Blaming Americans for Democracy!™ (11-06-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Got a bunch of audio clips here on some of the reaction and coverage from yesterday of the election. Real quick, I would point out there is an opportunity here for President Joe Biden to actually try to unify the country. He's got the opportunity to do so. Will he take it? I don't know. But he's got a chance. Harris is going to speak apparently tonight at 6 o'clock.

[00:01:00] But Joe Biden, maybe he's waiting for her to do it and then he can come on at some point a day or two later or something. But it might be good. I'm just throwing this out there. It might be good for the country to come out and say, I don't know, something unifying.

[00:01:21] All right. So this was from CNN. This is John King. He's at one of those monitors, you know, and he's doing the touchscreen thing.

[00:01:30] He's got Jake Tapper by his side and they're looking at a map of I think it's Pennsylvania here.

[00:01:37] So you asked, are there any places that the vice president is overperforming Joe Biden in 2020?

[00:01:42] So we could. All right. So he's looking at Harris overperforming Biden as compared to 2020.

[00:01:49] Is she doing better? Because remember, that was the whole point of the coup, right?

[00:01:54] Getting him to step aside and putting her in place was specifically designed to try to improve Democrats chances of winning.

[00:02:05] So you would think you would see an improvement over Joe Biden's performance from four years ago.

[00:02:13] And so now he's got the map up. He's going to zoom out here in Pennsylvania. He's going to show Jake Tapper and show you that as well.

[00:02:18] We just bring that out here. Harris overperforming 2020. Holy smokes. There you go.

[00:02:23] So let this go away and see if there's anything in the east side there.

[00:02:27] Literally nothing. Literally nothing. Literally not one county.

[00:02:32] Not one county. In America, not just Pennsylvania.

[00:02:39] They were looking at the Pennsylvania map. They zoomed out to him, to the, to the whole map.

[00:02:44] She did not overperform him anywhere. I always say it. Candidates matter.

[00:02:51] But there are also structural things in any election.

[00:02:55] Things that are beyond anyone's control.

[00:02:59] Now, that's not to say that the things that harmed her candidacy were beyond the Democrats control because some of them were.

[00:03:06] Like, you know, orchestrating a coup.

[00:03:11] Not having a primary. That kind of stuff.

[00:03:15] This was over at NBC.

[00:03:21] This was last night before they made, they made the call for.

[00:03:26] Yeah, this was.

[00:03:27] Well, wait a minute. Yeah, this was before they made the call.

[00:03:30] Well, and that's what makes the timing, I think, of President Biden's decision to step down after the debate.

[00:03:35] Something that if she does, in fact, lose will be under a microscope.

[00:03:39] Because, of course, there was so much discussion, even over the summer, about potentially having an open primary.

[00:03:45] And having that fight play out within the Democratic Party.

[00:03:48] So I think it's one of the big questions.

[00:03:51] That's Kristen Welker, NBC News.

[00:03:54] One of the debate moderators.

[00:03:56] Remember her?

[00:04:02] Making the argument that she was hamstrung by the short time frame.

[00:04:08] Again, that was by their own design.

[00:04:11] Now, that was a mistake, they can say.

[00:04:14] We shouldn't have done it or we should have pushed him out earlier.

[00:04:16] But remember, they covered for Joe Biden's cognitive decline for months, if not years.

[00:04:26] Even up to the point of that debate.

[00:04:30] When they could not hide his poor performance any longer.

[00:04:34] It was so bad.

[00:04:37] And now they're going to turn around.

[00:04:39] Are they going to blame Joe?

[00:04:41] Is that what's going to happen now?

[00:04:43] They're going to start blaming Joe Biden because he didn't drop out sooner.

[00:04:46] That's possible, right?

[00:04:48] Here is Chris Hayes from MSNBC.

[00:04:54] And there's a new term that I guess we probably need to become more acquainted with.

[00:05:01] It's a phrase.

[00:05:04] And well, here, see if you can pick it out.

[00:05:07] The House, we're not going to know for weeks.

[00:05:09] But it's possible that Donald Trump and the Republicans will have a trifecta as they did in 2016.

[00:05:16] In which case, the bulwark, you know, against whatever overreach there could be and whatever those depredations might be.

[00:05:26] And I think you're going to have a tendency to overreach if they do.

[00:05:29] Is the kind of thing that's democracy between elections.

[00:05:32] Which is the work of civil society.

[00:05:34] It's the work of the fourth estate.

[00:05:35] It's the work of institutions.

[00:05:36] It's the work of citizens.

[00:05:37] All that super important stuff.

[00:05:41] Did you catch the new phrase?

[00:05:44] It's not just democracy.

[00:05:46] It's democracy between elections.

[00:05:51] This is...

[00:05:52] I guess he's running this up the flagpole to see who salutes it.

[00:05:57] Democracy between elections.

[00:06:00] By the way, did you catch the first part, too, where he talked about the overreach?

[00:06:03] I highlight this whenever I see it also.

[00:06:05] Because it is...

[00:06:06] It's such a foundational kind of a thing for a lot of people in the media and the Democratic Party.

[00:06:11] But I repeat myself.

[00:06:13] The warning about overreaching.

[00:06:17] When Republicans succeed at something.

[00:06:19] When they gain an upper hand.

[00:06:20] If they are in a position to benefit from a Democrat scandal or something.

[00:06:25] Then...

[00:06:26] And this dovetails into the journalism in rule number two.

[00:06:29] Which is that, you know, when the scandal is about a Republican, the story is the scandal.

[00:06:33] But when the scandal involves a Democrat, the story is the Republican reaction to the scandal.

[00:06:39] And usually you end up there seeing the pouncing and the seizing language in the stories.

[00:06:45] And then there's always this kind of, you know, helpful advice.

[00:06:49] Hey, just a tip.

[00:06:50] I know I savage you in these columns or on the air every single day.

[00:06:55] But I'm going to give you some advice.

[00:06:57] Because I really want the best for you, Mr. Republican or Republican Party.

[00:07:02] So I'm going to give you some advice.

[00:07:04] You really should just not overreach on this sort of stuff.

[00:07:07] See, they're very worried that Republicans will govern.

[00:07:10] So Chris Hayes is worried that Republicans will govern if they have the trifecta.

[00:07:16] The House, the Senate, and the presidency.

[00:07:19] So you've got to be careful not to overreach.

[00:07:21] Don't overreach.

[00:07:21] Don't do anything.

[00:07:22] You've got all this power.

[00:07:23] Just don't do anything with it.

[00:07:25] Unlike us, we never overreach.

[00:07:27] Like passing the Inflation Reduction Act that actually produced inflation.

[00:07:33] No, no, no, no.

[00:07:33] That's different.

[00:07:35] It's different when we do it.

[00:07:37] There's an old axiom, too, that Republicans govern, Democrats rule.

[00:07:45] This is in line with that.

[00:07:48] Democracy between elections.

[00:07:50] So what is he talking about?

[00:07:51] He mentions the fourth estate, the role of the media.

[00:07:54] And that's actually why I voted for Trump, because I know Chris Hayes and his compadres that they are going to act as a guardrail against Donald Trump.

[00:08:05] I know that with certainty.

[00:08:07] They've done nothing but that.

[00:08:10] But I know that they won't do it with Biden or Harris because they haven't done it.

[00:08:15] I know that with certainty as well.

[00:08:17] So which would I prefer?

[00:08:19] Well, I would prefer a scenario where an executive branch is held to account, is monitored, is investigated by the citizenry, by the fourth estate, by the press.

[00:08:32] That's what I would prefer.

[00:08:33] And you gave me an option of one guy who's going to get it and good and hard or somebody who's not.

[00:08:40] And so I went with the guy who's going to get it because that's my highest principle there.

[00:08:47] But he's also talking about civil servants.

[00:08:49] He's talking about the bureaucracy or as the MAGA people call it, the deep state.

[00:08:56] Right.

[00:08:56] That's what he's talking about, that we got to try to jam up the works in any way we can between elections, which is what they did to him the first time around.

[00:09:07] Now, maybe he makes better personnel decisions in hiring.

[00:09:10] Right.

[00:09:11] Maybe.

[00:09:12] Maybe they they have some better ideas on on how to start, you know, hit the ground running, how to start enacting their agenda.

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[00:10:32] Some updated presidential results.

[00:10:35] Trump now at 301 electoral college votes.

[00:10:38] Believe the only states we are now waiting for.

[00:10:41] Oh, look at that.

[00:10:42] It's Arizona.

[00:10:44] Still.

[00:10:45] What a mess down there.

[00:10:47] Let me bring on Chad Adams.

[00:10:49] He is the notable and noted substitute host here on various programs on WBT.

[00:10:55] Chad, welcome, sir.

[00:10:55] How are you doing, man?

[00:10:57] Hello, Pete.

[00:10:58] How the heck are you?

[00:10:59] I'm doing all right.

[00:11:00] So did you stay up late last night watching all the returns or did you just like call it a night and wait till the morning?

[00:11:08] No, I stayed up not unusually late.

[00:11:11] Probably a little after midnight.

[00:11:12] You could see the trend lines were pretty strong.

[00:11:15] And I said, you know what?

[00:11:16] I got to put a day together.

[00:11:17] Right.

[00:11:18] I went on to bed and wasn't overly surprised or anxious by the time I got up in the morning at all.

[00:11:24] So I kind of feel like because I am renowned for being terrible at predicting elections, which is why I don't do it.

[00:11:31] But I will say out in the hallway before I got on the air, I said I told Brett Winterbill, I was like, I'm kind of worried.

[00:11:36] I think Kamala Harris might win.

[00:11:38] And so I think I basically I think I'm the reason Trump won.

[00:11:42] Yeah.

[00:11:43] It's kind of like being a fan of a football team, right?

[00:11:46] You don't do something a certain way.

[00:11:48] Then the other side wins.

[00:11:49] Right.

[00:11:49] You know, I think a lot of people had that because it was it was it was difficult to get a read.

[00:11:55] People the betting markets were incredibly accurate.

[00:11:58] And then all of a sudden, about Friday or Saturday, those betting markets, the poly market and all those other ones, they started having this screwball effect where it really tightened up to about seven, eight points pro Trump for inexplicable reasons.

[00:12:11] No one could say why.

[00:12:12] And then on Monday, they started opening up.

[00:12:14] Now, I'm like, I don't like to make predictions because you really don't know.

[00:12:19] And media is a horrible way to judge.

[00:12:21] And, you know, we're isolated in our own world.

[00:12:23] You can't see what's going on in Arizona, for instance, with those wonderful mail air, the tabulated bouts.

[00:12:30] But no, I didn't want to.

[00:12:31] Yeah, he had a feeling, but you don't want to jinx it.

[00:12:33] It's kind of like being a state fan with a two touchdown lead with two minutes to go.

[00:12:36] You know, NC State can blow that lead, as the Panthers could.

[00:12:40] Yes, well, yes, definitely so.

[00:12:42] All right, so the state elections, were you following any of the statewide races and such?

[00:12:49] And if so, what were your takeaways there?

[00:12:51] Well, certainly, so you have the Trump effect and the Robinson effect.

[00:12:55] And the Monday morning quarterbacks and armchair quarterbacks are going to go infinitely through this over the next year.

[00:13:00] And there's a lot of gnashing of teeth, in my opinion, on watching this.

[00:13:05] Certainly, Robinson did not help.

[00:13:07] You know, the Families First group, that pack, really tried to tie Dan Bishop to Mark Robinson, Michelle Moro to Mark Robinson.

[00:13:16] And even the judicial races, Jefferson Griffin, they were trying to tie to Robinson.

[00:13:21] So it didn't help.

[00:13:22] Ultimately, there was a net loss of two council of state positions, really.

[00:13:28] You know, we weighed them all out.

[00:13:29] We lost the lieutenant governors.

[00:13:31] You know, we lost the superintendent's race.

[00:13:33] It's what we picked up, auditor, at least the GOP did.

[00:13:35] So it looks like supermajority in the Senate may have lost it by one in the House, which means they just need one Democrat to come across.

[00:13:43] So all in all, no real surprises.

[00:13:47] The new congressional districts are interesting because it's a net plus three for the Republicans, three of the four from North Carolina, at least so far.

[00:13:56] So it was surprising that it took so long.

[00:13:59] But I know there was a snafu up in Wilson that held things up a little while.

[00:14:04] But still, Trump's margin was surprising to me a little bit.

[00:14:08] I thought it would have been a little bit closer than it was, but it was convincing enough.

[00:14:13] And that probably kept it from being worse for the GOP in the state.

[00:14:18] What do you think these results have?

[00:14:23] What impact do you think these results have on the media?

[00:14:26] I would love to say significant.

[00:14:31] But I think we absolutely can say that the world of alternate media, and you're very familiar with this, the podcast world, the Joe Rogan's and all of those, that has made a profound difference.

[00:14:44] And I think that a great lesson for especially the mainstream, the big three, the three-letter media and MSNBC and those, you would think they would take away, we were out of touch.

[00:14:56] We were projecting our own biases.

[00:14:59] We need to look in the mirror because ultimately I think the pocketbook's going to get them.

[00:15:03] I think that the advertiser's going to realize there was such a niche market for those, and they've lost their ability to influence and trust in those is at an all-time low.

[00:15:13] They were already in the transformational period, but now the trust is ebbed so far away.

[00:15:18] I mean, think about it.

[00:15:19] Harris had a billion dollars, the most fundraising ever done, most expenditures by any candidate ever, and wasn't able to convince people.

[00:15:28] And the networks were unable from a propaganda standpoint to convince people.

[00:15:32] And people voted with their pocketbooks.

[00:15:35] They voted with their gut.

[00:15:36] They voted with their – you know, the influence of podcasts.

[00:15:39] No doubt Elon Musk made a huge difference in some way from an information superhighway, and he had a lot on the line, and he took that chance.

[00:15:46] So it's a before and after event, and I do think we're going to see significant changes in the way people gather information and who they trust.

[00:15:54] Yeah, I think what you just said there about the media's declining ability to influence, I think that's what really is driving a lot of their anger, is that they feel like – there's a lot of people that feel like, you know, we're telling you that this is a threat to democracy.

[00:16:09] So how dare you vote in a democracy in a democratic fashion against our preferred candidate?

[00:16:16] That's the hubris and arrogance and the house of illusion that they live within.

[00:16:23] The Joy Reads and Morning Joe and just so many of them.

[00:16:28] I watched them, and I thought, there's an opportunity to learn, but they were just mystified.

[00:16:32] The most – tell you, and I posted it, and you've seen it, and it wasn't me that posted it originally, but it was the moment where Jake Tapper is looking at the map, and they're going through it.

[00:16:40] I can't remember the gentleman's name.

[00:16:41] John King.

[00:16:42] Yeah, I played the clip in the first segment.

[00:16:45] They're looking at the map, and he says, so let's see how she did relative to Joe Biden four years ago.

[00:16:51] And they hit the button, and the map goes gray.

[00:16:55] And two Tappers credit, he goes, she didn't take a single county, not one precinct that she performed better than Biden?

[00:17:02] And they said, nope, none, or none, not at all.

[00:17:05] Right.

[00:17:06] And that was devastating to their projection of what should have happened.

[00:17:10] Yeah.

[00:17:12] Chad Adams, frequent substitute host here on WBT.

[00:17:15] We appreciate your time, buddy.

[00:17:17] Thanks for the insight.

[00:17:18] Thanks for joining us.

[00:17:19] Thank you, Pete.

[00:17:19] You guys have a great day.

[00:17:20] Yeah, man, you too.

[00:17:21] That's Chad Adams.

[00:17:22] Let's go to the phones here and talk with Jerry.

[00:17:24] Welcome to the show.

[00:17:25] Hey, Jerry.

[00:17:26] Hey, Pete.

[00:17:27] Thank you for taking my call.

[00:17:28] Sure.

[00:17:28] Maybe you can help me with this.

[00:17:30] So a while back when Dan Bishop announced that he was leaving the Congress and was going to run for AG, I was like, why would he give up what would have likely been a guaranteed seat in Congress?

[00:17:44] And if AG wasn't kind of guaranteed and people had shamed me for saying that and blah, blah.

[00:17:51] And so now here we are.

[00:17:52] And we hope we're going to hold on to the House.

[00:17:54] But it would have been nicer if people like Dan Bishop had stayed in his seat.

[00:17:59] And I'm kind of ticked.

[00:18:01] I'm kind of ticked off about it.

[00:18:03] You're ticked off that, well, Dan Bishop's seat is still, the one that he was in is still a Republican seat.

[00:18:08] So there wasn't a loss of a seat there.

[00:18:13] How is that?

[00:18:14] Is that because someone was appointed?

[00:18:16] I mean, a Democrat.

[00:18:19] Cooper wouldn't have appointed a Republican to that seat.

[00:18:21] No.

[00:18:22] Would he?

[00:18:22] No, no.

[00:18:23] That's why they have the election.

[00:18:26] Okay.

[00:18:26] So I'm being a total idiot.

[00:18:29] That's why I called so you could.

[00:18:30] No, no, no.

[00:18:31] So this was the race.

[00:18:33] Was it Mark Harris won that seat?

[00:18:36] Okay.

[00:18:37] Got it.

[00:18:37] Yeah.

[00:18:37] I had no idea.

[00:18:39] And can I just ask, is that the same Mark Harris that ran a couple of years ago and had, there were issues when he ran about the whole ballots and all that kind of stuff?

[00:18:45] Yes.

[00:18:47] Because I, interestingly, I'm sure you probably did because you're a journalist, but I don't recall that that issue came up again this time.

[00:18:55] And I was kind of surprised about that.

[00:18:58] Yeah, not really.

[00:18:59] I mean, there wasn't a lot because the district is such a heavy Republican district that not a lot of resources got paid into it.

[00:19:05] It came up in the primary.

[00:19:07] His opponents, there were, we hosted the debate at one point.

[00:19:11] There were, well, there were like five candidates running for the seat.

[00:19:14] And his opponents, they, you know, they brought that issue out, but it did not sway the voters.

[00:19:22] So he won the primary and then he, yeah, he won handily in the, in the, in the race yesterday.

[00:19:27] So he'll be going to represent that district.

[00:19:31] So it doesn't fall out of the Republican control.

[00:19:34] And, you know, Bishop has said, and I've talked with him about it.

[00:19:37] You know, Dan said that you're, you know, when you get up there and you realize that you don't have any real power to affect any kind of change in the House.

[00:19:46] It's, it's just, it's just all, a lot of it's just like posturing and there's not a lot of attention paid to bill writing anymore.

[00:19:54] And, and so he, you know, came back and he looked at these seats and, you know, you, there were, the Republicans need candidates to run for these, for these statewide seats.

[00:20:06] They need qualified people to run for these seats.

[00:20:07] And Dan had the qualifications to do it, you know?

[00:20:11] I guess that's, so first of all, yes, I still feel like an idiot because I did not know that Mark Harris ran for his seat.

[00:20:16] So, okay.

[00:20:17] No, that's fine.

[00:20:18] And I appreciate your help.

[00:20:18] No, I appreciate your help with that.

[00:20:19] I wasn't really paying too much attention on the state level aside from Mark Robinson because I knew that, I was pretty sure I was all going to go Democrat anyway.

[00:20:27] But, um, doesn't forgive me for being an idiot.

[00:20:29] No, but you should be happy then because the Republicans held on to half of the Council of State seats.

[00:20:34] Yeah.

[00:20:35] Yes, absolutely.

[00:20:36] And the judge races.

[00:20:37] I find it so disheartening that, that Mr. Bishop would say that about how things are there.

[00:20:43] Obviously it's the reality, but like then why would anybody bother?

[00:20:48] Some people, because people want to try and he did.

[00:20:52] And he just, he got, he grew very frustrated.

[00:20:55] Um, and maybe Mark Harris will as well, or maybe Mark Harris will find some other way, you know, based on his principles and the way he governs and the way he interacts.

[00:21:05] And, um, I don't know.

[00:21:09] Couldn't the blame for at least part of that fall from Mike Johnson for not being an effective, a more effective speaker of the house?

[00:21:15] Yeah.

[00:21:16] I mean, I mean, I mean, the, the problem is like anytime you start dealing with other people in positions of power like this, I mean, if you think of it, have you ever done any kind of work on like a committee?

[00:21:27] Um, at any kind of a level, whether it's a nonprofit, an HOA or something, you realize very fair.

[00:21:34] Huh?

[00:21:35] Years and years ago.

[00:21:36] I was on the board with Habitat for Humanity in New Jersey.

[00:21:40] Okay.

[00:21:40] Right.

[00:21:41] So you realize that, you know, people have their own incentives and their own issues that they want to promote.

[00:21:48] And, you know, if you have a legislative body that is comprised of 435 people or, you know, half of them are on your side, quote unquote.

[00:21:57] And so there's like, you know, 220 of them and, um, and you realize that, that, that a lot of those people are not there to actually make any kinds of changes.

[00:22:07] They're just there to be there.

[00:22:09] You know, they're there to fundraise, to become famous on TikTok or whatever.

[00:22:14] And they're not actually interested in fixing problems.

[00:22:17] Then why stay?

[00:22:20] If you are actually interested in trying to fix stuff.

[00:22:22] And he thought he could fix stuff by being the attorney general.

[00:22:26] He thought he could restore some, uh, you know, some credibility and a better relationship with law enforcement to that office.

[00:22:33] That's, I mean, that's what he has told me.

[00:22:35] So I don't, I mean, you can take that for whatever that's worth, but that's what he had told me.

[00:22:39] No, I certainly believe that that was his motivation for doing it.

[00:22:42] But I mean, regarding, regarding the House, I mean, uh, as if we needed like any other reason to despise them more than we already do.

[00:22:49] Right.

[00:22:49] Well, I mean, it's, it's always good to have a healthy level of despisement for, uh, for elected officials.

[00:22:55] So I will not, yeah, I won't talk you off that ledge.

[00:22:58] All right.

[00:22:58] Uh, Jerry, good to hear from you.

[00:23:00] All right.

[00:23:00] Take care.

[00:23:01] Um, yeah.

[00:23:01] And as far as like Mike Johnson goes, he's dealing with, you know, a Republican conference that is diverse in its thinking and what it wants done.

[00:23:13] And you've got some people that are in there that are simply there to throw bombs, not to fix anything.

[00:23:18] You got other people that are the appropriators that are just there to move money around and, you know, get good stock tips from Nancy Pelosi, that kind of stuff.

[00:23:27] Um, and so like you have all these different people that are involved.

[00:23:30] And so like I recognize, and the other thing is I don't want a legislative body at particularly the federal level to be able to rapidly do anything.

[00:23:42] I like gridlock.

[00:23:44] I like it because that means they're less likely to mess more stuff up.

[00:23:49] So let me get to some emails here.

[00:23:52] I got a bunch of them.

[00:23:53] Um, did you, uh, Anthony asks, uh, as current vice president and president of the Senate, what happens now if Kamala Harris decides she doesn't want to certify the election?

[00:24:05] Hadn't really heard that issue raised.

[00:24:07] I thought it would be a good conversation.

[00:24:09] Um, well, I believe that they have changed the law after J six, they changed that law, um, to close the, the ambiguity to clean it up.

[00:24:20] What is it called?

[00:24:21] The ERCA or something like that.

[00:24:23] Um, or the ECRA electoral count resolution, or I forget what it stands for, but they, they did back, you know, four years ago after, um, the competing legal theory.

[00:24:35] Theories about certification led to all of the, um, the mess that it led to, uh, Congress did clean that up.

[00:24:42] So they did get that done.

[00:24:46] Um, let me see here.

[00:24:48] Uh, Ron said it took Joe Scarborough about five minutes to play the race and gender card.

[00:24:53] Seriously.

[00:24:53] It's just so boring now.

[00:24:54] Yeah.

[00:24:55] Look, I think that there was a, I think that this election indicates a rejection of Democrats dumbassery.

[00:25:03] You've gone too far, right?

[00:25:05] The Democrat party has gone too far in pushing some of these things and they have alienated core constituencies.

[00:25:12] Can they get them back?

[00:25:13] I think so.

[00:25:14] Sure.

[00:25:15] Will they?

[00:25:16] Don't know.

[00:25:17] Uh, let me do a phone call real quick.

[00:25:19] Last call of the day.

[00:25:20] Chris, welcome.

[00:25:22] Let's go.

[00:25:23] Skinny Pete.

[00:25:24] We did it, baby.

[00:25:25] Cabarrus County came through.

[00:25:27] My local commissioners were so desperate to try to get tax rates dropped out here.

[00:25:31] And Larry Pittman, Laura Blackwell, Lindsay, congratulations.

[00:25:36] Anybody?

[00:25:37] I thought I saw a Larry Pittman sign on the street up there a couple of days ago.

[00:25:42] Yeah, dude.

[00:25:43] That was me carrying it, sprinting around up and down the street.

[00:25:45] That was me.

[00:25:47] Dude, if anybody out there, quick shout out to our Facebook group, Cabarrus County Citizens Against Tax Hikes and For Government Transparency.

[00:25:57] Please join.

[00:25:58] We barely got Larry through with 500 votes.

[00:26:00] Two-tenths of one percent, baby.

[00:26:02] Let's go.

[00:26:03] Let's go.

[00:26:04] We did it.

[00:26:05] I'm so excited for our future out here.

[00:26:07] I really think that we're going to possibly be able to stay here.

[00:26:11] We're worried about having to move because the property taxes are going up so fast and so furiously.

[00:26:15] Like, this potentially could extend my stay in Cabarrus County.

[00:26:20] Well, look at you.

[00:26:21] Putting down roots, Chris.

[00:26:23] I hear you.

[00:26:24] Let's go.

[00:26:25] All right, man.

[00:26:25] I appreciate the call.

[00:26:26] Now, that's one of the issues.

[00:26:28] A couple others that came up.

[00:26:30] Cornelius, they approved a $20 million bond for parks.

[00:26:32] Union County did a $40 million bond for schools.

[00:26:37] Belmont rejected a $25 million transportation bond to pay for sidewalks and road enhancements like new turn lanes.

[00:26:45] Who needs those?

[00:26:47] And Stallings, Stallings, Stallings, Stallings.

[00:26:51] I always say it wrong the first time.

[00:26:53] And then I'm like, no, no, it's the other way.

[00:26:55] They said no to an occupancy tax.

[00:26:59] So you are no longer allowed to occupy any place in Stallings.

[00:27:04] No, I'm kidding.

[00:27:05] It's just like hotels and stuff.

[00:27:08] All the local bonds in Charlotte passed because they love them some property tax increases.

[00:27:15] Let me get to some emails here.

[00:27:16] This was from David.

[00:27:19] David.

[00:27:20] David.

[00:27:20] The proof that Harris and Walls were terrible candidates will come in the Democrat primary in 2028.

[00:27:26] They will get the same number of primary voters as they did this year.

[00:27:32] Which would be zero, by the way.

[00:27:33] That's the reference there.

[00:27:35] They would get zero.

[00:27:36] Yeah, I'd be interested to see if they actually run again in 28.

[00:27:44] I don't believe the proposed explanation that Harris didn't have enough time, Richard says.

[00:27:50] I think it is the opposite.

[00:27:51] The more time she had, the worse it would have been for her.

[00:27:54] Her only chance was a short time window in which her many weaknesses could be hidden

[00:27:59] and she could ride fake mainstream media momentum.

[00:28:03] Appreciate your analysis, Pete.

[00:28:07] Have you discussed Souris' buying 200-plus radio stations?

[00:28:10] Yeah, he bought into Odyssey.

[00:28:13] We are not owned by Odyssey.

[00:28:15] Right?

[00:28:16] Odyssey?

[00:28:16] Which was formerly Intercom.

[00:28:19] So, yeah.

[00:28:19] I've mentioned it a couple of weeks back, I believe.

[00:28:24] Yeah, he's trying to affect the elections.

[00:28:28] Control the means of communication.

[00:28:32] What else here?

[00:28:33] We got Scott.

[00:28:35] Awfully quiet crickets from all the loud mouths in Tinseltown, and you know I love it.

[00:28:40] How many will keep their promises to leave the country?

[00:28:43] My guess is zero.

[00:28:45] Yeah, that's my guess as well.

[00:28:48] Seth says, Pete, you know how Obama said,

[00:28:53] never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to bleep things up?

[00:28:58] Well, wasn't Obama the real cause of bleeping things up by putting Joe in the position to do so?

[00:29:04] Yeah, this was also a rejection.

[00:29:07] That's, like, the loss, it's not just Harris.

[00:29:11] It's not even really Biden at this point, I don't think.

[00:29:15] Like, this is the Obamas.

[00:29:17] This is the Obama machine.

[00:29:20] And to the lesser extent, I think the Clintons, because they kind of merged into the Obama machine after he beat her.

[00:29:29] And that was no small feat, by the way, to take down the Clinton machine.

[00:29:34] Then he, you know, he brings her into the administration as Secretary of State,

[00:29:38] and then she becomes, like, you know, the anointed one.

[00:29:42] They forced out Bernie.

[00:29:44] Like, at some point, Democrats, you guys are going to have to, like, actually run a democracy in your primary.

[00:29:52] John says, Pete, Mick Mulvaney says all the time,

[00:29:55] you're never dead in Trump world unless you really do something stupid.

[00:29:58] Lindsey Graham, he's in one month, and then he's out the next month.

[00:30:03] He's back in again.

[00:30:05] But someone like Romney will never be welcomed back.

[00:30:10] Jay says, I think the main point of the Trump victory is anti-establishment.

[00:30:14] He was the only candidate against the Uniparty.

[00:30:18] Danny says, I find it interesting that Vice President Harris only won states that require either no ID or non-photo ID.

[00:30:27] Oh, I have not checked into that.

[00:30:28] I have not done a cross-reference on that.

[00:30:31] Eric says, it's a Pete tweet.

[00:30:33] Eric says, I saw exit polling from, yeah, I saw exit polling with Trump winning 20% of black men.

[00:30:41] This is unheard of in my lifetime, and if it holds for the next Republican candidate, Democrats are finished for a generation.

[00:30:50] I do have the, hang on, where is it?

[00:30:53] Here it is.

[00:30:54] Here's the breakdown.

[00:30:56] White men, 59% for Trump.

[00:31:01] White women, 52% for Trump.

[00:31:04] Black men, 20% for Trump.

[00:31:08] Black women, 8% for Trump.

[00:31:15] Hispanic slash Latino.

[00:31:18] Don't you mean Latinx?

[00:31:19] Men, 54% for Trump.

[00:31:23] And remember what I went over the other day, that because of the Democrats' reliance on black voters particularly, if you lose one black voter, you have to now replace that one with 13 more.

[00:31:39] It's not a one-for-one loss.

[00:31:42] And that's a big problem structurally for the Democrat coalition.

[00:31:47] And yes, if those numbers hold going forward, Democrats have a really, really, really big problem going forward.

[00:31:59] Stan says, if you're going to keep redrawing maps, changing who can vote, and other things like that, we're going to start believing the results are only fair if you win.

[00:32:07] Yeah, that is part of the problem, too.

[00:32:09] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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