Bathroom mail and election threats (11-22-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] Um, now where to go next? Let me see here. Well, I've got some emails. Let me go ahead and read some of the emails here on the last hour discussion on Congress's own HB2 issue. The use of bathrooms by transgender individuals in Congress, because there is now a transgender member of Congress.

[00:00:52] Um, going back to the HB2 scenario back in 2016, uh, Jay says, I changed my registration to unaffiliated during this timeframe so I could vote against Jennifer Roberts in her primary. Yes, she was the mayor of Charlotte. They picked the fight, um, with the state legislature at the time. They were warned not to do so. They did anyway, and a fight ensued.

[00:01:22] Um, lasted a year, lasted a year, lasted a year. But the key, the key is that it allowed Roy Cooper to, um, generate tens of millions of dollars from out-of-state donors to help him get past Pat McCrory in that 2016 election and to unseat an incumbent, uh, by about like what, 10,000 votes or something. Uh, so that was the real key.

[00:01:51] Um, Pete, I know you do not open links, so I will just describe the shirt. An online store has a shirt that has a rainbow and it says there are more than two genders. And then when you go to the order form to select your size, it has two categories, male or female. Um, yeah, I've seen that as well. Does that, what's going on? That's weird. Oh, this audio is not playing.

[00:02:27] Hang on. Hang on. How can I do this?

[00:02:30] There we go. I was going to say, how do we do the show without a rim shot? That would be, um, also the newly elected congressman can wear dresses and everything all he wants, but he's still going to need a prostate exam at age 50.

[00:02:42] Okay. Um, Dennis says, if memory serves me right, wasn't it the city of Charlotte with the blessing of mayor Jennifer Roberts that started this whole transgender bathroom gate horse hockey that has consumed the nation ever since?

[00:02:58] Yes. I forget the year. Was it around 2015 or so? What a valuable contribution to our society. This has become. Yes. Uh, thanks Jennifer. Yes. Uh, as I mentioned earlier, it's, this was the fight. It began in January of 2016, but yes, it was a, it was a remnant from the 2015 election cycle.

[00:03:18] This is how Jennifer Roberts helped win the mayor's race, right? This was one of her promises because it was part of the non-discrimination ordinance as well. Right. And this then prompted the legislature.

[00:03:33] Part of HB two actually had this prohibition against any, uh, city or local governing body from basically creating these non-discrimination ordinances. That was one of the, the other components of HB two that everybody overlooked. Um, but, uh, yeah, cause the city went too far. I've got the art. Yeah. I mean, like I said, I have all of the old research. It's so I have it all here a decade. I've held onto this stuff.

[00:04:03] So people may call it hoarding. I call it being prepared. Um, no, I, and I, I've weeded it out. It's, it's only down to like, um, and I threw some more away. Uh, this morning I was going through the file and I was, you know, Oh, I don't need this article anymore. I threw it away. I don't need that particular news release anymore. So I'm constantly culling it down. You know, my, like, for example, my Obamacare files, I had six file folders, like the hanging file folders.

[00:04:33] You know, I had six of those filled with Obamacare information. And now it's down to one file. Just the, the high points basically. Um, let me read to you a quote regarding the bathroom issue. Quote, I think it's important that everyone feels safe.

[00:04:54] You know, you know, who said that Roy Cooper. Yeah. Roy Cooper, March of 2016. He was then attorney general. Even with the passage of this ordinance, it doesn't change anything in the North Carolina criminal law. Investigators, prosecutors still have the ability to arrest criminals.

[00:05:13] That's what he said about the Charlotte law said that I think it's important that everyone feels safe. Once again, balancing of, uh, privacy interests. Do women have the same, uh, right, if you will, to feel safe in the bathroom, in a locker room? Do they have that same right?

[00:05:39] Right? Charlotte's ordinance did a couple things. It made single sex bathrooms illegal within city limits. People aren't aware of that. It banned them, basically.

[00:05:49] And the city attorney, Bob Hageman, told the Charlotte city council, well, basically we just won't enforce that part of it.

[00:05:56] Then that's not how writing law works. You write law with an expectation that the law will be enforced.

[00:06:06] It granted legal access to any facility at any time by anyone, which opened the door for sexual predators to have legal access to areas that they did not have before.

[00:06:19] And we have seen story after story after story over the last decade of men going into women's restrooms, taking pictures and peeping, or it's their fetish.

[00:06:32] By the way, part of this issue that nobody ever wants to talk about either is that there is a fetish related to this.

[00:06:39] Did you know that?

[00:06:42] Yeah, there is.

[00:06:43] There's a fetish related to men dressing as women and entering women's restrooms.

[00:06:58] Here was Senator Phil Berger at the time.

[00:07:00] I love the walks down memory lane.

[00:07:02] The last time I checked, the United States is not ruled by a king who can bypass Congress and the courts and force school-aged boys and girls to share the same bathrooms and locker rooms.

[00:07:11] This was Senate Leader Phil Berger after the Obama administration directed all public schools to make school-aged boys and girls share bathrooms and locker rooms.

[00:07:23] Remember that?

[00:07:28] Then there was, oh yeah, here was the city attorney.

[00:07:32] Hageman said the city will bring no enforcement actions against public accommodations with separate bathrooms.

[00:07:37] He said police chief Kerr Putney assured him that police will enforce trespassing laws against any non-female identifying male who tries to use a woman's restroom.

[00:07:47] Well, how would you know that?

[00:07:48] How would you know if somebody is identifying as a female, a man is identifying as a female in their own brain?

[00:07:55] How do you know that?

[00:07:56] How do you, as a responding law enforcement officer to the scene, how are you supposed to know what this person is thinking in their brain?

[00:08:08] It was just absurd.

[00:08:12] Then there was the economic impact.

[00:08:14] Remember that?

[00:08:14] Oh my gosh, it's going to bankrupt the state.

[00:08:17] Remember this one?

[00:08:18] This was a classic.

[00:08:19] That's why it stayed in the folder.

[00:08:20] W.R.A.L. reports, despite big numbers that total up to more than half a billion dollars,

[00:08:26] the numerous sporting events, concerts, conventions, and business expansions that North Carolina has lost in recent months because of HB2

[00:08:34] has created only a tiny ripple on the state's economy.

[00:08:40] Oh, no.

[00:08:45] I believe the figure was 0.01% of the GDP.

[00:08:58] Yeah.

[00:08:59] Sorry, 0.1%.

[00:09:00] 0.1.

[00:09:02] Half a billion dollars is a significant figure that's harmed businesses directly affected by cancellations,

[00:09:09] but it's only a tiny fraction of the state's overall economy.

[00:09:11] According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, North Carolina's gross state domestic product for 2015 was $510 billion.

[00:09:21] So even at $500 million, HB2's impact was 0.1%.

[00:09:29] So keep that in mind when you hear people talking about it nowadays.

[00:09:33] Like, oh, yeah, I remember when HB2 came along.

[00:09:36] Oh, my gosh, it crushed us economically.

[00:09:39] No, it didn't.

[00:09:40] It did not.

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[00:10:51] I don't know why I'm messing up so much on my vocabulary today.

[00:10:56] I feel like I'm on a B-game level here.

[00:10:59] It's like I'm not, I don't know.

[00:11:02] It happens.

[00:11:03] Okay.

[00:11:05] So Rich says, Pete, oh, this is lengthy.

[00:11:10] Hang on.

[00:11:11] You just said a question that I have asked pro-trans bathroom people since the original North Carolina HB2.

[00:11:19] What are you going to do when a man, even one dressed as a woman, enters a bathroom shortly after your daughter or granddaughter has entered?

[00:11:27] You have three options.

[00:11:29] Number one, enter immediately to ensure your child remains safe.

[00:11:34] Number two, remain outside confident that the person is a trans woman and will respect your child.

[00:11:40] Although you won't know if that occurs or not.

[00:11:43] Or stand there and waffle between going in to protect your child or remaining outside because you don't want to offend the trans person.

[00:11:53] Meanwhile, they may have their hands.

[00:11:56] Okay.

[00:11:57] On your kid.

[00:11:58] I have two granddaughters just old enough to go into the public bathrooms alone and.

[00:12:10] And.

[00:12:11] Um.

[00:12:13] Well, that's an email from Rich.

[00:12:15] I'm not saying, oh, that's Rich.

[00:12:16] I'm saying that's an email from Rich.

[00:12:18] Okay.

[00:12:18] Um.

[00:12:19] That is the question actually that I posed to.

[00:12:22] Uh.

[00:12:23] Brian Turner, who was a state lawmaker.

[00:12:25] I don't know if he's back in the legislature or not.

[00:12:27] But.

[00:12:28] He was from Asheville.

[00:12:30] Nice guy.

[00:12:31] Uh.

[00:12:31] Had him in studio many times.

[00:12:33] Uh.

[00:12:33] Would talk to him on the phone many times.

[00:12:35] He listened to the program.

[00:12:36] But he was a Democrat.

[00:12:37] Is a Democrat.

[00:12:38] And when all of this was going on, his daughter was.

[00:12:41] I want to say 11, 12, 13, something like that.

[00:12:45] And.

[00:12:46] Uh.

[00:12:47] We were talking about this and I asked him that very question.

[00:12:51] And he actually responded with with an option that is not listed in that email, which was

[00:12:56] he said he would go and find a law enforcement officer.

[00:13:01] I said, you're going to go try to track down a law enforcement officer.

[00:13:06] Because I said, like, let's say because I think they had just returned or.

[00:13:09] Yeah.

[00:13:09] They had just gone on a trip or something and they were in.

[00:13:12] He had made.

[00:13:12] He had said, oh, you know, my my daughter went into the bathroom and Charlotte Douglas International

[00:13:17] Airport.

[00:13:18] You know, because a lot of times people from Asheville will drive down to Charlotte just

[00:13:22] to fly out of Charlotte because it's cheaper than getting connecting flights or whatever

[00:13:27] sometimes.

[00:13:28] And so he apparently they were they had done that.

[00:13:31] And she goes into the restroom alone.

[00:13:33] And I and he said, you know, there was no no problem or whatever.

[00:13:38] And so I presented this very hypothetical.

[00:13:41] And he said he would go and find a law enforcement officer.

[00:13:44] I'm like, OK, first off, you're going to be running.

[00:13:46] You're going to run around Charlotte Douglas looking for.

[00:13:49] A cop.

[00:13:51] In the boarding areas like that's.

[00:13:54] Good luck with that.

[00:13:56] First of all, but you're going to go run around, try to find somebody to go in there.

[00:14:02] And in the meantime, if anybody is do it, because I said, what if you're standing out there in

[00:14:08] front of the restrooms and your daughter's like, I got to go to the bathroom.

[00:14:11] So you say, I'll wait out here and she goes in.

[00:14:15] And as she walks in, I follow her in.

[00:14:18] Me like you look at me.

[00:14:20] This is what I look like.

[00:14:22] And I walk in right after her.

[00:14:23] What do you do?

[00:14:25] And he said after he tried to get around answering the question, I dragged him back to it and kept

[00:14:31] asking him.

[00:14:32] And he eventually said he would go find a cop.

[00:14:33] And I said, in the meantime, though, your daughter's victimized.

[00:14:38] If I'm a predator, right, if I'm somebody with malintent, you've now lost the window

[00:14:44] of opportunity to prevent something from happening.

[00:14:46] And I was presenting the hypothetical merely to point out that we are all potty police.

[00:14:53] We're all the bathroom police.

[00:14:54] We are all supposed to be sort of looking out for these, quote, safe spaces where people

[00:15:01] are doing private bodily functions and such that they are vulnerable.

[00:15:09] And in a high trust society, we take on that responsibility.

[00:15:14] You have a responsibility to look out for your kid when they're going in.

[00:15:17] And if I were to walk in after her, right, you, I suspect is what I told him.

[00:15:23] I suspect you would follow me in.

[00:15:26] That's my bet.

[00:15:27] I don't think that you would just let me go in.

[00:15:30] But if we get to the point where society just becomes OK with it, do you think that that

[00:15:36] bad actors, that predators are going to ignore this new area where they get to operate

[00:15:42] in?

[00:15:43] Of course not.

[00:15:45] Of course not.

[00:15:47] They're bad actors.

[00:15:49] That's what they do.

[00:15:51] They act badly.

[00:15:53] Like Sylvester Stallone.

[00:15:55] All right.

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[00:16:27] So on the HB2 issue, and I'm going to move away from this, but the last thing I would point

[00:16:31] out here is that after all of the outrage ensued with the passage of HB2 and all of the whipping

[00:16:41] up of national business leaders and left wing activists to boycott the state.

[00:16:46] Remember, they moved the NBA all star game out of North Carolina, out of Charlotte and

[00:16:52] businesses are like, we're not going to go there at state governments like no travel to

[00:16:56] North Carolina and all this stuff.

[00:16:58] There were efforts to, quote, fix HB2 that Roy Cooper, as the candidate told Democrats don't

[00:17:05] agree to any fix until after the election.

[00:17:07] And then when he got elected with all of the money that he made from those out of state

[00:17:13] donors that he had solicited funds for to help fight the HB2, after he wins, he ends up cutting

[00:17:21] a deal with Republicans that was worse than the, quote, fix that was originally offered before

[00:17:28] the election.

[00:17:29] That's Roy Cooper.

[00:17:31] Always keep that in mind.

[00:17:33] That's Roy Cooper.

[00:17:37] So his cries over efforts to now have the state board of elections appointed by the state auditor

[00:17:46] rather than him, they don't persuade me.

[00:17:52] Roy Cooper does not persuade me on really anything.

[00:17:56] And one of the people that's probably going to be most directly affected by this is going

[00:18:03] to be the state elections director, Karen Brinson Bell.

[00:18:06] Karen Brinson Bell is the one who entered into the collusive agreements during the 2020 COVID

[00:18:14] election that changed our voting laws while we were voting.

[00:18:21] There was a very handy rundown provided by the Carolina Partnership for Reform.

[00:18:28] Imagine for a moment an alternative reality or an alternate reality.

[00:18:34] Okay.

[00:18:36] It's two months before a national election.

[00:18:39] A Republican attorney general and a Republican state board of elections sign off on a rewrite

[00:18:45] of the state's election laws written by a Republican organization's top lawyers.

[00:18:51] They don't need to go through the General Assembly because this is a settlement to a lawsuit brought

[00:18:57] by that very same Republican organization.

[00:19:00] And the new laws are effective immediately.

[00:19:04] Never mind that some ballots have already been cast.

[00:19:08] See, they had to do this agreement.

[00:19:11] They had to settle the lawsuit.

[00:19:13] Why?

[00:19:13] Why?

[00:19:14] To protect our democracy.

[00:19:17] So just trust us.

[00:19:20] Do you think that Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, do you think that they'd be cool

[00:19:24] with this arrangement?

[00:19:25] Do you think that they would have some questions?

[00:19:27] Do you think that they might say something like, hey, the election is already underway?

[00:19:31] You don't get to rewrite election law while the election is occurring.

[00:19:36] People are already early voting.

[00:19:41] But that's exactly what Karen Brinson Bell, Josh Stein, Roy Cooper, right?

[00:19:48] That's exactly what the Democrats did.

[00:19:50] They went around the North Carolina General Assembly because it was controlled by Republicans

[00:19:55] who had rejected the measures that Brinson Bell wanted to see enacted and Democrats wanted enacted.

[00:20:03] Also, let's run through the track record of the state board of elections.

[00:20:08] Under Governor Roy Cooper.

[00:20:10] They say multiple chairs had to resign for overt partisan behavior, bizarre actions, or other

[00:20:17] unsavory reasons.

[00:20:19] The board fired a widely respected and nonpartisan executive director who had just completed a

[00:20:27] successful investigation into election fraud that actually overturned the results of a Republican

[00:20:33] won congressional election.

[00:20:35] That was the Mark Harris election for Congress.

[00:20:38] That woman's name was Kim Strack.

[00:20:41] And they fired her because her husband, Paul, is a lawyer who represents Republicans, Republican

[00:20:52] lawmakers.

[00:20:53] So they fired her.

[00:20:56] But she was never accused of acting in a partisan way.

[00:21:00] She was an investigator who got promoted all the way up to then run the board of elections.

[00:21:05] But they fired her.

[00:21:08] To find a new executive director, the board turned to Roy Cooper's political arm.

[00:21:13] According to WRAL, the people in charge of counting votes asked the political team for the state's top Democratic

[00:21:21] candidate who they should hire to count the votes.

[00:21:25] The Green Party, seen as a threat that would siphon votes away from Democratic candidates in close elections.

[00:21:34] Right.

[00:21:34] The Green Party had to file a lawsuit against the board of elections in 2022 to be able to be on the ballot.

[00:21:44] Remember that?

[00:21:47] Lawmakers have tried for years to reach some sort of accommodation with Democrats to try to create balance on the board of elections.

[00:21:58] Lawmakers' arguments have always been that one political party should not control the elections apparatus of the state.

[00:22:07] That's what the Republican legislators have been trying to do for about a decade.

[00:22:14] And for years, Democrats have resisted any kind of partisan balancing.

[00:22:21] They have filed lawsuits to prevent any kind of reform to the state board of elections.

[00:22:29] Some of these ideas were, let's have an evenly divided board, four to four.

[00:22:35] Right. So you'd have the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, majority and minority leaders in the General Assembly.

[00:22:41] They would all appoint a seat.

[00:22:43] And there'd be four Republicans and four Democrats.

[00:22:45] No, sorry, can't do that.

[00:22:46] OK, well, how about an evenly divided four four board of elections with members nominated equally by the two major parties?

[00:22:56] No.

[00:22:56] No. OK, how about an evenly divided four four board of elections with members nominated equally by the majority leaders and minority leaders in the House and the Senate?

[00:23:07] No.

[00:23:07] No. OK, how about a four four one board of elections for members nominated by each of the Republican and Democrat parties, plus a ninth member who would be unaffiliated or third party.

[00:23:22] And they would be appointed by the other eight members of the state board of elections.

[00:23:27] No.

[00:23:29] Just no.

[00:23:30] No, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:23:31] We're going to keep control of the board of elections.

[00:23:35] With no prospect for compromise in sight, after years of seeking one, lawmakers finally chose the only other alternative available to them, which was to move the board of elections to another executive office.

[00:23:48] And take it away from the governor's control.

[00:23:51] So the governor doesn't make the appointments.

[00:23:55] Which means if this occurs, which I'm sure Cooper will veto this legislation.

[00:24:01] But.

[00:24:02] If he does so, then the General Assembly has a shot to override it before they adjourn and then get reconstituted where they will lose their super majority, but they could override his veto on this measure.

[00:24:14] It would move it over to the auditor's office.

[00:24:16] And with a newly reconstituted board of elections, they could fire Karen Brinson Bell.

[00:24:23] And so she wrote a letter accusing the Senate president pro tem of instigating violence against elections workers because he wondered, why is it taking so long to count all these ballots?

[00:24:35] So.

[00:24:37] Senate leader Phil Berger told reporters on Wednesday that he was concerned about the vote counting process in North Carolina.

[00:24:46] Let me go over to a piece here at redstate.com by our pal Sister Toldja.

[00:24:52] As we have reported, the one statewide race in North Carolina that has not been decided is the Supreme Court race between Justice Allison Riggs, Democrat and Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin.

[00:25:02] When we last left you, Griffin had formally requested a recount.

[00:25:07] Which made sense considering Riggs was only ahead by 623 votes at that time.

[00:25:13] After he made the request, she was suddenly up by 722, another 100 votes because some county boards of election were late completing their official results.

[00:25:22] And that particular little factoid has raised a lot of questions about how the post-election day process has played out.

[00:25:29] Griffin was ahead of Riggs by 10,000 votes the morning after the election.

[00:25:34] But during what was supposed to be a 10-day canvas process, his lead gradually eroded as overseas and military absentee ballots were counted and provisionals were reviewed for possible acceptance or denial.

[00:25:50] As we also reported, the state's most populous county, Wake, which is Democrat-heavy, did not post their final updates, including accepted provisionals, until Friday night, with numbers that happened to be just enough to put Riggs over Griffin for the first time, by about 150 votes or so.

[00:26:07] To some, it seemed as though Wake had been waiting to find out how many votes were needed to give Riggs the lead.

[00:26:14] To make matters worse, that same night, the State Board of Elections announced that some counties had not been able to complete their canvassing on the 15th, the original deadline.

[00:26:23] And they would be resuming on Monday, when all was said and done, vote totals were still being updated on the 20th, two weeks after the election and five days after the deadline of the 15th.

[00:26:36] So Phil Berger said that this vote counting process is, quote, another episode of count until somebody you want to win wins.

[00:26:47] Outrage ensued.

[00:26:49] Like, you're endangering elections workers because now people are going to threaten to kill us.

[00:26:56] That's from the election director, Karen Brinson-Bell.

[00:27:00] Wrote a, uh, an editorial that was published over at WRAL.com.

[00:27:07] Along with Damon Circosta, who wrote a letter himself.

[00:27:11] Um, he is a former North Carolina Board of Elections chairman.

[00:27:16] He also, by the way, and I'm glad WRAL noted this at the end of their piece, that he is also the executive director of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation.

[00:27:27] And the CEO of Capital Broadcasting Company, a guy by the name of James Goodman.

[00:27:34] Capital Broadcasting Company owns WRAL.

[00:27:37] So, the owner of WRAL sits on the A.J. Fletcher Foundation with Damon Circosta.

[00:27:47] This is one of the connections that these lefties all have with the foundations and the nonprofits and the Democrat Party.

[00:27:55] They do not want to lose control over the board of elections.

[00:27:58] And they will accuse you of trying to get them killed if it means you will shut up and back off.

[00:28:05] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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