RFK off NC's ballot, a mini-budget, and AP lie (09-06-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So, we have a bit of the breaking news.

[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The North Carolina Court of Appeals has issued an order reversing the denial of a restraining

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_00]: order that was requested by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So, the Board of Elections has been instructed, do not send any ballots out today.

[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_00]: In a communique from the State Board to the County Boards of Election, the court has also

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_00]: ordered that the We The People party's ballot line be removed, including Kennedy and Shanahan.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, they say this will be a major undertaking for everyone because they were, they had been

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: printing all of the ballots, and now they have to send the, they were going to send

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: them out starting today.

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That was put on hold while RFK was appealing, and they gave him 24 hours, and now the Court

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: of Appeals issued an order reversing the denial.

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So, the lower court had denied the Kennedy request to remove itself from the ballot and

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: wanted a restraining order to stop the printing of the ballots.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_00]: That was denied.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The Court of Appeals overturned that today, and now the State Board of Elections is telling

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: all of the County Boards do not send out any ballots today.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They say it's, obviously this will be a major undertaking for everyone.

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Our attorneys are reviewing the order and determining how to move forward.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: No decision has been made on whether this ruling will be appealed.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Bottom line, continue to hold your outgoing absentee ballots, both military and overseas

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: citizen ballots, and ballots for civilian voters.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_00]: We will update you immediately with any further developments.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So that is where it stands now with the RFK presence on the ballot.

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, this is a big deal because the assumption is that after the Democrats did

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: their coup against Joe Biden, a lot of the RFK Jr. voters that were left-leaning now

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: had somebody else to vote for rather than Joe Biden.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: There were a lot of what has been dubbed double haters.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They hate Biden and they hate Trump.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't want either one of them.

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_00]: They preferred Kennedy because they didn't like Biden.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, when Biden was removed, then those RFK left-leaning voters could go back to the Democrat

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: party where they wanted to be because now Kamala has brought them all of the joy.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And so that leaves RFK drawing votes away from Donald Trump.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: RFK Jr., though, came out, remember like what, two weeks ago, I guess it was, and said he's,

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, pulling his name off of the ballots in the swing states.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to remain in the states where he's not going to play spoiler.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: The problem was that the deadlines for printing of the ballots and mailing out of the ballots

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: was rapidly approaching, and he was unable to make the deadlines.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, part of the reason why, obviously, was because of the lawfare that Democrats engaged

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: in against him.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Through their political action committees, I think it was called Clear Choice.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Mark Elias was doing a lot of the work with them, if I recall correctly.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And they had to spend millions and millions of dollars to try to get on the ballots.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They were stymied.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: They had to fight in court cases and stuff after they had gotten all of the signatures.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So they were blocked at every step along the way by Democrats in Democrat-controlled states

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and Democrat-controlled board of elections and such, and North Carolina being one of them.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, Kennedy started his We the People party because the Democrats refused to hold

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: a primary to let him challenge Joe Biden, where he might very well have beaten Joe Biden

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_00]: in a primary.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But Democrats didn't want to see that.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So they rigged their Democrat primary process to not allow for an open primary, forcing

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: RFK Jr. to then start his own party.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: They then, of course, kicked Joe off the ballot in their coup, put Kamala in, and that's where

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: we are now.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's it.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's also...

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Hang on a second.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: There's another piece of breaking news.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Trying to find it here.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Not Harris.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: No, not Harris.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: No, not Bill Malugi.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: This is from the North Carolina Speaker of the House, Tim Moore, put out a statement

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: that the North Carolina legislative leaders have reached an agreement this week on a mini-budget

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: proposal.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So for folks who aren't aware, North Carolina runs on a two-year legislative cycle called

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: a biennium.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And so the first year of the biennium is what's called the long session.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is tied to the two-year terms for the legislative politicians as well.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So they all get two-year terms, and so the first year of their term is the first year

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: of the biennium.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the long session.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They hammer out a two-year budget.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The second year, they come back for what's called the short session, where they are theoretically

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: not supposed to be doing a whole lot.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll make some tweaks to the budget.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's a shorter session.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's what we are in right now is the short session.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_00]: They adjourned a couple of months ago.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They're coming back now to finish that budget because they could not agree on the tweaks.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they now have agreed.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The House and Senate are expected to reconvene, come back in and vote on a what's called conference

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: report, which is the product of when the House and the Senate can't agree.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Then on a budget, they then go into a conference committee.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They hammer out the differences or whatever, and then they come forward with a proposal

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: and they put it up to the membership to vote on that conference report.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where we are now.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: They've hammered out the conference report included in the mini-budget.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: House Bill 10.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Requiring sheriffs to cooperate with ICE.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: A.K.A. the Gary, not my fault, McFadden bill.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, to be fair, he's not the only sheriff that is refusing to cooperate with Immigration

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Customs Enforcement to find out who the hell it is that's in the jail and to hold them

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: when ICE wants to remove them from the country and put them into deportation proceedings because

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: they might be, you know, violent criminals.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So House Bill 10 will now require sheriffs to cooperate.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_00]: That's part of the bill.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: There is also public school and community college enrollment funding increases.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're putting more money into public school and community colleges.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Medicaid funding and fully fund the Opportunity Scholarships and the ESA waitlist.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe that's the Education Savings Account waitlist.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Also rural broadband authorization.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So those were the big highlights.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_00]: The Opportunity Scholarships, obviously this is the big boogeyman for the Teachers Union

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and the Democrats, but I repeat myself.

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, oh my gosh, you're going to expand Opportunity Scholarships.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Make it more available.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but rich people are going to be able to get some money back.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That's true.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: They will not the full voucher amount.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll get like a quarter of the voucher amount, like $2,000 as if rich people need

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: that money right in order to send their kids to private school.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: No, but they're getting a rebate.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: They still have to pay like three quarters of the cost to educate the child in the K-12

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: school system that they are not using.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So they still have to pay that, but everybody overlooks that because how dare somebody who

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: makes or a family who makes what is it above I think $400,000 a year, how dare they get

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: anything back to educate their kid?

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: This is just a subsidy for the private schools.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So those are the highlights of the mini budget.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, they'll be coming back into session next week to vote on this.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I suspect Governor Cooper will veto it, but the legislature has a super majority of Republicans

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: and so they should be able to override his veto.

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[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Kelly Alexander has passed away, the director of Alexander Funeral Home, former NCAA, NAACP

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: president.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And if I recall correctly, he was the he was a state lawmaker, too.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So he has passed away.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Also, we'll keep you posted on what happens with the traffic situation.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned this a minute ago.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump coming into Charlotte.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be appearing at the FOP national board meeting.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it's up in North Meck, Huntersville, I want to say sometime in that he's arriving

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: sometime in the two o'clock hour.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And so somewhere around two, two thirty, whatever, I-85 northbound is going to be shut

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: down. Don't know for how long.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They tend not to divulge these, you know, the specifics of the of the plans and stuff.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But be aware it's going to impact traffic.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And I did get a tweet here.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a tweet from Illinois refugee.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think it's from probably Illinois.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So he's got the headline from Fox News is former President Donald Trump will be in North

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Carolina to address the national board of the FOP, CNN and The Charlotte Observer.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump visit to close Charlotte Interstate for hours.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Major Charlotte Highway will be impacted for hours.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. Well, both of those things are true.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And like but that's and I made this point.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It's five weeks or so, six weeks before the election.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And this has always been one of those things where like when you're a candidate, they

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: don't shut down the interstate for you.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're a president or I guess in this case, a former president, they do.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And that has a potential to backfire.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: People get mad if you pin them in traffic for hours.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, but they do.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: People get mad about that.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So. What else?

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the Associated Press.

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of media bias and by the way, that is a good example of media bias.

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_00]: See, both of those things are true.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump is coming.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_00]: He accepted an invitation.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be speaking at the FOP.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It is also true that I-85 is going to be shut down.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Which one do you put in your headline?

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. Which one do you put in your headline?

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I can make an argument, by the way, for for both of these headlines.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Because one of the rules when you're doing journalism is why is this news?

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I was I went over this the other day.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is this news?

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if it affects people.

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And it affects a lot of people that makes it newsworthy.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And his appearance does affect a lot of people.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It just so happens, it's probably going to affect them in a negative way.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you are predisposed to highlighting how Trump affects people in a negative way,

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: of course, you're going to put that in the headline.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. I understand why the Charlotte Observer would do it.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Not so clear as to why CNN.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kidding.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I do know why CNN would do that is because they want everybody to to ding Donald Trump.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. People in, you know, Montana reading CNN headlines.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They're only going to read that headline.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to read the story.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: They're just going to read the headline Trump to visit Charlotte and shut down a major interstate for hours.

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And there was that Trump again.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I can't believe he's doing that to those people.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Charlotte Observer, you can make a case why that would be their headline, because it's their local audience.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And if the local audience is going to be impacted, they need to know that.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So and then there's this from the Associated Press headline.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: J.D. Vance says school shootings are a fact of life.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that that makes it that makes it sound like J.D.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Vance is like, oh, well, what are you going to do?

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to put up with a bunch of kids getting killed all the time.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that actually wasn't his full sentence.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you the full quote in a minute.

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[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I have been in presidential motorcades and I have sat in traffic when presidential motorcades have gone by.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I know in the past things may be different, but from my experience, usually the highway is only shut down briefly until the motorcade passes and then it is reopened.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I do not suspect this to be a huge impact on traffic more than a regular rush hour would be.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And I also do not think anybody's vote would be influenced by the fact that they had to wait in traffic 30 minutes once five weeks ago.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And if that does impact their vote, they probably shouldn't be voting.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, but they're but they will be voting.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing you never know.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, obviously, people who have already made up their mind are not going to be swayed by whether or not they're sitting in traffic.

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But if somebody is not voting or doesn't have any, you know, they're not paying any attention.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't know.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You're talking about like a very small percentage of the of the voting population, to be sure.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But people have cited this.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They've said this, like, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but like it's there are people that will decide whether or not to vote for somebody.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not like they're it's not like they're sitting, you know, trying to figure out who do I vote for.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the one thing that did it.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's like they haven't paid any attention at all.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They're ambivalent.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they get inconvenience to a degree to such a degree that they're like, I'm going to vote against this guy.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's irrational.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: But people vote irrationally.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: They absolutely do.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know who this is from.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Walter, Trump's visit and the impending impact on rush hour traffic on a Friday afternoon will undoubtedly trigger some people and be great headline fodder for mainstream media.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But can you imagine the way they would paint him and attack him if he refused an invitation from the Fraternal Order of Police?

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, oh, that's true, too.

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump abandons cops.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure he'll be campaigning during his speech today, but let's not forget he's responding to an invitation.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's also not forget it was roughly a month ago somebody tried to assassinate him.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So some inconvenience on I-85 should be chalked up to protecting our democracy.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, I'm not saying this moves the needle in a massive way.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying some people like campaigns try not to do this kind of thing.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Usually in the past they have.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to believe me, doesn't matter.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Not to me, at least.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just letting you know that there are some people that are going to be influenced by it.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Or they're going to say they were influenced by it when in actuality they didn't like Trump to begin with.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's possible, too.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So the Associated Press yesterday, last evening, put out a story.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They published a story of a J.D. Vance speech that he was delivering.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they sent out the tweet with the headline,

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: J.D. Vance says school shootings are a quote fact of life, calls for better security.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That was the headline.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Outrage ensued.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The AP then eventually, after their tweet had 2.5 million views,

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_00]: they deleted the tweet because what J.D. Vance actually said was, quote,

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: if these psychos are going to go after our kids, we've got to be prepared for it.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have to like that reality we live in, but it is the reality we live in.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got to deal with it.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like that this is a fact of life.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines,

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: you realize that our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got to bolster security.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they're not able.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that, he said a lot of things there that could have made the

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the headline, but did not.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The Associated Press then gets dragged on Twitter, formerly known as X.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: The AP gets dragged for pulling this portion of a sentence in order to convey what?

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: What are they conveying?

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: J.D. Vance's school shootings are a fact of life, calls for better security.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It would lead you to believe that he is OK with it being the way it is when his sentence was,

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like that this is a fact of life.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like this.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't like the current status quo.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to deny that it is a status quo at this point?

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to deny that these things happen too often?

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought we were all in agreement on this,

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: that this shouldn't be happening.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And I keep hearing people say that we have to do something.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's saying we need to do something.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So he's saying the same thing that people on the left also say,

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: except they want to grab everybody's guns.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So the Associated Press then edits that headline.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what it now says.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: J.D. Vance says he laments because they can't just say J.D. Vance laments.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_00]: He says he laments.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you say?

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, why would you do that?

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you frame it as he says he laments?

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I understand he said it.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't actually say laments, but that's your word.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You have now written the word laments to describe what he is saying,

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_00]: where he said, I don't like that this is a fact of life.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So rather than saying J.D. Vance says he doesn't like that this is a fact of life.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Now they're going to say in more words, quote, J.D. Vance says he laments that school shootings

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: are a fact of life and calls for better security.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: That was their edited version of the story.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, this was in response to a question by a reporter,

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_00]: which I don't know, maybe Harris could take some notes there.

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And the reporter asked what can be done to stop school shootings?

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_00]: He said further restricting access to guns, as many Democrats advocate, won't end them,

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: noting they happen in states with both lax and strict gun laws.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: He touted efforts in Congress to give schools more money for security.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: President Joe Biden, according to the Daily Wire report yesterday,

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: put out a statement calling for gun bans and condemning Republicans and gun manufacturers

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: after last after at least four people were killed when a gunman opened fire at Appalachee

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: High School in Winder, Georgia.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Wednesday morning, Biden slammed Republicans for their inaction on gun legislation,

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: saying, quote, Republicans in Congress must finally say enough is enough and work with

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Democrats to pass common sense gun safety legislation, which, by the way, is not common

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: sense.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: We must ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines once again require safe storage

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_00]: of firearms and act universal background checks and end immunity for gun manufacturers.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, those are not actually in practice common sense restrictions.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the father of the shooter has now been charged in Georgia.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And like I'm the more I hear about what happened and what is alleged here.

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So I am to believe now that after the FBI shows up at your house because of threats,

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: your 13 year old son alleged allegedly made that they are investigating on a gaming website

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: or something.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That after that occurs.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You then buy him an AR-15.

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't understand that.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't look.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a gun owner.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a Second Amendment supporter.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I oppose these types of gun restrictions.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But if I had a kid that was going through mental health issues or I get a visit from

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the FBI saying my kid is threatening to shoot up a school or something.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, those guns are those guns are getting removed from my house.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And no, sorry, son, we don't get to go on hunting trips anymore because I can't trust

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: you.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a big deal.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a really big deal.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So now he's charged.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I also wonder, are you going to charge parents of other shooters?

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we going to have a consistent application of this of this standard?

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kidding.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I know the answer to that is no, of course not.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Certain shooters will, but maybe this becomes more of a norm.

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of parents going to get locked up in Chicago, I think.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Mark says it's a message on Twitter, so it's not technically a tweet because it's just

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: a message.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a DM.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so Mark says I have two kids that are adults, but when they were 14, they would

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: never have been given any type of gun.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, look, everybody's different.

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Every family is different.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Some kids you can trust and they get trained up in it and they hunt with their parent and

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: whatever.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not judging on any of that.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I am questioning a parent who buys their son a gun for Christmas two months after the FBI

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: knocks on your door saying that your kid has been threatening to shoot up a school.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: That, to me, would say, you know what?

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's pump the brakes a little bit on the firearm presence.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's just me.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_00]: That's just me.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Dave says, now this is a tweet.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Dave says a question comes to mind about the school shooter.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_00]: How did he get an AR from home to school?

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Not like he drove his car to school.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good question as well.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: How did he get it into the school?

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Do they have metal detectors at the school?

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, how did he smuggle a long gun, a rifle into the school?

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm guessing he stashed it in his locker because the story is that he was in the classroom

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and he got up and he left and then he came back with the gun but he couldn't get back in

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: to his classroom because the door had locked.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, by the way, that's one of the safety measures you implement in order to harden the

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: target, right?

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is what J.D. Vance was talking about when the Associated Press took half of his

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: statement in order to imply that he's okay with school shootings.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh well, it's just the way things are.

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what he was saying.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the Harris-Walz campaign immediately, dare I say, pounces on or seizes upon the

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: statement.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it's never framed like that because only Republicans know how to pounce or seize

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_00]: upon things.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But Harris-Walz statement yesterday, Vice President Harris said, it doesn't have to

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_00]: be this way in response to another senseless school shooting.

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump and J.D. Vance think school shootings are a fact of life and we have to get over

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: it.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_00]: He never said that, first of all.

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And second of all, what you said when you said, quote, it doesn't have to be this way

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: communicates the very thing that J.D. Vance was saying and that he doesn't like it, that

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: this is a fact of life now.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You're acknowledging the very same thing when you say it doesn't have to be this way.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Be this way.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It is this way.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It is a thing that is occurring now.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It is the status quo.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It is what is occurring now.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You are saying the same damn thing.

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But they put out a statement saying school shootings are not just a fact of life.

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have to be this way.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We can take action to protect our children and we will.

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That was Kamala Harris.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Tim Walz's Twitter account says, this is pathetic.

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_00]: We can't quit on our kids.

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: They deserve better.

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Like who is saying any of this stuff?

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And the media gives them the assist on this.

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I mean.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I mean.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_00]: This is why I am voting for Trump to punish you in the media, because this is the kind

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_00]: of garbage you are doing in order to put your thumb on the scale to help one candidate,

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_00]: one campaign.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, by the way, did you know that Harris backed the use of lists of gun owners so she could

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_00]: send police door to door to seize firearms?

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_00]: She once threatened to use databases of gun owners to send police to their homes to confiscate

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_00]: firearms.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_00]: She described this stance in an August 2019 Democrat presidential primary forum that

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_00]: took place after two deadly mass shootings in California and Texas.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And she said she would implement comprehensive background checks, crack down on gun dealers

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and ban the import of so-called assault weapons.

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And she said that she would allow police to knock on the doors of people on a state list.

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's terrifying.

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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