RetConning Roy Cooper's record | Hour 3

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That one just came to me, But no, I'm thinking Roy retcon Cooper because when you read the Twitter feed of the Cooper campaign, that's all they do. They retcon him and his record. It's as if he wasn't a forty plus year politician. With a record. It's as if, like the things that we watched him do, the things I reported on him doing, as he did them, it's as if they never happened. To these people, they're just retconning his past and h The latest example here is they put out a tweet that said, about four hours ago, a new poll sixty one percent of North Carolinians say housing is unaffordable, fifty nine percent say healthcare is unaffordable, fifty eight percent say groceries are unaffordable. Michael Wattley says, the economy is great. Okay, so there are actual economic indicators that show a good economy. I know people don't want to hear it. I know people don't want to hear it. And that's largely due to the inflation because the prices went up during the Biden administration. We saw double digit inflation over the first well overall, I mean the four years, but the first like two years it went up like twelve percent or something like that. It was like nine percent one year, and then like another three percent or something. They're four percent the next year. It's skyrocketed. And that's the thing about inflation. This is why it's called the silent tax is that it never goes away. Right, thing like the prices don't ever come down. Deflation doesn't happen. It's always just inflation. Prices go up and then salaries catch up hopefully. And the inflation was due to what government spending. Right, Joe Biden added trillions of dollars to the budget. We are running multi trillion dollar deficits every single year and it is unsustainable. And when you you know, print the money. I know they don't print it per se anymore, but when you print the money at the rates that we saw during COVID and then after COVID with the you know, the Green New Deal, although they didn't call it that. What they call it the Build Back Better Act or something, Right, those costs get passed down to everybody through inflation because we are devaluing the currency. Okay, So those inflation, uh prices, those inflated prices, that inflation does not go away. They remain in the prices. So people that were expecting all of these prices to come down, that was a that was a a misunderstanding of it wasn't well, it was a real it was an unrealistic expectation. It was not going to happen, right, And I know. Trump gets out there and he says, you know, the prices are coming down, We're going to bring inflation down. All this right, inflation is always going to go up. That's been my experience. It just it's a matter of how much, right, normal inflation is like somewhere two three percent, Right, that's quote healthy. I mean, you don't have to agree that that's healthy. But like, this is a structural problem, and it comes from federal government spending and most of that, the vast majority of that is driven by entitlements, right, the stuff that nobody wants to touch. Had we touched one of those entitlements years and years ago when George W. Bush first suggested, Hey, why don't we let people take some of their social security allocation and instead of giving it to the federal government, so the federal government could then put it in this little IOU holder and say we'll totally pay you back on that, which they're not going to Instead of doing that, how about you invested in the stock market. You have the option. You don't have to, but if you want to, you can take like half of that money that you set aside in social security and you can direct it into the stock market, and had people done that, had that been allowed, you would have seen a return. I think I saw somewhere. I've got it somewhere. I'll pull it for the next segment during the break. It's in the stack of stuff. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars richer. We would have been. But nobody wants to touch in titlements, Medicare, Medicaid. Fact, we're expanding it right like that was Obamacare supported by one Roy Cooper. Medicaid expansion pushed by Roy Cooper. Housing is unaffordable. Why is housing unaffordable? Several reasons. One of them just a new Federal Reserve paper that was done on this illegal immigration. Right when you open up the border and you admit somewhere around I don't even know, ten to twenty million people. They got to live somewhere. And if you're not producing enough supply of housing, then you're going to see prices go up because you have a constrained supply and an increase in demand that drives prices up. Meanwhile, you have more people, so you have an increase in this supply of people and labor, and now they're competing for fewer jobs, which means what people can pay less. So that acted as a as a governor, as a restraint on. Wage increases. These are the costs of open door illegal immigration policy, which I will point out Roy Cooper was a supporter of. In fact, this is. Part of the why I say he's been His team is retconning his record. Said he refused to make law enforcement cooperate with immigration enforcement, right like he vetoed bills that the legislature was passing to try to expel and deport illegal immigrants that got arrested not for being an illegal immigrant, but for doing something else. They ended up in a jail. And you know here in Mecklamurre County, that's what our sheriff Gary, not my fault, Macfatten. That's what he ran on. That's what he That was the issue, the elimination of the two eighty seven g program that identifies illegal aliens, puts them into ICE custody, and ICE gets rid of them if they end up in the jail, if they get arrested for some crime. And when the state legislature said we should be helping with that, we should be deporting criminal illegal aliens. Roy Cooper Veto did, and now he's saying, oh, look at housing is unaffordable. Yeah, housing is unaffordable when you allow ten million people into the country and you put that kind of pressure on the housing stock. Also, what contributes to the increase in housing prices besides limited supply, government regulation which limits supply because now you can't build enough places, right, if it's more expensive to build more places, you don't get more places built. And these are things that democrats advocate for us more regulation. I saw one stat a while ago as like one hundred thousand, almost one hundred thousand dollars on the price of a house is because of the regulatory burden. There are a number of other factors. Don't get me wrong. We're building bigger houses, they have nicer amenities and stuff. So it's a multifaceted issue on the price of housing. My focus here is on the retconning of Roy Cooper. Also, again he supported Biden's massive spending which caused the inflation which is built into the pricing on all of the these things that he's now. Like, oh, everything is so unaffordable. It's like he hasn't been in office. All right, for over a year now, you've heard me talking about create a video. Great local company in mint Hill that has helped more than two million families preserve their memories by turning old photos, VHS tapes, film reels and slides into lasting keepsakes. 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He's a part of why we're regulated for one hundred thousand all the extra out here. Exactly right, Bete, Well, thank you, Steve. Yeah, that's why that's all I got to say. Just let you know you're right, all right. I appreciate it. Well, I can realize that. Yeah. Well, uh, I hope so, I hope so, Steve, I appreciate the call. Yeah. I mean this is the uh, the ability of a person like Roy Cooper to stare at a camera and just lie like that and you know, claim no responsibility for forty years in politics, I mean, at some level you have to like, you have to be impressed, like, wow, I could never do. That, you know. But I'm looking at I don't know what this what is this about? To? Uh? Okay, So that's about the platiner thing. Bob wants to know. Why is the emergency COVID nineteen spending still in federal budgets years later? Because that's the thing about government spending is once it's implemented, it's very difficult to get rid of it. Danny says, a vote for Cooper is a vote. For Joe Biden. Yeah. Remember Roy Cooper was endorsing Joe Biden when he was running for reelection. He was telling us Joe Biden's fine, everybody should vote for Joe. Everybody should do what Joe wants. This is see Roy Cooper has gotten by with this this fake sort of and I call it all shucks. I'm just an old country lawyer kind of. He didn't even say lawyer because he only practiced for a very short period of time before he got into public office. I'm just a I'm just a soula pharma from Nash County. I'm the son of a school teacher, you know, like that's that's this this affect that he strikes and people believe it, and he does all these things that are you know, on the progressive side, the far left side. He goes along with all of that stuff. He never challenges the Democrat Party as it lurches further and further and further. To the left. All he does is vote for those things, which is why if he's the Senator from North Carolina, he's going to vote for whatever the Democrat Party decides to do. And as they get more and more captured by the socialists, that's what you're going to see. There wasn't there There wasn't a single thing that came down from the federal government under Democrat leadership that he did not endorse and support. He complains about in this tweet, complains about the high cost of healthcare. Well, why is that? How did that happen when when guys like Cooper were running around telling everybody to vote for or to support the Affordable Care Act, and people like me were saying, that's going to drive up the costs. In fact, if you want to lower the costs, you need to get government out of this sector, because when government is in a sector, it drives up prices. If you look at the largest increases in the costs of services, it's all the services across the economy where government is heavily involved, education, healthcare. Right, the classic example. I've been using this for twenty years, but there are other examples of it now, and there were at the time, Like look at Lasik vision correction. Right when that first came around, it was super expensive. Nobody could have. Very few people could afford. Oh that's just for the rich, only the rich. Yeah, those are called the early adopters. There's actually an entire you know, uh, area of study about this particular thing. The early adopters, they move in. They're the ones that buy the new flat screen TV technology. When the TVs were cost in five grand and everybody was like, oh, we can't afford these TVs. Only the richie richies can afford them and all that and then what happens more TVs like that get made. Prices come down. You can buy a massive screen for a couple hundred dollars because the early adopters paid more. Some people just want to be the early adopters. They like the new technology, They have the money to spend, and they they they help the companies that invested on the front end without a guarantee of success. Right, they invested on the front end in a new technology, a new product or service. They took all the risk. They recoup their costs and then they and they make profits. And as they make more profits, now they can keep lowering the prices to get more customers, which increases their profits, which then allows them to drop prices further. That is what happens in a free market. When you have an unfree market, then the prices get distorted. You go to the doctor and they are or some procedure. Do you know how much that procedure costs? Do they tell you what the procedure costs? They do not. You have to file it or they file it with the insurance company, and then they fight over what do they cover or do they not cover? And all this other stuff. Lasik was the classic example that started off very expensive and then the price came down and down and down. This is from the text line seven oh four number. Wouldn't a thinking person see old Roy's commercials on what he's gonna do and ask you were governor for eight years and didn't accomplish any of it, what will be different in DC as a junior senator? No, well, I should say, yes, a thinking person would. But a lot of people they don't engage their entire brain when voting. They don't pay attention right now, they're not paying attention. They start paying attention in a couple months right before the election, right, And that's why you know Cooper's out doing all of these ads. And I know people who listen to this station, you follow politics. I follow politics year round, and so we see these ads and we're like, oh my gosh, like look at the ret conon going on here, Like look at the lies he's telling. And because we know the history, But for people who don't know the history, maybe their new arrivals to North Carolina, maybe they don't pay attention. Russia used to call them the mushy middle right, and they're not paying attention. So when they see an ad pop up for Roy Cooper and they just see this folksy, you know, older white guy who's just promising to fix things in Washington. It's all very vanilla and he's safe, right, but he is. The purpose of these types of ads is to introduce him in a nice, charming, folksy kind of way to voters that aren't really paying attention. That's the point. You're not the target audience for these ads. I am not either. Regarding the ret conning. He got the big endorsement from move on dot Org. I always point this out too. Move On got its name during the Clinton administration, right, this was the organization that popped up. It's a left wing outfit, and they popped up to tell everybody to basically shut up, move on hill from Bill Clinton's scandals, right, stop talking about Monica Lewinsky and all of the affairs and all that stuff. Stop talking about just move on. We need to move on. Move on. So they're still around, and. They put out a press release people Powered Progress. Okay, they say Cooper led North Carolina to become one of the fastest growing states in the nation, building a strong economy that saw the state name the best place for business three of the past four years. Here's the retconning. Roy Cooper vetoed like everything. The guy had more vetos, I think than all other previous governors combined. He vetoed everything the Republicans put in front of him, because that's what the Democrats demanded. The activist crowd right, the donors right. He was a. Culture warrior, social justice warrior for the left while he was governor, because he had aspirations obviously for a national run. So he built his rolodex for precisely this run. And you need then to cowtow to the national Democrat donor base, and they are to the left of most North Carolinians. Okay, so he's now claiming credit and move on. Dot org is is crediting him with the economy, with the business climate in North Carolina. Now, people like me who have followed this for a while, know that Roy Cooper was not responsible for this because Roy Cooper vetoed all the budgets. Roy Cooper opposed all of the legislation. When the Republicans took control of the legislature, Roy Cooper was the Attorney general and while he was trying to shake down businesses like oil companies for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to create a slush fund for these left wing environmentalist groups that he would control. Right, got shot down on that in lawsuits. But while he was busy doing that stuff, right, the legislature was reforming the tax code. Right, the legislature was doing things to make this a better climate to attract businesses, and that was successful. Roy Cooper was not the reason why those things happened. In fact, they happened in spite of his efforts. Right, Roy Cooper was happy to go out with the big, oversized pair of scissors and cut the ribbons on you know, announcements and stuff on groundbreakings. But Roy Cooper was also one of the leaders in the North Carolina legislature before the Democrats lost power. So the tax code, right, the business climate, all of that stuff that existed prior to twenty eleven, that's more on him than it is the boom that occurred after Democrats got tossed out. And then they say working across the aisle, Yeah, that didn't happen either. Roy Cooper didn't work across the aisle. He championed historic bipartisan initiatives to deliver better paying jobs, support public education, and lift up communities across the state. Very nebulous terminology there, But again this is by design. He delivered better paying jobs. As if a governor can do that, they cannot. The legislature can enact policies to do these sorts of things. Support public education, that's nebulous as well. Just because he supports it doesn't mean he didn't veto all of the budgets that funded it. He's running for US Senate to take on corporate greed. Meanwhile, he was handing money away to these corporate entities to come to the state, Right, wasn't he doing that? Want to give him credit for all the ribbon cutting and all of the tax breaks that the corporation's got. Meanwhile, out of the other side of your mouth, you're talking about taking on corporate greed, lowering costs for the middle class, and bring common sense leadership to Washington. So he's going to be a leader right out of the gate. He's going to be a leader in the Democrat Party. How he's going to help your community's going to make stuff cost less. He's going to do that. As a junior Senator from North Carolina, he's going to do that. He's going to make things cost less. He'll advocate for policies that curb corporate price gouging on food and groceries. So price controls, Is that what we're talking about? What do you mean by price gouging? What is price gouging? This is one of those things that the Democrats talk about, usually in the aftermath of a natural disaster. A price is a signal. It's what are people willing to pay and what are people willing to sell for? So this is see he positions himself as some sort of moderate, but in touting him, you got move on dot org using the language of Marxism, because that's what this is, command control economy type stuff. We are going to make sure nobody makes too much money. Well, how much is too much? We'll let you know. He also talks about access to affordable healthcare. Roy brought Democrats and Republicans together to expand Medicaid. Did he did he really or was that just the Republicans finally, basically, in my opinion, Caving as one of the final states to expand medicaid because they saw the way other states had done the workarounds in order to not break the state budgets, which oh, by the way, it's you know, Medicaid spending is now like billions and billions and billions more than projected, as is always the case. Hang on a second, I have to do one thing here. I got to change this name here from Kevin to Kevin the fake Republican. Okay, uh save okay, because on the text line, I can you know, if you tell me your name, I can put a name in there, but I can also add things in there. And so just scrolling through Kevin because I got a message from Kevin, I see his entire text history kind of just scrolled back up a little bit, and he's expounding socialism, and which is weird because he says as a Republican, so he's claiming to be a Republican before he says the following, as a Republican. You guys are beating a dead horse. So keep that, keep that in mind. I'll tell you why in a minute. There's a reason that Cooper got elected governor twice in a red state. It's because people include me, trust him. He's a fair guy. Okay, So note the first thing that Kevin the fake Republican, I'm gonna call him that because when you tell me to basically shut up, now, I'm not thinking you're a Republican because that is a go to standard play from the leftist playbook shut up ery. That's why they call people names. So this way, you stop talking about the thing that they don't want to talk about. Call you if you point something out, you say something, you make a counter argument, and you say I have a different idea on how to get to this look you know this destination than you do, and then you get called The name usually ends with an ist. And now the argument isn't about policy or anything like that. Now it's about why am I this thing that you called me? Or why am I not this thing you called me? Now you're arguing about something else. So I just wrote back to Kevin to see if you'l spawn trust Roy Cooper to do what you say? You trust Roy Cooper? You trust him to do what. Right? Or you just like the crease in his pants to quote Chris Matthews, formerly of MSNBC, or you like the cut of his jib is that it? Like? What exactly is it that makes you trust the man? Do you trust all politicians? Or is he different? He is he a different kind of politician. Do you like the fact that he likes hockey? Is that it because he's a hockey fan? Like? What is it? What do you trust him to do? Because when it comes to trusting him to do stuff, I too trust Roy Cooper to do what the left wants him to do. He will do that. I have no doubt in my mind that if the left is going to be like, hey, you know what, We're going to nationalize all of the farms, Roy Cooper would not oppose that. Kevin then says, I actually have better Republican since we're Ronald Reagan. I'm just a number Trump Republican because he's a crook. Okay, you are not a never Trump I think that's what you were trying to say there. You're not a never Trump Republican if you're saying that you trust Roy Cooper because he's fair. Those are two different things. So you can be a never Trump Republican but also recognize Roy Cooper for the type of politician that he is. But you're not doing that, Kevin. You're taking your hatred of Trump and you're turning into it into a hatred of all Republicans. Now, You can hate Michael Wadley, that's who's running against Cooper, whatever, but you didn't make that argument. You made the argument that you trust Roy Cooper. And I'm asking you why, what about Roy Cooper inspires your trust? Michelle says, don't forget. Cooper also marched with the left wing groups during COVID right on TV without a mask. He required everybody else to wear, right, Yeah, he took the mask off while he was marching with the BLM people. The day after, he had to flee the Governor's mansion because of the assault that was occurring on the governor's mansion, and he was tweeting out support for BLM, and he was tweeting out, you know, these messages of support, and then they attacked the governor's mansion. He had to flee, They had to take him to the emergency operations center outside of town, and then they brought him back next day and he went out there and raised his fist in the air, did like a half a block march with them in solidarity and all of that, and refused to call in the National Guard to protect the businesses that didn't have the type of security that the governor's mansion. Had and they got looted. Sorry, but Cooper's home that was fine, even though he had to evacuate. See, that's why I wonder. That's why I wonder, like, why do you trust him? You still have an answer. Kevin has just responded against Michael who that's your problem, Michael Wattley. He's running against Roy Cooper, he's the Republican nominee. I don't I'm just asking you, what about Roy Cooper inspires your trust? And you're you're having a very difficult time answering that question. Maybe think about it. Get back to me tomorrow because I'm about out of time here. Seven oh FO four number says, what did Cooper ever do in his thirty plus years in state government to benefit us? And then also the Hurricane Helene stuff? King Cooper? Remember COVID or sorry, remember Covington. I don't know what that? Okay, that might have been COVID. Another Kevin says, oh no, another Kevin being put in time out. I don't know what it is with all us Kevin's being so bad. I didn't know. Kevin? Are you in time out? Did somebody put you in time? It wasn't me. I didn't put anybody named Kevin in timeout, Jennifer says, Kevin must think we're stupid. I don't know. Well, we'll give them time. Let him think about it and figure out why he thinks Broy Cooper is fair and worthy of trust, and we'll see what he has to say tomorrow. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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