Chad Adams In For Pete Kaliner (03-10-2025--Hour1)

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I'd never thought that they would become so myopic, lost, bitter, angry, full of hate. You know, the party that projected love and peace and tolerance is none of those things, and they've proven it over the past eight years heading into nine. Ever since he walked the Trump went down the escalator and it's just his His drawing oxygen led to another attempt on his life, by the way, and there are many many Democrats or excuse me, activists I guess that are on X that are out there, well, not right now because it's down, but if you saw it earlier that are proclaiming, Wow, I hope someone gets a better shot at it. Can't wait to keep encouraging this energy out there. They're not. The sad reality of that is those individuals are not engaged in any kind of desire to make life life better for you. They're not engaged in making the country safer better. They're not. They're not even engaged in debate on issues. Me the other night at this State of that wasn't really a State of the Union. It was Trump giving an update on the whirlwind that has been his presidency since about roughly well a month and a half ago. It didn't matter what he said. And you've heard this. I'm not. I'm not. This is not an original thought that I'm parlaying here. This is common thought, which is that as I sat and watched so my wife was watching, I was, we were all watching. I was taken aback by the five year old mentality that has got the Democrats so wrapped up in their sandbox that they hold silly signs up, you know, musk Lie steal whatever. And this is not reality. And and the pink outfits didn't work all the same day that Democrats voted to not allow women to just compete with women. That that Democrats who said they're supporting women in pink outfits that night, after voting earlier that day to allow men to compete with women, thereby diminishing women at least their mentality. Nothing. There's no cohesiveness. The only cohesiveness that Democrats have right now, and this was this is in the age of social media. I guess Democrats are still communicating on clay tablets or something because they don't realize that social media tracks all things it wants on both sides. I mean, there's a thousand trolls on a million trolls on both sides that are tracking everything everybody says, finding a way to twist it, to recharacterize it, to remold it, to make it into their own former, to prove a point that may it is just a sound by clip. However, in this particular instance, when they saw Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie and all of them speaking the exact same words almost into the same kind of microphones, and put all that together, it showed that the innability of Democrats to have a single lucid thought of their own, that it's a a choreographed world for them, that there's they have to be choreographed. It is embarrassing for them. And as I'm watching this, I don't I don't write this. I don't have to make this up. I don't have to. I mean, I love to do research. I'm chronically reading and researching, watching the markets today, looking at what's going on in the field of science and health, in the market and politics and energy. That it's there's so much that's interesting out there. But at the meantime, what usually makes the country healthy is working toward debates of given solutions. The left and right go back and forth. Look, I'm a conservative, I know how I'm confident in that. In fact, I was looking through some I'll say this, this is kind of a self owned self admission after my parents passed, and one was unexpected. You go through their entire life in various forms. So one the google of your life is gone. So anything referencing your own personal life to that point in time, you can't say, Hey, what what was that? What was going on at this point in my life? You can't. It's just your own recollections and whatever's written or photographed. Number Two, if you don't get rid of stuff, the stuff you have does not have the same meaning to your kids. So your kids are going to be put in an unenviable position of getting rid of things that would have been important to you or had there been a purpose for those things to keep. And it's hard. You're getting rid of awards your parents may have earned, or getting rid of newspaper clippings you know from your grandparents that would have no meaning to other generations. You ask them, they don't care. It's not a bad thing. In fact, I think the thing it's called a Swedish death cleanse, when when they died you get rid of the mortal side of people's lives. So I'm going through this and I found my parents had collected newspaper articles anything about me. It was kind of sad. They really you realize how much your parents care about you when they do things like that. You don't even realize they're doing it. But I found this cash of stuff from thirty forty years ago, and it was when I was an editor for conservative newspaper in the UNC system, the only conservative newspaper in all of the UNC system. And I was reading that and the clarity of conviction I had then without the experience of life. I mean, I'm nineteen twenty twenty one years old, and I'm very proud to say that I had that those convictions then. So you could argue, oh, Chad, so you were conservative then and all you did was find confirmation biased for the rest of your life until you are where you are now. No, it's more than I from that day and from days prior to that, I would challenge my belief systems, and I still do. I challenge my perspective. If you're married, you get challenged straight, you know that, but it get challenged regularly, and you challenge those and now it is you know, years led decades later, and those convictions are shored up by experience, by education, by research, and so I feel very confident that and I find that the left does not have a cohesive anything. All of the things they said that they believed in for the past forty fifty sixty years has collapsed. It's a heap of rhetoric, it's a heap of gobbledygook, It's a heap of hatred. They are they interested in making any of the government programs better. No, And the minute anyone says, hey we want to look at waste fraud abuse like dosee is done, their knee jerk reaction is, oh god, it's terrible governing placing there, they scream, they melt. It's like watching you know that scene in the Raiders of the Lost Ark where they pull the cap off the the Arc of the Covenant and the Nazis melt down. Ironic because they always call the right Nazis. They melt. They melt or they're vampires that have been exposed to the sun and say, you see Elizabeth, Warren and Schumann, all these, all of them, they just melt down because they don't have the courage of their convictions. They have hatred of Donald Trump and anything he says. So instead of saying, hey, we want to defend the country, Hey we want to make the border stronger. Hey, we want to make sure American sovereignty is protected, or our interests are representative broader, making companies stronger, or balancing the balancing the budget, any of these things, their immediate reaction is orange man bat All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Before I went to the rank, I kind of made a snarky comment here, but it was referring to something I said earlier, which is where when the left and right go at it, usually there's an opportunity to learn something. Maybe maybe someone on either side of the aisle makes the point you hadn't considered before. You know, if you go after waste fraud and abuse and medicaid for instance, you know the left would say, oh, you're going to hurt someone. You're going to to hurt someone in the process. Well, if you're not very careful, you could. That's a true statement, ostensibly speaking, if you're not careful in the way you surgically go after waste fraud, abuse, in any government program that services a given population, you could end up hurting someone. But when those government programs have been unaudited, unreviewed, they've not been checked, they've not been held into account, then you have to wonder who's running it and why aren't they looking at it now. I'm not going to spare Republicans here in the state of North Carolina or in DC, because the people that have been in controlled both parties have controlled that budget from a congressional standpoint, back and forth since the Great Society and beyond. But let's just for the purposes of this discussion, let's do it since they were created. Most of those big government Great Society programs that have run off the rails, even the Department of Education created by Carter in seventy nine, these programs have just run off the rails, and both teams have been the train. Meanwhile, you know, people are just you know, there's so much graph there's corruption, absolute corruption, absolute waste, absolute billions of dollars being smith that have no bearing on American interest or citizens or making our lives better or making us safer. And when called to account, rather than say, you know what, we do need to look at this, what is it? Musk lies, Musket needs more money, Musk is an oragark, Musk is trying to steal your money. No, that's just silly. If you have that thought, your elevator doesn't go to the top floor. You are obviously a few sandwiches short of a full picnic. I could go on. There are more analogies to that than there are ways to be a redneck, according to Jeff Foxworthy. So when you look at this thing, what you realize is they're not. I thought they would be very interested in engaging on issues. But what made them remarkably unserious to me they had And this is why the American public is not on their side right now. They're they're far removed from being on the side. If you'll notice Jeff Jackson, who's the ag from the North Carolina, You'll notice that the new governor, you know, Josh Stein, is not. They are not interested in being connected to what's happening in DC. If you review a lot of their stuff, they may be there's just nothing out there. Really, it's mostly about hurricane recovery or there's a storm coming and we need to be ready. They are not. Democrats are at the state and local level are doing everything unless they're absolute moon back crazies, you know, the Purple Hair Brigade, unless they're trying to virtue signal or something. But by and large, any Democrat whose sanity remains are trying to avoid avoid like the plague stuff. At the national level. Even some of the national Democrats are very concerned. They're sounding the alarm. Hey, the ship has hit an iceberg. We're going down, and you guys are trying to hit more icebergs. The most serious problem Democrats have is there's no cohesive leadership. Again, I'm not saying anything that a thousand other commentators, pundits and others on left and right have said, there's no one running the ship. It's a bunch and now even funnier and I got to get to the story, and I will, and to me, it's something that people have said. But let's go back to the Democrats. I'll get it to it in the next segment about Biden and who was who was making decisions. The collective leftist media knew that Joe Biden was incognitive declient. They knew it. You know, who are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? You knew it. Everyone listening to this left or right, you knew it. The media knew it. The Democrats knew it. So what did they do? What you would think a for the sake of the country, they would come together and say, you know what, we really don't need to go down this path. We need to have a primary. We need to pick someone. We know Donald Trump's going to be the likely nominee for the Republicans. We need to put our best candidate forward. Did they do that? No, they went with what they candidate they knew was imperiled. They knew he was mentally not all there. They knew that age had caught up with him, they knew he represented not much. They they thought that that they're like if you watch Star Trek, they're like the borg that they can just function as one cohesive unit. You know, in resistance is feudal. And they're going to put all this together and throw it upon the American public. And they convinced their rank and file to support him. To support a feeble candidate that isn't capable of making good decisions, who's allowing his unelected wife. You democrats that are concerned about people unelected in office whose wife ran the cabinet meetings. Clearly he wasn't in charge. We now know his signature looks like it was forged for a lot of his presidency and someone else is doing it. We'll get into that story next. And they had the opportunity so instead Trump bad, Trump bad. We had dieded him. Yeah, you did in the most partisan court in the land, and the American public saw through it. The American public saw this Rather than seeing what you guys wanted them to see, which was Orange man, bad bad guy, bad guy, bad guy. What the American public saw was political prosecution. The American public started realizing it wasn't about Trump, the imperfect human being which all of us are. It was about don't attack the message, attack the messenger, attack him, attack his people, and then they went after his supporters. None of what they did worked, and they were supporting a guy blindly that was incapable of carrying a conversation. Furthermore, he makes it through a primary, they throw him out, The partisans in the party throw him out in June July and put in place. They had a golden opportunity to put a powerful candidate, or at least when they perceived his powerful, and they put one of the weakest candiates because it was about race and sex to them, not about what was good for the country. You can't wait to hear phone calls about this stuff. Here's a great idea. 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That was me just saying hello, Hi, yes sir. Yeah. Before ten this morning, X went down. I have checked other message boards and it is down to widespread, which it's not a confirmed attack. No, I agree with you. In fact, what's happened on my end from where I'm doing this, it has been sporadic. In other words, it doesn't work, and then it does work, and then it doesn't work, and so I did see that. Elon Musk has responded this and said that many folks have experienced several outages, leaving some of us unable to load the site. Nearly forty thousand users were forty thousand reported problems around ten o'clock this morning. Did you have it before then? Did you have issues before ten? Yeah, it was online when it started, like I said before. Ten, okay, So I appreciate you sharing that, and it is for those of you who are looking out there wondering, hey, what the heck is going on. To the caller's point, Rick, appreciate you calling in. It has been and with me, Rick, have you been able to reload and get things to work from time to time sporadically? I tried creditatedly, but until I have confirmation that the site has been cleared up, I'll just spend my time doing something else. I hope. You know what, when things like this happen, it reminds us there's a life outside of that, right, So, Rick, I appreciate the phone call. And to rix point, it is it is operating at like nothing. It's basically offline. So if you're trying, if it's not you to rix point. It's not your Internet provider. It's something to do with that platform. Thanks for calling, Rick, I appreciate it. As always, the astuteness of our audience. They are, you know, hey, he's just letting you know, kind of a public service thing Twitter formerly well it's X formally known as Twitter, right, I had you do you? And this is rhetorical. Of course, you can't call it and discuss it. Do any of you call it X? Now? I was posting on X the other day, I xed. I mean, if you post on x's at XT I xed, I sent three x's. It just sounds strange it but this is the line. So you never know what he's going to do next. He may call it another I don't know x Y platform. That would really offend some people, wouldn't get everybody up in an uproar. Now we're talking before the break, and we will continue this discussion. If you would like to get in on the discussion here at news Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT, you're welcome to do so. Seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten. Easy number to remember a lot of callers that was listening to Vince's show earlier. And you know, it's interesting that the people that do call and become part of the nomenclature here that you hear you, I've heard that guy before, that gal before. So always welcome to expand the conversation, so to speak. When I was going through this kind of putting the pieces together, you know, and I am amazed at where the Democrats find themselves. And I'm further amazed that it's as if they know there's a hole in the boat, and rather than go, hey, we have a hole in the boat, let's grab the duct tape and do some Apollo thirteen stuff and just patch this boat up so we start floating and rebuilding, They're like, you know what, I really don't like that hole in the boat. That's Trump's fault. And they grab a pick axe and they say, we're going to get rid of that hole with a pick axe and the shovel in the axe. So they start pounding the bottom and making the hole bigger, and as the boat sinking, it's it's all Donald Trump's fault, or it's all somebody else's fault. It's never their fault. If you ever noticed that when you see all these all these poor government workers that are out of a job. They never felt that way. When you know, twelve thousand pipeline folks ready to make the Keystone pipeline were fired, or anybody else in the private sector gets laid off, they don't. They don't appear to care, they don't express outrage at that. But whenever anything in government happens, it's the end of the world. And they never ever think maybe that was a department. You know, Milton Friedman, I think, is famous for saying, pick any three letters in the alphabet and you probably will have identified a department that either the government can get rid of or could be severely reduced. He's right, I mean, and it's not that I'm anti government. I'm pro efficient government. I'm pro you know, we have a responsibility in society, and I think we've tried to just legislate everybody into a you know, a brave new world of sorts where everybody is the same, and we get into this DEI stuff, which was a waste. We get into the silliness and if you look at the evolution of society, and I know I've gone way off the rails about Biden's auto signature, which we will get to is that if you look at over the evolution and I know that's going to make some other folks match the evolution of politics in this country. Every iteration makes things. It adds freedom, doesn't it. If you look at where we are, what makes this country great is freedom, personal freedom, property rights, all those things. And so when there have been individuals that have been disenfranchised or prevented from having those freedoms. Over time, society addresses that, women's right to vote, slavery, all these civil rights, all these things are about creating more freedom. But somewhere the left went off the rails and started taking away freedoms. And when you do that, you're not making society better at that point. The more you make people dependent on government, you haven't made them stronger. Supposed to be a hand up, not a handout, right, But I've gone off the tracks. To illustrate how Moon back crazy the Democrats became. They picked a senile individual that Robert Hurry even identified and said he would be in his report about Biden said he would be seen as there may be some something here, but he would be seen as a seat, as someone with some degree of senility that isn't really have a real good grasp with the facts. Democrats knew that, the media knew that. You knew that, you saw it, You saw it in the way he had to hold these strange press meetings, He had to use a fake White House studio to do things, He had to have pre screened questions and answers from the media. They covered up and covered up and covered up. Gosh, there's so much more to get to on this, and I will get to the auto open signature about the docks that were being signed by the President of the United States that appeared not to have been signed by him, which to me looks a little treasony. But who am I? 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I love it when they think that, you know, Elon Musk is doing bad things to the Oval office, but Monica Winsky didn't uh the way the hypocrisy of Democrats that and there are a lot of people on the right that would love to see revenge. In other words, they would love it, and it doesn't work. I don't like when politics, like when the Republicans in Raleigh they don't like what the Attorney General Jeff Jackson is doing, and then they'll go pass legislation because we're a Dylan rual state that they can control what the attorney general can do. So they say they'll pass legislation to hamster to pass a law to stop one of their political opponents from doing things. Now, this always backfires because ultimately there probably will be a Republican and there, and that Republican will be hamstring. It's how we have such a weak Lieutenant governor. Now they've done these kind of things. They're partisan, and I don't like them. So if you think I'm just bashing Democrats, it's not that. There are many people on the right that want the Justice Department to act exactly how it did under the Biden administration and use it as a tool not of justice but of revenge, to go and incarcrate as many Democrats as they can now if they broke the law. I'm astounded the hunter Biden's story, but it is what it is. He pardoned, I mean, that's the way it works. I don't like it, but he pardoned his son. But that doesn't mean he he can't tell. He means he actually can testify and can't plead the fifth before Congress because he's he can't be prosecuted, so can't be held against him. Can't claim the Fifth if you can't be prosecuted. So I don't like the idea of turning the Justice Department into an arm of GOP weaponization of justice. Now, the Democrats fully engaged in it. You saw that, and that's what you're hearing is a lot of people on the right that are going, my god, for the past eight years, you guys screamed Russia collusion wasn't true. You guys screamed Trump fell in and you found a court to do something and charge someone with something that's never been done. I mean only in law school has it been attempted. It's never been done in the history of the country anywhere. And they weaponized and kicked up to a federal level a misdemeanor and charged him. The stuff in Georgia has fallen. The Fanny Willis case has fallen apart, the Document's case has been thrown out. They fully engaged in the weaponization. If you pull enough resources and you go after If we were to take the entire power of the FBI and the Justice Department and go after you, I'm sure they could find something. There's a book called three Felonies a Day, which many folks in the conservative movement. If our laws are such now that almost every individual in the country commits about three felonies a day because of the way the laws can be interpreted and prosecuted and charged, It's it's obscene. It really is obscene. Now. I am not someone that wants to see that. I despise Adam Schiff. I think Adam Schiff is one of the most odious folks in Congress today, and now that he's in the Senate, hees worse than he was before. He's he's you think Donald Trump is lied? This guy's told him what he told the media he had the proof of Russia collusion. He said he had proof of treason. Not to mention a thousand other lives that Adam Schiff has said. And they continue in Jasmine Crockett saying it's not illegal to come into this country illegally, even the reader kind of and she's been corrected on every social media platform out there. It's reached a point that's why it's become so absurd. Don't think that the Democrats have stopped bashing. They know nothing but that I In fact, my argument is that Democrats should be engaged in policy disputes. Rather than say Trump is horrible on the border, why not put forth some ideas about ways to strengthen the country. Show Americans that you do care about the country. Rather than just bash him about aid for funding overseas. Why not say, hey, we do need destroy this is great. If you want to win voters over, kind of adopt some of the issues that they care about. But just the every time the Democrats scream about Trump, the Republicans pick up another million votes. He's over fifty one percent. He's the highest. I saw the polling today. I don't remember which one, but it was not. I mean, I try to screen them out for ultra left and ultra right. It's kind of a center of the road. Even for the CBS approval of Trump's speech, which would plenty of rhetoric in it, plenty of hyperbole. It's the way Trump speaks. The president. Seventy percent is sixty eight seventy percent approval. That's unfortunate. And the Democrats look horrible in that in the waving of the cane, the guy getting kicked out, the protests, and it was just it was bad form. So I don't think anyone wants to to just sit there and bash one party. But they've given up on trying to lead. They've given up on having an agenda, they've given up on having leaders. I mean, the fact that Kamala Harris is considered a serious candidate for California's scubernatorial slot next year, it shows how remarkably unseerious the Democrats are. But anyway, I digress. Here's we get to the top of the are and now we're going to be into the next segment when I get to what I really want to talk about. So and I guess I will the Joe Biden scenario. And that's what I don't think many of you on the left don't realize that what you did during COVID to destroy education and life and do to kids that which did not need to be done. The way you politicized everything under the sun, there's going to be blowback for that. Don't sit here and go, oh, I don't like it when people are bashing the Democrats when that's all they've done for ten years is bash one person. And by the way, not just bash one person, but you'll remember the basket of deplorable's comment from Hillary Clinton. They bashed not just the one person, but anyone that supported that one person, which just made the movement grow where the American public said, oh yeah, I'll show you remember all the people saying, oh, Donald, no one's going to Donald Trump's rallies. That's just inflated. That's just now they're bored. They're leaving it. They didn't leave it. It built it built a movement like we've never seen for a presidential candidate, and I probably ever just about it is a phenomenon, one of the single greatest come back in political history in the country. He's the Lazar Lazarus of American politics. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpecleanershow dot com. 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