School Board member doubles down on Kirk post; plus debunking the misquotes (09-16-2025--Hour2)

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I'm not sure which platform, although they're both owned by Meta at this point, so it doesn't really matter. And in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, she posted a message that said the following Here is what I'm going to say about today. Political violence is not okay, no matter what side you are on. That is the disappointing part. And I am saddened that this was yet another political issue that caused a death. See, I feel like the most disappointing part was was the murder? Was the murdering? To paraphrase the late great philosopher Norm MacDonald. I think it was the murdering that's the worst part. And then the second part of her sentence here, I'm not even sure what she's trying to communicate, but she's a teacher, so maybe it's just going over my head because I'm not a fourth grader or something. I don't know. I'm sad in that this was yet another political issue that caused a death. What was the political issue that caused the death? The political issue caused the death, That's what happened. Like this offloading of responsibility or ascribing to a political issue that caused a death. No, it was a leftist. It was a pro trans leftist. That's all become very clear now. And he admitted it apparently in the discord server. She then goes on to say, but do not expect me to feel See if she had just left it at the first sentence or the second sentence there, if she had just said that first part and nothing else, fine, no problem. But they can't help themselves. She just can't help herself. She has to come along and take a crap on Charlie Kirk and everybody that follows him, because that's what she's doing here, Because she says, do not expect me to feel sorry, pity, misspelled, or mournful for the man that has gone around saying I or my spouse are abominations, that we are mentally ill, that we don't deserve the same rights as everyone else. Okay, I did a search. Admittedly it was through the various search engines, so it's only going to be as accurate as those engines are. But I found I did a search for Charlie Kirk abomination, and never I found zero results of him ever saying that they're an abomination. They being Melissa Easley and her trans husband, and she I think identifies as quote non binary, and her Facebook is littered with gay pride posts all over the place, it's like her, it's like the most it's like she thinks the most interesting thing about her is like how she has sex, which you no, it's not this idea though, that it's about her. This is the narcissism of the left, that you know. Charlie Kirk making comments and expressing opinions based on his Christian faith that he believes homosexuality is a sin. That's what he believes as a Christian. You don't have to agree with him. That is not hate, just like it's not hatred to say, oh, this person is gambling too much, is an alcoholic. This is what Charlie Kirk argued. He views these things as sins, but for us to love the sinner and to try to help them see the error of their ways. Again, you don't have to agree with that, but that is not hate. He expresses no hate for those people. He says he wants to help those people because he doesn't believe what they're doing is good for them. That the sin destroys the person who is committing the sin. So I could not find any mention of Melissa easily or her family. And when it comes to the idea that they are mentally ill. Yes, he does believe, or he did believe, as do a lot of people all over the planet believe that if you say you are the opposite sex, that that is an indication that you are mentally unwell, That that is a delusion, because there are universal truths you are a man or a woman, and you cannot change them just because you go under the knife, you take some hormones, whatever the whatever you know, therapies you do, will never change your genetics, your DNA. And we are done. We are done bending the knee to this lie. You guys had the rule of the roost. About ten fifteen years ago, HB two here in North Carolina propelled this issue sort of into the national arena. I was there fighting it from the very beginning. I know all of these arguments. I've been studying this topic for over a decade, and you are promoting a lie, okay. And that's why it is very easy for people like me to stand up and give the truth to your lie. And it's why Charlie Kirk was assassinated. It's because you cannot debate the truth, you cannot argue against the truth, and so you have to silence that truth. That's what's become very clear now it's the same thing happening with Luigi Mangione, this defense of evil acts. That's what we are seeing because the truth does not need anything other than itself upon which to stand right. Lies do lies require? What about ism? Lies require? Oh? How come your people you need to do this? Or what about this other person over there? Like you? All of this distraction when this story is Charlie Kirk his assassination because he wanted to engage people in debate, because he had a view of what is true that different from yours, and you could not defend your truth. He was defending the truth. And the truth is there are only two sexes, and that is a triggering thing, which in and of itself is another one of these lies. That words are violence when they're not. Violence is violence. So fine, you don't feel pity, you don't feel sorry, you're not feeling mournful. Fine, you didn't have to tell everybody that. I don't know why you felt the need to tell. But then again, I don't know why you need to tell everybody how you enjoy to have sex. I don't get that either, But you know this is what you do. You just just vomit everything out there for everybody to know everything about you and all your feels. And I'm sure that you will frame this through empathy and inclusion. Talk right, you will try to use people's empathy against them. You weaponize their empathy because people don't they don't want to be mean. So you're like, I'm just you know, being empathetic to all the people who are feeling like me right now. I'm not doing it for myself. I'm doing it for them so they know they're not alone. If you are rejoicing in the murder of a person that you disagreed with, you're not alone. And then she says, oh, wait, hang on a second, before I do that, she has because she has another comment here about the Second Amendment thing. So I've got two clips that address what she is alleging. And when I play these clips, you will see she is a liar at worst. At best, she is ignorant, and she is just regurgitating the lies that the Left are saying about Charlie Kirk's positions because they cannot argue against the truth, so they construct lies to defend their own lies. So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's and before he died, my mom and my dad took care of him as he got worse. 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Here is what Charlie Kirk actually said, in the full context. He's responded too. There's some YouTuber who targets children named Miss Rachel and she gets political and she's all, you know, pro pride stuff and all of this, and she uses the Bible to defend her commentary on h on LGBTQ plus two IA issues. Okay, so that was the context of this discussion. Well, I want to respond to what Miss Rachel did next. This is what and what Miss Rachel did next. And this is what I was like in the minute I saw this, it was like, I need Charlie's take on this. She comes in and says, you know, folks, and so she takes off the mits Rachel costume and the uniform, et cetera. And she comes back and says and she's like, now I'm just talking as Rachel, and she goes, the reason I'm in this way is because I'm Christian, and in the Bible it says love your neighbor, and really I approach people in love. And if you're not doing that, I guess you're really following the But you didn't say that part you're not following the Bible. But that was kind of the underlying He's there. So Charlie, what's going on. With that let's let's let let's let her say it one twenty it, and then I got a dish. I've shared prayers on here before and said God bless, and that's because my faith is really important to me. And it's also one reason why I love every neighbor. In Matthew twenty two, a religious teacher asked Jesus what's the most important commandment? And Jesus says, to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. The law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. There's no greater commandments than these. Leave It's mentioned eight times love your neighbor. So yes, everyone belongs, everyone's welcome, everyone is treated with empathy and respect. It doesn't say love every neighbor, except there are so many reasons. I stand strong in love, stand with everyone. That's who I am, and the love back and the God bless. If you disagree is to. Genuine Andrew, I would just jack'spoid. I'm ying and to know, like, what do you think when miss Rachel quotes Scripture in that way? I mean Satan's quote Scripture plenty. It doesn't just say love your neighbor, though it does say love your neighbor, except in a sense as yourself. Behold on it. She's not totally wrong when she says, first of all, the first part is Deuteronomy six three through five. The second part is Leviticus nineteen. So you love God, so you must love his law. How do you love somebody? Here we go? Here we go? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin. And it says, by the way, miss Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus eighteen is that thou shalt lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying, so, miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus nineteen, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters. Now, so how do you best love somebody? All right? So let me stop there. He's making a rhetorical point about her use, her selective use of scripture, right, and she's relying on a particular passage that is immediately preceded by something that she obviously doesn't agree with and is not espousing either she's not out there saying stone gay people. She's not saying that, but she ignores that part, but then looks at this other part and says, I'm going to use this and I'm going to cite this for the kiddies who by the way, as I understand, they were talking a little bit about this also in this podcast where this Miss Rachel YouTuber is apparently recommended by pediatricians all the time when kids have an inability to speak, or they're stuttering or something, they're hesitating in their speech, and the doctors are all like, oh, go have them watched Miss Rachel, So like they're funneling kids to this woman, which they are outraged about. That's part of what they discussed also, but that's the context of what he's talking about. He's not advocating that. He doesn't advocate that. He's pointing out that she is being selective in the way she is interpreting the Bible and then pushing that message out. And what's most egregious is that the passage she is relying on is like just one passage away from this other part that she's editing out, and she's ignoring you. Love them by telling the truth. They have to be cruel. You don't have to be on christ Like in your communication. However, you certainly and I would love for miss Rachel to respond to this is pride a Christian value? She thinks it is happy Pride month. Everybody is being proud, something that we should know. It's in fact, the scriptures tell us the opposite pride go with before the Fall, that pride is something we need to try to reduce in our life to increase humility and increase piety. There is one. Say that I said, there is one list that pride'es on. Well, listen, the Bible says, have a sober view of yourself, right, yes, yeah, And it also says in Matthew eighteen six through four, if anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble. Yeah, And so it's very simple. So how do you love somebody you love them so much to correct their error? And so let's just you know, take the pride conversation out because people think it's an identification. But it's not just sexual behavior, but it's if you meet an alcoholic or you meet a drug addict, do you affirm their struggle? No, you say you're better than this. Let's get you free from that. Let's get you free from that activity. So, miss Rachel, you're actually not loving anybody, You're doing the opposite. That's his position. 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Digital games and commercial use excluded restrictions apply additional NFL Sunday Ticket terms or at YouTube dot com slash go slash NFL Sunday Tickets slash terms Limited timeoffer. Going over this post from Melissa Easily, Charlotte Mecklenburg School board member, and playing some audio debunking the lies the misquotes that the left is promulgating in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death in order to justify, rationalize their evil, their hatred, and to say, I'm not sure he should have been murdered. But. Here's a bigot, an a racist, and all these other things. And when you actually hear the arguments that he is making, you realize, oh, they are misquoting him. They are taking a part, a portion of his answer out of context in order to advance a lie. Right, That's what they are doing. So the next one that Easily posts is that, remember, according to Charlie Kirk quote, it's okay to sacrifice a few for your Second Amendment rights end quote. Okay, Well, first off, I don't think that's actually a quote, and I know you, being a teacher and all, I'm sure you would adhere to the highest academic standards as a journalist, former reporter myself. I will tell you you don't put quotes around something, right, that is not something that somebody said. So let's hear what Charlie Kirk said, because here's the clip of him talking about the trade off in a free society between security and liberty. This is what he said. Now we must also be real, We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenrycomes to the price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes to the price. Fifty thousand, fifty thousand, fifty thousand people die in the road every year. That's a price you get rid of driving. You have fifty thousand less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving, speed, accessibility, mobility, having products, services is worth the cost of fifty thousand people dying on the road. So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them. You're having more fathers in the home by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have an honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one. You will never live in a society when you've an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense, it's drivel. But I think it's I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe. So then how do you reduce? Very simple people say, oh, Charlie, how do you stop school shootings? I don't know. How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games, that's why. How do we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How do we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How do we stop all the shootings at gun shows? Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows. There's all these guns because everyone's armed. Does that sound like he was saying it's okay to sacrifice a few people for our Second Amendment rights? Is that what he's saying? Life is about? Trade? Offs. This is Thomas Sole. There are no solutions, there are only trade offs. His analogy to car deaths is one you have probably heard before if you've ever been around people talking about the Second Amendment in a debate format, because this is a pretty well worn and I don't say old, but it's been around a while. That, yes, if you want to reduce the number of automobile deaths, which is more than gun deaths, if you want to reduce automobile deaths to zero, right, And that's the argument that we got to take gun deaths to zero, then you would ban all cars, right, But we don't do that. We don't hear anybody calling for that. This is his argument. And so then you get this. You have to then weigh the cost and the benefits. And what he clearly says is we should have a reductionist view, in other words, we should want to reduce these deaths. He wants to help do that. Yes, absolutely, everybody wants to reduce gun deaths. How do you do that? And when the utopian vision comes into play, they say ban all the guns, and that's just silly. You can't. And I've had this argument myself with gun grabby folks over the years, what do they say, take all the guns? And my answer is, okay, walk me through that. How does that happen? Because you've got as many guns as there are people roughly, who's gonna go get them, who's gonna go take them? You're gonna ban them? You start kicking indoors because those people got guns and they do not want to give them up. And so if you're actually interest in reducing gun deaths, you're actually going to have more gun deaths as soon as you ban them, because you're going to have firefights between people who refuse to give up their guns. So that's the utopian vision, which is absurd. Utopia is not one of the options. But once again, evil lies. These are the lies that you're being sold that, oh, we can do zero gun des we can get to zero gun deaths. And what he's arguing is that a cost benefit analysis would indicate that in a free society there is always going to be gun deaths. And he's exactly right, unless you ban all the guns and murder all the gun owners. 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Yeah, so last year you said something about de I unqualified black polots. You see a pilm a black pilot. Don't you think it was irresponsible statement suggesting that maybe these pilots AREN'TQUI. But I'll tell you exactly what I said and why I said it. Okay, I said, if the pretext I went through a whole wind up, I said, United Airlines is saying that they want forty percent of all the pilots to be people of color or women. We have learned that that we have relaxed standards anytime that we try to reach Rachel quotas. Anytime we reach racial quotas, we relax the standards standards or air traffic control professors or college admissions. Therefore, when it comes to pilots or surgeons, if I see somebody who is black, as I said on the show, I'm going to hope that that person is qualified. That's what I said, which of course is legitimate, because they're begging the question. We're not hiring based on merit anymore. We're hiring based on race. So when you see a black pilot, you wonder, boy, is that person there because they earned it or because they were placed there? That's what DEI does. It makes you ask questions you otherwise would not ask. So the airline industry is going to take an unqualified person. Just based off the version they're qualify, not correct, under. Quest qualify, underqualified, whatever, uncertified, and put them in a cotpit. No, and risk people's lives. Those are two different things, under and on or two different things. Of course, United Airlines will not take someone off the side of the street and put them in a pilot pilot, But in order to reach a forty percent goal, they might cut corners, they might accelerate the process in order to reach a goal. We know this through all sorts of DEI examinations and projects over the last ten years. When you when you can, you have to choose in life, either excellence or racial quotas will end up being the most important, and both cannot simultaneous, simultaneous exist. It's never happened before. Okay, So when we talk about DI, well, who benefits the most, because black people really don't. It's only like maybe three to four percent of black people actually benefit from those programs. So who benefits the most? I'm not sure your question. I mean, theoretically, if forty percent of all pilots end up being black people are. But that's not I actually looked it up. It's only like maybe about six percent of pilots. Their goal is forty percent, right, that's the point is like that that's actually a great point. So they wanted to go from six percent to forty percent, and so you have to wonder, Boy, you go from six percent to forty percent, there's going to be a relaxing of standards. Okay, I guess the way. I'm all right. So that's what he said. That's what he meant about black pilots and by the way, on this this is also true that when you codified this is what happens. Also when he mentioned universities, when you have affirmative action, you had kids getting admitted into colleges that were not qualified. That then creates this It creates this idea among the entire student population and even those outside of that campus. When they know that kids are being promoted or admitted based on race, they now start asking when they encounter anybody from that school of the same race that was getting the benefit, they started asking, well, is this person actually qualified or did they just get in there because of the color of their skin? A right, That's what happens. This is the that's the negative downside of these DEI policies. I've talked about that for years. So that's what he actually said as opposed to what people are saying on social media now. Melissa Easley, Charlotte Mecklinberg school board member, not content with her dumb assery, doubled down on it, saying, I made a social media post on my personal Facebook page regarding the death of Charlie Kirk. As I stated in my post, I do not condone political violence which is occurring with more frequency in our country, but I thought crime was down. I want to be clear that I was speaking freely as an individual citizen, which is a right afforded to us all, and not on behalf of the Charlotte Meckliberg Board of Education or as a board member. So this is the clown nos On clown knows Off that like John Stewart Stephen Colbert always do where it's like, well, I'm just a comedian, and then of course they give you like the straight news, I'm gonna tell you what to think about stuff, and then when you challenge them on their dumb assery, they're like, I'm just a comedian. Cloud knows On. She says, my comments reflected my personal views and should not be mischaracterized as celebrating violence or the loss of life. Now, to be fair, I don't think she was celebrating violence. I think she was just celebrating her ignorance. That's what it looked like to me. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.