The idea of Antifa attacks TPUSA student with a hockey stick (10-30-2025--Hour3)

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Tom Servo is my dot dot dot that could be in anything, your relative, your spirit guide, your fake name. I don't know. But the the account is m h A. E. L. M. Hale, Blue Sky Social Anyway, I fell down a rab This is what this person wrote on Blue Sky is apparently about me fell down a rabbit hole the other day of digitized copies of my old Alma Maters newspaper. And I find it fascinating that the conservative op ed guy Pete Callaner apparently hasn't learned a GD thing about how to be a guy who says GD and then he's gonna say that he hasn't learned it GD thing about how to be a decent human being in thirty years since he graduated. Once a Nazi dot dot dot, I wrote a well, not only did I write an op ed, I drew a cartoon as well for the school newspaper at Winthrop. It was the Johnsonian newspaper. And the columns that I wrote we would actually do a it was I'm trying to remember. His first name was Jeff, I don't remember his last name, and he was a progressive. I was writing from a more libertarian view, and we would argue. We would take a topic and we would argue the topic and yeah, yeah, couldn't even tell you what. I don't believe I wrote anything that was Nazi adjacent, not that I but then again to a Blue Sky person, everything, you know, everything to their right is Nazism. This has always been the problem, and this is why people like me when the Left was running around saying, punch a Nazi, punch a Nazi, and a Nazi is everybody that I disagree with, Well, like, that's a problem because what you're just calling for is violence. And I also talked about in the last. Hour the. Jury acquitting a guy who had posted these death threats against Donald Trump, and a jury acquitted him from his post on Blue Sky, and essentially this is from polymath on Twitter. He says, basically, the argument is that we live in a culture where making death threats is normal. Therefore death threats aren't really functional. They're just quirk, quirky little part of the cultural fabric. That was essentially the ruling or the verdict rather, and the argument that defense ran with, and that the jury was so insane that they agreed with There's a lot of people online rooting for Trump to die, and in that context what he posted is so common that it feels like an alternate universe that he would be charged with anything, let alone solicitation of murder. On one hand, I would not encourage anybody to post those thoughts on social media. But on the other hand, I can't count the number of people who I saw post similar things. It's a very common sentiment. There's a social there are social media accounts dedicated to tracking whether the president has died. See. So, I mean, it's just normal, like all of us lefties, if we've just been, you know, calling for the assassination of Trump, it's just so prevalent that you can't really charge all of us. And if you can't charge all of us, then you can't charge any of us. And that's just the world we live in. Okay, then this from Jonathan Turley as Democrat leaders like Representative Dan Goldman, Democrat from New York, insists that Antifa does not exist as a group. Two Antifa groups put out a hit list. But you know, that's just the culture we live in, everybody, So there's nothing to be done about it. I guess two Antifa groups that apparently I'm not really sure how they how this happened because they don't exist. Antifa is just an idea, but somehow or another, the idea either, I guess it got behind a keyboard. It manifested some posters, it printed them out or something and hung them around actual physical spaces in our temporal plane. I'm not really sure how that all occurred, but it did. Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa, which are not organizations, they are just ideas. They put out a hit list poster on a University of Colorado sophomore who happens to be a leader in the Turning Point USA organization on that campus, and he was then promptly attacked by a person wearing a black outfit on rollerblades who used a hockey stick to beat him. Just an idea. People, He was whipped up on by an idea dressed all in black on rollerblades with a hockey stick. According to a press release, Boulder police are looking for a suspect accused of attacking nineteen year old TPUSA student leader near the University of Colorado Boulder on Thursday evening. The attacker is suspected to be an Antifa member and to have followed the victim in a premeditated attack. The Antifa flyer that was posted accused this person of being an active member of a quote neo Nazi organization. There you go. I've mentioned this analogy before Rwanda, right the Rwanda. The Rwanda genocide was whipped up and fomented by Rwanda radio and they were constantly on the air dehumanizing this other. I don't know if it's a clan or ethnicity. It was the Hutus and the Tutsis, and I forget which one genocided the other, I don't remember, but the one that had the radio station power. They were calling their opponents cockroaches all the time. That was like they just they kept just hammering away, calling them cockroaches. And when you dehumanize people and you deperson them basically, and that's what this kind of language does to half of the country. That's what that's what half of the country is doing to another half of the country. And one half of the country that's using these words like Nazis and fascists. They have the amplification platforms that the targets of these slurs do not. So this kid is accused of being responsible for white supremacist, anti Semitic, and anti LGBTQ vandalism on campus and across Boulder, claiming that this kid and his neo Nazi organizations participated in white a white supremacist boxing tournament. I have no idea what that is like only whites were allowed to box? Or was it just that they did a boxing tournament in New Turning Point, USA, and that's Nazi and so therefore anything they do is Nazi. The Boulder Students for a Democrat Radeck's Society reportedly shared the flyer on their social media. They encouraged followers to share it widely and tag the school to notify them of Nazi activists on SEU Boulder campus. So they targeted this guy. They named him and targeted him, and then he was attacked. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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It is essentially the Heckler's veto right or the assassin's veto, we will intimidate you into silence. This is all just under the category of shut up ory. Just shut up, stop talking, stop disagreeing with us, Just bend the knee, shut up, surrender, acquiesce right. And this is what people do when they can not defend their position with their words, usually because their position is illogical, goes against human nature, is unseemly, does it make people feel good, leads to bad outcomes historically, and people don't want to keep doing the thing that you're telling them to keep doing, and that they don't want to do it you'll notice there is a common thread once again, the Red Green alliance right, where you've got the leftists and Islamists in bed together. Right. The perfect candidate, the manifestation of that candidate is Zora Mamdani up in New York City. And so what do those two things, What are these two isms, leftism and Islamism? What do they have in common? You're not allowed to disagree that you will be told to shut up. In Islamist's case, you might lose your head. So you are prohibited from criticizing their profit. You are prohibited from criticizing people of a certain protected status. You can't criticize, for example, the transgender stuff. You can't do that. If you do that, then you're a phobic of some kind. Right, Jonathan Turley said recently he had a debate with a colleague of his professor, Mary Ann Frank, on free speech. I objected when she repeated the often used claim on the left that if you oppose antifa, then you are by definition a fascist. And by the way, that argument is shut up ry. It is meant to shut down the argument. It's a false construct that I call myself this thing. And so if you disagree with this thing I'm calling myself, then you must be for this bad thing, because I've called myself the opposite of the bad thing, and that's just a complete fabrication. You picking a name that is not in line with your actual behavior does not make me the thing that you claim to oppose but are actually doing. Because Antifa actually engages in fascism. That's the whole irony there. But he noted that many in the free speech community have been threatened by this very group, which is the most violent anti free speech movement in the United States, Antifa is. At the same time, the Democrat leaders are ramping up denials of the very existence of Antifa as a group in an effort to deflect criticism from their own increasingly rage filled rhetoric at a time of rising political violence. Right, so this is why you you have this this disconnect where you've got you know, guys like Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General, saying that you know, Antifah doesn't exist yet somehow or another, he had posed for a picture on his own social media. He took his own picture of him you holding up the Antifah handbook, Like that's pretty impressive. That somebody would have a handbook for something that doesn't exist. It's just an idea. Why do you need a handbook for an idea? Right? A handbook indicates that there are some strategies, there are some things in there that people would need in order to organize themselves. That's what a handbook is about. Why else would you call it a handbook? And probably that's why the author of said handbook fled America. He fled. He's a professor I think at Rutgers, I want to say, and yeah, he fled the country because he takes money, a certain percentage of all the sales of this book, and he pumps it into Antifa related organizations, which would mean that he's funding a designated terrorist organization now that Trump has designated as such. Now, Jonathan Turley, who I'm reading from this piece at his website Jonathan Turley dot org. Jonathan Turley does not agree with Trump's designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization, and he says he's got concerns free speech concerns, but he also understands that it Antifa is very much real, Okay, And so these politicians on the left that were once touting Antifa didn't seem to have any kind of misunderstanding about its existence or not. Now all of a sudden, they're going back to this idea that, oh, it's just an idea. Well, they have to because now that it's been designated as a terrorist organization, now the Democrats have to step aside from it because they can't be associated with it. By design, Antifa avoids your typical leadership, hierarchies, and your typical organizational structures. That's by design. Antifa was created in the nineteen twenties, and it was associated with the pre Nazi the Weimar era German communist group Kammis started Antifa. Okay, with Antifa violence on the rise, he says, Democrat leaders have gone back to denying its existence even as Antifa deploys its signature black hoodies and masks. The Colorado case shows just how real, how violent, and organized this group is in the United States. You'll recall former FBI Director Christopher Ray. He was asked about this during a congressional hearing and he said, quote, Antifa is a real thing. It is I mentioned earlier. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General, he proclaimed that Antifa, let me back up Here, Turtley says, while many on the left are not denying its existence, they are rallying their members or actually selling antifah merchandise. When they're not denying that it exists, they're selling Antifa merch. Former Democrat National Committee Deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Attorney general in Minnesota, had proclaimed that Antifa would quote strike fear in the heart of Trump. But the idea would strike fear in the heart of Trump. That's weird, an idea would make Trump tremble. His own son, who serves on the Minneapolis City Council, Jeremiah Ellison, actually declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this past summer, which I was unaware Minneapolis is still protesting. What do you guys or is this just anti Trump protests? But it doesn't exist. It's just an idea, don't you see that has a handbook and organizations like Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa that print posters targeting Turning Point USA students and then attacks them with hockey sticks. Just an idea. You know, Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with creat Video started in nineteen ninety seven in Minhill, North Carolina. 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U coalition for a better twenty to fifty two different addresses, but they both have the same message wanting me to vote to approve an increase in the sales tax in Mecklenburg County. So this this flyer from the Partnership to Advanced Charlotte based out of the Sweet one five eight Park Road, Charlotte. There's a woman leaning out of her car window with her hand raised. She's screaming at other cars or something. She's not very nice and there's a whole line of cars behind her, and it says traffic sucks. Vote for the solution, learn how, and then you flip it over here. Vote to stop the traffic congestion. Vote for the solution. Traffic in Mecklenburg County is awful. Voting for the one and send sales tax referendum will fund seven point eight billion in local road improvement. Cut down on traffic and commute times. That's not true. Synchronize green lights for effective travel, Increase funding for safety and security on the roads. Will increase funding for safety and security on the roads, or would that be safety and security on something else, maybe in some other mode of transit. That's not part of this flyer. It's very interesting, the whole thing. Yet again, another mailer for the one sense sales tax that makes zero mention of the trains, which is what the sales tax was designed for, the one send sales tax proposal. And the transportation plan was supposed to be all about the light rail line, and then the legislature said, no, it can't just be about trains. You got to put some road money in there. And so the city had to rework the plan and they came up with this forty forty twenty split. Forty percent for the trains, forty percent for roads. And by the way, the roads do not just include you know, adding new lanes. No, no, no, no, no, no, it's about signalization, it's about bike lanes, sidewalks. Yeah, all of that stuff falls under the category of roads. And by the way, I saw in the Charlotte Observer article today they mentioned something about the roads. Now, they did not give any kind of a list of prioritization. There wasn't a link to the transportation plan for you know, what road projects would be done. You can find it. The city has it at their website, but it's only for the city council districts. Anything outside of the city is not included in there. Because they just targeted like, here are the city council districts, because the district reps wanted to know, obviously, well how much is coming to me? How much can I campaign on that I got for my constituents. You know, now there is an orphan road component. Orphan roads are these roads that were built to city standards back when the city was going to gobble up everything that touched their borders through forced annexations. And then the legislature flipped control and the Republicans were like, no more forced annexations. If the city wants to annex property into city limits and raise everybody's property taxes to be in the city, well then you're going to have to get approval from you know, more than half of the people you want to annex in. It's got to be voluntary. Surprise, surprise, nobody really wants to be inside the city limits. And so now you have a bunch of roads that were built to the city standards that cannot be turned over by the private developers. They can't hand them off to the city because they're not part of the city. Okay, well how about we hand them off to the NCDOT, right, because Becklimber County does not do roads. So if you're in the county and you had a developer build your neighborhood and they built these roads, and you can't turn them over to the city, We'll turn them over to the state. Ha ha, No, you cannot do so because the state has specific rules about the road design. And one of those very big detail is what I like to refer to because this affects my neighborhood too. Street trees. These are the trees that were planted between the sidewalk and the curb, that little planting strip. You know, the City of Charlotte requires you to plant trees there, which is the stupidest thing ever. It is such a stupid idea. Why well, when you plant trees between a sidewalk and a road, the tree grows. And as the tree grows, stop me if you've heard this before, its root system grows and you can't see it because it's underground. And so the root system keeps growing and growing, and then it grows under the sidewalk, and it grows into the curb and gutter and sewerage and the drains, and it grows under the asphalt, and then it starts buckling up those things. It starts pushing up against the sidewalks and the roads, and that creates a lot of maintenance cost because you've got to keep coming back in and shaving down the sidewalk so people aren't tripping all over them all the time. Very expensive, and that's what the city requires to plant the trees. So says you cannot plant those trees, we will not maintain that road. We will not take that road from you developer if you planted trees. So you have a lot of these neighborhoods, again mine included. So I'm very familiar with this orphan road issue where the roads are now just turned over to the HOA if one exists, and if one does not exist, then it's just abandoned and nobody maintains it. Now the builder doesn't get their bond back. But it's a problem. There are apparently one hundred and eighty miles worth of roads, one hundred and eighty miles of roads in Mecklimer County that are orphan roads. And Mecklimber County commissioners actually asked about this very issue in a letter in a Q and A with the city a couple of months back, and the city said, oh, yeah, yeah, we'll totally look at, you know, working out some solution with NCDOT. They don't tell us what that is. What could it be you going to cut down all those trees, because that would be a violation of the Tree Ordinance also City of Charlotte Tree Ordinance. You're gonna allow everybody to cut trees down, or you're gonna try to force the NCDOT to take control maintenance control, or maybe you're gonna make the City of Charlotte take maintenance authority over these roads even though they're not part of city limits. So if that's the if you go that route, then for example, if I'm out of outside of city limits and my neighborhood has one of these orphan roads or say, you know, five ten miles of them or whatever, and now the city's going to maintain them, what happens if the city messes it up? What happens if the city does not maintain them? What if they just ignore us? Who exactly do I go to to lobby for relief because I don't have a city council representative. There isn't anybody that represents me on city council. M Yeah, no, I'm not really buying this argument either see I'm not really buying your flyers that tell me this is all about traffic. I know it's not about traffic. This is about trains. Okay, this is about trains, about getting that North line built, but for some reason they're selling it all as roads. All right, If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. I still have this other flyer. I haven't even gotten to the second flyer, paid for by a different coalition, also only focusing on roads. Let me jump over here first to the phone lines and chat with Jeff. Hello, Jeff, Welcome to the show. Hey Pete, I just want to thank you for giving the common sense assessment of this whole thing. It's a joke. It's the biggest boondoggle I've ever experienced. And I've called and written to all the media, individual media, the Observer and the Charlotte Lee stories and all of these, and they're all putting out articles and now they're looking a little more balanced. But when you covers it's like you're doing you see that, it's it's all. It's just all about the trains. It's the trains, period. And here's one more common I wanted to make is if it's going to be about the trains, and the least thing you could do is provide us with demand numbers. Yeah, and the demand equates to ridership, and none of them will talk about ridership. Well, they won't talk about they won't give us the ridership numbers because when they built, like I was here, I was a reporter when the half sent sales tax was approved for the transit plan, and that included the South Corridor light rail but also other lines. That was supposed to fund all of this stuff, right, yeah, and it didn't. It didn't even fund the light the Blue line. And they gave ridership numbers and projections at that time which turned out not to be true, and so of course, right, And so that's why I assume they're not giving us ridership numbers projection for the Red line all the way up to the north side there. I suspect that's because they know that if they give numbers, they're not going to hit them. And I think that it's even less densely populated along the Norfolk Southern Line, the rail line that they just acquired. Yeah, it'll be less accessible and less attractive and all that. It's just that I grew up in Charlotte, was born here, and they're just strangling us with more taxes and more absurd things like this. But hopefully maybe the voters will wake up next week. Yeah, maybe, so we shall see, Jeff, I appreciate the call, buddy, thank you. Okay, all right, man Sea. Part of the deal back then, in what was it, early two thousands, they have sent sales tax. Part of the promise was also to have this pedestrian bridge that crossed I two seventy seven, and just this week they unveiled the sketches of what this thing is going to look like. Now I'm unclear as to the actual cost because I've seen on the city website it's is twenty one point three million dollars, but then there's also these releases that say sixteen point four million dollars. So I'm not sure what the funding breakdown is where it's coming from. There. I've seen no breakdown. How much is coming from the city, how much is coming from some of these other entities, these private entities that have helped kick in funding for it. It looks like it's going to be it's going to look It looks like it's going to be nice like looking, you know, it's going to be aesthetically not an eye sore so good job on that from the Charlotte Observer. This project has been discussed for almost two decades. On Tuesday, city officials and stakeholders celebrated the groundbreaking of the Rail Trail Bridge project, which will connect users from Uptown to South End through the Charlotte Rail Trail and give criminals on another hunting ground as well as an escape route. I'm just kidding, I headed that last part. Also, leftists are going to be able to use this as a location for them to protest. They're going to hang their banners and stuff over the railings, you know, so it creates congestion and traffic slow downs and everything on two seventy seven on whatever day where these leftists not working of course, will be able to go out there and just you know, jam up traffic by you know, unfurling banners over the side of the bridge. So looking forward to that impact as well. Yeah. This other flyer that I got in my mailbox paid for by the Coalition for a Better twenty to fifty. They are located out of three point thirty South Trion Street and their flyer says take the wheel steer towards safer roads and less traffic. Vote yes on the transportation referendum. And it's like an image from inside a car, like showing the dashboard. It says vote votes, got a little vote stickers, and it says, our community's future is in your hands. Don't wait, make your plan to vote yes. More green lights, faster commutes, less congestion, better roads and sidewalks. Again, no mention of the trains, No mention of the streetcar project, the Anthony Fox streetcar. I call it that. I call it that because the streetcar got leapfrogged above the other higher priority projects, because Anthony Fox made a bunch of promises to the east Side in order to get their votes, and part of that was to have the streetcar run to the east Side. It still hasn't happened, but I mean, that was the promise that he made. And look, the important thing is that it got him the mayor's race, right, It helped him win the mayor's race over John Lasseter, the Republican. And really, can you put a price on that, you know? Because Fox was able to parlay that into you know, a position in the Obama administration. Him knowing so much about you know, transportation and such, he went to work in the transportation department up there in d C. So I mean it worked out for him. Now, on the flyer, it says, take the wheel our community's futures in your hand. Vote yes on the referendum. Passing the transportation Referendum will mean more green lights, less congestion, upgraded infrastructure, into brighter future for our community. But it's up to you to make it happen. Vote yes, don't wait, get out, vote early, or request an abstentee ballot. And then it says, you know, vote yes for more green lights and less traffic. Who would be against that? Vote yes for safer roads and better pedestrial in safety features, Vote yes for new sidewalks, crosswalks, and street lights. And then there's a picture of a family I assume in a minivan, all smiling and laughing, little babies in the background or in the back seats and stuff, And so I mean, who could be against this? Except in the Charlotte Observer story they point out that the road projects would not start until late twenty twenty six, maybe early twenty seven, when the money starts becoming available. And again, no prioritization, no criteria, and no mention on the flyers of the biggest outlay, which is the forty percent for the trains and another twenty percent for micro transit options and such wonder why 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. 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