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Mark Belling Podcast #131: Trump flexes muscle on a BIG issue: won't sign "affordable" housing bill unless Senate passes SAVE Act requiring voter ID. Milwaukee, which can't run anything including a free trolley, wants to take over electric service---it will be a NIGHTMARE! And it's not only illegals that aren't crossing the southern border. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you about two things that go hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand when you're in politics or government, flexing your
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  Speaker 2: muscles and compromising. Let's deal with this from the perspective
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  Speaker 2: of the Republican Party. It seems to me that there
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  Speaker 2: are two giant wings of the party. The first is
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  Speaker 2: the wing that just can't stand flexing its muscles, runs
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  Speaker 2: for office, get selected, but simply can't bring itself to
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  Speaker 2: do what most of it's cancer situents want. For decades
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  Speaker 2: in the late twentieth century, that's what the Republicans in
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  Speaker 2: any leverage at all. And that's a lot of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: that we have in Wisconsin to you. Now, the other side,
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  Speaker 2: there are some who simply can't bring themselves to compromise
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  Speaker 2: on anything, meaning they never get anything done either, because
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  Speaker 2: in order to get something done in life, often you
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  Speaker 2: have to give up some of the things that you
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  Speaker 2: don't want in order to get the things you do want.
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  Speaker 2: A perfect example of this would be Marjorie Taylor Green,
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  Speaker 2: who's now quit the Republican Party. President Trump enabled her
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  Speaker 2: to have incredible influence in the government, but she wanted
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  Speaker 2: to run for the United States Senate in Georgia and
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  Speaker 2: Prump said he wasn't going to support her. She couldn't
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  Speaker 2: accept not getting that thing, so she burned the house down.
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  Speaker 2: She starts firing away at Trump on everything else, runs
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  Speaker 2: around to the view courting lefties now quits the party.
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  Speaker 2: There are others like that that we've had in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: as well, bullheads who demand their way on every single thing,
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  Speaker 2: and then we end up getting nothing. What you need
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do is both You need to
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  Speaker 2: be able to flex your damn muscles and use the
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  Speaker 2: power and leverage a ham but you use that not
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  Speaker 2: to simply steamroll, but to get what you want. And
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  Speaker 2: getting what you want then means after flexing your muscles,
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  Speaker 2: you willing to concede on some other things to get
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  Speaker 2: most of what you want. There's an example of this
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  Speaker 2: going on right now with Trump. I've marveled at how
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  Speaker 2: he's been able to engage on so many issues. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's got the war with ranging on and the on
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  Speaker 2: again off again negotiations. He isn't He doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 2: be missing a beat on any of the other domestic
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  Speaker 2: issues that are out there, despite what some of his
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  Speaker 2: critics say. But I'm glad we've got him engaged again
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  Speaker 2: on the issue that we're going to talk about here
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  Speaker 2: as I opened the program, because it's a perfect example
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  Speaker 2: right here's the issue. The Congress passed this Housing Affordability Act.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those bills that they put a nice,
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  Speaker 2: gussied up name on it so that people who don't
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  Speaker 2: know anything that's in it, like Obama called Obamacare the
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  Speaker 2: Affordable Care Act. Who yah, I'm for that and for
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  Speaker 2: housing affordability, and I'll grant you it's got some positive
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  Speaker 2: things on it. The Democrats wanted it, and Trump wanted it.
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  Speaker 2: Trump wanted it because he realizes that for the middle class,
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  Speaker 2: the affordability of housing has become a legitimate issue. It's
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  Speaker 2: a complicated issue, but it's legitimate. But the bill they passed,
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  Speaker 2: it's like almost all government solutions, whatever it does to
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  Speaker 2: make housing more affordable comes at the expense of getting
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  Speaker 2: government all glopped into the whole damn thing. Nonetheless, Trump
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  Speaker 2: supported and it passed, and Trump was poised to sided.
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  Speaker 2: They called the news conference that he was going to
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  Speaker 2: sign the bill. He didn't sign the bill. Instead, he
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  Speaker 2: put off the following statement. I'll quote it, Today's Housing
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  Speaker 2: news conference inside is hereby canceled until such time as
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  Speaker 2: we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I
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  Speaker 2: consider to be a national emergency. The Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren
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  Speaker 2: centric housing bill, which is of minor importance compared to
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  Speaker 2: lower interest rates, and even Faiza pales in comparison to
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  Speaker 2: passing the Save America Act. This is what Americans, both Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans and everyone else care about. Get the bad Republicans
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  Speaker 2: to approve it, or, better yet, terminate the filibuster and
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  Speaker 2: approve it and everything else Republicans have ever dreamed of.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats will do it in one hour one percent.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans will feel very stupid if they don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I've been watching this with tears in my eyes. So
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  Speaker 2: what Trump is doing is he's saying, look, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to sign this housing bill, which prior to him
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  Speaker 2: saying this he supported, until you pass the Save Act.
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  Speaker 2: The Save Act is the legislation that many of us
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  Speaker 2: on the right consider to be absolutely critical if we're
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  Speaker 2: to save our country. Everyone knows that the lefties depend
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  Speaker 2: on massive voter turnout, much of it of dubious legality,
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  Speaker 2: and are now trying to get as many illegals into
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  Speaker 2: the United States to become voters as possible. The Save
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  Speaker 2: America Act puts in place requirements that almost every American,
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  Speaker 2: including a vast majority of Democrats support. The big one
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  Speaker 2: is nationalizing voter ID. We have voter ID in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Remember before we had voter ID in Wisconsin, all of
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  Speaker 2: the lefties said, oh, it's going to disenfranchise all these people.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans are going to win every Well, we have
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  Speaker 2: voter ID and Wasisconsin. We had a massive turnout in
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  Speaker 2: the last election. It hasn't disenfranchised anyone, but there are
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  Speaker 2: a number of states that don't have it. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with prompt and completely distrusting the results of the Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles mayoral election. They don't have vhoto ID. Anybody can
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  Speaker 2: walk in, say their name and get a ballot. And remember,
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  Speaker 2: California has lots of United States House districts, and believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, some of them are swing districts. Even
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  Speaker 2: after they did their drawing. Other states as well, blue
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  Speaker 2: states that have become closer to purple as Republicans have
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  Speaker 2: made gains, they don't have voter I D either. The
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  Speaker 2: other big requirement of the bill is require proof of
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  Speaker 2: citizenship in order to be a registered voter. The left
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  Speaker 2: really hates that one. We know that there are many
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  Speaker 2: non citizens here legally, but non citizens who are voting
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  Speaker 2: because they get caught all the time. But it's really
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  Speaker 2: hard to catch because we don't have a database in
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  Speaker 2: which is a big list of these are the people
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  Speaker 2: in the United States who aren't citizens. There's no such list,
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  Speaker 2: and there's obviously not a list of those here illegally
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  Speaker 2: that are in any list. So when you go in
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  Speaker 2: to vote without having to prove citizenship, you know that
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  Speaker 2: lots of non citizens are voting. And the left is
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  Speaker 2: counting on this. They've come right out and said they
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  Speaker 2: want non citizens to be able to vote. Well. Requiring
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  Speaker 2: proof of citizenship therefore, is a massive threat to the left.
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  Speaker 2: This bill is stalled even though the Republicans still control
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  Speaker 2: the House barely and the Senate. There are a handful
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  Speaker 2: of Republican senators who don't support it, one of them
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  Speaker 2: just out of fossilized spite. Mitch McConnell. You have a
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  Speaker 2: guy Cassidy from Louisiana. Trump opposed him in the Senate
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  Speaker 2: primary down there. He lost his seat. Beyond that, even
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  Speaker 2: if you get the Republicans to support it, it is
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable to a Democrat filibuster. Remember, in the Senate, in
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  Speaker 2: order to end debate, you need sixty votes. Well, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have sixty votes. So Trump is saying that this
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  Speaker 2: act is so important, it's an emergency to restore integrity
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  Speaker 2: to our elections by putting in the simple kind of
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  Speaker 2: safeguards that are more minimal than you're required to go
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  Speaker 2: to board an airplane. And he's saying, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to sign the housing bill until you do it. This
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  Speaker 2: is both things. It's flexing your muscle for the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of what compromising. The Democrats say they want this housing bill,
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  Speaker 2: so do a fair number of Republicans. Trump doesn't give
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  Speaker 2: a crap about that bill, saying, look, I'll give you this,
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  Speaker 2: but you gotta work with me on this other thing.
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  Speaker 2: This is how you get things done. And if we
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  Speaker 2: do it. And as I say, there's some things in
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  Speaker 2: this housing bill. I could go on forever about whether
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  Speaker 2: or not institutional institutions ought to be able to buy
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  Speaker 2: individual private housing. They've been doing it because institutions have
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  Speaker 2: thought that housing has been unbelievably low priced for the
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  Speaker 2: longest time. A number of home steals in Milwaukee have
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  Speaker 2: been corporations buying out houses and then turn around and
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  Speaker 2: read them, is it a good thing or a bad thing?
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  Speaker 2: What's a great thing if you're a homeowner who lives
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  Speaker 2: in these neighborhoods, because it's driving up your property values,
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  Speaker 2: your asset, your net worth. It's a bad thing if
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  Speaker 2: you're somebody who's looking to buy house is cheap. Well,
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  Speaker 2: without regard to whether it's a good thing or bad thing,
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  Speaker 2: it's in the housing affordability bill. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I like it or not, but there are certain things
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  Speaker 2: that I'm willing to swallow if we can get photo.
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  Speaker 2: I d for voting. See the people who disdain Trump
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  Speaker 2: keeps Oh, he's a dictator, no kings. Trump's entire life
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  Speaker 2: has been compromised. He simply tries, when there is a compromise,
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  Speaker 2: to get more of what he wants than the other
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  Speaker 2: side one. He wrote a book about it. I've said
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  Speaker 2: this now for I think ever since Trump emmers on
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  Speaker 2: the scene in twenty fifteen. If you want to understand Trump,
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  Speaker 2: read The Art of the Deal. He wrote that long
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  Speaker 2: before he was a politician. He wrote it when he
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  Speaker 2: was a celebrity who had succeeded in a number of
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  Speaker 2: real estate deals. That he talks about his beliefs and negotiation.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there with like those warrior books that Sunshee
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  Speaker 2: or whatever the hell his name is wrote in terms
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  Speaker 2: of people understanding power and strategy and how you negotiate.
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  Speaker 2: Trump is a compromiser. He's willing to cut a deal,
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  Speaker 2: but on his terms. And in this instance, he's sizing
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  Speaker 2: up something that the other side wants and saying, I'll
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  Speaker 2: give it to you, but you got to give me
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  Speaker 2: this now. The problem here isn't the Republicans of the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: because almost all of them are forward. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: a few Republicans in the Senate. I mean. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things ironic about this is Susan Collins is one
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  Speaker 2: of those that's been kind of holding out on it.
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  Speaker 2: She's in a difficult situation. She's up got a tough
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  Speaker 2: reelection fight running against a glorified Nazi this year in Platner.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a Democrat state and she's a Republican and
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  Speaker 2: the only way she's been able to be reelected is
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  Speaker 2: she's a very liberal Republican. You're still better off with
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  Speaker 2: her than a Democrat because if you don't have control
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  Speaker 2: of the Senate, you can't pass anything. But on this bill,
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  Speaker 2: this is a popular bill even among Democrats. It's the
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  Speaker 2: winning side of the issue to be on now. In
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  Speaker 2: the end, you might have to end the filibuster on it.
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  Speaker 2: And the point that Trump was making in the statement is, look,
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  Speaker 2: when the Democrats get the Senate back, you know damn well,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to end the filibuster. They've radicalize themselves on everything,
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  Speaker 2: They're going to get rid of it. So you better
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  Speaker 2: be willing to use this power here on this The
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  Speaker 2: window on this thing is closing. It is very likely
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats take the House in this wall's elections. The
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  Speaker 2: only pundit that I know that keeps saying that that's
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  Speaker 2: not going to happen is new Gingridge, and new It's
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  Speaker 2: a really smart guy. Maybe he's right. They might lose
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  Speaker 2: the Senate, but they probably lose the House, in which
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  Speaker 2: case you can't pass anything. If you don't have control
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  Speaker 2: of both chambers, you can't pass anything. The Democrats will
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  Speaker 2: not pass any bill Trump wants to the House. Trump's
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to governed by executive order and administrative rule
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  Speaker 2: and uses veto pen to stop any stupid bill's a pass.
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  Speaker 2: So in order to get this thing that is critical
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  Speaker 2: of having election integrity, we need to get the Save
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  Speaker 2: Act passed, and Trump's now going to the mat on
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  Speaker 2: it with limited time. And as I say, part of
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  Speaker 2: the problem is, you have some Republican senators who are
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's nothing voters can do with Cassidy. They've
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  Speaker 2: already thrown them out on the Republican primary. You're now
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  Speaker 2: going to face perhaps a problem with cornyin the Republican
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  Speaker 2: incumbent senator in Texas who's thrown under primary. Voters can
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  Speaker 2: do anything about him. He's already a lame doc. And
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  Speaker 2: then you have Mitch McConnell, the ultimate lame duck, not
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  Speaker 2: running for reelection, half dead and can't stand Trump because
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  Speaker 2: Mitch mcconnald's from yesterday's Republican party. So you got to
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  Speaker 2: do everything you possibly can to say, Okay, you guys
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  Speaker 2: want all these other things, I'm not giving you that
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  Speaker 2: until you give me this, which, by the way, all
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  Speaker 2: my voters want, all Republicans want, including the moderate Republicans
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  Speaker 2: and most Democrats want. This is a good case study
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  Speaker 2: in my I've been lecturing Republicans on this forever. There
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  Speaker 2: are some that are just so woosy rhinos. They can't
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  Speaker 2: they're not willing to do anything. But there are also
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  Speaker 2: some who call themselves conservatives who are just as big
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  Speaker 2: a problem. Nothing gets done with them either because they
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  Speaker 2: can't bend on anything. You gotta bend to get the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that you want, even if it means giving up
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  Speaker 2: a few things that you don't end up your entire
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  Speaker 2: service and government was a waste of time because not
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  Speaker 2: one damn thing got done. They held a Heregan Milwaukee yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I've done a segment on this already, but this has
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  Speaker 2: to be talked about. This is I think the most
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  Speaker 2: insane idea in the history of Milwaukee. Do you understand
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  Speaker 2: the territory that takes in. There are some socialists now
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  Speaker 2: who have gotten a foothold in Milwaukee, and God forbid
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  Speaker 2: that they take over. I think there's a good chance
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty eight mioral election they're going to try
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  Speaker 2: to knock off me or Chevy and get a socialist Mayor.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Chevy is not very effective, but he's not a socialist.
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  Speaker 2: He's a regular old Democrat. But they're pushing now for
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  Speaker 2: their things. And one of the thing and the things
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  Speaker 2: that socialists believe in is they believe government control of
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  Speaker 2: most things that the private sector runs. They want to
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: take over electrical service in the City of Milwaukee. City
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee is in the WE Energy service area. They
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: want Milwaukee to run its own utility. Do you understand
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: how terribly stupid this is? Milwaukee can't run a free trolley.
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  Speaker 2: We ripped up all the city streets to put in
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  Speaker 2: this trolley that they initially claimed that were going to
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: charge a buck a ride. They never even put in
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  Speaker 2: fairboxes because they knew that anybody who had to pay
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  Speaker 2: a buck wouldn't ride it. So it runs around Summerfest
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: is going on this weekend. The only time I ever
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: see a package during Summerfest, because they have the one
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  Speaker 2: line that stops close to the far north end of
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the Summerfest grounds over by the coteur. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple in here, in a couple and it's free.
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  Speaker 2: It loses a fortune. It busts down all the time,
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  Speaker 2: it moves about four miles an hour. It costs a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: The city's hemorrhaging money on it, but in the end
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: it's relatively harmless. It screws up the streets that it's on,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: other than you know, costs us money. Can you imagine
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: if the city of Milwaukee is in charge of your electricity.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: This would have been a bad idea fifteen years ago,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: but it's a terrible idea now. Anybody who's paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to anything is aware that we are in desperate need
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  Speaker 2: in America of way more power. Even if only twenty
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: percent of the data centers are built, we are way
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: short of the amount of power already. You're seeing a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: number of the data centers hiring private companies to build
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: their own power plants at the centers, just saying we
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: can't wait for the utilities. How's Milwaukee going to generate power?
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: They could I suppose take over the one small power
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  Speaker 2: plant to see the Monomine valley that can't power the city.
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  Speaker 2: We Energy z owns the power plants. What is Milwaukee
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: going to say, we're going to buy a power plant
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  Speaker 2: that's not in the city. How much is that could
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: have cost? Let me give you the next This thing
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  Speaker 2: will go dead, bust I mentioned the last time brought
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  Speaker 2: this up. In the entire WE Energy Service Area, which
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: is much of southeastern Wisconsin. WPS comes into a portion
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  Speaker 2: of it illinoithern and Wisconsin. The one up in Green Bay,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: then there's the one in Madison, Wisconsin. Power Light Alliant,
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  Speaker 2: but most of southeastern Wisconsin as we Energies. More than
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  Speaker 2: half of the uncollectible bills that we Energies has our
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: city of Milwaukee, which they can swallow because they're absorbed
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: by the entire region service area. How does Milwaukee swallow
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  Speaker 2: half of its people? Not bad as it is, Milwaukee
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: can't get anybody to pay parking fines. Everybody's running around
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Prime driving a lot of license. They get ninety seven
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  Speaker 2: tickets for this. They don't pay their fine, so they
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: take away their license longer. The jail doesn't accept people
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: on traffic but warrants, so they don't pay anything. It's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars that Milwaukee's own and find. Now,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: imagine there's an electricity, which means that the rates are
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: going to have to be so high to cover all
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: of the non payers. You could say you can cut
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  Speaker 2: off the electricity as it is, we have laws. Let's
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: say you can't cut off electricity in the winter even
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  Speaker 2: if people don't pay. But the bigger thing is we
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: all know the trend for the future. It's going to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: require far more electricity in order to have an electrical
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: service that is reliable in there, and that means the
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: construction of new power plants. If Milwaukee's its own utility,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: it either has to a build its power plants or
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: b by the power on the open market, in which
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: they're going to have no leverage and they're going to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: be overcharged. Why in the world would you want to
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: take this over now? The reason the lefties want to
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: take it over lots of patronage jobs and all these contracts.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: But it will mean that the city will be the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: have a future of constant blackouts and brownouts. It's just guaranteeing. Secondly,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: it will kill any attempts to attract businesses that are
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: any type of electric users at all. Any tech company.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Look at Northwest of Mutual building. All these buildings in
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee has this huge foot foothold here. It can't afford
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to be in a CETI in which the electric service
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: is unreliable. This idea, as I said, is insane. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: thought the idea of ripping on I seven ninety four,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: which they still want to do, was the most insane
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: thing out there. This is way worse. As I've said
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: in the past, you can have cities run their own utility.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: City I grew up in Kakwana has municipal utility. It
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: has its own power plant. It's on the Fox River,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and way back in the old days, some visionaries said
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: we're gonna build a hydroelectric plan on the river. Fox
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: River can have a pretty good curve, so you use
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that current. It's called a hydroelectric plant. That's what it is.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: And Kacana is a small enough city that that plant
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: is able to pretty much serve the city. If they
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: need more, they buy it on the open market. Sometimes
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: they have access and they sell. But if you don't,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: this is a model that can work in a smaller
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: type city that has its own power plant and has
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: had one for some time. If you don't have your
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: own power plant, the startup costs. It costs hundreds of
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: millions to build these plants. And I'll tell you I'm
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: going up in Kuana. We have a mill and a
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: couple of other factories. There aren't any giant use of electricities.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It's mostly a bunch of houses of people turning the
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: ac on. This idea is insanity. Here's why it comes
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: up though. See Milwaukee has a ton of problems. We
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: know the schools stink, crime is out of control, reckless
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: driving's terrible street takeovers are going on. We all know
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the problems. See, lefties don't know how to solve those problems.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: In fact, lefties created those problems because they don't know
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: how to solve those problems. What they do is they
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: go on something else over here. They don't want to Well,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I don't you know what we've tried to do on
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: crime doesn't work, not jail. Anybody spend a fortune on
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: anti crime programs that don't work. So let's just go
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and do something else. Fantasize about taking over this thing,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: thus creating another crisis. What needs to happen is the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: lefties who aren't nuts wacko like the non Ryan Clancy lefties.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: He's a Marxist that's in the legislature. I think he's
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: gonna run for mayor in twenty eight. Nobody agrees with
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: me on that. But the other thing that needs to
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: happen is the African American community needs to wake up.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: There's nothing in this for them, and they're the ones
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that can be most vulnerable when the power goes out.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: They don't have generators and other things to keep themselves
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: warm and keep their food from spoiling. Or their little
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: children to be able to go to sleep. They better
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: understand that a lot of these white Marxists pushing this
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: crap couldn't care less about them. Now this I find
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: an interesting story here in the Upper Times. There are
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: many people in life who can only think linear. Linearly
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: isn't a word. Can only think in a linear fashion.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I understand that every single thing you do causes other
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: things to happen. Look at your own course of life.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I think, for example, when I got out of high school,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: going to a private university was off the cards room
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: because they didn't have the money. Thank god, they didn't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: have the kind of student loans then that they did now,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Because maybe I would have been dumb enough to go
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to a place like Marquette, which is a school I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: really would have liked, and then I would not have
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: been able to stay in radio those first fifteen years
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: and pay off the student loans for private college. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: so I had never done my choices. On the advice
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: of my guidance counselor it was either going to be
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Madison of Lacrosse, I decided to go to Lacrosse. I
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: look back and how almost everything else in my life,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: first of all, I met certain people which led me
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to get my first jobs. If I got a mad
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and would I have been bigger in media, maybe I
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: would have become a huge deal there, or would I
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: have been lost in the shuffle, I would have met
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: an entirely different circle of friends of my life would
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: have gone in any number of different directions. There's just
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: one decision that you make. You can come up with
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: this in almost anything. Somebody suggests that you go out
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: tonight with friends, and you don't really want to go,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You go along, you end up meeting somebody, and you
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: end up getting married. You didn't go out that particular night,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: you never would have met that magine. Many people, however,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: particularly when they make decisions, do not understand that they
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: have to consider all the followed. They have a total
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: inability to think things through. This is something again that
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: is chronic to people on the left, because people on
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the left don't know how anything works. Which brings me
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: to this story. Here's something we all know, even though
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: the media doesn't like to report it. PROMP has shut
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: down the border. The number of border crossings is at
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: its lowest level in decades, and that's because the borders
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: being enforced. Not only are fewer people successfully getting across, though,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: we're catching more of them that are trying to do
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: so because a there's more enforcement and b because so
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: few are trying to do it, it's easier to find
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: the ones that are and see they've stopped crying. But
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: that story doesn't end there. Because the Border patrol and
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Customs Enforcement has been able to shut down the border
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: as effectively as it has, it's able to turn its
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: attention to other areas. And this is where the story
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: comes in. There has been a massive decrease in drugs
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: being smuggled across the border. The first part is logical,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the fewer people that come in with some of those
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: people that are coming in with with the illegal drugs,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: so you've cut it that way. But secondly, they have
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: been able to put in place operations that require lots
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: of personnel, personnel and in the path that initially were
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: simply required to stop the crossas of the border of everyone,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: to try to stop the very sophisticated smuggling operations that
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: are going on. Let me read a few paragraphs in
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the story. As the flood of illegal immigrants the American
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: southern border slowed to a trickle. Agents shifted gears. Now
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: they are focused on security, and that has led to
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: record drug seizures with the most secure border in American history,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: US Customs and Border Patrol took the epic times behind
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the scenes, and this reporter went down to the border
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: and reported on this. The border between San Diego and Mexico,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: home of the San Cathedral Point port of Entry, the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere. The San
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Diego sector, patrolled by thousands of federal officers, encompasses more
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: than fifty six thousand square miles. That includes sixty linear
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: miles of international boundary between the United States and Mexico,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: and an additional nine hundred and thirty one miles of
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: coastal border stretching from the California Mexico line to north
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: of Oregon. So, in other words, that sector covers essentially
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the Pacific. For those of you who don't know anything
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: about geography, Mexico has this there's this little gap they
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: call it Baja California. The westernmost portion of Mexico is
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: like a peninsula. So that whole stretch going all the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: way those Cozumel not Cozumel Acapulco. What's the other big
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: city on that side, on the west side over there?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: What if I area? And where's the place that Jimmy
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: that not Jimmy Buffett, Sammy Hagar created his first place?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Another there's another anyway, all of those cities, all the
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: way down there, all the way up the entire western coates.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: That's what the San Diego office covers, that cover the
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: area along the Pacific. That's the fifty six thousand miles.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Back to the story, officers said the success they're experiencing
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: not just in the drug seizures, but also in fewer
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: illegal immigrants entering the country stems to the Trump administration's
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: tough border policies. Without having four or five hundred people
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: in our detention making an asylum claim, I'm going to
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: take those officers and say I don't need you to
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: process asylum. I need you out there looking for dope,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: looking for people smuggling, looking for those agriculture violations. Maritz's
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Marlin Mirtz ofmarn Port, director at the San Caceedra Point
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: of Entry, told The Epic Times. Maren said she was
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: able to move about one hundred to Elio officers from handling,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: administrative work, processing illegal immigrants to enforcement intersection. Now, the
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: story goes on. One of the things that is driven
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the drug problem, particularly the fentanyl problem in the United States,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: has been that it has been so cheap. We had
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: an inverse relationship in drugs. Now, Back when I was
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: younger and first exposed to the people who were using drugs,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: basic rule of thumb was the cheaper the drug, the
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: less buzz you'd get by. It makes sense. So pot
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: was cheaper than cocaine, and cocaine was cheaper than heroin,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: and so on. What's happened and with the opioid crisis,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: and opioid is a specific type opioid. People who get
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: into the opioids tend to be people who aren't looking
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: to be whacked up out of their mind col can
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: crack users. They're looking to get buzzed, They're looking to
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: be mellowed out. It started largely in the United States
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: with the pain medication. People would pop the pills and
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: get addicted. But the pain pills, which certainly can give
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: you a high, one pill only does so much for you,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: and they ended up graduating to heroin. When heroin is
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the pain pills on steroids. What happened was we cracked
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: down on the pain pill abuse. I've told forever stories
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: about Kentucky in which you had all these fake pain
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: clinics that would open in crailers in southern Kentucky and
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: people were buying hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: pills with some quack writing on a script, and they
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: would turn around and resell those, and that's what started
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the addiction problem throughout the United States. Bolly cracked out
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of that, and the pills that are really hard to
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: get if you don't have a prescription. The street value
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: to get, say some of these oxy pills and so on,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: is quite high. The heroin got cheaper than the pills. Well,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: we've cracked out on heroin. We've ended up having drug
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: dealers lace the heroin with fenool. Fenanol is way more
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: powerful than heroin, But fentanyl's unbelievably cheap. Because it's been
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: flying into the Southern border. The fentanol is not being
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: stolen by and large from hospitals. It's coming in often
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: China via Mexico. China's massive exporter of fentanyl. But you
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: can't just send it in the way that China sends
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: in all the jung all the shoes, and all the
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: stuff that comes in. It's going to come in illegally,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: so it's been coming into the southern border, and it's
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: been coming in so high that fentanyl got incredibly cheap.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: So the drug dealers, we're selling the really potent stuff
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: cheaper than the less potent stuff because they had so
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: much fentanyl. So we've ended up with people far more
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: addicted and dying far more frankly, because the fenoyl is
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: so addictive. The biggest way to stop that is if
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: you limit the supply of fentanyl by stopping it from
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: coming in, it starts to get more expensive, and suddenly
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: it's not in the interest of the drug dealers to
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: lace the drugs that they're selling with fentanyl, and it's
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: not so cheap for people that are just messing around
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: out there to get it. Thus they either don't get
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: as addicted or maybe never try it at all. Until
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you make the supply more limited, you will never stop
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: this problem. And as Trump argued when he ran, he
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: argued this in sixteen, but frankly, the fentanal problem was
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: worse when he ran in twenty four. That you're not
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: going to solve the drug problem until you solve the border.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: One of the many nightmarishly awful things that Biden and
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Kamala did when they opened up the border is they
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: killed all these people via addiction and made people so
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: miserable because of it. Trump is fixing that, and it's
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: not just stopping the illegals from coming in, it's stopping
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the drugs from coming in. Another story for you. This
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: story is being reported by MacIver, the conservative news agency
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: in Madison, and a couple of people have urged me
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: to pick up on the story. Now, obviously I can't
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: go into the depth that they have, but for those
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: of you who want to go to their website, it's
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: simply Mackiver and that's MACI ve e r MacIver Institute
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: dot com. They have a lot of reporting on there.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: They've been focusing on this story about this contract that
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: the Evers administration handed out to a company. Vicky has
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: been commenting a lot on this, a lot in her show.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: And I don't know that you've been on this, Jason,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: have you? It has to do with it. It's the
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: IRIS Medicaid contrary. No, So, for those of you who
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: listen to WISN Radio. Vicky's been on this to some extent.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: The company that we handed out the contract to the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: IRIS program. IRIS is part of Medicaid again. Medicaid is
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: health care for low income people. Medicare is healthcare for seniors.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Medicaid we used to have numerous agencies administer the program,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: and under Evers, the decided to give the whole contract,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: no bid, simply proposals, and this is the one they accepted,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: a company called PPL. PPL is tied into the unions.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I think that this was simply Evers a sloppy weck
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: kiss to his allies. If Ever's legacy is anything, it's
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: how he rolled over and hoored himself out to the
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: state employees and the teachers. We still have state employees
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: who are on work at home meanning that I'm working
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: this company. PPL is now under investigation by the Department
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: of Justice. In addition to that their contract has been
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: suspended in Missouri. They're being investigated in New York. Not
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: only corruption is being probed, but terrible inefficiency of services.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: The low income people who need the care are often
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: not getting it because PPL is so miserable, and because
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, we have one company doing the whole thing
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: rather than the multiple before. People have no choice. But
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: if they're using the State of Wisconsin services through this
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: to use PPL, again, I can't get into this in
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: any greater length then I just did here. But the
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: mainstream media is simply not reporting this story. And again,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: this company has contracts in a number of other states.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: The Feds now have them under investigation. The fact that
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: the contractor for a massive program vital to lower income
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: people for their healthcare needs in Wisconsin is under federal
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: investigation and in fact has been booted out of several
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: other states, is noteworthy. Now, what the IRIS program does
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: is provide, and of all the things that Medicaid does,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: this is among the most important. It provides in home
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: care for people with disabilities, sometimes elderly, in other words,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: people who want to stay at home but need assistance
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: at home. Those aren't just seniors. Those are often people
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: that have all sorts of physical problems but are at home.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: There's one company in Wisconsin that runs that whole thing
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: for the state of Wisconsin right now. The company was
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: handed out on a patronage basis, and that company is
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: under investigation everywhere now You're not going to see Evers's
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: administration do anything to yank this contract or providing his
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: scrutiny because they were given the contract because of their
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: tight ties. I'll tell you something else. You watch when
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Evers leaves, and remember, even that the Democrats win, a
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: lot of the Evers people are going to be gone
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: because some of the Democrats running for governor can't stand Evers,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: like the lieutenant governor Sarah Brodriguez, who will clean house
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: she wins the governor's nomination, They're gonna be out of there.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: God forbid, who's gonna come in at Francesco Hank takes
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: over the state. Nonetheless, they're all going to be looking
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: for jobs, and don't be shocked when some of them
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: go to war for some of these agencies that Evers
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: handed contracts out to. I think, on that note, it's
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: time for a break. I got a good topic next.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: It has to do with a local school district. But
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to wait just a few seconds to
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: find out who it is. On the Markepelling podcast. This
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling Podcast. There's an interesting story. It
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: happened a couple of weeks ago, but the facts of
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: the case are still worth poking into. For those of
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: you not from Wisconsin, Arrowhead is a giant high school.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: It's a high school only school district. There are a
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: number of elementary districts that feed into Arrowhead. Arrowhead covers
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a huge portion of northern Wakashaw County. The school is
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: located in Merton, which is right next to Heartland, but
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: that entire north the area is kind of north of O'Connor,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: the whole northern portion of what we call the Lake Country,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: that's the Arrowhead area. It's a big school. The school
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: board's rather conservative and the voting block is rather conservative,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: but it's public school. At graduation and again, Arrowheads huge,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: so the graduation is a huge graduation with zillions of kids.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: One of the things that they did, and the graduation
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: was June six, is they said, the story is a
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks old, but I wanted to dive into
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: it here as the students, and I don't know if
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: they did this is they walked up for the diplomas.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: But what they did is they posted on the big
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: video screen one quote from each of the kids, you know,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: and it was to be some quote about you know
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and how they're something that was served to them in
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: school and inspired them and so on. One of the students
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: is named Siri Anne Baranja, and I hope I'm pronouncing
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: that correctly. By the way, the reporting in the story
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: that I'm using is coming from js online. Syrian Baranja.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: The quote that she wanted to use was from Proverbs.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: In other words, it's a Bible verse Proverbs Proverbs three six,
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: in all your ways acknowledging Him, and he shall direct
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: your path. Now, first of all, clearly it's religious, but
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: it doesn't have any name in it. It says him,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: and Him clearly refers to God. Proverbs is from the
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Old Testament, so it isn't even precisely a Christian verse.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Jews and even some Muslims who accept portions of the
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Old Testament will be okay with that. And I would
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: also argue it's rather benign. It isn't follow Christ. You're
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: going to go to hell. Arrowhead's officials said she can't
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: use it. They told her that she can't use that
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: because it's religious in nature. Sarah Anne's making a stink. Now,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: as you know, I have a special place in my
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: heart for young people who make a stink on conservative issues.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk inspired that in a lot of people, and
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: it's one of the things that is so devastating about
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: the fact that we've lost him. Siah Anne shut up
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: at the school board to gripe about the fact that
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Conrad Farner and the other people who run Arrowhead said
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: she can't put that up there. I'll quote here from
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: the story. My faith is the very core of my
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: identity and is what gave me the strength to navigate
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: high school, as it is the foundation of what I
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: plan to build my future. Now. Christians are taught that
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: you must center your life about God. Around Christ. That's
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the center of your life, and all of the other
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: things our secondary to that. That's teaching. And Syrienne accepts
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: that teaching. Furthermore, I'm sure it's true. This is what
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: drives her life. It's the focus of her life. So
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: there was a quote they told her that she couldn't
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: do it now. In objective to this, Syrian put it
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: out is recently as two years ago. A lot of
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: religious quotes are posted in this thing, and this is
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: where the administration is coming in and explaining itself. And
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: in fairness to the Arrowhead administration. I'll read their quotes here.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: First of all, Syrienne said a number of other students
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: wanted to use verses like this and they were banned also.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: But syrian is the one who went to the school
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: board to complain about it. The administrator of the the
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: superintendent is Conrad Farner, and he says that this violates
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: district policy. He says, the district has every right to
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: restrict students from making political or religious statements in this venue.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: And he said, we've got the law inter sighted here.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: This is policy, and we've enforced it, and the policy
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: is in accordance with the law. Now, somebody may challenge
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: them on this, but I think the policy is in
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: accordance with the law. As far as that goes, I
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: think they may be within their rights. But remember, just
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: because they have the right to tell this kid, does
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: it mean that they have to tell that kid. I
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: have a right to own a gun, doesn't mean I
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: have to own a gun. I have rights of free speech,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean I have to exercise them. Now, the Supreme
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Court has clearly held that government cannot restrict individual speech
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: or they cannot discriminate on the basis of religion. For example,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: if a religious group wants to use a school room
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: for a private meeting, if they use that if they
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: rent out that room to other groups, that can't say
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: no to a religious group, the notion being that it
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: isn't the government that's holding the meeting, it's the private
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: group that's simply using the government facility from doing so. Likewise,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: a kid who wants to pray before a football game
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: can pray. Can't stop the kid from praying. Now the
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: school district is claiming that this was part of a
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: school function, that this was the school's thing, that this
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: makes a government sanctioned speech in the same way that
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: a student can't quote religious statements in class, or can't,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: you know, use class as a place for religious worship.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Graduation can't be that either. The newspaper quotes Farner, who
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: sent it out an email, and I'm going to quote
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: it extensively here. There was a time when most classical music,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: the student draws attention to the fact that they just
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: had a musical performance in which some religious music was performed.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: And Farner does have a legitimate response to that. If
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: you're going to how do you allow kids to perform,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: say bach By not allowing religious music. That's about all
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I wrote. There was a time when most classical music
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: was written by or for churches or religions, so to
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: exclude all of the music would limit our students exposure
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: to pieces that are excellent for their development. He also
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: said that there is a difference between a school board
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: member praying as a private individual before or after a
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: meeting and the district administration following laws, policies, and legal
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: advice to oversee daily operation. The administration has no control
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: or oversight of school board members' choices, either in their
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: duties as board members or private citizens. In a June
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: eleventh email to a reporter, Farner said only six or
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: seven students out of more than five hundred submitted comments
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: with religious connotations. Rather than saying they were denied something,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: it is far more accurate to say they did not
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: follow unambiguous directions and were simply told to do so.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: After being reminded of the district's expectations, the students submitted
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: appropriate comments without any issues, In other words, saying, look,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: we told them they can't put anything religious in there,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: and after we told them that they didn't put it
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: in there. Now the kids said, well, yeah, I had
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: a due with a non religious statement because they wouldn't
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: let me do what I wanted to do, which was
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: the religious statement, continuing, this is farner the administrator. The
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: truth to this matter is an extremely small number of
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: students and parents do not understand the law around this issue.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: This is where my antenna come up. Whenever somebody starts saying,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: well you you don't understand, I often find out that
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: they're the ones that don't understand. And this has happened
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: forever on this soul called notion a separation of church
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: and state language which does not appear in the Constitution.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: The First Amendment of the United States said that we
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: have freedom of religion, which means that the government cannot
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: establish a religion. The second clause in there or prohibit
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: the free exercise thereof the First Amendment doesn't provide separation
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: of church and state. It merely says the government can't
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: set up its own religion. And the reason that was
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: in there is the country that we rebelled against and
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: broke away from. England had the Church of England, which
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: we call over here the Anglican Church, they call it.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: That we didn't want to have a state imposed of religion,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: but we certainly did not say that you can restrict
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: anybody's right to express their own religious beliefs. The question
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: here is, if it's a graduation and the statements are
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: printed on the video board, is this the government speech
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: of the student speech? And even if it is the
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: student speech, does the school have the right to restrict it.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: I do think they have the right to restrict it,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: but they don't have a requirement to restrict it. That's
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: the distinction. I think they are within their legal rights
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: to say, you Christians can't say anything up there about
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: the Bible against it. I'm but God, they have a
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: right to do that, but they don't have to. That
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: was their choice, back to the statement. Instead of accepting
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: our expectations and trying to learn and understand the legal
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: explanation and teaching students the importance of following reasonable directions
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: and the law, they chose to go to the media. Oh,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: shut up, they don't like your decision, and they ran
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: to the media. Lefties have been doing this forever. Good
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: on this Christian kid for running to the media on
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: this shut up. Oh, instead of following directions for one thing,
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I think they've now graduated, meaning they're not underneath. There's
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: so many more. It is remarkable. You know, you've got
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: lefty kids walking out of school for every damn thing imaginable,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: and they always get praise for having the courage of
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: their convictions. This kid's going to the media and going
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: to the school board bitching about the fact she put
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: into the Vible verse up there, and Conrad Ferner's noses
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: all bent out of joint and an email or a
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: reporter before the meeting, foreigners had students. We're explicitly told
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: the graduating ceremony, graduation ceremony slide deck is not for
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: expressing religious or political views. And now I can understand this.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: I don't want a bunch of kids up there saying,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: abolish how you said all of this stuff. It's graduation.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Say something about yourself. And I could further understand that
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: they don't want over carrying out of a religion. If
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: you know some kid up there, you know there's anti
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Semitism right and left, that the Jews are creating a
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: genocide and gaza on all that. I get all of
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: that now. I would say that this student's comments were
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: rather benign and almost generically religious. It almost could have
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: referred to anybody's version of God, although it was undeniably
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: a Biblical verse and a portion of the bike from
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: the portion of the Bible, the Old Testament that is
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: accepted by Jews and Christians, but probably not by atheists
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: and so on. But here's my larger takeaway. If this
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: is what Arrowhead is saying, that you can't even hint
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: when talking about yourself in a one sentence statement about
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: what defines you as you leave the damn school that
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: you've been to, If you can't even hint about anything
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: that might have a religious connotation, If you can't do
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: then then you're just sending a loud, screaming message. Then
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: anybody who's got any religious belietions stop sending their kids
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: to Arrowhead, because there are alternatives. Lake Concree Lutheran's not
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: that far down the road, and I'm sure they don't
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: have any problems they kid expressing their religious belief A
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: lot of kids in that area of Catholic send their
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: kids to Catholic Memorial which is in Walker Show, which
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: is the Hall. But that alternative is there, Trinity Academy,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: which is a fantastic private school. It's a private Catholic
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: school unaffiliated with the Catholic Church, outstanding private school. You
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: send your kids there at numerous other places. If that's
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: what you want to have, that we're gonna We're gonna
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: run a school in which we're not gonna let you
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: even hint in the most Vegas terms in a graduation
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: ly with God. Okay, fine, that is as I said,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: They're right, but it's also the right of the rest
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: of us to realize that one of the reasons we're
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: all screwed up in this society is you have some
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: people that are just hell banned. Literally, I'm not even
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: allowing any hint to got it. As I said, I
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: get where they're coming from, but I think they have
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: the right to stop the kids from saying this. But
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not an expert in the area, but I know this.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: They don't have to exercise that right. They could have
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: allowed this, but they didn't. They didn't. The one thing
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: these schools are all obsessed with is enrollment because that's
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: how they get their state aid. And out of the suburbs,
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: they're constantly whining they don't get enough state aid. Okay, fine,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: This is a message to all these kids out there
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: God's not allowed a narrowhead at all. Okay, And that's again,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: that's zarohead's privilege. If they want to run an existentialist,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: atheistic school in which God can't be brought up, ever,
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: that's their right. So send your kids to one of
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: the many outstanding private schools in that area where they
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: don't get the hebgb's if the word him has a
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: capital age. And by the way, that's the only thing
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: in there that anybody would have known that it was
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: really I don't know if she put in her thing
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: Proverbs three six at the bottom of was just a sentence.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: I wonder if she had declee eleted proverb. First of all,
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: I wonder this, if she just used that quote and
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: didn't say proverbs, would these helonistic school administrators have even
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: known it was in the Bible? What do you think?
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: My guess is not right. It's like when I was
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: in high school. I was in high school in the seventies.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: That was an era in which the official language was sappiness.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: It's like when Chicago started doing. Chicago was one of
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: those bands I talked to earlier, with Pink Floyd having
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: great range in the material, some brilliant and some terrible.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: Chicago is the king of that. Chicago has done some
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: of the greatest songs of all time and some of
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the absolute worst. One of the most unlistenable pieces of
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: rotten wreck is Color My World. You know that song,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: don't you. You're not gonna claim you like it, are you?
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, Color my World is three levels below berry
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Man alone. I mean that was the kind of stuff
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: that passed on. It was that kind of spiritualistic, sort
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: of non God stuffed in color. What does that even mean?
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: We have right now a society that has turned far
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: more anti Guide, but also younger people who are clearly
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: turning more toward God. There's a divide and if you're
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: gonna tell them you can't even accommodate him. To the
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: point of this little vers as I said, I just
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: encourage the parents to get the kids the hell out
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: of Arrowhead. And here's this Eraheads a generally very good school,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: great sports program's, pretty good academics. They're nowhere near as
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: looney Left as many other public schools. They have an
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: east enough school board. But they're the ones that chose
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: to pick this fight, and they said they clearly could
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: have looked the other way, and good on the students
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: who have made the stink. They have a right to
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: make their stink, have to show up at these school
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: board meetings all the time and bitch about every imaginable,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: damn stupid thing. All the people that yelling and screaming
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: that they ought to be able to do their genders.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: All of that, Let me move on. All right, this
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: is a good story. We've got this football player, this
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: college football player, Brendan Soarsby. There are so many Brandon's that,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: like twenty years ago, they started naming the kids Brendan
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: with an E rather than the A to differentiate branded.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Soarsby transfer quarterback, college quarterback. He was one of the
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: probably the biggest fish in the transfer portal this year.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech, which pays more than anybody to college football players,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: got him to come in as their quarterback. The problem
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: is he was caught gambling a lot and gambling on footballing,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: gambling on his own teams at his prior school. The
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: NCAA suspended him. He went to court and a judge
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: in Texas said you can't suspend him, essentially saying the
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: NCAA can't govern individual college schools because it's not a
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: franchise corporation. It's simply an association. And if Texas Tech
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: wants to let the kid play, the NCAAA can't stop
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech, which freaked out all of the other schools
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: because now it means they're essentially saying, you can gamble
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: on your own team and we can't stop it. If
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: the school's okay with it. Well, some of the schools
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: then retaliate and said, well, maybe we won't schedule Texas Tech,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: we won't play them in non conference games. And the
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: pressure from the other athletic directors and the coaches who
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: want to crack dout on this, they've got to nip
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: this thing in the bud. Gambling can now be done
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: on your phone, on anything if you can't set the
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: basic premise which has been held forever that you can't
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: bet on your own team and on your own sport.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: Paul Horning got kicked out of the NFL. Did you
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: know that? You did know that? Yeah? One year? You know. Okay, See,
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: my producer here is an expert on sports, Jason Gottchi.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: In fact, he was a producer in sports radio back
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: in the day and all of that. Yeah, I had
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: a talk show host. Do you know who was? There
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: was another player I would argue, almost as famous, just
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: for off the field stuff that was suspended the same
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: time as Horning for one year. The year was nineteen
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: sixty three. You're thinking you know it? See that was
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: what my old producer he said, well I know this,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: but well no, you clearly don't know it. See now
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: what I have is I know it, but it's fallen
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: out of my brain either A because my brain is
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: so big there's not a rough room for everything, and
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: B senility is rapidly coming in. It was Alex Karras.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: See that's one of those things. If it occurs to you,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: it must be right. Well, else would it have occurred
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: to you? Alex Carris is a big lineman for he
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: went on to be an actor. He was a Monday
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: in a football color commentator after Don Meredith, and then
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: he acted Is it a sitcom? For the longest time
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: it was Webster. Yeah, and I think he married an actress.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Kicked out of football for a year, and Pete Rose
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: gambled on his own team. When he's the manager of
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: the Reds. He got a lifetime bad. We had a
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: scandal the Black Sox scandal the White Sox through the
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: World Series. Donald Rosstein, the gambler, paid him off to
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: throw the World Series because he bet on I forget
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: who it was that beat the White Sox. You have
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: to have this. If you don't make the penalty, essentially
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: the death penalty, everybody's going to do it. So these
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: other teams want to crack down and sorts me. So
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Sowarsby eventually gave up and said, okay, fine, I'm going
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: to enter the NFL. The NFL draft has already occurred.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: There is this provisional thing in the NFL for players
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: who want to join the league after they've already held
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: the draft, who are eligible and would not be the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: type of player that you want to have an auction,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: a free agent auction for. Otherwise, players would just wait
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: until after the draft and become free agents and set
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: up biting. It's called the supplemental draft. And he decided
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: that he was gonna under the supplemental draft and simply
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: go pro. The NFL is now banning him for a year,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: so he can't play for a year. This is the
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: correct decision. People said, well, you have to ruin the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: guy's life kicking him out for a year isn't going
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: to ruin his life. But secondly, if all these you
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: can now bet on everything, You can bet on the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: next pitch and it's all legal, but you can't have
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  Speaker 2: the athletes doing it within their sport. If he wants
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  Speaker 2: to bet and say the World Cup, you had nothing
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: to do with soccer, it's legal and most sports now
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: allow that. If it's legal to do that in your
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: own individual state, it is. You can't have them betting
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  Speaker 2: on the league that you're in, and certainly not on
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  Speaker 2: the teams that you're involved. You can't and the only
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  Speaker 2: way to deter it is for these athletes to know
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: that if you're caught, and it is really when they bet.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Back when you were betting illegally with the bookies, the
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  Speaker 2: only way you'd be found out is if somebody talked.
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  Speaker 2: But now that they're betting legally online with all of these,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Wisconsin were very close to online sports betting
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  Speaker 2: legally with the tribes. Now having that, they're still negotiating
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: the compacts with the governor. It's pervasive and it's everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: and if you want to stop the athletes from doing it,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: they'd have to know that the sanction is career threatening.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: So I'm glad the Texas Tech got some balls and
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  Speaker 2: told sores b you better go prone. I'm glad that
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  Speaker 2: the NFL is saying and the NFL situation. You know,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: he didn't gamble anything in the NFL, so technice is
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: not a violation of their rules, but he did something
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  Speaker 2: that they know that they can accommodate. He did bet
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  Speaker 2: on his own team while in college, so they're not
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: going to let him enter the draft for a year,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: which for him isn't the end of the world. I
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: wanted to do a follow up on a story I
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: mentioned two things on I think it was the Wednesday podcast,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: might have been Monday, Yeah, it had to be Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't realize that there was actual a connection
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: on the store independent of one another. I did a
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  Speaker 2: story on the fact that these Mamdanni Marxists defeated Democratic
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: incumbents for the United States Congress in New York. You
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  Speaker 2: have regular mainstream Democrats running for reelection for the congressional seat.
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani endorsed Marxist to run against them, and they all won.
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  Speaker 2: I also commented on Dan Goldman, who's this left wing
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: lunatic who's made you know, he's always screaming at the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Republicans and the hearings. He was the guy that went
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: into an independent coffee shop in New York and they
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: wouldn't serve him because he's pro Israel and he's Jewish,
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  Speaker 2: and they made us think about how we need to
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  Speaker 2: have more civility and politics. What I was not aware
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  Speaker 2: of is Goldman was one of the congress Did you
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: know that Jason Goldman was one of the congressmen that
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: lost his primary this week? Yeah, I didn't know that
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: at the time. He was one of the ones that
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  Speaker 2: lost to the Donnie Marxists. So think about that. I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: want you to think about this woman. Here's a guy
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: who's raged against Republicans forever and out of control, raving
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: anti Trump, leftist lunatic. Yet he's now out of a job,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: not because if anything any Republican did, but because his
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: own party threw him out. It's time that these loudmouthed
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Democrats who aren't Marxists realize that their threat isn't from
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Trump or even for me, it's from their own party.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: And maybe if people like Goldman would use the same
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: loud rhetoric against the radicals who not only are trying
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: to destroy our nation, but also destroy what traditionally was
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. That is the threat to them. His
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: district's like ninety percent Democrats. There was no way any
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Republican could win. The only way he can lose is
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: if his fellow Democrats throw him out. So all his
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: years about bitching about Trump and bitching about the Republicans
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: didn't hurt him any bet he's from the lefties. He
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: simply wasn't a Marxist, and he wasn't somebody who hates Israel.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: So therefore Mamdani, who hates Israel and is Sist, got
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: them out of there. You're listening to the Mark Belly
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: podcast all right. Now, I have a producer who's from Illinois,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: which means we're stuck with him being a Bear fan
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: and all of that. Are you a Cub fan or
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: a White Sox fan. You're a Cubs fan, Well, it's
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Cubs weekend in Milwaukee. The Cubs are in town Friday, Saturday,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: and Sunday. I'm releasing this podcast on Thursday. When the
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Cubs come into town. A huge number of Cubs fans
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: come in. Initially, there are a lot of Brewer fans
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: who couldn't stand going to the games. But frankly, the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Brewers have had the upper hand over the Cubs over
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: the last several years. We win the division more often
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: than not, and when they have the series in Milwaukee,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: the Brewers have won more than half the games. And
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: you've now seen a significant contingent of Brewer fans that
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: are there. I think Cubs fans are obnoxious, but they're
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: not going to keep me from going to a game
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: in my own ballpark. End. You know, if you lose,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: it's humiliating. If you'll win, it's a lot of fun.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure it is for them too. They scream
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: and yell. Do we explain to me, though, why so
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: many of them don't seem to understand that if they
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: need a routine flyball at a home run. Some Cub
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: hits a fly ball and they start screaming they think
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: it's a home run. My theory is is that these
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: are people that live in southern Wisconsin. They're too chicken
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: to go to Wrigley Field. I can't figure out how
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: to park there, or they don't know how to drive
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: down there, so the only time they go here, so
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: they don't really ever go to any baseball games, and
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: they care for it, don't have any depth perception and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: can't tell when a flyball is going to be a
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: home run or not. You're saying that it's a you're
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: saying that it just these are Cubs fans that are
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: on a bandwagon kind of thing. Yeah, and I have
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: no respect for those types of fans in any sport.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: You see it a lot in the NBA. You know,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: when Michael Jordan, you know, the Michael Jordan, tons of
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: bull bullse fans would come up here when Michael Jordan
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: and now they're a team, Like if some team is
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: really good, now Oklahoma City, the Knicks the next time
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: that they come into town to play the books, So
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: we have tons of those fans there. But when those
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: teams are no good, they're nowhere to be found. They're
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: only they decide to become a fan of a team
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: that's really good. A real fan is one that follows
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: the team when they suck and when they're good, and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: they're the ones that appreciate. You know, the Bucks have
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: won a grand total of two championships. The fact that
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: they're so damn hard to do means you appreciate it
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: more than just jump on this team, and your team
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: therefore wins a championship every other year. Anyway, Cubs are
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: in tone. The series happens when both teams are actually hot.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: The Brewers just swept the Reds and the Cubs went
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: out and the New York Mets may be the most
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: pathetic franchise in baseball right now. The Angels are probably
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: more so because it's just long term. And I say pathetic,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: it's just you have a payroll out the wazoo and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: you can't win to save your life. Anyway, the Cubs
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: clapp demand how many RBIs the dans Be Swansing had
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: in that series. I think they fifteen, right, fifteen rvis
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: in the series, so they're coming in hot. The Brewers
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: swept the series with the Reds. I do have this
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: fear that the you know in baseball, it's the Cubs.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Know.
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  Speaker 2: The Cubs have had two ten game winning streaks and
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: one was it eleven game losing streak or a ten
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: game losing streak ten, So I mean that for the season.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: The season's just now right it about halfway. They have
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: two ten game winning streaks and one and half a
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: season it's really bizarre, but teams get hot and they
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: get cold. It's the way it works. I have this
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: fear that the Brewers are heading into a down period,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: and that fear is premised on the game they won
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: last night. They should have lost. I mean, the bullpen
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: gave away a lead. The manager, it turns out, did
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: the right thing. Abner Rebe has a one game suspension
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: hanging over his head, so since he pitched two of
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: the last three games, they put it on him last night,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: since he wasn't going to pitch anyway, but it meant
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: that he had to use some other guys in the bullpen.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Craig Yojo, who's the it's unbelievably good minor league pitchers here,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: is always at one and every time they call him
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: in the major leagues he can't cut it. And I
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: think this might have been the last draw. He gave
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: up three runs in there, and then they brought in
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: the third string closer. Earlier this year, the Brewers are
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: very good at pitching up, picking up pictures on the
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: scrap heap and fixing them. The Athletics, who don't even
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: have a city anymore, they cut their closer earlier. They
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: said there's just I think dfad to release him. Joel
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Kudo and the Brewers picked him up, and they've used
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: him in a couple of save opportunities where nobody was available.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: And he comes in last night with a one run lead,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: loads the bases with one out, you know, and it
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: was hot there, and you see what first, the guy
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: weighs three hundred pounds or close. I mean, I actually
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: think he's close to three hundred pounds. He's just an
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: enormous beer of a man, and he's sweating like a pig.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: And he's in a safe situation because Uiba is not available.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: It was on suspension. McGill wasn't available in the situation.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: So Murphy's just he's gonna be him to win or
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  Speaker 2: lose the game, tying runs on third, winning runs on second.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: He got into the trouble kind of on his own volition.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: And the only way that gotten out is Cincinnati laid
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: down a bad bunt and Kuno made a first plate
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: to third bases. They're leaded one out, tying run on third,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: winning runs on second. Would you believe that they hit
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: into a double play? I mean, Cincinnati's in a bad
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: there's really there. I mean, Andrew Voughan had a three
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: run double that bounced around to the corner. Well, I
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: just think the Brewers had a lot of breaks going
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: for them. Also, they're coming off of two epic pitching
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: performances in the first two games of that series. The
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: good news, however, from Milwaukee is the manager backed up
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: his rotation, so he has the three starters going against
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: the Cubs that he wants. Mizerowski pitches Friday and Harrison
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: pitches Saturday. They haven't named Sunday yet. I know they
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: want to be give Brandon Woodruff extra time in there,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: so it may or may not be him for the
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Sunday series. The problems the Cubs have right now as
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: they're starting. Pitching is not very good. In fact, they
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: just traded for a terrible pitcher from the Mets. But
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: the Cubs are hitting very very well. I mean, they
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: scored a ton of runs against the Mets. So in
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: the end, I think this is going to be a
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Brewers or Cubs division. Saint Louis to me seems thinner
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: than the Cubs. The Cubs have simply been erratic. I'm
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: assuming at the trading deadlight at midseason the Cubs are
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: going to, you know, try to get some starting pitching
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: to address that, because the Cub's hitting is undeniably. Brewers
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: score a lot of runs, but they don't have any power,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: and the Brewers have to address that. They need to
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: get more power. It helps the Churio and Vaughn and
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Yelich are back when they weren't in the first port,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: but they need they need a couple of home run
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: hitters in the lineup. But the Brewers pitching is really,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: really good. So I think that this series is going
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  Speaker 2: to be the beginning of a battle that's going to
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: go for the rest of the season. And most recent
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: years the Brewers have won that battle. But we have
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: the I mean, I know you grew up down, but
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, don't you understand how embarrassing you Cub fans are.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: There's the old school who been there, and I do
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: know that from some I do know that there are
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: Cubs fans who suffered through all the rotten years, who
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: hate the trendy ones who just kind of got on
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: there and don't know anybody's name and don't know any
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: history of the team, and they're just kind of there
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: and they buy the ticket and they're there to pose
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: and the whole thing. And then there are the others
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: who follow the players in Double A and Triple A
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: and all of that stuff. I mean, I grant them
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: this as much of a dump as it is, Wrigleyfield
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: is still a beautiful stadium. I mean, the infrastructure is terrible.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Do you still wi the wisen the bathtubs in there
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: or do they now have finally have r ridles? They
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: still love a trough. You call it a trough, I
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: call it a bathomb. But I and I make fun
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: of the fact that they grow weeds on the side
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: of the wall, But I mean it creates. I like
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: baseball stadiums. One of the cool things about baseball is
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: it's the one sport where there isn't a regulation for
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: the size of the playing field. You know, an NFL
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: stadium's got to be what is it, fifty three yards
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: wide at one hundred yards long with the ten yard
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: end zones and all of that. NBA courts are ninety
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: four feet. I think hockey rinks are pretty much standardized.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Baseball can have its own little unique to say. They
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: really back in the day, some of those stadiums are
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: just downright weird. I mean, I think the Polo Grounds
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: in New York, left field was like two hundred and
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: seventy feet and center pel was five hundred or something.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: They don't have that much anymore. But there is a
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: sense of character to all of that, and I'm willing
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: to handle the whole rivalry and all of that and
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: good fun and you know, and when fans of it,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: and it's just now it's now a thing across sports
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: that now fans travel. It used to be that in
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: any home team stadium, ninety nine percent of the fans
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: that we be support is of that team. Now anything baseball.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: You know, you saw the Brewers Series in Cincinnati. They're
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: a ton of Brewer fans there. And of the series
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: where teams are visiting their fans of the other team
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: in there, it's just kind of a thing not to
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: go and follow your team on the road. When the
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Cubs play here, it can be fifty to sixty percent
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: Cubs fans and as long as people are just civil
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: with one another, and that's the thing that's created problems
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: in the past. Some of the Cubs fans would frankly
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: get drunk, and they're getting drunk, it was their day trip.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: They're out there tailgating for hours and hours, and the
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: average Brewer fans sitting next to them, they may go
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: to seventeen games a year and they didn't want to
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: put up with it. I will say this, the Cubs
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: fads are still better than back when the Brewers are
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: in the American League. I've own know that I've ever
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: seen more obnoxious people come in to Then County Stadium
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: than White Sox fans. I mean, they were just and
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: I get that the whole thing. They came from the
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: tougher end of the city, and the White Sox fans
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: always had the chip on the shoulder because they were
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: never the trendy team and all of that. Anyway, it's
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: always an interesting weekend in Milwaukee when the Cubs are
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: in town, and that's going to coincide with the second
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: weekend of Summerfest and all of it. Go out there
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: and have a good time this weekend. Next podcast will
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: be released on Monday, Talking Again.
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