Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Kaliner 01-03-25 Hour 1

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[00:00:28] It's already been a big, big news week, isn't it? We have the speaker's race. And by the way, as that happens, the Speaker Johnson facing a tough vote, he can only lose one very slim, the slim majority, slimmest majority in the House in our lifetimes.

[00:00:41] And he can only afford to lose one vote allegedly, assuming that not a single Democrat votes for him. Thomas Massey has said he's not going to vote for him. So there's the one. I don't know if he can hold it together in spite of Trump's endorsement. That's going to be interesting.

[00:00:56] And there's not like they have an alternative. It's not like they put somebody else up and said, this is the person who can get us across the fence. This is the person that can pass all this legislation we want to do, who can change government, cut spending, and keep the tax cuts in place.

[00:01:11] This is the person. They just – not him. That's the funniest part of it to me. Look, I get having disagreements with Johnson.

[00:01:21] Boy, I almost spoke like Biden. We just mangle the words and can't handle monosyllables and stuff.

[00:01:27] By the way, President Biden's going to New Orleans, and on his trip to grieve with the victims, he said he really appreciates his travel to the tropics today.

[00:01:37] I'm having fun with that because he has no probably idea that he's actually going down there.

[00:01:41] Now, a couple other things I want to get to. On a more serious note, in the break, we were having the best time as we were heading here.

[00:01:47] And this is anybody over the age of – I don't know, 40 maybe.

[00:01:52] Because everybody below the age of 40 or maybe below the age of 35 doesn't believe there's a single decent movie made before like 2005.

[00:02:01] That everything except maybe Independence Day, everything is trash, garbage, not worth watching.

[00:02:08] And try to convince somebody to watch a black and white movie that was born in this century, and they will look at you like you're making them swallow live Ebola virus.

[00:02:19] They will just – they do not – they don't get that.

[00:02:22] They just don't.

[00:02:23] And it's interesting because you try to say, hey, there were some really cool movies that make you think about things.

[00:02:28] No, no, no.

[00:02:29] Well, and on that high intellectual note, we were in the break talking, you know, and intellect and profound issues and everything that's going on.

[00:02:38] And so, of course, that made us think of Caddyshack.

[00:02:41] And we were going through various memorable lines from Caddyshack.

[00:02:46] And if you ever want to see something that's even more hysterical, there's a movie about the making of Caddyshack that just shows what an accidental success that movie really was and how it came together.

[00:02:59] It should have probably never come together.

[00:03:01] It did, and it's one of the most memorable movies of the 80s from a comic standpoint.

[00:03:05] And we were just having fun with it because it does.

[00:03:08] Movies that have memorable lines are great conversation starters.

[00:03:11] They just are.

[00:03:12] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:03:13] It just is.

[00:03:15] So, having said that, switching gears to something far more serious.

[00:03:18] And I am Chad Adams sitting in for Pete Callender.

[00:03:20] He'll be back next week.

[00:03:21] You know what?

[00:03:22] You've got to hold his feet to the fire.

[00:03:23] He's going to be rested.

[00:03:24] He's going to have had all this rest, all this time to get ginned up for 2025, and he'll be hitting it like Talladega on the final turn.

[00:03:32] He's going to be coming out.

[00:03:33] He's going to be screaming through the energy levels there.

[00:03:37] Meanwhile, Chad Adams, your guest host, will be kicking back a little bit on Monday.

[00:03:40] Okay.

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[00:03:53] Now, on to a very serious newt.

[00:03:57] And that is this.

[00:03:59] And for those of you who've listened to me for the past few weeks or hear me on other shows on this wonderful, wonderful station, you've heard me talk about when I love to travel and go to places.

[00:04:10] Almost any place that's not America is very different.

[00:04:14] And geologically, you know, it is.

[00:04:17] Geography is different.

[00:04:18] Culture is different.

[00:04:19] But you realize how amazing the country you live in.

[00:04:22] We take it for granted.

[00:04:24] Whether I'm in Walmart or any place, at a gas station or just out and about, anywhere at the bank.

[00:04:33] No matter where you go, you don't realize how uniquely amazing the country is.

[00:04:40] And I don't say that with a degree of hubris.

[00:04:43] It's a fact.

[00:04:44] So when I get in some of these other countries, I was in the DR recently, Dominican Republic, which is interestingly, it's right across what's known as the Mona Channel.

[00:04:54] The Mona Channel, Mona Passage, is between Puerto Rico and Dominican.

[00:04:59] And I was on the eastern side of Dominican.

[00:05:02] And where I grew up was only 90 miles away across that channel in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

[00:05:08] That's where I grew up.

[00:05:08] Spent a lot of my childhood there.

[00:05:10] One of my childhood homes.

[00:05:11] So in what a world of difference even that is.

[00:05:14] And Puerto Rico is largely somewhat the equivalent of a third-world country in some ways.

[00:05:19] I mean, they can't even keep the power on New Year's Eve.

[00:05:22] The entire island had a blackout, and it's mainly due to government.

[00:05:25] It shows.

[00:05:25] Puerto Rico is illustrative of how bad local government can be.

[00:05:29] It really is.

[00:05:30] But when I'm traveling around Dominican, and you see the poverty that's there.

[00:05:36] Your average monthly income is about $400 a month.

[00:05:38] You see the trash everywhere.

[00:05:39] Where you see people that are, what their quality of life is.

[00:05:45] It's a real struggle.

[00:05:46] It's not a struggle like just this week.

[00:05:49] For the most part, it's a struggle every day.

[00:05:52] When they wake up, they know that next day is not going to be much better than the day before.

[00:05:56] The opportunities are very limited.

[00:05:58] The option to move ahead, somewhat limited.

[00:06:02] Many of the ones I spoke to and interviewed and even spoke in their native tongue about, they aspire to be someplace like Miami or Houston.

[00:06:11] Or someday they aspire to be in this country.

[00:06:13] When I'm in Costa Rica or Ecuador or Panama or even in Europe.

[00:06:19] The interesting thing is the hubris that Europeans have.

[00:06:21] We have better than you.

[00:06:22] We have so much better than you.

[00:06:23] When I was in France last year and Italy, it's the same kind of this hubris.

[00:06:28] And I'm thinking, you guys have no idea how bad you have it here.

[00:06:31] You have no idea.

[00:06:33] It's just funny.

[00:06:34] You're talking down about a country you've never – you ever been to America?

[00:06:36] No.

[00:06:37] I have a cousin who lives there.

[00:06:38] Maybe you know him.

[00:06:39] He lives in Philadelphia.

[00:06:39] His name is John.

[00:06:41] No, they just don't.

[00:06:43] And I'm saying this to make a point.

[00:06:46] It is that we wake up every day.

[00:06:49] We find the time to argue about if the landscaper showed up on time, what subject my kid's doing well in school on or not.

[00:07:00] While the neighbor painted their house of color, I need to report that to the HOA.

[00:07:04] We have such first world things that we get all bent out of shape on.

[00:07:11] I'm astounded.

[00:07:12] I live down at the coast.

[00:07:13] And I'm always astounded when I look at what people – now, a lot of people who move to the coast, they're typically retired.

[00:07:20] Many of them are from up north, and they come down to this wonderful, wonderful world of the coast.

[00:07:26] Even Charlotte, many people from this market right here, they move down to the coast or stay down to the coast.

[00:07:32] And what they complain about, oh, I can't believe there's only 750 parking spaces down here.

[00:07:39] I can't – someone had a flag in their yard.

[00:07:41] I just – I need to complain about this.

[00:07:42] They are the most incessant, whiny biatches you've ever seen.

[00:07:48] They just complain, and you're like, what color is the sky in your world?

[00:07:53] That you come down here and complain about everything.

[00:07:55] I'll talk more about this because I'm making a larger point.

[00:07:58] I promise I'm making a far larger point than what you think I'm going to make.

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[00:09:17] Now, back to the serious issue.

[00:09:19] And I was talking about traveling in different parts of the world.

[00:09:23] If you are fortunate enough to do so, there are some amazing, beautiful places all over the world.

[00:09:28] And in this country, I look forward to seeing a lot more of this country soon.

[00:09:31] And haven't seen enough of it, seen a lot, but not nearly as much as I should have at this age.

[00:09:35] But here's the thing I want to drill into people's heads.

[00:09:39] Because you see it in your neighborhoods.

[00:09:40] You have seen people arguing and complaining about truly mundane stuff.

[00:09:49] That you've got way too much time on your hands if you're really complaining about the color of your neighbor's house

[00:09:55] or how often they cut their yard.

[00:09:56] That is not impacting your ability to live, thrive, and survive.

[00:10:00] It's not.

[00:10:01] A lot of what we should be doing talking to one another, we want to route through government.

[00:10:07] Thinking somehow government's the great arbiter.

[00:10:10] We'll report that person.

[00:10:11] We'll do this.

[00:10:11] We'll do that.

[00:10:12] We'll do that.

[00:10:12] Now, there's a serious side.

[00:10:14] And I'm not negating when you see something say something.

[00:10:17] That's different than when there's serious crimes or stuff.

[00:10:20] That's different.

[00:10:21] But when you find the kind of things that you hear people complain about, it baffles me.

[00:10:30] And I'm taking this to a larger point for a reason.

[00:10:34] And that is, in these other countries, the folks, a lot of the countries that are just trying to survive,

[00:10:42] this is not a war on poverty kind of statement.

[00:10:45] It's much more sinister and dark than that.

[00:10:48] And it is the people who hate this country.

[00:10:53] They don't get up every day and complain about mundane crap in the local food mart.

[00:11:02] They're not getting up every day and going down the street to see if their neighbor's mailbox is three inches too high.

[00:11:11] They aren't complaining that the lady at the PTA said something that offended them.

[00:11:18] They get up every day with the sole purpose of finding a way to kill you, to destroy this country, to inflict damage, to undo your way of life.

[00:11:36] Imagine if your entire purpose over the past 20 years was to do just that.

[00:11:43] How different your life would be.

[00:11:45] So after 9-11 and we got on our toes and we fought back and we went over there and we eventually found bin Laden under Obama's watch.

[00:11:54] You know, we were focused on the fact that Islamic radicalism is 1,000% incompatible with all of the free world.

[00:12:06] It is incompatible with women wanting to live, thrive, and survive.

[00:12:11] It is incompatible for all forms of freedom and its sole dedication is to enslave mankind.

[00:12:18] That's it.

[00:12:19] It isn't about being better people.

[00:12:21] It isn't about rising to some greater level of understanding about our life and our universe and who we want to be and what we want to learn.

[00:12:30] It's not about extending life.

[00:12:32] It's not about family reunions, mom apple pie.

[00:12:37] It's not about that.

[00:12:38] It's about dominating the culture and diminishing humankind and doing so in brutal, pathological evil.

[00:12:52] And we want to pretend, while the protesters are out there chanting about intifada, and they have no idea what that means.

[00:13:00] These young heads full of mush that don't understand what this kind of domination.

[00:13:05] And if you look at what's happening in Europe right now, if you were to go to Italy right now, especially the southern part of Italy, Naples area,

[00:13:12] you would see the massive influx of African Muslims into that country that are, I mean, from a homeless population, from a – just they're pouring into that country,

[00:13:23] and many are going straight through Italy, up into Denmark, up into Germany.

[00:13:27] The influx, the immigration issue that is here is bad.

[00:13:31] The immigration issue there is supplanting culture.

[00:13:34] The number one name in England last year was Muhammad in England.

[00:13:42] I'm not putting the name Muhammad down, but to pretend that there aren't consequences for the radicalization of what's happening to Western culture as it's being eradicated.

[00:13:54] So we're sitting here, and the left will sit there, oh, we don't need to be Islamophobic.

[00:13:59] It's not phobic.

[00:14:00] It's not phobic.

[00:14:02] It's a genuine concern for the survival of the country and Western culture in general, whether it's in Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iran.

[00:14:13] What's now – we don't know what's going to happen in Syria next.

[00:14:16] All of these have this string of Muslim extremism that is hell-bent to dominate, destroy, and kill.

[00:14:23] And here's the other problem with that is that the rest of the Muslim world isn't suppressing it.

[00:14:29] If there was a group of Baptists out there that was hell-bent on just killing anyone that didn't agree with them, I'll guarantee you every other group of Baptists in the country would hunt them down, would pull them out.

[00:14:43] We would eradicate that sect of individuals in some way, whether in jails or six feet underground.

[00:14:50] You're not going to do that.

[00:14:53] But with Islam, we're not seeing that right now.

[00:14:57] And while the left is concerned about offending someone, the people that are dedicated to killing you, they don't care.

[00:15:05] They'll kill those people as well as they'll kill anybody else or just subjugate them.

[00:15:09] The number – I don't know if you've seen the rape story in Great Britain, but the rape of hundreds of kids and the suppression of it and the police afraid to enforce the laws, this is what happens.

[00:15:21] It's happening in Scandinavia.

[00:15:23] It's happening in Norway where they're very scared to enforce the law against practitioners of Sharia law that move in.

[00:15:31] And we have areas of this country where neighborhoods are really running themselves on Sharia law, which subjugates women, which subjugates anyone who disagrees with them.

[00:15:43] Now, that doesn't mean that the federal government can't – you can still break laws yet.

[00:15:48] But make no mistake, there is a culture that is hell-bent on destroying your way of life every single day.

[00:15:57] That you get up and you go about your business and you think everything's pretty much okay and we have the time to complain about the concrete in someone's driveway.

[00:16:06] And by the way, that's more than a joke because at the coast, there are many areas where you have to have pervious concrete.

[00:16:13] And they'll come by and write you up or they won't give you a permit unless you put pervious so the rain can flow through your driveway.

[00:16:21] Even though it gets clogged up in a few years and becomes impervious, it's pervious for a year.

[00:16:27] Because it'll destroy the world.

[00:16:29] We're worried while Greta Thunberg is lecturing to the UN about climate change.

[00:16:35] You know what group doesn't care about climate change?

[00:16:38] Radical Islamists.

[00:16:40] The people who practice Sharia law, they don't care.

[00:16:43] And they believe in mercy killings.

[00:16:45] If a woman in your household has dishonored the family, it's okay to kill her.

[00:16:50] It's okay.

[00:16:51] It's completely acceptable.

[00:16:54] And who do you think is going to protect you?

[00:16:56] Who do you think is going to protect you when stuff like that goes down?

[00:17:01] I mean, I had a relative.

[00:17:02] It was in China.

[00:17:04] They were witnessing to people.

[00:17:05] They got threatened.

[00:17:07] They had to make special arrangements to get the hell out of the country because you can go to jail for handing out a Bible.

[00:17:12] You can go to jail in Saudi Arabia for handing out Bibles.

[00:17:15] Neat place to visit.

[00:17:16] But you ain't handing out Bibles there.

[00:17:18] So who's the most persecuted group on earth right now?

[00:17:22] It's going to be, well, from a religious standpoint, I think it's Christians and Jews.

[00:17:26] You think there's a commonality there in any way?

[00:17:29] It's not difficult to figure out.

[00:17:31] So those two groups, most likely to be hunted to extinction.

[00:17:35] What race do you think at the global level is most likely?

[00:17:39] I mean, this isn't difficult.

[00:17:44] But we want to fight.

[00:17:45] The more they can turn us against one another, the more we're not paying attention to what groups are trying to do.

[00:17:50] And do you think there are sleeper cells in this country?

[00:17:52] I mean, some people are thankful it wasn't a migrant.

[00:17:56] I mean, we have two people in the U.S. military that conducted two acts of terrorism.

[00:18:00] Maybe the FBI said they're not connected, already determined it's not.

[00:18:03] I think there's a lot more questions to be asked.

[00:18:05] But nonetheless, but do you think of the millions of people that came through that border with not one single person looking at them,

[00:18:13] that there aren't some seriously dangerous people that mean to do societal harm on a large scale?

[00:18:19] You got to think about that.

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[00:19:28] You know, I am somewhat chagrined and have been for some time.

[00:19:33] I remember after 9-11, I can remember how angry – I mean, I was angry.

[00:19:39] I was upset.

[00:19:39] It was devastating in many ways.

[00:19:41] And how angry some of my friends were.

[00:19:43] And I was still young enough then that several friends went off and joined the military after that.

[00:19:47] I was a little bit too old at that point.

[00:19:49] But I remember the seething anger at what had happened, that someone could carry out an act of such violence, of such hatred, of such carnage against truly innocent people just because of their belief system.

[00:20:10] They had already tried to take down the World Trade Center.

[00:20:12] Most people forget there was a bombing in the basement of that with Vance.

[00:20:16] It was kind of spoiled, but it didn't – it was bad, but it didn't tear the buildings down.

[00:20:21] It killed 2,000 people.

[00:20:23] But every day they're trying to figure out how to recreate that.

[00:20:26] And you have to wonder what makes that mind work that badly.

[00:20:30] And just from a statistical standpoint – and I want to get back to the dinosaurs because the folks were having a lot of fun talking about the dinosaur stuff there.

[00:20:39] The dinosaur highway.

[00:20:41] You know, I thought that was hilarious.

[00:20:42] According to the estimate – this is from Pew Research.

[00:20:45] There are about 3.45 million Muslims of all ages in the U.S., about 1.1 percent of the U.S. population.

[00:20:53] Muslims will make up 2.1 percent of the U.S. population by the year 2050, surpassing people who identify as Jewish.

[00:20:59] So there will be more Muslims than Jews in the country.

[00:21:02] The second largest faith group.

[00:21:04] And when you look at the – internationally, though, there are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world as of 2015, roughly 24 percent of the world population.

[00:21:16] But while Islam is currently the world's second religion after Christianity, it is growing much faster than any other religion on the planet.

[00:21:26] Indeed, if current demographic trends continue, the number of Muslims will exceed Christians as the largest religion on the planet.

[00:21:35] Although many countries in the Middle East, North Africa region, where the religion originated in the 7th century are heavily Muslim, the region is home to only about 20 percent of the world's Muslims.

[00:21:43] The majority of the Muslims globally, 62 percent, live in the Asia-Pacific region.

[00:21:48] In Indonesia, which I mentioned earlier, is currently the world's largest Muslim population.

[00:21:52] But guess which country is going to be the largest Muslim population soon?

[00:21:57] By 2050, it will be India.

[00:22:01] Now, India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world as well.

[00:22:06] And so what I'm telling you is everything else is diminishing as that grows.

[00:22:13] And there are 140 million conservative estimates.

[00:22:17] 140 million of those are radical Islam, are the ones that want to destroy your way of life, that are not being held in check by the other billion-plus Muslims.

[00:22:32] Those countries aren't out there.

[00:22:34] You don't see the other Muslim countries declaring war on radical Islam.

[00:22:39] They're not trying to stop them.

[00:22:41] And that's not – it's kind of an indictment, isn't it?

[00:22:46] And it sounds like I'm preaching some kind of – and I'm sure the lefties are going, oh, he's being Islamophobic.

[00:22:51] Not.

[00:22:54] This is a real – it's a real threat.

[00:22:56] And I know we had the bombing, and that was a radicalized individual in some way.

[00:23:02] He may have mental health issues.

[00:23:03] But sometimes there's a thin line between psychopathy and radical people.

[00:23:09] They often – it attracts radical people, right?

[00:23:11] If you have some kind of psychopathy, you're – you end up having radical ideas that you think are okay.

[00:23:17] So that's where the alarming thing – and again, all these – all the people on the left that are preaching about climate change, they're spending an inordinate amount of time.

[00:23:26] And I was thinking, what's funny about that, if you look at this dinosaur highway story – yeah, only me, right?

[00:23:32] That's the way my brain works.

[00:23:34] So you're thinking about that dinosaur highway.

[00:23:36] Do you realize – not you, the end of – you – well, all of us.

[00:23:39] Do we collectively realize?

[00:23:41] That dinosaur highway that was discovered in Britain, which we will also be talking about here soon more because it's illustrative of what I'm talking about.

[00:23:49] Now, that dinosaur highway, not far from – well, it's in Great Britain.

[00:23:54] I'm trying to figure out – it is in Oxfordshire.

[00:23:56] So if you've ever been over to Oxford, I studied there for a little while, long ago, one of my other lives.

[00:24:00] So that highway, that dinosaur highway, which has all of these amazing critters, by the way, that walk through whose footprints were just perfectly stored, like a – not a digital footprint, but a literal footprint.

[00:24:15] That was adjacent to a tropical sea.

[00:24:18] All those footprints – and many were discovered back in the 90s.

[00:24:21] It's just this now adds to the collection, which makes it even larger.

[00:24:24] They were adjacent to a tropical sea.

[00:24:26] So what does that tell you?

[00:24:27] It tells you that Great Britain, that area that we now know of as the UK, was tropical.

[00:24:33] Hell of a lot of global warming back then, wasn't it?

[00:24:36] All over the place.

[00:24:37] We're much colder than we were then when so many more animals were on the planet Earth.

[00:24:44] But not us.

[00:24:45] All right.

[00:24:46] If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events.

[00:24:49] And I know you do too.

[00:24:50] And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources.

[00:24:54] Why?

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[00:25:50] I think in society we're scared to have these discussions on this.

[00:25:53] It's easier to talk about DEI.

[00:25:56] It's easy to talk about, I don't know, race.

[00:25:58] It's easy to talk about there are more than two genders.

[00:26:01] I don't know.

[00:26:02] The left doesn't have any problem addressing such moonbat fantasy things.

[00:26:06] But it has a lot of trouble addressing the threat of radical Islam.

[00:26:09] It does.

[00:26:10] You know, it never went away.

[00:26:12] The threat never went away.

[00:26:13] It's not, you know, it's not subsided at all.

[00:26:19] Reorganizing, finding a new path forward.

[00:26:21] The situation in Syria should be alarming.

[00:26:23] Certainly the terrorist state of Iran out there, you know, and no, I love it when John Kerry, and I love being facetious.

[00:26:30] I love it when John Kerry and Biden and the rest of these loony lefties want to think Iran means peace.

[00:26:37] That Iran will just give them back their $10 billion.

[00:26:40] They're adhering to what we set up as parameters for their actions and activities.

[00:26:47] The Iranians have never, and again, the fascinating thing about the Iranian situation, this is just so many layers deep.

[00:26:54] The Iranian fundamentalist Islamic State leadership, the grand leader, the grand poobahs of Iran, are as radical, kill Americans, as many Americans.

[00:27:05] A good start to a great day for those leaders of that Islamic republic would be a million Americans at the bottom of the ocean.

[00:27:13] That would be the definition of a good day for them.

[00:27:15] And if they're Christian and Jew, even better, even better day for them.

[00:27:20] Now, that's not the Iranian people.

[00:27:23] In fact, if you ever get the opportunity to travel over there when it's a little safer than now, you'll find that the younger folks in Iran and many of the folks in Israel, they have great communication.

[00:27:34] The citizens are absolutely suppressed in Iran.

[00:27:38] It's a lot of educated, intelligent, young, vibrant, technologically advanced people in an Islamic state that will kill them if they disagree.

[00:27:49] That will kill them.

[00:27:51] And we're only a few bad decisions away from being in the same 1984 utopian, dystopian, excuse me, world.

[00:28:00] We take it for flipping granted every day.

[00:28:03] Those people in Iran don't want to be that way, but they don't have – they are being ruled by terrorists.

[00:28:10] Afghanistan now being ruled once again by terrorists.

[00:28:14] These are huge geographic areas, by the way.

[00:28:18] Huge.

[00:28:19] But when I went to the break, you know, and talking about climate change, it was warm over there where those dinosaurs.

[00:28:25] Very warm a long time ago.

[00:28:28] Lots of flora and fauna, lots of critters running around in that area of the world next to a tropical ocean.

[00:28:33] You know, you could – if you put it in high enough fence back then, you could probably stay away from the 30-foot megalosaurus.

[00:28:39] You know?

[00:28:41] Maybe be a really special fortress you'd have to build.

[00:28:44] But, you know, mammals were mice back then or tinier shrews.

[00:28:47] Now, with this – so I want to go over to the situation in Great Britain because if anything is the front door of the subjugation of a culture, it is the UK.

[00:29:00] The UK has long been – and if you speak to Nigel Farage, I was fortunate to interview him a few years back.

[00:29:06] If you speak to him and you see what he's talking about, as much as the left wants to make fun of him, he is on the front page.

[00:29:12] He was – led the Brexit fight.

[00:29:14] He's the one leading we've got to stop the illegal immigration in Great Britain where they're coming in on boats.

[00:29:19] They're coming in.

[00:29:20] They're inundating that.

[00:29:21] They also have seen a massive migration from India and other countries that is subjugating their culture.

[00:29:29] Now, the net result of this, there's been two things that have happened in Great Britain that – because they're kind of our cousins across the pond.

[00:29:36] But they're kind of on the – just as – they are just as much on the front line of cultural destruction today as they were in World War II when Hitler was occupying France and Belgium and other areas.

[00:29:52] And Winston Churchill recognized that that island they lived on was absolutely under threat, and he said we're going to defend it from every possible place.

[00:30:01] You have to win at all costs.

[00:30:02] There is no other way.

[00:30:04] We're extinct or we win.

[00:30:08] Great Britain today is in the same boat.

[00:30:11] They're going to be extinct as a culture or they're going to win.

[00:30:15] And unfortunately, King Charles is one of the weakest of the monarchs we've seen in British history.

[00:30:20] He is weak.

[00:30:21] He is apologetic.

[00:30:23] He is not proud of his culture.

[00:30:26] There's nothing about his actions and what's left of the fading and diminishing and ever-unimportant monarchy.

[00:30:35] He's probably the last of the monarchs, and he's just weak.

[00:30:39] He was playing around with – which is interesting because he is technically the head of the Church of England.

[00:30:45] By the way, the monarchy is set up and the dynastic stuff that they've done.

[00:30:49] But he was toying around with Hinduism or Buddhism at one point, so it would have made the head of the Church of England a Buddhist that he converted completely.

[00:30:56] But he's just not particularly profound or deep, and certainly you'd think he would be the defender of the realm, but he's not.

[00:31:05] Now, the situation in Britain is this, and I say this because these all kind of blend together, and it's worth noting.

[00:31:13] The U.K. right now has ramped up massive, and it's kind of the shadow lefty stuff of the U.S.

[00:31:19] It's kind of a reflection of what the left would like to do.

[00:31:21] It has ramped up censorship efforts.

[00:31:23] And this is from standingforfreedom.com, but there's numerous stories you can find.

[00:31:28] Now taking the extraordinary step of jailing citizens for making quote-unquote hateful social media posts and threatening to extradite citizens, including U.S. citizens, for hate speech or speech violations.

[00:31:40] Not just hate speech.

[00:31:42] But because they had a stabbing, they decided to start turning people in for opinions.

[00:31:52] You can go to jail in Great Britain for having an opinion that would offend someone.

[00:31:58] It's not just hate speech.

[00:32:00] The Crown Persecution Service shared a video on ex-Twitter, formerly known as Twitter, warning people,

[00:32:06] think before you post.

[00:32:08] Content that incites violence or hatred isn't just harmful, it's illegal.

[00:32:12] The CPS takes online violence seriously and will prosecute when the legal test is met.

[00:32:18] What's the legal test, you ask?

[00:32:20] What's the legal test that if you post an opinion online, you can get arrested?

[00:32:25] 55-year-old woman was arrested for a social media post she shared that claimed that a given suspect was an asylum seeker who came to the U.K. by boat and was on MI6 Watch List.

[00:32:35] If this is true, then all hell's about to break loose.

[00:32:38] They arrested her and put her in jail.

[00:32:39] That's an opinion that can put you in jail.

[00:32:41] Now, meanwhile, while that is happening, while Great Britain citizens and people that are there share an opinion online,

[00:32:51] you can get arrested.

[00:32:53] On the other hand, there have been – this is from the BBC – there have been numerous investigations into the systemic rape of young women by organized gangs

[00:33:03] in multiple cities.

[00:33:04] The sexual abuse of young girls by grooming gangs has fueled a number of campaigns which have focused on cases of large-scale abuse carried out mainly by men of Pakistani descent.

[00:33:15] An inquiry into the abuse found that 1,400 kids had been sexually abused over a 16-year period.

[00:33:21] How did you sexually abuse 1,400 kids and not know about it?

[00:33:26] That's what I'm saying.

[00:33:42] They were afraid to enforce this.

[00:33:46] They were afraid to enforce the law.

[00:33:49] They were afraid to bring it forward because they were afraid of these individuals.

[00:33:53] They were afraid of these Pakistani men.

[00:33:55] They were afraid of offending them.

[00:34:00] And police knew about it.

[00:34:02] Politicians knew about it.

[00:34:04] Elected officials.

[00:34:05] I mean, up and down, up and down.

[00:34:09] People across the board knew this was going on for over a decade.

[00:34:15] And it was just being swept under the rug.

[00:34:18] We find the same thing in Scandinavia.

[00:34:20] We find the same thing in multiple European countries where there's been an influx,

[00:34:24] a large influx of radical Islam.

[00:34:26] And those individuals are raping more people because it's more acceptable.

[00:34:31] Women aren't equal in many of those cultures.

[00:34:35] They're not.

[00:34:36] It's absolutely flippant terrifying that people can be that way.

[00:34:46] And so the officials who are afraid from a political standpoint to offend,

[00:34:52] in the meanwhile, don't protect people.

[00:34:54] And so imagine – I mean, we have some of the shades of that here.

[00:34:58] People are afraid to stand up.

[00:35:00] They're afraid they might offend somebody.

[00:35:02] You know what?

[00:35:02] The people who hate Jews in this country, they go march in the streets of New York.

[00:35:06] The people who hate, hate Israel get up there, and they take over universities

[00:35:11] and threaten the universities.

[00:35:12] And you know who cowers in fear?

[00:35:14] The liberal left.

[00:35:15] They cower in fear, and they hide in their great elite halls,

[00:35:17] and they're afraid to stand up for what's right.

[00:35:20] They're afraid to stand up and do the right thing and purge themselves of these wackadoos

[00:35:25] that are standing in the way of the American dream,

[00:35:27] that are standing in the way of success, that are absolutely promoting hatred

[00:35:31] because they're afraid of being called phobic.

[00:35:35] Meanwhile, they're fighting for transgender rights in bathrooms

[00:35:38] because that's a bigger issue somehow.

[00:35:41] And that's the part that – I know this seems like it goes on.

[00:35:45] You're welcome to be a part of the conversation, 570-1110, the phone number, 704-570-1110.

[00:35:50] But as I'm looking at this, you have to wonder how do you rape 1,000 –

[00:35:56] sexually abuse 1,000, rape 1,400, how you do this?

[00:36:02] But now it's become a big issue for the political right in Great Britain

[00:36:06] to kind of say the things I'm telling you now.

[00:36:10] It was a large-scale process.

[00:36:14] An investigation in Telford found that up to 1,000 girls had been abused for 40 years

[00:36:17] and that the cases had not been investigated because of, quote, nervousness about race.

[00:36:24] Who makes you nervous about talking about race?

[00:36:26] It's the political left, isn't it?

[00:36:28] The political left over there, the political left over here.

[00:36:31] You don't want to offend them.

[00:36:33] They're from Pakistan.

[00:36:34] But they abused and raped girls.

[00:36:37] Well, we don't want to offend them, and there might be blowback.

[00:36:41] So let's just not talk about that.

[00:36:47] And women in this country, if you're an elite liberal leftist woman in this country,

[00:36:51] what's wrong with you?

[00:36:52] Why are you buying into this?

[00:36:54] Why do you – are you okay with that?

[00:36:57] And it's a shame that it took a terrorist act in New Orleans on New Year's Eve by a radicalized guy.

[00:37:05] And you would think this would be a unifying thing, that we would unify left and right.

[00:37:10] We could argue about the economics of things, the role of government, these kind of things,

[00:37:14] but we would be unified in protecting our culture.

[00:37:17] We would be unified in protecting our borders.

[00:37:19] We'd be unified in standing up for our women and our kids.

[00:37:21] I think it would be easy, right out of the park.

[00:37:25] Easy.

[00:37:25] Easy.

[00:37:26] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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