Iryna's Law takes effect, outrage ensues (11-26-2025--Hour1)

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There's some really interesting things we'll talk about that. There's a dismissal in the criminal case down in Georgia. We won't talk about it too much, but we have to talk about it a little bit. That was the famous Fanny Willis case. It's the people that took over from the prosecutor from Fanny Willis looked at it said there's no there there. They're seeking to dismiss all charges. They went through it every way from Sunday. There's just nothing there. It was completely political. So when a Democrat next time a Democrat says they don't need to go after people for political reasons, say well, then, okay, why did you do it in Georgia, Why did you do it in Florida? Why did you do it in New York? Why did you guys go through Milania's underwear George? Why was that important to you guys? Well, we'll talk about that. Also. The continued assertion and whenever you've listened to me in any way on this wonderful station, you will hear me talk about that. The words could might they're never direct things about climate change and stuff, and I don't want to not go to labor climate change. It's an attack on the Trump administration saying that over a million people are going to die. Could I could now? That would pro publica continues to be a propaganda an ultra leftist propaganda rag out there that spreads just scurless stuff, and we'll go into some of that, but it's well funded and so it'll continue to spew that kind of stuff. It's interesting because it has the veracity of the Babylon B, which at least the Babylon B admits that it's satire, whereas Pro Publica wants to pretend it's not, and it kind of is. We will talk about the original Thanksgiving and how Thanksgiving in and of it, So we'll talk about it in two ways. The anti colonial spin that a lot of people are trying to put on things and the reality of what happened, what happened before the Thanksgiving that we all celebrate now, what happened right the year maybe before that, and what happened to those folks, and it was a harsh and we have to talk about the harsh reality of those folks trying to live, thrive and survive. It wasn't easy. I mean, death was a way of life. It's you know here, it's easy to judge these people three four, four hundred years later say oh I was there. I would have been like blah blah, oh we're decolonious. But it's easy to judge from from the position of having the kind of freedom that you have today where you don't worry about freezing to death at night. Necessarily, you don't worry about having food. You don't worry. The vast majority of Americans don't. And also we will talk about you will talk a little bit about all right, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole drinks giving blackout Wednesday. That was that was Keith mentioned a few minutes ago. You know, I'd never heard drinks giving, never heard blackout Wednesday, never heard that. I didn't know that that was the thing that that people wanted to get blackout drunk on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Never never had heard that. Now but first, but primeto want to get to first. There's a couple of things that are just hysterical, Well hysterical is the wrong word, but it's kind of sad in Charlotte. I just had to do with so IRENA's law goes into effect December first, and Mecklenburg County officials and others are losing their ever loving minds. And I want you to hear a little bit about this, because Arena was killed on the light reel system. So they enacted a law to not make it as easy to be thrown back on the streets if you commit certain crimes. And I tell you what I'm going to do instead of getting to it now, because I want not for this to be brushed under the rugs, so to speak. But I want to get into that. I want to get into the hair discrimination because apparently hair and the way you wear your hair is a new protected class for the political left. I bet you didn't know that, so you thought it was just color of the skin or sexual discrimination or something. I know that apparently is your hair, the way you wear your hair. And also I want to get into at least one democrats perspective on affordability. Just so many, so much, there's so much, there's just so much stuff you. To here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina? Just a quick up the mountain and cabins of Ashville. Is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. Cabins of Ashville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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Right now, I'm going to preface this story a little bit by just you know, it's kind of like when your kids are disobedient. If and I don't mean to oversimplify this, but let's be kind of direct here. If you want to stop a certain behavior, you discipline your kids and you say no or they can't do certain things. And there's some things you can only learn, like you stick your hand in fire, and it burns that you don't do that again. But there's others where you want to protect your kids, so you discipline them and that behavior stops. And if you keep that, if you keep that rule in place, then that behavior stays curve. There's consequences. There are consequences to actions. If you're on a stretch of road and you know that there's everyone knows that the police will never enforce the speed limit on that road, what do you think think will happen? People will violate the speed limit It just add nauseam. They will just travel, They will travel one hundred miles an hour. If there's no speed limit, people will trap, or if there's not enforced, if you don't enforce laws, people will see that as a sign and they will act accordingly. So Charlotte finds itself in the crosshairs of inaction and bad prosecution and poor prosecution turning criminals loose. And believe you me, the criminals know. Hey, dude, I got off. I've been arrested thirteen times. Nothing happened to me, twenty times, nothing happened to me. So you see the revolving door of criminal activity trout. So I'm going to play a clip for you if Charlotte officials freaking out that IRENA's law is going into effect to stop the revolving door. Now, it's interesting that they could have said this is great, it's going to really help us clamp back down on crime. But the usual lefty response is, oh no, this is not going to go. Well, a lot more people are going to be locked up. That's bad. Who is being locked up? People who commit crimes are going to be locked up. Consequences, the to punishment, consequences. And here's the beauty of this. When you enact a law like this, it doesn't take long for people to get it through their heads that they're enforcing the law. I can't do that anymore. And Charlotte, unfortunately has had the leftist mentality, and criminals have said, there's kind of a las a fair not big deal. I'm not going to do hard time, so crime goes up. So listen, this is these are this is from WCCB, and it's talking about this situation in Charlotte. And it was a story that ran and I was gonna run the whole Sorry, I think I'm just going to run a little piece of there. Here you go. I see for Monday, as you do when there is a hurricane or a tragic storm that is coming. IRENA's Law kicks in on December first. Lawmakers passed it after Irena z Routsko was murdered on the light rail train back in August. I believe that the state legend had a good intention. I believe that when they wrote the law, they were hearing from so many people who were horrified. The massive bill addresses several topics. It limits a judge's power to release offenders accused of certain violent crimes. The sheriff says that will increase a detention center population that has already near capacity. Stack of bunks is where we have to put people on these bunk bids and their families will call in and say they are sleeping on the floor. County officials expect officer and magistrate workloads will increase. They say they'll have an idea they'll see the impact of the full law in the next three months. And I think by the time we get to the end of February. Early March, where we are. At that point is probably going to be pretty close to where we're going to be for. The long haul. And so that's the story. And say you a little bit who you heard from there? You know, the first person you heard was we are bracing for Monday, as you do when there's a hurricane or a tragic storm that's coming, Elisa Chengary, Mecklenburg County Clerk of Court said, And then who you heard was Elaine Powell, who said, I believe that the state legislators had a good intention. I believe that when they wrote the law, they were hearing from so many people who were horrified and so stackable beds. That comic came from the sheriff, Gary McFadden, who said that, And then you heard from Sonya Harper, director of Criminal Justice Services for Meckliburg County, said, I think by the time we get to the end of February early March, where we are at the point that is probably going to be pretty close to where we're going to be for the long haul. I think all of that is not true. I think initially you're going to have it, but once the word gets out, I mean, this is funny because what they are saying. Think about what these people are saying. They're giving a tacit admission that violent crime is really high, and they've been releasing criminals into the street because all the law does is it prevents kind of judges from throwing you back on the street if you committed a violent crime. So you kind of hear these individuals. Even Sheriff Gary mcfadd I don't know that that was his point. I don't think the sheriff was saying, you know, this is bad. He's just saying, Hey, when they arrest all these people, we're gonna put them in stackable beds. So what their criminals don't really care. I don't know if he was trying to elicit empathy or not, but the news was trying to elicit empathy. And then you know, Sonya Harper is saying, by the time we get to the end of February, early March, we're going to be here for the long haul. I do not think that's the case at all. I think initially there's going to be a tremendous amount of people that don't get turned back loose on the street, and then once war gets out, there will be fewer. And at a certain point, folks in the streets are going to realize you're gonna do time. You do crime, You're gonna do time, and that's going to be a disincentive for crime. And the net result of that is either they're locked up or they're not committing crimes. Both of those result in less crime. Embrace it. Embrace the opportunity to have less crime. It seems like everybody that tries to reduce crime in Charlotte gets attacked. We don't want ICE agents on there taking out people that are not supposed to be here. We don't want the National Guard helping us reduce crime. We don't want want IRENA's Law to help us reduce crime. We just want crime to be what it is. Think about what they're saying. It's just this lunacy, it's this moon back crazy worship of I don't know what but you're your number one job is almost any public official, whether you're a county commissioner or city council, whatever CLOrk of court, public safety. That's tantamount to that at the beginning of everything. And in society it's public safety allows you life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So for the it's almost like they're opposed to stopping crime. I don't think the optics are going to play well for people that they didn't want to say they were opposed to the law. You know, I like this. We as a community have a very difficult job. We're going to be forced to make some very difficult choices moving forward with respect to our priorities. What priority is higher than public safety? And I don't think they're going to have to make many hard choices. I think this law in that, especially in Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Wilmington, Ashville, faith believing this law is going to stop the revolving door where you said, oh, this person was stabbed and that person been arrested dozens of times and turn loose. You're going to stop the bleeding, for lack of a better analogy, stop the crime. And I think this is kind of a beautiful I'm looking forward to this log one. In fact, I look forward to being a guest those three or four months from now and being able to tell you, hey, look see, violent crime is down. The jails are not full of people, They're not flooded. Because what it says, what all these people, all these officials are trying to tell you the public is Hey, even if we start incarcerating criminals, they're still going to act at the same level as if it's a static world that everyone's They're just going to say, well, oh no, we're going to go to jail if we do that crime. Let's do the crime anyway. No consequences will lead to less crime. Always the case throughout human history. When there are consequences, crimes go down. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. 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Craig, you've been on hold for a while, so welcome, Welcome, Welcome, How are you, Craig Ill? Greg? Are you there, Craig here? Okay, go ahead, Yeah. I wanted to charm in about why I think these democrats are so afraid about punishing criminals, and I think is they view criminals as victims of an evil, capitalist, unfair capitalist society. And if we had more of a socialistic society and had things like universal basic income, people wouldn't be criminals. And they don't understand that criminals are mostly criminals because of just ego and jealousy things like that. Democrats view jealous and jealousy is like a very powerful emotion to Democrats. They're very jealous of other people. They're jealous of people who have more than them. They want the government to get revenge and take that from them and spread it around to avenge their jealousy. I've never met a Democrat in my wife who is an extremely jealous of people who have more than them. And they think that that's such a powerful emotion to them. So they and it's just that they think criminals are victims. They're victims of an evil society that is unjust and concentrates wealth at the top, and that basically if they were paid protection money in the form of the universal base aga income, they wouldn't commit these crimes, which is just not true. They'd still come in all these crimes. Somebody discussed somebody's Jordan's and they kill them for it or something like that. You know, well, Craig, and I'm not as chagrined or jaded, probably as you. I wouldn't say all Democrats, but certainly from a party perspective. You know, they think that if they just give everybody enough stuff, that that will solve societal ills. It didn't work with the Great Society, It hasn't worked with you know, any of the reforms of welfare. It hasn't worked. You know, even Obamacare didn't. It didn't work. It didn't solve that problem because ultimately it takes people doing the right thing to solve problem. They have to, you know, like themselves at some part about victims. It's interesting you said they portray criminals as victims, but they don't seem to care about the victims of criminals. What as you saw with Mayor vy Wiles, she thought, yes, she paraded that that racist, bigot guy who killed that that lady as a victim of society and all this, and it was all everybody else's fault for his crime. She didn't really give a look about the girl that was killed. So, uh yeah, it just goes. To show you right there, how their mentality is. They're so hateful. They're just the most hateful people ever. I appreciate your call and perspective and appreciate you calling in and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving. Okay, thank you, thank you so much and appreciate that. Thank you Greg for calling. Alex, you've been on whole for a while. Welcome to the program today. How arey, How are you doing? Fantastic? Yeah? Can you hear me? Hello? I can you sound great? Okay? Thanks? Yeah. I just want to say that I think all these left wing democrats have completely destroyed the city of Charlotte with their soft on crime attitude, and they're just ignoring the legal a lands situation. And they won't be satisfied until they turned Short into a southern version of San Francisco. So like San Francisco with grits, you know. What I mean, that's actually funny. I'll give you credit for that. San Francisco with grits. I like that. Now they have Rice Aerroni Charlie getst grits, So you know that's funny. Now, let me ask you this, why do you believe Charlotte Teans continue to elect people that have that mentality. I think the conservatives also can afford to have moved outside Short to the more conservative suburbs, and the people who are left look at the demographics of the city and the you know, the political affiliation. I mean, a Republican couldn't get elected dog catcher in this town anymore. I'm probably the only conservative Republican on my side of town. I live on the west side. So enough said, you know what I mean? Yes, sir, Well, I appreciate you calling in, and you know, Alex and taking the time to call in. It is appreciated. Appreciate your sharing your perspective. Okay, yeah, thanks. Take care. To Alex's point, you know, we kind of referred to that yesterday, is that it Charlotte in some ways has become a microcosm of California. I've got an article later in the broadcast, we'll probably get to that, and it talks about, you know, the length of time it takes you to read like four paragraphs. Three more people have moved away from California, and so to a certain exday, it's not as hard to move out of Charlotte, or at least the city limits of Charlotte, as it is to move to another state or you know, California to meet South Caroline to be pretty easy. But I think Charlotte has a serious and in Puerto Rico. Back when I lived in Puerto Rico for many years, at a certain point there became a brain drain. People who could, the highly educated, those who had the opportunity who would leave, and Puerto Rico had lost several hundred thousand residents, which for a tiny tropical island, that's a lot. And so the net result was there weren't as many people able to help save that place and make it better. So when Maria, I'm going getting along here. But when the hurricane hit Puerto Rico and it devastated, it exposed all of the corruption and the power, the infrastructure. It exposed so much corruption. And it's still recovering from that hurricane years and years ago. Don't know if it'll ever until there's a significant change in leadership in the mentality, I don't know that'll change. Charlotte suffering from that too. I think the people who can leave are leaving the city of Charlotte. I think from a conservative business standpoint, that group of individuals is leaving the city limits of Mecniburg and going to Huntersville and going to Minhill, going to Matthews, going to Caveris Gas and all the other counties around it and cities around it, and that ultimately could be the downfall of Charlotte. And I don't know. There's not a magic formulare because there's no desire for the people who do lean to the right to move back. There's no desire for them to take their city back, so they're letting it crumble from within, and then the people that are left have the same loser mentality that criminals are not criminals, that somehow it's not their fault. Now, if that were true, then the great depression in this country will be in the highest crime we've ever seen. And it wasn't because there was abject poverty across the country and people didn't take they didn't take to the streets to commit crimes and burn cities down. They went to soup lines and a lot of people volunteered. It was a horrible time. But if it were, if poverty caused crime, then that would have been the big time and it wasn't. So there's more to it. There is a lot more to it, And there is an enforcement problem in Charlotte that's going to be exposed by IRENA's law. And rather than embrace it and say, hey, we all want to be this is the thing that kills me, rather than say, let's all get together and solve this crime problem. Because I read the other part about Arena's law is in December of twenty twenty six they're going to be able to send people to mental health to make a determination that these people can be involuntary committed. And that's that's a beautiful thing as well. We've got to take crime seriously, and if we do, we'll have less of it. We just will. It is always the case when you enforce something. It's just like if you want to create more economic opportunit you get government regulations out of the way, you create more economic activity. It's just axiomatic, 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. It's an app and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself. 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And I can't go I can't quite go there. But I'm stuck because I hate the guy. You know, they hate the Orange ban, bad stuff. But at the same time, their parties let their party is abandoned them, and it does these you know, you look at these protests that they're doing, and you look at what is it they're trying to stand for. What is it that unites them? And the only thing I can find that unites them right now is hatred of one person. Because they're not united on the border. Because they were united on the border, the border wouldn't be cleaned up right now. They're not united on that. Many Democrats want a secure border. They're not united on the foreign policy that they think they're against because it's going very well. The tariffs that we were told in April would destroy Rock and just destroy our economy, it didn't. We went through this yesterday with the Nasdaq, the S and P. By any indacy if you'd invested in it pre tariff and now you're doing great. Democrats didn't they said it, but did they invest that way? Because they if they did, then data end losers. So I want to give you another one just for fun, to give you an example of when when several Democrats are left to their own devices, what do they come up? What's the next great challenge for them? What's something that that you know, kind of irks them? What irks them? Here's one and here's one. I bet you didn't see this one coming, but I'm going to play it and you'll see. This was the folks around Josh Governor Jos Shapiro in Pennsylvania and aspiring presidential Canada for the Democrats. And here's what was said. I'm going to let you hear it and then I'm going to explain it. Okay, so you got to hear it, and then I'll explain it. Gay Human Relations Commission the same what happen for our bill, because now hair discrimination is part of the protected class of race, which is in the PA Human Relations at So they could call their statewide per Human Relations Commission and are also satellite office offices all across the state. Did you hear that? I'm going to play it for you one more time, because I want you to be very clear, this is a new protected class. Who is it? Gay Human Relations Commission? The same what happen for our bill because now hair discrimination is part of the protected class of race, which. Is in hair discriminate is now a new protected class along with race. Hair discrimination. Now think about the absurdity of that that you know, and there comes a point in time where you can't have a dress code, maybe you can't have any kind that hair discrimination is now something you can sue, at least in Pennsylvania. In theory you can sue based on hair discrimination. It gets to the point of lunacy. It's it's like saying I have the right to where, you know, put jamas in the airport. The sense that decorum is somehow racist or sexist or so. I don't know, but you're trying to extend a protected class to almost everything. You could say, you know, hey, wearing fluffy socks is now a protected class, or I don't know, just think of an absurd hat that you want to wear, because maybe you've established it fifteen hundred years ago. One of your ancestors may have worn that when the vikings. I don't know, the point being it is reaching the point of absurdity. If that's these are democrats that want to create a democrat class. Excuse me, you want to create a class that affects all of us. They want to take everyone to task over hair discrimination. And there is no end. It's not like you can say, hey, there's an end of this. Here's where we're going to stop saying that everything is discriminatory. There's not. Because if twenty years ago I had said hair discrimination would be a thing, you would have laughed at me. Is to chat, you're nuts hell. Half the things I would tell you that that are considered discriminatory If I had told you twenty five years ago, you had thought was nuts. Now, at a certain point, recognizing discrimination is progress, and a certain point it's deleterious. We've reached the and then at another point it's not just deleterious, it's absurd. So we've gone from you know, from helpful to destructive and absurd, and hair discrimination went right or into the absurd. I can't make this stuff up. I love the people who post that. Clown World posted that, and again I can't make it up. I'd love to get into what Greg Gutfill said yesterday, because he summarized the way democrat conspiracies, I should say leftist conspiracies originate and come about. But we will get that on the other side of the break. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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