A child cancer survivor can't break through Democrats' hate (03-05-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] So Democrats had their MoMo moment yesterday. You guys really should think of some new tactics. I will say the little circle paddleboard Brazilian steakhouse looking cards you guys had, that was new. I will give you that. You had the little popsicle stick attached to a round circle with printed out words on them.

[00:00:55] And like, yeah, keep the proteins coming. No, no, I don't want any more of the proteins. Yeah, no, that was a new tactic. But the Moral Monday movement stuff, it's not effective.

[00:01:13] And I don't like I'm not sure I've ever seen a group of ostensibly politicians. I mean, that's what I understand them to be. But and like, I assume if you get to the U.S. House of Representatives that you have some knowledge of, you know, how to do the politicianing.

[00:01:34] But I don't know if I've ever seen a larger group of assembled politicians who are so easily led into traps. I don't know if this was Donald Trump and his, you know, famous 77 dimensional chess going on here or what.

[00:01:59] But if Donald Trump and his speech writers know that you will resist anything he says because you are the resistance. Right. That you're the resistance, you're going to object everything and you're going to boo and catcall and hiss and you're going to disrupt and you're going to flash signs. You're going to turn your back on the president when he walks in all these little games that you play.

[00:02:29] They know that. Right. The speech writers know that. And that means that you can be easily made to be. Well, I was going to say fools, but greater fools. Because you are predictable. It is so predictable that they can write a speech to make you look like dumbasses. And mission accomplished, guys.

[00:02:59] Really, just sincerely bang up work. Refusing to applaud the 13 year old brain cancer survivor. That was awesome. Yeah, you guys showed him, huh? Multiple families of murder victims. Take that. Victims families. We're not going to applaud you because Donald Trump recognized you.

[00:03:27] Declaring war on the cartels. Nope. Can't applaud that. Cartels are good, I guess. The reduction in illegal border crossings, which I thought you guys said you wanted to see those numbers come down, too. That's why you told us we had to pass that bill. Right. You said that in order to get control over the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border, we had to pass Biden's bad border bill, the BBBB.

[00:03:58] And then you attack the Republicans as not wanting to, quote, solve the problem when they did not go along with it because it was, as I mentioned, a bad border bill. So when you see the numbers come down, you would think that would be a good thing because that's what you wanted to see happen. You wanted to see these crossings be reduced, right? No, no. No, no applause for that either. Oh, how about the freed hostage out of Russia?

[00:04:29] That's a good story. He was a teacher. You guys are all about the teachers and all of that stuff. And he was home. They brought him home. They brought him to the Don't Call It a State of the Union speech last night. It's an address to the Joint Session of Congress. He was up there with his wife and, nope, can't applaud that guy. Sorry. You know, Trump got you home. So screw you, too. A foster parent.

[00:04:59] The announcement that we have arrested the terrorist that was behind the planning of the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan during the botched Biden withdrawal. That's not good news, I guess. Don't applaud that either. Oh, how about ending the war in Ukraine? Nope. That doesn't get a round of applause. Orange man bad, after all.

[00:05:23] Any kind of citation of waste or fraud or abuse that has been identified and cut. Nope. Nope. Nope. No applause for that. No applause for an increase in military recruiting. Nope. Don't get any of that. Sorry. Or related, the high school kid who just had his dream come true by getting accepted to West Point. Boo you, kid!

[00:05:55] Resurrecting the shipbuilding industry in America. America. I'm old enough to remember when Democrats were really happy that there would be these types of manufacturing jobs, particularly like union jobs. No. That was before the orange man came down the golden escalator. Is the escalator gold? I think it is gold, actually.

[00:06:19] And once again, Corey Comparatori, who died at Butler, Pennsylvania during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life. His family was there again. And once again, Democrats refused to give them a round of applause to stand and celebrate what could, I think, rightfully be described as positive developments for America.

[00:06:49] Everything I listed seems like, to me, positive developments for America. But I guess if Donald Trump is responsible for any of it, or even if he just mentions this stuff, right? Like they didn't want to go to Mars. Right? I did hear Elon Musk scream. That was, you could totally tell it was him. When Trump made the comment about going to Mars and you heard like one guy start, yeah! And then everybody starts cheering. Like that was totally Musk.

[00:07:21] These are things that are good for America. And there used to be a time when even if you didn't vote for the guy that was, you know, at the front of the room making the speech, you could recognize the value of a good thing for the nation. I was, I got to tell you, I was surprised last night. I watched the whole thing, so you didn't have to. You're welcome.

[00:07:50] Um, I was surprised at one particular response that I got when I listed all of the things that I just listed for you right now. I went on to the Twitter machine and I, I wrote down, I kept the list. Like here are the things the Democrats have refused to applaud for. And in the case of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, like the video I saw was that she rolled her eyes.

[00:08:19] When Trump was talking about the 13 year old kid who was made an honorary secret service agent. And that kid was so excited. He was dressed up. He was dressed in like a police uniform. The kid had brain cancer, probably still does. It's glioblastoma, I assume. And so that's like the chance of that coming back. Very, very, very high. And, um, he's had multiple brain surgeries.

[00:08:49] And so he was there and his dad held him up and the place was cheering for him. And he wants to be a cop. He's 13 and he wants to be a police officer. And apparently like hundreds of police departments all over the country have made him an honorary officer. And so last night they made him, Trump made him an honorary secret service agent. And his eyes got all big and he, he gave the secret service leader a hug.

[00:09:16] And then when Trump announced that the high school kid was going to go to West Point, DJ Daniel is his name, the 13 year old. He went up and gave the kid a fist bump, high-fived him. Like, isn't that a good story? Isn't that representative of the kind of country you want to live in? No.

[00:09:41] Can you not set aside your personal hatred for Donald Trump to recognize a good thing for your fellow countrymen? And in this case, that child. This was a good moment for that kid. And you robbed him of a full house standing ovation for him. That certain people in certain situations and stories that they have transcend politics.

[00:10:11] And you couldn't do it. And it's, it's, it is to your eternal shame. And I was surprised when I made this list last night at one particular response from a local Charlotte city councilman or city councilman, but a former state senator. I believe it's him. I'll double check. He doesn't have a blue checkmark, but I'll double check.

[00:10:39] They cannot put their personal animosity aside. It's sad. This is what, this is what I mean when I say Trump has broken people's brains. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place.

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[00:11:53] So I posted onto Twitter this list of the times that I feel like Democrats, as Americans first, as, you know, empathetic human beings or even people with just like the awareness that people would expect them to show some empathy in these situations should have applauded. And so I posted this list onto Twitter last night, formerly known as X.

[00:12:21] And I was surprised to see a response from now confirmed Charlotte City Councilman Malcolm Graham. I've known Malcolm Graham for 20 years. He was on the city council when I, when I was a reporter and I sat through many, many meetings. I've interviewed him many times over the, you know, the decade of like 2000 through 2010.

[00:12:48] And he posted a response saying, quote, he's an international embarrassment talking about Donald Trump. And then he's got a big, like AI generated photo of the Lincoln Memorial statue, except Lincoln's got his hand over his face. He's like putting his head in his hand, you know, like, oh my gosh. Right.

[00:13:17] And I was like, wow. Okay. So you're, you're trying to deflect away from the fact that Democrats did not stand or did not applaud. Like the 13 year old with brain cancer. Okay. And you're going to make it about Donald Trump. And I, so I said, I'd like to think you would applaud a 13 year old brain cancer survivor.

[00:13:48] So I gave him an off ramp. Like where he could have said, you know, yes, I would have applauded, but I understand why would have. And that's what I expected the response to be because Malcolm Graham, also a politician, I would expect a political kind of a response. But what I got was a response that said, I would think you would agree that he's an embarrassed. He is an embarrassment to the country.

[00:14:17] It's not about the kid. It's Donald. See, but here's the thing. In that moment, it is about the kid. It's not about Donald. This is why I say Trump has broken people's brains. That child up there in the balcony that was recognized. For his battle against cancer. Right. Well, you know, wanting to be law enforcement like they and this has been going on. They bring people in all the time.

[00:14:46] Right. They they make it a part of their speech. Every single president does this. It's been going on my entire adult life. It's never been something that was controversial. You never took it out on those people that were brought. Everybody would applaud. You know, unless you brought like some activist. I know, you know, when Trump brought Rush Limbaugh up there, the Democrats didn't celebrate that. I understood that. But this is a kid.

[00:15:16] This is an apolitical kid. And you can't even bring yourselves to give that kid in that moment. A moment. A moment of unity. You can't even bring yourself to do it. Everything has got to be about how much you hate Donald Trump. I get it. I get it. You hate Donald Trump. I understand. Are you a child? Are you a child?

[00:15:42] Can you not separate that from that person up there? You realize they are two different people. Right. One kid's way over there. And one guy's up on the stage. Two different people. So after Councilman Graham said, I would think you would agree that it's that he is an embarrassment to the country. It's not about the kid. It's Donald. I said in response to which he then he has never responded to me after this.

[00:16:14] I pointed out that my tweet listed the times that your fellow Democrats refused to applaud things that should have gotten universal applause. I thought Joe Biden was a cognitively impaired embarrassment. But if he celebrated a kid with brain cancer, I'd applaud. Wouldn't you? Of course you would. Because it's the kid. It's his moment.

[00:16:40] And applauding for that child doesn't mean anything with regards to your hatred of Donald Trump. And the fact that you can't see that, you deserve everything that you're going to get now. You do. You deserve all of it. You deserve every single Democrat that was in that that was in the Congress last night. And everybody like Councilman Graham, who is defending their behavior. You deserve everything you're going to get. And I'm talking about political ads against you.

[00:17:10] I'm talking about dragging you on social media because you deserve it. You deserve all of it. You rob that kid of a moment because you are petty, petulant children. That kid is more mature than you are.

[00:17:25] And I say that as one who, and this is not hyperbolic, literally risked his job arguing against Donald Trump with his own audience for the better part of four years. If you can't tell the difference between that child and Donald Trump, shame on you.

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[00:19:13] I didn't want to pull a Zalinski and not thank you for taking my call. But, you know, Pete, when I watched that address last night, man, I was like, it really held up the reasons that I'm not a Democrat and that I cannot align myself and vote for people who, you know, call themselves Democrats.

[00:19:39] I mean, you know, not to stand up or applaud a single thing. Like you said, it didn't have nothing to do with Donald Trump. And a lot of the people that Donald Trump recognized, they suffered tragedies and misfortunes in life because of the policies and the actions of Democrats. You know, I mean, it just blew my mind.

[00:20:05] But, Pete, I believe I'm going to be a lifelong Republican because from what has happened in the last four years, you know, even when Biden, you know, when he couldn't find his way off stage. And he hid through the whole, you know, he hid in his basement when he was running for president. And, you know, and they did all these things and they lied to us. Well, Biden's in good shape, but yet he couldn't put two senses together. He can't find his way off stage.

[00:20:33] So we're going to put him on a bicycle and show you how fit he is. And he pulls up on the bicycle and falls over. And, you know, they lied to the American people through all that and thought that we couldn't see with our own eyes and told us what we were seeing wasn't true. I mean, I'm done with them. I don't believe I'll ever, you know, I'm ashamed to say I ever voted Democrat. But in my youth, being stupid and uninformed, I have.

[00:21:01] But I just don't see myself ever going back the other way. Well, that's it. You know, Tim, that's a very it's interesting you brought that up. That's the old adage. You know, if you are not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. And if you're not a conservative, when you're older, you have no head. And right. But that's always been that. I mean, that adage, right, is predicated on the idea that Democrats have a heart.

[00:21:25] And what we saw last night was like a repudiation of that thing that was always their brand, that they were sympathetic, empathetic towards people. Right. That they cared. And what we saw last night was just a complete surrender of that political position, that branding position. But if you pay attention to what they say in their actions, just like now, I don't know how true it is.

[00:21:52] But I heard back during the days when, you know, this country was fighting over slavery or whatever. The Democrats were defending slavery, saying who's going to pick our crops? That was, you know, we need them to pick our crops. We need slaves. And now modern day, they're defending illegal aliens coming in saying, well, who's going to pick our crops? You know, I mean, it blows my mind, man. Yeah. No, it's true.

[00:22:16] And that's why, you know, I've heard it said that, you know, Democrats are very angry right now, especially over the illegal immigration issue. And they haven't been this angry since the last time Republicans tried to take their slaves. Yeah. They're they're they're like little pouty kids, you know. Oh, yeah. I put up with, you know, Biden won one way or another and he won in 2020. You know, we had to put up with it. We had to watch them. And I was like, wait and see.

[00:22:46] And they proved exactly what I thought would happen. They darn near run the country into shambles. Well, they did. And now that we have strong people on with the right minds to get it back on track, it's killing them. Yeah. Well, and there used to be. And Tim, I appreciate the call, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir.

[00:23:05] There used to be a time in my lifetime when a president won, particularly when a president won the popular vote and the Electoral College, obviously, because that's how you become president. The popular vote does not make you president. But when you win both of those things, that there is a deference paid to the fact that this is the expression of the will of the people. And. We don't see that. We have not seen that.

[00:23:36] Real. I mean, aside from a brief moment after 9-11, not in my lifetime have I seen that with a Republican president. And it is amped up to an entirely different level altogether under Donald Trump. Right. This resistance. We're not going to let him do what he wants to do. Right. But the people put him there, especially this time.

[00:23:58] And the thing, you know, when they when the speech started last night and Al Green had his Mo Mo Mo moment, his Moral Monday movement moment where, you know, he got himself tossed out, which was by design. He did what he intended to do, which was to be removed, because then he can use that to fundraise in his liberal congressional district back in Texas.

[00:24:24] Like this impeding of the work and this refusal to accept the outcome of the election. And he was objecting and screaming his head off about Trump not having a mandate. And of all people, Stephen A. Smith, the sports guy, he was on The View the other day and Joy Bayar said something about how he doesn't have a mandate.

[00:24:50] And Stephen Smith, to his credit, just completely filleted her, just gutted her right there on her own show. And he's like, I'm not a supporter of Donald Trump's, but the guys, he won every swing state. He won the popular vote for the first time. A Republican has done so in like 20 something years. And he won the Electoral College. Right. His the American public are with him on all of these major issues. That's a mandate. And you guys are in denial.

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[00:26:40] You know, I was watching last night, Pete, and I think I kind of concluded that if you take the Democrat Party and their ideology of what they are today and the word freedom, it seems that they're the only organization that can take the word freedom, otherwise something, you know, that allows us to do pretty much what we want to do and turn it into evil. I mean, I saw the scowls on their face. I saw the hate in their eyes. I saw the anger.

[00:27:08] I mean, it's almost like they're just evil people. So I try not to ascribe motive to people. All I can judge them by is their behavior and words, and their behavior last night was misguided at best, and maybe at worst would be evil. But I don't know. Like, I think, like, they had organized a plan before where they said, nobody applaud.

[00:27:38] We're not going to applaud anything. And they thought this was going to be a brilliant strategy, right? And they had all these different ways that they had organized to protest, right? So it's performative, right? They're trying to send the message that we hate Donald Trump, which we know you guys hate Donald Trump.

[00:27:57] So I think there is an incompetence that exists in the Democrat Party all the way up through the ranks for them not to have realized how bad this would look. And I think it goes back to, you know, I always say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold.

[00:28:15] And I think that because they have been in control of so many of the institutions of our society for so long, and they never had to make the arguments, and so they are left now with basically theater kid performances, right? Like, that's what they're doing. And they're not formulating any actual arguments. They're just acting out. They're throwing tantrums.

[00:28:41] You know, I think, though, even if you're trying to stay on an agenda, and that agenda is that you don't like Trump and you're not going to clap, if you've got any kind of compassion, you know, in your heart, a little bit of flicker of it, and there's a 13-year-old child with cancer, and you just totally snub him and ignore him,

[00:29:01] then your agenda has become evil, in my opinion, because you have now shown and proven that you don't have any flicker of compassion for anything other than your own selves. Yeah, I do wonder, because there is an opportunity here for the Democrats, if they want to take it, which is for them to come out and say, yeah, we didn't mean for it to come off like that. You know, like to apologize and say, that wasn't our intention.

[00:29:29] And, you know, we had this idea that we were not going to applaud anything. You know, the White House didn't give us any advanced copies of the script of the speech. And so we didn't know who these people were going to be that he recognized, and we didn't want to, you know, we didn't want to, you know, go up there and applaud for somebody and then have Trump say, you know, something as we're applauding and, you know, trick us, basically.

[00:29:56] But we shouldn't have done that that way. We wish it had been different, whatever. They could try to clean it up a little bit, but that would require, I think, anybody in the legacy media to ask them, right, to make them defend their actions last night. And so far, I haven't seen anybody asking them to do so.

[00:30:17] Well, the only thing that I've seen as far as a follow-up from the media so far is, and I can't remember, I think it was NBC, but the person on there said that, well, it's wonderful that he wants to be a police officer, but I hope he'll not be a police officer in a circumstance like Trump did in January 6th. Yeah, and then he kills himself. Yeah, that was Nicole Wallace at MSNBC, who's just an awful person. Like, this is how awful she is. John McCain did not want her at his funeral.

[00:30:46] Like, that's how, she's a former Republican on MSNBC. That's, John McCain, of all people, did not want Nicole Wallace at his funeral. That's how bad she is. So, and that, yeah, that's what she said. Like, oh, you know, it was a good story and all of that, but I just hope he doesn't, you know, ever work the Capitol and have a J6 for him, and then he ends up killing himself. Like, oh my gosh, really? It's just awful. Marty, I appreciate the call.

[00:31:13] Yeah, they're, and she was trying to salvage some sort of moral high ground. And you just don't have it in this. You don't have it. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalendorshow.com.

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