How to overcome a charge of conspiracy? (07-26-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] I've got a poll here from YouGov and the Times of London, taken between July 22nd to 23rd. So this was put into the field after Biden said he wasn't going to run for re-election, but before he did that thing, whatever he did in the Oval Office the other night.

[00:00:51] Okay, so in between, so that was the window when this poll was taken. And it's going to be problematic for the Vice President in her run for President. It's going to be a little problematic.

[00:01:03] I'll tell you what it says and what the poll results are in a minute. First, let's go to the phones here we've got. First up is Janet. Welcome to the program. Hello, Janet.

[00:01:12] Hi.

[00:01:12] Hello.

[00:01:14] What's going on?

[00:01:15] I just wanted to say that I felt like I'm not for either candidate.

[00:01:21] Yeah, I'm sorry, you what?

[00:01:22] I don't think we have any... I'm not for either candidate.

[00:01:25] Oh, okay.

[00:01:25] Because I don't think we have any good choices. There's not any good men or women that want to run for office that are respectable, first of all.

[00:01:34] Is that any office or just this presidential contest?

[00:01:37] This presidential office.

[00:01:41] I feel like I liked Paul Ryan. And obviously he quit because he knew that he could not further his career under the circumstances with Donald Trump.

[00:01:54] And that said a lot about Paul Ryan. I would like for him to see, I'd like to see him step up and do something.

[00:02:00] But like the old adage with your mom said, if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything about anybody.

[00:02:07] Because J.D. Vance and Kamala Harris both have come to bite them back in the behind.

[00:02:14] Because look what they have said about their running mates.

[00:02:19] It's embarrassing to say the least. It's appalling.

[00:02:23] And they just need to keep their mouth shut.

[00:02:26] They just don't need to comment on things.

[00:02:29] Like I say, your mama tells you the best.

[00:02:31] Keep your mouth shut if you don't have something good to say.

[00:02:34] Because they both should be embarrassed about what they have said about their running mates.

[00:02:38] That's what I have to say today.

[00:02:39] Right. Okay. So, and I understand the sentiment.

[00:02:42] So, would you prefer that elected officials not give their opinions about whether somebody in their own party would be a good standard bearer or leader for their party?

[00:02:56] They shouldn't say what they think about somebody that wants to be their leader?

[00:03:01] Well, I think when you say you'd rather have your dog on the ballot than a person, that is demeaning.

[00:03:11] I think if you want to say true, then yes, I think it's fine.

[00:03:16] But that's very demeaning, no matter who you're speaking about.

[00:03:20] I mean, it was meant to be demeaning.

[00:03:22] And then yes, maybe back in the times when Joe Biden was coming up, he was racist.

[00:03:28] I don't think from what he is, his background, it may have come off as racist.

[00:03:35] I'm not sure that what he was saying was true at the time.

[00:03:38] He may have voted for those things, but I don't think in his career that he is a racist man.

[00:03:43] In my opinion, from what I have seen from his friends when he was young and the way he's been brought up and who he pulled for.

[00:03:52] Now, that's my opinion on that.

[00:03:54] I think she probably had it better than he did coming up.

[00:03:59] You know, I don't I don't know that for sure.

[00:04:02] But I think that people sometimes are entitled.

[00:04:08] They feel like they're entitled and so forth.

[00:04:12] But I think, like I say, people need to if they're not speaking true.

[00:04:16] And that includes everybody.

[00:04:19] And that includes Mr. Trump.

[00:04:21] I think that he needs to not tell untruths about people and demean people.

[00:04:27] That's why I don't I don't like the name calling.

[00:04:31] I don't like it at all.

[00:04:32] It's not mature.

[00:04:33] It's not becoming.

[00:04:36] And it's not helping anybody.

[00:04:38] And that's how I feel about that.

[00:04:40] Right.

[00:04:41] Well, that is.

[00:04:42] I think.

[00:04:42] No, that's a sentiment that is shared by many suburban women.

[00:04:48] That is.

[00:04:48] That's the biggest problem that Donald Trump specifically has is in winning over suburban women's votes is that very issue.

[00:04:58] And it has been for the last I mean, since his first run for office that he is he is perceived as crude and crass and mean spirited and and name calls people names and all that.

[00:05:12] And do you know why?

[00:05:13] Because we try to teach our children not to do those things.

[00:05:16] Absolutely.

[00:05:17] It's right.

[00:05:17] It's not preferable.

[00:05:19] But so here's the thing.

[00:05:20] The reason why people supported him, despite all of that, is because they got what this is.

[00:05:28] I mean, I've talked with people for many, many years now about Donald Trump and why they supported him and still do.

[00:05:33] And it is summed up in this overly simplistic slogan of he fights.

[00:05:39] Right.

[00:05:40] And what that means in a you want to start like diving deeper into it, it is that for years we put up candidates like Mitt Romney and you mentioned Paul Ryan, John McCain.

[00:05:56] Right.

[00:05:57] These these Republican candidates that should have been acceptable to the vast majority of Americans.

[00:06:04] And what were they treated to?

[00:06:06] What what were they accused of being?

[00:06:09] I mean, like I can just tell you from my personal experience, I can tell you that every single Republican that I've ever seen stand for president has been equated to Hitler.

[00:06:19] So when when you call every single Republican, when you call Mitt Romney, right, like the Antichrist and you say he's killing women with cancer and all this stuff.

[00:06:29] At some point, people get fed up and they're like, you know what?

[00:06:32] Screw it. We're just going to find another bully to punch your bully in the mouth.

[00:06:36] That's it. And that's what that and Trump fulfilled that role.

[00:06:40] Well, John McCain was not John McCain's problem was not John McCain.

[00:06:44] John McCain's problem was Sarah Palin. It was a woman that brought him down.

[00:06:49] She was his problem, in my opinion. I did not like Sarah Palin.

[00:06:57] I respected John McClain and so forth, but Sarah Palin was no John McClain rescued all those people in Naka Tell Me Plaza.

[00:07:03] Yeah, absolutely. So that's what I'm saying.

[00:07:06] It wasn't it wasn't him. It was Sarah Palin that brought his that I think that was his demise.

[00:07:11] Well, I think also John McCain made a lot of blunders on the campaign trail.

[00:07:16] You know, he suspended his campaign.

[00:07:18] He was also running as a Republican after George W.

[00:07:21] Bush had held the office for two consecutive terms.

[00:07:24] It's always difficult for a third term, you know, for the Republican to pick up.

[00:07:28] I mean, Ronald Reagan was such a fantastically wildly popular president that George H.

[00:07:33] W. Bush got a term out of it. Right.

[00:07:35] And then but then he lost it. Right. And then Bill Clinton comes in and Al Gore loses it.

[00:07:41] And then McCain loses it to Obama, who was, you know, a phenomenal candidate.

[00:07:46] Whatever people think about Barack Obama, he was a really good candidate and campaigner.

[00:07:53] So I think John McCain's problems were way more than just Sarah Palin.

[00:07:57] Sarah Palin energized the John McCain campaign.

[00:08:00] As I recall, John McCain was basically dead man walking and Sarah Palin came in and gave a couple of speeches.

[00:08:06] And then, of course, the media gets there, you know, gets their shots in on her and just proceeds to destroy her.

[00:08:13] And I mean, she doesn't help herself. But I don't believe Sarah Palin knocked John McCain out of that.

[00:08:19] John McCain had so many other things going against him at the time.

[00:08:22] Well, she did with me. I didn't know. That's fine.

[00:08:24] Like her style here again. Here again, I did not like the style that she portrayed.

[00:08:28] Mm hmm. That's the thing. Like I say.

[00:08:32] But that's so were you a supporter?

[00:08:33] And I appreciate you. Yeah.

[00:08:35] So I was going to ask real quick, were you a supporter of of Romney and Paul Ryan?

[00:08:41] No, no. Why not?

[00:08:44] Not at the time. Not not at the time.

[00:08:46] Right. Yeah. So why not?

[00:08:48] But I respect I have I have more respect for Paul Ryan.

[00:08:54] More than I did then, I should say.

[00:08:56] Right. So why? That's what I was asking.

[00:08:57] Like what during that time in that because McCain and Palin were four years prior.

[00:09:03] So what was the rationale for for not liking Romney and Paul Ryan?

[00:09:08] It was Romney.

[00:09:09] Right. So what was what was it about Mitt Romney?

[00:09:14] I just I think it's the entitlement type of white, you know, white male figure.

[00:09:22] It's just his his background and so forth.

[00:09:26] So him being a white guy.

[00:09:28] Well, just the entitlement and so forth.

[00:09:33] But I didn't. And I felt kind of similar the same way with with Paul Ryan.

[00:09:37] But now I have a different perspective on Paul Ryan.

[00:09:43] I respect him immensely more now.

[00:09:46] Is that because he came out against Donald Trump?

[00:09:49] No. No, because he had the force the foresight to know when to give it up for his party because he knew that there would be division for his party.

[00:10:00] You mean give up the Speaker of the House?

[00:10:02] Yes.

[00:10:04] Yes.

[00:10:04] Yes.

[00:10:04] He knew that it was going to call division and he he gave it up and he gave it up for the party not.

[00:10:11] And and it was a lot that he gave up for himself.

[00:10:14] Hmm.

[00:10:15] So, yeah, I have a lot of I have a lot of respect for him.

[00:10:19] So, Janet, I don't know what you're you said you're neither Republican or Democrat, but I will tell you there is a line.

[00:10:25] There is a sort of an axiom that the only I said I'm not for either.

[00:10:31] I'm not for either of the candidates.

[00:10:32] Oh, OK.

[00:10:33] So are you are not for either of the candidates?

[00:10:35] You're not for either of the candidates.

[00:10:36] OK, so now I will tell you one of the.

[00:10:38] Yeah.

[00:10:39] So there is a line and it goes something like this, which is the only Republican that Democrats like are the ones who are dead or the ones who surrender.

[00:10:50] Well, you know, see.

[00:10:51] No, I'm just saying that's because I have because I'm not I have voted both parties.

[00:10:56] I'm not I didn't I didn't ask who you I'm not asking if you vote for both parties or anything like that.

[00:11:01] I'm just saying that what you have just described sort of fits that that mold.

[00:11:06] No, see, you're I think you're dead wrong.

[00:11:08] I vote for the person.

[00:11:09] I don't vote for party.

[00:11:10] I vote for person.

[00:11:12] And it doesn't matter when you talk about Ronald Reagan.

[00:11:15] Ronald Reagan was a great president.

[00:11:17] I voted for him to I voted for I have voted Democratic and Republican.

[00:11:26] So let's put that to rest right now.

[00:11:29] Right. But but the reasons that you laid out for Mitt Romney and I assume then you voted for Obama.

[00:11:35] I did. Right.

[00:11:37] So right.

[00:11:38] That and so and then I did one time one time I voted for Obama.

[00:11:42] And then you voted for McCain the other time.

[00:11:46] I did not vote.

[00:11:47] You just didn't vote.

[00:11:48] OK, no, look, I've never voted for a major party candidate for president ever.

[00:11:53] So, like, I understand what you're what you're talking about.

[00:11:56] I absolutely do.

[00:11:57] I'm just asking you for I'm trying to get sort of the why and why you've made these decisions along the way.

[00:12:05] It's just for like I say, just personal reasons and how you kind of see how things have been.

[00:12:10] But I appreciate you letting me.

[00:12:12] Yeah. What I have to say, because I think.

[00:12:17] If people would just think about how things are going to come back and in my own life, too, as well, I just need to keep.

[00:12:24] You know, we've got two ears and one mouth.

[00:12:26] So.

[00:12:27] Well, speak for yourself, Janet.

[00:12:29] No, I'm kidding.

[00:12:30] I appreciate your call.

[00:12:32] Thank you.

[00:12:32] Have a great weekend.

[00:12:34] All right.

[00:12:34] Take care.

[00:12:36] Oh, I only have two ears and one mouth, too.

[00:12:38] I'm just kidding.

[00:12:39] All right.

[00:12:40] Ninety two percent of voters blame Kamala Harris for Biden's health cover up.

[00:12:46] That is according to a new YouGov Times of London poll of almost twelve hundred registered voters.

[00:12:53] So these are not likely voters.

[00:12:54] So it's just sort of a public opinion poll.

[00:12:57] Ninety two percent of respondents believe that Kamala Harris knew at least a little bit about the president's progressive deterioration.

[00:13:07] Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:13:08] Wait a minute.

[00:13:09] The president has been deteriorating.

[00:13:11] What are you talking about?

[00:13:14] Are you aware of that?

[00:13:16] Has the president been how like physically mentally?

[00:13:19] Like what's up with that?

[00:13:20] I was unaware.

[00:13:21] Oh, is that why he's stepping aside?

[00:13:24] Oh, that makes a lot of sense then, because he said in that speech the other night, all of the awesome things that he has done.

[00:13:28] But for some reason, he doesn't think he should keep giving us all of the awesome things for another term.

[00:13:33] So if there was some sort of health deterioration, I wonder why he didn't say that weird.

[00:13:37] Got a message here from Grant who says, Pete, it is sad to me that people like your last caller do not understand our political system better.

[00:13:45] She said she votes for the person, not the party, which is exactly backwards.

[00:13:49] No matter who you vote for, you are voting for the party and their platform.

[00:13:55] I won't say the person is not important at all, but the party and its values are what you should be voting for.

[00:14:01] If you vote for the person whose personality you like better, you will end up voting for principles and values you disagree with.

[00:14:07] Thanks for what you do.

[00:14:08] Yeah, this is the, you know, the standard of who would you most like to have a beer with?

[00:14:13] Right.

[00:14:15] And that's not the way you should be voting for president.

[00:14:18] But a lot of people do.

[00:14:19] I'm not saying Janet does.

[00:14:20] I'm saying a lot of people vote for candidates, not just for president, but for at all levels based on these types of things.

[00:14:29] Right.

[00:14:30] If you're, if you are, all right, I don't want to be, if you are like, not a good public speaker and not attractive and tall, full head of hair, like all like, as you rise through the political ranks, you will get, you will hit a ceiling because people look at you and they don't want to have a beer with you.

[00:14:55] I like, I'm sorry.

[00:14:56] Like if like these things, I don't vote for people that way, but there are a lot of Americans who do.

[00:15:03] And it's a silly reason to do it again.

[00:15:05] I'm not saying that Janet does that.

[00:15:08] All right, let me go.

[00:15:10] Who is this?

[00:15:11] This was Bud.

[00:15:13] Hello, Bud.

[00:15:14] Welcome to the show.

[00:15:16] Hey, Pete.

[00:15:16] Hey, what's up?

[00:15:17] Taking my call.

[00:15:17] Yes, sir.

[00:15:19] I have a crazy idea.

[00:15:20] Of course, this is the new season for crazy things.

[00:15:22] Yes.

[00:15:22] Uh, what would happen if, uh, the delegates of the, uh, to the convention were ordered to vote for the next highest vote getter.

[00:15:36] Now, why would you say vote getter to me, Bud?

[00:15:39] Why would you say, why would you say vote getter to me?

[00:15:42] Of all people, vote getter.

[00:15:45] You say that word, you bring that word onto my show.

[00:15:49] Oh, I, I, I'm sorry, Pete.

[00:15:51] I, uh, and I hate to admit this.

[00:15:53] I don't listen to you that long.

[00:15:54] Oh, that hurts.

[00:15:55] Oh my gosh.

[00:15:56] Insult to the injury.

[00:15:57] Oh my gosh.

[00:15:58] No.

[00:15:59] Yeah.

[00:15:59] I'm trying to make a word.

[00:16:01] All right, here we go.

[00:16:01] But I do talk to me.

[00:16:03] I do talk to Vince a lot, but I mean, no, go ahead.

[00:16:05] All right.

[00:16:05] So here, so here's my ask.

[00:16:07] Let's try to, I'm trying to make this happen.

[00:16:09] Okay.

[00:16:09] I'm trying to, I'm trying to replace the word vote getter.

[00:16:12] Cause it's a terrible, awkward sounding word with.

[00:16:15] All right.

[00:16:16] Voteainer.

[00:16:17] Oh, it was two words.

[00:16:19] Voteainer.

[00:16:21] Voteainer.

[00:16:22] Voteainer.

[00:16:22] Right.

[00:16:23] The top voteainer.

[00:16:25] Voteainer.

[00:16:26] Right.

[00:16:26] So if you, right.

[00:16:27] So instead of the top vote getter, you would be the voteainer.

[00:16:31] Yeah.

[00:16:32] I, you know, I, I really don't like what's happened to the English language, especially

[00:16:36] with pronouns.

[00:16:37] Right.

[00:16:38] Well, this isn't a pronoun.

[00:16:39] But I'll go along with you.

[00:16:40] Thank you, sir.

[00:16:41] All right.

[00:16:42] I have lots of minds here, people.

[00:16:43] Okay.

[00:16:43] Sorry.

[00:16:43] So go ahead.

[00:16:44] So what if in the convention, they tell what the Democrat party tells?

[00:16:48] The, uh, delegates are ordered to vote for the next highest vote painter.

[00:16:53] Nice.

[00:16:54] Uh, and that would seem to me, uh, to be, well, it would represent the, uh, Democratic

[00:17:01] voters in the voting booth more than, uh, the people in the, uh, smoke field rooms.

[00:17:07] And of course it'll never happen.

[00:17:08] My question is, and I'm not curious enough to do the research.

[00:17:13] I wonder who would be the nominee.

[00:17:15] I wonder who would be the nominee if it went on that basis.

[00:17:17] Right.

[00:17:17] Well, I don't even know if they're going to allow anybody else to throw their names in at

[00:17:22] this point.

[00:17:24] Well, they did in the primary.

[00:17:25] Right.

[00:17:26] But they're, they're past that now.

[00:17:28] That's no, no, the voters are left out completely.

[00:17:30] Right.

[00:17:31] So, and even in the primary, they, they, they blocked, uh, voters from having a say in the

[00:17:37] primaries.

[00:17:38] So I don't know who else would be able to throw their name into the hat and then the

[00:17:43] hat into the ring, which seems like a multi-step process for some reason, but like, I don't

[00:17:47] know why, yeah, I don't know why they would allow that to even occur.

[00:17:51] Well, they probably won't.

[00:17:53] Yeah.

[00:17:53] Yeah.

[00:17:54] It all happens in the smoke field rooms.

[00:17:56] Yeah.

[00:17:56] Although they probably don't smoke anymore.

[00:17:58] So I wonder what they fill the rooms with.

[00:18:00] Don't answer that.

[00:18:01] Nevermind.

[00:18:01] Okay.

[00:18:01] I appreciate the call, but thank you.

[00:18:04] Uh, next up is Charles.

[00:18:06] Hello, Charles.

[00:18:07] Welcome to the show.

[00:18:09] Hello, Pete.

[00:18:09] How are you?

[00:18:10] I am.

[00:18:10] All right, sir.

[00:18:12] Outstanding.

[00:18:12] Hey, listen, I was, uh, I listened to Janet and, uh, your careful probing of why she votes

[00:18:18] the way she does.

[00:18:20] And, you know, she really couldn't land on anything but personality.

[00:18:24] Yeah.

[00:18:25] My, I would posit that it's the inundation of, of the media.

[00:18:30] All this, all the networks that constantly flood the airways with orange man bad.

[00:18:36] Uh huh.

[00:18:37] And it, it, it, it's all it to me, it sounds it's illegal campaign contributions, right?

[00:18:43] I mean, how can you ever compete with the monolithic networks that promote the same message that

[00:18:51] talk in lockstep?

[00:18:52] Uh huh.

[00:18:53] And that's all these people here.

[00:18:54] My mother-in-law is this way.

[00:18:57] She, you, you can press her and press her.

[00:18:59] Why don't you like Trump?

[00:19:00] She can't tell you she's been told not to like him.

[00:19:17] Uh huh.

[00:19:18] That needs to be broken up and made more fair.

[00:19:22] Well, I would not be in, I mean, the networks are what they are.

[00:19:25] They're all individually owned.

[00:19:26] They're not all the same ownership.

[00:19:27] And that's, I mean, there are anti monopoly laws for networks.

[00:19:31] I will say this.

[00:19:32] I saw today actually, uh, a stat that what would you, where do you think most people say

[00:19:40] they get their news from now?

[00:19:43] I would say still it's, it's networks.

[00:19:46] Am I wrong?

[00:19:47] 20% say social media.

[00:19:50] Oh my.

[00:19:51] Right.

[00:19:52] And so what is happening then is that people are consuming the news they want.

[00:19:56] So it just reinforces their priors.

[00:19:59] Right.

[00:20:00] So that's where, right.

[00:20:01] So like the, that, that whole, the whole paradigm has been shifting and there are these

[00:20:05] media companies that are still holding on to the old, uh, to the old structures, but

[00:20:12] it, but it's crumbling.

[00:20:13] And, and that's part of the problem.

[00:20:15] It's dying.

[00:20:16] Right.

[00:20:16] Well, and I think that's part of the problem why they're becoming at, at these net at a

[00:20:21] lot of the legacy media outlets, they're becoming more and more, um, hysterical because

[00:20:26] they're losing their grip on the gatekeeper function.

[00:20:31] And, and there are pros and cons to this, by the way, and I've talked about this for

[00:20:34] years that, you know, when America only had the three major networks, there was a, obviously

[00:20:39] a huge downside to that in that stories didn't get told.

[00:20:43] But the, uh, the upside was that we all generally as a society shared a mutual understanding of

[00:20:49] what is and what is, what, and what was not right.

[00:20:52] Truth and fiction.

[00:20:53] We, we, there was a shared understanding of current events, but again, that's not

[00:20:59] necessary.

[00:21:00] Does that outweigh the con, which is that if the general understanding is false, then we

[00:21:08] are all being diluted.

[00:21:10] Right.

[00:21:10] Is that which we are right.

[00:21:12] So was that the, was that, did that outweigh the pros?

[00:21:15] I would submit no.

[00:21:16] So that's why I like, I'm, I am, uh, optimistic that the disintegration of the current model

[00:21:23] will actually yield, um, more informed people.

[00:21:27] But here's the thing.

[00:21:28] The people have to want to be informed and this gets back to our institutions, which is

[00:21:33] the K 12 government control and then higher education, which doesn't teach people how

[00:21:38] to go and find the truth.

[00:21:40] It just teaches them how to find reinforcement of their prior beliefs.

[00:21:46] Right.

[00:21:46] Right.

[00:21:47] And I totally, I totally get that.

[00:21:49] I, you know, then you do see the rise of alternative alternative media like podcasts.

[00:21:54] Right.

[00:21:54] But you know, again, I'm guilty of this.

[00:21:57] I don't want, I don't go seek, uh, out the leftist channel to talk to me about what politics

[00:22:04] I don't, I don't, I don't, that's why I pulled the TV out of our house three and a half years

[00:22:09] ago.

[00:22:09] So we didn't want to hear the lies anymore.

[00:22:12] We don't even want to hear the content to pay for content by all those networks that

[00:22:17] hate the people that every every their TV shows, their news and commercials, everything

[00:22:22] is geared towards a message that's brainwashing our people.

[00:22:26] And I just, you know, I, I'm not, I'm not optimistic that people will wake up because

[00:22:32] people are addicted to, to, to, to what they're addicted to.

[00:22:36] And, and to the lies.

[00:22:37] I mean, you hear like Kamala Harris, all of a sudden she's not the borders are.

[00:22:40] And, you know, even in the face of producing a 10 minute montage of those same network anchors

[00:22:47] saying that she was, but here's the thing, Charles want to retcon the whole thing.

[00:22:51] Right.

[00:22:52] But, and here's the thing though, you know that, right?

[00:22:54] You're aware of it.

[00:22:55] I'm aware of it.

[00:22:56] Anybody who listens to this show is aware of it.

[00:22:58] And I watch those things and read those outlets.

[00:23:01] So you don't have to.

[00:23:03] So I'm because I'm a giver, right?

[00:23:05] I am a giver.

[00:23:05] I do it.

[00:23:06] So you don't have to.

[00:23:07] You know what?

[00:23:08] I do wish you stop.

[00:23:09] You know, I don't want to understand about you, Pete, and you're a very clever, funny

[00:23:13] guy.

[00:23:14] I like listening to you, but when you say you've never voted and it's particularly now, I maybe

[00:23:19] in the past, I can get it, but for a major party candidate, I expect, I expect you're not

[00:23:23] going to do it this time.

[00:23:24] I don't know what I'm going to do this time.

[00:23:26] Yeah.

[00:23:26] Okay.

[00:23:27] Well, I'm closer now to voting.

[00:23:29] I've said before, I, that, I, that I, I could see myself this time.

[00:23:34] And if you had told me this eight years ago, I would have probably like, I don't know,

[00:23:39] harmed myself in some way, but that I, that I may vote for Trump, but it would be a vote

[00:23:44] to punish leftists.

[00:23:46] That's what it would be for.

[00:23:47] Well, I think that's, that's a, a, a, a great cause and I encourage you to punish them, Pete.

[00:23:53] All right.

[00:23:54] Go do it.

[00:23:54] Charles, I appreciate the call, sir.

[00:23:55] Thanks so much.

[00:23:56] It's good to talk with you.

[00:23:57] Have a good weekend.

[00:23:58] Let me get, all right.

[00:23:59] I'll get Mickey on here before the end of the program.

[00:24:01] Hello, Mickey.

[00:24:02] Welcome to the show.

[00:24:03] Hey, Pete.

[00:24:04] And I got it right today.

[00:24:06] I called you Brent yesterday, but calling one of you, the other's name would actually

[00:24:11] be a compliment to both of you.

[00:24:13] Well, that's how I took it.

[00:24:14] Thank you.

[00:24:14] So as to not end up in the fetal position crying all night.

[00:24:18] Ha ha ha.

[00:24:19] No, I know that, but I didn't mean to.

[00:24:22] No, yeah, yeah.

[00:24:23] It's no worries.

[00:24:25] Anyway, perhaps I should ask my question a different way.

[00:24:30] There are a lot of people that are under the belief that through Hunter, our current president

[00:24:41] has taken bribe, brides or whatever from Ukraine and China and so forth.

[00:24:50] Uh, you know, a week ago, he was dead set.

[00:24:55] And, and, and, and very adamant about he was going to stay in the race.

[00:25:02] Uh, I wonder if he was offered a golden parachute or if he negotiated for a golden parachute in

[00:25:10] order to go ahead and drop out of the race.

[00:25:14] Right.

[00:25:14] I think we just didn't, didn't you, we discussed this, I thought yesterday, like, I don't know

[00:25:18] if there's any money that was, uh, promised or anything like that.

[00:25:21] Well, but that was my point.

[00:25:23] Right.

[00:25:23] I don't, so I don't know if there's any money, but I think that they're, I think I said this

[00:25:27] yesterday also was that it would surprise me if assurances were not offered and accepted

[00:25:32] to, to various things.

[00:25:34] I don't know what, but I've got to believe some sort of leniency or protection for Hunter

[00:25:41] would probably be part of whatever deal gets done.

[00:25:45] Because like, if you're the, if you're the, uh, Biden family, you're worried about Hunter

[00:25:51] Biden's future.

[00:25:52] You're worried about, uh, his brother, Jim Biden, right?

[00:25:55] Joe's brother, Jim.

[00:25:56] Yeah.

[00:25:56] You're worried about what might happen to these guys.

[00:25:59] And if you now step aside, you are less likely to have any kind of influence.

[00:26:04] And there's a price for that protection.

[00:26:07] Yeah, probably so.

[00:26:08] So, and maybe that's what it was.

[00:26:09] All right.

[00:26:09] Yeah.

[00:26:10] Mickey, I appreciate the call.

[00:26:10] Have a great weekend.

[00:26:12] Um, this, uh, let me go back to this poll here.

[00:26:15] 92% of voters blame Kamala Harris for the Biden health coverup.

[00:26:21] She cannot get away from this.

[00:26:23] She's not going to be able to get away from this.

[00:26:25] 68% say she had ample knowledge overall.

[00:26:29] More than two of every three voters think Harris essentially had complete knowledge of

[00:26:35] Biden's deterioration and chose not to divulge it.

[00:26:39] Also 17% of those surveyed believe that the vice president was somewhat involved in the

[00:26:45] concealment scheme and 7% said at least a little.

[00:26:49] So if you add it all together, that's 92%.

[00:26:52] Among Democrats, only 22% think that she knew a great deal about his issues, but that's

[00:27:00] still one in five.

[00:27:01] That's still one in five.

[00:27:03] 58% of Democrats, 64% of liberals, a lot, her substantial blame.

[00:27:09] Additionally, 20% of Democrats, 21% of liberals say she knew at least a little.

[00:27:15] So a lot or a little.

[00:27:18] That's bad.

[00:27:20] That's really bad.

[00:27:21] 12% of Democrats believe that Harris knew nothing at all.

[00:27:25] 7% of liberals believe she knew nothing at all.

[00:27:30] Which to me, like that's kind of an even worse indictment.

[00:27:35] If you think like Kamala Harris knew nothing in the White House.

[00:27:39] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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