The Bad Border Bill and loving America (02-08-2024--Hour3)

[00:00:00] Howdy, what's going on? Thanks so much for listening to the podcast. It is hard live

[00:00:10] every day, by the way, from noon until 3 on WBT Radio and Charlotte. And if you want

[00:00:14] exclusive content, invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep

[00:00:19] with links. Become a patron, go to thepetecalinarshow.com. This podcast is also supported by North Carolina

[00:00:25] businesses. So please consider supporting them. Try not to skip through their short ad. Make

[00:00:30] sure you hit the subscribe button to get every episode for free right to your smartphone

[00:00:33] or tablet. And thanks so much for your support.

[00:00:36] I do appreciate it when Mike calls. And at the end of the last hour, I talked with Mike

[00:00:42] and as Mike Dasely, he's the he's a local attorney, Democrat. He used to be the lawyer.

[00:00:48] I think he was lawyer general counsel or something for the Mecklenburg County Democrat

[00:00:52] Party. I don't know how long ago that was, but I remember it was probably like 15 years

[00:00:58] ago or so, 20 years, 20, 15 years ago. And I always, I appreciate him calling in and

[00:01:06] having the debates, you know, these arguments. And you know, he's a lawyer and I'm media.

[00:01:12] So we kind of love to just argue, well, mainly I'm a political science guy. So I enjoy it.

[00:01:17] I enjoy the discussions. But I, like, I, I think it is illustrative of sort of this disconnect

[00:01:26] that we have when, when discussing this issue, but others as well, that I know Mike's position.

[00:01:35] And I don't think Mike knows mine. I know the information that Mike is presenting. And

[00:01:41] I don't think Mike knows mine. And that is, I think, illustrative of the larger issue

[00:01:47] at play in so many different arguments. I have, I've made this, this point when talking

[00:01:56] about election integrity, for example, when this usually arose around like the big fight

[00:02:02] over voter ID and usually the first response in a, in an argument over voter ID would be

[00:02:10] something like, Oh Pete, there is no, there's no such thing as vote fraud or election fraud.

[00:02:18] Doesn't happen. So then I would present evidence that it does happen, because it does happen.

[00:02:24] It happens all over the place. You get examples here, there everywhere, every single election

[00:02:28] cycle, there's always a, there's always a story. So for people to make the assertion

[00:02:32] that there is no fraud, that is a lie, whether they know it or not, that is not true. So then

[00:02:40] I present to them, you know, usually I'll, I'll forgive them a story. I'll say, here's

[00:02:44] what happened in the last election or this recent election, whatever. So this happened.

[00:02:49] So then there's a fall back. The fall back is, Oh, well, it doesn't happen a lot. Okay.

[00:02:58] So then I can bring out some more examples. Here are some other places, some other elections,

[00:03:03] different, you know, people got busted, whatever. So then it becomes subjective as to, you know,

[00:03:09] what is a lot? And that's, that's, that's trickier to argue if I can present to you three,

[00:03:14] four, five, six, seven cases or whatever. Now it's like, okay, because you can keep going

[00:03:19] back, you can keep coming forward with more evidence. So then you have another fallback

[00:03:26] position and the fallback then becomes, well, it doesn't actually happen enough to, to

[00:03:33] change the outcome of an election. And then you can actually provide them information

[00:03:39] and examples where it has because that has actually happened. In fact, any race, any

[00:03:46] race and every single year we have an election, you always hear about a story of a race that

[00:03:52] ended in a tie every year, right? Last election, the last election cycle in North Carolina,

[00:04:01] there was some mayor's race that was decided by the flip of a coin, because that's what

[00:04:06] the state law requires, or the local code or whatever, flip a coin. This has actually

[00:04:12] determined election outcomes in North Carolina and other states for decades, if not centuries,

[00:04:21] the flip of a coin, chance when it's tied. So any race where there is a tie, that means

[00:04:28] that fraud can affect the outcome of that result, because all it takes is one because

[00:04:35] it's a tie, right? So statistically, mathematically speaking, it must be so that it affects the

[00:04:44] outcome of some race somewhere, right? That's logic. Okay. So then when you, you make this

[00:04:51] argument and maybe even you cite what happened in Bladen County, North Carolina, the overturning

[00:04:57] of those election results, right? Did affect the outcome of that election? No, Mark Harris

[00:05:03] wasn't the congressman, right? Right. He never got the service term in Congress after all

[00:05:08] of that. So it does affect the outcome. So then after you do that, and meanwhile, by

[00:05:15] the way, when you're having these debates, this take place over you on social media or

[00:05:18] something that takes place over the course of an extended period of time. And by the time

[00:05:25] you get to the third or fourth fallback position, where then you're like, okay, find it affected

[00:05:33] the outcome of an election. Okay. But it's not widespread, right? And now it's like, now

[00:05:39] you have to, you've got to make this argument that it is affected like the presidential

[00:05:43] race. Okay. And by the time you get there, you're usually

[00:05:47] the, you know, day two of a social media debate or something. And then it just kind of falls

[00:05:53] away. They go on to other things and they block you or mute you or whatever. And then

[00:05:59] couple weeks go by and you'll see them again and you'll see them on the Facebook or the

[00:06:05] Twitter or whatever. And what do they do? They go all the way back to the very first

[00:06:09] argument. Oh, this, this election fraud doesn't happen. You don't need voter ID. This happens

[00:06:16] so many times over the last decade when I was arguing in favor of voter ID and I was taking

[00:06:23] phone calls and we were having, you know, social media debates or radio debates on this stuff.

[00:06:29] It was always the same pattern. And that's the same pattern that I see with the immigration

[00:06:34] debate. The same thing, like what is the first thing that we've been told by the Democrats

[00:06:43] over the last three years? It's that it's not a crisis. The border's secure. That's been

[00:06:51] their position for three years. And within the span of three days, it turned into a crisis.

[00:06:58] And the border is not as secure as it needs to be. And so therefore we have to give Ukraine

[00:07:02] 60 billion dollars. That's, that's where this, that's where it all flipped. It was a bribe.

[00:07:13] It was a bribe that Democrats wanted and the leadership of the Republican party wanted

[00:07:18] and they misread their colleagues, Republican leadership, misread their colleagues in the

[00:07:23] Senate. And more importantly, they misread the electorate, right? The polls have shifted.

[00:07:30] I understand Donald Trump made calls and Donald Trump was like, don't do anything, you know,

[00:07:35] that's going to take this issue off the table for me. I know, I understand that. And for

[00:07:40] Democrats, that's going to be enough because orange man, bad, they see everything through

[00:07:44] the prism of Trump. I do not. I don't view everything through the prism of Trump. I am

[00:07:49] aware that he said that. And maybe that swayed some people over to his side or not. I, but

[00:07:54] when I saw the vote or I saw the details come out on Sunday night, it didn't take Donald

[00:08:02] Trump to tell me, oppose this bill. I don't listen to Donald Trump for that kind of advice.

[00:08:08] Maybe some lawmakers do. Maybe enough of them do. I don't know. I do know this. I do

[00:08:13] know this. Donald Trump had told people don't do the bill unless it's an excellent bill.

[00:08:20] And media chopped off the last part of that admonition. If Republican, if the Democrats

[00:08:29] in the Senate had come forward and said, we will go ahead and do HR two, that the Republicans

[00:08:35] in the House passed, do their border bill? If the Senate said, we'll take up HR two.

[00:08:41] Yeah, we'll, yeah, we'll do that. There would have been no problem. That would be law if

[00:08:47] Joe Biden would have signed it, right? If Democrats would have been willing to negotiate on HR

[00:08:52] two, but they weren't. They didn't take that bill up. They instead construct this entire

[00:08:58] gang of aid crap in order to get Ukraine funding and, and a facade of border security that

[00:09:07] actually just codifies the discretionary ignoring that the president is currently doing. And

[00:09:16] it puts it into the law and it says any challenges get to be determined by the DC court of appeals

[00:09:21] or the DC circuit court rather. Where, by the way, Biden will always win. Democrats

[00:09:26] will always win in that court. It was a terrible bill. And, and that, and that's just the beginning

[00:09:32] of it. I've gone over all of the deficiencies in this bill for the last 48 hours. Got a bunch

[00:09:37] of emails here. I don't think his name is mine daily. All right. Mike. Okay. Every time

[00:09:43] Mike calls. It reminds me how lucky we, how lucky we are that Alec McMillan beat him.

[00:09:51] I don't like three or four consecutive times in the race for Congress. I, I don't know.

[00:09:57] I wasn't. I don't know. I don't remember him running. Did he run? I mean, I guess he

[00:10:00] did if John says so. I believe John. Thomas says, I just walked into your conversation

[00:10:08] with Mike. My head is about to explode. I believe he has missed the first rule of immigration.

[00:10:13] It has to be legal. You are correct. There are countless numbers of terrorist suspects,

[00:10:18] gang members. Now Chinese military aged males that are in our country due to the policies

[00:10:22] of the last three years. We, the people should be very skeptical of anything coming out of

[00:10:26] Washington right now. I believe that most politicians there do not have our nation's

[00:10:32] best interest at heart. This massive push of illegal immigrants looks like we have nationwide

[00:10:37] electorate gerrymandering taking place. Jason, welcome to the program. Hello, Jason. Hey,

[00:10:45] how you doing? Hey, I'm good. What's going on? Hey, all this talk about the, the border

[00:10:51] and the new bill. I'm just trying to get your opinion on what you think about the just strictly

[00:10:58] the border patrol in the, in the bill. If it's good or bad. You are the one that the bill

[00:11:04] that failed? Yeah, I know there's more to it, but I hear both sides and to me, it's kind

[00:11:13] of like more politics than anything because I mean, I heard the border patrol agents all

[00:11:20] for it. And that's my thing is, or you for the, what's in it, for the border patrol alone?

[00:11:27] Do you agree with that or not? Yeah. Well, so there were different aspects of the, of

[00:11:31] funding for different board of patrol and immigration customs

[00:11:34] enforcement programs, right? There was, I mean, it's a 370 page bill. So there were

[00:11:39] all sorts of different, yeah, there were all sorts of different things. So the union chief

[00:11:44] came out and said that they support the bill because it had a lot of extra money for agents.

[00:11:49] It had more hiring of more agents unions generally like when you hire more agents because then

[00:11:53] they can draw more money out of those paychecks. But a lot of the board of patrol rank and file,

[00:12:00] they did not agree with their union leadership on the bill.

[00:12:04] So that's where I needed to correct you because the actual chief of the board of patrol agent was

[00:12:11] was interviewed by Martha McCallum and he was all for it. That's what I said. Well, he's the chief.

[00:12:18] You said they, so him and the legal counsel were for it. That's what I said. I said the board of

[00:12:25] patrol chief was for it, but the rank and file said, in fact, some board of patrol agents are

[00:12:31] accusing the chief of being bought off, which I don't believe. But no, he's a friend of mine.

[00:12:36] Oh, well, that's fine. I just, Jason, don't hear what I don't say. I said specifically,

[00:12:44] the chief agreed with it. He was supportive of it, but a lot of rank and file union members were

[00:12:49] not. So there was disagreement among the board of patrol rank and file and leadership on

[00:12:55] certain aspects of the bill and the totality of the bill. So, right, it's not a clean

[00:13:01] forward or against it, good or bad. There are different components. Like, for example,

[00:13:05] there's a part of this stuff that's called the alternatives to detention, the ATDs.

[00:13:11] And what the bill called for in the ATDs was just, it was a complete mess. Also detention space,

[00:13:18] they had 34,000 detention spaces right now that Congress is funding that are not being used,

[00:13:23] yet they're going to expand it to 50,000. So if you say, well, the bill says they're going to

[00:13:27] expand it to 50,000, is that good or bad? Well, I guess that would be good. But if they're not even

[00:13:33] filling the 34,000 they currently have, then no, it's not good. All we're doing is throwing money to

[00:13:39] create detention spaces that nobody's using. Well, on certain aspects, but if you at least want to

[00:13:46] stop the gushing at the border and all that, I just thought that you knew what you can now.

[00:13:53] And like the chief said, you have amendments and it just seems like it doesn't stop the gushing.

[00:14:02] But it doesn't stop the gushing. It does a little bit. I actually worked the border

[00:14:06] for 11 years and eight of those years were on board tech. That's how I know Jason. And I can

[00:14:11] tell you all about it. You could actually look up a guy named Alexander Kirknick. He was shot and

[00:14:18] killed and I was on the ground in Nogales, Arizona back in June of 1998. I know all about the board.

[00:14:23] So why then? So why then would you allow 4,000 encounters to come through? Why allow 4,000

[00:14:28] encounters to come through? There's still a process to it. He's talking about there's more

[00:14:35] getting by without anything done. That's the problem. There's either you do something

[00:14:42] now or just let it go. And then you worry about it at a later date. Why not re implement the

[00:14:49] remain in Mexico? Oh, that would be great. But the president, that's right. That could be done

[00:14:54] right now by the president. But if anything, at least have something in play to do something

[00:15:02] about the border and instead of just no, let's just leave it alone. No one's saying leave it alone.

[00:15:07] Well, no one's doing anything right now. Because it's not what I'm saying.

[00:15:11] The chief. Jason, what if doing something makes it worse? The something that you're asking to be

[00:15:18] done codifies this discretion that the president has been using to make it be what it is right

[00:15:25] now? Why would we want that to be codified? Well, I would I would ask the people instead of just

[00:15:31] the politicians to listen to the main guys in the border patrol that have actually worked it and

[00:15:37] they might have a little a little insight on how to get it done. If you want to run a bill that's

[00:15:43] strictly the border patrol funding components, I suspect that bill would be wildly successful.

[00:15:49] Because that's the original conversation I was having. Do you support just the border patrol?

[00:15:56] That's my concern. Right. But I'm not going to say, but so here's your false dichotomy. You're

[00:16:02] saying it's I got to take it all of it or none of it, right? I'm saying do the border patrol funding

[00:16:07] secure the border every Republicans are fine with that. But you're not going to bribe me

[00:16:13] with codification of the worst elements of the current policy. That's like telling me I have to

[00:16:18] pay all of the terrible teachers the same amount of money as the best teachers. I'm not going to

[00:16:23] do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to be bribed like that. I'm not going to be

[00:16:26] extorted. It's I'm not going to that then that's just me. You know, but I'm not a politician. So

[00:16:31] email is Pete at the Pete calendar show.com and on the Twitter machine at Pete calendar,

[00:16:38] where I got this from Melissa. It's a Pete tweet. My father used to say the worst thing the

[00:16:45] public can say to government is do something. Exactly. That's not wait. That's not it. I'm not

[00:16:54] calling on Pam. Okay, but no, that's true. This call to just do something. We need to do something.

[00:17:02] This gets to a comment that I forget with Jason that Jason made right before the news,

[00:17:09] talking with Jason. He said he used to work on the border and that we need to do something.

[00:17:14] Yes, but that doesn't mean we do something bad. You're not going to get me to agree

[00:17:19] to do this one part that's good. If it's going.

[00:17:22] want to mean that all this other stuff, this bad stuff happens and you put it down

[00:17:28] in law that now it can't be changed.

[00:17:32] That's and I know law can be changed, but the difficulty of amending it and he's like,

[00:17:36] Oh, come back at amendments.

[00:17:37] And have you seen what's happening in DC for the last decade?

[00:17:42] Gridlock and I'm okay with gridlock.

[00:17:45] Stuff doesn't happen.

[00:17:46] Here's the deal.

[00:17:47] Right?

[00:17:48] You run a border patrol and ice funding bill.

[00:17:51] Which, by the way, the Republicans in the house did HR to nobody's bashing the Democrats

[00:18:00] for not taking that up and voting for it.

[00:18:02] Right?

[00:18:03] No, no, no.

[00:18:04] We're all going to beat up on the Republicans for not going along with this terrible bill

[00:18:07] that they ran as a bribe for Ukraine funding.

[00:18:12] That's what that was and it was to give this fig leaf of I'm doing something about the

[00:18:18] border to Democrats in Biden because they are so under water on the polling right now.

[00:18:24] All right.

[00:18:25] Let me go over here to the phones and talk with Gail.

[00:18:27] Welcome to the program.

[00:18:28] Hello, Gail.

[00:18:29] Hi.

[00:18:30] I just wanted to thank you and Pam and your people who work for you like Brendan Dixon

[00:18:35] and John.

[00:18:36] You all paid are so happy and don't let those folks break your happy bubble.

[00:18:44] Oh, thank you.

[00:18:45] Just keep it up, man.

[00:18:46] You're doing a good job.

[00:18:48] I love to listen to you and as far as Jason's concerned, he sounded like he had been on

[00:18:55] the border since 2000.

[00:18:56] Oh, well, I don't know.

[00:18:58] I think he, I think for him, and I found it interesting too, where he said that his view

[00:19:05] was that he was, you know, allying himself with the border union chief and because he

[00:19:11] knows him, he's friends with that guy and I get that.

[00:19:14] That's totally fine.

[00:19:15] I don't see any experience working down there, but what, what he, what he was doing was the

[00:19:20] same thing essentially that Pat McCorry did, right?

[00:19:25] Right.

[00:19:26] Where they said, I, like Pat said, I read the Wall Street Journal editorial.

[00:19:29] They were for it.

[00:19:30] So I'm for it.

[00:19:31] And I'm not going to do that.

[00:19:32] I'm not going to outsource my decision making to somebody else, even if they're my friend.

[00:19:38] I'm not going to do it.

[00:19:40] So.

[00:19:41] And I don't blame you for that.

[00:19:42] And you're absolutely right.

[00:19:44] I heard Pat McCorry say that he had outsourced any information at one point when he was serving

[00:19:51] as governor to one of his staff.

[00:19:54] Well, that's not what he's there for.

[00:19:56] And they're not there to do that.

[00:19:59] So I think, I don't know how Mr. Mike is the attorney, but sounds like he needs maybe

[00:20:06] a little mental health.

[00:20:08] Oh my goodness.

[00:20:09] No, no, he's okay.

[00:20:11] Mike's okay.

[00:20:12] And I've said this many times before for different people, look, I would be very hard

[00:20:18] pressed to sound any better than Mike in some of these debates.

[00:20:24] Because he's having to argue an illogical position.

[00:20:29] It's a very difficult philosophy to defend, you know?

[00:20:32] And so I sympathize with a lot of people on the left for that very reason because they're

[00:20:37] doing the best they can.

[00:20:38] And I'm up to be a Democrat and there's just such a terrible, terrible taste in my mouth

[00:20:44] for them right now because I'm also older and I understand what's going on out there.

[00:20:49] But it's not what we need for our country.

[00:20:52] I'm very patriotic, two flags, front and back.

[00:20:57] And I love my country.

[00:20:59] My family loves my country, our country.

[00:21:02] So keep up the good work.

[00:21:03] Well, thank you.

[00:21:04] No, don't burst that bubble, keep that happiness going with Miss Pam.

[00:21:09] She's a sweetheart.

[00:21:10] Yes, she is.

[00:21:11] We love Pam very much.

[00:21:12] Thank you very much.

[00:21:13] Gail.

[00:21:14] I appreciate that call.

[00:21:15] Thank you, dear.

[00:21:16] Thanks.

[00:21:17] Good to talk with you.

[00:21:18] Take care.

[00:21:19] That's very sweet.

[00:21:20] By the way, I do have the latest PU research on what Americans think about our country.

[00:21:32] I might be bursting some bubbles on this one.

[00:21:35] All right.

[00:21:36] Do the current world events have you wondering whether we are teetering on the edge of catastrophe?

[00:21:41] Are you concerned?

[00:21:42] It's going to reach our shores.

[00:21:43] Okay.

[00:21:44] So what are you doing about your concerns?

[00:21:46] Let me help Carolina Readiness Supply at carolinareadiness.com, whether you're looking

[00:21:51] to expand your emergency preparedness supplies or you have no idea where to even begin Carolina

[00:21:56] Readiness Supply can help you food, water purifiers, tools, first aid kits, instructional

[00:22:02] materials, camping and hiking supplies even because being prepared is just smart.

[00:22:07] Carolina Readiness Supply has 2,000 square feet of supplies and educational materials

[00:22:11] that you'll need for any kind of emergency.

[00:22:14] In Waynesville and always at carolinareadiness.com, veteran-owned Carolina Readiness Supply.

[00:22:20] Will you be ready when the lights go out?

[00:22:22] Hello, Chris.

[00:22:23] Welcome to the program.

[00:22:24] Hello, Pete.

[00:22:25] Hey.

[00:22:26] What's up?

[00:22:27] Apparently, people are getting into the fact that Mitch McConnell, and maybe the public

[00:22:32] is seeing this, Mitch McConnell got caught with his hand elbow deep in his cookie jar

[00:22:37] and they're resentful about it.

[00:22:39] So I just would like to submit 2 words for people to start spreading if they would.

[00:22:44] 2 words.

[00:22:45] Ditch, Mitch.

[00:22:46] Yeah.

[00:22:47] Ditch, Mitch.

[00:22:48] I think there's an effort under way to do that exact thing.

[00:22:52] He only can conjure up what?

[00:22:53] That was his bill.

[00:22:58] He's only looking out for his own pocket, so ditch Mitch.

[00:23:03] All right, man.

[00:23:04] I appreciate the call, Chris.

[00:23:05] Thank you.

[00:23:06] All right.

[00:23:07] Good to hear from you, buddy.

[00:23:08] Yeah, it's true.

[00:23:09] been uh, divulged by Democrats senator. I think it was Chris Murphy who said that Mitch McConnell,

[00:23:16] they were part of these negotiations. All of this stuff was part of what he wanted to see

[00:23:22] happen. And then he just basically paraded Langford or Langton or whatever the guy's name

[00:23:27] is just paraded him out there to be the face of this thing. But this was a Mitch McConnell

[00:23:33] operation. Uh, let me get Keith on here as the final caller of the day. Hello, Keith.

[00:23:40] Welcome. How you doing, Pete? Hey, I'm good. What's up? Uh, listen to those guys call

[00:23:48] him a Border Patrol agent. The guy before him. I can't remember what his name is. Got

[00:23:52] to do something tight. Mm hmm. But I'm, I'm a naturalized citizen. My father was in

[00:23:58] the service. My mother was an Italian national. I had to be naturalized. I had to wait till

[00:24:02] I was 15 years old to take the test. I had to be able to speak and write English. I had

[00:24:10] to know something about the history of the country, the constitution. There was a test.

[00:24:13] Mm hmm. I mean, me and my brothers were all born overseas. And we, we had to go through

[00:24:19] all that stuff. We've got laws in place for all of this stuff. And they're acting like,

[00:24:24] Oh, no, we've got to come up and say we need more money. And, and on the face of it when

[00:24:29] I first heard that, I was just like incredulous when I'm hearing all these people calling

[00:24:33] and saying, Yeah, good idea. It's not. I mean, I don't know if these people are on cracker

[00:24:38] or what the remain in Mexico. How many different executive orders did Biden roll back 94 at

[00:24:45] least office on day one. Yeah, there were 94 orders that I have heard of. Um, and there

[00:24:51] may be even be more than that. But yeah, the, the, the big one was the remain in Mexico,

[00:24:55] which prevented the people from coming across the border to have the encounter in the first

[00:25:00] place. You don't have to then process that. And you brought it up a, you brought it up

[00:25:04] a second ago. They put pressure on them by threatening to tax remittances from, I mean,

[00:25:10] I worked with a lot of Hispanics and they send a lot of money home. Right. Um, and the Mexican

[00:25:15] government knows this and they do not want to jeopardize that revenue source. And by

[00:25:19] the way, neither do the cartels that are running these human trafficking, uh, networks across

[00:25:25] the border. Well, that's to me, it's insane. And now I'm hearing people talk about how,

[00:25:32] I mean, they pay no attention to the news. They're not informed at all. But what they

[00:25:36] hear on NPR or whatever is the Republicans are blocking border reform. And that's all

[00:25:42] they hear. Right. Well, right. And this, and this is why I said earlier in the program,

[00:25:47] um, that the Democrat strategy on this, uh, never gets crafted, uh, and implemented as

[00:25:54] we see it without the knowledge that media will carry their message for them. That's

[00:26:00] the only way that this works. They know that. And that to me is a damning indictment on

[00:26:06] the media. The fact that the Democrats can actually plan a strategy that relies on, uh,

[00:26:12] on media compliance, um, in carrying this narrative. I appreciate the call, Keith. Um,

[00:26:17] yeah, it's super frustrating. Um, here's another, uh, uh, piece of info from Pew research.

[00:26:24] The share of Americans who say the U S stands above all other nations in the world has

[00:26:29] declined modestly over the past four years. According to a new Pew research center survey,

[00:26:35] there's also been an increase in the share who say other countries are better than America.

[00:26:41] This is a survey of almost 8,500 U S adults and there is a nine point decline, nine point

[00:26:53] decline among Republicans and, uh, leaning Republicans, those who say that the U S stands

[00:27:01] above all other countries. It went from 40% down to 31%. Another 51% of Republicans

[00:27:08] and GOP leaners, uh, say the U S is one of the greatest countries, 17% say other countries

[00:27:16] are better than the U S. Those are the Republican numbers Democrats. Nine percent say U S is

[00:27:24] above all other countries in the world. Nine percent. And by the way, that number has remained

[00:27:30] flat for four years. In fact, if you go back to 2011, uh, 2011, 31% of Democrats, a third

[00:27:44] said the U S stands above all other countries. There was only 8% of Democrats in 2011, 8%

[00:27:49] of them said other countries are better than America. Only 8%. Now it's 36%. The numbers

[00:27:56] have completely flipped for them for Democrats and those who lean Democrats. Oh, and by the

[00:28:02] way, the numbers are pretty much the same or actually worse among Democrats, uh, for the

[00:28:10] young age groups 18 to 29. See, like when, when people on the right accuse people on the

[00:28:20] left of, of not liking America and people on the left get very upset about it, just an

[00:28:26] offer this up as some advice. If you don't want people on the right to say these things

[00:28:30] about you, maybe, you know, I don't know, don't not like America, maybe like America,

[00:28:37] and then the criticism, like, probably won't stick. It won't sting at the very least. Anyway,

[00:28:42] what do I know? Just a radio host. I do know Brett Winterbolts coming up next, stick around

[00:28:45] for that. I'll see you tomorrow. Don't break anything while I'm gone.