Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Kaliner 12-26-24 Hour 1

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[00:00:28] Merry Christmas to all of you. Congratulations on making it through. You have made it through Christmas. And now a whole year of what the heck can happen next. No way, no way you're sitting at home or wherever you are right now going, you know, I knew exactly what was going to happen this year. I knew exactly what was going to happen. Everything that happened exactly the way I thought it was. Trump was going to win. Biden was going to drop out. Harris was going to be the candidate. I knew all of that.

[00:00:53] I knew that CNN's ratings would be worse than than some diseases, you know, that more people would like disease than CNN. That's terrible. Hate to say it that way. Sounds horrific. But their ratings are in the dumpster. There were so many different aspects. The climate change stuff didn't end the world. We had two horrific hurricanes. They just happened to be where they were, not what they were. And I never would have believed that the country would have been more apt to want to help other countries than the people

[00:01:23] struggling in our own, especially after a huge disaster like that. Although I truly impressed. I tell you, every time there's a disaster abroad.

[00:01:31] And I say that there's a reason I bring this up. Every time there's a disaster abroad. Oh, by the way, my name, Chad Adams. I'm sitting in for Pete Callender today. It's been an honor and pleasure.

[00:01:40] Been here this week. I'll be here tomorrow and next week as well here on News Talk 1110 993 WBT 704-570-1110.

[00:01:47] And the call-in numbers, should you find a desire to be a part of the conversation today. We will cover many topics, not the least of which will be, this is kind of the end of the year.

[00:01:57] You'll hear a few more of these shows. You're going to start seeing top 10 lists, top 20 lists, worst, best, most unusual.

[00:02:04] But, you know, I did not dream that we would have, I could not have predicted that the endless amount of money being plowed into Ukraine over this horrific war would have been done.

[00:02:15] Now, it's not that I couldn't have predicted we did it. What I had trouble understanding and still do is that we plow that endless amount of money from Americans to Ukraine without a goal,

[00:02:26] without a, here's what we're going to do, here are our expectations as that money and those arms come in.

[00:02:32] Here's what our expectations are. We're going to be able to hold this region. We're going to be able to end it.

[00:02:37] The end of the war was never a discussion with Congress. They never sat and said, if you give this money, the war will be over.

[00:02:41] They never, it was never discussed. Wouldn't have predicted that.

[00:02:45] I wouldn't have predicted that Western North Carolina would be heading into winter.

[00:02:48] And believe it or not, there is a winter up there in spite of your climate change cult members asserting things to the contrary.

[00:02:55] It gets really cold up there. And a lot of people without homes, I also wouldn't have predicted.

[00:03:00] Oh, I, this one I would have predicted is that all of the, and you haven't probably thought of this, or at least most of you haven't,

[00:03:06] that all of those people that, that had their, their, their homes damaged, destroyed, washed away, whatever it was, their businesses.

[00:03:15] And again, it, it, as you go through the mountains, it's, it's an eerie world because on one, you, you can go through certain parts and it's as if nothing happened.

[00:03:24] It, it's because of the terrain. It's because of the slope and, and what angle it is relative to the direction of the storm and the damage that was done.

[00:03:31] But you can head through some parts and it's like, everything's fine. You head through others and it's absolutely a third world country.

[00:03:36] But here's the, the, the knife twist in this story is that all of those people who, whose homes were damaged or destroyed, whose businesses, they're still liable for the property taxes assessed on their property.

[00:03:53] So the county didn't say, okay, we're going to suspend the property tax issue. Well, the county can't survive without property taxes.

[00:03:58] At the same time, the citizens can't survive paying it or, or they're going to lose their property, but your property tax is based on what's on the property.

[00:04:06] If there's no house there, then you have to go to the board of adjustments and say, Hey, look, I can't pay it because there's no house there.

[00:04:11] And that's the, the, the value of that property is nothing.

[00:04:15] I'm paying property taxes on land that now is washed out.

[00:04:19] There's nothing there.

[00:04:20] So one of those things you can't really have predicted, but it's the side effect.

[00:04:26] Bureaucracies and governments in general are not good at the pivot as fans of the show.

[00:04:32] Friends would say pivot, pivot, pivot.

[00:04:34] They're not good at that.

[00:04:37] They're slow.

[00:04:38] They turn like a cruise ship.

[00:04:40] They turn very slowly.

[00:04:41] There's no degree of alacrity with respect to how governments move.

[00:04:46] They don't, they don't respond quickly.

[00:04:47] Usually they don't adjust very quickly.

[00:04:51] And it's why novel and new ideas take forever to get implemented.

[00:04:55] It's also why whatever ideas are implemented, as we discussed on Tuesday, these multi-billion dollar government programs that go nowhere, there's very little follow-up and accountability.

[00:05:06] Because most of the agencies tasked with implementing these brand new whatevers don't have the staff.

[00:05:11] They don't have the depth of knowledge.

[00:05:13] They don't have a way to implement and make these things happen.

[00:05:16] So it sounds good.

[00:05:17] I'm going to go fix every bridge and road in the country.

[00:05:20] I've got the money to do it.

[00:05:21] I'm going to fix them all.

[00:05:21] But the way you go through the request for proposal to make sure you're not playing favorites, although they end up playing favorites, and the way you implement it, the way you make sure it's done, the quality's done, it just doesn't happen that way.

[00:05:35] Government does not operate like a business.

[00:05:37] It just doesn't.

[00:05:39] You could make the argument this would tick off everybody up in the Huntersville area and other places where you have these toll roads.

[00:05:44] You say, well, the private sector, if you turn it over to the private sector, it can do things like build roads and do it more quickly and more efficiently.

[00:05:52] But that doesn't necessarily mean they – it's wanted by folks.

[00:05:56] Folks expect their roads to be paid with tax dollars, not with additional fees.

[00:06:00] And if you get – now, the other thing to remind you, and I'm not going to dwell on the subject, but it's just things to think about as we head into the new year about what your governments can and can't do and what political parties claim that they can promise you but that they can't do or can do are that great projects from the past 100 years that in some way got done.

[00:06:19] Like if you were to go through the Blue Ridge Parkway and you see the Linville-Aka Viaduct, that's a beautiful piece of engineering.

[00:06:25] It's the way that that bridge wraps around the side of the mountain.

[00:06:28] It's absolutely picturesque.

[00:06:30] It's an amazing piece of engineering.

[00:06:32] It's very nice.

[00:06:33] You probably couldn't build that today because of environmental regulations and concerns.

[00:06:38] If you were to go down to the coast and look at the intercoastal waterway where you can stay inland, you can take your boat up, up, all through North Carolina on these inland waterways that were built during the time of FDR, these public works projects.

[00:06:50] You could not build those today because there would be a snail, I don't know, or a clam or something that you would think would be the end of the world.

[00:06:58] The island where I live wasn't an island 80 years ago.

[00:07:01] It was trenched through like the Panama Canal on the backside of what is now an island, and that's the intercoastal waterway, the ICW.

[00:07:08] You could not build that today.

[00:07:10] Couldn't build it.

[00:07:11] And so government can both serve.

[00:07:14] It is as much a hindrance as it is a help.

[00:07:19] In many ways.

[00:07:20] It doesn't, it often stands the way if you were in the Raleigh area, the Beltline, the reason the Beltline wasn't completed in a timely manner, and it still isn't completed, but the south side of it around Raleigh carry that area if you ever travel in that area.

[00:07:32] It's beautiful now that you can get around Raleigh without having to go into Raleigh or through Raleigh.

[00:07:36] There was a snail.

[00:07:38] There was a snail or a clam or something like that that was a question in a very small area of that Beltline.

[00:07:45] Well, couldn't do it.

[00:07:46] Not going to happen.

[00:07:47] Wouldn't be prudent.

[00:07:48] Not going to go through there.

[00:07:50] And it made the project soar in price.

[00:07:53] And by the way, this is all a toll road around that.

[00:07:55] So part of the Beltline, around the outer Beltline of Raleigh, part of it is toll road and part of it is free.

[00:08:01] Or part of it is taxpayer funded and part of it is taxpayer funded plus tolls.

[00:08:05] Just the way.

[00:08:07] And so if you question that, you go, why is that?

[00:08:09] Well, there are a million reasons, many of which are political, that you just don't know the answer to.

[00:08:13] And I can't tell you because I'm not going to take the time to figure it out because I only go on it once or twice a year.

[00:08:19] When I go around Charlotte, it's always a fascinating thing.

[00:08:21] Every time I am in and out of Charlotte, I'm amazed.

[00:08:24] Do you go through all the traffic?

[00:08:25] Or do you pay the extra couple bucks to get around on the massive toll roads that go from east to west or west to east, whatever it is?

[00:08:31] Always a, hmm, I just want to get the hell around these stoplights.

[00:08:35] Am I willing to pay that price or is my time so worthless that I'm going to sit in 20 stoplights and offend all my global warming climate change zealots because I'm sitting in traffic spending more, emitting more CO2.

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[00:09:51] I'll make one prediction.

[00:09:53] I do think – so this is kind of a step-back 30,000-foot view of things.

[00:09:58] I think the Democrats, the vile and vulgar nature of their divisiveness will diminish quite a bit.

[00:10:09] I think the Democrats have found themselves in freefall right now.

[00:10:12] I think many of the things that they have wanted to accomplish for a while under the auspices of they're battling bigotry.

[00:10:20] They're battling homophobia and transphobia and race, and they're – men and women and dividing them and saying this group's out to get you.

[00:10:29] I think they overplayed that hand for the past – I don't know, forever.

[00:10:35] And it's finally come home, and when they see the number of minorities that have supported Trump, they see the number of Hispanics that cross the aisle, the number of union members that cross the aisle, the number of women, the number of young people that cross the aisle.

[00:10:50] I think it leads the Democrats down a very dark reconciliation with themselves.

[00:10:56] Until they look in the mirror and realize that they are the ones in trouble, there's no maturing right now.

[00:11:06] There's no humility.

[00:11:07] I mean, there are people.

[00:11:08] There are people that have said that.

[00:11:09] I mean, there are a number of Democrats that have said, hey, let's look.

[00:11:12] Even Bill Maher's like, hey, it's us.

[00:11:14] It's our problem.

[00:11:14] But there's the tone deafness of CNN and MSNBC and many others to say, hey, we're – we were wrong.

[00:11:22] We're still wrong on these issues.

[00:11:24] So I think there's going to be a great degree of confidence.

[00:11:27] Now, that doesn't mean that there still aren't going to be, in Napoleonic terms, the old guard that's going to constantly try to say, no, we are never going to surrender.

[00:11:38] And then they get surrounded and obliterated, politically speaking.

[00:11:41] There's one of those right now at the Hill.

[00:11:43] There's a column this morning in the Hill.

[00:11:45] And I remember a few days before Christmas when I was on, and the New York Times had written a column about the virgin birth wasn't a virgin birth.

[00:11:51] And it was – she was raped or it was a Roman guard that was the father of Jesus.

[00:11:56] And just the timing of it.

[00:11:58] You would never see the New York Times do that against Muhammad.

[00:12:03] You would not say, oh, Muhammad was a fraud.

[00:12:06] When he dreamed that Israel picked up and came to him, that never happened.

[00:12:10] They would never write that kind of stuff because it would incite that group that they know isn't tolerant.

[00:12:16] But it's okay and it's trendy and it's hip to go out and bash Christians.

[00:12:21] For whatever reason, it's okay to pick on them, kick them, call them names, call them stupid, ignorant, because there happen to be many of them that support Trump.

[00:12:28] And so by Kevin Bacon's seven degrees of separation or whatever, anybody connected to Trump in any way is fair game for the Times.

[00:12:38] I think that's going to diminish some.

[00:12:40] I think many – there are a lot of people, moderates, that have said, hey, we're tired of this.

[00:12:44] But it doesn't mean the old guard isn't still out there and they're going to be pushing.

[00:12:46] And one of those was today.

[00:12:48] There's these – Evan Davis and David Schulte.

[00:12:50] They both – they're former Yale Law Review guys.

[00:12:55] They're Obama acolytes.

[00:12:57] They're hardcore Dems.

[00:12:59] And they're the ones on the field of battle as the troops are retreating and what's left of the old guard is on the field that are staying behind, not realizing that their way of looking at the world is not accurate, that their way of looking at things is not coherent.

[00:13:16] And so their column is Congress – and you're not going to believe the headline.

[00:13:20] This is over at the Hill today.

[00:13:22] Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now.

[00:13:27] And what they're trying to assert – and nowhere in their column do they admit that any of their assertions were partisan-based.

[00:13:34] They're saying that the Constitution is the reason they ought not to let Trump – can you imagine – I mean they admit it's a long shot.

[00:13:39] It's not going to happen.

[00:13:40] But the fact that they would waste time writing this and making this assertion that this is what Democrats should do, this would create a true civil war.

[00:13:51] This would be the undoing of D.C. and the fabric of the nation.

[00:13:56] But they don't care because to them it's more important – it's more important to destroy the country than recognize that the country is doing quite well or will be doing quite well, that it survived four years of their bad policies and Joe Biden.

[00:14:08] So they're saying that the Constitution can be used.

[00:14:12] They're saying because the impeachment trial, which was extremely partisan, was that he had incitement for insurrection.

[00:14:18] Never mind that insurrection was never proven in a court of law.

[00:14:21] Never mind that the majority of the conviction – there wasn't a conviction in any kind of – but these partisans where you had Lynn Cheney and Alan Kinzinger, and there's plenty of problems with that, that that's one of the grounds.

[00:14:34] Now, the second contested proceeding was the Colorado, the hack political five-day judicial due process hearing where the court found by clearing convincing evidence that President Trump engaged in insurrection.

[00:14:45] Now, interesting, as the Colorado Supreme Court, very partisan, very left-leaning against – they don't care about the means testing.

[00:14:50] They found partisan ways to go after Trump, and therefore they're correct, and the Constitution should be used to remove Trump from being able to serve.

[00:14:57] Now, the Supreme Court looked at it and said that that doesn't even have standing, that the federal – that the federal legislation was required to enforce that section of the Constitution, that the Colorado courts had no right.

[00:15:10] But this is interesting.

[00:15:11] The authors of this don't care about whether the Supreme Court of Colorado had the right to do it.

[00:15:15] They're saying they were correct in doing so, and that because the Supreme Court didn't address what they said, therefore Trump was convicted of insurrection, which is, again, not true.

[00:15:24] And then the House Select Committee that they referred to obviously was very partisan in nature.

[00:15:29] It was the only – by the way, the only council – I mean, I'm sorry, the only committee that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats would not allow the Republicans to put their choices on that committee.

[00:15:42] So when you saw the January 6th hearing, it was a completely staged production, and these Yale-law Obama-loving Democrats that wrote a column in The Hill said, well, that's proof.

[00:15:52] Those people were – so in other words, every Democrat activist action is absolutely true, and anything that disagrees with it is not.

[00:16:03] And that would install – Kamala Harris would be elected – if all the votes for Trump were not counted, Kamala Harris would be elected president.

[00:16:09] So boom, there she should be.

[00:16:12] And that's the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, which is Evan Davis, and David Schulte is the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.

[00:16:19] Both of them are – in fact, I think Davis ran for attorney general from the state of New York as the Democrat, hardcore Democrat.

[00:16:28] But that's – I predict that that will become the view I just expressed to you about how partisan that is and how divisive that is, that that is going to become a more common view.

[00:16:38] I think Democrats would be wise, and I think John – believe it or not, Fetterman from Pennsylvania, the Democrat who has said, hey, we want the president to be successful.

[00:16:47] I think Democrats would do themselves well to find ways to make these new ideas work.

[00:16:53] In other words, embrace the Department of Government Efficiency.

[00:16:57] Democrats can say, hey, we want this to work because those programs we care about should benefit the citizens that they're designed to do.

[00:17:04] And Doge is going to say – look, it's going to recommend some programs probably go away, but many others.

[00:17:08] You want the money to be let on target.

[00:17:10] You think Democrats would embrace that?

[00:17:12] I don't see that happening, but it's a good suggestion.

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[00:17:46] Now, I said the Democrats are these grasping at straws.

[00:17:50] And the truth of the matter, Pete says it.

[00:17:52] Many of us on the right say it.

[00:17:54] It's different when the Dems do it.

[00:17:55] If Trump – they would claim Trump tried to change the election outcome, all this stuff.

[00:18:00] Hillary Clinton said it was stolen from her.

[00:18:01] Stacey Abrams said it was stolen from her.

[00:18:03] She never did admit she wasn't the governor of Georgia.

[00:18:05] She may still think that, by the way.

[00:18:07] But this is the nature of politics, unfortunately.

[00:18:10] And I think we're going to find out more about what happened on January 6th as time moves forward.

[00:18:16] We'll find out if that's what happened because the Fed has now admitted the federal agents that they had 26 or 28 embedded.

[00:18:23] But that wasn't the number.

[00:18:24] The number – that was the low number.

[00:18:25] That was the floor of number of federal agents in that crowd.

[00:18:29] So I'd like to see more about it.

[00:18:31] I'm not saying – I know less about what happened now than I thought I did.

[00:18:36] But that's just the way it is.

[00:18:38] But this thing with Democrats screaming, you know, the squad members saying, I'm still going to be a squad member moving forward, which means you're going to be less relevant than you were before.

[00:18:47] I think you're going to find out more about what happened during the Biden presidency.

[00:18:50] There's already people that are stepping out of Kamala's campaign, leaving, saying, oh, my gosh, it's like a cult in there.

[00:18:56] There are people in Biden's campaign, people around him coming out of the woodwork.

[00:19:00] You're going to see books.

[00:19:01] You're going to see columns.

[00:19:02] You're going to see interviews about how indecisive and what a lack of command and control that Joe Biden had throughout his presidency, that we were an activist-run reactionary group of people in the White House.

[00:19:18] And I don't know who ultimately – I don't know if it was the chief of staff or who has been making the decisions and determining what the president would do, what he would say, where he would show up at, and what he – scripted.

[00:19:31] Because when he got off script, it was clear, you know, it was like a penguin trying to figure out how to fix a V8 or an eight-cylinder engine.

[00:19:38] So I don't know.

[00:19:39] It was just one of these things that it's very clear he was off the beaten path.

[00:19:42] So the prediction there is that the left, there will be more screaming and gnashing of teeth from the left, and that at some point they're going to have to decide would they rather think that they're right or would they rather move forward.

[00:19:57] I think that there's going to be a group that's going to want to move forward.

[00:20:01] They're going to be marginalized.

[00:20:02] And this may – and again, I hope that I keep a recording of what I'm saying today – is that as this moves forward, I do believe for the first time in a while – and I don't want to be wrong on this.

[00:20:16] I don't know if this is wishful thinking, confirmation bias, or absolutely an astute observation.

[00:20:21] I think there is a startlingly good chance that the Republicans, if they do not – and they can screw things up as much as anyone can – if they act with the agenda that's been brought forth, declaring war on wasteful spending, that the debt deficits do matter, that the American public exists outside of the D.C. beltway, that there are limits to what lobbyists should be able to accomplish.

[00:20:49] If they go into that with the rejection of the D.C. insider game, there's a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Republicans to actually stay in control for the next three-plus election cycles.

[00:21:05] And it sounds wackadoo.

[00:21:07] I absolutely agree.

[00:21:09] It sounds crazy.

[00:21:09] But we've seen this before where Democrats held generational control.

[00:21:12] I think the libertarian Republican wing, which is what we've now seen, it's far more libertarian, far less war.

[00:21:19] It's far more war mongering, far more diplomatic.

[00:21:22] It's far more America first.

[00:21:24] What we should be doing, what does the Constitution say, that's where we find ourselves.

[00:21:27] We need to secure our borders.

[00:21:29] We need to look after our citizens.

[00:21:31] We need to be focused on us, and that's okay.

[00:21:34] In fact, it's preferable.

[00:21:36] That's why you see Javier Malay down in Argentina doing a remarkable job of doing this.

[00:21:41] He's looking after Argentina.

[00:21:42] That's his job.

[00:21:43] He's president of Argentina.

[00:21:44] Same thing with Trump.

[00:21:45] He's president of the U.S.

[00:21:47] So his interests, our interests align, and it's good for our citizens to do so.

[00:21:51] So I think there's a once-in-a-generational opportunity for if Republicans will not stray and not try to be mushy moderate or be afraid of the Democrats.

[00:22:00] They've always been afraid of the media and the Democrats, and for the first time in our lifetimes, they should be afraid of neither.

[00:22:06] They should embrace the anti-DC feeling of the nation and tear down the institutions at the federal level, realign things at the state level, start being the federalist, embrace their inner federalist, look back at what the founding was intended to be.

[00:22:23] And I think that they can have this generational win and not get distracted when people call them names because they're going to call them.

[00:22:30] They're going to try to call them names.

[00:22:31] You see it now when you see the left saying, oh, it's President Musk or it's Vivaik's going too far.

[00:22:37] When they're trying to distract, when they're calling you names, they're trying to distract you from what you're intending to do.

[00:22:44] And the more you focus on that, the worse off you're going to be.

[00:22:49] Just don't let them get to you.

[00:22:52] You know, at some point, they need to debate the issues.

[00:22:54] Right now, Democrats do not want to debate the issues.

[00:22:56] They do not want to debate things about the border.

[00:22:59] They don't want to debate things.

[00:23:00] They want to find a way to say, look at this poor helpless child, and Trump wants to tear this family apart.

[00:23:07] He wants to kill your children.

[00:23:09] You know, when it comes to the vaccine stuff, you're going to see that too.

[00:23:13] The attacks on Robert Kennedy, oh, he's a vaccine nutjob.

[00:23:17] He wants to get rid of all vaccines so your children can die of measles and mumps and every other horrific disease ever known to mankind.

[00:23:23] In fact, Bobby Kennedy wants to spray Ebola on your children.

[00:23:27] I mean, that's the kind of moonback crazy rhetoric.

[00:23:30] And whereas what we do know is that there's more and more coming out about the COVID vaccine that hasn't been good, the COVID vaccines that haven't prevented infections that may have contributed to significant side effects and disease and death.

[00:23:48] We're going to find, but not all vaccines are horrible.

[00:23:52] They're just not.

[00:23:53] We know that.

[00:23:54] And so it's the same thing with climate change, whereas the left wants to say it's all bad end of the earth.

[00:24:00] It's all man-made.

[00:24:01] They don't want to admit that the earth is highly geologically active, that the sun is too.

[00:24:07] These are both – these aren't static things.

[00:24:09] The earth isn't static.

[00:24:10] The sun isn't static.

[00:24:12] It's always doing different things.

[00:24:14] So you have to say, well, there's a natural component to the Ice Age.

[00:24:17] There's a natural component to the mini Ice Age.

[00:24:19] There's a natural component to hot times as well.

[00:24:22] There's a natural component to sunspot activity.

[00:24:25] And even some of the coronal ejections that happen and knock out radios and create the northern lights down south.

[00:24:31] But alas, I digress.

[00:24:32] The point is that I think we're going to have a lot of scientific inquiry debate that's going to open up this year and the next couple years.

[00:24:38] And that will be a beautiful thing to witness, an absolutely stellar thing to witness.

[00:24:42] If you think about how close we came to what Democrats truly wanted to achieve, think back over the past year.

[00:24:49] So you had a guy that was in mental decline, that was known to have been in mental decline by those closest.

[00:24:54] The only reason he was removed – so they had this odd, really early – before the two parties had even picked their respective candidates, meaning that at the conventions they formally accept the nomination.

[00:25:08] In June – and you have to believe it was – there were enough people that were concerned.

[00:25:13] They were like, okay, we know Biden's failing.

[00:25:15] We knew that when he got elected the first time.

[00:25:17] He told us he was going to run once.

[00:25:19] He's now our nominee.

[00:25:19] We hitched our wagons there.

[00:25:21] We've thrown everything.

[00:25:22] We have thrown – I think they really counted on the fact that they threw everything at Trump.

[00:25:27] They threw Congress at Trump.

[00:25:28] They threw the DA and the attorney general in New York, the DA in Manhattan.

[00:25:33] They threw Fannie Willis, and then he tried something in South Florida with Jack Smith.

[00:25:39] They threw every lawfare political obstacle in the world at him.

[00:25:46] Obstacle said with intent, by the way.

[00:25:48] They threw everything at him.

[00:25:50] And then when that did not work, when May emerges as Trump's going to be the nominee, he's going to flip and be – we can't put him in – we can't get rid of this guy.

[00:26:00] He's persistent from their perspective like a disease, from ours like the rising sun.

[00:26:05] So it's just different perspectives.

[00:26:07] And so as the contagion spread and they knew things were bad, they said, we've got to do something because they didn't count on that being a problem.

[00:26:15] Because they thought, well, Trump will go away.

[00:26:18] There will be some facsimile of a Trump wannabe that will be the nominee, and Biden will – and we'll be able to control him like the sock puppet we know we have.

[00:26:26] And it didn't work.

[00:26:27] So they – I think there were forces around Biden that kind of made this early, and I think it was probably the only miscalculation Trump made almost anything his team made was having that debate early.

[00:26:41] Had they made it later, had they allowed Biden to become the nominee, they would have crushed him.

[00:26:46] It probably would have been the same either way.

[00:26:48] But my point being, when Biden appeared on stage and had the intellectual ability of a pine tree, it became apparent the Democrats had a problem.

[00:27:00] I think – and that's when the Pelosi's and all of the other – the king's horses and men couldn't put him back together and said, we've got to make a different choice.

[00:27:07] And at that point, the Democratic – well, they're not.

[00:27:12] The Democrats realized that they showed themselves what they really are.

[00:27:17] They are a committee that doesn't really care about people.

[00:27:19] They said, oh, all those people who voted for him, you guys are irrelevant.

[00:27:21] We're going to pick the person we need.

[00:27:23] And then their DEI mentality got in the way, and they had to pick Kamala because they couldn't bypass the fact that she was a woman, that she was black or at least close enough.

[00:27:32] They couldn't bypass all of these things.

[00:27:36] The standby might have been Buttigieg.

[00:27:38] She at least checks a few boxes.

[00:27:40] But their own way of looking at the world, their checked box DEI hiring practices all bundled into – instead of picking the best candidate, they picked the candidate that satisfies the inclusion part.

[00:27:56] So you don't pick the best person to fly a plane or be a surgeon.

[00:27:59] Did they check the right boxes before they got in the cockpit or before they started cutting you open?

[00:28:06] And the American public saw that, and they saw what a shame it was.

[00:28:10] And so the exposure was complete, and then since then it's been freefall.

[00:28:13] But we came very close to that being an acceptable way to do business.

[00:28:17] And if had they won, the Democrats would have said, well, heck, we can do anything we want now.

[00:28:21] Why even have a nomination process?

[00:28:23] Let's just pick the person.

[00:28:26] It worked for us last time.

[00:28:27] Why wouldn't it work again?

[00:28:28] And think about the stuff they would have shoved down our throats.

[00:28:31] I mean, it would have affirmed to them that we don't need borders.

[00:28:33] It would have affirmed to them that the Paris climate, you know, we should go further.

[00:28:39] I mean, think about what the implications were.

[00:28:41] And I'm not trying to fearmonger here.

[00:28:43] That's what the Democrats wanted.

[00:28:45] From Josh Stein, from your local city council, all the way to the White House and back down again.

[00:28:50] Across the congressional spectrum, we would have seen these things.

[00:28:52] It would have been a fundamentally different country.

[00:28:55] But it's not.

[00:28:56] So where do the Democrats go from here?

[00:28:58] Because it was a shellacking.

[00:28:59] And they didn't regain the House.

[00:29:01] They lost the Senate.

[00:29:02] So right now, the only people that can really screw things up would be the Republicans.

[00:29:06] And they can.

[00:29:07] But let me give you an example of a cult mentality that still exists around us.

[00:29:14] Now, you don't see it as much in North Carolina, but it exists.

[00:29:16] I was traveling recently, and I love to people watch.

[00:29:20] For those of you who listen to me regularly, I'm a people watcher.

[00:29:23] So I sit in the airport, and I'm watching.

[00:29:26] And airports 30, 40 years ago, there was a certain type of individual that you saw travel more often.

[00:29:34] Nothing to me is illustrative of the success of capitalism like air travel.

[00:29:41] Because 40 years ago, 30 years ago, even 25 years, maybe a little more, but pre-9-11, the type of individuals that traveled, there was a much different segment of society.

[00:29:55] There weren't as many budget airlines.

[00:29:57] Air travel was confined to, really, people who could afford it.

[00:30:02] And it's become so much more affordable because of competition and discount airlines that airlines and airports, it's truly a melting pot.

[00:30:12] It's an amazing melting pot that if anything cuts through all of the BS about race or sexual choice, all of these things, it's airports.

[00:30:25] So I'm watching.

[00:30:26] But there are things that creep out in airports that show you the diversity of the nation.

[00:30:31] And also how some people feel.

[00:30:33] Now, it's one thing if an 85-year-old goes by me and has a mask on.

[00:30:37] You know, because you think, oh, they may have a health condition.

[00:30:39] They may have something.

[00:30:41] They may have some health.

[00:30:42] And they're getting from point A to point B and trying not to get sick.

[00:30:46] But it's another when you see a family of perfectly healthy 20-somethings that mask up their 3-year-olds.

[00:30:51] And the kid's still trying to get his hands around.

[00:30:53] It's all tangled.

[00:30:53] And you think, what is it about those people that makes them this way?

[00:31:00] What is it?

[00:31:01] So that doesn't just happen on the left coast.

[00:31:03] It happens across the country.

[00:31:05] So I would say that about 3% to 5% of travelers are still utilizing this myopic and misguided, mask-ian way of this COVID-ian, Fauci-ist way of looking at the world.

[00:31:18] And it's like, I know how you voted.

[00:31:20] I know how you feel.

[00:31:22] I know how you feel about the climate.

[00:31:23] I know how you feel about the environment.

[00:31:24] I know how you feel about D.C.

[00:31:26] I know how you feel about a cadre of issues.

[00:31:29] I know you've probably defriended people because they voted for Trump.

[00:31:32] I know so much about you when you put that mask on.

[00:31:35] And it's not an assumption.

[00:31:37] It's not a faulty assumption.

[00:31:38] It's an absolutely accurate assumption that puts you in a different class of individual.

[00:31:44] And here's a good example of that.

[00:31:46] And the libs of TikTok, one of my favorite social media groups out there, a group of COVID-cautious, that's how they call themselves, COVID-cautious people in Oregon rented.

[00:31:54] They rented out a bowling alley, and they had everyone masked up, including the employees of the bowling alley.

[00:32:03] They set up air purifiers inside the bowling alley, and they separated the kids from adults.

[00:32:09] This happened just in the past week or so.

[00:32:12] And there's actually video that shows you all of this, that shows you that these how misguided, these people, they live.

[00:32:21] I tweeted this and said, this is like these people live in a sci-fi novel.

[00:32:25] They absolutely live in an alternate version of reality.

[00:32:30] These are cult people.

[00:32:32] And these aren't people that decide to be like Amish or something.

[00:32:34] These are cult people.

[00:32:37] And they live amongst us, like a Ray Bradbury novel.

[00:32:40] I don't know, worse, maybe a Clive Barker novel.

[00:32:42] That would be really bad.

[00:32:43] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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