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Dixie Dems: Guns & Politics

[00:00:00] Bob Gatty: Hey guys, welcome to the Lean to the Left podcast. As always on the Dixie Dems, we talk politics, and with me are Arthur Hill from North Carolina and Robert Thompson from Georgia. I'm a Marylander transplanted into South Carolina, and together we're the Dixie Dems.

[00:00:17] Arthur is vice chair of the Brunswick County, North Carolina Democratic Party. And Robert's a Georgia native activist now in Atlanta and has watched his state turn battleground purple over the past several election cycles. I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and host this podcast and produce the Lean to the Left blog site.

[00:00:37] I'm also working on an updated version of Hijacked Nation, a book about the Trump presidency with my co author C. J. Waldron. More about that later. Our episode today will largely be devoted to the tragic shooting at the Appalachee High School in Georgia, which cost the lives of two young students and two beloved teachers.

[00:00:59] It's resulted in the 14 year old shooter who wielded an assault weapon to carry out his vicious attack, being charged as an adult with the murder, and his father who allowed him to have that gun also being charged with second degree murder in connection with the attack. At least nine others were injured in the 416th school shooting since the Columbine Massacre in 1999.

[00:01:27] There are no words to express the sadness over this tragedy. One that could have been prevented if only those in power took responsible action. To prevent someone like young Colt Gray from having access to such a weapon. There are plenty of other political issues to discuss today too, and we'll touch on them.

[00:01:49] The Harris Trump debate is tomorrow, and we'll have another episode later covering that, and other key political news. But suffice it to say, That over the last two months, since Kamala Harris has been the Democratic presidential nominee, the political landscape has drastically changed. She's now leading in the polls, vastly outraising Trump in contributions.

[00:02:11] And Trump seems to be more incoherent and crazy every day. Now let's get to the Georgia shooting and its aftermath. Robert, please kick us off. 

[00:02:22] Robert Thompson: I'm going to just read some items before I get into my commentary. And this first one actually is from our roommates. I guess we would call her niece.

[00:02:34] Who actually so I have, what, one or two degrees of separation to what happened this week. I'm going to read her story. It has been publicly posted on social media. I won't fully say her name, but take a listen. My story. It was 1023 a. m. My class had a substitute teacher in second period. We were all working on writing a five paragraph essay.

[00:02:56] Suddenly we heard what seemed to be banging on the lockers. Our worst nightmare would come true when the banging happened for a second time and realized it was gunshots. They were so close that I could feel vibrations through my chest. I'll never forget the horrified faces of classmates when we all ran to hide.

[00:03:13] Our door was wide open. We slammed it shut. We threw tables and desks in front of it in hopes that it would protect us. A long 20 minutes of screaming and gunshots passed. I tried texting my loved ones the last message, in case that was going to be my last moment on earth. Nothing would send for a while.

[00:03:31] I started thinking to myself how they were going to tell my parents that I died. Police busted through our classroom door and pushed aside our barricades, pointing giant guns at us, instructing us to put our hands up. They told us to stay quiet and not come out, that they would come back for us when it was safe.

[00:03:48] We were terrified, shaking, traumatized. We were finally evacuated. I had my head on a swivel, and I'll never be the same. This is a high school student. And what Republicans, I'll blame them, what Republicans have created in this country, and it's blood money, honestly, that the NRA, the NRA has been labeled a Terrorist organization, I believe, by California sometime back, not a damn thing has changed and this is just ridiculous that we have to sit here and talk about this for, as you said, 400 some odd plus times.

[00:04:29] Bob Gatty: I 

[00:04:29] Robert Thompson: don't know. 

[00:04:31] Bob Gatty: Incredible. Have you got any ideas on anything that can be done to slow this down?

[00:04:37] Robert Thompson: I shared, with you guys before and everything that I know about Republicans is all they care about is money. They have no decency about them literally to take money from a terrorist organization like the NRA just so that they can keep selling guns. When we drive on the streets, we have to have auto insurance.

[00:04:58] And then on top of that, we actually pay more in case the person that hits us has uninsured motors, for that coverage. We tried to require health insurance coverage, but of course, Republicans couldn't have that. And then also, if you have a mortgage, you've got to have homeowners insurance to protect the banks in case your house burns down, a tornado takes it away.

[00:05:20] Why are we still allowing, I sat through a. Georgia State Senate Committee hearing this week. And by the way, the only folks that showed up in person to that meeting were the Repub, I'm sorry, the Democratic Chairman. One of the Republican guys, he just called in with his phone to the Zoom meeting, and he said I would be there, but I have to be in rural Georgia to meet with an EMC, because I guess that was more important.

[00:05:46] But, these common sense things that are out there, including, Getting the insurance liability. There are no shortage of lawyers out there behind this because at some point there's going to be liability. All of those folks at that high school, they're going to start suing the family of, how this happened this week.

[00:06:10] And if you choose to have guns and I'll go back to that committee hearing this week the gentleman that was up front, he says, I have 40 guns in my house. He was a democratic old, guy here in Georgia. He says, I hunt, but I don't kill hogs with an AR 15. I use a 30 30 for that.

[00:06:27] And why on earth are we allowing the sale of a weapon of war that because somebody claims they want to go hunt with an AR 15 and demolish whatever they're shooting at. 

[00:06:39] Bob Gatty: Robert, 

[00:06:39] Robert Thompson: are 

[00:06:41] Bob Gatty: you suggesting that there should be a requirement for some kind of insurance coverage for people that have guns?

[00:06:50] Liability coverage of some sort? Is that what you're saying? 

[00:06:54] Robert Thompson: Nobody's said it so far. So why the hell not? You already probably have the coverage. If you have a homeowner's policy on your home it, Yeah, I'm surprised, honestly, that the insurance companies haven't come back because every insurance company that I know of, they don't want to pay any claims and either they're going to exclude it or it's just, it's going to come down to litigation back and forth that somebody is liable, but why not?

[00:07:20] Again, yeah, go ahead. Get these attorneys behind you, get the insurance companies behind you. The, if these gun manufacturers are going to keep manufacturing guns to kill everybody, whether they want to be in the room or not, but it's something, and I don't hear anybody talking about. 

[00:07:38] Arthur Hill: I hear you talking about it, and I think it's a great idea, and I put a bug in the ear of candidates up here who are running for state legislature to consider your proposal.

[00:07:50] I, I think I think it's a great idea. And while we're at it. In addition to the other solutions that everybody's talking about, banishing assault weapons background checks red flag laws, all that stuff. In addition to that, I think we ought to make it a requirement for the states to also require training.

[00:08:14] We, you have to get a learner's permit before you get a driver's license. If you're going to get a license to shoot guns, then you also ought to have some training to go along with it. And I think that would, I think that would help a lot. At one time many years ago, the NRA actually, back when they were, back when they were, just a another special interest organization.

[00:08:35] They were in favor of that. They said they were in favor of enacting laws that required training on how to handle guns. 

[00:08:40] Bob Gatty: As a matter of fact, they didn't, they provide, they provided at least then training programs. Did they not? 

[00:08:48] Arthur Hill: Absolutely. They did. Yeah. And certification programs and That sort of thing.

[00:08:51] And then they stopped doing it when when the gun manufacturers took over the organization. There's an agenda out there. And it's not radical. It's perfectly reasonable. And I would add Robert's proposal to that agenda. I think it's a wonderful idea.

[00:09:06] Bob Gatty: I do too.

[00:09:07] And I think that the Kamala Harris campaign should be advised Yeah, I really do. I really do. I

[00:09:14] Robert Thompson: do want to make a shout out to the two representatives here in Georgia, Miss Doreen Carter and Miss Jasmine Clark. They actually did email me back this week about this particular proposal. And one of them said that she's going to Miss Carter is going to have a conversation with a group she's involved in.

[00:09:30] And then Miss Clark, In Georgia, they have to be reelected every two years, both the reps and the senators. 

[00:09:37] Arthur Hill: Yeah. So 

[00:09:38] Robert Thompson: both of these ladies are in a a battle, to get back to the gold dome. 

[00:09:42] But it's I don't know where else, to get common ground, at the committee hearing that I, listening to this week, and it was just an irony, or a weird irony that they were having a Senate Georgia Senate Committee hearing.

[00:09:54] On storage of guns, and they have this meeting the day after the school shooting a minor. 

[00:10:01] Arthur Hill: Yeah. 

[00:10:02] Robert Thompson: And that they had these ladies come one of the ladies she couldn't actually make it all the way through her speech, so she was crying and apologized profusely. But the other lady that was there with, policies, I, I'd refer you back to the video, but she said, just in acting.

[00:10:16] Three of the ideas that she had not this whole liability thing we're talking about, but three of the other ideas, such as just common sense stuff. If you've had mental issues before, you shouldn't have access to a gun. You shouldn't be able to buy one, etc. She said just enacting three of those would actually cut, gun deaths in half.

[00:10:35] Another interesting statistic, because we are in the South and several people corroborated this is that Texas, whatever they are doing in Texas per capita, they have about half the gun violence that Georgia does. 

[00:10:49] Bob Gatty: I wonder why that is. 

[00:10:51] Robert Thompson: Yeah, I, it was corroborated several times in that meeting, it was a lot, it was about an hour and a half to sit through but there was a lot of very interesting information.

[00:10:59] And again, I'll just give props to the Democrats that showed up in person because the Republicans, were busy, yeah. 

[00:11:08] Bob Gatty: Robert, the, I think the key that you just, the key words, the two words that you mentioned that are key to this whole thing, common ground, because the gun people are so entrenched.

[00:11:23] In their views about the second amendment and threats against the second amendment and believe in all the bullshit about Democrats coming for your guns and all that crap. And the Democrats, of course, are adamant about wanting some kind of meaningful legislation to help reduce these gun deaths.

[00:11:48] So common ground. You mentioned another very important fact, and that is that Republicans are all about money. So if they are worried about getting sued. If the gun manufacturers are worried about getting sued, and they should be sued when these things happen, they need to be able, they need to be required to have some kind of liability insurance to protect themselves against that.

[00:12:18] Bob Gatty: And so I think it's a hell of a hell of a good idea. And I think 

[00:12:23] Arthur Hill: the manufacturers, they got tons of insurance, assuming the insurance companies will Will provide them the coverage but and i'm sure that a lot of gun owners Also have liability insurance a lot of it's attached to their homeowners policy it comes But probably a lot of them don't and I think I think robert's right I think you know if there's a chance for the insurance industry to make a buck.

[00:12:48] Yeah they're going to come around and and I think that and I think that along the way we need to, yesterday, the other day, J. D. Vance said it again, they're coming to take your guns away. Nobody's talking about taking anybody's guns away. 

[00:13:03] Bob Gatty: He said that, and he said, it's just a fact of life.

[00:13:06] Too bad. 

[00:13:07] Arthur Hill: It's a fact of life. Yeah. We got to move on. It's just, it's not a fact of life. It's it's an aberration, in fact. And it doesn't happen to this degree in any other country in the world. And there's no reason why it needs to keep on going the way it has been in this country, 

[00:13:23] Bob Gatty: but you know what it will if Trump is elected again, he's bragged that when he was president, he did nothing on guns and he's promised that if he's reelected, that'll be the same.

[00:13:33] It'll be the same story. Nothing on guns. Your guns are safe guys. Elect me. Your guns are safe.

[00:13:39] Robert Thompson: And I want to call out Brian Kemp. Brian Kemp, he, the Bush Republicans want to raise him up and say he's our next man. And Brian Kemp is not innocent in any of this whatsoever.

[00:13:52] Under his watch, under Georgia Republicans watch, you can now bring handguns into college classrooms in Georgia. Under Brian Kemp's watch, we no longer have to have a gun toting permit. If you want to choose to conceal a gun and tote it around here in Georgia, again we did the analogy that Texas has that same wall.

[00:14:12] We can go down that rabbit hole another day, but these are not common sense things to do. If you want to put something into gun violence. This is Brian Kemp that had a shotgun that he pointed out a young man in a tongue in cheek, cute little campaign ad to get back into the governor's office.

[00:14:34] And he thought, no, that's complete bullshit. 

[00:14:38] Arthur Hill: Yeah. So you're 

[00:14:39] Robert Thompson: going to sit there with a frigging shotgun and point that out a kid so that he doesn't get your daughter pregnant. Really Brian Kemp. 

[00:14:47] And then he wants to stand up he totes his ass up the winders, stand in front of the high school with all the other guys up there, he said now's not a time to politicize this.

[00:14:56] Bullshit, Brian Kemp. Get off your ass and do something. I'm sick of you being the poster boy of this, whatever Bush Republican Party is left. Good luck. 

[00:15:07] Arthur Hill: I don't understand why they say now is not the time. Now is the perfect time. Exactly. 

[00:15:12] Bob Gatty: They always, after every shooting, after every time a kid or a teacher is killed by a shooter in school.

[00:15:23] Now is not the time. Now is not the time. That's what the Republicans always say. Every time. 

[00:15:29] Robert Thompson: And Brian Kemp is because of the NRA lobby. And the gentleman, I think it was Senator Lucas that had the hearing this week, he says you've got to get the gun lobby because he recognizes it. The gun lobby comes and knocks on the Democratic offices in every state because they want every freaking vote they can get.

[00:15:46] Arthur Hill: Yeah. 

[00:15:46] Robert Thompson: And it's the gun lobby 

[00:15:48] Arthur Hill: that 

[00:15:48] Robert Thompson: they just sit there and listen to and take those checks to turn into campaign money and get back in office and it's just rinse, recycle, repeat over and over again. Yep. 

[00:15:56] Arthur Hill: Thoughts and prayers. And now is not the time. That's always it. Thoughts and prayers.

[00:16:01] Bob Gatty: They all sound so sad. Oh, so sad. 

[00:16:06] Arthur Hill: Crocodile tears. 

[00:16:08] Bob Gatty: But don't ask me to do anything at all. No, I need to gun lobby. I need their money. 

[00:16:16] Arthur Hill: There we go. 

[00:16:16] Bob Gatty: All 

[00:16:18] Arthur Hill: right. 

[00:16:19] Bob Gatty: We got anything else we need to talk about on this topic? It's so sad. 

[00:16:23] Robert Thompson: The other thing that I was so pissed off the other day is both on my Facebook public page and also on the Twitter page.

[00:16:31] I know we love Elon and his Twitter or X or whatever the hell he wants to call it. But I just started putting contact information for Georgia Republicans. Let them have it. They want to be in office so bad, let them have it. If, bitching in a group like this, I guess that lets you vent out some frustration, but not a damn thing's going to happen if you don't reach out to these elected officials and give them hell.

[00:16:53] Bob Gatty: That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Absolutely. I know here in South Carolina, which is, as red as the state can be there are Democratic candidates running for Congress. Two guys that I have had on this podcast and I'm going to reach out to them and suggest that they get behind this insurance idea of yours, Robert.

[00:17:18] Robert Thompson: Full disclosure I could care less of the insurance companies made money. I'm not a trained lobbyist or get paid lobbyists or anything, but you got to do something even call it a little bit. You just want to sit on your ass and bitch about it all day. 

[00:17:29] Bob Gatty: You know what playing to greed. If that works, play to greed.

[00:17:33] That's what I say, so anyhow, 

[00:17:36] Arthur Hill: It's the most original thought I've heard in a long time about this issue. And I've, I think it's I think it's a great idea, and I'm passing it along. 

[00:17:44] Bob Gatty: Yeah, it's a good way like you said Robert, common ground. It's a way to, because Democrats and Republicans can support this without jeopardizing any fear at all pissing off the NRA, I would think.

[00:18:01] Arthur Hill: We'll see. Yeah, 

[00:18:02] Bob Gatty: we'll see. All right. So what's going on in North Carolina there, Arthur? 

[00:18:07] Arthur Hill: There's the things that are going on here are interesting. I haven't heard anything about the gun control issue yet, but but in a the chief topic right now seems to be whether the Republican candidate for president of the United States is going to disavow the Republican candidate for governor. The as you guys know Mark Robinson is running for governor right now. He's about eight or 10 points behind in the polls behind Josh Stein, who's the Democratic nominee.

[00:18:36] And Of course, he's Robinson is well known across the country for making a number of inflammatory statements about about LBGTQ, about abortion, about just about any of the hot button social issues you can think of. And it's it's coming back to haunt him because Stein has put out a, an endless procession of ads, quoting, not just quoting him but video of him saying it.

[00:19:00] And and it's hurt him. And to the point now where there's actual speculation in the press that that Trump is going to disavow him. And and he had endorsed robinson earlier, but now there's talk that he's going to disavow him. He's going to take his endorsement back.

[00:19:12] Bob Gatty: So how can you do that? 

[00:19:15] Arthur Hill: I don't know. I guess you just say, I don't know. 

[00:19:18] Bob Gatty: I don't like you anymore. Exactly. 

[00:19:20] Robert Thompson: Trump doesn't like losers, and also, especially if they spend a lot of time at adult bookstores. Yeah, that'd get that in there too. 

[00:19:32] Bob Gatty: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's that about the adult bookstores?

[00:19:35] He first you sent me something and I read it and it said something about how he was converted to Christ, but what, back in 99 or something. But that not all the way, he still wanted to have some fun. And, 

[00:19:50] Robert Thompson: I think he was kneeling in the bookstores, what was going on, 

[00:19:54] Bob Gatty: what he was 

[00:19:54] Arthur Hill: doing was, and and he went to he's from Greensboro, and he went to he went to an adult book, adult store in Greensboro, apparently, on many occasions.

[00:20:06] He was a regular. And at this particular store They recognize the guy. 

[00:20:11] Robert Thompson: Oh yeah, that's Mark. He comes in here all the time. There 

[00:20:14] Arthur Hill: you go. That's Mark. But he would always, he'd bring pizza for everybody. Come in with a couple of pizzas and everybody sit around eat pizzas and then because you couldn't rent this wasn't the the old time video stores where you rent the movie and you bring it back the next day these are just for sale so you can't you got to buy them and and he didn't buy them so but there was a room where you could go to watch them, and So after they all had pizza he'd take a couple of videos back to the room and I guess he got charged eight bucks or something for that.

[00:20:43] And and then he'd go home and then he'd come back a couple of days later and do the same thing all over again. 

[00:20:50] Robert Thompson: Was it right after he left church on Sunday? 

[00:20:53] Arthur Hill: That's a good question. I don't know. I got the impression it was on weeknights. Oh, man. 

[00:20:58] Robert Thompson: I had to warm up for the weekend. 

[00:21:00] Bob Gatty: Oh, that's really funny.

[00:21:03] So here's the guy who is holier than now fighting about abortion and calling people that support the right of a woman to decide what to do with their own body. That, He's saying that's just a terrible thing. And he's going into little booths in a video porn store.

[00:21:23] And who knows what he's doing in those little booths while he's watching porn movies. I don't even want to think about that. That's really gross. All right. Okay. 

[00:21:36] Arthur Hill: Now, Arthur. 

[00:21:38] Bob Gatty: I read somewhere where Trump was coming to North Carolina, right? Isn't he coming to North? 

[00:21:42] Arthur Hill: Oh, he's been there.

[00:21:43] He's been here a few times. Yeah. Yeah. 

[00:21:45] Bob Gatty: Okay. And so the the Democrats have put up some really cool billboards. 

[00:21:51] Arthur Hill: You talking about Mad Dog? 

[00:21:53] Bob Gatty: No, I got, I have three. They just sent me today. 

[00:21:57] Arthur Hill: Oh, okay. Oh, let me see. I wonder if it's Mad Dog, because I'll tell you about it. No 

[00:22:00] Bob Gatty: I emailed them to you earlier but anyway I'll read them to you and I'm going to, you guys watching, I'm going to show them to you.

[00:22:07] One says, very simple, 2024 convicted felon. It's white type against a black background. The next one says Donald Trump's project 2025. Unprecedented control over people's lives, eliminates the independence of the Department of Justice, gives Trump virtually unchecked legal power, and that's with his picture an ugly picture looks like he's sucking on a microphone.

[00:22:35] And then the third one is, 1 6 21, 140 police officers assaulted, Trump, pardon the Capitol riots, rioters, pardon the Capitol rioters, and another ugly picture of Trump. Those three billboards are going up. in your state, Arthur. I guess to welcome Trump. And they even showed the locations of those billboards.

[00:23:02] 4903 Sunset Road in Charlotte 2334 Tipton Drive in Charlotte, Wilson Heights, Charlotte, 8060 Old Dow Road, Charlotte, 10598 Old Nations Ford Road, Charlotte. Township to Poplar Tent, North Carolina. So there you go. 

[00:23:23] Arthur Hill: Oh, there there's a bunch of 'em. There, there are those. And then there's a there's an organization out there called, and it's not a North Carolina organization it's somebody else called Mad Dog.

[00:23:32] And they've they've got a bunch of, they've got a bunch of billboards they're putting up too. And we're at the county level where we're not exactly awash in funds. They're doing us a great favor because we wanted to get some billboards and put up some stuff about Trump, but now we don't have to we can focus on our local guys and do something positive.

[00:23:50] But we're really happy about, about, about those billboards. We're happy about Mad Dog cause he, Mad Dog seems to. Seems to be very interested in in Southeastern North Carolina. There's a lot of billboards from him all over the region. So it's it's good to see. It really is good to see, 

[00:24:07] Robert Thompson: Rural billboards tend to be cheaper than billboards in big cities.

[00:24:10] So there's a lot of real estate to be had out there. 

[00:24:13] Arthur Hill: Yeah. I can give you, I can give you a rate card. I can tell you exactly how much they cost in the area where we are. 

[00:24:18] Bob Gatty: Okay. Somebody sent me a. picture of another billboard I think might have been you, Robert showing Trump's check to Kamala Harris.

[00:24:29] Yeah, that's right. He did. Yeah. For 5, 000. And so I did a video about that. Guess who donated to Kamala? And not only did he donate five grand to Kamala Harris, When she was running for Attorney General, to be clear not now, during her presidential run, but not only did he do that, but then later, about, I don't know, a year later, he donated another grand, so that made it six.

[00:24:58] And then his daughter donated another two grand. So between them, that's eight grand that they donated to Kamala Harris. And so that billboard showing that check is up somewhere. Somebody sent it to me. I think it's just awesome. I 

[00:25:15] Arthur Hill: think Robert sent it to you because he sent it to me too. You can't miss that signature.

[00:25:20] Bob Gatty: No, you 

[00:25:21] Arthur Hill: can't. Stupid signature it is. 

[00:25:23] Bob Gatty: Yeah, that's right. Oh, man, that's really funny. So what else you got there Arthur? 

[00:25:30] Arthur Hill: I actually, I got more stuff about Robinson. 

[00:25:33] Bob Gatty: Okay, go ahead. 

[00:25:34] Arthur Hill: In a more serious vein the federal government is conducting a very quiet investigation of Mr.

[00:25:41] Robinson and his wife for alleging fraud. And what has happened is, and there's a, there's at least one other major case in the country about this up in Minnesota. But what's happening is as during the pandemic the federal government available to the to not for profit organizations, grants, to help kids who would normally get free lunches in school to go out and get them lunches and also breakfast.

[00:26:06] And millions of dollars coming down the pipeline to do that. A case in Minnesota is that a bunch of folks conspired to take this money and go off and have a good time with it. And to the tune of about 150 million bucks, and they're all going to jail. Now, it's being whispered.

[00:26:25] The feds are after Mark Robinson and his wife for doing the same thing. I don't know if it's 150 million bucks, but but it's a significant amount of change. And of course, if it's even one dollar and you try to defraud the government, they're going to come after you. There's that waiting in the wings as well.

[00:26:40] And the people who are whispering about this seem to be pretty sure that this is coming down the pike. He might be sitting there in the governor's mansion like Spiro Agnew was when he was vice president of the United States sitting in his office and people are bringing him bags of cash.

[00:26:54] That's pretty much what happened to him and it's going to be it's the same thing's going to, he's going to have the same result.

[00:27:01] Robert Thompson: Okay. Do you know who's not talking about this? 

[00:27:03] Arthur Hill: I 

[00:27:04] Robert Thompson: don't know. 

[00:27:05] Arthur Hill: No, nobody's talking about it. It's very under the table stuff.

[00:27:08] It's it's not being talked about much at all. And I guess that's because the feds are investigating and and if they ever come up with charges then it'll hit with a bang, but probably nobody wants to screw up the investigation. 

[00:27:20] Robert Thompson: And the pivot I was going to go out here is the story that came out this week about tenant media.

[00:27:24] So this may have landed on page five or so of most newspapers. Yes. But RT, those happen to be my initials, but it's something very different. That is Russia Today, not Robert Thompson. These are they funneled 10 million to the Tennessee company called Tenant Media. 

[00:27:42] So this tenant media and you know that they're, and it's actually an indictment that came down this week and again landed on page five because everybody is talking about the other stuff here, but these are influencers and the millions of dollars 

[00:27:58] Arthur Hill: to 

[00:27:58] Robert Thompson: spread Russian propaganda in America.

[00:28:01] Like I said, Bob, if you want to take rubles for your job here, you may have some opportunity there. Okay. 

[00:28:07] Bob Gatty: Okay, that's good to know. All right, what else you got there, Arthur? 

[00:28:14] Arthur Hill: That that that's plenty. That covers it? Okay. 

[00:28:18] Bob Gatty: I want to take a minute and tell you guys about I've been having some fun doing some little one minute videos about Trump.

[00:28:27] And the three that I did just over the last week or so. One of them talks about about sex. Donald Trump's having a tough time with Kamala Harris, kicking his ass. Now he's talking smack about her, trying to taint her reputation over sex. He should know about that, right? And then I say, Trump claims Kamala's romantic relationship with former California state assembly Speaker Willie Brown fueled her political career as opposed to how his affair with Stormy Daniels screwed up his own political career. Hey Trump, you should keep your pants zipped and your mouth shut. 

[00:29:05] Robert Thompson: Is that the Willie Brown that he was in a helicopter with too? 

[00:29:09] Bob Gatty: Same guy, yeah. And then I did one about the money that he donated to Kamala Harris campaign, which now, and I point out, but now after doing that, now he claims that Harris is too liberal, even saying she's a communist.

[00:29:28] And so then I say what does that make you, Trump? You donated to her. Ha. And then the final one, you 

[00:29:34] Robert Thompson: need a red shot, but that's right. 

[00:29:36] Bob Gatty: You remember the member Trump's video quote. I don't know. He was speaking to some group somewhere, some rally or whatever, and he was saying how he's better looking than Kamala Harris did.

[00:29:49] Did you see that? 

[00:29:51] Arthur Hill: No. 

[00:29:51] Bob Gatty: Yeah, he did. You need to see this video. It's, it is a riot. It is really funny. I 

[00:29:56] Robert Thompson: know that, I'm pretty sure that Kamala does not wear orange and makeup, 

[00:30:00] Bob Gatty: . Yeah, so the key, the, besides the the video, it has actually trump's. statement about being better looking than Kamala Harris.

[00:30:10] So I say Trump, Donald Trump, the 78 year old overweight blowhard is now claiming he's better looking than Kamala Harris. Really? What's he smoking? Has he looked in the mirror lately? There you go. I've been having a good time with those things. You guys, check them out on YouTube. On the Lean to the Left YouTube channel.

[00:30:32] You might get a kick out of them. They're shorts, so they're under a minute. Each of them, and I'm planning to do a whole bunch more one of them I'm going to do is going to talk about the fact that was reported today that Harris has raised 360 million dollars in August, nearly three times what Trump raised.

[00:30:54] Why do you suppose that is? What do you guys think? 

[00:30:58] Robert Thompson: Oh, and we should also amplify that because how much of the money going to Trump is paying his legal bills. 

[00:31:04] Bob Gatty: Yeah, there you go. That's a good point. That's a real good point. 

[00:31:08] Robert Thompson: So there's a meme, there's a meme that keep popping up on my social media is Kamala is raising these hundreds of millions of dollars, but zero is going to her, lawyers.

[00:31:19] Bob Gatty: Yeah. 

[00:31:20] Robert Thompson: Yeah, 

[00:31:21] Bob Gatty: I'm even thinking about doing one about that guy. Mark Robinson. I don't know if it's not Trump, but I could maybe relate it to Trump somehow about him. I 

[00:31:32] Robert Thompson: guarantee you this weekend that somebody is going to ask Trump about this guy. I don't know him. Never knew him. Never talked to him.

[00:31:39] Bob Gatty: Oh, man, that's really funny. Oh, and so anyhow, I've been keeping busy doing that kind of stuff. On a serious note here in South Carolina one of our transplants from Maryland, a woman by the name of Connie de Julius has created a new version of that famous Helen Reddy. Women's Anthem, I Am Woman.

[00:32:02] It's really a beautiful piece, it's powerful, and was turned into a video that's being promoted nationwide. So for more info about that, go to podcast. leantheleft. net and scroll down to the thumbnail that says, We Won't Go Back. That's a podcast I did with the women that were the creators of that video, and the video plays on that podcast.

[00:32:25] So you might check that out it's really uplifting, it's a beautiful piece, and and it's being sent all, all around the country by supporters through social media trying to gain some some recognition of it. 

[00:32:41] Arthur Hill: Is it just is it a remake of the original song or is it different words or?

[00:32:44] Bob Gatty: It's different words. Yeah. And it talks about the power of voting and all of that. Yeah. And it's really good. And then the other thing is I had a meeting the other day with a friend of mine who is vice chair of the Horry County Democratic Party.

[00:32:59] And he told me that since Harris has Taken over as the candidate. They have been swamped with new volunteers. To the point where they don't really know what to do with all these people. We 

[00:33:14] Arthur Hill: have the same thing here. 

[00:33:15] Bob Gatty: Yeah, that's really amazing. 

[00:33:18] Arthur Hill: One of the guys that this, let me just interject here for a second, one of the guys that has offered to volunteer and he says, I'll answer phones, I'll stuff bags, I'll do whatever you want.

[00:33:28] Bob Gatty: Yeah. 

[00:33:28] Arthur Hill: Was the chief of staff for John Kerry when he was in the Senate. Holy 

[00:33:32] Bob Gatty: mackerel. Wow. 

[00:33:33] Arthur Hill: Living in Brunswick County. Wow. 

[00:33:36] Bob Gatty: That's amazing. 

[00:33:37] Arthur Hill: Yeah. I'm sorry. I interrupted. 

[00:33:39] Bob Gatty: No, you didn't. Now on, on a more serious note, you guys remember the Senator Tim Scott had hoped to become Trump's VP choice, right?

[00:33:50] Oh you know what? No, 

[00:33:50] Robert Thompson: I don't remember him. 

[00:33:52] Bob Gatty: You don't remember him? I don't know the guy at all. Yeah anyway, he was kicked to the curb by JD Vance. But one thing he did do, he finally got married. And his new wife, after being a bachelor for he said 58 years. So his new wife is a beautiful woman.

[00:34:11] Her name is Mindy. I don't know how you pronounce her last name. It's Nios, N I O C E. Anyway, she's an interior designer and Scott says he met her through. Church. Now I thought that was nice. Met her through church. 

[00:34:26] Robert Thompson: You know who else is a interesting bachelor in South Carolina? 

[00:34:29] Bob Gatty: Who is that?

[00:34:31] None other than your senator, 

[00:34:32] Robert Thompson: Lindsey Graham. 

[00:34:33] Bob Gatty: Lindsey Graham. Oh, he's a committed bachelor. 

[00:34:37] Robert Thompson: He's 

[00:34:38] Bob Gatty: really a committed bachelor. But I wonder if 

[00:34:39] Robert Thompson: that was his interior designer who made the introduction there. It 

[00:34:43] Bob Gatty: could be. I don't know. Oh, anyway, anyhow Scott said that, said at the Republican convention that he'd been a bachelor for 58 years.

[00:34:55] And he had been praying to find a wife. Looks like he did. Prayers work in wondrous ways. 

[00:35:01] Robert Thompson: Please, somebody find me a wife, please. You know 

[00:35:04] Bob Gatty: that? Prayers work in wondrous ways. But too bad they don't prevent our kids and teachers from being murdered because of easy access to guns.

[00:35:15] Robert Thompson: I was also going to ask, I'm sure there's a prenup in there somewhere.

[00:35:18] Bob Gatty: Yeah. I 

[00:35:19] Robert Thompson: bet he had to pray on that too. 

[00:35:21] Bob Gatty: Yeah. Had to throw that line in there about about that. about guns and prayers because it just is so sickening what they do. And I hate to end this episode on a down note, but after all, it's been a very traumatic week with this, with these killings in Georgia.

[00:35:42] And somehow something has to be done and people keep saying that over and over again. And people like us, all we can do is talk about it. There isn't a whole hell of a lot we can do, except for reach out to our legislators and tell them, get off your ass and do something. And Robert, I think your insurance idea is a great idea.

[00:36:03] Your insurance idea is a great idea. Common ground. 

[00:36:07] Robert Thompson: And you don't have to go searching for, these phone numbers and email addresses. There are tools like ResistBot you can Google ResistBot or Resist. BOT is the website. 

[00:36:18] Arthur Hill: Okay. They 

[00:36:18] Robert Thompson: will take your letter and sentiment via Facebook Messenger and email your representatives if you want to pay them a couple of dollars, they'll even fax or post mail, for you.

[00:36:31] These tools, it only takes five or 10 minutes, folks. All the, we're all so busy and now you have five or 10 minutes that you can sit down and do this. 

[00:36:39] Bob Gatty: Really? That's true. Okay, guys we've been going on for quite a while here, and it's been good. And so we'll be coming at you guys after the presidential debate tomorrow.

[00:36:52] And we'll be streaming that episode later in the week. I'm sure we'll all be watching that debate. I expect Kamala Harris to destroy Trump in that debate, 

[00:37:05] Robert Thompson: she is the worst nightmare. 

[00:37:07] Bob Gatty: Yeah. 

[00:37:07] Robert Thompson: Of all the things that he saw coming at him was a strong black woman running against him and worse nightmare 

[00:37:14] Bob Gatty: and it's he's so worried about it.

[00:37:16] It pisses him off. Did you hear where he actually wanted the Democrats to pay the Republicans pay his campaign money to replace what he spent campaigning against Biden, which is now useless. I think we talked about that. 

[00:37:33] Robert Thompson: This is the guy that had to have a bail bondsman to, post bonds, so Yeah.

[00:37:37] Bob Gatty: Yeah. 

[00:37:38] Robert Thompson: I don't know a lot of rich people have to use a bail bondsman, but 

[00:37:41] Arthur Hill: We're sitting on, we're sitting on a thousand dollars worth of Biden Harris signs, lawn signs. 

[00:37:46] Bob Gatty: You should write to ha , you should write to the Harris campaign and say, Hey. We need to be reimbursed for this.

[00:37:53] Arthur Hill: Yeah, and that's what I'm gonna do. I think Trump has a great idea. 

[00:37:57] Robert Thompson: Are your volunteers, if you have, just get a sticker, just the parts of the 

[00:38:02] Arthur Hill: sign that need to be changed, 

[00:38:03] Robert Thompson: just put 

[00:38:03] Arthur Hill: a 

[00:38:04] Robert Thompson: sticker over it. 

[00:38:04] Arthur Hill: Actually, what we're doing is we got some of those I don't know what you call it but we got 'em made and it slides over the sign the Biden Harris sign and it says Harris Walls, so Oh, okay.

[00:38:14] we're gonna make use of them, but but I like going after the Harris campaign to get our money back better. Yeah, you should do that. 

[00:38:22] Bob Gatty: What the hell? What did I say? They raised over a quarter of a million dollars in the last month. No, a quarter of a billion dollars. It was 250 million or something.

[00:38:32] Yeah, they got plenty of money. How much do you need? You only need a grand, right? Yeah. Okay, guys. All right, thanks. We'll be coming back at you guys shortly after the debate, so watch for the episode.