Where are the Hamasholes now that Iranians are rising up against their government? (12-30-2025--Hour3)

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I'm just an American whose birthright is to not know geography. Okay, So mass protests have erupted all across Iran. They're chanting things like death to the dictator, which that's a that's progress in my mind, because like they usually are chanting death to Israel or death to America, and so death to the dictator means now they're not happy with their own leadership. The Iyatola komine tear gas was used to disperse protesters as a whole bunch of businesses closed down in Tehran's Grand Bazaar and their main markets. Tehran, the capital of Iran. University students called on their peers to join the demonstrations, while chance echoed from rooftops in several cities. And the Iranian real that's their their money, is it real? Or riyal? It's r i a l ryle real. Their currency is plummeting. The value of their currency is trash, record lows now, all against the backdrop of ongoing threats from Israel and the United States. Okay, it's also okay, this is from the UK Telegraph, Okay, British publication. You know, it's also against the backdrop of like, oh, I don't know, fifty years of oppression, repression, hundreds of billions of dollars, if not a trillion dollars probably spent on creating a nuclear program so they can kill all the Jews. You know, it might be part of the backdrop. Also also their inability to modernize, their inability to keep things that were built prior to the Islamic Revolution. They they've been unable to maintain these this infrastructure, which, by the way, not to go down a rabbit hole here, but that is kind of that, that is kind of the historical norm as Islam, you know, spread off of the Arabian Peninsula and began you know, conquering and colonizing everybody along their borders. It was an expansionist, you know, colonizing ideology, and as it moved forward over you know, fourteen hundred years, they would they would take over a place that had you know, had that had advancements, they had cultures, religions and whatnot. You know, they would force everybody to convert or they would have to pay a tax. So a lot of them just a lot of people just converted or they would pay the taxes or whatever. But a lot of the you know, sort of the golden age that you may have heard about of like the the Islamic world. You know, those advancements were made by the people that were in those geographical areas before they were conquered, and then in the decades after they were conquered. Right like the Islamic world quote unquote gets credit for those things. But the people that were there that got conquered first, they weren't Muslims first like they got like in Iran. They were the Zoroastrians, the Persians, and Persia has a very long and rich and deep history, a lot of technological advancements, scientific advancements and stuff. But when the Islamic Revolution came in, they they kind of stagnated. And that's the historical norm. So here's an example of it. You may not have heard it. I haven't covered it on the show, but if you, if you pay any attention to what's going on in Iran, they have been dealing with a drought for I guess it's now approaching six years and it has it's now like a very severe crisis, and it really peaked about I want to say, about three months ago. That's when I started seeing stories where the president of Iran said that the capital, Tehran, the capital probably needs to move. They're talking about moving the capital of their nation because they cannot provide water to the inhabitants, and you're talking about fifteen million people. They're like, we're just going to move the entire city to the capital to a different place because we can't give water to the fifteen million people that live here. They've got reservoirs, but the reservoirs are running dry. Some of them are like eight percent capacity eight percent. And this obviously prompts residents of Tehran and Iran to uh question, Hey, why are we spending all of this money on on building nuclear weapons to kill Jews when we're all gonna we're all gonna die due to lack of water. See, it's not really an economic thing, right, These are these are the fundamentals of any civilization. Right, Tehran had a water system, They have infrastructure, but they haven't maintained it. So the stuff is is decaying. Well, that's because of US sanctions. Indeed, why well, because of the whole thing. Right, Like when when the Islamic Revolution takes over, first thing they do is well, first thing they did was, you know, wipe out the opponents and the leftists that had helped them take control, which a lot of lefties don't realize that as you're marching with the you know the Hamas holaes as I call them. Uh. You know you're marching against Israel. You're marching for the UH, for the Gozens and such. You're you know, river to the sea. Totally not a genocidal chant. No, no, no, Like you're part of the first wave of the murdering that occurs after the revolution is successful. I'm not sure the lefties are aware of that. The only thing that the Islamists and the the leftists share is a desire to destabilize and tear down Western civilization. So they ally themselves as they did in Iran, and then when when the revolution comes, the lefties are all murdered. Okay, you're all you're you're you're done, because the Islamis don't want destabilization anymore. Right, the missions successful, we're in charge, and now you've got to go. Okay, so the infrastructures crumbling. They're not able to provide water. I mean there's like these stories where like if you live in a tall building, if you're on like the eleventh or twelfth floor in Tehran, like there's no water pressure to get the water up to your floors. So now you got people they're all over the place for years. This has been occurring. Apparently they've been drilling wells, they've been diverting water away from reservoirs and stuff because the system hasn't been modernized and it hasn't been updated to you know, to service the populations. And so by the way, Israel said, hey, we have desalinization technology and we can help you with some of like like if you guys are willing to abandon this jihat against us, like, we are totally willing to help you get water to your people. They've been offering this for a while and Iran refuses to the leadership refuses to do it. The Mulla's okay. So, residents in one city near Tehran told the UK Telegraph that a heavy presence of armed motorcycle mounted security forces was visible around midnight. So you got all these bikers taking to the streets to put down all of the all of the students, the protesters once again. All right, holiday football has arrived. Right with Draft Kings sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the NFL, the unexpected can turn game day into payday. And don't forget Draft Kings as your back with early exit pretty neat function here. If your player goes down in the first half, you still get paid in cash. Download the Draft Kings sports book app and use the code PETE. That's code PETE. New customers can bet five bucks and get two hundred dollars in bonus bets if your bet wins instantly. In partnership with Draft Kings, the Crown is yours. Problem called one eight hundred gambler In New York call eight seven seven eight hope and why, or text hope and why two four six seven, three six nine. 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Students living at the complex chanted slogans like women, life, freedom. By the way, all of you tend to fada folks, you hamas holles. Where are you guys? It seems like if you are for you know, the Arab people in Gaza, you should be for these people that are rising up against the tutalitarian state a couple hundred miles away right in Iran. No tend to fada for the Persians, for the Iranians. What's up with that? I almost get the feeling like there's a different reason for your demonstrations. Anyway, Back to the UK Telegraph, the protests began on Sunday afternoon, after mobile phone and electronics shopkeepers in Tehran shut their stores as the currency fell to a record low of one point four to two million realls. Their their currency their unit currency, so one dollar in America, one dollar will get you one point forty two million realls or ryals. I'm thinking maybe I pull a Tucker Carlson and move to Iran. Not sure my wife Christy is going to be on board with this decision, but uh okay, maybe just a summer home. Well probably not in Tehran given the water shortage thing. But the currency did recover. It did recover a little bit yesterday evening after they fired their central bank governor where he resigned, but I probably think he was maybe pushed, didn't just jump on his own, probably pushed like you know, a gay person from a rooftop in Tehran, because that's what they what they do in Tehran, well really all over the Middle East, but mainly Iran has made it into like a huge thing. So anyway, the Islamic Republic's central bank governor resigned and this led to an improvement in the value of their currency. So instead of being at the record low of one point four to two million reawls to the dollar, it is now one point three eight million reals to the dollar. So okay, Iran's currency collapses, compounding severe inflation. The State Statistics Center reported inflation reached You think inflation is bad here. You hear this number, forty two percent inflation in December, in one month in December, forty two percent. Now this is the part where I think a Democrat administration would say, let's ease off the gas here people, let's give them some room. And but this is not a Democrat administration. This is the Trump administration. So uh, he's not taking his foot off the gas. In fact, he's cheering on the Iranian people. As am I. I am standing with the Iranian people that are sick and tired of being ruled over and oppressed, tortured, killed right by this oppressive regime. And so if they can overthrow their own government, more power to them. That is like that would be a hopefully a stabilizing factor in the Middle East because Iran their number one export is terrorism. And so if the regime goes, then the funding dries up Forsbala Hamas the Tutsi or sorry, not the Tutsi's the who are the guys that we just bombed in Yemen? Hutis right, the hooties, not of the blowfish. They they keep exporting terrorism. And you've got this normalization that is occurring in the Middle East with relationship to Israel and America. That's a positive development. So it seems to me like if the people of Iran are able to overthrow this molocracy, molocracy, this Islamic republic regime, if they're able to toss them out, that might be a good thing. I'm not saying we commit any troops on the ground, boots on the ground, not saying we do anything. I'm just saying I support their efforts to overthrow an oppressive government. Food prices surged seventy two percent, health and medical items rose fifty two percent compared to the same period last year. Iran's President Masud Pezeshkian. Pezeshkian, the President, said Sunday in the parliament, quote, I have no motivation to remain in government or to remain president if I cannot solve the problems of the people and the deprived. Now what does that mean? Is he going to resign or something? I don't know it is maybe maybe he's got a read on like where this could go and he wants to remain president. After the overthrow of the Mullahs and you know, the kleptocrats that are running the regime and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, like maybe this guy is positioning himself to take over the country. Yes he's already president, but he doesn't really he doesn't really run the show. So if you get rid of the theocrats that have been running the show, the mullas, you get rid of all of that, and then maybe he can help guide Iran into a more peaceful state. You know. Iran last experienced nationwide protests back in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three after the death of a twenty two year old girl, a woman named Masa Amini. She was in police custody hundreds of people. I believe she was protesting the forced covering up. She didn't want to cover up. And people don't know. For folks who are, you know, under the age of fifty, maybe probably don't know that. Like, Iran was a very modern country and culture prior to the overthrow of the Shaw. So hundreds of people were killed, more than twenty thousand arrested during the most recent protests a couple of years ago. Several were executed in connection with those demonstrations. State media acknowledged the protest but said that shopkeepers were concerned only about economic conditions See Iran. Their response the Mulla's response to all of this is that this is just about economics, and it is about economics, sure, but it's also about all the other stuff I've talked about. It's not just the inflation. It's the water, it's the oppression, it's the murdering of people. It's kind of all of it. You know, you know. Stories are powerful. 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The department did not identify the officers, but says one of them is a lieutenant with thirteen years of experience. The other is a rookie who has only been on the force for about six months now. The name of the gunman has been released. He's dead. The police shot him and killed him. He was Chammel Ali Hamlin from mint Hill, which is for people who aren't to wear It's one of the six quote unquote small towns which ain't so small anymore that surrounds Charlotte in Mecklinburg County, So Minhill's sort of the east southeast side of Mecklinburg County outside of Charlotte, and went through the E court system and looked up his record like you're shooting at two cops, Like does this guy have a lengthy rap sheet? He was thirty six years old. He was shot and killed in the exchange of gunfire with the officers, and going through court, the E courts system, it's all he does have. He does have a criminal history, but they're virtually all traffic related. Speeding doing ninety one in a sixty mile an hour zone up in Clyde, that's up in Hey would western North Carolina. That was back in two thousand and seven. Next charge a year later, driving with license revoked failure to appear, But that was in Mecklimber County and that got dismissed. The Heywood County speeding charge, he pleaded guilty to that one, paid a fine up in Haywood County, but in Mecklimber County dismissed. Then let's see here two charges in February twenty eleven, speeding doing seventy three and a fifty five no seat belt. The no seat belt got dismissed. He did plead guilty to improper equipment, which is that's a that's a pleading down of the charge of like speeding of seventy three and a fifty five, that's a that's a higher charge than improper equipment. That's the way like you just plead it down. I think it's no points on your license improper equipment. That was Mecklinberg. Then let's see here a couple months later in mint Hill he's pulled over for having no insurance. That got dismissed by the DA. A month later Mecklinberg County. Twenty twelve, Mecklinberg County CMPD pulled them over for expired tags no inspection. He apparently got that corrected and so the charges were dismissed by the DA in Mecklimber County again, then in yeah in twenty thirteen driving with the license revoked, then failure to appear by the year twenty sixteen, that charge gets dismissed. Three years later, he also had expired tags and also a failure to appear that got dismissed again Mecklinberg County. Then up in Cabaris County it's popped in November twenty sixteen for marijuana possession. He pleads guilty, there pays a fine, and that is the last criminal charge that appears in the e court system for this guy. So not a violent offender. No idea what happened during this custody exchange that occurred, And this happens when you know you've got a couple, they've got a child together, or multiple kids whatever, and you know, one of them gets custody and so they got to hand off the kid. So they do it in a public place because maybe there's you know, there were threats or something. But none of that ever was charged, So there's no indication. I don't know what the civil rap sheet might look like, or civil cases may look like, but obviously going through a custody dispute, they're sharing custody, they've got to swap the kids back and forth. So they do it in a public place in mint Hill. I don't know if one of I don't know if like one of the parents worked at a business there and that's why they were doing the swap there or what. But for some reason, guy pulls out a gun. I don't know if the cops were called or if they happen to be there for the exchange. Don't know that. Now, Mecklimberg County is pointing out that they have a place to do safe custody exchanges, so I figured I would pass this along to you. This from WCNC TV Vanessa ruffles or ruffs ruffs roofif I think that's how she pronounces that. Anyway. Meckliberg County opened the county's Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Center in twenty fourteen. The center is located at the Valerie C. Woodard Center off Freedom Drive near aety five in West Charlotte. It is specifically set up to maintain safety, and they partner with off duty officers who serve as security and the parents do not interact with each other at all. They come in set entrances. You know, the kids then are, you know, are conveyed to the other parent. The center serves about seventy five families a month and can be even safer than doing an exchange outside of the police department, they say, because you know, if you do it outside the police department, there may not be a police officer that's there versus this safe exchange site. And so if this is something that you may want to take advantage of, you can call the center nine to eight zero three one four eighty six point eighty. Oh. I got a press release the other day from our sheriff, our Mecklamer County Sheriff, Gary not my fault McFadden, which I hear is it's catching on. The nickname is catching on. Somebody sent me a screenshot of a conversation I think it was on like next door or something, and somebody referred to him as not my fault McFadden, which is awesome. We might actually get that to stick before we get votainer adopted. Votainer is the word to replace vote getter or top vote getter. It's a terrible term. I hate it. It's awkward, clunky, clumsy, disgusting. I don't like it. So we've been trying to get people to use the word votainer. So if you are running in a crowded field and you end up number one, you are the top votainer. Right, It's much better. It's cleaner, sounds better, sexier, even makes you look taller too, and better looking. So anyway, one of my big beefs with the Sheriff's press releases has been the fact that they are images. It's not a word document or something. It's an image, and so you can't just simply print the text. You got to print the whole thing. And that's a problem because they put like a one inch border of green around the entire page. So now I'm wasting ink to print what's in the middle of the page, and the top third of the page is his face, his glamour shot. He's got like a glamour shot of himself that takes up like a third of the page. And all I want is the text if I'm printing it out, so I can do it on the show here, because I'm old school at everything's paper copy here, I don't need to see his face on my press releases. Okay, just give me the press release and this press release no border and no glamour shot. I think we are making a difference here people. It's difficult work, it takes a long time, but I feel like we're making some progress, 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. 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He's complained about not having enough bedspace. He's complained about the passage of the Arena's Law, which is now going to force uh, the local judicial system to hold you know, repeat violent offenders, to not just you know, let them walk on bond or unsecured bond or no bond at all. So now they have to put him in the jail. And McFadden's like, we need more money, we can't do this. This isn't my fault, because nothing is ever his fault. That's why I gave him the nickname. So there was a guy by the name There is a guy by the name of William Lassiter, and he is the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. Well, I don't know what his title is he's but he oversees the jails and detention centers and stuff like that. And he was quoted a couple well maybe a month ago now, he was quoted as saying, look, we offered to buy Jail North, we offered to lease it from them, and McFadden has said no. And the reason he says no is what was at the time he was saying that it was because that the state is not going to be able to hire corrections officers to staff Jail North, which is not his problem. Okay, if the state is saying they will buy the facility or they'll lease it from you or whatever, it doesn't matter. If you're not using it to house inmates and the state is saying we will lease it, we will buy it, will house inmates there. That is of no concern to you. You're not using it, just let them have it, right, But he won't do that. So when things don't make sense, right, when you're looking at some outcome and it doesn't make any sense, go back and reassess your assumptions. And the assumption is that you McFadden wants to hold more people and have you know, more officers and more bedspace and keep more people in jail and stuff. And so it doesn't really make sense. If the state's saying we'll do that, will take the cost, then why wouldn't you do that? Aha, reassess your assumption. McFadden doesn't actually want to keep people in jail. And by the way, that's not me saying that. He said that. Okay, he has said that. He said, you can't incarcerate your way out of this problem of crime. And I disagree, particularly when it comes to the repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat offenders that are sent through the catch and release turnstyle judicial system that we have here and have that here. So he called for this public meeting. I want a public meeting. Well he's getting it, everybody. He's going to get a public meeting, and I cannot wait. He put out this press release without his glamour shot. The event will be held. Oh and by the way, he's got William Lasseter from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety coming to this meeting, Okay, to talk about jail North. The event will be held at the Valerie Sea Woodard Community Resource Center, All Freedom Drive on January sixth, twenty twenty six. I would very much like to attend, but I don't know what time it is. So I've I've been doing media now for a while and I have found it very helpful that if you want me to go cover your event, you should tell me what time your event is. I'm glad I got a date. That's nice, that's good January sixth. That's also a vital piece of information. That's that's part of the when. But you also need a time here. So this way people aren't just like camped out at the Woodard Center. Well, I mean more so than like a lot of the homeless populations, But like, you don't want reporters just sitting around for you know, eighteen hours waiting on this thing to start whenever it starts, so maybe we could get a time for that, he says. Media, key stakeholders and the public are invited to attend, so basically everybody. It's open to the public. That's another way you could say that, just in the future, just it's open to the public. He says. The the Sheriff's Office is convening this panel to address and correct ongoing misconceptions about the closure of Jail North and inform the public with a clear understanding of the real needs and conditions for reopening the facility. Specifically, there has been confusion about the Sheriff's Office's role and responsibility in the facility not being open. Right, there's confusion, you see, because it's not his fault. People. For this reason, we want to engage in a transparent discussion with state leaders regarding the potential reopening of Jail North and emphasize that closing the facility was not our preference. Hey, it wasn't his fault. We didn't want to close it. It opened in twenty nineteen and closed in twenty twenty two. At the time of its closure, he says, circumstances beyond our control required decisive action, not his fault. Following a jail inspection, which has always been a uh, that's always been a burr under his saddle. Is how dare the state come in and do these inspections of my jail and cite us for deficiencies. It's not our fault. All these inmates have died. Sorry, residents. He calls them residents. He doesn't like the term inmate, so he always calls them residents. And so whenever a resident dies, the state comes in and takes a look around and they're like, oh, you got some problems here and here and here and here. Now, Uh, not my fault. Following an inspection, staffing resources at Jail North had to be reassigned to the Big Jail, Central Jail because they didn't have enough personnel and our three year contract with the state had had ended. It's also important to clarify that Sheriff's office is not statutorily responsible for housing juveniles. That is the responsibility of the state. Right well, so lease them back the property man, Lassiter said the reports in an interview. He said, we have offered to lease the property to house juveniles and McFadden won't do it. That's what Lassiter said. That was Lassitter lying. I guess he could be. There has been public speculation that Jail North is an unused, fully operational facility that could easily be reopened to house juveniles or serve as overflow for adult residents. See there, it is not inmates residents. This narrative overlooks a critical reality. Operating the facility requires adequate staffing, which currently the Sheriff's Office does not have the staffing capacity to reopen the facility. Yes, we know that. We know that. Now. McFadden says that this is just a problem across the board, has nothing to do with him, although I would point out he has been hemorrhaging staff because like people don't like to work for him. Now he doesn't believe this, but the people who have quit, including two of his number two people have quit, and they both wrote public letters and published them calling him a narcissist, a micromanager, a tyrant, unprofessional, ill equipped to manage an office, a terrible administrator. So that's what they're saying. He also fired a bunch of people when he came into office almost eight years ago, one of whom was the woman who ran the jail. That fired her because she was perceived to be too close to the previous sheriff. See, none of this is his fault, as I am sure he will tell us at some time to be determined on January sixth, at this public meeting. 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 dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.