32,400 Thank you, sir. Would a lawsuit get results against Twitch? 455 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,759 Any conservative should be able to claim standing, says John 456 00:29:35,799 --> 00:29:39,359 in New Jersey. That's a good question. I don't know. 457 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,920 Another message. Twitch is a meeting place for the domestic terrorists. 458 00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:45,559 The Left has to be destroyed and discarded by everyone. 459 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,039 This won't happen. It'll come to violence in the streets 460 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:53,119 over the country. Believe me, and then Kevin says, silence 461 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,559 is violence. Words and disagreement or violence. Make it make sense, Pete, 462 00:29:57,559 --> 00:29:59,599 Oh okay, well I can do that for you. The 463 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,960 point is chaos, that's the point. It's why they change 464 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,680 the meaning of words. It's why they're constantly, you know, 465 00:30:09,759 --> 00:30:11,880 trying to get you on your back feet with regard 466 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,640 to framing of narratives and what is real and what 467 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,160 is not and men can be girls and girls can 468 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,400 be boys and all of that, Like, the whole point 469 00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:24,799 is to create chaos. Why well, if you create chaos, 470 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,640 then you fight among each other, you don't know what's real, 471 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,880 and Western civilization collapses. The institutions, the center can't hold 472 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:36,119 and when that happens, then they step into the void. 473 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:41,160 They assume power because remember these are revolutionaries, these are Marxists. 474 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:45,359 Everything is power dynamics. Who has the power. You can't 475 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,440 do anything unless you have the power. So we're going 476 00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:53,319 to take the power, which is what animated people like 477 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,920 the Black Liberation Army, the weather underground. In fact, this 478 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,559 was a Mark Hemingway piece at the Federalists the other day, 479 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,960 who he said, you know, in going over some of 480 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,160 this stuff, he was reminded of Chase Abowden, who was 481 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,680 the DA in San Francisco, got there with the George 482 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,839 Soros money. He eventually got thrown out, But remember his 483 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:22,599 parents went to prison for terrorism, domestic terrorism, and he 484 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,880 was then raised by his adoptive parents, Bill Ayres and 485 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:33,960 Bernadine Dorn And you'll recall they were specially radical. They 486 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:40,000 got teaching positions at colleges, and Barack Obama launched his 487 00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:43,200 political career at their house. In fact, Chase Abouden would 488 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,480 have been about fourteen or fifteen years old at that time, 489 00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:49,279 and it never occurred to anybody that this would be 490 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,839 like some sort of a disadvantage for Obama. Right to 491 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,119 launch your career in the home of unrepentant domestic terrorists. 492 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,079 He was rewarded, so Hemingway says, says, if you have 493 00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:09,200 ever excused or condoned violence, or knowingly consorted with those 494 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,799 who have, I don't care one wit. If you're someone 495 00:32:11,839 --> 00:32:14,519 as lofty as Barack Obama, you need to be driven 496 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:18,440 from polite society. I will happily engage in the ritual 497 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:22,119 malediction of saying that call to ostracize obviously extends to 498 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,400 forces on the political right as well, except I do 499 00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:28,599 so knowing that no matter how much corrupt Democrat leaders 500 00:32:28,599 --> 00:32:30,960 cook the stats to pretend right wing violence is a 501 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,559 serious threat, nothing the right has done comes close to 502 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:37,680 setting off five bombs a day for eighteen months straight, 503 00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:40,880 proceeding to terrorize the country for more than a decade, 504 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:45,079 and then electing new generations of politicians that knowingly excused 505 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,920 this insane level of violence and it has led to this. 506 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:53,799 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 507 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,880 so much for listening. I could not do the show 508 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,400 without your support and the support of the businesses that 509 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,599 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 510 00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:03,279 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 511 00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:05,920 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 512 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:09,640 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 513 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:16,119 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.