Cussing and genderless showers might not be a winning strategy (03-26-2025--Hour3)

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[00:00:30] All right, so I want to move on from the specifics of what we were discussing in the last two hours. I wasn't planning on doing two hours, but you know, when the calls come as they did, you go with it. You take the layup, as I was instructed a long time ago by a former program director, and it's good advice. Some days, just take the layup.

[00:00:48] So anyway, the North Carolina legislature is now, they've got hundreds of bills that have been filed. And the deadline, I think it's today, for them to file all of their bills. And then they'll, you know, work them through committees and everything else. One of the bills was Senate Bill 516, which is a new push for protecting women's bathrooms and locker rooms and such.

[00:01:14] And so we covered that in the last two hours. But in response to that filing, okay, want to highlight a couple of comments from the chair of the North Carolina Democrat Party. Anderson Clayton is her name.

[00:01:37] And this is the young whiz kid dynamo. She got all of the publicity because she was this young girl who pulled off an upset in the Democrat chair race, like, I guess, two years ago, maybe.

[00:01:55] And she became the youngest state party chair in America. And so she had, you know, a bunch of puff pieces written about her because, you know, media and how she was, you know, going to win back all of the the rural voters. She was going to win back rural North Carolina voters that had swung for Donald Trump. She was going to start making inroads because she is from Person County.

[00:02:24] See, she's from a rural area. And so therefore, she speaks the language of the rural deplorables. She did not say that. But she said she but she is from there. So she knows the rural issues, you know, and, you know, you really cut your teeth winning over the rural voters when you work for Elizabeth Warren's campaign, for example.

[00:02:52] Because Elizabeth Warren has her fingers on the pulse of the rural. Trump voters. And so and that didn't go well. So then she ended up with like the the Kamala Harris campaign. And this was like. Before Harris was put on the vice presidential ticket, I believe. So anyway, that's where Clayton comes out of Person County. Oh, she and here's I forgot key key strategy point.

[00:03:21] She says, y'all, that's it. That's like. So that is that is a key factor here. It shows that she is in touch with rural people because she says, y'all, y'all. She says it like that. See? So there's that. There is apparently another prong in the multi prong approach to winning back the rural voters. And this other prong.

[00:03:51] Is to utilize lots and lots of. Words, bad words like. And also. And for good measure, you throw in a couple of. And. Right. Right. See, so that's how you win the hearts and minds of all the Trumpists.

[00:04:20] The strategy is going very well, by the way. Very, very well. In fact, it's going so well. Republicans are now on pace to surpass Democrats. By voter registration come August. A little bit earlier than anticipated. But you know what? Maybe just use a couple more. And. And it's going to be. And fine. It's really. I think. Yeah.

[00:04:51] Much success. So. Keeping with this strategy. Anderson Clayton, in response to the filing of the bill about the bathrooms. Here is what she posted onto the Twitter machine, formerly known as X. Quote. I say this with my full chest.

[00:05:14] The Republican legislators who would rather attack communities than do their jobs and protect them. How about we house people, feed them, help them get health care? Why can't we take care of the people? You have complete and total power in the state. That's not true. And instead of focusing on economic development across rural North Carolina, how to revitalize communities or I don't know how to not have a budget deficit two years from now.

[00:05:44] Because of corporate tax cuts, Republicans have doled out. You don't dole out tax cuts. It's just people. People don't pay. There's no doling out of tax cuts. People just keep their money. This woman. Anyway, Republicans are focused on what? Not harming people and hurting our economy. Meanwhile, Democrats dropped four pieces of legislation today alone to solve the housing crisis in our state.

[00:06:11] Again, what are the Republican priorities if not the people of North Carolina? One of the bills, by the way, is to raise the minimum wage to like $22 an hour. But, right. So that's the strategy is to curse a lot more. Curse more. Although I do, in just reading this again, I realize she did not say y'all in her statement. She did not. I don't know. It might speak to authenticity.

[00:06:39] But this is very popular on the left. It's just, you know, ranting and raving and asking these questions as if she's engaged in some sort of a Socratic exercise. And she is not. She is not. Because the very first thing she does is construct a false dichotomy, a false choice, which is legislators, Republicans, would rather attack than do their jobs to protect. That's not.

[00:07:09] That's not the. Those aren't the only options here. Number one. That's a false choice. They would rather attack rather than do their jobs and protect. Right. Protecting women is what Republicans are doing. That community, if you will, that community of women, which is like slightly more than half of the population, as a matter of fact, those those are the people that the Republicans are working to protect with this legislation.

[00:07:39] Now, you can disagree that it does that. But that's what Republicans are doing with the legislation. Number one. Number two, they're not attacking anybody in that legislation. There's no attack on anybody. Then she starts throwing out, what do we do? There's other things that the left wants to do. Why? How about we house people? We do. We do.

[00:08:03] Like there are there are all sorts of government programs that help to support housing people that are homeless all over the state, all over the country, as a matter of fact. Tons and tons and tons of money. How many trillions have we spent on the Great Society programs and the New Deal programs? Right. So that does occur. So once again, another red herring or a false choice there. Feed them. Well, we know we do that. Right.

[00:08:30] There's lots of money that goes to free and reduced lunch programs at school, free breakfast and stuff. Even when the kids aren't even in school, they get fed. Right. The SNAP programs and stuff. So there are there are all sorts of ways that we do this, not to mention the amount of the private sector that takes care of these same sorts of issues. Then the nonprofit sector that raises millions and millions of dollars for these types of efforts. Right.

[00:09:01] But note, like her answer to all of this is more money for government. Because this is how the left gets off. This is what they want. They like to be seen as caring more than you. Caring more about the unhoused population or the people who need assistance for food. They want to be seen as caring more.

[00:09:30] It doesn't actually matter if the programs work. And it doesn't matter if the programs are being defrauded. That's why the left doesn't even care. Like all the doge stuff going on, the state level effort called Dave. Right. The left doesn't care about that stuff because that's not what gets them off. What they like is the little dopamine hits that they get when they know other people have seen or heard them advocate for helping other people. That's what they like. That's the that's the juice.

[00:10:01] And so this because there's no cost to them here to say these things. You can do all of these things, Anderson Clayton. You can do all of these things yourself. Right. Rather than volunteer and work for Democrat campaigns, you could go volunteer for food banks. You could volunteer to provide nonprofit assistance. You could fundraise for a church that does soup kitchen work.

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[00:11:54] That is the strategy from the North Carolina Democrat Party chair, Anderson Clayton, on the Twitter. Now, the party also put out another statement because, look, they are going to use this any way they can. Right? Because they got high on their own supply on the House Bill 2. Nine years ago. Right? They were all about it. Roy Cooper raised all this money from outside the state.

[00:12:23] And this is now their model. They're going to try to, you know, replay it. And I'm sure they think this is going to lead to electoral improvements in the state. I'm not so sure. I kind of feel like the vibe has shifted a tad since HB2 nine years ago. But maybe, maybe not.

[00:12:46] Here's the statement from the state party that they attribute to Anderson Clayton as well. She says, The title of the bill is Women's Safety and Protection Act. And that pisses me off. Mm-hmm. You want to protect women? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you mean by women? Who are you calling women?

[00:13:17] You want to protect women? How about addressing North Carolina's maternal mortality rate, which is higher than the national average? You want to protect women? 35% of North Carolina women have experienced intimate partner violence and or sexual violence. Yeah, that's actually part of the reason why they're doing the safe spaces protection for women is to try to keep those numbers from getting larger. As I went over the last year.

[00:13:44] Then she says, how about you do something about that instead of making it easier for domestic abusers to buy and carry guns? See, actually, if you're a domestic abuser, you don't actually, you're not allowed to buy a gun. You're a prohibited purchaser. Yeah, I don't know if she knows that.

[00:14:06] It's one of the other things I have learned over the years whenever we discuss the gun issue is that so many people on the left do not know actually what the laws are when it comes to guns. Anyway, then there was this. This is from Libs of TikTok. They posted a picture of Allison Dahl. She is a Democrat state lawmaker who wants to – she introduced legislation to repeal the Parents' Bill of Rights in North Carolina.

[00:14:35] And she introduced a bill to allow kids to get the gender surgeries, right, to get the sex change operations. And Allison Dahl, if you've never seen her, she looks a little unusual. And these are all her choices. And I'm not saying this to be me. These are all choices she has made. And her – if you go to the website of the North Carolina legislature, you will see her photo. So she chose to wear this stuff.

[00:15:05] She chose to dye her hair pink, to wear pink earrings, to wear a pink bandana wrapped like a scarf, tied off like a scarf around her neck, and to wear a pink top. So she's got a whole pink thing going. Oh, and the really large framed pink glasses, fat framed pink glasses, as is the uniform of the leftist female in our modern era.

[00:15:30] And so the libs of TikTok posted this picture up, and this got a lot of interaction, a lot of people mocking Allison Dahl's appearance. I am not doing that. I'm just saying that there was mockery involved. And so Anderson Clayton takes to the Twitter machine and says, quote, I don't know about y'all – there it is – but I – love Allison Dahl.

[00:15:58] She don't – or she won't take – from little bullies. There it is. And by the way, in case you are wondering, yes, cussing is the strategy. Politico reported it. 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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[00:17:27] It's like, I guess, almost like a morning news blast or something. And the headline is, Frustrated Dems Unleash the F-bombs. So it is not our imagination that Democrats seem to be cussing up a blue streak. No pun intended. It is not our imagination. They are doing this more and more. And apparently, they think this is a good strategy.

[00:17:57] I don't know why, but they think it's a good strategy. In the earliest weeks of Trump's second term, Democrats have careened from strategy to strategy to respond to him. Often ineffectually. By the way, that's one of the reasons why you're seeing these bizarre responses and tactics is that they don't know. They literally do not know how to behave right now. They don't know what the winning strategy is.

[00:18:27] They're trying to figure something out. I would submit part of their problem is that they have short-circuited their messaging signals. Because the media is so closely allied with them and their political philosophy that they don't get their required feedback necessary in order to course correct.

[00:18:55] See, Republicans do. Republicans get it all the time. Republicans get criticized for all things. So they're constantly getting the feedback. And sometimes the feedback is correct. Sometimes the criticism is correct. That allows them to then course correct. Now, sometimes it's not. And so over the years, Republicans have become more adept at filtering out the stuff that doesn't matter.

[00:19:23] And that has caused a lot of frustration on the left because some of their attack messaging doesn't work. But the problem the Democrats have is that when they get beaten, they don't know why. And so then they try different stuff and they get a free pass to try all of these things. But it takes too long for the feedback. For example, it takes too long for the feedback to arrive. Like one of the things that we're just seeing now, what's her face?

[00:19:52] Jasmine Crockett. Right? Right? Please, Democrats, please keep this woman as the face of your party. Thank you. Oh, well, they probably won't now that I said that. All right. I take it back. Do not make this woman the face of your party, Democrats. Okay. So this is a Democrat out of Texas. And she called her governor, who is a Republican, Greg Abbott. She called him Hot Wheels.

[00:20:22] Why? He's in a wheelchair. Greg Abbott's in a wheelchair. She called him Hot Wheels. And the attendees of the Human Rights Campaign, which is LGBT activists, big time donors and stuff over there. The audience roared with applause and laughter when she called them that. The left does this all the time. They mock people with disabilities like this.

[00:20:50] This is, and by the way, I did call out Donald Trump just for the record because I know lefties will ask. I did call out Donald Trump, and I will maintain to this day Donald Trump was, in fact, mocking that reporter when he did the pantomime of the palsy behavior. Yes. I don't have any doubt that he was mocking that guy. Now, you can arrive at a different opinion, but that's my opinion.

[00:21:13] Just like it's my opinion that Jasmine Crockett was referring to the governor in the wheelchair as Hot Wheels because of his disability. That's why she called him that, and that's what the left calls him. You know what they used to call Madison Cawthorn up in western North Carolina, also in a wheelchair? The left up in Asheville used to call him Sittler. That's what they called him, right? They mocked him for his disability, right?

[00:21:39] Now, Jasmine Crockett is out there trying to clean this up, saying she was referring to him as Hot Wheels because he uses buses and planes to transport illegal immigrants out of the state. Planes, notoriously known for the wheels. Yes. That's the thing about planes. Right. You think plane, you think wheels. Right. Right. No, I don't believe her excuse on that. I believe that the obvious intent and reference is the obvious answer.

[00:22:11] She's also been cussing up a blue streak. And this is the reason why others are doing it. She is doing it. The one unifying thread, according to Politico, as the Democrats try to invigorate their connection to the American voter has been a reach for profanity. Democrats are cursing up a storm.

[00:22:35] The breadth of the swearing is unmistakable, newly fashionable among members of a party in the wilderness who are looking for shortcuts to authenticity to channel voters rage. See, this is part of the issue. You're trying to come across as, quote, authentic. And I'm going to be authentic by cursing. Here's the problem.

[00:23:03] If you don't authentically curse, if it's not in your vocabulary, you don't normally do that. It comes across really stupid sounding, which is what happened when one of these Democrat congresswomen, Maxine Dexter, said, quote, I don't swear in public very well, but we have to bleep Trump. And then said, don't tell my children I just did that. And that's kind of that's an awkward way to phrase that.

[00:23:31] Landed less like a diss and more like a proposition. Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You want to what? Trump? Like, that's not. Wait, this is a Democrat rally, right? What are you guys talking about? It's not just the swearing Democrats have another game plan, according to The New York Times. You know what it is? Talking sports. Oh, man, they're going to talk about all the sports and the sportsing and such.

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[00:25:25] and make memories that'll last a lifetime. All right. Let's talk with Chris. Hello, Chris. Hey, Pete. Real quick. Uh-huh. So, on the whole thing with Jasmine Crockett, and forgive me about it. I can't remember when it was actually said, but I remember J.D. Vance saying something to the effect of, we need to stop being, I'm paraphrasing, we need to stop being so sensitive about jokes.

[00:25:51] And I think it was referring to something that happened either at the inauguration parties or something prior to when Trump was inaugurated, where somebody told a joke and it was borderline a racist joke or an intensive joke. And J.D. Vance kind of defended it by saying, you know, we need to stop being sensitive jokes. And my point is, what Jasmine Crockett said, I mean, I honestly think that in this climate,

[00:26:20] because of, not just because of what J.D. Vance said, but it wasn't a tasteless joke. In his words, we need to stop being so sensitive about it. I'm sure there was no malicious intent in the joke. No, no. Making fun of a paraplegic is a totally fair game. I get it. I mean, it makes, I mean... Yeah, I mean, if you can't mock a guy for losing the use of his legs, who can you mock? Am I right, Chris? Okay, but what do comedians do? Yeah. So is Jasmine Crockett a comedian?

[00:26:49] No, because comedians are actually funny. She's not funny. It wasn't, that's the thing, it's not a joke. That's mockery, right? It's an insult. Okay. Yeah. But we've had insults before from both sides. And up until now, at least up until now, nobody's made a fuss about it until now. Nobody's made a fuss about it? Nobody's made a fuss. What are you talking about? Anytime, anybody... What are you talking...

[00:27:17] I just gave you one example of all the fuss that was made about Donald Trump mocking the disabled reporter. And nobody on the right said Jack. What are you talking about? Nobody on the right said Jack. Would you consider me to be on... Chris, would you consider me to be on the right? Mostly, yes. Yeah. So I gave Donald Trump a whole bunch of crap about it. Okay, but y'all... But I mean, knowing that...

[00:27:44] Knowing the character of somebody that tells a tasteless joke like that, did you elect him as president? Not the first two times he ran. I did not vote for him the first two times he ran. Well, unlike who, the majority of Americans did not care about the... About the dialect and insults. No, this... Right. This time they didn't. This... But the previous two times, they did not get... The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Right? He lost the popular vote in each of the last two... In his first two elections.

[00:28:13] He won the majority, though. So after all that the American people had seen, they did decide, yes, you are correct, that that stuff doesn't matter to them as much as all of these other issues do. Right? Exactly. Right. So we did not... Right. So now, yes, open season. Right. So, look, if you want to advocate for a standard where you mock people's disabilities, if you would like to advocate for that, then go for it.

[00:28:40] I have a disability and people make jokes about it every day. Right. So if you would like that to be the standard for the society, to treat people with disabilities like that, then you're free to do so. I do not agree with that. I would prefer we have a society that does not mock people for disabilities. That's the standard that I'm trying to set and I live by. So I would think that that would be a better society to live in. So I try to keep that same standard. But I understand you may have a different opinion.

[00:29:08] But unfortunately, that's not the world that we live in and that's not the world that has been created. Well, the world that we live in is made up in part by what we do. You have the ability to affect the world you live in. As do I. That's why I say the things I say. Right. So if you would like there to be a world where people are not mocked for their disabilities, then you can be that change.

[00:29:35] You can live by that standard and you can advocate a consistent application of the standard. That's it. I'm not disagreeing with you, Chris. If you want to lament the mockery, I'm with you. I don't like that. I don't want to see that. But I also am willing to say it when it's happening on both sides. And I think the comment that J.D. Vance was talking about was the Pocahontas line about Elizabeth Warren.

[00:30:05] Which is... Right. So that is not a disability. In fact, it was a lie she told in order to take advantage of career opportunities at the expense of a minority group. So that's not actually a racist slur or anything like that. It wasn't. Like, there is a difference there. But look, I appreciate the call, Chris. I don't... I would like to see a standard in our society where we don't mock people for their disabilities.

[00:30:33] So I'm holding Crockett to the same standard that I held Donald Trump to. John, welcome to the show. Hello, John. Yeah, hey, Pete. A couple issues real quick. So the issue with the Democrats swearing... You're right. They don't know what to do. So they think the way to be tough on Trump is to swear. They're out of other good options. It seems like... It's kind of pathetic. It seems like that. Yeah, like, oh, I'm a tough guy.

[00:31:03] I can use the cuss word. Yeah, I don't know any other reason because there's no... Well, they say... It doesn't make sense otherwise. They say the Politico piece seems to chalk it up to... They don't mention what you just said about acting tough. But I tend to agree with you. I think that's probably part of it, if not the majority of it. But they also claim that it's about being authentic. That this is a... It's a sort of a...

[00:31:28] It's like a code that goes out, you know, to the audience that, look, I'm authentic because I'm cursing. Oh, they're trying to reach out to the working guy. I guess. Which also doesn't make sense. Well, listen, can I go back to the bathroom, Bill? Sure. I didn't listen to all of your thing, and I don't really know exactly what it is, but I just want to go through a scenario so I make sure I understand. So you have a... You have, say, for instance, a woman who is transitioning to a man, right?

[00:31:56] So she dresses like a man. She looks like a man. Right? Yeah. And so this law will say, no, you have to go into the woman's bathroom because you were born a woman. So she goes into the woman's... He, she goes into the woman's bathroom. All the women are like, oh my God, there's a man in here. They go tell their husbands. The next thing you know, this woman who is transitioning to be a man is being confronted,

[00:32:23] maybe even assaulted by a group of husbands who think there's a man going into a woman's bathroom. Don't you think that's a potential problem? It could be. I think it's a big problem. Oh, I don't think it's a big problem. And if we're using the standard that... I think it's a big problem. No, John, if we're using... No, if we're using the... Wait, so if we're using the standard of the left that it's a small percentage of the population,

[00:32:50] it's a tiny little group of people, so the issue doesn't really matter, then your issue wouldn't matter either. Well, what the... I think what the problem is, what the bill seems to be saying is, not only do you have to go back to your biological sex, but you have to change your looks, too, because otherwise... No, it doesn't say that. You're going to be in trouble, right? No, it doesn't say that either. I would encourage you to read the bill or go back and listen to the podcast for the first two hours, because we went in-depth.

[00:33:19] I read portions of the bill. And we took a lot of phone calls, some of whom advocated what you, I think, are espousing on this issue. But I said at the beginning, we have competing rights, competing issues, interests, and that's going to have to be resolved. So, I appreciate the call. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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