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much for your support. All Right, So, I do feel
like every time that I am off on a vacation
day or a PTO, I do feel like I have
conditioned everybody to believe that I am sick because I
don't take Really, I like, that's why I took these
days is because I have so many vacation days from
last year that I did not take that. Really, the
only time I ever take time off is if I
am sick. So I feel like it's my fault that
everybody thinks I'm sick now whenever I take a day off,
I was getting messages all day on you know, direct,
my text messaging and on my emails and social media,
and I'm not sick. I went up on Monday. I
drove up to UNC Chapel Hill and I was invited
to speak to the College Republicans, and so I did,
and I was like, well, you know what, I could
You know, I could work the day and then immediately
jump in the car, drive up there and do the
appearance and then head on back. But that's like almost
six hours of driving. And I thought, you know, and
I'll just take the I have these days from twenty
twenty four that I rolled over into this year, so
I have to take them or I'm going to lose them.
So I'll just take the whole day off. And then
I thought, and then I'll take the second day. I'll
take Tuesday off because again I have all these vacation
days I need to take them. So I'll take the
day after because you know what, with all of the
driving and such. And then yesterday I just basically ran
errands and did a bunch of stuff around the house.
So thank you to Nick Craig for filling in. I
do appreciate that, and for Ap Dylan and Andrew Dunn
for doing the regularly scheduled live hits that we do
on Mondays and Tuesdays with both of them. And so
I appreciate that. Today we're going to talk to Stacy
Matthews in the third hour. She is a writer over
at RedState dot com and she is an og blogger
under the name Sister Toldja, So we'll talk with her
later on in the program. It was a good appearance.
They did not organize like massive hamas hole protests in
my honor or anything like that. Nobody even knew who
I was, which is how I like it. So it
was great. The students were great, good questions. You know,
I think we were scheduled for an hour, we went longer,
and we talked about all sorts of issues, you know, national, international,
but also obviously you know, Republican Party. And the first
thing I always tell any Republican group when I go
and speak to them is full disclosure. I am not
a Republican, nor have I been in like two decades. Okay,
I have not been a registered Republican. I was a
registered Republican a long time ago. Then I became a libertarian,
registered libertarian, and then the Libertarian Party in North Carolina
lost its designation as an officially recognized party, and so
when that happened, I became unaffiliated. The board of elections,
maybe unaffiliated, So I just stayed that way. And I
live in Charlotte, I live in Democrat districts, and so
I might as well stay on affiliated so I can
vote in whichever primary I choose. So there you go.
But it was good. It was good. We talked about
political realignments, which I've talked about on this show many
times over the years. We are in another political realignment,
and this stuff happens. As I told the kids in
the College Republican group, this happens. And depending on who
you talk to and who you're reading, there is a
belief that either this is sort of the sixth or
the seventh realignment of the American political parties. It doesn't
really matter to me, like to keep the number count
at this point, but that the parties are always changing, right,
They're always morphing based on current events, population and the
electoral prospects. So right now you're seeing this realignment and
I can't figure out any other explanation for it except
Democrats do not want to win anymore. I think that's
where where I think I would not be surprised if
the Democrat Party just completely fractures a part and you
end up with more people in sort of a center
and center left and or center right coalition forming as
another type of party, or they come in and break away,
or they shift the Republican Party. Because it's happening. The
realignment's happening in both parties. I don't know how it
shakes out. I cannot predict the future on that kind
of stuff, but I recognize it when it's happening. I
think everybody does. Donald Trump has done more to shake
up the realignment, I think than anybody in my lifetime
that I remember. It's why you ended up with people
that are quote neo cons right, that like how about this?
You end up at a point where the Democrat nominee
for president is touting the support of the Cheney's And
for anybody who was alive and paying attention twenty years ago,
that would seem to be an impossibility. These the Cheney family,
they were war criminals to the Democrats, along with George W.
Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. I mean the people who are
going in and disrupting the congressional and Senate hearings and stuff.
These are code pink people, and code pink their claim
to fame was protesting George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
So and now you've got the left making common cause
with the Cheney's right that right there, or RFK Jr.
As a member of a Republican cabinet, Tulcy Gabbard, same thing, right?
How do we end How did we end up in
this position? This realignment is occurring. Now there is something else.
And I got a message from from a listener about
this about the fourth Turning. Have you all ever heard
of this? I talked about it also with the kids
at the at the at the College Republicans up at
Chapel Hill, which, by the way, had I known that
they had just gotten back from spring break and that
all the fraternities have their Saint Patrick's Day parties? Like
I was up against some pretty severe counterprogramming, you know.
But there's a thing called the Fourth Turning. And I
forget who it was that sent me a message that
the other day saying that they was it Jason, Let
me see, Yeah it was Jason. It's another data point
that we are in a fourth turning generational wave. It's
amazing to watch how the politics of this play out.
So the fourth Turning, and I'm not going to go
in depth on this because I'm going to get into
the law fair stuff first, but I think I'm going
to do more on the fourth turning hypothesis or theory tomorrow.
But in short, it is that American history, indeed much
of world history, can be explained by four twenty to
twenty two year periods, back to back to back. Think seasons.
It's equated to seasons. You have your you start with spring, summer, fall,
and then winter. And each of these generations, all of
the kids that are you grow up, and the people
that grow up and are alive during each of these
two decade turnings are shaped by events, but also shape events,
but it's a cyclical pattern and it always goes in
the same way. And the fourth turning or winter is
where we are right now, and that's the crisis phase,
and it comes from external or internal and throughout American history,
American history, the fourth turning, the crisis is always as
a whole mark war, and three out of the four
were external wars. Right the Revolution, then you have eighty
years later you get your Civil War, then you get
World War two, and now we're eighty years away from that.
So will it be internal or will it be external?
Nobody knows, but the guys who came up with this theory,
how and Strauss, they wrote a book about this in
the nineties and they made five predictions. Four of the
five predictions came true, and the last one is about
right now the crisis, it being some sort of a war.
So that's where that's what the fourth turning and the
four turnings, these four seasons whatever or what do they
call the similacrum or something, because the theory is based
on ancient understanding of the same sort of pattern, which,
if you're a believer, like, doesn't that kind of make
a bit of sense that much like we have these
these seasons in our own personal lives, we have these
seasons in nature, why wouldn't we have these seasons at
a you know, a larger scale everything. It's the green shoots,
economics stuff, it's the you know, there's season to be born,
a season to die, like you have all. It's just
the natural life cycle of everything. So we talked a
little about that as well. But again I'm not going
in depth on this today. I don't have any of
my notes in front of me about it. That's just
off the top of my head, and I am not
an expert on the fourth turning stuff, but that's the
part of that turning occurs during the third and fourth
or sorry, part of the realignment, I should say, is
in the third and fourth turnings. The third is called
the unraveling. That's gen X, the unraveling, and then the
crisis is the fourth jurning. All right, So spring is
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here is Travis. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Travis, mister p glad to hear you're still alive.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you and me both.
Speaker 2: I've been hearing. I was listening to you at the
start of the program talk about how parties change over time.
It's not really clear where the Democrats are going right now.
I think I see three pathways that they can take
one and each one has different leadership in it. One
is this lady who's a brand new person running for
state House down in Texas. She got some airtime over
the weekend because I got into an online flat sprat
with Michael Flynn. Sarah McGee's her name, and basically her
approach is all this wocism stuff that Republicans attacks attack
Democrats for. It never happened. It's all just made up
by right wing extremists. That's one pathway, just say clean slate.
All that was fake move forward. Another is a lot
I guess you thought like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Just lie right, Okay, I got you, okay lying.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, but hey, if realism is your thing, then
you probably didn't think that Biden was, you know, the
sharpest present anyway. Yeah, Fetterman offers this kind of middle
America approach that's uh, yes, we did embrace all that
crazy stuff, but it really didn't make sense, right, Maybe
Seth Molten's in that camp, and then.
Speaker 1: Sort of a disavowal approach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but really you know, acknowledging that it happened, but
it wasn't really productive, right, So.
Speaker 1: We need to move on from that, and we need
to re focus on like working class middle Americans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like what Democrats used to be, like Clinton Party
or And the third is AOC, which is like, I
don't know where you what that is? Is that insane
what Biden did?
Speaker 1: No, it's the insane track, the insane track.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, as an aside, you know, she
said that she's gonna she's gonna do town halls and
red districts to kind of get a feel of what
they think. I have been to town halls in red district.
She knows who shows up most of the time, indivisible activists. Right,
She's going to come away from these red these red districts,
going man, conservatives love left wing policy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, So I think, uh no, I think
you've I think you've outlined a pretty plausible scenario. These
three options. The it didn't happen, the it did happen,
but it was it was bad and we shouldn't keep
doing it, or the it did happen and we're going
to double down and keep on doing more of it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that those are the three tracks. It seems
like I don't know who this person is, Sarah McGee,
but I'll have to look into her. I think the
problem with the the Fetterman track is that I don't know.
This gets to a line that Dennis Praeger has used
and I cited all the time, which is that conservatives
vote their principles and leftists vote their principles, but liberals
do not vote their principles. Liberals will vote for the leftists.
And I think that's the problem inside the Democrat Party
right now, and it's why you're seeing this fracturing occur,
because the liberals cannot stand up to the leftist because
that would mean they have to admit that they're actually
a little bit closer to the Conservatives than they want
to acknowledge.
Speaker 2: And who even is that person who can carry the
torch for the liberals and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question too, Travis.
I appreciate the call about a great analysis. I like it.
It didn't happen, it did happen, but where you should
change it or the let's do more of it? Those
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while saying the Biden administration had been or sorry last week.
They've reported these numbers Tuesday or Wednesday last week, So
they say the Biden administration had been cooking the books
regarding the numbers, cooking the books on ICE arrests.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: We have uncovered that the previous administration was cooking the
books on ICE data, said the acting ICE director todd
Lyons quote. They were purposely misleading the American people by
categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the
United States as ICE arrests. You got so you understand
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people who are processed and then released and then another
category of ICE arrests. And they were counting the ones
who were processed and released as arrests, but they're not
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the overall one hundred and thirteen thousand plus arrests made
in fiscal year twenty twenty four were quote passed through arrests,
meaning that ICE did not take an enforcement action against
those foreign nationals and they instead just passed through ICE
before being released into the interior into America and were
told to report to an ICE office. They stressed that
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administration have been these kinds of passed through arets.
Speaker 2: Guests.
Speaker 1: This is this is really important to understand what was occurring,
so we have a better understanding of what is occurring
right now with regard to for example, Trendre Arara and
these violent criminals that were deported and now you've got
leftist lawyers with a wardrobe change saying turn the planes
around and bring these violent criminal cartel members back to America. Okay,
you have to understand this was a choice, this was
a policy. This was intentional. The Biden administration intentionally imported
violent criminals from all over the world, allowing everybody to
pass through, you know, go through the CBP, app claim asylum,
get into America, just overwhelm the system, bring in hundreds
of thousands, millions and millions of people over four years,
and now the same people are claiming that removing them
is unconstitutional. That's why we are where we are. And
always keep in mind on any of these types of issues.
We're going to go deep into this law fare stuff
in the next hour. Always keep in mind, as James
Lindsay from New Discourses always says, and I do as well,
because I totally am a shameless thief when it comes
to the great lines like this, the issue is never
the issue. The issue is always the revolution. That's what
all of it. Is it a coincidence? In your mind?
Do you think it is a coincidence that the Hamas
Holey guy at Columbia right that got picked up and
has now become a poster or child for free speech somehow.
What's his name, Khalil Kalil whatever? Is it any wonder
that this guy ends up hooked up with Was it
CUAD Columbia University Anti whatever, divestment and apartheid, divestment right, CUAD?
Is it any wonder why that organization, as one of
its founding principles is the destruction of Western civilization? Do
you think that's a coincidence? Why would leftists be aligned
with that? Because the issue isn't the issue. The issue
is in Palestine, The issue is in Israel. The issue
is the revolution. And that's what that means. When they
say that our goal is the destruction of Western civilization,
that's what they're talking about. That's the revolution, that's the revolution.
When it comes to these types of leftist organization support
for unchecked illegal immigration, the issue isn't the issue. It's
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you destabilize from within in order to overthrow the patriarchical
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Fox News a report by Adam Shaw, senior officials at
ICE say they were cooking the books under the Biden administration.
In fiscal year twenty twenty four, ICE enforcement removal operations
made thirty three thousand plus at large arrests. For comparison,
ICE made just under thirty three thousand arrests since Trump
was inaugurated January twentieth through March tenth, thirty three thousand
arrests all of last year thirty three thousand arrests in
three months, meaning they're going to surpass the total number
of arrests sometime this week. Of those arrests, I believe
this is for this year so far the three months,
more than fourteen thousand were convicted criminals and almost ten
thousand have pending criminal charges. The administration says the efforts
are already having an effect, with not only a sharp
increase interests, but also a significant drop in encounters at
the southern border. Donald Trump said this best. He said,
it turns out right that when you know the Democrats
said he made this comment during his don't call it
the State of the Union address, where it's just a
joint is a speech to the joint Session of Congress,
but it has it's like it's the State of the
Union basically, And he said that the Democrats had claimed
they could not do all of this stuff, all of
this enforcement, They could not make us safer, they could
not secure the border unless we had some new legislation.
And it turns out all we needed was a new president.
He is exactly right. And we said this at the
time when they were like, oh, Donald Trump killed the bill.
You don't need another bill. All of the laws exist
for you to do what Trump is currently doing and
what the Border Patrol and ice are currently doing. This
was intentional because the issue is the revolution. Over at
hot air dot Com, Ed Morrissey points out how Democrats
seem very determined to land on the most radical position
possible on a great many things, and the immigration issue
is just one. Now, he chalks this up to Trump
derangement syndrome TDS right where he says at the end,
there's only one explanation for the full speed rush to extremism,
Trump derangement syndrome. Whatever Trump says or does, Democrats rush
to oppose it, even when it makes sense and reflects
the overwhelming consensus of the electorate. Even when it's common sense,
Democrats will oppose it based on their only guiding principle,
which is hating Trump. It's why their entire party is
now enraged that Chuck Schumer failed to stop a bill
that largely kept the last Biden budget levels in place
simply because Trump supported it too. Now I would I
would simply say on this, I understand what Ed Morrissey
is writing, and I largely agree. But the hatred of
Donald Trump, Yes, there are a lot of people that
are falling into that, and they view everything through the
prism of Trump. And if Trump is for it, then
therefore it. If he's against it, they're against it. And
the verse is true too. Trump derangement is on both
ends of the spectrum. If you cannot arrive at your
own belief on something, your own opinion on something, without
first knowing where Donald Trump stands on it. Then you
are suffering from TDS as well, because it deranges it warps,
because Donald Trump may say something today and you're like,
I agree with him, and then he may flip on
it the next day and you're like, I now disagree
with myself and I agree with him again.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So the same is true on the left, where they
see everything that he does and if he's for it,
then they have to be against it, and it puts
them in this ridiculous position of opposing the deportation of
violent criminal gang members. This is something their own party
doesn't agree with these leaders on. But I think that
this is just the hate Trump Trump derangement syndrome. I
don't think it explains the underlying strategy, which is, as
I said, the revolution, and Trump is standing in the
way of that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Trump represents sort of this boomer era idea that yeah,
America is great, but you know, there was too much
government control on stuff and so more, you know, of
an individualism kind of a spirit, the freedom to you know,
build and do stuff and make great things. And such,
and he's of an older generation, probably closer to the
beginning of the boomers, late silent generation, whatever. So the
idea here is that we are products of This goes
to the fourth turning stuff, where you've got people who
are of their generation. They're shaped by the events of
their generation, and that's what he is hearkening back to.
That's what makes him an attractive figure. And that's why
younger people are receptive to the message, because you've got
another group that's now coming up, and there are younger
people that are looking at this and saying, I want
to unify around something, and this could be it, This
could be the thing. And you've got another party out there,
the Democrats, that are telling you that your country is crap,
and that's not a unifying message. Well, I guess for
the Marxists. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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