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Speaker 1: The Charlotte area.
Speaker 2: So I want to there are a couple of things
Speaker 2: that we're going to try and get into tonight, but
Speaker 2: I want to start off with something that transpired up
Speaker 2: in Washington, DC, and it's the Save America Act, which
Speaker 2: we all know is being held up by a few Republicans,
Speaker 2: none other than Tom Tillis himself, the man that every
Speaker 2: Republican in North Carolina loves to hate. Ncgpiece censured him.
Speaker 2: Districts Congressional districts vowed before he said that he wasn't
Speaker 2: running for reelection, vowed and voted that they would not
Speaker 2: give him any funding or any support.
Speaker 1: Not that their backing financially.
Speaker 2: Would have been more than a drop in the bucket
Speaker 2: when you're talking that much money that is being spent.
Speaker 2: But it's more the symbolicness of it all, how the
Speaker 2: ncgfpiece censured him, and how districts like right over in
Speaker 2: District eight, which is Cober's County, Union County and parts
Speaker 2: of Stanley County and going east Blayden Andson all that right, Columbus, Well,
Speaker 2: they voted not to give him one red penny, And
Speaker 2: again it's the symbolicness of it all. Financially speaking, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't have made that big of a deal, but it
Speaker 2: shows how much they truly disliked Tom Tillis. And as
Speaker 2: I said last week, I believe Tom Tillis is pure
Speaker 2: unadulterated white hot hatred for Donald Trump, which he has
Speaker 2: exhibited basically since twenty seventeen when he took office in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, is getting in the way of what he's
Speaker 2: supposed to be doing for the peap He's representing the people,
Speaker 2: but yet he's only representing himself at this particular point.
Speaker 1: He's only doing what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: He doesn't give two rats asses about what the constituents
Speaker 2: in North Carolina wa. I truly believe that, or otherwise
Speaker 2: this would be a done deal. Yes, there's Susan Collins,
Speaker 2: but we we all know Susan Collins is. How many
Speaker 2: times is Susan Collins voted with Democrats up in Maine, right,
Speaker 2: And that's why she still wins even though it's a
Speaker 2: basically a purple or a little slightly blue state. But
Speaker 2: she keeps getting elected because she votes with Democrats quite
Speaker 2: a bit. How about remember Joe Manchin in West Virginia.
Speaker 2: West Virginia is as bright red as it gets, but
Speaker 2: yet he was a Democrat senator for years and years
Speaker 2: and years, and yes, oftentimes he voted with the Republicans,
Speaker 2: but there are also times that he voted with the Democrats.
Speaker 2: And that sort of seems to be where Tom Tillis is.
Speaker 2: And as I also say, I believe it was last
Speaker 2: week that he has shot his legacy. His legacy is
Speaker 2: completely shot. It's done. This is his legacy. Republicans hating him,
Speaker 2: having no home politically, that is his legacy. Doesn't matter
Speaker 2: how many people in the media or whatnot try to
Speaker 2: suck up to him. Some do, some don't, some actually
Speaker 2: call it as it is. He was exceptionally instrumental, one
Speaker 2: of the key figures, one of the main people in
Speaker 2: switching North Carolina from a blue state up in Raleigh
Speaker 2: to a red state and always being just one shy
Speaker 2: of a supermajority. And then you know, you might have
Speaker 2: a couple of people flip and next thing you know,
Speaker 2: Electricia or color Cuttingham the siph Magid. Next thing you know,
Speaker 2: they've got super majority because they were always just one shy,
Speaker 2: but they always had super majority.
Speaker 1: In the Senate.
Speaker 2: And Tom Tillis was essentially responsible for that. But nobody's
Speaker 2: going to remember any of that. What they're going to
Speaker 2: remember is how he was refusing to make voter ID
Speaker 2: part of federal law, even after we just had the
Speaker 2: sixty six hundred illegal aliens get voter registration cards up
Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Or the governor blamed it on a
Speaker 2: software glitch on the company, and the company came.
Speaker 1: Out and said, don't you blame that on us.
Speaker 2: That's actually impossible for our software to glitch. The only
Speaker 2: way it can glitch is if you institute it manually,
Speaker 2: which is what they did up in New Jersey. How
Speaker 2: many times we saw it up in Minnesota a year
Speaker 2: ago or so, where they admitted there are many, many people,
Speaker 2: probably thousands of people in Minnesota that are not here
Speaker 2: legally or not citizens, that have voter ID cards because
Speaker 2: the only way you have to register to vote in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and they admit it, admitted this under oath is that well,
Speaker 2: if you get a driver's license, because they allow illegal
Speaker 2: aliens to have driver's licenses. If you get a driver's license,
Speaker 2: then you automatically can register to vote while you're there
Speaker 2: at the DMV two for one, one stop shop. So
Speaker 2: it's not just New Jersey. We obviously know what's going
Speaker 2: on in Minnesota. We were damn sure it's positive going
Speaker 2: on in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and especially California.
Speaker 1: But Tom tell Us is not voting for it.
Speaker 2: And I bring all this up because of this poll,
Speaker 2: the McLaughlin pole, the Save America Act support.
Speaker 1: Percentage.
Speaker 2: We're gonna play a little game here in the studio.
Speaker 1: What's the percentage of those polls.
Speaker 2: That say only US citizens should be allowed to vote
Speaker 2: in federal elections? What percentage do you think that was
Speaker 2: of those people said yeah, only citizens should be allowed
Speaker 2: to vote in federal polling or federal elections. What percentage
Speaker 2: thirty way higher now Lining said eighty two percent of
Speaker 2: people said, yeah, you should only be allowed to vote
Speaker 2: if you're a citizen. It makes sense, right, Like you
Speaker 2: if not a citizen of north of North Carolina or America?
Speaker 2: Why would should should you have a say so in
Speaker 2: who the governor is? What percentage of people this is rhetorical?
Speaker 2: What percentage of.
Speaker 1: People require say that you should require a proof.
Speaker 2: Of citizenship, like you actually should have to show that
Speaker 2: you're a citizen of America in order to vote for
Speaker 2: a president. Seventy eight percent said, Yet, you should actually
Speaker 2: have to show proof that you're a citizen. You have
Speaker 2: to show ID to get on a plane, you have
Speaker 2: to show ID to connect your electricity or your water
Speaker 2: bill to your house or your apartment. Eight percent of
Speaker 2: those polls said you should require a voter ID photo
Speaker 2: seventy eight percent, So seventy eight percent of America says
Speaker 2: you should have a voter ID, like you should have
Speaker 2: to be able to show.
Speaker 1: Your driver's license whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Seventy eight percent said you should have to show that
Speaker 2: you're actually a citizen. And eighty two percent of America
Speaker 2: said you should only allow Americans to actually vote in
Speaker 2: American elections.
Speaker 1: Seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2: Except for, you know, we've got those clowns with eyebrow
Speaker 2: rings and you know, purple hair running around, and it's
Speaker 2: always the white women. It's always white liberal women, always
Speaker 2: white liberal women. But now you've got Hikeem Jeffers out
Speaker 2: there saying this is going to be racist if this passes, well.
Speaker 1: Guess what.
Speaker 2: And the latest thing, thirteen Democrats crossed the line. Well,
Speaker 2: the Senate scheduled to go to break summer break. Donald
Speaker 2: Trump is starting to put pressure on the Senate leader,
Speaker 2: going no, no, no, you should not give a summer
Speaker 2: break to any of these clowns until you post or
Speaker 2: vote and pass this Vote Save America Act, which would
Speaker 2: also eliminate insider trading and give races to the military personnel.
Speaker 1: So if Tom.
Speaker 2: Tillis votes no, that means he's voting no to give
Speaker 2: to stop insider trading, and it means he's also voting
Speaker 2: no on giving military races. And as Tim Moore said
Speaker 2: to me last week when we spoke to him on Friday,
Speaker 2: what is Tom Tillis gonna do. He said he would
Speaker 2: let Tom Tillis speak for himself, but that he's hopeful
Speaker 2: Tom Tillis will finally get on board, and that he's
Speaker 2: still trying to talk Tom Tillis into voting for this
Speaker 2: because they have known each other for a very, very
Speaker 2: long time and they are very good friends. But yeah,
Speaker 2: just want to let you know what that new poll
Speaker 2: is coming out and what Tom Tillis is not doing
Speaker 2: for the state of North Carolina, even though he's supposed
Speaker 2: to represent the citizens of North Carolina, not represent himself
Speaker 2: or his address.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be the entire state.
Speaker 2: All one hundred counties and eighty two percent of Americans
Speaker 2: said only only Americans should vote in American elections, and
Speaker 2: seventy eight percent said you should have to show voter ID.
Speaker 2: We'll go back to breaking with Brett Jensen here on
Speaker 2: this stormy Tuesday night edition. Tornadoes up in the Kataba
Speaker 2: County area, Alexander County, Taylorsville area, and looks like they're
Speaker 2: moving east. Quarter sized hail, heavy wins emergency alert system
Speaker 2: telling you to take cover like it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's a whole thing. I've only seen two
Speaker 1: tornadoes in my entire life.
Speaker 2: One the most recent was in twenty eighteen in September
Speaker 2: when I had to go to Wilmington to cover Hurricane Florence.
Speaker 2: And I was down there and it was the day
Speaker 2: after or they like the day late in the day.
Speaker 2: I hit it like four in the morning, and then
Speaker 2: about seven at eight eight at night, seven o'clock at night,
Speaker 2: I'm driving between Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: That was when I saw the.
Speaker 2: Like the helicopter rescue, the Coast Guard rescuing people out
Speaker 2: of their cars, and I got video and photos of that.
Speaker 2: But driving down I believe it was Route one maybe
Speaker 2: or seventeen, and could see tornadoes off in the distance like.
Speaker 1: Nowhere near them.
Speaker 2: But the problem is when you see when they're that
Speaker 2: far in the distance, you can't tell which way they're going.
Speaker 2: You can't tell if they're coming at you, or you
Speaker 2: can't tell if they're going away from you.
Speaker 1: That's the problem.
Speaker 2: So the only other one was in it was a
Speaker 2: lot closer and a little bit nervous. Was the very
Speaker 2: first tornado in nineteen ninety seven. I was in Atlanta, Georgia,
Speaker 2: and that's when I was working in the CNN building
Speaker 2: in downtown right next to the Georgia Dome, and it
Speaker 2: was about two o'clock in the morning. And you know,
Speaker 2: you've seen all those interviews where they're interviewing people like,
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, how it's always white liberal women that
Speaker 2: are crazy. It's always white people in trailer parks that
Speaker 2: get hit by tornadoes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it.
Speaker 2: Is about tornadoes and trailer parks, but they But I'm
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, and like where Valentine would be to Charlotte,
Speaker 2: that's where I was. To downtown Atlanta where I was living.
Speaker 2: It's like two o'clock in the morning, living in an apartment,
Speaker 2: and you could true. But like I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: all those people in the trailer park always say, it
Speaker 2: sounded like a freight train.
Speaker 1: What does it's a bit.
Speaker 2: It's just a constant roar, like an engine on like
Speaker 2: a train, and that's what you constantly hear, and the
Speaker 2: power goes out. It was pitch black, so you can't
Speaker 2: see where the tornado's at. You can't see where it's
Speaker 2: coming from, and you can just hear the winds and
Speaker 2: the trees snapping in the background.
Speaker 1: So I got in the linen closet in the hallway.
Speaker 2: You know, the little tiny linen closet where you keep
Speaker 2: your towels and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I got in that, I got down.
Speaker 2: Closed the closed the uh closet door got down, and
Speaker 2: all I kept thinking was are these shelves above me
Speaker 2: holding the wash closet and stuff? Are these things gonna
Speaker 2: fall my head? And so uh Anyways, after five ten
Speaker 2: minutes it passed.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, that was weird.
Speaker 2: So the next morning when the sun came out and
Speaker 2: it's crystal clear, not a cloud in the sky, and
Speaker 2: so we got in the car, me and Buddy drove
Speaker 2: around and the neighborhood behind where I was staying at,
Speaker 2: so like maybe three, you know, half a mile three
Speaker 2: quarters of a mile. There was a lot of damage,
Speaker 2: a lot of down trees, roofs taken off of buildings,
Speaker 2: some blown over stuff. But it was a baby f
Speaker 2: one tornado, which is still enough to do some damage too,
Speaker 2: like those match sticks apartments that are building made out
Speaker 2: of fiberglass everywhere.
Speaker 1: But didn't do anything else.
Speaker 2: But those are the only two times I've been anywhere
Speaker 2: near a tornado. That's it, ben And obviously a lot
Speaker 2: of hurricanes did an earthquake done that? But never Like
Speaker 2: I said, tornadoes, I've seen them, but like i've seen one,
Speaker 2: I should say I've seen one and then heard the other.
Speaker 1: So that's about it.
Speaker 2: But all your people up in Kataba County right now,
Speaker 2: Alexander County, because you are right smack dab in the
Speaker 2: middle of our coverage where our radio signal goes, make
Speaker 2: sure you take shelter, whether it's you know, they always
Speaker 2: say what in the bathtub, which I never understood that either,
Speaker 2: because if you've got a fiberglass sliding door or glass
Speaker 2: sliding door, that could.
Speaker 1: Do some damage.
Speaker 2: But bathtubs, closets, small claw they talk about that.
Speaker 1: So just be careful.
Speaker 2: And as the warning said, like you know, it's a
Speaker 2: thing when the warning says, seek shelter, now, seek shelter,
Speaker 2: now courticize hell yeah right, we're talking serious damage.
Speaker 1: So just just go do what you gotta do. Take
Speaker 1: care of yourself. You want to keep listening to the radio.
Speaker 2: For more emergency systems on your phone, go to the
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Speaker 1: At WBT dot com.
Speaker 2: Either one completely free, and you'll keep getting all these
Speaker 2: weather updates and if there's any more emergency alert services,
Speaker 2: you'll hear that as well, So just.
Speaker 1: Do what you gotta do. Welcome back to Breaking with
Speaker 1: Bret Jensen.
Speaker 2: It's pretty much been the traffic and emergency alert system
Speaker 2: show tonight. So but again there's a lot going on
Speaker 2: when you've had I eighty five closed down for many
Speaker 2: many hours and a thirteen mile jam backed up, and
Speaker 2: then obviously right now tornado warning Kataba County, Alexander County
Speaker 2: which is Taylorsville just north of Kataba County which is Hickory, and.
Speaker 1: All those storms moving east.
Speaker 2: Gust winds right now, just even on the storms, just
Speaker 2: a regular storm win gus according according to this is
Speaker 2: sixty miles an hour, and the maximum size of the
Speaker 2: hill right now is about an inch wide. That's about it,
Speaker 2: or about a quarter quarter size hell or an inch wide.
Speaker 2: But that's the that's what's going on right now. So
Speaker 2: that's why Pam's getting a lot of airtime between the
Speaker 2: you know, with the traffic and we've got a lot
Speaker 2: going on with the emergency alert systems going off three
Speaker 2: times in my show, three times, three times in thirty minutes,
Speaker 2: so we're averaging once every ten minutes. We're getting the
Speaker 2: emergency alert system first one went off at about six fifteen,
Speaker 2: and then we just had the last one go off
Speaker 2: at about six forty five and then one in the middle.
Speaker 2: So here you got three different emergency alert systems. And
Speaker 2: so that tells you some bad news. And I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the radar now and Morsville godspeed, good luck looking
Speaker 2: at it, mores looking at it right now, and all
Speaker 2: this stuff up there.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's all right on basically like right
Speaker 1: on I.
Speaker 2: Forty Morsville, Salisbury, looking at the radar on my phone
Speaker 2: where the channel app Yeah, it's all right on I
Speaker 2: forty head and east. Good luck, all right, Make sure
Speaker 2: your animals are inside. I know you want to park
Speaker 2: your car inside so it doesn't get don take your
Speaker 2: animals inside.
Speaker 1: Don't be an idiot. God.
Speaker 2: I always feel like I have to say that because
Speaker 2: the morons will leave their animals outside when it's thirty
Speaker 2: two degrees. We oh they're outdoor animals, or when it's
Speaker 2: ninety eight degrees, or oh they're outdoor animals. Or when
Speaker 2: there's hail and tornadoes, Well they're outdoor animals.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So anyways, Oh, I don't even remember what I was
Speaker 2: going to talk about.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know I was going to talk about.
Speaker 2: And some of you, many of you may not care,
Speaker 2: and I get it, but just want to talk real
Speaker 2: quick for the next three minutes about the situation going
Speaker 2: on with the Tar Hills. We have been broadcasting the
Speaker 2: Tar Hills for sixty something years, and it is the
Speaker 2: state university. It is the flagship university for the state
Speaker 2: of North Carolina. No matter what NC State people want
Speaker 2: to tell you, or app State or East Carolina or
Speaker 2: anyone else, it's literally the flagship university.
Speaker 1: And we know what.
Speaker 2: An absolute disaster their season was last year with Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick's twenty four year old girlfriend, who's what forty eight
Speaker 2: years younger than he is, forty nine forty eight years
Speaker 2: younger than he is, and just.
Speaker 1: What a disaster.
Speaker 2: Shit was, What a disaster the product was on the
Speaker 2: football field. What a disaster Bill Belichick was. What a
Speaker 2: disaster the chancellor and the board of trustees were for
Speaker 2: making the athletic director have to hire him, hire this
Speaker 2: clown and his circus. Well, now the most useless man
Speaker 2: in the NFL, Michael Lombardi, but he's tied with Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick got a job as the UNC football general manager
Speaker 2: for one point five million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: He's a clown. I mean he is.
Speaker 2: And I saw two national podcasts last night by two
Speaker 2: of the top three or four college full of reporters
Speaker 2: in the country, Bruce Feldman and Andy Staples, and independently
Speaker 2: of each other, they said objectively, not subjectively, where you
Speaker 2: can have an opinion objectively, he was by far the
Speaker 2: worst college football general manager in America. Not only did
Speaker 2: he bragg and say they were going to be the
Speaker 2: thirty third team, thirty third NFL team, and they're going
Speaker 2: to treat it like a business, and now they're smarter
Speaker 2: than everyone else. He's getting paid one point five million
Speaker 2: dollars to win four games, and he got paid one
Speaker 2: point five million dollars again this year. And you know
Speaker 2: what the Vegas is. If you bet in Vegas, the
Speaker 2: over under means is four and a half, which means
Speaker 2: do you think North Carolina will win more than four
Speaker 2: and a half games or less than four and a
Speaker 2: half games? And yes, you can't have a half a game,
Speaker 2: but they do that on purpose, so there can't be
Speaker 2: a tie. So do you think they'll win five or
Speaker 2: more or four or less? That's how bad this football
Speaker 2: team is. Going to be so two straight years they've
Speaker 2: had a disaster because their general manager just got Crystal
Speaker 2: Hilled put on administrative leave with pay. Just got Crystal
Speaker 2: hilled and it apparently has something to do with HR.
Speaker 2: And we will know something within thirty days, because I
Speaker 2: think that's the law that has to happen with the
Speaker 2: position that he has. I think it has to be
Speaker 2: within thirty days, we will know what's going on. But
Speaker 2: North Carolina put this out at eight am yesterday morning,
Speaker 2: and that tells you all you need to know the
Speaker 2: fact that they're trying to get ahead of it. That
Speaker 2: quickly tells you this is not good. And they're probably
Speaker 2: looking for any way possible just to get rid of
Speaker 2: the whole Bill Belichick circus. I thought that the Ringling
Speaker 2: Brothers and Bartaman Bailey circus.
Speaker 1: Had gone under.
Speaker 2: Apparently not, because apparently they've pitched all the tents up
Speaker 2: in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 1: That's all I know.
Speaker 2: So anyways, just another day, another disaster with Bill Belichick
Speaker 2: and unc athletics.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: That is your flagship universe in the state of North Carolina.
Speaker 2: All right, tomorrow, hopefully weather, there's a lot calmer tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we have a longer show tomorrow, But like I said,
Speaker 2: you'll hear getting ready to hear a little bit more
Speaker 2: of Pam and you're gonna hear also a lot more weather,
Speaker 2: probably throughout the rest of the night through TJ Show.
Speaker 2: My name is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening
Speaker 2: to Breaking with Brett Jensen.