Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Kaliner 01-02-25 Hour 3

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[00:00:28] To give you an example of how people will, and this is just something that an observation I would just warn you to be aware of, is that when people see things and they instantly jump to it means something probably far more than it is.

[00:00:47] A good example, I'll give you a good example of that, is when, like, there's one that just came up, and it's worth noting.

[00:00:55] They're now putting up fencing around many sides of the U.S. Capitol. While we spend trillions policing foreign countries, our own country is more dangerous than ever. January 20th, please get here quicker.

[00:01:05] Now, you have a major inauguration coming up in less than 20 days. It is going to be largely attended. It is a massive security risk. You've already had two attempts on the president, probably more that we don't even know about.

[00:01:21] It is a dangerous time, but it's never not a dangerous time. That's one of the criticisms from the right of the political left and the wokeism and all this stuff.

[00:01:31] The left wants to pretend everything is perfect in this country. Excuse me. Let me rephrase that.

[00:01:38] The left, many of the Democrats at the national level, it's not that they want to pretend everything's perfect, but they want to pretend that most of the problems that exist are caused by us, are caused from within.

[00:01:55] That somehow woke policies correct a historical ill, that somehow diversity, equity, and inclusion will solve and cure an ill.

[00:02:06] And while pretending that, hey, we've dealt with most of the other problems, the problem is that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

[00:02:17] I didn't say it. I'm not the first person to say it. In fact, if you use the word vigilance, you probably give yourself away that you're using language from a bygone time.

[00:02:25] The word vigilance is ever-present. There's never a time, there's never a time, your lifetime, your parents' lifetime, your kids' and grandkids' lifetime, that that isn't true.

[00:02:39] This country is always, it is the beacon of hope for people around the planet Earth while simultaneously under constant attack from people who don't want us to be this.

[00:02:53] Freedom is problematic for many people because it means you have the right.

[00:02:58] In this country, you know what? These people that have tried to tell you you don't have a, you shouldn't have to be insulted, you know, you have a right to not be insulted.

[00:03:07] Not true. You don't have a right not to be insulted. That's part of freedom of speech.

[00:03:12] Heck, if you're conservative, you get insulted on a regular basis.

[00:03:17] So, freedom, and it takes a lot to constantly be on the vigilance.

[00:03:22] So, these, I said it earlier, when you're being distracted by all this other gobbledygook out there, the enemies of the country are still functioning.

[00:03:30] And someone wrote, oh, all these MAGA people are so upset that this guy who terrorized New Orleans did so that he's from this country.

[00:03:39] He's not an immigrant. Not true.

[00:03:43] Nobody is happy about a terrorist that kills people in this country.

[00:03:47] That is the kind of foolish thought that passes for social media content sometimes.

[00:03:55] You know, but now, having said that, I'll say a lot of people are like, you know, I've heard it said.

[00:03:59] When a shooting takes place or something like this, you're like, please don't be a, let it be a white guy.

[00:04:04] And there's maybe, please don't let it be a black guy.

[00:04:06] You never say it's going to be a woman.

[00:04:08] I mean, the Nashville shooter threw things off quite a bit.

[00:04:10] But the truth of the matter is, we should always be disturbed by all of them, no matter who does it.

[00:04:17] This person, also the two bombings, not suspects, the two bombers, both dead, served time at Fort Bragg.

[00:04:25] Fort Liberty, for those politically correct people, probably be Fort Bragg again.

[00:04:31] But both of them served time there. Both of them were in the U.S. military.

[00:04:35] And you have to wonder, by the way, that the Kaczynski, not Kaczynski, I don't think it's named like that.

[00:04:39] The one that tried to kill Trump spent a lot of time in the Fayetteville area, also around Fort Bragg, recruiting people to go fight in Ukraine and stuff.

[00:04:48] But you have to wonder, and I'm not saying there's any similarities.

[00:04:51] It's just odd. There are a lot of coincidences here that cannot be ignored.

[00:04:57] If you want to get in on the conversation, it's 704-570-1110, 570-1110.

[00:05:02] But it's, and by the way, Josh Stein, the new governor, Governor Josh Stein, got to get used to saying that, did announce on Thursday more relief to those affected by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.

[00:05:13] He announced executive orders to help with recovery efforts while he was up in Asheville in Buncombe County.

[00:05:18] I don't have the details about what that exactly was.

[00:05:21] I haven't heard, and if I missed it in the news break, I apologize.

[00:05:23] But I didn't hear the details they haven't posted.

[00:05:26] I've been monitoring that situation because it was supposed to be at 115, and I just haven't seen any details on it yet.

[00:05:31] So I wanted to mention that to you, just on the side.

[00:05:36] And many, and by the way, even WRAL Capital Broadcasting out of the Raleigh market has admitted that the Tesla Cybertruck explosion, and it wasn't the Cybertruck, it was a bombing.

[00:05:48] These people that tried, all these headlines out there that the Cybertruck exploded, it did, but it was a bombing.

[00:05:52] It wasn't anything wrong with the Cybertruck.

[00:05:55] It was an active-duty U.S. Army soldier.

[00:05:57] He was on leave.

[00:05:59] And those are the alarming parts.

[00:06:01] How do a former Army and current member of our military stage attacks against our country in a clearly planned and thought-out manner?

[00:06:15] What's going on?

[00:06:16] You know, while Milley can go out and talk about how great and astute the president is and how good things are going there, which he was wrong, he was lying, you have to wonder what they're missing.

[00:06:26] What are they missing?

[00:06:27] And they're right under their noses in our own military.

[00:06:32] And that's a shock to many.

[00:06:33] And many U.S. military members are going to be just horrified, are horrified by what has happened both in New Orleans and out west.

[00:06:41] Jason, welcome to the show.

[00:06:43] How are you?

[00:06:44] Good afternoon, sir.

[00:06:45] So I've got a coincidence here for you, and it may be something that they're missing.

[00:06:53] So I grew up military.

[00:06:55] My dad was 33 years Air Force.

[00:06:57] My son served six years.

[00:06:59] And what I've noticed here, and I agree with you, is that we do have a deficiency in this country, a complacency that is going to bite us in the rear if we don't tighten up.

[00:07:13] But let's think back to – I can't remember, four, five, six years ago – Fort Hood shooting.

[00:07:24] Also a guy from Texas, also a guy in the Army, I believe.

[00:07:28] Fort Hood is now renamed by the Democrats Fort Carrazzo or something like that.

[00:07:33] But let's look at what's going on in Texas.

[00:07:36] And is there maybe a group in Texas that's radicalizing these guys and that's seeking them out with that Middle Eastern descent?

[00:07:48] You know what?

[00:07:49] I think that – the answer here, I don't know.

[00:07:54] And I don't think that any question like that is off the table.

[00:07:58] In fact, I think there's a list of questions, and more of them are coming up every moment.

[00:08:02] I mean the Las Vegas – this just got – I love it when people say breaking news out there.

[00:08:07] But he apparently died – the bomber in Las Vegas died of a gunshot wound to the head prior to the truck being blown up.

[00:08:17] So I don't know if it's self-inflicted.

[00:08:19] We don't know.

[00:08:21] But it could be.

[00:08:22] It probably is.

[00:08:23] But nonetheless, you're right.

[00:08:26] You know, I don't know.

[00:08:27] Or his foot slips off the brake pedal.

[00:08:29] I don't know.

[00:08:29] But the point being, what you said, questions about this – do you remember that show, Homeland?

[00:08:35] It was filmed in Charlotte.

[00:08:36] Do you remember that show?

[00:08:37] Yeah.

[00:08:38] It was an active military hero that had been radicalized, and he's hiding his radicalization.

[00:08:44] And he'd become an enemy of the state in the process of being radicalized.

[00:08:47] And now we see it.

[00:08:49] We kind of see this fiction becomes truth.

[00:08:53] These people clearly –

[00:08:53] Yeah, we're living that show.

[00:08:54] We're living that show, yeah.

[00:08:56] That was a great show, by the way.

[00:08:58] It was.

[00:08:59] I'd like to.

[00:09:01] So what if we scrutinize – and let's not call it invasion of privacy.

[00:09:06] When you join the military, you kind of sign your life away to the government anyway.

[00:09:11] Why not let's scrutinize every Middle Eastern descent person or anyone of any questionable nature in that realm.

[00:09:21] Let's go way back and look at their background.

[00:09:23] Let's see, you know, what have they been doing?

[00:09:25] Where have they been going?

[00:09:27] What's their beliefs?

[00:09:29] What's their ideology?

[00:09:31] I appreciate the call and sentiment.

[00:09:33] I'm going to address that.

[00:09:34] I've got to take a break right now.

[00:09:35] I appreciate that, and I will pick that up right when we get back from the break.

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[00:10:40] Right before I went on air today, for whatever reason, my coffee snobbery kicked in, and I already had a cup or two.

[00:10:46] I think I had two cups sometime during the morning.

[00:10:49] But I said, you know what, I'm going to make me a really good cup, and so I had a double espresso, and I kind of cappuccinoed it up a little bit.

[00:10:56] But right before I went on air, I know I don't feel like I can vibrate through the walls or anything like that, but I think they can.

[00:11:03] I think the guys running the board today, they can.

[00:11:05] They can Zoom and do like – they can speak like five languages all at once.

[00:11:09] They're just amped up to that point.

[00:11:11] Now, Governor Stein – got to get used to saying that.

[00:11:15] Governor Stein.

[00:11:16] So Governor Stein did announce his executive orders today.

[00:11:19] He went out to Asheville and said, hey, we're going to get all into this, helping North Carolina out.

[00:11:24] He unveiled his first executive order.

[00:11:26] So he's been in office a day, a day plus, I think at midnight or something like that.

[00:11:31] They usually try to do that.

[00:11:32] Stein announced five executive orders.

[00:11:34] The first two aimed at addressing temporary housing units and private bridges and roads.

[00:11:40] The third creates a dedicated group within his office that works to coordinate the state government's approach to an emergency.

[00:11:48] The fourth executive order formalizes the state's already established advisory committee on Western North Carolina recovery.

[00:11:56] And the fifth one, it directs the North Carolina Office of State Human Resources, OSHR, to offer 16 additional hours of community service leave to state employees.

[00:12:06] So it gives them two additional days off.

[00:12:08] I don't think too many people are going to argue with those executive orders.

[00:12:11] Obviously, he's been planning them for a while.

[00:12:13] It makes you wonder why Governor Cooper didn't do something like that before he left office because he had months to do that.

[00:12:19] I'm not going to sit there and criticize.

[00:12:21] Stein's gone.

[00:12:22] I mean, Stein's in.

[00:12:23] Cooper's gone.

[00:12:24] Good riddance.

[00:12:26] As we prepare for the next, you know, whatever governor, former Governor Cooper is going to do next.

[00:12:31] So we'll see.

[00:12:32] I just want to bring that to your attention.

[00:12:33] Now, as we head toward the, let me just check something right quick.

[00:12:38] Yeah, we're wonderful.

[00:12:39] So I didn't want to mention as worth discussing.

[00:12:44] So as I, as I, as I go, I might have another cup of coffee before it's all said and done.

[00:12:48] Beautiful, beautiful day.

[00:12:49] Getting colder, going to be much, much colder in the coming day.

[00:12:52] So just be prepared for that.

[00:12:55] The media had a bad year.

[00:12:57] But by, and it's so interesting.

[00:12:59] I have friends that are in the media and they'll, they'll criticize me.

[00:13:01] And I think it's a fair criticism.

[00:13:02] It's like, Chad, it's not, all media is not the same.

[00:13:05] Very true.

[00:13:05] And I, and, and a lot of times our local media gets thrown in to the mix.

[00:13:10] I think local media is struggling.

[00:13:12] I think that a lot of small town papers do struggle to keep people interested.

[00:13:17] They, they kind of, they're debating and going back and forth on, do we keep offering a print,

[00:13:23] printed paper?

[00:13:24] Do we go completely online?

[00:13:26] Do we do a hybridized version of that?

[00:13:28] And I, I do think there's an effort by small town papers across the state to survive.

[00:13:33] I don't know their path forward.

[00:13:35] I'm not going to pretend, but I think many of their challenges are not political in nature.

[00:13:41] I don't think the intent of a lot of local papers is to say, oh, I'm going to operate

[00:13:45] a complete propaganda rag and support one party.

[00:13:49] There's almost always overwhelmingly a leftist lean in print media.

[00:13:57] There are a variety of reasons for that.

[00:13:59] It's been exposed multiple times, but that doesn't mean that they're not capable of giving

[00:14:03] you the news that's happening in your community without bias.

[00:14:06] Now, when we get, so a lot of times when people like me say, oh, the media is dying,

[00:14:10] we're looking at the national trust in media, which is eroded.

[00:14:14] And I think that hurts people below that.

[00:14:17] I think at the state level, North Carolina has some problems in this regard.

[00:14:20] I think there's not a lot of, of media in North Carolina that are doing a job, a good job

[00:14:26] of really getting into the nuances of policy and disagreements and things of that nature.

[00:14:32] But at the national level, groups, the legacy media from the New York Times, the LA Times,

[00:14:39] the Washington Exam, or these, all of these different legacy media are struggling.

[00:14:44] Certainly the televised media is struggling and it's being supplanted.

[00:14:48] It's being replaced by, sadly, a lot of social media.

[00:14:52] And the problem with social media is it often doesn't check sources.

[00:14:56] You don't know the veracity of things you read and see.

[00:14:58] Luckily, with a lot of social media stuff, you can find sources pretty quickly and you

[00:15:03] can make sure there are two or three or four different ways of looking at things.

[00:15:08] I'll get to some of that failure after this next break, but I do want to bring it to your

[00:15:12] attention that some of the true propaganda failures that occurred, the five propaganda

[00:15:19] hoaxes that blew up in the media's face in 2024.

[00:15:23] All right.

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[00:15:53] I just looked at my notes and realized, Hey, the gentleman who called in and we always appreciate

[00:15:58] all calls and you know, and this is Jason.

[00:16:02] So appreciate Jason calling in and also the service of his family.

[00:16:06] Talked about his son serving the military.

[00:16:07] He did as his father did.

[00:16:08] So it's a lot.

[00:16:10] And he had, he, it came from him.

[00:16:13] So to me, it had a little bit more gravity to it, which was, he said, Hey, if once, once

[00:16:17] you sign up for the military, you kind of, you've made a huge commitment and it, it opens

[00:16:23] you up.

[00:16:24] I mean, basically you're in some ways owned.

[00:16:27] I mean, they determine where you're going to go, where you're going to serve, you know,

[00:16:30] your, your course of activity, stuff like that.

[00:16:33] And his was there ought to be more background, even more.

[00:16:38] Every little nuance of your life should be open to being looked at.

[00:16:41] And he makes a good point.

[00:16:42] It's one of those things where, but it also runs counter to, I think something Franklin

[00:16:47] may have said, if I'm going to paraphrase that, which is those who give up freedom for

[00:16:51] safety deserve neither.

[00:16:52] And, and so I kind of wax and wane here, but if you're serving the military, the background

[00:16:57] of the particular individual, both of them is problematic.

[00:17:00] They both did serve it.

[00:17:01] I loved in the newscast where it said Fort Bragg, I love that they didn't use the modern

[00:17:05] Fort Liberty at this point.

[00:17:06] And they both did serve, you know, some time there.

[00:17:11] Both one of them we know became radicalized or either mentally is unbalanced or became radicalized

[00:17:17] also meaning mentally unbalanced.

[00:17:19] Almost a lot, almost all of the radical people are, they're meant, they're, they're brainwashed.

[00:17:24] They're mentally, something's very wrong with them in their life that they become that messed

[00:17:30] up in their approach to things.

[00:17:32] But the one in Vegas to me is more disturbing and it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

[00:17:39] I'm going to go through this, this NBC version of the story and there is more to it.

[00:17:44] I'm not entirely, it just, things just don't add up about it.

[00:17:49] So I'm going to go through this one.

[00:17:50] This is NBC News's version.

[00:17:52] There's a lot of different versions out there.

[00:17:53] A decorated U.S.

[00:17:54] Army soldier has been identified as the person who, who was killed by an explosion in the

[00:18:00] Tesla Cybertruck.

[00:18:00] Now it turns out he wasn't killed by the explosion.

[00:18:04] He took his own life.

[00:18:05] There are many credible reports, multiple documentation on this.

[00:18:08] I'm going to the NBC News story because it has other information, but he killed himself,

[00:18:12] shot himself in the head before the explosion.

[00:18:15] And the body's been unrecognizable because of what happened subsequent to the explosion

[00:18:20] and the burning.

[00:18:22] The vehicle, which erupted into flames outside, was rented by Matthew Allen Livalsberger, a

[00:18:27] master sergeant in the U.S. Army's elite special forces unit.

[00:18:33] He was on approved leave and assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

[00:18:37] He entered the Army, active duty Army in December 2012, was a Green Beret candidate after serving

[00:18:44] in the National Guard and the Army Reserve.

[00:18:46] Meanwhile, federal law enforcement agents began searching a residence in Colorado Springs

[00:18:49] connected with the case and are expected to be on site for several hours.

[00:18:53] This activity is related to the explosion in Vegas, the FBI said.

[00:18:56] The incident being investigated is a possible terrorist attack.

[00:18:59] A motive has yet to be established, but the blast came just hours after the driver

[00:19:04] rented a pickup truck, plowed into the New York's Eve folks in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring

[00:19:11] more than 30.

[00:19:12] The drive in the New Orleans explosion was identified Wednesday as a U.S. Army veteran from Texas.

[00:19:18] They identified him as a lone wolf.

[00:19:19] Both of them rented from the same company for the truck, and both of them did spend time in

[00:19:24] Fort Bragg.

[00:19:25] The military gave him several honors.

[00:19:28] Livensberger military career.

[00:19:29] This is the interesting thing about the Vegas bombing, is that he had multiple deployments to the Republic of

[00:19:36] Congo in 2014, Ukraine in 2016, Tajikistan in 2016, Afghanistan in 17, 18, and 19.

[00:19:44] This is a guy who saw a lot.

[00:19:46] Served in our military in multiple capacities.

[00:19:49] He got multiple Bronze Star medals, at least one with valor.

[00:19:53] So he saw active combat.

[00:19:56] And through the meritocracy of the military, received a lot of honors for it.

[00:20:01] We don't know.

[00:20:03] This is the part that there's nothing at this point that there's no link that people can,

[00:20:09] there's coincidences, but not a direct link, number one.

[00:20:12] Number two, something about the second one seems odd.

[00:20:17] And you, you know, I've seen some reports.

[00:20:19] I'm not going to go to because I'll get it.

[00:20:21] I don't want to get it, but there's, there's other aspects of the, the Vegas bombers life.

[00:20:27] That.

[00:20:29] That, that, that lead to any more, even more questions about why he would do it, why he

[00:20:33] would take his own life.

[00:20:34] And, you know, if you, and I'm not a conspiracist, but there are, but, but I've seen enough.

[00:20:40] You, you, you've been entertained enough in your life to have suspicions about a guy,

[00:20:46] the other guy, the one in New Orleans, there were multiple individuals that were, that knew

[00:20:51] this individual become unbalanced, that he was not allowed to see his kids.

[00:20:55] There were, there were things, there were warnings, there were plenty of warning signs

[00:20:58] about the one in New Orleans.

[00:21:00] At this point, there don't seem to have been as many or any about the one in Vegas.

[00:21:06] The timing is odd.

[00:21:07] The connection to the U S military is odd.

[00:21:10] The connection between the rental truck app is odd.

[00:21:15] But if you have paid enough attention to being entertained for a while, your mind can run

[00:21:22] into a couple of different scenarios.

[00:21:26] For those of you who are being entertained through Christmas and watch the Netflix show

[00:21:31] carry on.

[00:21:31] There's a really, there's a really interesting plot line there about an individual that's

[00:21:36] serving the country through TSA.

[00:21:37] And he kind of gets blackmailed into letting a package through the x-ray machine at an airport

[00:21:43] and, and all of the subsequent plot and stuff like that.

[00:21:46] But, but the shorter version of the larger story is he was being blackmailed.

[00:21:51] Something about his family.

[00:21:52] He was, they were in danger.

[00:21:53] So he was supposed to let a package go through where they were going to kill his family.

[00:21:56] And you go, well, now I see this, what happened in Vegas.

[00:21:58] And I'm wondering, it's no accident that it's a cyber truck sitting in front of a Trump facility.

[00:22:04] Is it?

[00:22:06] I mean, you immediately, that comes to mind and it, and he kills himself before it goes

[00:22:12] off.

[00:22:12] So he wasn't going to live to see what happened when the bomb went off.

[00:22:18] And you have to wonder if there is something else.

[00:22:22] Was he radicalized?

[00:22:23] Number one, was he mentally unbalanced?

[00:22:26] Number two, number three, was anything in his periphery being controlled outside of his

[00:22:32] control?

[00:22:33] Meaning he's been manipulated as an asset for someone else to achieve something.

[00:22:38] We don't know, but there are many questions like that that deserve to be asked.

[00:22:43] And, and I think that, that that's worth knowing.

[00:22:47] Chad Adams, your guest host sitting in for a Pete calendar.

[00:22:49] You know, I think I've so many good hosts.

[00:22:51] I could just name them all.

[00:22:52] I'm not sitting in for them, obviously, but it is a great lineup here at WBT.

[00:22:57] And before we finish up for the day, I did want to get to these five propaganda hoaxes

[00:23:02] that blew up.

[00:23:03] This is from the Daily Caller of all places.

[00:23:05] I love their stuff.

[00:23:07] I like the Babylon B2, but satire doesn't translate well to radio.

[00:23:12] Unless you're really illustrating the absurd by being absurd.

[00:23:15] The media has had a rough year, a dishonest one worsened only by a high stakes election.

[00:23:20] That's something to both celebrate and lament.

[00:23:23] Month after month, corporate media opened up a fire hose of propaganda, the worst of

[00:23:27] which was that the president was as energetic as a spring chicken and brighter than an MIT

[00:23:32] math whiz.

[00:23:33] It was such a naked lie that it's hard to believe it was spread so far and wide, but it

[00:23:37] was.

[00:23:38] Corporate media's failure to seek truth should be celebrated, yet it should also serve as a

[00:23:44] warning.

[00:23:44] They still have power, if a little, to protect the corrupt and powerful and push narratives

[00:23:49] that harm the country.

[00:23:50] On that note, it's worth revisiting some of them.

[00:23:54] Now, mind you, the president's team, this is not in the article, but it's worth noting,

[00:23:59] the president's team did put out another warning about white supremacy.

[00:24:03] I mean, before all of this happened in the past two days, that white supremacy was still

[00:24:09] the domestic threat.

[00:24:10] I don't know why the left wants to peddle that.

[00:24:13] They peddled the good people on both sides hoax.

[00:24:16] They peddled all of this.

[00:24:17] Just, they knew it was wrong.

[00:24:20] I mean, the president's team and the people around him, they just don't care.

[00:24:25] At a rally in March, back to the column, then-candidate Trump discussed China's plan to manufacture

[00:24:30] cars in Mexico and then sell them across the southern border, which would have decimated

[00:24:34] U.S. autoworkers.

[00:24:35] He issued a drastic warning, using the rather apt word, bloodbath, that liberal corporate

[00:24:41] media went nuts about.

[00:24:43] We're going to put 100% tariff on every single car, he said, that comes across the line,

[00:24:47] and you're not going to be able to sell those cars, sell those guys if I get elected.

[00:24:51] Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole.

[00:24:54] That's going to be the least of it.

[00:24:55] It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.

[00:24:57] Wish I could do Donald Trump's voice.

[00:24:58] In the next 24 hours, Politico, Mediate, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, and others all ran

[00:25:04] disingenuous headlines, while liberal pundits pretended that Trump was calling for a wave

[00:25:09] of political violence if he lost.

[00:25:11] That was a falsehood.

[00:25:12] The gold stars grimaced.

[00:25:14] Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery in August to honor the 13 soldiers killed during

[00:25:19] the Biden administration's disastrous retreat from Afghanistan three years earlier.

[00:25:23] After Kamala Harris, her campaign and liberal media attempted to make Trump's appearance

[00:25:27] a political scandal with the vice president leading the charge.

[00:25:31] As vice president, she said, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery

[00:25:36] several times.

[00:25:37] It is a solemn place, a place where we can come together to honor American heroes who have

[00:25:40] made the ultimate sacrifice.

[00:25:41] It is not a place for politics, she said.

[00:25:44] She also went on to spread more hoaxes that Trump disparaged fallen vets and called them

[00:25:48] suckers and losers.

[00:25:50] Quote, this is nothing new from Donald Trump.

[00:25:52] This is a man who has called our fallen service members suckers and losers and disparaged Medal

[00:25:55] of Honor recipients.

[00:25:56] A man who, during a previous visit to the cemetery, reportedly said of fallen service

[00:26:00] members, I don't get it.

[00:26:01] What's in it for them?

[00:26:03] However, eight gold star families spoke out against Harris and said that they invited Trump

[00:26:10] to the ceremony.

[00:26:10] They also noted that Harris has never reached out to them since they lost their children

[00:26:14] in Kabul in 2021.

[00:26:17] A taste of her own medicine.

[00:26:18] Trump set the media into a fit of rage-filled dishonesty after he said on Halloween that

[00:26:23] war hawk Liz Cheney should get a taste of her own medicine.

[00:26:26] I think it hurts Kamala a lot, actually.

[00:26:28] Cheney's a deranged person.

[00:26:29] But the reason she couldn't stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people.

[00:26:33] I don't want to go to war, Trump said, of Kamala Harris's choice to campaign with Cheney.

[00:26:37] Quote, she wanted to go.

[00:26:39] She wanted to stay in Syria.

[00:26:40] I took them out.

[00:26:41] She wanted to stay in Iraq.

[00:26:41] I took them out.

[00:26:42] I mean, if it were up to her, we'd be in 50 different countries.

[00:26:44] She's a radical war hawk.

[00:26:46] Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay?

[00:26:50] Let's see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face.

[00:26:54] Countless pundits and outlets portrayed Trump's common sense remark as a call for Cheney to

[00:26:58] face a firing squad.

[00:27:00] And there's examples of that they put out there.

[00:27:04] Now, one thing I wanted to let you know, Liz Cheney was awarded the Congressional Medal

[00:27:08] of Honor by Biden today, I believe.

[00:27:12] So, tells you kind of everything you need to – they spent the better part of the last,

[00:27:17] I don't know, quarter of a century plus deriding and ridiculing, lampooning, and directing

[00:27:24] vile hatred at Dick Cheney.

[00:27:25] The left did.

[00:27:26] The Democrats did, including Biden.

[00:27:28] And now they're the best friend of the Democrats.

[00:27:31] It is just – it just shows you the invective and how inconsistent – they loved Trump until

[00:27:36] he said he was a Republican.

[00:27:37] And then they hated him.

[00:27:40] It's – it's – ugh.

[00:27:42] The Atlantic and its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, published what they thought would

[00:27:47] be a devastating October surprise against Trump, rife with salacious details in comparison

[00:27:52] to the now president-elect to Adolf Hitler.

[00:27:54] Among other things, the report alleged that Trump disparaged a military veteran and her

[00:27:58] family members while refusing to pay for her funeral, even though he promised to do so.

[00:28:02] The catch?

[00:28:02] The veteran's sister and various Trump officials who were firsthand witnesses came forward

[00:28:07] immediately and said it wasn't true.

[00:28:09] The media ran with it anyway.

[00:28:12] The worst oaks of 2024 dwarfs the others due to its scope and the harm done to the country,

[00:28:18] the lie that President Joe Biden was mentally and physically sharp enough to serve as commander

[00:28:22] in chief.

[00:28:23] The White House pumped out propaganda that he was fit as a fiddle, and the media knowingly

[00:28:28] repeated those lies because it was an election year.

[00:28:30] They didn't want Trump to win.

[00:28:31] Now, as much as that story there barely touches that, here's what we all agree on, on the left

[00:28:41] and the right.

[00:28:42] The media has concurred that Biden isn't mentally there.

[00:28:49] The pundits have agreed he's not there.

[00:28:52] The folks in the country, you listening, left or right, you know he's cognitively not all

[00:28:59] there.

[00:28:59] Certainly wasn't prepared to run for office.

[00:29:02] Not mentally capable of it.

[00:29:04] The rigors of the campaign trail.

[00:29:07] He's been on vacation more than 40% of his presidency.

[00:29:12] That's, wouldn't you love to have a 40% vacation policy?

[00:29:14] He is not, and here's the more distressing thing, and I'm not going to tell you I know

[00:29:20] the answer because I think all answers are bad.

[00:29:23] We knew this in June.

[00:29:24] He remained in office.

[00:29:26] Through all of this, he has been in office.

[00:29:29] There are many instances where, in all likelihood, he didn't know what was going on.

[00:29:33] He has a bad, an inability to repeat things.

[00:29:40] He has, meaning he has an inability to repeat factual information.

[00:29:46] He'll get the countries mixed up.

[00:29:48] He'll get the leaders mixed up.

[00:29:50] And it's just an aspect of where he is in his life journey.

[00:29:54] And yet, he is still the president.

[00:29:57] Through all of these two terrorist attacks, he's the president.

[00:30:01] Through the past four or five months, he's remained.

[00:30:04] The media knows he's not capable of being it, but no one's out there saying he should

[00:30:09] have resigned.

[00:30:10] Now, the irony of this, if you're looking at it from the political left, is had he resigned

[00:30:17] and Kamala run as the president of the United States, number one, it would have ruined all

[00:30:21] the Trump merchandising because she would have been number 47.

[00:30:24] Number two, she'd have been the first female president, albeit unelected.

[00:30:27] But she was also not elected to be the nominee, but she was it.

[00:30:31] So whatever.

[00:30:33] And I think it would be the problem for the political right is she's not that with it either.

[00:30:40] So you have one that is not capable of being president right now.

[00:30:45] You have another that's not qualified or prepared.

[00:30:48] So the options were pretty bad.

[00:30:50] The third option would be Speaker of the House.

[00:30:52] And there was no way the Democrats were going to let that happen.

[00:30:54] But it is interesting that we know the current president's not with it, the vice president.

[00:31:01] Who's running the country?

[00:31:04] A legit question there is, who's running the country?

[00:31:09] What do they, how do they feel about things?

[00:31:11] And that's a question the media.

[00:31:13] So the follow-up question to Biden capable, Biden's not competent is, okay, who's making the decisions

[00:31:19] right now?

[00:31:21] And that's a legitimate line of inquiry that every media outlet should be engaged in, at the

[00:31:27] very least, especially when we've had two terrorist attacks.

[00:31:30] Is the president capable of knowing what to do and how to respond, given a set of options

[00:31:35] or given the intel to find out where this all originated from?

[00:31:39] Do we trust, I think the answer is no, do we trust that Milley over at the Pentagon, that

[00:31:46] Biden, that, you know, the head of the FBI, do we trust these people, Christopher Wray,

[00:31:54] do we trust these people to get this solved, to find out what the hell happened, to find

[00:32:00] out what the real threat is?

[00:32:01] They're sitting here screaming white supremacy.

[00:32:03] That's not the threat right now.

[00:32:04] Not even close.

[00:32:06] But that is the agenda that they have put forth.

[00:32:10] So we, and right now we're getting ready.

[00:32:12] Now we have President Carter is going to lie in state here in the next week or so.

[00:32:17] You've got massive cold plunging into the country.

[00:32:19] That's going to be a major news story.

[00:32:21] You've had two attacks.

[00:32:22] There, there's no, we have no knowledge that those two are connected.

[00:32:26] And furthermore, we have no knowledge as to whether there's a larger, broader scope of

[00:32:32] action that's supposed to take place.

[00:32:34] You could make the assumption if you are one of those inclined to think this way.

[00:32:38] I am.

[00:32:40] Was this to test what would happen?

[00:32:42] Was this a good test?

[00:32:43] You had two expendable resources that could have been used to say, okay, what happens

[00:32:47] if, if we do these kinds of things, what does it look like?

[00:32:51] And I think the one in New Orleans was particularly problematic because I think the carnage was

[00:32:55] supposed to be far larger.

[00:32:57] If you look at that truck, it hit something, forget the people, it hit something.

[00:33:01] In addition to killing people, it hit something that brought it to an abrupt stop.

[00:33:05] The bomb in it did not go off.

[00:33:07] And the suspect, unfortunately, was killed before we could get discernible information out of them.

[00:33:12] So we don't know, is there a larger something going on?

[00:33:19] And to me, I don't know where, you know, where that goes.

[00:33:24] But I know this, we're, we're going to enter a new age here in a few weeks.

[00:33:31] I hope there's still credible threats on the incoming president.

[00:33:34] We know that.

[00:33:34] I, for one, I desperately want us to be able to trust our institutions, especially our law

[00:33:42] enforcement and military institution.

[00:33:45] I do want to see the restoration of trust in the CDC and the World Health Organization.

[00:33:50] I do want to see more trust back in the FDA.

[00:33:53] I want to see what's left of our government be trusted and restore that.

[00:33:58] And I'm hoping that the incoming president with this new team and with Doge in the process

[00:34:05] of redoing the federal government, and there are a lot of columns that say that Trump's

[00:34:10] just, he just propagandized his way into the White House.

[00:34:13] But I think he definitely wants to reshape the federal government.

[00:34:16] That in the coming four years, I will, I think you will share this, that we come out of the

[00:34:22] next four years, having more trust and faith in the institutions that are reformed and changed.

[00:34:30] That's what I hope.

[00:34:31] And I think that's not a high expectation.

[00:34:33] You want a more secure country.

[00:34:34] You want fewer wars, less violence, and more credibility.

[00:34:37] And that's where I hope we end up.

[00:34:38] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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