Minnesota Governor Tim Walz - who is weird - has a long history of controversial acts that are now coming to light after he was selected as Kamala Harris' running mate.
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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so we're learning a lot about Tim Walz, the vice presidential pick by the vice president. Kamala Harris running for president. By the way, where's Joe? Anybody seen Joe? Never mind. Tim Walz made his debut out there on the stage last night. And so I've spent the last, oh, I don't know, 36 hours or so, not even sleeping, not even eating. Okay, that's a lie. I did both.
[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But all of my waking hours when I was not doing other things, I was looking into Tim Walz and his record. There are some concerns. I have some concerns. For example, here is what he said about guns when he was out on the campaign trail when he was running for one of the offices. I think this may have been when he's running for Minnesota governor.
[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I said, Dad, you're the only person I know who's in elected office. You need to stop what's happening with this. I'll take my kick in the butt for the NRA. I spent 25 years in the army and I hunt and I gave the money back. And I'll tell you what I have been doing. I've been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment. But we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states.
[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are out.
[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So the weapons in weapons of war that I carried in war.
[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he said at the very end there. Right. He's talking about an assault rifle ban.
[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are out.
[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, slight problem. He he retired before the war.
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_01]: He put in his papers. He dropped his retirement papers after he learned that he was going to be deployed.
[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, the guys that were serving under his command in the National Guard, they're not happy.
[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: They've not been happy for a long time. They've not been happy since he ran for governor.
[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Since he ran for Congress. There was a piece.
[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And thanks, Jay, for sending over the.
[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_01]: The blurb here, but they mean, there's a news story that Alpha News did.
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And I wonder if this is going to get any kind of coverage in any of the media outlets.
[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, we all know they're not going to cover this. There's just not enough time.
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, there's not enough time with the compressed election cycle that we're operating under here.
[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_01]: There's not enough time to do all of the stories about how folksy he is and how he created the weird smear.
[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And how he's sort of the he's the dad that we all wish we had those types of stories.
[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't run all of those stories and run stories about how he may be kind of sort of stolen valor kind of a guy.
[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't do those kinds of stories.
[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just not enough time.
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just there is.
[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we have limited column inches and we have limited newscast time.
[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So, sorry, we're just going to have to focus on his folksy Midwestern moderate kind of charm.
[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_01]: But.
[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_01]: A bunch of his command sergeants, major at the Minnesota National Guard, they put out a statement saying they feel it's their duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth, as we know it, concerning his service record.
[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01]: When the nation called, he quit.
[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed to complete the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy.
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed to serve for two years following completion of the academy, which he dropped out of.
[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed to serve two years after the conditional promotion to command sergeant major.
[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed to fulfill the full six years of the enlistment that he signed on September 18th, 2001.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed his country.
[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed his state.
[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: He failed the Minnesota Army National Guard, the 1125th Field Artillery Battalion and his fellow soldiers.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And he failed to lead by example.
[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Shameful.
[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's signed by Thomas Behrens, the command sergeant major retired.
[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Paul Herr, the command sergeant major retired as well.
[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So the guys that served with him were not happy that when the deployment orders came in, by the way, this unit that he was in, they went to believe it was Afghanistan or may have been Iraq.
[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: It may have been Iraq.
[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was Iraq.
[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_01]: He.
[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_01]: He bailed on them.
[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He retired.
[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So he never got the full promotion that he went around saying he had gotten.
[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: He actually didn't get it because he didn't complete the requirements.
[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_01]: But he he left.
[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And then his unit went to Iraq.
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: They went to the war front and they stayed there longer than almost any other National Guard unit in the country.
[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: They were not happy.
[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And think about the next guy in the line of command there.
[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That guy's thinking, OK, we're going in with walls.
[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And then right before they deploy, he's like, I'm out.
[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And so now you're in charge.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, thanks a lot.
[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_01]: They appreciate that.
[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff says, I like to refer to the VP nominee as number two, Tim.
[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, Tim was the guy for Hillary.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Kaine is harder to find these days than an orthodontist in the UK.
[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, come on.
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Now that's a cheap shot.
[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, but we take them.
[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Now we can thank number two, Tim, for defining the term weird for us.
[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess being weird is worse than being creepy when you sniff hair, give shoulder massages on the opposite sex, gender questioning, etc.
[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Along the descriptions of I've got hairy legs that people, you know, corn pop and all of that.
[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: But now we know.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Now we know.
[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_01]: John says, it's not the Politburo.
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the Ministry of Truth.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That's my mistake.
[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: My mistake.
[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I played in the last hour his clip on free speech where he's like, we shouldn't have free speech if it's misinformation.
[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, he goes out and lies about stuff because it doesn't apply to him.
[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Also, COVID.
[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_01]: This guy was governor when COVID hit.
[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And remember the New York COVID nursing home scandal that ended Andrew Cuomo's career?
[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, actually, that didn't end it.
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_01]: It was the sexual harassment scandal.
[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway.
[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Or no.
[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Was that his brother Chris?
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget.
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So many Cuomo's.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_01]: But will Tim Walls have the exact same policy in Minnesota, which was to send sick patients back to nursing homes?
[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Except he subsequently said it was, quote, not a mistake.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Cuomo at least said, oh, yeah, that was a mistake.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_01]: We shouldn't have done that.
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Walls doesn't believe that was a mistake.
[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And Robbie Soho at Reason, he's a senior editor at Reason.com, he says that alone should be disqualifying.
[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me go over to the.
[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, can I go over to the phone?
[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_01]: There we go.
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_01]: There's Steve.
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello.
[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the show.
[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello.
[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello.
[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_04]: So I have just like to confirm that I heard you say that the Democrat Party has basically collapsed into the Marxist Party.
[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And B, that they're winning an election scares the hell out of you, which I agree with both.
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_04]: It scares me, too.
[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_04]: So my question is, the question I left was, if they lose the election, what kind of violence do you expect?
[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Actually, a better question would be, what kind of violence do you expect either way?
[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah.
[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I do expect violence.
[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_01]: They showed us in 2016 and then in 2020 as well.
[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I expect there to be violence if they lose.
[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_01]: They did it at the 2016 inauguration.
[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump's inauguration.
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_01]: It was milder than it was in 2020.
[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And remember, Tim Walz, he allowed that to grow.
[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_01]: He allowed that violence to grow.
[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And then it got exported to the rest of the country through the BLM riots.
[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a fair question.
[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate the call, Steve.
[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a totally fair question.
[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_01]: The political left is okay with political violence.
[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_01]: They are.
[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_01]: How else do you explain their policies on defunding the police and judicial reform, quote unquote,
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: where they're saying things like, well, you know, you get as many chances as you need.
[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Just keep letting people out.
[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_01]: The no bond, no bail kind of stuff.
[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_01]: None of this is to foster an ordered and safe society.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the foundational principle upon which any civilization is built.
[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're undermining it.
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Because, again, they are agents of destabilization.
[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what leftism requires.
[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_01]: You must destabilize the society and its institutions in order to make people afraid.
[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So this way they yearn for a restoration of order from the chaos that you created.
[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they say, okay, fine, just bring back some order.
[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they get that order good and hard.
[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, also, Tim Walz created a snitch line.
[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_01]: He created a phone number for neighbors to rat out their neighbors, as all good Marxist societies do.
[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me get to some calls.
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_01]: We've got a lot of people waiting to get on.
[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So first up here is Mark.
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Mark.
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the show.
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Hi, Pete.
[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I read a story that nearly mirrors the recent story you've been pulling things out of on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz,
[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_06]: our presumptive Democrat vice presidential nominee, and his service with the Minnesota Army National Guard.
[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_06]: This is going to be a little bit tough to state, and I don't want to get into the weeds.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Please don't.
[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_06]: You're right.
[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_06]: He was up for a—he was in command structure of enlisted personnel.
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_06]: And as Vince mentioned, the rank was command sergeant major yesterday.
[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_06]: But that requires going to school, getting training specifically for that.
[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, Mr. Walz did not complete the training.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Correct.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And he left when you said that he—so that's part of something called quiet quitting.
[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_06]: And he actually, as you stated correctly, from the last names of former now retired members of that Minnesota National Guard unit he was a part of,
[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_06]: stated that, yeah, he just filed his paperwork and quit as a first sergeant.
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_06]: And so if my father was still—my late father was still alive and being someone over 25 years in the Minnesota Army National Guard,
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_06]: he would be really ticked off hearing about this.
[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: No, Mark, I appreciate the call.
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_01]: There were a lot of people that served with him that are pretty ticked off and have been for quite a while.
[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Mark.
[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me go over to Paul.
[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Paul.
[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the show.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_05]: Mr. Callender, it is a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you.
[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it.
[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_05]: So I got a question for you.
[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm looking for some of your advice.
[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Because I tried to do this, and I admit that sometimes I read stuff on the left, and I can't help but get, you know, just a little ticked off.
[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_05]: So how do you read the stuff on the left without going bat-crap crazy?
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: How do you know I haven't?
[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, uh-huh.
[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_05]: That's a good question.
[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_05]: That's a good one.
[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, I always say this, but I am a trained professional.
[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Do not attempt this yourself at home.
[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, injuries could occur, you know?
[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, if you go into reading this stuff as sort of just a – and it is a mindset.
[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And the more you get into it, the easier it becomes to kind of flip the switch.
[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Try to think back to when you were a kid and you were in school and you had a teacher who was, you know, in front of the class.
[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know.
[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I just – I feel like there's a different – there's a different way I approach reading this stuff.
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's sort of like I flip the switch and I'm the student, you know?
[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Not that I'm believing everything, but I'm like, oh, let me hear what you're saying.
[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, let me hear this and ask the question and all of that.
[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's how I kind of read this stuff.
[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, obviously, I make notes all over these articles when I read them because, like you, I have, you know, oppositional thoughts to this stuff.
[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I would recommend, though, get a radio show and then you can yell at something other than just like the television.
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I have found it to be very effective.
[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_05]: That sounds good.
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I guess the one thing I should do is stay away from people like Joy Reid, right?
[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good idea.
[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good idea.
[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Paul, good to hear from you, man.
[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it.
[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me go over and get Jeff on here before I run out of time here.
[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, welcome to the show.
[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jeff.
[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_08]: Hello, Pete.
[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_08]: Hey.
[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_08]: Hope there are things well today.
[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_08]: I cannot complain.
[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_08]: I got a question for you.
[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to look at this totally different because what's happening now is completely sickening.
[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_08]: We keep our TV off as much as possible because we just can't stand it.
[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_08]: And I think maybe, and we'll just throw this out there.
[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_08]: Do you think possibly that the Democratic Party just, you know, won the chameleon, Kamala,
[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_08]: whatever name is, and could have possibly picked the worst, the absolute worst vice president
[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_08]: there is?
[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_08]: Do you think this is possibly done on purpose, knowing they have zero chance winning to try
[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_08]: to reorganize the Democratic Party after the election?
[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_01]: That is possible.
[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, there is this power struggle going on inside the Democrat Party, though.
[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_01]: There's no telling who's going to emerge victorious which camp.
[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But, like, you know, the Pelosi, Obama, you know, left coast kind of camp.
[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And so maybe, you know, people that are less leftist see this as, like, let's go ahead and
[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_01]: just, you know, burn it out and then it'll be gone again.
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And we can kind of go back to more of a Clintonian, new Democrat model.
[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I just, I'm not sure there's enough of them left anymore.
[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_08]: Because that's kind of what I was wondering.
[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_08]: And I thought, well, you know, in the next 60 days, it's going to fall apart.
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_08]: There's absolutely no way she's qualified.
[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_08]: I don't care if she's vice president or not.
[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_08]: There's no way that, I just do not see any chance of it winning.
[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_08]: And I just thought maybe it was done in design.
[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's also the possibility that a lot of people did not want to be picked to be
[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: her running mate, right?
[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they want to save their powder for 2028.
[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And they may have plans and ambitions to run for president then.
[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's possible, too.
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, I appreciate the call.
[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good question.
[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know.
[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't, for some reason, they don't include me on their planning sessions over on the
[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Democrat Party side.
[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why.
[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned Robbie Soev at Reason.com.
[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And to be fair, I've never known how to pronounce his name correctly.
[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: But I believe he is the senior editor over there.
[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And he's got a piece.
[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls was a COVID-19 tyrant.
[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He was a moderate Democrat when he served in the House of Representatives, but he veered
[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_01]: left during his two terms as governor.
[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_01]: He referred to socialism as synonymous with neighborliness.
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I played that clip yesterday.
[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_01]: He pursued an extremely progressive governing agenda and earned an F from the Cato Institute
[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: on fiscal policies.
[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_01]: His COVID-19 record is, quote, extremely disturbing, heavy handed and restrictive were his policies.
[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_01]: He insisted in a recent interview that one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Denouncing one's neighbors as insufficiently loyal to government policies is, in fact, a
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_01]: fundamental aspect of socialism, however.
[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_01]: When asked by Republicans to take down his snitch line, he created a hotline for COVID-19
[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_01]: snitches so they could rat out their neighbors who might be, you know, playing basketball outside
[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_01]: during the lockdowns.
[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_01]: He created a snitch line.
[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And Republicans were like, dude, you need to take that down.
[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And his response was, quote, we're not going to take down a phone number that people can
[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_01]: call to keep their families safe.
[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Like this was the worst kind of argument during COVID, during the lockdowns.
[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_01]: His government maintained that private indoor gatherings should be limited to 10 people.
[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Outdoor gatherings were arbitrarily capped at 25 people.
[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_01]: On July 23rd, 2020, he declared a statewide mask mandate for most indoor spaces and even
[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: some outdoor spaces.
[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: What followed was the implementation of one of the stupidest COVID-19 rules.
[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Diners at restaurants had to wear masks while walking to their table and moving about the
[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: establishment.
[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: However, they were allowed to go maskless as long as they were eating or drinking.
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Does any of this sound familiar to you?
[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it should if you live in North Carolina, because this was the policy of my good friend
[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Ray, Governor Roy Cooper.
[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: No wonder why Roy celebrated Walls as the pick.
[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_01]: The guy had all the same policies that Ray did.
[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_01]: The same sort of stupidity.
[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why the running joke I was making during COVID was that COVID knows.
[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: COVID is the smartest virus ever to virus.
[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And that it could tell if you were sitting or standing because there's no other explanation
[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: for why if you're walking through a restaurant that you would become infected or spread it.
[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_01]: But if you sit down, you would not.
[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_01]: COVID knows.
[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Later in November and December of 2020, Walls issued and extended orders for restaurants,
[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: gyms, and other businesses to shut down.
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: This included outdoor dining service for eating establishments.
[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Think about that.
[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't even have outdoor eating.
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Over 150 businesses formed the Reopen Minnesota Coalition and urged the governor to relent,
[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_01]: but he was unmoved.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: By the spring of 2021, vaccines were widely available for the most at-risk groups.
[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And people who wanted to protect themselves from the risk of severe disease and death
[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: were able to exercise that option.
[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: It was only at this point that Walls partly relented and allowed widespread reopening.
[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: However, he kept capacity limits in place for many businesses, just like Roy Cooper did.
[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and by the way, they gave preferential treatment to BIPOC people.
[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Black, indigenous, people of color.
[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess I shouldn't say people after BIPOC because that's kind of redundant, but they
[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_01]: were given access earlier to the vaccines for equity, you know.
[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_01]: These nonsensical policies were commonplace in blue states.
[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: He was also one of the foremost offenders of a monstrous COVID-19 policy choice, which
[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_01]: was to send sick and elderly patients back to the nursing homes where the infection often
[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_01]: spread to other vulnerable people, causing a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths
[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_01]: in those settings.
[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I am, I guess I should not be surprised that Kamala Harris managed to pick the guy who had
[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: the worst policies.
[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_01]: After all, she is the BIP for the guy who has the worst policies also.
[00:20:48] Right?
[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Quick message.
[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_01]: George, so walls may open a snitch line to tattle on your neighbor if they have a gun,
[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: a gas lawnmower, maybe listen to WBT.
[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's possible.
[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, why stop there, you know?
[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let me go to the phones.
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's Eddie.
[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the show, Eddie.
[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Peter.
[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I have a crazy idea that's been in my head since Obama got elected because I couldn't
[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: believe he got elected, actually.
[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, there's a saying on the internet, you can look it up, there's 45 goals for communists
[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_02]: have for this country.
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_02]: One of them is to take over one or both parties.
[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: So, it's clear that one of them has been taken over.
[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So, what if you can't fight Russia, you can't fight China military, because it'd be like
[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_02]: a bloodbath.
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Hundreds of millions of people would die, probably.
[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_02]: But what if you have to take more of a patient approach and let them take over to some degree
[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_02]: so that people can actually see what it is to be progressive and socialist?
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Because people think it's just a fun word to say, you know, on TikTok or somewhere.
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_02]: But if they actually see what it's like to live in that environment, then they'll be willing
[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_02]: to vote it out.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Because we have to, don't want to defeat that ideology as in the voting booths and in the
[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_02]: laws, but the laws are being overtaken by activists.
[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, so, slight problem is that there's also another saying is that you can vote yourself
[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: into socialism, but you've got to shoot your way out.
[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Or vote your way out.
[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, look at Venezuela.
[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_01]: It's happening right now.
[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Communists do not allow for themselves to be overthrown.
[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: The whole, the cycle is designed so you destabilize first, and that's what we are seeing, right?
[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Destabilization in all the institutions and political parties are one of the institutions,
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: right?
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: So you're seeing the destabilization, but that's only temporary.
[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_01]: After the destabilizers' job is done, and a lot of them aren't even aware of this.
[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_01]: They've drunk the Kool-Aid.
[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_01]: They believe that they could achieve utopia.
[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: But what they fail to understand is that after the revolution occurs, which, by the way,
[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_01]: the revolution actually never ends.
[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_01]: But once you have that transitional period where you've destabilized to the point where
[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_01]: now the communists can take over, what happens then is that they eliminate all of the agents
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_01]: of destabilization.
[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Because now they don't want destabilization.
[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Now they want stability.
[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why you don't get to vote yourself out.
[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't allow for free and fair elections.
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And if they allow for elections at all, it's just party members.
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So what would the agents of, what would those agents be that you just mentioned that they
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_02]: wouldn't allow them?
[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: What would the, the destabilizers are like Antifa.
[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_01]: They are the rioters.
[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_01]: They are the activist crowd.
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Right, right.
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Right, these are the people that show up, the pro-Hamas protesters and such.
[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_02]: But most of those people don't really know what they're doing.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_02]: They're just there for the ride.
[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_02]: They're the weekend parties.
[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to go out there and go to the protest.
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to, they're going to maybe, maybe they'll get on Facebook, something like
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_02]: that.
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_02]: People give likes, give thumbs up.
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_02]: But, but those people are the ones that will have to be proven.
[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_02]: See what it is.
[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_02]: This is this, this is what it is.
[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_02]: But you're, but you're, right.
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_01]: You're assuming that there's going to be a, you assume that there will be a recognition
[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_01]: that they were wrong and then they will try to undo it.
[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: But that doesn't happen.
[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Usually it's the, like that, the people that are going along with those crowds right now
[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_01]: will continue to go along with those crowds.
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I've said this many, many times over the years.
[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people think they, they would like to think, they prefer to think that they are
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_01]: the kind of person that would hide Anne Frank in the attic.
[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And when in fact, the truth is most people would not.
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Most people would be the ones that ratter out.
[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_02]: So then the alternative is that we're actually, the snowball is getting so big that it's, it's,
[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_02]: it's not going to stop.
[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_02]: We're screwed.
[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_01]: No.
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's why the election is so important.
[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why getting it.
[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Our agencies are being, are being compromised.
[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, all of them.
[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Chevron, the Chevron being overturned is great because that's where progressives took control
[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_02]: of our freedoms, but it's so massively corrupted that how do you delete it?
[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_01]: You have to, well, that's the thing.
[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_01]: This is, this is not, it doesn't end with a single cycle.
[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't end with one election.
[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Good and competent people have to step up and volunteer their time and treasure and services,
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_01]: their, uh, their sacred honor.
[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And they have to, they have to get involved in order to beat back this tide.
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the only way, that's the only way you preserve the, the, the, you know, the concept
[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_01]: of what the country was founded on.
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_01]: That's my view.
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_02]: That has to happen.
[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you have more faith in people than I do.
[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I think most people don't even know what's, what's going on.
[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, no.
[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you.
[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Most people don't know what's going on.
[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I completely agree with you.
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why, and I don't have the faith in, I don't have faith in people.
[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_01]: That's precisely why I'm anti-communist because I don't have any faith in people to act
[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_01]: in a certain way.
[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's why they have to be taught.
[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_01]: People have to be taught.
[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, these, these ideals need to be instilled and, you know, uh, from, uh, all through your,
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_01]: your education, right?
[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the whole point was to transfer the culture and the ideals to the next generations
[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_01]: to preserve the quote unquote democracy, right?
[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_01]: In order to keep the Republic.
[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And because the institutions have become so corrupted, now we find ourselves in this place.
[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think we are, we are at the point where there is this awakening occurring.
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm hopeful.
[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just say that I'm hopeful, but the work is a long way from being done.
[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Eddie, I do appreciate the call.
[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I want to get Jeff on before the end of the show here.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Jeff, welcome to the show.
[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: How are you doing today, Pete?
[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm good.
[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I have about a minute, but it's all yours.
[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Just a real quick comment.
[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_03]: When I heard you talking about the governor, uh, and his cattle tail line that he established,
[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_03]: first thing that came to my mind was they called Trump Hitler.
[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_03]: But yet, what did the brown shirts do during the Hitler regime?
[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They wore brown shirts, as I understand.
[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, sir.
[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_03]: But what was their job as, as children of people?
[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: They were to rat out their parents.
[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's basically what my opinion, I think he established, was a brown shirt line.
[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So the, um, the, and of course it was always dressed up in the safetyism as so much of the
[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_01]: leftist, uh, uh, policy is, um, yeah, they are guilty of that which they accuse others.
[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_01]: It's projection.
[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_01]: The iron law of woke projection never fails.
[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Jeff, I do appreciate the call.
[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, these types of snitch lines are always problematic for me because of that very
[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_01]: connection to the historical, uh, examples.
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.
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