Stochastic terrorism no longer exists, apparently (09-25-2025--Hour2)

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And he points out that the attack by the gunman in Texas yesterday on the ICE facility, it's not even the first time that ICE has been attacked in Texas. Texas Immigration and Border officials were the target of far worse than just street theater. Back in July in Alvarado, Ice officers there faced a full on ambush. One was shot in the neck. Later that month, another shooter targeted Border patrol in McAllen, Texas. And now this one, the gas lighting, he says, has already begun. Incidentally, the denizens of Blue Sky America's self imposed social media leper colony, which is is so true. It's so true. That's what Blue Sky is, America's self imposed social media leper colony. Right, they have self segregated themselves a way to just just roll around in just sewage. It's gross anyway. Over on Blue Sky, they're going through the exact same cycle of denial and conspiratorial thinking that they did with Charlie Kirk's assassination, except this time they've had practice, so they're speed running it like Twitch streamers. Okay, do I need to explain this for folks who may not understand what he's referencing there. It's a it's a kid term. Okay. So first off, Twitch that is a streaming platform and it's integrated into you know, Xbox and such, and so you get on the Twitch and you stream yourself playing the games and people watch, like millions of people watch other people playing video games. So that's what a Twitch streamer is. There are people that don't do other things besides video games streaming with Twitch, but that's the like, that's the big one. That's the big platform for the gamers to stream on. And what a speed run. Is is that, let's see, do you remember Super Mario Brothers? Okay, and you would you know, run across, then you jump on the pipes, and you would hit the little mushrooms and you would do all of those things to get to the very end, right and you're trying not to die. A speed run is once you have done the board enough times, you're trying to beat your best time, so you just run right through. You blitzed right through it, okay, So that's called a speed run. So that's what they are doing over on Blue Sky America's self impost social media eleper colony as he called it, they're doing a speed run of this response. It's this cycle where they deny and then they come up with conspiracies. And here's some examples I have pulled. I'm not even gonna name these people. Because they're morons. Well, okay, I'll name one. Jojo from Jers, Jojo from Jersey. This woman who's I think she was literally paid to promote the talking points out of the DNC. Okay, so she says, this was yesterday after the photo was published of the AMMO that said anti Ice right on the AMMO. And this is what she said. Anyone else find it odd. That Cash Betel's FBI wanted to make sure that everybody knew as early as possible that one of the bullets anti Ice written on it. They didn't say anything specific about the victims, the shooter, the weapon, Nope, just that. Yeah. Okay, So look, I don't know. I don't have. Any sources in the FBI, but if I did, I wouldn't tell you. But anyway, no, but I don't, and Cash Pttel has not said this, and I haven't heard this from anybody. So this is me just purely guessing. I'm just spitballing here, people, But maybe maybe conservatives the right have now had enough of these examples, and we've seen your reaction to these events so often, particularly as of late, that we know the way you're going to respond, which is to flood the zone with crap, to flood it with lies in order to get people to believe a thing that is isn't true. In other words, to race to fill the void, the narrative void, an informational void. You go in there, you spread your lies, It calcifies, that narrative calcifies, and then people believe that the lie is the truth. Like the last polling I saw on this, I don't have it in front of me, Susie, I apologize. But the last polling I saw on this the other day was that one third of Democrats believe that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a maga guy. Not true, but that's what the left pushed. And so maybe again just spitball in. But maybe the Trump administration knows this. Maybe the right has wised up to your tactic on this stuff, and they immediately put out that photo to prevent you from telling lies. Maybe this is the this is Aaron Rupe. Oh so I said, I wasn't going to name these people. Sorry, this is the fishiest stuff I've ever seen. He did not say stuff we're supposed to believe. The shooter wrote anti Ice in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers. Yes, why is this unbelievable? Arin? Why, by the way, this guy Rupar, his last name has become a verb. Did you know that this guy Aaron Rupar, he spread so many lies that online his name has become a verb. In other words, you got rupart, which means you got duped by a lie that Aaron Rupar spread. But now he wants us to believe that this is fishy, that this is odd that they would post the picture of the AMMO with anti Ice written on it and then he shot detainees. Well, yes, if you just open fire on a bus or a van and you cannot see who's in it, then it does make a good bit of sense that the people in it would have been the detainees and not ICE officers. It's not like they're paring them off like a field trip, you know, like stick with your buddy. Every detainee gets an ICE agent, you know, that's not how they transport these people. Another one who writes this is I almost said his name not going to say, who writes anti Ice on a bullet just before shooting three immigrants being detained by Ice? Suddenly those who never trusted the FBI are suddenly convinced by this. Well, what's the alternate explanation? Make your case there, crassen steam, Oh dang it, make your make your case there, idiot, let's hear it. What that they that they took a picture of some AMMO and wrote some messaging on the AMMO and they just had it waiting. Oh and by the way, there's the AMMO and stuff is wet and the rooftop is wet because it was rain at the time, so they I guess they had to have staged that, or maybe they did it right there. They climbed on the roof, saw the guy's body and they just staged it. Maybe they wrote it there. They're planting evidence. This is blue and on stuff. But this is what on Blue Sky and on leftist Twitter. This is what they are telling themselves and promoting to their millions and millions of followers in order to get people to believe a thing that. Is not true. 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. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. But things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. 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Right, So that's that was what I did last hour, and I suspect that's what prompted you to call in was about the which groups of people blame politicians and media, social media and activists. Right, those are the break downs, right Okay, okay, so right, So so if there's a if there's some other way you want to ask that question. Well, look, I'm not specifically targeting you that you're playing the game, but it turns it becomes a game because the tactic, as you know, is divide and conquer. And also the more the more blame, the more you're doing this and you're saying this, and he's saying that stirs up the pot. So but what is the actual. In your opinion? Since you address that you're not playing any games, which I never be forether you are, I'm just saying overall I would say, people is just blame, you know, blame each other, Blame this one or the other. Okay, okay, Well I took it as that you were telling me that I was playing the blame game, because you literally said you're playing the blame game. So I thought that was about me. So that's fine. But here's the thing. No, no, right, So here's the thing though. Do you believe that that there is an increase in political violence occurring? Absolutely, okay. So so the question is what you refer to as the blame. I would I would recast, I would reframe maybe, and I would use the word why why are people doing this? Well? But what is this? Why? Oh listen, I don't have enough enough minutes on this phone to call you and tell you why. But here's what I do. Now, how about the great President get on freaking TV and say, look, here, here's what we're gonna do. Why hang on. I'm gonna stop you, Willie. I'm gonna stop you right there, because if you don't know the why, then you offering up a solution that the president needs to say something that you want him to say. You have no idea if that's actually going to help the problem. Because you don't know the why. The why, the why, all this political violence and all this stuff is carrying on. You say I don't know why, and of course I know why. Then tell me, well, hew, you see what's going on in this division in this. Country's that's a question. I'm asking you to make the assertion why. That is exactly why? Because what is why they are playing? They are blaming each other for this to any other, And I don't want to get into Look all, I want to ask you if I can, if you can just give me one one answer to this problem, because it's going to get worse. I can give you an answer. I'mlike you, I can give you an answer. Well, okay, you know, listen, it sounds to me like you you know, you're very, very intelligent. I'm not go ahead, tell me school me. I think you're intelligent. I think that you've just become accustomed to asking questions as a way to debate, and that's not actually a good debate strategy. So I'm trying to force you to make I'm trying to make you make assertions. I'm trying to give you to state your case. I want expel from the debate team back in high school in nineteen eighty four, you absolutely same, go ahead. Same, same. Yeah. Actually I was never even on a debate. No, it's just and they expelled the hell out of me because I was asking too many questions. So give me an answer. Well, so okay, right, well that should have that should have told you something. That should have told you something, Willy, you should have said right then, And they're like, maybe this isn't the best strategy, right. Can I simply, can I end this debate with something? Okay, Yeah, go ahead, sure, man, Okay, uh. I stopped listening to you in the past because you were the reason why I was going home and getting drunk. And I don't want to care welcome with that, but I love. You're welcome by Yeah, take care, Willie. I'm sorry to have hurt your feelings so much. All I require is clarity. And if you are going to your first going to say that, don't you get tired of playing the blame game. That's how you started with me, That's how you started. And I took that as that you were directing that to me. You then said that you weren't directing it to me, and you were asking and you said, this is just a question. And then I realized very quickly that you're just asking questions and you're not doing it in sort of the Socratic method or fashion in order to arrive at truth. You're simply doing it as a rhetorical device because you don't want to make the assertion, which I thought you were going to make the assertion when you were like Donald Trump should go on TV and say whatever it is you want him to say. But if you don't know what's causing the rise in political violence. Demanding Donald Trump get on the air and say something, you have no idea if that's actually a solution. You just want him to do it. For whatever reason you want him to say something. And here's the thing, though, Willy, there's nothing Donald Trump can say, even if he could, like, even if he had the bandwidth to do that, which I don't think he does. But even if he had the bandwidth to say something to bring everybody together and make apologies and say I was wrong or whatever else it is that you think he should say. These ideas are deep seated. So you asked me what my solution this would be. Well, there's obviously a lot of different ideas there, but primarily, start arresting people, start going after the funding networks. The arrest of some Anti five people, the targeting of them is a terrorist organization. That is a very good start. Game on Week one starts now, and every touchdown brings you closer to a payout with Draft Kings sports book and official sports betting partner of the NFL. This isn't just football, it's first touchdown fireworks. Anytime TV rushes live bets that ride every momentum shift that DraftKings every play is your next shot to win. 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I attempted to engage with him in good faith, but again, you know, I can only do so much. I can't you know, make people recognize the weakness of their debate tactics or information. Let me go back to the phones here and talk with Marcus. Hello, Marcus, Welcome to the show. I have a great show about every day. Hey Mark, Marcus, he there? Yeah, yeah, okay, I can hear you now. Yeah yeah, uh yeah. The while ago you was talking to that guy and you asked him why and he couldn't tell you why. Yeah, I got the why. Oh okay, all right. The problem there, thing is our education system and actually started back from nasing school. I'm seventy this year, and it started back from izing the school back in the fifties and everything, and it just gets worse and worse. You can see if you look back on it, and uh you know nowadays, uh you know that they get them off, uh tore up and everything from early age and you got uh you know, like they don't teach me in history, like uh yeah, people all to about the the UH War when we had with Mexico and how that turned out, and they never read the treaty or anything, so they don't know exactly. Remember that, No, I remember, yeah, that was for like half a minute in the news cycle there was something about uh there was something about Lady Hidogo whatever it was, or Guadaloupe whatever it was. The yeah, but they yeah, so yeah. Well the the in fact, if you look at the and I covered some of the cross tab information that the more college educated people became, the more accepting of violence and harassing of public officials they became. Yeah, and you were totally right about that. I mean, it just gets worse and worse, worse and again worked up to juju now and they're they're they're crazy, and uh, I don't see a solution to it. Really, I think it's gonna get worse. I think that uh, some of those stuff we're doing now is gonna buy some time. But uh, you know, these people and educated out there now and they don't know anything about the history of it. I feel, you know, what we paid Mexico for stuff, or we give back a bunch of stuff, and and uh, well I paid off. I think public shaming is is a good course of action as well. Yeah, that's shining bout some time. Yeah. Well, humans are very we are. I mean, think about it. Even the most hardened psychopathic killers, the worst form of imprisonment is solitary confinement, right, So even anti social people like that still needs some human interactions. So we are you know, pack animals if you will, and so, you know, shunning people for this kind of behavior I think is appropriate and necessary. So ayeah, So that's what I that's why I call attention to this stuff. It's like, I'm not playing a blame game, as will he asserted it is or questioned. It is identifying the behavior and the speech that maybe impacting people in our society to feel empowered through the erection of a permission structure that allows them and emboldens them to go do these things thinking that they will be rewarded for it somehow. Yeah. Well, I mean they're taught that in school. You're right, You're totally right about that. And then the core you have, well, I think we'll buy some time, you know, but let's just change the case system, which I don't think we're going to do. I think it's going to be a mass. Well, I think the way you do that is by getting people who are opposed to this kind of you know, critical raise theory and the critical pedagogy, and you get people in there into the k twelve institutions. I think that's the only way this, uh, this gets corrected. Marcus, I do appreciate the call good to hear from you. I think that's I think that's a big part of it is. For a long time, these sectors have been abandoned by, you know, people who did not agree with the progressive leftist mindset or they did not speak up against it. And I was. Reading, uh, some some pieces the other day about how commonplace it is for conservatives to hear actually conservatives, who are you outnumbered in a lot of these types of professions. I think one of them that I was reading was a librarian and the assumption from a lot of his co workers are that he is also on the left, and so they say things to him that they think are just completely normal. I've had this experience in my own life, the stuff that people on the left think that they can say when they because they just I guess it's echo chamber behavior where you know, well, and I've used this example. It's a Republican example. Todd Aiken all those years ago, running for about twenty years ago, he's running for US Senate against Claire mccaskell and Missouri and he comes out and says, well, if it's a legitimate rape, then the woman won't get pregnant, and everybody's like, what are you even talking about, and that it tanked his campaign and all of the Republicans running for office then had to play defend or disavow by the media, which is also infected with this same sort of leftist ideology, and so they run out stick mics in all the Republicans' faces and say what do you think about what he said? Defend it or disavowed? But I always went back to, like, where does that idea come from? And why on earth would you say that when you're running for office. Well I surmised that he had probably said that many times and had never gotten pushedback because his echo chamber probably always said, hmmm, very interesting, Oh that must be true, and they just agreed with it. And that's what happens in any kind of an echo chamber. But the left thinks that they dominate, and in some industries they do, and when they feel like everybody around them agrees with them, they say some stuff that's like that's like this, like, well, you know, I guess we could, you know, take out some of our political opponents, and that would be justified because you know, democracy must be saved. And that's the other part of it here is when you deal in this kind of constant catastrophism and you amp people up to think that the end is nigh, whether it's climate change or Donald Trump, then you have given them permission to act accordingly because it's existential. And they haven't even gotten to that point where they even admit that they're doing this, that they are playing this catastrophism. I tuned into the NPR affiliate yesterday and they're still banging on about how climate change is going to kill us all. I mean, every single day. It's the same stuff over there. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot Com. Uh sure, I'll go over here and talk to Jackie. Hello Jackie, how are you today? Hey, hey Pete, thanks for the show man, good show today. Well help you all, thanks for taking my call. Man. I just want to jump in the seventy year old gentleman who made the comments a few minutes ago about political virus or violence being worse now than it's ever been, and he blamed it on the schools. He and I grew up at the same time, and I vividly remember John Kennedy being shot, Malcolm X being shot, Bobby Kennedy being shot, Malcolm X being shot, MegaR Evers being shot, George Wallace being shot, Vernon Jordan being shot, the four young girls in Alabama and the church who were killed by the bomb, the four the teenagers who were the Freedom Riders being killed in Mississippi. Those those memories are etched in my mind. Man. So there's no way that I don't say I did not hear him say it's worse than ever before. Well, I thought, no, he was talking about how it's how it's it's getting worse now. And I think people of your generation, who have the who have those memories, would prefer not to return to that kind of an environment. And also, I mean I would also throw in the attacks on the US Capitol, the murdering of the police officers, right, the rise of these radical left wing underwhether, the underground weathermen. Right. You had all sorts of political bolence going on for decades, and we get these spasms of it. And my generation has no touchstone to this except in the history books. So I would expect people of your generation to recognize these signs and to say this is unacceptable. We do not want to go back to those types of violent acts. Yeah, And I think what the gentleman was saying earlier. You know, you know, I didn't agree with how he said it, but I think what he was trying to say. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he was trying to say that the blame games not working to solve the problem, you know, And what is how you look at it. I think it's culture fate. I really think it's our culture. Malcolm X's always something he said that. One of his famous comments was he says, your chickens always come back to roost. They may go away for a little while, he said, but they always come back home. And I think violence is embedded in our culture. We glorify balance we always had with our movies, not always now and not always right now. And we haven't always glorified violence. Well, for a long time we have. When name one period of time in America where there haven't hasn't been substantial violence. Well, that's a different question. You said. You said that we've always glorified violence in our movies, and that's not true when Hollywood first began. In fact, a lot of the TV shows when you were a kid wouldn't even show a gun being fired. Good point, good point, good point. Well, we we do a lot of it, I guess is what. Yeah, we do, Yeah, we do a lot more of it now, absolutely, And yeah, there's a desensitization that has occurred because of the media that we consume. Absolutely, so that's. Part of it. But the movie glorification started when I was a young man. You know. One of my favorite movies of all time is a Godfather. And then I don't know, you're probably not old as I am, but you remember the Bye Explortation movies, Shaft and all those movies. Those movies were built on violence, you know, and it's been that way for a long time, so we glorify violence. I'm sitting in front of a shopping center right now and it's one of these laser tag places, and there's a picture of like non a kids, eight kids in the window, all with a gun point at each other. You know. But kids have been doing Yeah, but I'm not buying that. Kids have been playing cops and robbers and that's I mean, laser tag is I think a different level. Look. I think that some of your points, and Jackie, I appreciate the call. I gotta let you go because I'm up against the break. I think the culture plays a huge role and in fact, like Bill Maher and I played this when he did it, he did a very good takedown on the current Hollywood offerings where it's always like this anti hero going out and getting revenge for being wronged and slighted somehow and how it's the premise of so many movies nowadays, and maybe Hollywood deserves some of the blame here as well, as you said, glorifying it or celebrating this kind of criminality. I appreciate the call, Jackie, 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 thepetecleanershow dot com. 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