The Left's assault on Thanksgiving (11-26-2025--Hour2)

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But there was one about people that are protesting the whole Thanksgiving thing. And when I see those stories, I'm always amazed at what it is they're trying to achieve. You know that that what is it about this country that they're trying to achieve? Now, you know, did there again decolonialism? They don't want to not recognize the holiday, that want to act like, you know, these these horrible things have happened, and something's wrong with the country. And it's this anti colonial perspective. And this one is actually a pretty good story. It's about universities, school districts nationwide call for decolonizing Thanksgiving and calling it a day of mourning. As families across the US gather on Thanksgiving to celebrate one of the nation's most cherished national holidays, some educators and schools are lamenting the day, pushing back on it's colleone oneal roots, and incorporating diversity, equality inclusion into the holiday. Now, this is that retrospective historical like revisionist history, where people today, having grown up in the world of today, want to project their their values that they came to because they think they're, you know, smarter than everyone else. That they want to believe that those values translate to history. They don't want to look at history and context. They don't want to look at what happened in history. They don't want to look at the fullness of history. They want to project today what they believe happened and project it back back as if they are in the right place to judge all of the people that not only came here but built the country. And that's one of the strangest thing. At the University of California Davis, the California History Social Science Project, which describes itself as resources in professional Learning. For twelve History Social Science hosted a Zoom event called Decolonizing Thanksgiving in the Classroom. We will discuss reframing classroom practices and rituals about Thanksgiving. The event description explained centering perspectives from Turtle Island, a name for North America used by Indigenous people. Turtle Island, by the way, really good restaurant if you're down at the coast that's under dramatic reconstruction on Okono will help us decolonize Thanksgiving and spark new conversations about how to authentically make meaning of this holiday with our students. What's wrong with using the story of Thanksgiving. Earlier this month, Washington University in Saint Louis, an institution that has long been criticized over its DEEI policies, put out a press release promoting an event that highlights and honors That highlights and honors quote the way different cultures recognize and understand thanksgiving, both as part of their history and as a tradition brought into the present day. It's described as a way to actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systems change. You know what the original folks the James Down Colony were for everybody it by the way, Indians saved them for what it's worth, But they were more, you know, worried about every infection. You could literally stub your toe, get an infection and die. You could lice your Your quality of life was terrible. You you suffered if you didn't go out and cut would You didn't have time to sit around thinking about how to judge people in the past. You were trying to survive. And you know, when thirty percent of your fellow man died on any given winter, it was pretty excuse me, men, women and children died, and you spend a lot of your time digging graves. Your perspective changes. So these these elitists in these universities looking back and projecting this kind of if you put them there at that time, they would have to make life and day decisions about how to survive. I mean the quality of life, and I don't mean to mean anyone here. The quality of life in our prisons today is a higher quality of life than many of the people in those puritanical colonies had, even lifespan wise, the healthcare ssys think about the healthcare sism. They weren't Obama carrying themselves back then. They were lucky if they got any fundamental basic care. You think you had a pain, what you had to alleviate pain and suffering. It wasn't like they were going to do a morphine drip on you back then. And you have aspen riberproof and nothing. There were no bottles in your childproof bottles. Even more about getting into it is impossible to connect yourself to them through today's lens or overton window, for lack of a better phrase. In a statement, at MIT, spokesman told Fox News Digital the school is closed on Thursday and Friday in honor of Thanksgiving, but part of the effort, according to the invitation, includes students traveling in rental cars to the National Indigenous Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. At the location of the Bayflowers landing. And this is the kind of revisionist history. Nobody alive participated in that. The net results of everything that happened did build the most phenomenal country on the planet Earth. But this revisionist kind of history, we wouldn't be set. We would not be having an Indigenous day. Had there not been a landing at Plymouth Rock, we wouldn't have had it. Maybe the country certainly wouldn't have developed the way it did. It just wouldn't have. It sounds heartless, doesn't when you say that, But it just doesn't serve a useful purpose. It's not that you're glorifying the people who survive those harsh conditions. What you're recognizing is we are thankful. We are all, regardless of race, color, creed. In fact, thanksgiving is being imported into England now. It's a day of being thankful for the blessings we have. It's a day because gratitude. Gratitude could be contagious and amazing if you practice gratitude. If you got up every morning of your life and you thought about three things to be thankful for, I'll guarantee you this, and I'm not a self help coach, but I want to tell you from practical personal experience. If you get up every day thinking about three or four things that you're grateful for, your life will change. It will fundamentally change. Your anxiety will go down, your dependence on social media will disappear or become less relevant your family life, and that you'll deepen the connections of those around you, and you will have a different perspective. You won't go around just hating people all the time. So thanksgiving goes hand in hand with gratitude, and that's what these people are missing, the point of it. They think, they think that that we're glorifying the people in the colony. Were nobody out there other you can't even name. Try to name five people that were part of the thanksgiving, the original Thanksgiving. You can't. Nobody can't. Well, maybe historical people could, or people who've get Bradford's diaries, they could probably do it. And we'll go into Bradford's diaries a little later. But it's not about glorifying them. It's glorifying being grateful that, regardless of race, color, creed, background, is what you should be thankful for. 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 Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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It's an opportunity for students, parents and teachers to celebrate the country, build unity in their communities, and share a meal with family and friends. Two hundred and thirty six years ago, President George Washington urged Americans to set aside a day to give thanks for the blessings and abundance of our nation. Presidents throughout our history have continued that tradition, reminding us each Thanksgiving to pause and reflect with gratitude. That's the spirit and meaning of it. That's it. It's not you know what other people try to make it isn't what it is. Thank you for holding Bob. Welcome to the show. How are you today? Ture? Congraduate to another fantastic show. And you're very good at what to do, and that is making out people think, well, I want to go back in history because I'm mature over seventy Everyone else is immature, including you. The fact is that when I was a kid, they decided to do away with mental institutions in New York. So they let all the mental institution people out. They didn't have any plan to follow up with them. It was a feel good it caused a lot of problems. A lot of states did the same thing. People can't acknowledge when they're wrong. The hardest thing in the world to do is to say I was wrong or I am wrong. That's the problem. And you have a lot of people going through life now finding fault with everyone else, but they can't admit they're wrong. That's what sends to me. And I've said everyone a happy and blessed Thanksgiving, and to you and to yours Chad bye. Well, thank you, thank you for call Bob and heartfelt, and there's a lot of truth there. I think that gratitude. Those who were listening heard me talk about gratitude earlier, and that if you wake up with an attitude of gratitude, that it's hard to be it's hard to be angry, it's hard to hold on to grudges and hatred. But but furthermore, it promotes humility. It'll remind you, hey, you know, here's where I probably should have made it better with, you know, by significant other or my kids or my parents or whatever it is. So yeah, humility in politics is a daunting task. And don't think I don't recognize a lot of people screaming. They're ready to say, wow, Trump's not real, humble not but then at other times he is so. But humility is a big deal. That meeting with Mundannie, there was a lot of humility being displayed there. But I think it's like, I can give you an example. In fact, I'm going to give you an example now because there's there's there's someone else that that decided to take on And this is Governor Gretchen Whitmer from Michi, Michigan. And and I want you to hear what she's talking about, casting aspersions about the cost of things, and and and and they're here's a perspective here I wish to share. I'm going to sometimes I will share that perspective prior to you hearing something, and sometimes after. In this particular instance, I think that hearing what she has to say and then reflecting on it will be useful. So here's Gretchen Whitmer talking a little bit about kind of this time of year. Happy Holidays Michigan. This season people travel near and fire to be with friends, family and loved ones. It's the most magical. Time of the year. It's also the most expensive too. Holiday travel, gifts, meals. Families spend up to two thousand dollars on average Thanksgiving turkey to Christmas ham, new socks, and plane tickets. It all adds up pretty quickly. On top of that, everything's more expensive because of the federal government's chaotic tearf policies. Grocers keep going up, along with toys, electronics, and clothes. Here in Michigan will keep working together to lower costs and make life easier for all. I'm proud that my seventh balanced bipartisan budget does exactly that. So Gretchen Whitmer, you heard the A couple of whoppers here and one. She can't say because she's a Democrat and they've pull tested things and they have some absolute knew jerk reactionaries. She can't. They can't typically say Happy Thanksgiving. A Democrat and a Democrat stronghold can't say Happy Thanksgiving. They have to say Happy Holidays, can't say they can barely say Christmas. They have to say kind of holidays. They have to lump it all together, Happy Holidays. She said something about the cost of groceries and Thanksgiving. Actually, as we talked about yesterday, an American Farm Bureau had disclosed that a feeding a family of ten is five percent cheaper this year than last year. That is true. Now, what I find most interesting about what Whitmer had to say is during a time when inflation was at ten plus percent and things were spiraling out of control, after the Inflation Reduction Act did not reduce inflation, Whitmer said nothing. The Democrats wouldn't even acknowledge that the economy was in horrible shape. So her casting aspersions about federal government chaotic tariff strategy is jacking up costs more. There's no evidence to suggest it's that much more. People actually, actually incomes are up. But this is the kind of they are trying to feed the beast of propaganda. They're trying to feed the beast because if you feel like things are getting better, I don't know. If I were advising Democrats, I would say, hey, grab onto the economy is make it your winning issue. Talk about why the economy is getting better because of what you did. But instead, what they're doing is they're throwing everything out because you that you They cannot afford for you to believe the economy is getting better. They cannot afford for you to think, wait, gas prices are okay. They cannot afford for you to realize your energy bill is going up because of green policies that drew that subsidized all these other energies that aren't giving you cheap, abundant energy, and your energy bill is going up because of their policies. They can't acknowledge that the immigration thing is working out well for America. They can't acknowledge that the border secure. They should This should be something to say, you know what, many of us in the Democrat Party wanted that border secure, and we are very upset and disappointed the previous administration for not securing the border. We do like global peace. We are proud of the administration's effort to bring about peaceful solutions because we want peaceful solutions too. We want to support that. But they are so hell bent on you must feel bad for them to do well, and that's not the way it should work. You don't need to feel bad for one given party to work. Certainly, the Republicans are going to try to convince you that things are going well, and by any kind of objective measure, they are going well. 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. 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So a bunch of them got in a room, the people who wanted to promote this, and they created something called self financed bonds, and it's tax increment financing, but they called it self financed bonds, and people were like, wait, bonds that financed themselves and it passed overwhelming. It was the exact same thing that had been tried multiple times in North Kana. And then they renamed it self financed bonds, same thing, just called it something different and it passed and it became legal in North Carolina and the first time they used it, well, one of the first times was the Randy parton theater up in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and it absolutely fell in its face. It didn't pay back the bonds. The city had to pick it up. The taxpayers are still pay for It was an absolute nightmare. Nonetheless, tax increment financing passed because they changed the name. So why do I bring that to your attention, Because because Democrats have tried and tried and tried with class warfare, the wealthier bad, the poor are the victims if not for those evil, selfish and I've even got a story today, are the are the wealthy more selfish people? Well, there's a lot of psychopaths and sociopaths that are wealthy, and and and maybe that narcissism and everything that makes them that way. Maybe that maybe that and projecting it was a way, it's a way to try to project that wealthier people are somehow not altruistic, you know. And then toward the end of the article they say, well, not all, not all wealthy people are bad. But it's still it's putting. It's putting it out there to feed the beast that that wealth and to create the to to create the view of class warfare. Now, take it a step further, that hasn't sold as well. It hasn't sold as well for the political lefts. So what do you call it now? And I alluded to this earlier with Gretchen Whitmer. I've mentioned it on the air before, But it's the affordability crisis. That we have a crisis of affordability you And it's easy, I mean, because it's not really hard. It's not if I got on the air and told you, hey, it's tough out there. Things are expensive. You go to the I mean, post COVID, it's absurd how much you have to pay to get food at a restaurant these days. Or your electrical bills are going up, they are your insurance, especially if you're along the coast. It's absurd. It's going it is. It is more expensive. Now. What you failed to what I would fail to say, is it was a lot of policies in COVID, post COVID. It's a lot of a lot of different factors. But it's easy for me as a Democrat to say the affordable ability crisis is because those Republicans in Congress and the President and I absolutely believe that is the issue. They're going to try to hang their hat on. They're not going to hang on immigration, They're not going to hang on on a foreign policy. They're going to try a little bit with the tariffs, but that's not selling, especially if there's a two thousand dollars tariff relief thing that comes through. I'm not the biggest fan of that for a thousand different reasons, but from a public relations standpoint, it probably will sell because a lot of the folks in certain income brackets would get it. But I do believe that the affordability crisis is one that the Republicans are not doing a good job at getting out in front of it. I get why the President would be frustrated with that. And certainly one of the things that Democrats are losing as an issue is crime because they're not I mean, Chicago today is still trying to repute Pritzker in Illinois, they're trying to repudiate any assistance to try to bring crime down as a woman gets set on fire in a subway, the Irena situation in Charlotte, where you've got Democrats trying to act like the Irena law that's going to put criminals in jail. They're on the wrong side of history there, they're on the wrong side of crime, and Democrats are going to lose if it becomes if it becomes defined by public safety, Democrats are going to win to lose. They don't have to. They could embrace, say we want to enforce the laws too, but right now they're more inclined to hate the president. But the affordability issue, when they continue to tell you that times are tough, it's easy to say times are tough, and it's but ascribing it to one party. I think the Democrats are doing a very good job of making it look like the Republicans don't care about that issue. And Republicans really are saying we don't have I mean saying we don't have an affordability crisis. If someone's having trouble paying bills, defeats, I mean, may there isn't an affordability crisis. But if enough people believe there is, the psychology behind it, boom. It's kind of like the markets if people believe if people psychologically believe that the markets are overvalued, then there'll be a rush on the markets. It'll be a massive sell off and the stocks will drop. That's not what they believe right now because they're looking at rate cuts and some other things. So the markets are recovering nicely over the past week or so. I mean, heck, the dows up over three seventy right now. I'm looking at the Marxis and P's up almost the percent, and the Nasdaq's almost up a person. So people believe in the markets. What they don't believe is that that affordability is good. So we'll see how that all shakes out, because I do think that that's where the Democrats are going to struggle a little bit. Now we get back, I will talk about taxpayers flee in California. I might go into the Psychology Today article about the rich being selfish, because these are all kind of the way they want you to believe things. 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It really is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the right pretty much exclusively. And not only does it investigate the right, it makes claims that are not necessarily true. So when it says it invested, so I'm reading this because it is the first lie? Is the description of the journalistic enterprise before the headline, or not before that, before the lead, so to speak. So what is it? What is pro public a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. So you're thinking, I'm going to give you a story about abuses of power. No, new advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration's approach to climate change. Well, that's not necessarily true, and nor is that an investigation. Increasing temperatures are killing enormous numbers of people. What the planet's been warmer before, and cold kills a lot of people. A pro publican Guardian analysis that draws on sophisticated modeling by independent researchers. Notice that it's sophisticated. Therefore you have to agree with them. It's very sophisticated, and it's independent. It's not leaning left right, it's independent. Has found that Trump's Agenda First Agenda America First agenda of expanding fossil fuels and decimating efforts to reduce emissions will add substantially. Most of the people expected to die from temperatures in the coming decades live in poor, hot countries like Africa and South Asia. Pro Publica, And this is the line I really wanted to get to Pro public in. The Guardian's analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of this are expected to lead expected to lead not that it will, but expected to lead to as many as one point three million more temperature related dusts worldwide in the eighty years after twenty thirty five. In other words, this is an ass assertion that can never be proven and won't take place until most of you are dead and gone. In fact, twenty years after twenty thirty five, that'd be ninety years from now, So it is expected to kill one point three million more people over the next ninety years. The actual number of people who die from heat will be much higher, but a warming planet will result in fewer dusts from cold. But again they can't substantiate any of this. In fact, there's some emerging sites that the planet may be cooling down, so the acceleration that we were promised fifty years ago hasn't happened. But this is the kind of fear that isn't necessarily it's not factual. The absence of the United States when the world gathered at their international conference in Brazil, which has four percent of the world's population but produces twenty percent of the greenhouse gases, has been pointedly noted by participants, I would say notably by partisans. Afghanistan, Myamar, and Samarine are the only other nations that did not send a delegation. Our calculations, meaning pro public as calculations, use modeled estimates by the way, and it's gonna sound like I'm trying to deflect a little bit here, but our models on hurricanes are still horrible. That's why we have spaghetti models, right You all know what a spahetti model is, because there's twenty different models and they look for some kind of convergent but they're not always right. Even now, and we know a lot more about hurricanes. Calculations used modeled estimates of the additional emissions. It will be released as well as a peer reviewed metric for what is known as the mortality cost of carbon, the metric which builds on Nobel Prize winning science. By the way, al Gore won a Nobel Prize for his science. He's not scientists, but for his documentary, and none of his predictions have come true. By the way, just worth noting because they're relying on the same kind of menti circular logic of people. The estimate reflects deaths from heat related causes such as heat stroke and exacerbation of illnesses mindset. Now Nowhere in this, by the way, do they pick up that we're getting better at building building things in the third world. Nowhere in this do they do They act like you know things are getting better in some of these places, because they are nowhere in this do they talk about how capitalism actually helps address all sorts of things even if this were true. So they're acting as if we're frozen today, meaning not frozen, but I guess we're in a pressure cooker today and everybody's going to live exactly the way they did for the next ninety years, and therefore one point three million more people are going to die. There will be no changes in society, according to pro public in this liberal rag, there will be no changes in society. That I mean if you were to look at the South right now, the southern United States, traditional South Texas over to I don't know, North Carolina. Let's exclude Virginia for now because that would make it racist because we'd have robbery lee. But we're going to exclude that state. So Tennessee, Texas, all Alabama, Georgia, of Louisiana, Florida, and right now, we were to take air conditioning and remove air conditioning from the South, how many more people do you think would die? Ever you just air conditioning becomes extinct, I don't know, because of some kind of apocalyptic electromagnetic pulse and air conditioning no longer works. How many more tests would we have? A lot? A lot? Air conditioning saves lives. So pretending that it's a static world in which nothing changes is just just asinine. It's just lacks common sense. So when you read this, the sheer numbers are horrifying the US climate action networks so that they're going to kill millions of people. Again, it's this is the kind of thing where the where democrats love to look at and the left and general likes to look at static things as if we're just going to sit there and the Sosunaimi's gonna hit us and we're not going to get out of the way. 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. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.