Nick Craig In For Pete Kaliner (03-31-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] A busy news weekend across all fronts. So we'll try to get to all of it here over the next three hours. You've got the stuff going on over in Europe between Ukraine and Russia, some movement on that. But I wanted to start on an underreported story. I'll call it the underreported story of the weekend. And you've got to go out west to Albuquerque, New Mexico for this story to start. And it's where a fire broke out at the entrance of the Republican Party of New Mexico.

[00:00:57] This happened very early yesterday morning before 6 a.m. Local time. Now, fires happen, electrical fires, storms rolling through lightning strikes, causes fire. There are plenty of reasons why something can catch on fire. However, this was not the case of a freak natural disaster, mother nature. This was not the case of some shoddy electrical work that caused the building to burn down. No, this is a case of arson perpetrated on the Republican Party of New Mexico.

[00:01:27] So the fire rescue responded shortly before six o'clock yesterday morning to find the front entrance of the building on fire. When crews arrived, fortunately, quickly, five, 10 minutes, they were able to get everything under control and for the most part, save the majority of the building, even though there is significant fire, water and smoke damage throughout the rest of the facility.

[00:01:47] And so this, of course, brings forward a very interesting question. How did this fire start? And local officials, in fact, are investigating it as a case of arson. And why might that be the first place that they're going? Well, spray painted on the side of the building. We're not dealing with the most intelligent folks here, ladies and gentlemen. Spray painted on the side of the building in red spray paint was ice. I C E equals K. K. K.

[00:02:16] That's what was spray painted on the side of the building, not more than 15 feet from the burning entrance of the New Mexico Republican Party office yesterday morning. So this is once again, a case of political violence being perpetrated by the progressive left.

[00:02:36] Now, of course, the irony in all of this is the fact that it's the same individuals on the left. It's the same organizations on the left, the likes of which CNN, MSNBC, the major news networks, NBC, CBS, ABC. They're always the ones talking about, and we've really got to just ratchet down this political violence. How many times have you been told that you need to be part of the solution, lowering the political temperature?

[00:03:04] No pun intended with the story in New Mexico. Yet it's the same individuals that espounge this message that tell us as Republicans, us as conservatives, that we need to ratchet down our political rhetoric while they're out there burning buildings to the ground. Well, they're out there throwing Molotov cocktails at the entrance of the Republican Party of New Mexico's office at 530 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

[00:03:33] It's the same group of individuals. Now, of course, this idea that you can blame one entity for this. Now, hopefully they find the individual or individuals who are behind this act that decided that they were going to take it upon themselves to destroy this property to try and burn this building down.

[00:03:56] Hopefully those individuals are are are caught, captured, and then, of course, have to deal with the full throat of the judicial system thrown at them as they should. They should have the book absolutely thrown at them. But let's not bury the lead on this. The. Uptick in political violence that we are seeing in our country, this is being fueled by one side and one side alone,

[00:04:23] and that is the far left fringes of the Democrat Party. If you want to look at who is driving a narrative right now that is leading individuals to believe that it is appropriate, that it is acceptable, that it is OK to go and firebomb a building at five o'clock in the morning on a Sunday. There is no other place to look than the mainstream media and the individuals that they continue to invite on their news networks and on their programs.

[00:04:53] These are the individuals that are stoking the fear of the American people that cause these things to take place. There is undoubtedly a correlation, a correlation between the two things. When over the last three months now, all you've heard if you watch MSNBC or CNN is about how awful Donald Trump, how awful Elon Musk, how awful the Republicans, how awful the conservatives,

[00:05:22] whatever group, how awful these people are, they're stripping away rights from women. They're doing this to that group. They're doing this other thing to this other group. This is all that you've heard for three months now. And by the way, probably part of the larger message of everything you've heard for nearly the past decade as it revolves around Donald Trump. It makes sense that something like this happens. It makes sense that somebody thinks that this is an appropriate thing to do.

[00:05:52] It makes sense that individuals carry out the will of these news networks, of these commentators, of these expert analysts that they bring on to talk about politics. Because this is what they're calling for. Now, of course, they don't go on CNN and say, burn down the Republican Party of New Mexico's office.

[00:06:11] But when you stoke the fear of these individuals day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute on these news programs, day in and day out, are you really surprised that this is the result? I'm not. I'm not surprised that individuals are taking this into their own hands and acting this way. This is what they've been told. The people that they're doing this to, in this case, the Republican Party of New Mexico, are the worst people that have ever existed.

[00:06:41] They're trying to strip away everybody's rights. They're trying to destroy democracy. They're being akin to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. So why are we shocked? Why are we surprised that this is taking place? Yet, we need to tone down the political rhetoric, right? We need to roll back some of the nasty, vitriolic things that are said by both sides of the political aisle.

[00:07:10] When is the left going to start practicing what they preach? Now, don't hold your breath on that. You'll end up passing out, of course. But at what point do we start looking at these individuals and holding them responsible? All of this woke up to the story this morning.

[00:07:29] With all of this going on, just look at what's happened over the last couple of weeks where you've had dozens of videos making their way to social media showing deranged leftist lunatics defacing individuals' private properties. What are they doing while they're keying people's cars? What kind of cars are they keying? Well, the likes of Elon Musk and Tesla. Now, they're not keying Elon Musk's car. They're not keying the cars of Tesla employees.

[00:07:58] They're keying the cars of private, everyday individuals and citizens who are just minding their own business and shopping only to walk out and see that their car has scratch marks all over the side of it. Why are they doing that? It's the exact same thing. They've been misrepresented and lied to by the mainstream media about everything awful that's going on in the world right now. And one man that or two men or three men that are responsible for all of it going wrong. And these individuals are acting out.

[00:08:27] Now, they're trying to be sly with it, of course, when it comes to the Tesla cars, only to have them, I guess, not understanding. They're too stupid to understand and realize that these cars have cameras covering literally the entirety of them. So all of these people's pictures, all of their videos have ended up all over social media. Local law enforcement has videos and pictures of these people with their sunglasses on. They're too stupid to understand. Being the resistance party.

[00:08:54] Keying up somebody's car in a parking lot because they hate Elon Musk. They hate the Republicans. They hate Trump. They hate conservatives. They hate everybody because their party lost back in November. So their solution since then has been, well, let's burn down offices and let's destroy people's private properties. And I think this is going to end very poorly for the left big time. 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.

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[00:10:14] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. Let's jump on over to our phone lines. Lee's hanging on line one. Lee, good afternoon. You're on the Pete Counter Show with Nick Craig. Go ahead. Hey. So I was listening to what you were just saying. First of all, I just found your radio station actually just a couple of days ago. You were talking about tech advice. So I wanted to thank you for that.

[00:10:41] But I wanted to make a comment about what was stated about it being far left. That was the only ones doing damage. Sure. Okay. So I'm not affiliated with the party because I know everybody can hear it. They're probably going to send us backlash from this. I'm not affiliated with the party.

[00:11:06] I evaluate, I go through the information, and I make my own decision on who I choose. And I really don't think it's necessarily accurate to say it's just the far left. I mean, I think in all of these cases, it is exclusively the far left, though, right? I mean, the individuals that are burning Tesla dealerships down and skiing individuals' cars

[00:11:34] and firebombing a GOP office yesterday. I mean, that is exclusively the far left. Okay. Does anybody know who did the fire that just happened? Because what my thought process is, is looking at everything, are the far right not mad, too? Sure. I mean, the far right was mad for four years under Joe Biden.

[00:12:04] I didn't see local Democrat party offices going up in flames across the country. Okay. And I understand that. I mean, I didn't see people driving around electric vehicles or people that had solar panels on their houses being burned to the ground because people on the right disagreed with the Green New Deal. Lee, I understand the point you're trying to get to in that there is polarization on both sides of the political aisle. And I agree with that. Exactly. And I don't think there's not much to argue. But there's one big difference. But what? There's one huge difference.

[00:12:34] When the right acts out, it is the responsibility of every elected Republican, the president, and everybody associated with Republicans and conservatives to answer for that person. When somebody on the left acts out, when a GOP office is burned down in New Mexico, when individuals are roaming around mall parking lots keying people's cars, I didn't see any microphones in front of any Democrats this morning.

[00:12:59] I didn't see any microphones in front of Jasmine Crockett's face this morning as she's yelling obscenities in Congress about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. There's no accountability. There's not even a story on CNN or MSNBC's website about it. I can promise you this, and I appreciate your call this afternoon, Lee. Thanks for listening. If this was something that was happening on the other side of the political aisle, if a group of Republicans burned down a Democrat Party office yesterday,

[00:13:27] Donald Trump would already have been hauled in front of Congress and would have microphones in front of his face asking him why he caused this to take place, why he allowed this to happen. I mean, that's the big difference. And that's what's really frustrating to me is it's not called out equally. Political violence is bad. When individuals act out based on their politics, act out based on the fact that they like or don't like one side of the political party or aisle or issue or whatever it is,

[00:13:55] but it's not equally implied. When Republicans act out, it's a threat to democracy. When Democrats act out, that didn't happen. There's no news coverage about it. It practically didn't even happen. And that's a major, major problem. And that's how I see this playing out. And it's unfortunate because individuals should be held responsible for the things that they do. I mean, there's just no question about it. But unfortunately, that's not what happens on. That's not what happens on both sides of the political aisle.

[00:14:24] There is literally nothing. If you go to CNN or MSNBC's website right now, there's nothing on there. It's as if the story didn't happen. As if there's nothing that happened at all. This is not a local GOP. I mean, this was the GOP headquarters in New Mexico. Yet, no conversation about it?

[00:14:47] There's no microphones in front of members of Congress this morning asking them why their rhetoric on the left is responsible for this taking place? How about all of the individuals who have had their personal vehicles defaced over the last two months because they decided to go out and buy the car that the left told them they needed to buy, right? That's, of course, the irony with the whole Tesla thing. These cars are what the left said you need to go out and buy so the planet doesn't spontaneously combust due to climate change.

[00:15:17] You go out and you buy a Tesla, and now it's getting keyed in a mall parking lot because Elon Musk is working with the Department of Government Efficiency. It's just insanity. 704-570-1110. Let's head back to our phone lines. Line 3. Tony's hanging on the line. Tony, you're on the Pete Counter Show with Nick Craig. Go ahead. Hey, look here, man. I heard you complaining about Teslers being burned and this and that. Were you as concerned when they went to the Capitol, defecated in the building? Defecated? That's the first time I've heard that.

[00:15:47] Oh, you know what? They did anything and everything up there. Were you just as concerned about these little Teslers? But you know what? Elon Musk, and you know as well as that. If you do people wrong, you're going to expect to get some payback. And that's what's happening, and I'm glad it's happening. So you're okay with the GOP office getting burned to the ground in Mexico this weekend? Certainly. Certainly because of all these criminals. He had like 1,500 criminals goals, but these people are pretty much innocent. They're burning these.

[00:16:17] They're innocent. You know where all these criminals go? He called them innocent. So you're fully in favor of political violence. Tony, you're fully in favor of political violence. That's what I'm hearing from you. Retribution. Let all these people go? Yes. So you're all in favor of that. But I'm sure, Tony, you'd be the same one yelling and screaming about how we need to lower the political rhetoric in the country, right? Not at all. Forget that. That's over with. The Republicans really pushed that to the brink. So forget.

[00:16:45] The Republicans pushed that to the brink. Oh, yeah. It's on now. Okay. Well, there you go, Tony. I appreciate your call, and I'm glad to see that you're just falling into exactly the narrative that I guess that the left is painting. You guys are all in favor of political violence. I'm a hypocrite, though. Why? Yeah. Because, hey, did you complain so much about January 6th? Absolutely. Individuals that trespassed on the U.S. Capitol should have been helped. Yeah, absolutely. I do. Well, what do you think about him letting all of them go? Some of the biggest criminals. What do you think about that? Like who?

[00:17:17] The leader of the Proud Boys. What do you think about that? The guy that wasn't even in D.C. at the time? I'm talking about the other one. Big. Who? Get out of here, Tony. I mean, come on. So your thought here is that because of January 6th, it is okay for you, and I guess you would do this yourself by the sounds of it, you believe it's appropriate for you. I would do it.

[00:17:40] It's appropriate for you to go into a mall parking lot and deface somebody's private property because you disagree with how something was handled in the past? Do you not see the self-destruction that you're bringing forward? The Republicans caused this, and so it is really unannounced. That's all I'm talking about. Absolutely. There you go. That is the typical leftist trope. It is always the Republicans. Those Republicans, those damn Republicans have caused every problem. I just don't know how the left comes back from this.

[00:18:08] So not only is this stuff happening on the left, then you've got people like Tony who are championing this on, and then we wonder why the Democrat Party had a miserable election cycle in November. We wonder why the American people rejected the left, their policies, and their politics back in November of last year. It can't possibly be because of the rhetoric we just heard from Tony. It can't possibly be that. Here's a great idea.

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[00:20:02] outside the Albuquerque area was firebombed yesterday morning by a group of individuals. We don't know who they are yet, but they spray-painted on the side of the building some of the typical Democrat tropes that would lead you to believe that this was obviously politically motivated. And the thing that I find myself frustrated with this morning is how there's no coverage of it. I'm opposed to political violence on both sides of the political aisle,

[00:20:28] whether you are a Trump card-carrying conservative or a fringe radical leftist. I am not okay with political violence. But I do find it to be quite ironic that anytime there's a Republican involved in anything that can be deemed politically violent, that there are cameras and microphones in front of every single Republican in this country's face asking them to condemn these actions. What do you have to say to the individuals that perpetrate this?

[00:20:58] Do you condemn what your party stands for every single time? Yet you've got people's private property, their Tesla cars that have been keyed and burned up all over the United States over the last couple of weeks. You've got a Republican party that got firebombed at six o'clock yesterday morning by a group of deranged leftists. And mum's the word. It's not even talked about. It's not even on CNN or MSNBC's website as a story. I mean, that's how little they want to talk about it.

[00:21:27] So my question, I think, is a fair one. If you're truly against political violence, like we always hear from the left, how we need to turn the temperature down, ratchet down the rhetoric over and over again, why don't you guys speak up when your party's responsible for it? Why don't you speak up when individuals on the left act afoul? You have no problem doing it when Republicans act out of turn. You have no problem doing it when it fits your political narrative.

[00:21:58] And maybe that's what this all comes down to. Maybe it's not actually lowering the political rhetoric. Maybe it's not actually lowering the political temperature in this country. Maybe it's just about pushing our agenda forward. And I think that's exactly the case when you look at why there's no coverage of this at all. Why there's very little coverage of individuals' private property being keyed and burned and scratched up all over the United States

[00:22:24] because they committed the cardinal sin of driving a car that the left told them they needed to buy to save the planet and save the environment. The irony there is pretty rich. Let's head on over to Line 4 at 704-570-1110. Angela's hanging on the line. Angela, you're on the Pete Callender Show with Nick Craig. Go ahead. Hey there, Nick. I'm just responding to the person that called before, Tony. It is extremely sad, very sad to see the attitude that people are having.

[00:22:53] Violence doesn't give you anything. They answer anything. I feel like most people need to know their facts. That's why it sounds ridiculous that he is really wanting violence to be the answer. And he's okay with things like this happening. Innocent people are getting their cars targeted. It's just not right. And I cannot believe. We just need Jesus. That's all we need. Stop blaming everybody else. Try to do the right thing. Treat people like they're supposed to treat it. I mean, the politics needs to just get out of it.

[00:23:21] I mean, these people's cars are being burned up. There are people picketing outside of when these are the same people who wanted us to have all electric cars and clean up the air. And it's just crazy. It's just so contradicting. But then it just kills me that you want to save the air. Okay? And how do we power these electric cars? Well, of course we power them with coal and steam plants all over the country. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. I mean, I don't know.

[00:23:51] It's just so upside down and so backwards. We need to get back to the basics. I just don't know why anybody, regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, why you would be advocating for political violence right now. I was plenty upset over the last four years. I was not happy with the previous administration, Angela. I would presume you probably weren't super thrilled with the previous administration.

[00:24:15] But at no point was it my idea or a good thought for anybody on the right to say, you know what the solution to this is? Let's go burn down some Democrat Party headquarters. I just never heard that taking place at all on the right. I didn't see it. I didn't hear it. You just create even more havoc. I mean, why? I mean, that's not the solution. Just keep on digging and digging and digging. We're not going to get anywhere. I mean, none of this makes sense. Violence is not the answer. You should not start violence with ending violence.

[00:24:44] You should not retaliate or anything like that. I mean, we need to get down to the nitty-gritty and work together. Work together. But I am very upset and disappointed that the gentleman before and gentleman last week called in, and they were for all of this violence. Now, what I would like to ask them is, what if this was their family member's car or their family member's place of business that was targeted? And that's exactly the case, Angela.

[00:25:12] And that's what's so disappointing about all of it taking place. I appreciate your words and your call this afternoon at 704-570-1110. I mean, that's exactly the case. It sounds great on paper. You might sound great to post on social media. But we're talking about people that are being really impacted by this.

[00:25:31] The employees of this local GOP office that, well, are not working this morning and probably won't be working for some time due to the fact that the front of their building was burned and is completely torched. I'm looking at the pictures on a local news station out of Albuquerque with these pictures. I mean, these people aren't going to work today. They're not. I mean, if they are, they've got brooms and mops in their hands cleaning up the destruction left behind.

[00:25:55] I just don't know why we would be at a period in time right now where we would think that it is good to egg this on, to make comments that this is somehow going to lead to what? I mean, the complete and total, unless you're just for the complete and total destruction of the American system, you should not be in favor of this. Right?

[00:26:18] Because once you start traveling down this road, when you say, okay, fine, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, both sides can do whatever they want. And individuals are allowed to attack you on the street if they disagree with you politically. I mean, where is that going to lead us? I mean, if you critically think, where is this going to lead us? It's not anywhere prosperous. It's not anywhere that you and I would ever want to live. We would never want to live in a society like that. You can go back and read the history books on those societies.

[00:26:48] Turns out they don't exist anymore. I mean, you don't have to have a PhD in history or political science or political history to understand what the progression of this looks like. And you look at these situations with the cars that are being destroyed in people's yards or their driveways and out at malls and shopping centers or whatever. Folks, I can tell you how this ends. And it's a scary proposition.

[00:27:15] Somebody is going to get severely injured and or killed when they go and try and scrape up somebody's car. When they try and break through the window and throw a lit Molotov cocktail in there. That's what this is going to progress to. I mean, this is where this leads. When you continue to ratchet this up, somebody is going to get severely injured or, God forbid, killed because of their actions that they're playing out. We don't want that. I don't want that.

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[00:29:05] I mean, violence is not a solution of any kind, whether it's vandalizing cars or bombing Republican campaign offices, which I hadn't heard about. So, yeah, he is a very small minority, as are, I think, people on the right that want to have political violence.

[00:29:29] But having said that, I might want to remind you, and you can look this up if you don't believe me, but in Biden's last, I think it was his last State of the Union or speech to Congress, he said, and political violence has no place in this country. And they panned over to the Republican side of Congress, and no one stood up and no one clapped. I can't. You know, that speaks volumes to, it's true. It's what happened. It's a reality.

[00:29:59] Um, so I think Tony has a fair point in that comparing scratching a few Teslas, uh, compared to going to Congress and trying to overthrow the government, killing policemen is a bit of a stretch of a comparison. I didn't make that comparison at all, though. Well, I'm making it. Well, yeah, but I mean, your framing of that is wholly inaccurate. I mean, I mean, here's the reality, here's the reality, John. One, political violence, as you stated, and I am in full agreement with you, is not acceptable.

[00:30:29] There's no, I don't know of anybody besides a previous caller that's making the argument that it is somehow appropriate or good or that eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth is going to lead us to great American prosperity. I don't know anybody that's making that argument. No, no, we're in total agreement. This is the issue that I have. And it comes down to the fact that this, the political tension that we are feeling in the country right now, which you could cut with a knife almost as bad as the humidity this afternoon. It's very, very real, and it's very much there.

[00:30:59] And I'm not going to dismiss that people are freaked out on both sides of the political aisle. There's a lot going on in our country right now. What I am, what I, and what I, but this is what I find myself very frustrated with is that you've got this rhetoric that continues to take place on the left. And you see it constantly all the time about how Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and anybody who affiliates or associates with those two individuals are not only a threat to democracy, which of course we're not a democracy.

[00:31:27] We're a democratic republic, but we're a threat to democracy. They're akin to some of the worst individuals that have ever existed in world history. The likes of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi revolution in Germany in the 1930s. I mean, that has an impact, and that's what I find myself so frustrated with as we continue down this, what is a very politicized time that we're living in right now.

[00:31:51] You've got individuals that continue propagating this message, continue propagating this narrative, and this is where it leads. When you tell individuals day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute on these cable news programs, that it is okay to act in this manner because of everything that's happening. When you're fighting against Elon Musk, when you're scratching up a Tesla in a supermarket parking lot,

[00:32:19] when you're doing that under the guise of Elon Musk, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler, that's how these lines are drawn. That's what's so frustrating to me about what you're seeing right now. The narrative is being pushed very, very heavily by the left. And if you had a bunch of Republicans out here saying the same thing, I'd feel the exact same way. I would have the exact same comments if it were taking place on the right, but it's not.

[00:32:48] And that's really what's so frustrating about all of this. Let's jump back to our phone lines at 704-570-1110. Kirk's been patiently waiting on line three. Kirk, good afternoon. You're on the Pete Counter Show with Nick Craig. Go ahead. Good afternoon, Nick. How you doing? I'm doing great, sir. Hope you are. Yes, sir. I appreciate you taking my call. You know, with all this violence, when you look at it like Jasmine Crockett says about Senator Cruz, you've got to hit him over the head.

[00:33:17] You've got to hit him over the head hard. She's actually promoting going out and doing this. And as a member of Congress, that doesn't really look too good. Supposedly, she's an attorney. So she should know that she is actually not only promoting violence, she is threatening violence against a sitting senator. Absolutely. And my question this morning, Kirk, is were there any cameras in her face this morning as she came back to Washington, D.C., asking her about this political violence?

[00:33:47] And I believe the answer to that question is no. Oh, the answer is no. They have different folks that do these little blips where you get to see it and hear it, but never asked her about it. And every time she speaks, it's always about, like she talked about the governor calling him Hot Wheels because he's a hot mess. Yeah, talking about Greg Abbott, who's a paraplegic and is handicapped and is in a wheelchair. That's what she said about Greg Abbott. It's insane.

[00:34:17] Well, she did her speech. She said, oh, you know it's because, you know, he's a hot mess because we have all this hot ass weather down here in Texas. Exactly. And for reframing. If you know her, no, it's not that. Absolutely. And again, what I find myself frustrated with, and it's a great call this afternoon, Kirk, greatly appreciated, is it's just not handled equally. I mean, that's the issue that I've got. I am against political violence.

[00:34:45] I'll state it once again in case I haven't been clear over the last hour. I am against political violence. But if the media is going to be so quick to run in front of every Republican that's ever been elected in the history of the United States to ask for their comment when political violence shows up on the right, then they need to be held to the exact same standard when it shows up on the left. And they're not. And that, to me, I find that to be incredibly, incredibly frustrating.

[00:35:11] If these same individuals that are constantly talking about lowering the political temperature, if they truly cared about doing so, they would hold their own party just as accountable as they hold those folks on the right, which I wish they did. Because we should both sides should be held to account equally for out of control rhetoric that leads to political violence. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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