031123 CPAC- Republican Presidential Candidates (Part 2)

way black history. Fact. Uh came across a strange story I never learned about growing up. Funny how that works, and it was a bombing police bombing in New York City where they bombed a neighborhood and killed the bunch of people and a bunch of little kids. And of

course you didn't know about it. But we have this microphone and an audience, so we're going to tell you all about that again for our way, black history tract first and foremost, So it's time for us to discuss becoming a better ally BA BA. So Today's BABA sponsored by Major Threads for the finest in men's sportswear, Checkmajor

threads dot com. All right, for today's Bob, we're going to shout out John Stewart And if you haven't seen his interview circulating on the internet, he did an amazing job, incredible, incredible job addressing some conservative hypocrisies and we feel like that is in alignment with much of what it is we're trying to do on this show. So he didn't directly talk about black issues per se, but pointing out the hypocrisy to.

of the Second Amendment. That's what the lawmaker said on Thursday's episode of the Problem with John. Stewart goes on to say, I believe the right to keep in bare arms shall not be in fringe. He added, emphasizing that it's the one amendment that uses very specific affirmative language. Oh so it's the one that uses the phrase well regulated. Stuart, who added that he's not opposed to the Second Amendment, reply, I don't want to ban guns, but you're saying more

guns makes us safe. So when we got four hundred million guns in the country, we had an increase in gun desks went up. Steward added, So, when exactly does the curve hit what takes it down? Would a billion guns do it? And then he goes on to talk about trans rights and a whole bunch of other things, just pointing out a lot of conservative hypocrisies. Please check

that interview out. It was masterful, a masterclass and how to shut down people who know they're wrong and are some reason, for some reason, committed to a bunch of dead guys that are no longer alive and their idea of what we should be doing in a modern war where guns can mow down malls full of people speaking of hypocrisies and hypocrites and conservative hypocrisies and that sort of thing. I got to say something before we get into this. Conservative people, in principle are not bad people.

I've learned recently. Excuse me, I'm going somewhere with this, QX me. I'm going somewhere with this. I'm sorry, bro, I've learned. We have met both of us, you know, you know what I'm going with this. People who are decent people. There are people who are very conservative who have allowed this show to be on the radio station that you're listening to right now. Right So when we point out a lot of the hypocrisies that we see,

we are not talking about all conservative people. There are different There are people who have a different belief system. They want small government, They very much believe in I'm going to do for me, you do for you, and where we end up is where we end up. There are people who believe in lots of things, you know, God, guns and country doesn't necessarily make them bad folks. It's certainly not my philosophy, but that doesn't make them awful people. Right, Well,

excuse me. What we're talking about now, rather is what we find in the political arena, not your individual belief system in your home.

ballot for some of these folks. Yes, absolutely you. But you know, we talk to a lot of people who, again are conservative folks who are like, listen, man, that guy, the ex president or whoever it is that they're talking to carry Let you know, she's a kook, man. I believe in sensible leadership. My preference is a more conservative approach. Okay, So again, we're not talking about you, those people, if you know them.

So SEAPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is a conference of conservative people where they get together and have like a conservative party about who they want to put forth, who they want to support in terms of who's going to shape the country in different parts of the country, and you know what policies we agree on, what sort of plans or you know, uh, programs that we want to put forward. This sort of thing. I've heard of SEAPAC, but I never had to pay attention to it until

you know now, I'm being honest. And the main takeaway from this most recent one was that Donald Trump was there, Ronda Santis wasn't there, and that when Nikki Haley was person who's also running for president for the potential Republican nomination was there, but she kind of was jeered out of the building, and she was speaking to a house that was not nearly as packed as they would have hoped, even Donald Trump had twenty percent of his seats MP.

So again, we're just telling you about this so that you're aware of who these people are and what sort of ideas they have about this country. And bear in mind that they're going to run against potentially Joe Biden, which is an interesting reality. This is an interesting timeline that we're living in, because you know, that's where's somebody need to call Obama back because we're not done. You texted, wish I could anyway. All right, So we'll start. The

main guy there, of course, was Donald Trump. So he's quoted is saying this comes from Yahoo. By the way, it's quoted, is saying, in twenty sixteen, I declared I am your voice, Trump said to the ballroom packed he's that term loosely with his most fervent loyalist at the Conservative Political Action Conference, to some of the loudest sustained applause of the night. He goes on to say, today I add I am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed. I

am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state. Now, when they said it was a packed ballroom, there's another note here that says twenty percent of the seats were empty. And of course Donald Trump was like kind of the highlight of the night right. He's the are the Republican

favorite I suppose for president. They did a straw pole, I want to say there, and it showed that he had sixty two percent support for the nomination for Republicans for president in so that could change, but we all know we've lived in that timeline with Donald Trump, and so we know what to expect. There. A delusional old man who is angry at everybody and makes up stuff on the fly, has no real political solutions or anything that affects people who live real lives.

crowd and she began her remarks. She focused her speech mostly on criticizing President Joe Biden and socialist Democrats. She did indirectly jab the former president by pointing out that Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, and by calling for a mental competency test for all politicians over seventy five years old, which would apply to Trump seventy six, as well as the threat posed by China and drew no direct contrasts

with Trump. Okay, So I want to go back through that. So Nikki Hayley, this potential candidate for president, said that Republicans lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. So there's that. That is a prominent Republican figure acknowledging that Republicans have to play this game in order to hold power. They have to play this You know what is that thing called the electoral college game, which doesn't necessarily mean this is what the people want.

It simply means this is how you can beat the system. This is how you can win the system, not the people. There's no way reflects what the majority of the folks want.

listening to me describe that. You should be able to paint a picture in your head because you know it doesn't make any sense yet.

more conservative. And this is how unfortunately, this is how the country rather is uh shaped is the right word shaped, you know, by conservatives and liberals, when the truth is we should be a much more liberal leaning country that they've taught us to fear the words that we should be we are. Yeah, in fact we are. Based on the human level, we are, but based on our policies and our laws, based on laws and all their numbers.

all right. She said she the popular vote, and she wants a mental competency test for politicians seventy five years old. And I think that there's something there too. I like the idea of village elders, you know, like you know, there's a lot of wisdom in those years, but there's also a tendency to be a stick in the mud. There's also the very likelihood that you know, the decisions you make now, you're not going to have to deal

with them. So if you choose to ignore your impact on the climate on the planet, you're not going to be around to see what that looks like, and us and our children will be And so there is something there about having people be examined to see how competent they are. And I feel like there's there's something to that. Now, whether or not that's discriminatory, who knows, but it would at least keep us a little bit more progressive in

terms of our ideas. But I don't think I would just like get behind an idea like that and champion it. I just that's worth listening to, I suppose. And then, of course, like I said, some thinly veiled jabs at Trump and then talked about the threat of China. These are all things that are kind of beyond the scope of what it is we talk about here.

you gonna do? Right now? The elephant in the room Ron DeSantis. And this is where we need to really have a bit of a conversation. Now. You might know about Rond de Santis if you're listening to this show this far, and I have no doubt that you know who he is. He's another Republican favorite for everybody who's turned off by Donald Trump there turned on by this guy. He's not as old. I think he's like in his mid forties. He's extremely conservative and he's getting stuff done.

what Rams this means. He means he's extremely politically right, extremely GOP Trump era MAGA conservative republican far right political person, not the word conservative. My grandmother was extremely conservative, Okay, yeah.

he's staunchly opposed to that. So, like I said, dude to Priba Sleep, I don't know. And then, of course on this show, when we brought his name up in the past, it was because of his attacks on teaching what he calls critical race theory, what is in fact and in practice accurate and full American history to kids, so that we understand who we are, why we ended up where we are, and what we can do about it.

And he, according to that same poll that put trumpets sixty percent, had about twenty percent of the support at Seapack, and so that could change. These are the names to bear in mind, and of course we had to talk about it, So bear that in mind. All right, now it's time for the Way Black Historyffect. Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by the Black Information Network Daily podcast. You can find that out at iHeart dot com or

binnews dot com. And I will be reading from the New York Times now Again this made its way to me recently. I had no idea and so we're gonna learn this together right. Thirty five years after Move bombing that killed eleven, Philadelphia apologizes all right. Police helicopter dropped an explosive charge onto the roof of a rowhouse during an arm standoff in nineteen eighty five. The resultant fire

destroyed sixty one homes in a West Philadelphia neighborhood. The Philadelphia City Council this week formally apologized for the decision in nineteen eighty five to drop an improvised bomb on a row house occupied by the Move separatist group, a desperate action that resulted in a fire that killed eleven and destroyed sixty one homes. I remember five of them were children. I'm not mistaken. The resolution marked the first

time that the city had formally apologized for the action. Measure, which also calls for an annual day of remembrance on May thirteenth, the anniversary of the bombing, was sponsored by Jamie Gautier, a city councilwoman who grew up near the West Philadelphia neighborhood where the bombing happened. Mss Gautier recalled watching the aftermath of the bombing on television as a child and said that the neighborhood was only now starting

to fully recover from the devastation. Quote, there have been divisions in our city between police and community for decades, and I think if we had done the true work of acknowledging what happened with MOVE and other acts of police violence, and we had really worked on not only the acknowledgment, but the building better relationships and working toward reconciliation, we wouldn't find ourselves in the place we are now,

she said. In an interview. She goes on to say it was always striking to me that we did this, that our city did this, and no one was ever held accountable. She added, I thought that was unconscionable. Mosgatier began circulating a draft resolution before the May thirteenth anniversary of the Move attack, but the efforts stalled and then

was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions. The May twenty fifth killing of George Floyd gave renewed energy to the resolution, she said, and the need to recognize the effects of police killings of black people have had on the community grew even more with the October twenty sixth killing of Walter Wallace Junior, who was fatally shot by the police during the encounter in the same neighborhood where the move

home once stood. In a statement, Mayor Jim Kinney of Philadelphia acknowledged the resolution's importance quote in an effort to learn from our past and do better by our residents in the future. This annual day of observation is a positive step in the healing process of our city. Our city desperately needs, he said. Goes on to say, this year we saw the pain and trauma caused by the move bombing is still alive in West Philadelphia, so I

commend Counsel for taking the step toward healing. The mayor acknowledged missteps in the city's attempts to rebuild the neighborhood in the years immediately following the attack was set in a recent public private partnership which had succeeded in reconstructing

homes in the affected area. All Right move, a group described by members as a quote back to nature movement unquote that would return the United States to Native Americans and do away with all government, was deemed an authoritarian, violence threatening cult by city officials, who said the group used threats, abuse, and intimidation to terrify their neighbors and

to bring about confrontation. At the time of the attack, the police were acting to clear up the group out of a row house at sixty two to twenty one Osage Avenue in response to neighbors complaints of filthy conditions in the house and night long amplified lectures from move members. At six am on May thirteenth, eighteen sixty five, the Philadelphia Police came under gunfire from police from sorry from people inside the home, which led to a day long standoff.

Throughout the day, the Philadelphia Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission later found the police fired more than ten thousand rounds of ammunition in less than ninety minutes at the rowhouse.

calling the police officers' actions clearly excessive and unreasonable. The commission's report acknowledged that police were unable to fully suppress the gunfire coming from the home, and that efforts to negotiate with the people inside had been haphazard and fruitless.

Police bomb squad members fashioned an improvised bomb out of plastic explosives, and an officer dropped the charge from a helicopter onto the roof of the Move rowhouse in an effort to destroy a fortified bunker the group had built there. At five twenty seven pm, the bomb detonated with which started a fire that police ordered firefighters to let burn.

The blaze spread, ultimately destroying sixty other nearby homes. The plan to bomb of this quote, The plan to bomb the move houses was reckless, ill conceived, and hastily approved. The Commission's reports, set in nineteen eighty six. I wonder why that goes on quote. Dropping a bomb on an occupied rowhouse was unconscionable and should have been rejected out of hand. The hasty, reckless and irresponsible decision by the police Commissioner and the fire commissioner to use the fire

as a tactical weapon was unconscionable. The report added. The deaths of eleven people, six adults and five children, and the police action were classified as unjustified homicides. Police Commissioner George J. Samber, who directed the aerial bombing, resigned in November nineteen eighty five. At grand jury in nineteen eighty eight cleared Mayor W. Wilson Good and other top city officials of criminal liability for death and destruction resulting from

the operation Shocking. In an op ed published by the Guardian on May tenth, mister Good, the former mayor, called the city too, called on the city to issue a formal apology for the attack. Quote, I apologize and encourage others to do the same, mister Good wrote, we will be a better city for it, all right. So, yeah, I didn't know about that. I didn't color that in any way. That's New York Times. So if that was colored in a way to paint a picture about anyone,

it's the time. So you know what they're on either way, for people that are speaking on loud speakers, and they're living as you would as one would live with nature in the city of Philadelphia, which other people may not think is up to their standards or you know whatever they said, filthy conditions, But to me that means that they probably were growing their own food in the yard or something I don't know. And then of course their amplifiers were too loud when they were giving their speeches.

That doesn't mean let's bomb them.

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