The rise of political violence is a symptom (03-20-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] Last hour, we talked about leftist violence, how it is escalating, and how the Democrats and the liberals inside the Democrat Party are unable and unwilling to simply call it out for what it is, to say it is unacceptable, and to end their statement at that. They cannot do it.

[00:00:53] I believe it is indicative of an underlying belief that actually violence is okay when we do it sometimes. It's the language of the oppressed or something. Remember, like, we all saw what happened in Trump's first term.

[00:01:12] Whether it was the BLM riots or it was the vandalism and the attacks and the fire bombings of cars in D.C. at the inauguration, it started immediately, right? The left cannot handle being out of control. This is a symptom. It's a symptom of something else larger in the society. Here's another example of it.

[00:01:36] I played in the last hour, a clip of Charlie Cook, National Review writer. And Megyn Kelly played a clip from former vice presidential candidate Tim Walls appearing on the podcast hosted by California Governor Gavin Newsom. You got to respect people you disagree with. Even you can't just dismiss. That's Gavin.

[00:02:07] How do you fight it? Well, this notion of tux. I think I can kick most of their ass. I do that. But I don't know if we're going to fall into that place where we want to, okay, we challenge you to a WWE fight here type of thing. It's a natural reaction. I think it's one of the reasons we're losing so many men. And again, it's multi-ethnic. It's not just white men. And we're losing them. We're losing them to these guys online. That's why I brought- These are bad guys, though. These are bad guys.

[00:02:36] But they exist. And we could deny they exist. They exist. Not only do they exist, they persist. And they're actually influencing young kids every single day. How do we push some of those guys back under a rock? I think we have to first understand what their motivations are. I think we have to understand what they're actually doing. You don't think it's racism and misogyny? Okay. So that's Tim Walz, the standard bearer, the vice presidential candidate, the guy who was supposed to be the avatar for masculinity for what a real man was.

[00:03:04] He was going to win over men in rural areas. Remember? That was the whole thing. And then they launched this whole thing like, oh, J.D. Vance is weird. And everybody's like, wait, you're weird. So that's Tim Walz. Notice what he says at the very beginning there. He talks about there because Newsom is trying to get him to discuss why the Democrats are not doing well with men.

[00:03:29] And they're not. They've lost across all the demographic cohorts for men. They're losing more and more male support. And Newsom is at least trying to figure out what do we need to do differently to try to win some of these dudes back. And Tim Walz says, I could probably kick their butts. He didn't say butts. Right. Wouldn't that be toxic masculinity? Here's Charlie Cook's response.

[00:03:59] I thought he brilliantly gutted Waltz in his schizophrenic rhetoric here. Yeah, it will never cease to be weird that having put together a ticket that consisted of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the Democrats went on a two week offensive where they described verbatim J.D. Vance as being weird. Tim Walz is one of the most weird people I've ever seen in politics. I've lived in two countries.

[00:04:26] I've spent some time in a third, France, which is well known for having strange politicians. And Tim Walz may well take the cake. He also can't decide there, which I think is genuinely interesting, whether or not he wishes to condemn what he sees as toxic masculine men or emulate them. It's an odd thing to do, to say we need to put them under the rock. They're bad people. Those sort of men have no place effectively in our politics.

[00:04:56] But to start the segment saying, I'm going to kick their ass. Because the vast majority of the people he's talking about would not say that. Now, if you threaten their girlfriend, they'll tell you they'll kick your ass. But they wouldn't start with that. That wouldn't be the opening gambit. So he seems somewhat confused as to whether he wants to eradicate them or to become them. Right. This is the problem the Democrats have. They want to talk tough.

[00:05:24] But they are also condemning the very thing that they are themselves doing. Right. Later on in that podcast with Newsom and Walz. Newsom said that the Democrats have to work on not conflating. Not masculinity with toxicity. They're not the same things. And Walz replies to him. I think I scare them a little bit because I can fix a truck.

[00:05:52] Once again, this is like he's he's he's trying to intimidate or to flex at conservative dudes or something. I can beat you up. I can fix your truck. I can fix my truck. And that's what that's what they're really scared of. Right. So he's a tough guy, but also tough guys suck. Right. Like, dude, make up your mind here. OK, make up your mind. This is the same double standard applied with the violence.

[00:06:20] It's the same thing comes from the same place. Let me go over to the phones and get a couple of calls on before the break. We go to Ed first. Hello, Ed. Welcome to the program. Yeah. Hey, I'm good. What's going on? Thank you. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm going to respond to you about Elon Musk and the violence that's happening against his vehicles. Yeah. And you talked about when people are not happy for the decision, they resort to violence.

[00:06:49] And that's just American, as we know. First of all, Elon Musk is not an elected official. Doesn't matter. Excuse me? That doesn't matter. I'm talking about to make decisions on American policy. That doesn't matter. OK. No. So, Ed, is it or is it not acceptable to firebomb car dealerships? Right. It's totally wrong. OK. OK.

[00:07:13] The next thing is the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent patients in America that still exists. And I don't hear anybody say anything about their violence. I'm sorry. Do you need me to tell you that the Klan sucks, too? I'm happy to tell you that. OK. Please. I need to hear you say that. Yeah. Just did. It is a different. Hang on. It is a default position among, I would submit, probably north of 90 percent, probably

[00:07:42] 99 percent of Americans that the Klan is terrible, that nobody wants to be a part of the Klan. That's a default position. That is not a default position on political violence, though. So, when the Klan did their violence against people because a decision was made that they weren't happy with, I didn't see an outrage going against them. They still exist to this day. What are you talking about? Why do you... Do you know the Notre Dame... The school, the Notre Dame College, right?

[00:08:12] Yeah. They're called the Fighting Irish. Right. Do you know why? I have no idea. OK. Because the Irish took up arms against the Klan when they showed up in their town. OK. So, the idea that the Klan was never pushed back on is not true. They were. And that's great. And I'm glad I just learned something new today. But I'm talking about gentlemen like yourself, talk radio in our American government, not

[00:08:40] pushed back against an organization that's been around for years and continues to be around for years that was violent. Violent-based. What do you want people like me and people in the government, what do you want them to say specifically? Well, we first have to understand that our country is violent. So, when we don't like a decision, what do we do? We resort to violence. That's America. So, it's only going to happen that our people are going to start doing that against our

[00:09:08] government because they're not happy with a decision. And what's happening to Elon Musk and Tesla is totally wrong. When you mentioned about... I'm sorry. But. But. Yeah, what's the but? Also, when you do violence against our capital and then... There it is. See, this is my problem, Ed. This is the problem. Mm-hmm. Is that you can't just say that the violence is unacceptable. End of sentence.

[00:09:37] You're trying to conflate it and equate it and play this what about January 6th game. And it doesn't matter because... No, because I have said it... I have said that about the January 6th riot from the get-go, from the day it happened. Okay, then. So, what exactly do you want? What is it you're demanding in order to just simply say, call out the lefties for attacking the dealerships and that's it, and then we just agree that that's it. That's unacceptable.

[00:10:03] Why do you have the need to then try to ask me about the Klan? Ask me about J6? Ask me about these other things? You're trying to deflect away from this thing because... No, I'm not trying to deflect. That's what it sounds like. No, I never deflect. Okay. I just said again, what they're doing to Tesla is wrong. That's violence. But that's what we know. Right. That's embedded in us. When we're not happy with a decision, that's not a poor party. That's not true. No, it's not true. I just gave you two examples. Of January 6th?

[00:10:33] So, you said anytime we don't like something the government does... It's not anytime. Oh, okay. Well, that's what you said. And we know that sometimes we roll with it and sometimes we don't. That's America. So, the pro... Yes. And the vast majority of the time, the people roll with it. You know how long pro-life activists wanted Roe v. Wade overturned? 50-something years they protested that. 50 years. And they worked their way through the courts in order to get it done. That's... Yes.

[00:11:03] So, it's not always. Yes. It does. Some things do take a long time. How about all the riots after Obamacare? Any riots after Obamacare got pushed down on us? No. Yes. No, there weren't. Yes. No, there were Tea Party protests. There were demonstrations. There were no riots. There was no violence. People didn't firebomb the Department of Health and Human Services. People didn't do that.

[00:11:31] Well, they firebombed a lot of abortion clinics and things of that nature. Yeah. Eric Robert Rudolph did. Right. Yeah. Also, right. You have a lot of violence that goes on in America. We can't pick and choose where we're not happy about a party that doesn't get their way of the decision. I agree. And that's what I've been saying is you don't get to commit the political violence. Okay.

[00:11:52] The difference is that when it happens with J6, we get all of the people on the left coming forward and round them all up, throw everybody in jail. They're all guilty. Right? There's this mass push through the institutions, through the media to tell us that this is wrong. And that's it. And they demand that we disavow it. They demand that we say, just as you just did to me, that I am on your side. Right.

[00:12:17] And with this, with this, we get jokes and we get people up there excusing it. Well, you know, people are upset about these decisions. I don't care if you're upset about the decision. That doesn't matter to me. Right. Because it didn't matter to me on any of the other decisions that went the opposite way. You don't have people bombing courthouses right now because of all of the temporary restraining orders that are being issued against the Trump administration. You don't see violence up there. Right? Exactly. Right. So let it...

[00:12:47] My whole point is... Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. Go ahead. No, I was just saying that in America, we have Republican and Democrat. All right? We just have to stop and admit when something is wrong for the parties. And that's what's corrupting our American government, that Democrats can admit when something is wrong and Republicans will not admit when something is wrong.

[00:13:11] Like pardoning January 6th people that did things against our law enforcement people. That's wrong. Yeah, I didn't agree with the pardons for the violent offenders. Exactly. Exactly. But again... Totally wrong. But we have to admit that. Republicans won't admit it. That was wrong. That was wrong. BLM violence. When they start firebombing and burning cars, that is wrong.

[00:13:35] The protests, the peaceful protests because what happened to the individuals by the police are good. But once you invoke violence, burning this and looting and all that, we have to say it is wrong. Yeah. And our American government, we will sit up there and make excuses and give a million reasons why something is wrong, but we're going to keep telling you how it's right. All right. That's wrong, Doug. Ed, I got to run. I appreciate the call. Okay. Yes, sir.

[00:14:04] I appreciate you as well. Yeah, man. I'm going to keep listening. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. No, and it's fair. I agree with you that all of the violence, all political violence is to be shunned. I completely agree. Is to be disavowed. All right. So spring is here, a time of renewal and celebrations. You got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let me ask you, are all of those treasured moments from days gone by,

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[00:15:28] You know, I was listening to the last caller a couple minutes ago. And listen, you're talking about America and violence, right? I mean, generally, I guess. Sure. Right, right. America is the most violent country in the world. I mean, that's how America gains its power is through violence. Okay.

[00:15:49] So why would you think that it would be such, I guess, an out-of-character thing for that to be taking place within these boundaries, within these borders? Did I say that it's out of character at any point? Well, that's the way you described it. No, I said, no, I said it should be, no, I said, I said people should not accept, Brian, Brian, I said people should not accept political violence. People shouldn't accept political violence. How do you think America got its power?

[00:16:19] Should we accept political violence, Brian? Yes, we should. There you go. Thank you very much. I appreciate the call, Brian. Proving my point. I do not accept political violence. I reject the idea that we should. You have a different opinion. And this is what my premise has been, is that people on the left, such as yourself, Brian, you're okay with political violence. You're okay with it. I am not. That's the difference.

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[00:18:07] If Gavin Newsom is trying to position himself as a reasonable option for a presidential run, he really needs to stop having fellow Democrats like Tim Waltz on who can't hold back the crazy. I don't know, maybe he looks better by comparison. Maybe that's the play. Or maybe he just wants to be a podcaster after he's done being governor. I don't know. Jeff says, I wonder how all of these fools would feel if all of us with the guns acted the same way towards them. Yeah.

[00:18:35] So, again, this is the rise in the political violence we are seeing is a symptom. It's a symptom of a larger phenomenon. I'm going to explain this. Or the theory behind this. But first, New York Times, they send out their morning updates or whatever. And in Wisconsin, where Democrats have turned Elon Musk, the billionaire,

[00:19:04] into the main villain in a high-stakes Supreme Court race. Turns out, it sounds a little crude. Governor Tim Walz, Democrat of Minnesota, was in Eau Claire for a town, I think that's how they pronounce that, for a town hall-style event intended to rev up Democrats about the race, which could determine the ideological balance of the state's top court. But groups backed by Musk have poured millions of dollars into the race on behalf of the conservative candidate, Brad Schimmel.

[00:19:34] Democrats are now framing the contest as, the people versus Musk. See, because he's a criminal. Get it? Walz began his on-stage appearance by saying that name-calling does not work. And then he called Musk a dipstick. But he didn't say stick. Because that's how you appeal to the rural voters, right? That's what the Democrat Party chair in North Carolina says, or seems to think. She's going to win back all those,

[00:20:04] all those rural Republican voters, y'all, by saying y'all and cussing. Right? That's, that's the strategy, apparently. Don't blame me for the strategy if you think it's a terrible strategy. Later on, he called Elon Musk an unelected South African nepo baby, which is a nepotism baby. So in other words, he didn't make any of the money himself. He didn't earn it himself, which is, that's like so divorced from reality. But,

[00:20:34] and the crowd roared in approval when it called him an unelected South African. Because Musk was in fact born in South Africa. But, he has been a U.S. citizen for more than two decades. So, he's an immigrant. So, now we're going to, what, send everybody back, all the immigrants back, or something? Representative Nadia Velazquez of New York

[00:21:04] said Musk should, quote, go back to South Africa. And then at a different protest, Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said, we're going to send Elon back to South Africa. Okay, so let me get this straight. We're going to deport Elon Musk, but not Trendy Aragua. Okay, that's how, that's the position the Democrats are taking here. Also, this immigration stuff, it ties into the phenomena that I just mentioned that we're, also with the rise of political violence.

[00:21:32] They go hand in hand. And I will explain this in the third hour. I will explain it. But I'm laying the foundation here. This from ICE, the office out of Atlanta, which has jurisdictional control over the Charlotte area. We are in the Atlanta region. They put out a press statement saying that ICE apprehended 24 illegal aliens in Charlotte during an enhanced targeted

[00:22:01] enforcement operation. This operation ran from March 1st through March 8th. So for one week, they made 24 arrests. The people they picked up had the following charges. 13 aggravated felonies or other violent offenses. Three illegal firearms or weapons offenses. Two were MS-13 gang member affiliates. One for assault on a federal officer. Five

[00:22:31] for property crimes. And 11 on DWI charges. Of these criminal aliens, the 24 that were picked up, six of them had active immigration detainers, which the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office under the leadership of Gary Not My Fault McFadden refused to honor. So six of these people were back out on the streets because our sheriff refused to give a heads up

[00:23:01] to ICE when they had them in the jail. and they were about to be let go. The detainer request specifically, I've gone over this many times, the detainer request specifically asks for a call to ICE from the sheriff within 48 hours of an impending release of an illegal alien that had the detainer request on them. And McFadden does not believe

[00:23:30] he needs to follow this law. This is this ignoring of the law. This is essentially a nullification play. That's what he's doing. Nullification. That's going to become important in the third hour. Nullification. It's one of the key aspects also along with the political violence increasing the idea of nullification. ICE has been unable to locate

[00:24:00] 18 additional targeted aliens who are still at large who also had detainers that were not honored. So because of the nullification practices of our sheriff Gary, not my fault, McFadden, not only do we see the state legislature looking to close a loophole that he is exploiting in order to advance his nullification policy, which I still think we should call it Gary's law.

[00:24:30] we also have 18 people that had detainers on them that were released back out onto the street and God only knows what charges those guys had. They remain at large. They pose a potential danger to the community. ICE says these aliens could have been safely and efficiently transferred into ICE custody if their detainers had been honored. Right. Because it occurs at the jail. you already have the person in custody. You've got them in

[00:24:59] handcuffs and you could just have them do the paperwork and you just transfer them right over and send them to a different facility. But because our sheriff refuses to honor the detainers and refuses to cooperate with ICE by telling them, hey, we're about to let this guy out, come get him, he posted bail, he's leaving in 48 hours. And because our sheriff refuses to do that, because he doesn't believe, according to his own statement that he put out, his own

[00:25:29] press shop, put out a statement saying deportation is not the solution. He disagrees with deportation. And that's why we are where we are. And then there's this bit of news. Charlotte Ledger reporting armed security is coming to uptown parks. Armed security. 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,

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[00:26:58] phones here real quick and speak with Bruce. Hello, Bruce. Hey, Pete. Thanks for taking my call. I agree with most everything you say. I just have one exception today with I don't like the comparison of J6 defenders being in the same basket as those people who are burning TELSA cars and burning down charging stations and committing the acts of violence they do. I believe most of the J6 defenders, most

[00:27:28] of them, did not commit any act of violence. Right, I didn't lump them all together. Okay. No, I specifically said the violent offenders on J6. The J6. Okay. Yeah, the violent, anybody, yeah, yeah, because there are people that walked in and did nothing. There are people that did absolutely no violence whatsoever. They were invited into the Capitol. I agree. But then there are people that, you know, picked up weapons and bashed the heads of Capitol

[00:27:58] Police. Like, that's not acceptable. Yes, and I agree, but I'm also concerned. It's a very complicated issue, but there were a lot of FBI assets in that crowd dressed up like MAGA supporters. And I would like to get to the bottom of the people who did commit acts of violence. Were they actually organically involved people who were there to protest, or were they

[00:28:27] FBI assets that were put in there to agitate the crowd? I'm sure they were both. I'm sure they were both. Yeah, I mean, there were so many people, right? I mean, how many arrests and people charged were there? I mean, it was over a thousand, right? There were so many people. Now, and so that's why I don't have any problem doing the pardons for the nonviolent J6ers. No problem whatsoever. That's, I think, completely appropriate because of that very reason. Now, the ones who were charged and convicted on the violent ones, I would have preferred

[00:28:55] that the White House go through those cases individually. That's what I would have preferred. And I agree with you. I agree with you on that. But I don't think it's a moral equivalent overall. No, I think if somebody is going up and breaking through the window of the Capitol building in order to go in and commit vandalism, I think that is very on par with people busting out windows and keying up Teslas. Sure.

[00:29:25] Yeah, I would agree with you. I just meant in the general sense. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's just like, you know, people who go out and stand in front of a Tesla dealership and chant and protest and march around, that would be the equivalent of the people, the nonviolent people at J6, in my opinion. Right. Right. And that's fine. You can demonstrate. And a lot of the people that walked into the Capitol, they were waved in by Capitol Police. So they had no idea what they were doing was

[00:29:54] illegal, so they shouldn't have been charged with anything. So that's what I mean. There's a conflation going on with all of the violent offenders and all of the nonviolent offenders on J6 that's not appropriate in my mind. Well, Pete, I appreciate you putting that up for me. Yeah, man, absolutely. Yes, sir, I appreciate the call, Bruce. Yeah, and this is the problem. Like, I remember when I first started hosting, the left would always talk about, oh, you know, you right-wingers are always about black and white and never shades of gray and all this. But I, in fact,

[00:30:24] do explore the shades of gray. Right? All 50 of them, from what I understand, I think there are 50. There was a book or something about it. I have not read it. But that's my understanding. So I explore the nuance because, like, these issues are complex. Not everybody that was at the Capitol engaged in bad behavior. But I don't think the ones that did engage in the bad behavior, however many that was, two, three dozen, whatever, I don't think those people

[00:30:53] should have gotten off the hook because the nonviolent people's cases, their charges were so egregious. And if they could go through all of the cases of the violent ones and find out, okay, did you take these plea deals? Did you get overcharged? And you get threatened and such to take the deals, but you were still claiming innocence and that, like, was the process corrupted? So that would have given you the opportunity to explore that and then root out that injustice.

[00:31:23] But they didn't do that. They just pardoned everybody. 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 thepetecalendershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening and don't break anything while I'm gone.