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Mark Belling Podcast #92: America is awash in radicalized murderers whose violence is fueled by Democrat rhetoric. A major university says most of its incoming freshmen have grade school level math proficiency. And, Evers' DOC tells nobody about Morgan Geyser's mistake. The "Governor's" response: nothing. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: thing about the terrorist attack in Washington, DC is the
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  Speaker 2: fact that I honestly don't know if this guy was
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  Speaker 2: radicalized by Muslim jihadis in Afghanistan or radical democratic politicians
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  Speaker 2: in America. First of all, it's a pretty good question.
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  Speaker 2: Christy nom Homeland Security Secretary, went on the weekend talk
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  Speaker 2: to the United States. But whether he was or he wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: what's worse, I don't know. We've been ducking this issue,
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  Speaker 2: this fundamental problem for a couple of decades. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not just US, it's Western Europe as well. The number
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  Speaker 2: of terror attacks or acts of violence committed in the
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  Speaker 2: Western world by radical Muslims is overwhelmingly disproportioned to their
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  Speaker 2: numbers and the countries in which they're now living. It's
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  Speaker 2: almost the chicken or the egg argument. Are they radicals
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  Speaker 2: before they get here? Or do they become radicalized after
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  Speaker 2: they're here when they get to their new nations. Do
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  Speaker 2: they see that their terrorism, their ideas, the radicalism is embraced,
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  Speaker 2: even encouraged, encouraged by one of the major political parties
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  Speaker 2: in our own country. Or are Western nations, in pouring
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  Speaker 2: into their countries people who hate everybody who is in
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  Speaker 2: a Muslim hate any attempt to create an order that
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  Speaker 2: Muslims don't agree with or not, it's a question worth
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  Speaker 2: diving into. In the end, both options are terrible, but
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  Speaker 2: we continue to duck it. We ducked the question in
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  Speaker 2: a country in which we obsessed over January sixth of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one for years an essential non event, an
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  Speaker 2: event in which lots of patriotic Americans went to the
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  Speaker 2: country because they were concerned about whether or not their
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  Speaker 2: election was stolen. A bunch of Democrats deliberately let them
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  Speaker 2: go into the capital just so some trouble could occur
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  Speaker 2: that they could make hay out of. It wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: long term in vdication of anything but the rhetoric you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing from Democrats now and the fact that people again
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  Speaker 2: and again and again and again and again and again
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  Speaker 2: and again are willing to kill. That's part of a pattern.
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  Speaker 2: dot com now. Some reportings emerge on this the killer
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  Speaker 2: of Sarah Beckstrom. His name is Ramanula Lockenwall Afghan refugee
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine. This story is on ABC News. For all
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  Speaker 2: I know the story is true, but it still seems
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  Speaker 2: comical and I think misleading. One of the two members
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  Speaker 2: of the National Guard who were shot in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday has died. US President Donald Trump said. Then,
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  Speaker 2: on Friday, the US Attorney for Washington d C announced
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  Speaker 2: the initial charges of assault against the suspect will be
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  Speaker 2: upgraded to murder in the first degree. And then, and
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  Speaker 2: as investigators continue to delve into what may have motivated
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  Speaker 2: the suspect in the deadly National guardsman shooting last week,
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  Speaker 2: a portrait of a life of the increasingly financial, of
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  Speaker 2: increasing financial stress and a potential mental health crisis has emerged.
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  Speaker 2: Sources familiar told ABC News. No, again, this may be true,
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  Speaker 2: but it's almost comical in nature to report it. The
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  Speaker 2: reason that these sources are going to stress these things
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  Speaker 2: is that it avoids the larger question. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: just about everybody who does something terrible has any number
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  Speaker 2: of things going wrong in their life. It's never one thing. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: increasing financial stress, potential mental health crisis. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: how many people that covers what fifty million? Thankfully we're
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  Speaker 2: not yet at the point of which fifty million of
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  Speaker 2: them are killing patriotic Americans back to the ABC story. Additionally,
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  Speaker 2: multiple sources said that investigators are looking into the impact
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  Speaker 2: of the recent death of an Afghan commander who allegedly
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  Speaker 2: worked with the suspect. The death of the commander, whom
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  Speaker 2: Lockinwall is said to have revered, had deeply saddened the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Sources said, Oh, that's interesting. All of you who've been
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  Speaker 2: in the military, say your sergeant or a lieutenant that
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  Speaker 2: you admire dies, I'm sure your initial response is to
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  Speaker 2: drive all the way across the country and kill someone
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  Speaker 2: in the National Guard. In other words, this thing may
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  Speaker 2: be true. Maybe he was all upset that this commander died.
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  Speaker 2: So what you get my point here about missing the point?
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  Speaker 2: And everybody wants to miss the point because they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to confront the real issue, which is, we have
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  Speaker 2: a movement in America that now is including the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 2: that is fomenting out and out insurrection and violence in
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  Speaker 2: this country. And we have a problem with deeply radicalized
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  Speaker 2: Muslims who are in this country and can't stand our country,
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  Speaker 2: can't stand England, can't stand France, can't stand anything that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't live according to their violent Muslim principles. Back to
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  Speaker 2: the ABC News story this commander's death, this may have
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  Speaker 2: compounded on Lackenwall's financial burdens, including not being employed, having
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  Speaker 2: an expired work permit, and allegedly struggling to pay rent
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  Speaker 2: and feed his children. Sources said. Officials said the suspect
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  Speaker 2: has a wife and five children. He drove from his
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  Speaker 2: residence in Washington State to the nation's capital prior to
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  Speaker 2: the shooting and targeted the Guardsmen. Official set, No, that
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  Speaker 2: requires a lot of determination. That's a long drive, one
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  Speaker 2: of the longest drives you can have in this country.
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  Speaker 2: Watching it at Washington, all the way across the country.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time for second thoughts in habiting. That's commitment,
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  Speaker 2: and that's my point. These people are here, they're at
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  Speaker 2: all over the Western world. They're growing in number, and
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  Speaker 2: they're being fueled by members of one of the large
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  Speaker 2: American political parties. That'd be your Democrats, A senior law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement source told ABC News on Sunday. The investigators are
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  Speaker 2: looking at everything and are closely examining the role of
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  Speaker 2: an apparently deteriorating situation at home. The FBI, Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: and intelligence officials are also investigating the possibility that the
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  Speaker 2: attack was directed by or inspired by international terrorists. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, I will be stunned if this wasn't directed
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  Speaker 2: by or inspired by national and international terrorists to what degree,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know. Coming under the influence of people who
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  Speaker 2: keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: or being funded in order to do it. Those are
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  Speaker 2: different degrees, but both would indicate influence. There are reports
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  Speaker 2: that this guy's name had been google searched repeatedly in
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  Speaker 2: the days prior to the attack. Hard to say whether
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  Speaker 2: or not that's true. If it is true, why were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of other people googling him prior to this
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  Speaker 2: unless there may have been some prior knowledge, which again,
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  Speaker 2: maybe there was, maybe there wasn't. As I said, Homeland
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  Speaker 2: Security Secretary Christinomes said, he was radicalized in the United States. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I find that believable. I also find it believable that
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  Speaker 2: he was radicalized in Afghanistan. And again, which is worse?
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  Speaker 2: It's the chicken in the egg argument. Is it worse
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  Speaker 2: that Joe Biden allowed thousands of so called refugees that
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  Speaker 2: come into this country who were radical and dangerous and
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  Speaker 2: had no vetting? And is our refugee program set up
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  Speaker 2: so that people may indeed be refugees but may hate
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  Speaker 2: America even more than the country they're flaying. Or secondly,
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  Speaker 2: do we have such a toxic environment in this country
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  Speaker 2: that we have all over the place, radical monstrous people
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  Speaker 2: that are training individuals to do terrible things, reinforcing their
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  Speaker 2: attitudes and so on. I don't know what's worse. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: the second one's worse because the first one you could
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  Speaker 2: do something about. President Trump has called a halt to
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  Speaker 2: all refugee relocations at least in the short term, until
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  Speaker 2: we can get a handle out of this. You can
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  Speaker 2: do something about that, stop accepting refugees from anywhere in
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  Speaker 2: the world. It's not a perfect solution, but that does
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  Speaker 2: address part of the problem. The other problem, it's more profound.
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  Speaker 2: We have six members of the United States Senate, the
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  Speaker 2: seditious sex who have encouraged military members include the National Guard,
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  Speaker 2: to disobey orders, disobey illegal orders, somebody prone to radicalism.
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  Speaker 2: Here's this, Oh my god, this military here in the
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  Speaker 2: United States, and Trump is sending out. Even the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: say that they need to be stopped. They're dangerous, they're awful.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime Color Revolution, very few people have heard
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  Speaker 2: that term. It's the roadmap that's being put up by
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  Speaker 2: the radicals right now. Color Revolution. We heard a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot about the soul called terror threat from Catholics, from MAGA,
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  Speaker 2: from everybody else. Hear the actual threat being downplayed because
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  Speaker 2: it's real being downplayed by people who I think are
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  Speaker 2: in support of it. General Michael Flynn. It reads as
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  Speaker 2: if the script were lifted straight from a CIA playbook
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  Speaker 2: or overseas regime change using pressure campaigns so obvious now
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  Speaker 2: that even the average American could recognize what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: One delegitimization campaign against Trump Q framing normal authority as illegitimate.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Mark Kelly and the others in the Siditious
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  Speaker 2: six did. The military is illegitimate, These orders from Trump
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  Speaker 2: are illegitimate, attempting to mobilize military disobedience, attempt to trigger
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  Speaker 2: defection in the military and intelligence world. Now, the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of all of this is to foment chaos, and out
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  Speaker 2: of chaos, their belief is the American people believes that
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  Speaker 2: the only way to end the chaos is to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the political force to which the chaos is
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  Speaker 2: reacting to. Okay, just give them what they want in
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  Speaker 2: let the radicals run the country, that we won't have
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  Speaker 2: chaos anymore. For people who say that that won't work.
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  Speaker 2: It sure worked. In twenty twenty, COVID and George Floyd
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  Speaker 2: burn down the country, panic people of aravirus, lock everything down,
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  Speaker 2: create economic disruption. Who won the election as a result
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  Speaker 2: of that cheating? Notwithstanding? The following is from Mark Lucas.
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  Speaker 2: He posts on X and focuses on the denial that
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  Speaker 2: many Americans have about how radicalized some Muslims are, and
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  Speaker 2: he points out that the people who have had close
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  Speaker 2: contact or are served in Afghanistan, they don't have that
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  Speaker 2: naivete because they saw it first had This is what
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  Speaker 2: Lucas posts when neary Americans cannot comprehend the evil Afghanistan
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  Speaker 2: war veterans experienced. Afghans were untrustworthy allies who sold their
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  Speaker 2: children to pedophiles, ritually raped little boys, and beat their women.
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  Speaker 2: I deployed to Afghanistan in twenty ten as an infantry
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  Speaker 2: rifle platoon leader. It was the deadliest year of Operation
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  Speaker 2: Enduring Freedom. I saw radical Islam up close and personal.
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  Speaker 2: There were a couple of women attached to my unit.
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  Speaker 2: They were brave, tough, and blonde haired. They served as
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  Speaker 2: our female engagement team. My soldiers constantly protected them from
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  Speaker 2: local Afghans. These sick men would linger around our foot patrols.
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  Speaker 2: They had zero respect for these women. They would have
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  Speaker 2: beaten and raped them if given the chance. As a
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  Speaker 2: platoon leader, one of my main duties was to conduct
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  Speaker 2: key leader engagement with local Afghan leaders. During these meetings,
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  Speaker 2: cute little boys would serve us tea. These boys were
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  Speaker 2: sold into slavery and sexually abused by these sick older men.
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  Speaker 2: My local Afghan interpreter sympathized with these children. He told
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  Speaker 2: me their parents would sell them into slavery in exchange
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  Speaker 2: for educational opportunities. He proudly said, some of these boys
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  Speaker 2: would return to murder their parents. My combat experienced open
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  Speaker 2: my eyes to how incompatible Islam is with American values.
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  Speaker 2: Number of other posts on X dealing with the fueling
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  Speaker 2: of all of this by Democrat politicians before I read them.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do a float chart here. The point men, the
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  Speaker 2: trigger men. They are easily influenced people like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: the shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania, the shooter of Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 2: or the radicalized Muslim who traveled from Washington State to Washington,
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  Speaker 2: DC to kill a guardsman. They're the ones that are
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  Speaker 2: the trigger people. How do you get them to do it?
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  Speaker 2: You have to fill their heads with ideas that allow
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  Speaker 2: them to think they're doing the right thing. As I've
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  Speaker 2: been telling you forever, rationalization is the second strongest human drive.
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  Speaker 2: You can rationalize anything. You can rationalize killing a twenty
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  Speaker 2: year old woman serving as a National guardsman. You can
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  Speaker 2: do anything. You can rationalize killing Charlie Kirk, You can
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  Speaker 2: rationalize killing Trump, and it's sure easy to rationalize it
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  Speaker 2: with all sorts of people. Inofficial positions of authority kind
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  Speaker 2: of seem to be telling you it's okay. This from
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  Speaker 2: Carolyn Downey. If you demonize National guardsmen on national TV
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  Speaker 2: and say that their deployment to combat DC crime is
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  Speaker 2: a fascist enterprise, some lunatics are going to take you seriously. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: this is me now and on her. How many times
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  Speaker 2: have you heard prominent American Democrats say that the National
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  Speaker 2: Guard deployment of the major cities, including DC, was fascist.
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  Speaker 2: You can say that they were engaging in hyperbole. You
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  Speaker 2: say it or not, a lot of people bought into it. Andyvity,
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  Speaker 2: You've got fascists out there patrolling American straits. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: ought to do something about it. This is Ezra Cohen,
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  Speaker 2: former Intel official. When lawmakers imply publicly that members of
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  Speaker 2: the military are engaged in illegal activity, it is foreseeable
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  Speaker 2: that violence against the military will take place again. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: it logical? It's six Democratic senators out there saying that
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  Speaker 2: the military is acting illegally. Somebody who hears that is
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  Speaker 2: in a reach in a country of three hundred million
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  Speaker 2: plus people, that somebody's going to hear that and think
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  Speaker 2: that they ought to do something about it. Evidently not.
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  Speaker 2: This is Brian Dean Wright. He's an EXCIA ops officer.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats weren't joking when they said we're at war. Their
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  Speaker 2: incitement leads to blood, the sedition leads to chaos. They
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  Speaker 2: know exactly what they're doing. Let me throw out a
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  Speaker 2: provocative thought. You saw in the wake of Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 2: the open happiness from so many people on the left
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  Speaker 2: in this country, how many of them were also happy
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  Speaker 2: that a guardsman was murdered in Washington, DC. You certainly
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  Speaker 2: didn't see as many of them going on x and
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  Speaker 2: posting their glee, But you wonder they seem rather unbothered.
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  Speaker 2: They were certainly born bothered. By January sixth, Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: When will democrats in the media be held accountable for
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  Speaker 2: the hate and violence that they formit for ment This
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  Speaker 2: is Musk falsely labeling violent people as fascist or Nazi
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  Speaker 2: should be treated as incitement to murder. Look at the
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  Speaker 2: number of people who are simply right of center, work
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  Speaker 2: for the government, support Trump whatever. How many of them
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  Speaker 2: have been called fascist and Nazis. The vast majority of
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  Speaker 2: these people have been called fascist. The Nazis are simply
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  Speaker 2: patriotic people. They are not violent people. But they're being
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  Speaker 2: called these terms. And now they're being killed right and left,
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  Speaker 2: from the prominent Charlie Kirk to an attempt to kill
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  Speaker 2: the most prominent Trump to now simply an American in uniform.
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  Speaker 2: This is again happening all over the place, and there
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  Speaker 2: is zero reason to think that it's going to stop.
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  Speaker 2: It's being fueled by people who don't back off, because,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, they evidently are happy this is going on,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: or they would back off. Now, let's focus on the
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  Speaker 2: problem of us importing potential terrorists into the United States again.
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  Speaker 2: I go back to my question of what's worse the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we're offering the welcome matt to people with
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  Speaker 2: no vetting at all, many of whom may hate our
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: way of life and want to violently do something about it. Problem,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, plaguing all of Western Europe, and then
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the problem of the fact that we are culturally preaching
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: from nearly half the country this level of hatred and
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: justification of terrible violence. You can debate forever which is worse.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Josh Howley, Senator from Missouri, he's obtained emails that show
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: that quote. The Biden administration ordered them to fill up
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  Speaker 2: planes with Afghan refugees even without vetting them. Lemme Interjeck.
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  Speaker 2: You'll recall that the whole Biden bug out of Afghanistan
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  Speaker 2: from Afghanistan was unbelievably rushed. We left all of our
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  Speaker 2: weapons out back there. Who knows which people we left
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  Speaker 2: behind that should have gotten out, so who they were
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: getting throwing them onto planes. There was nothing organized about
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  Speaker 2: this at all. Everything about Operation bug Out from Biden
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  Speaker 2: has turned out to be a nightmare, and for no reason.
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  Speaker 2: We're in Afghanistan for ten years. We didn't need to
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: get out in ten minutes. We could have gotten out correctly,
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  Speaker 2: except the president was seen now that his administration was
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  Speaker 2: run by radicals who didn't give a crap what happened.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't give a crap what happened in Afghanistan, and
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: they didn't give a crap, But what would happen in
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the United States? Back to the relations. Troops on the
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  Speaker 2: ground said they were shocked by Biden's failure to vent
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  Speaker 2: these Afghans before bringing them into our country. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: Trump is now put a temporary halt on all immigration
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  Speaker 2: proceedings from Afghanistan. We must now re examine every single
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: alien who's entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal
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  Speaker 2: of any alien from any country who does not belong
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  Speaker 2: here or add benefit to our country. For several years now,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Republican lawmakers have been warning of security risks of Biden
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  Speaker 2: era Afghan resettlement programs like the one that was used
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  Speaker 2: by the National Guard shooter. He went through a resettlement
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  Speaker 2: program in a sane country. That resettlement program would include
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  Speaker 2: civics lessons, teachings about the United States, teaching about the
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  Speaker 2: essential goodness of a country that was giving him refuge
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  Speaker 2: so he could get out of the god forsaken hell
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  Speaker 2: hole that he was living in. Instead what went on there?
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  Speaker 2: Who gets these contracts? If indeed Christinoma's right, and this
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  Speaker 2: guy came over here and he wasn't all that bad
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  Speaker 2: and he turned into this Who did all that? Elisa Slotkin,
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  Speaker 2: United States senator Democrat. A week ago Sunday, eight days ago,
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  Speaker 2: she went on TV and said National guardsmen were going
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  Speaker 2: to start shooting at American citizens. That's what she said.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: This is before the attack in Washington. Slotkin said the
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: National Guard was going to shoot an American citizens. This
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: is the rhetoric you're getting from democratic politicians. Several days later,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a National guardsman is shot at. Now, let's imagine that
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: you're not one of these unhinged lefties that'll just say anything,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: say anything. Trump's issuing illegal orders, The National Guard is
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: going to go into these cities and kill Americans. Let's
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: say you're just saying that, and you know it's crap,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but you're saying it for a purpose. You don't think
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: anybody might believe you. Look how dumb so many many
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: people left of center in this country are, and look
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: at how easily prone to radicalism. Some Muslims eye, that's
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: not new, and it's not an indictment of all Muslims.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I'm referring to those that are radicalized and refuse to
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: accept living in a multicultural, multi religious society. And the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: fact of the matter is set many Muslims simply do
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: not accept living in that kind of society. Those that
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: do aren't much of a problem. Those that don't have
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: a problem. So you fuel this and then something like
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: this happens and you keep fueling it. That must mean
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: you want it to happen, or you wouldn't keep fueling it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Alyssa socking National Guard is going to go into these
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: cities and they're gonna be shooting American citizens. Two guardsmen
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: have now been wounded after being shot on the streets
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: of DC. Imagine you're somebody who believed the LISSI Slacken
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: and what was going on in the heads of this
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: lockenwall guy, again, probably a lot of things, but he
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: will if you believed the list of slocked that these
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: guards when they're going to be shooting Americans, maybe he
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: felt that he had a duty to go kill them.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: You can try to disconnect these things all you want,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: but if you do, you're ignoring a terrifying reality. I'm
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: going to change the subject. One of my favorite topics is.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: First of all, there aren't many things that make old
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: farts feel superior. I mean, after all, we're old farts.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Well we are you Well you say for yourself, you're
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: more decrepit than I am. Yeah, I mean you are
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: more decrepit than me. You shake your head and deny
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: being more decrepit than me. You just refuse to accept
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the downside of your old fartedness. That's just all over
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the evidence of which is all over the place. There
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: isn't a lot of opportunity for old farts to feel superior,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: but there are some. For instance, most of us know
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: how to do math. This column appears by Alyssa Finleiots
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: in the Wall Street Journal today and this podcast is
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: being released on Monday. Now, this is one of those
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: things in which everybody knows why it's going on. I'm
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: going to report what it is that she's saying is
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: going on, and inner column she kind of alludes to
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the rationalization and the defense of the fact that it's
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: going on. She writes, kids in elementary school learn or
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: are supposed to learn, how to add fractions and round numbers.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's one of those things that every
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: kid when I was a kid learned. I'm sure quite
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a few have forgotten because they've never really had to
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: do it. And this is going to be the defense
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: from all of the people now who don't know how
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to do Why will I ever need to do it?
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I'll get to that in a moment. There were all
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: these things about what grade you're supposed to learn something by,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: and I'm actually pretty good at remembering what year they
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: taught us what stuff in grade school. For a lot
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: of people, it all blends together. I think fractions were
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the fourth grade. It might have been earlier, but I
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: think I'm not exactly positive. Rounding numbers, I don't know
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: second grade third grade numbers ninety seven, round it up
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to the nearest head second third grade you learned that
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: would be one hundred and not down to ninety because
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: the seven is closer to the one hundred than the
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: other way around. I don't know. Anyway, back to her column,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: kids in elementary school learned or supposed to learn how
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to add fractions in round numbers. I get the round
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: number thing adding fractions. I can get why some people
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: nomber you got to take the get a common denominator
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: and added up at the bottom and then so on.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But the rounding numbers, I honestly thought everybody who want
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: to do that? Paul said, they asked her to drive through,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: do you have to round up? What if they didn't
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: say up? What if they just said round And in
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: the case of round, that would normally mean up if
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it's over fifty, and down if it's below fifty. But
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: they say round up, so that means I guess people
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: would kind of figure out what that would be. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: the reason that they say round up is that would
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: mean that they would take three eleven and turn it
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: to four rather than roud it. But again, it's just
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: something you just kind of thought everybody knew, because that
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: actually doesn't even require a skill. Five is half between
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: zero and ten. You know, fifty one is above forty
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: nine is below fifties on the dot, what do you
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  Speaker 2: do with fifty? It's well, no, how do you're rounded?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: There's probably any answer to that. I think fifty is rounded.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I think fifty is rounded up, right than rounded. Doubt anyway,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Apparently this is something that we teach in elementary school.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Getting back to the piece, but many students at the
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: University of California, San Diego by the way, that's actually
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: considered to be a pretty good school. A top public
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: university ranks six nationally by US News and World Report
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: can't do either. According to a new analysis from the university.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: So this is from the university itself. University of California,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: San Diego says most of their students when they come
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: in can't do that read and weep for the future
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: of America. Roughly one in eight freshmen lack This is
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: freshman in college lack rudimentary high school math skills, defined
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: as geometry, algebra, and algebra two. It gets worse. Students
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: who had been placed in a remedial high school math
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: class in twenty twenty three had roughly fifth grade level abilities.
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  Speaker 2: Only thirty nine percent could correctly round the number three
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: hundred seventy four thousand, five hundred and eighteen to the
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: nearest hundred That would be three hundred and seventy four thousand,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: five hundred because the nearest hundred would be five hundred,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: because the eighteen comes after that, only thirty nine percent
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: could do that. They're in freshmen in college because so
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: many incoming students were numerically illiterate. The university added a
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: remedial class for middle and elementary school math. Think about this.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: This is a major amrket University University of California, San Diego.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: They're adding a remedial elementary class for college for elementary
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: math class for college freshmen. These are the freshmen who
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: are actually going to college. Back to the piece, Remarkably,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: among students placed into that math course, ninety four percent
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: had completed an advanced math class in high school. So
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: all that's because a lot of kids don't take any math.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: You know, math is often an optional course. You may
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: require one year on math in high school. They said,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: most of these students actually took an advanced math class.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Is this an indictment of A? The University of California's
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: admissions B public K through twelve schools, c US News
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: and World Reports, college rankings, or D all of the above.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: If you chose D, you're correct. Start with A. The
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: UC Board of Regents in twenty twenty scrapped standardized tests
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: as an admissions requirement under the guise of promoting equity.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: The likely real reason Blacks and Hispanic students score lower
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: on average on the SAT, requiring applicants to submit standard
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: test scores could also make it easier for critics to
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: prove the university is proving racial preferences, which were prohibited
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: by a nineteen ninety six voter referendum. The Math Proficiency
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: analysis suggests it may be doing so on the sly
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: amid a push to boost diversity and overall enrollment and
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: thus rake in more government aid. You see, San Diego
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: admitted increasing numbers of unqualified applicants from low income high schools.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: In order to holistically admit a diverse and representative class,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: we need to admit students who may be at a
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: higher risk of not succeeding. The report says this hit.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: By the way, what you've just heard here was the
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: defense of all THEI back to the piece. This has
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: done a grave disservice to ill prepared students. Not let
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: me pause. This is where she's right. And I've been
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: arguing this point forever. Promoting somebody to anything for which
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: they are not qualified is not doing them a favor.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: If I had some cloud or in or pull, and
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I was able to be sent to Harvard when I
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: came out of high schoolhold have been out of favor.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I wasn't the greatest student in the world. I probably
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: would have bombed out at Harvard. There's a reason God
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: created UW Lacrosse. It was for people like me. Giving
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: someone something for which they are not qualified merely guarantees
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: that they will fail at that thing. What favor have
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: they done? Have you done them? And what good comes
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: out of it? This is not only an indictment of
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: college admissions, it's an indictment of pushing too many kids
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: toward college. No. I'll make the point that some of
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: these mass kills would be things that would be required
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: of almost any functioning person, including a whole lot of
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: jobs that wouldn't wire college education. But let's move forward here.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: This has done a grave disservice to ill prepared students,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: who take longer to complete degrees and thus accrew more
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: debt and drop out of more rigorous majors. Few, if
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: any students who take remedial maths successfully complete and engineering degree.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: The report notes, what a surprise. If they have to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: put them in a remedial this and remedial that, chances
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: are they're not going to graduate from anything that's tough
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: after all, because they shouldn't have been in college of
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the first list, because they didn't learn enough before they
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: got to college, which gets back to the problem of
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the K through twelve. Why haven't they learned enough? The
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: university's admissions place a heavy emphasis on GPAs. You maybe
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: call my the segment that I did last week that
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: more than half the kids at Arbor get a's. Will
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: you think the same thing isn't going on in high school.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: So they're giving heavy credence to GPAs, but those don't
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: reflect student preparation because grades are inflated. I'll also point
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: out that some public schools, and some private schools for
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: that matter, give a lot of easyas, So therefore the
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: GPA of a kid that goes to a cake softy
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: school may be inflated in comparison to a kid that
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: went to a school that had properly rigorous deadards. Back
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to Finley's column, some students may also cheat their way
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: to high grades. Smartphones in AI have made it easier
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: to do so. At the same time, scores on AP
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: tests have become less dependent marker of merit. That's because
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: the college board has made the exams easier to pass
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: to encourage more students to take them and thus rake
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: in more money from testing fees. The share of students
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: passing AP exams has soared over the last two decades.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: They want this. Every study that we have would indicate
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: that over the last two decades, standardized test scores have
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: gotten worse, Yet the ability to get into advanced placement
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: courses has gotten easier. To get into advanced placement, they
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: test you and yeah, okay, you get to go into
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: the AP course Advanced placement. More kids are getting into them,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: even as the standardized scores are plas again lower the
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: standards to get more people into something. You're deluding people
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: into thinking that we have a society of higher achievers.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: You're deluding people who are not high achievers into thinking
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: that they are, and nothing good comes of any of it,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: including the person who has given this delusion, who wonders
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: all along after they get out of college why they
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: can't find a job and are out there driving for
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: door dash because they were given a false impression of
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: how smart they are. Finley call it vanity grading. Mediocre
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: students now graduate with top GPAs and AP scores, which
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: makes their parents feel better about their kids' public school
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: and ease political pressures for education reform. Ah, that's a
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: key tell a pat that your kid is doing well.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: They'd rather hear that their kid who isn't doing well
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: is doing well than be told the truth your kid
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: isn't doing well. On to answer B, the report says
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: students have been under served by their prior schooling. No kidding.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Only twenty two percent of prof graders scored proficient in
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress last year,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: the lowest on record. Think of that twenty two percent
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: of twelfth graders high school singers granted proficient. Proficient doesn't
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: mean excel. Proficient means are you are very good at
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: that skill? Twenty two percent the lowest ever, lowest ever
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: when U see San Diego remedial math tutor observed that
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: some teachers would teach life skills in high school math
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: class just using calculators, the internet, and prescribed formulas. Classes
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: didn't teach mathematical thinking. Let me interject, I buy that too.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Part of the reason for this A lot of high
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: school math teachers are dopes. Many are not, but a
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: lot are dopes and are no good at themselves, and
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: they don't want to do much teaching, so they get
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: into whole math just like we had whole rating and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: understand the concept and use the calculator that the master
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: the skill, and it's a lot easier than teaching things
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: that are hard for these dummy kids that are in
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: there to actually learn. So the job is now easier
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: for the hack teacher. One problem is union contracts protect
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: lousy and lazy teachers, no kidding how long I've I
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: been argued from that and prevent talented, hard working ones
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: from being rewarded with higher pay. Meanwhile, some of the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: profession's best teachers, highly capable women who entered the profession
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: when their sex had fewer career options, have been retiring.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Many of their replacements are lacking. Teacher credential programs typically
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: require only a C plus average in undergrad. With the
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: pervasive great inflation in college, many young teachers made themselves
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: own they have fifth grade mass kills. Say you only
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: need a C plus average in undergrad to get into
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the teaching profession, and give her the fact that almost
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: nobody gets C plus. That means everybody. So how many
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: of these people that are going into teaching are themselves
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: not profession answer c Many parents mistakenly consider the US
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: News and World Reports rankings as a proxy of colleges prestige,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: But the rankings don't reflect the caliber of students the
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: college admits, nor graduate outcomes that matter. The rankings don't
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: factor in students standardized test scores for colleges like the
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: UCS that don't require them. Graduation and retention rates make
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: up by far the biggest weight in the rankings. Stay
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: with this graduation rates and retention rates. So in other words,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the more students that graduate from the college, the more
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: prestigious the college is. Should it be the opposite. The incentive, therefore,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: is for the colleges that pass everybody and get them
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: all to their four year degrees, even the ones that
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: should have flamed out in the process. She concludes the column,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the sum of all of this is a tragedy of
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: the educational of the education commons. Institutions acting in their
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: own interests, are debasing America's pool of young human capital.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Heaven help us, Solissa Finley on the Wall Street Journal today.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Now my thought of this, one of the retorts that
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: you'll get is, well, now that we have calculators in
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: AI that can add up the fractions and around the numbers,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: from me, why do I have to know how to
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: do it. It's a fair enough question. There are any
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: number of things that human beings had to do themselves
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: that a machine can now do, and therefore the human
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: being doesn't know how to do it. As an example,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: you really don't have to be any good at shoveling
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: snow anymore, do you. No, you can get a snowblore.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Just talking to somebody yesterday who said he was shoveling snow,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: the obvious retort was, why why don't you get a snowblower. No,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: this guy didn't have a snowblower. I mean he didn't
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: have a snowblower. This is the whole boy, why don't
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: you have a snowblower? And then there's the whole Well,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: there's some things that maybe you'd be my best entry,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: and of course, of course that's true until you break
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: your back, you keel over a heart attack, which happens
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: all the time we have the kind of wet, heavy
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: snow that we had over the weekend. Anyway, you get
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: the point, though. If you have a snowblower, you don't
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: have to shovel snow. If you have a calculator, you
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: don't have to know how to add fractions and some
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: people will make the point that all of this becomes irrelevant.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Add they're going to probably use the whole AI thing.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Since AI can answer all your questions, why do you
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: need to know anything? I'm here armed with the answer.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I contend based on an entire lifetime of applying the
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: skills that I have that knowing the skill makes it
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: easier to understand what you're doing. I talk all the
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: time about when you get to a really big number.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: People when they hear the number million and billion, they
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: think the two numbers are the same. Once you get
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: so many zeros, they can't comprehend her. What's going on?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: What if that happens with all numbers? If you don't
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: know how to do fractions. If you see a bunch
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: of things that are fractional in life, do you really
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: then know how many of them they would add up to?
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Unless you have the ability to actually hand out a
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: do it? You know, you analyze the horse race, you
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: got to go through ninety seven million different things. Or
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: you can use AI, which is out there and a
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: lot of these AI operations. Pick the horse. You can
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: just do that and bet the horse. You can do
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: that and maybe do better than you'd be doing and
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: if you're out there on your own, but you will
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: not have learned anything about why horses are going to
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: be better than others and he's going to be better,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: because unless you go through that actual process, you have
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: no feel for anything. If you don't, it's certainly true
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: that you can know about things without knowing how to
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: do them. I know the horsepower and a lot of cars,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: but I have absolutely no idea how to tear apart
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: an engine, not as anybody else any where. You can't
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: even get the plastic cupboards over at the top of
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: You go to the automiacatic and they just all they
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: do is they slap the computer on there to tell
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: them what's going on. Nonetheless, the more you know how
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: something works, the better grasp you will have of it.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: The same is true of all other subjects. Look at
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: the number of people who simply don't know anything about
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: American history. They don't know what led the founders to
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: come to the United States. They certainly have a skewed
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: view of the Civil War and the period of self.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: They don't know any of these things. And because they
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: don't know any of the specifics, they were all just
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: google the answer I'll just have AI tell me the answer.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: They have no actual understanding of it. You know, a
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: lot of the kids that are homeschooled, they know how
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: to do all of these things because most of the
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: parents that are homeschooling are teaching their kids these individual skills.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: I suspect one of the reasons that many of them
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: homeschool is they want to keep their kids away from
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: the lousy organized schools that don't do these things. And
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: now this story. Ruben Diego, as a centator from Arizona,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: was elected as a halfway moderate. Somebody leaked some texts
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: that he put out. He said, some people thought they
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: were friends of mine. They leaked. In other words, he
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: texted some things that are embarrassing. First of all, don't
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: trust anybody. Well I texted this. Who know, if you're
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: anybody that'said anything, don't put it on social media. Don't
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: text it if you're not willing to stand by it anyway.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: This is one of those instances of gayegoh, he's a
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Democrat texting something that clearly is true, but very embarrassing,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: particularly if you are a Democrat. You hear about what
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: he texted. Well, that's my point that you haven't heard
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: about it. Imagine if what you hear the following. Imagine
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: if what you're about to hear from me. JD. Vance texted,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: and you'll recall the keat that he got for the
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: benign comment about the Democratic catwomen, the little catwomen in
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. I get a statement that I think
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: was essentially true. Right, yeah, well women have four more cats.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Who do you think they disproportioned to they went for
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Harris or Trump? Well, you say, of course, I think
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Vance's statement about these cats. Again, some people who have
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of cats, they may have voted for Trump.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: I just think the majority of them did not. Anyway,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: here's Reuben Diego's comment. Dem women look like DEM men
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: and DEM men look like women. He's a Democratic center.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: He said, the Democratic women look like Democratic men, and
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the Democratic men they just look like women. Does he say?
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I just think that there's an extraordinary martyr truth to this,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: But it's kind of embarrassing that he said it. Jonathan Turley,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: George Washington law commentator on Fox and many other places,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: as his own blog, points out that almost no media
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: outlets are covering this story, despite the fact that the
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: fire more inflammatory comments by jd Vance were plastered everywhere.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: He writes, it is not a lack of self awareness.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Let me pausing, give me some setup. He's focusing here
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: on why the media is not reporting these statements, gegos
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: that I suspect most media and the people in the
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: media actually are offended by because this is like, you know,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: it's making fun of democrats. So why is the media
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: not reporting it? And Turley's point here is that the
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: media is deliberately not reporting it. Here's his analysis. It
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: is not a lack of self awareness. Many in the
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: media are fully aware of the different treatment afforded those
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: on the left and the right in such controversies. Let
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: me pause. So Turley saying the media knows the media
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: is doing a double standard. Many people in the media
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: know they hammer someone on the right for something that
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: they're going to give a pass to for someone on
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the left. So he's saying that this notion of well,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: they just don't see their own biases. It's crap. Many
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: know exactly what they're doing with these double standards. Early
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: as are good. This is not a call for outrage,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: but rather the selective outrage continues. Despite falling trust in
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: the media. Now here's my point. One of the great
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: questions that I used to get all the time. I
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: don't get it as much anymore. Why does the media
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: keep biasing itself to the left As the media, mainstream
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: media continues to die, why don't they just stop to
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: save themselves. Now you've seen some of the owners. You know,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: CBS has been bought, David Ellison put in Barry Weis
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: to run CBS News. They're going to try to straighten
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: things around for self survival. Bezos is trying to redirect
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: the bias out of the Washington Post. Get that to
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: the level of ownership. But what about the actual people
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: in the media. Media is dying. Mainstream media is dying.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Let's imagine you're one of the grunts that's in it.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: I have a brilliant analogy. Otherwise, if I didn't think
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: it was, I mean, I'll go with stuff that isn't brilliant.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: But if I have something that's brilliant, I may as
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: well tell you that it's brilliant. Let's say again, I'm
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: giving you the setup. You're a regular person in the media,
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: not in owner or anything. You're just one of these grunts.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: You're somebody who saw Gayegos's comment and decided, Okay, I'm
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: not going to put it on the wires. I'm not
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: going to do anything about it. You saw Vance's comment
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: and you got went into an orgasm. You were so
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: excited to plaster it out there. You're just one of
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: these grunts at that level. Okay, But you're also ceiling
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: that you're driving away everyone from the center o right
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: away from your news organizations. You're all going out of business.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: You're laying off reporter's like crazy. You're a subscriber based.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: If you're a newspaper's done and nothing. If you're the
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: ten o'clock news, you you have almost no viewers left,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: et cetera. Why don't you stop doing these things that
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: are driving people away? All right? You want my analogy,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Let's imagine you know somebody, how old are you? Eighty
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: two fifty nine? All right, that's a perfect age for this.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: They're coughing all the time, seem to have lost weight,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: and they're still smoking two packs a day. They clearly
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: know it's bad for him, right, Why don't they stop?
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Dah same thing? They know it's bad for them. They're hooked.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: They're hooked on their own leftist bias. They don't want
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: to They enjoy biasing the news. They don't want to stop.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: They're addicted to it, even if it challenges their long
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: term survival. Oh that's brilliant, you see, you you should be.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: You are not showing sufficient gratitude for being in the
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: presence of an absolute genius like me. I admit, I
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: admit that when I I crow, I could be nauseating.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Don't you think that's sort of amusing to be? I mean,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: if you're going to overstate something, why you know, why
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: just be a little about it. But from a more
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: legitimate standpoint, If I'm not going to brag about how
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: smart I am, who's gonna do that fragging? I'm out accounting?
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: You running around and go home and tell your wife
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: you won't believe how brilliant Mark was today. Are you
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: gonna do that? No? And here you are. So therefore
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: I need to point out to people and underline how brilliant,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: the brilliant thea. The point was, it is clear lay
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: time to take a break on the Mark Belling podcast.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. Wisconsin Right Now conservative
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: website did some reporting last week in the fallout of
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: the Morgan Geyser case. We discussed this to some extent
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: last week. They're just a lot of areas to focus on.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I've got a newspaper column coming out later in the
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: weekend which I'm going to focus on a different area
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: than this, and that is the disservice that has been
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: done to Morgan Geyser and my contention that she's a
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: victim too, and that's I think something that needs to
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: be focused on the atrocious level of mental health services
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: that she's been getting and how, rather than talking her
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: out of her delusions or delusions, have been reinforced. But
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: there's also this the unbelievably I won't even say inept,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: I'll say apathetic. I'm carrying an apathetic response here and
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: handling of it by Tony Evers's Department of Corrections. Had
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: this happened under a Republican administration, all hell would have
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: broken loose, and it would have broken loose from the
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Republican governor, the Republican president, or whatever it would have been,
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: because no Republican leader would tolerate the level of incompetence
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: that you see here. Instead, there isn't that reaction, and
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Tony Evers doesn't can anybody for doing anything. Peyton Lutner
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: is the now young woman who was stabbed decade ago
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: by Geyser and her court of defendant Wire. Peyton Lutner
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: was not notified and killed twelve hours after Morgan Geyser
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: busted out. We know that Morgan is still all screwed up.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: There is no reason to have confidence, one way or
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: another that Morgan isn't so screwed up that she wasn't
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: gonna go and get that girl that caused these problems
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: in the first place to work. What would make you
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: think she still doesn't think that slender Man wants her
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: to kill Peyton Lutner. Maybe she does, Maybe she does it,
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: but no one would have any way of knowing that
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: if someone who tried to kill you any level is released,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: you notify them. It's done all the time in any instance,
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: when people are paroleed or released after the term and
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: so on. In this case, she's still under the control
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: of the Department of Corrections. She's had a controlled release
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: in a halfway house. Nobody told her. Doc took forever
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: to tell the Madison police, and the Madison police took
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: forever to tell anybody else. Wisconsin right now points out
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: that Peyton Lutner found out when the Waukeshaw Connie Die's
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: office told them, and they did this only immediately after
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: they were notified by the twelve hours later. This is
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: a metaphor for the way Morgan I think has been
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: treated all along, not seriously. I don't think she was
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: given serious mental health treatment at any point, because if
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: she did, she wouldn't still be so messed up. Secondly,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: she's in a halfway house. We now hear the people
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: who are in the halfway house with her, unless she
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: volunteered at herself, did not know what she did. How
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: many other people in the halfway house have released attempted murderers,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know. My guess is that most of them
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: are not. People live on the blocks say they were
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: terrified to know that you had somebody who tried to
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: kill somebody living in the halfways. But the way whenever
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: you put a halfway house in, they always talk about
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: how safe and nice all of the people in the
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: halfway house are going to be. They never ever, yeah,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have somebody who's murderers are going to be
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: in here. Attempted murderers et cetera. So here she busts out.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: There's a reason why she was in a halfway house
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: and not released entirely into the streets on her own.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: So she busts out of the halfway house, which in
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: and of itself is a red flag. She doesn't want
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: to be in the halfway house. She's out there. She
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: clearly isn't still she clearly still isn't following the rules.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, here's just certain things that you assume would
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: happen because you assume that there's common sense, and clearly
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: when lefties are running things, there is it. You've got
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: an attempted murderer in a halfway house penning their release.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: They bust out of that. You kind of think, okay,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: they're not here. You are a media to contact you.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, look at all the times my phone goes
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: off because there's an amber alert up by, like Lake Superior.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: It's an exaggeration, but I mean, the phone goes off
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: all the time. It goes off a lot more in Florida.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's because more people disappear in Florida,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: if my county is more populous in Florida, I don't
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: know the answer. Did that. How often is your phone
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: go off? It doesn't seem to go off as much
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: as any It went off a lot this summer, don't
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: you think? No more than normal. You don't pay any
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: attention to things. I mean, there are just a lot
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: of them. I mean then the you know, the thing is,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: I know, silence my phone on anything. So I never
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: heard the phone ringing or anything. Everything silence and so on.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: But you need to like super silence it to stop
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: those alerts from going off. The point that I make
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: is there was nothing like that. There wasn't even regular
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: notification for twelve hours to this day. We don't know
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: if Morgan's dangerous. I don't know if she's dangerous. I
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: watched the police bodycam video and pose in Illinois. She
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: seemed like a completely screwed up, shy misfit of a
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: young woman, completely screwed up, still delusional, unhappy, sad. Does
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: she still have violence in her I don't know. I
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: think anybody does, which is why any proper overseeing of
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: her would act with caution if she released. So what's
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: happened since then? How many people has Tony Evers fired? None? None?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen a media story where anybody stuck a
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: mic in the face of Evers's doc secretary or for
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: that matter, Evers ask it about none. None, Leslie Bazie,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: the Waukeshaw County District Attorney. No one did contact them,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: referring to Peyton and her family. I would have expected
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: the Department of Health Services would have contacted them to
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: let them know. I was informed yesterday morning, that was
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Sunday of last week about Ms. Guiser's escaping from her placement.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: She said. Bazie's office victim Witness coordinator immediately contacted the
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: victim and her family to make sure that they knew
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: about it. They didn't know anything about it. We wanted
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: to make sure they were safe and had a plan
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: in place. Now, whenever somebody is released after doing something bad,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: you know, we've had, for instance, people have made threats
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: against prosecutors. They're released and they have to take action.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, some people, a lot of people don't get
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: life prison sentences for bad things that they do, and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: they may have been a victim. Let's imagine you're somebody
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: who was a witness against somebody. When they're convicted, they
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: serve ten years in prison. Were they sitting those whole
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: ten years saying the first thing I'm gonna do is
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to kill the person or routed me out. Again,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: we don't know, which is why you would think that
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: there would be notification of people so that they would
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: at least have an awareness level to be prepared for
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: something like this. I want to cover another story here
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: in brief. This is the story that again has gotten
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: scant attention in the media. The State Supreme Court is
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: now addressing the issue of the congressional districts in Wisconsin.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: This is separate from the state legislative districts that were
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: redrawn now to bias the demok in favor of the Democrats.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: The congressional districts were not changed. The State Supreme Court
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: has appointed a panel of judges to essentially redo the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: congressional districts. All seven judges on the panel are Democrats. Now,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: judges don't run for office on the basis of political affiliation,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: but according to Wisconsin Right Now, every one of the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: judges prior to becoming a judge was an activist Democrat.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: The vote was five to two. Haggit Or joined the
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: lefties on the Supreme Court and put it together. This panel.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Here's the list. Julie Geneviez Dane County Judge. By the way,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: she's a Dane County judge. That means she's a Lefty.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: There are no exceptions to that. But for those of
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: you who not bought by that, she was a law
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: clerk for former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: She's endorsed liberal justices. Then you have Judge Emily Lanergan
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: Otagamy County. That's Appleton. She was a Tony Evers appointee,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: former criminal defense attorney. She's been a donor to Democratic campaigns.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: Judge number three on the Redistrict Committee, Judge Mark sand Is,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County, Democratic campaign donor endorsed by liberals. Four Judge
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: David Conway, another judge from Dane County, Tony Evers appointee,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Liberal campaign owner. He prejudged the congressional map case in
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: writing he's already written a piece saying that the congressional
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: maps are not properly biased, in fear of them are
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: too biased for the Republicans. Five Judge Patricia Baker, Portage County.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: That's like Steven's point pointed by Tony Evers endorsed by Democrats. Boy,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: we haven't seen one Walker appointee on here on this list.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Six Judge Michael Moran, Marathon County, former Democratic Party county
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: chair and public defender. So there's your panel. So we
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: know what the districts are going to do. They're going
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: to redraw the districts in Wisconsin to pop out and
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: create two more Democratic seats. What this is an example
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: of and I can't think of a more clear way
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: to say it than to say it exactly like this.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Judges stopped the Republicans in Texas from redrawing their districts
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: to favor the Republicans. In Wisconsin, judges are going to
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: redraw the districts to favor the Democrats. So you have
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: one set of judges saying Trump can't do what another
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: set of judges actually will do themselves. There are no
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: standards of law or fairness that anyone on the left
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: is going to apply anymore on all levels. The redistricting thing,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: especially because that's pure power. Jerrymandering districts to benefit the
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: Democrats will be allowed. Jerrymandering districts to benefit the Republicans
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: will not be allowed. The only loser in this is
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: going to be Gwen Moore. She's the beneficiary of the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: current pro Republican jerrymandering of districts because they packed all
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: the Democratic areas of Milwaukee County into one district. Gwen
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Moore will never lose election by redrawing these districts. What
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: they'll do is they'll pull out all these Democratic areas
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee and throw them in two district's currently Republican
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: to try to make them fifty two to forty eight
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Democrat rather than fifty eight to forty two Republican. This
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: means that Gwen Moore's district has gone, so the Democrats
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: may pick up three seats, but the district that she's
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: had that's been overwhelmingly Democrat may well simply be carved
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: up into nothingness. As Milwaukee is distributed throughout of all
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: of southeastern Wisconsin. Put enough Milwaukee here, enough Milwaukee, they're
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: enough Milwaukee in the other place to flip two or
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: three districts that right now are more Republican over to
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic side, which is one of the By the way,
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  Speaker 2: Pokan is the other one. He represents the Madison area.
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  Speaker 2: They take that district and they take every area that's
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Democratic around Madison and slam it all into Mark Polkan's district,
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  Speaker 2: so he wins with seventy five percent of the vote
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: when he runs for reelection. But that means that all
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: those Democrats that are in that district, they're not over
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: there in the Western Wisconsin district, that they're not in
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: the first district in the southeast corner of the state.
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  Speaker 2: They're all crammed into this Democratic district, which leaves the
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: rest of the state. We're a fifty to fifty state,
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  Speaker 2: and the democrascent there for we should have half the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: members of the Congress of the half of the murmers
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: of the House should be Democratic. Except we're not fifty
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: to fifty in terms of geographic distribution. We're fifty to
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: fifty because all of Madison is Democratic and a huge
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: chunk of Milwaukee is Democratic, and the whole majority of
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: the rest of the state is predominantly Republicans. So unless
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: you draw squiggly lines all over the place that has
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: spersed these Madison area and Milwaukee area Democrats and in
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: numerous other districts, it's going to be what you get.
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  Speaker 2: There is a disproportioned desire on the part of Democrats
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  Speaker 2: to live close to one another more so than with
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: the Republicans. Oh, there's overwhelm. You go into like rural Georgia,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: you got ninety percent Republican districts. Just ads in the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: middle of the central city of Atlanta you have ninety
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: percent Democratic districts. But as a whole, the Democratic strongholds
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: are way more democratic than the Republican strongholds, Which is
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: why if you look at one of those color coded
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: maps of the United States, red versus blue, whole country's red,
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  Speaker 2: but the specks that are blue are heavily populated areas
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: where the Democrats pack themselves on top of one another,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: one stinky, smelly, bluish mass of Marxist glob Well, you
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: need some infiltration. That's what people like me have to
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  Speaker 2: do that live in overwhelming the democratic areas. What was this?
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  Speaker 2: You stay there, stay away from the rest of us.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: The problem with that, of course, is is that now
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: you're seeing many of these cities elect Marxist mayors, and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: this create you know, the problems of the city of
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Chicago create terrible problems for the entire United States of America.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: As New York City goes to hell and so on.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: The challenge for the Democrats is is as they all
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: pack themselves into this to redistrict their states to try
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: to get more Democratic votes all over the place, and
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  Speaker 2: what they end up having to do to create this
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: political balance or even political advantage for themselves is draw
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  Speaker 2: strange goofy little weird little lines in which the districts
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: are not at all contiguous but filter. And you know,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: you could, for example, draw a district it includes a
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: portion of the north side of Milwaukee that goes all
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: the way to Oshkosh, it even Green Bay. It would
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: be like pencil thin and so on, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: create a bunch of fifty one to forty nine Democratic
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  Speaker 2: districts rather than what it is that we have right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know what week it is, don't you. Paul thinks
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: he knows what week it is. You won't have to
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: wait long to find out what week it is. On
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's bear Week. I remember when I was a kid,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: that was a big week Northeastern Wisconsin Bearwig. You know,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: that was before the full merger of the two leagues.
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  Speaker 2: The AFL was still the AFL and then the AFC.
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  Speaker 2: Was the AFC, and there wasn't even Inner League play
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: until the Super Bowl and so on, and the Bears
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: were always the Packers' greatest rival, and for most of
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: the fifty five years since then, the Bears have either
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: been really good while the Packers sucked or vice versa.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: There was that period, a couple of periods in there,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, the kil end of five in the early
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: part of Rogers, that the Bears would occasionally have really
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: good seasons the same year that the Packers did, and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: that's when they've had well, there's been quite a few
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: of those years in which in recent times they've been
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: very very close at level, and this year appears to
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: be the case. And the way the NFL schedule work,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: it's just there are quirks, and one of the quirks
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: is the Packers play the Bears twice in three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: They play them this week in Green Bay and two
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: weeks from Sunday in Chicago. So that would in and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: of itself make those games extremely important, but even more
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: so given the fact that right now the Chicago Bears,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: it's hard to say, have the best record in the
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: National Football Conference. They're the number one seed in the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Conference thanks to their pounding really at Philadelphia on Friday
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: during the Thanksgiving Thanksgiving weekend, the Rams lost their game.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: The Bears actually have the number one seed right now.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: More to the point, with regard to the Packers making
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, winning the division, all of that's pretty much
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: almost certain mathematically to be determined by who wins the
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: two Packer Bear games. Now, if they split, which is
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: certainly very possible, the Bears start out a little bit
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: ahead of Green Bay, then the other games would come
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: into play. There were some really stupid comments being made
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: by some of the analysts during the after the Packer win,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: in which they talked about the importance of the Packers
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: winning all of these games that affect the tiebreaker. The
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: Packers can't tie anyone because they have that tie, so
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: the tiebreakers will not come into play, unless even if
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: they got another tie, they would then have two ties.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: The only case in which a tiebreaker would come into
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: effect is if they tie Dallas for something, because they
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: don't have that tie. The games are important, however, because
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: if you beat one of those teams, that's a loss
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: for them and a win for use, so it still
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: swings the standings. So the Packers, if they could beat
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: the Bears twice, would get a big jump over the Bears,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: but it wouldn't affect the tiebreaker unless the go on
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: throughout the season and get a tie themselves. And I
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: think I'm not sure. I think the Dallas game was
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: the only tie this year in the NFL. I don't
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: think there's been another tie. Yeah, So, I mean it's
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: very rare to have a tie where the game goes
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: through the overtime and there's still a tie. So the Bears,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: who statistically are a train wreck, I mean, their defense
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: is ranked terrible in terms of yardage. Going into this
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: past weekend, they had been outscored on the season. They
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: finally came up with a quality, dominant win. Most of
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: their wins were come from behind, skate through and somehow
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: and by two or three points. Here they took out
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: a big time opponent and really thrashed them. Despite this,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: most people believe that the Packers are going to win
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: on Sunday, and part of the game is ac Green Bay,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: which I think home field doesn't count for much of
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: anything in the NFL anymore. And the Packers passed the
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: eye test a little bit better than the Bears. But
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: you've got a period here in which this great wanted rivalry,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: obviously the oldest rivalry in the NFL. Ill's gonna have
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: two pretty good game, pretty big games on the first
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: one coming up this weekend in Green Bay. The Packers,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: who some people weren't impressed with a few weeks ago,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: now coming off several really good games in a row
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: they did. You're gonna keep getting injuries. The injury that
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: they sustained here is pretty big because they had only
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: one reliable run stopper in the defensive line, and that's
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Devonte Wyatt, who took forever to develop into a dominant
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: players at first round draft choice, and he finally got
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: to that level and he's done for the season. Other
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: than that, though, Green Bay's injury situation is pretty good
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: at the moment. They're going to get Yeah, Jaden Reid
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: is going to be back, Watson is back until he
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: gets hurt again, Dobbs is playing, and they got finally
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: the spectacular breakout game from on Tavia. So Paul says,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Golden and Golden starting to bitch. But I mean, most
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: of the time, you're gonna have three wive receivers on
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: the field, and when you have five or six healthy,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: good ones, the threes that are gonna be on the
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: field most of the time are the talented ones. Apparently
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: there's also you know, they're using that play of they
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: call it what do they call it when they hand
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: the ball off to the wide receivers. Sometimes they call
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: it jet sweep, and sometimes they call it reverse. They
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: say that Goldan's not been if he hasn't adapted the
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: timing on that play. And there are, yeah, there's other
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: guys that were better added, But I mean the history
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: of the Packers wide receivers is that they all get hurt.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: And that means Golden's gonna get his chance again, and
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: he's going to be out there and he is playing good.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: And you know the funny thing about what I've understood
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: why Wix drops passes. I finally figured it out. You
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: know why he drops passes. He's too open. You want
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: him to catch the ball, have a defender draped all
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: over his body and have him have to put both
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: feet down in bounds. He'll pull it in just fine.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: You're running around with nobody near him. Easy to score
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: a bomb for a touch that'll drop the thing right
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: through his hands, there's actually some there's some there's some
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: psychology behind all of that. When you're wide open, you know,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: I remember the comment that yeah, Randall Cobb made when
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: he caught the long bomb from the Packers against the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: Bears a decade ago and Soldier Field in the fourth
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: and sixth play that Rogers through the bomb to and
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: he was open, and Cobb said, the whole time I
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: was down there, all I was thinking about was not
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: dropping a body catch at anything. Don't drop, don't drop. Well,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: when you're in a situation where you're wide open, that's
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: when the negative thought comes in. When something's really hard
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: to do, you're thinking positively, I'm gonna go get the ball,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: whereas if all you can do it's like all sorts
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: of things in life. I mean, how can NBA players
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: who knocked down three point shots all the time miss
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: a free throw? Well, there's nobody guarding you. That's when
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: the negative thought comes into your you're in a well, yeah,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: I mean that's just I think that there's an issue
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: with a Packer receivers not ever great hands. If they
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: had great hands and they were good at getting opening
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: all of those things, that all be all for. But anyway,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: the Packers and the Bears. I think the Packers are
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: better than the Bears, but the Packers I think benefit
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: from being a little bit better balanced. I don't think
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: the Packers defense is the best in the league. I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: don't think the offense is the best in the league,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: but I think that their defense is close to the
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: top and their offense is in the upper half. The
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Bears seem to so far have been disproportionately biased toward
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: being really really good on offense and not as good
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: on defense, with the exception of making turnovers. But now
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying. Their defense gives up a lot
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: of points in a lot of yards, but they produce
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of turnovers. So we go back. I mean,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: for the longest time you had the Bears were great,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: the Packers sucked, and then the Bears sucked forever, and
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: the Packers were great. I mean, it's fun to dislike
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: the Bears, but it makes it more fun when both
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: teams are actually good, in the same sense that the
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Rower Cup rivalry in recent years has been a lot
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: of fun because they not only are your arch rival
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: with an obnoxious fan base and all of that stuff,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: but the games had meaning that they were a big
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: threat against you in your own divisions. Well they will be,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: but you know, I don't worry about any of that.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Just win your games and you're going to see it.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Have a decent enough seed as the thing goes along,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: and stay healthy. But there are some games more important
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: than others. The Packers not affected by the tiebreaker. That's
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: out of it, but there's still the function of the
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: standing swing. Two games you win and they lose. If
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: they win and you lose, it's a two game difference
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: rather than one, and then they play them the twice.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, I've been right about a lot of
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: things in football the last two months, but there's one
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: thing I've been right about for two years that I
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: said at the time, and I just think I'm vindicated
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: that the Vikings decision to pick JJ McCarthy in the
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: first round of the draft was idiotic. He was a
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: decent quarterback on a team that ran the ball almost
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: all the time. The Vikings needed the quarterback, and they
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: reached and they took a guy that should have been
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: picked in the fifth round in the first round. And
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: I at least have been right about that. I mean,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: he is he's terrible. The worst quarterback starting quarterback in
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: the NFL, and I would say even including the teams
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: that have gone now to backups like Washington, I think
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: he's I don't think JJ McCarthy is a good backup
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: in the NFL, right, I think most NFL teams have
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: better backups. And again, maybe McCarthy will get better. Younger
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks do get better. But the people who question and
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: thought that it was a reach, I think they've been proven.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: They've been proven right about that. The other team in
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: the division that we didn't mention is the Detroit Lions,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: and they're still pretty good. But everything that you thought
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: might happen did indeed happen. The loss of the two coordinators.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: They're less disciplined on offense, and their defense has gotten
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: a lot worse. Well, you know, the whole Dan Campbell
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: fourth down thing. I'm glad it's coming back to bite him.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: I made this comment I think prior maybe one of
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: the shows last week, maybe our Football Preview. The problem
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: with analytics is analytics looks in the overall and doesn't
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: deal with a specific situation there. I mean, he always
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: goes forward and fourth down if you're always going to
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: do something, you're gonna get a stretch of times I
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: think it's seven or eight times in a row that
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: they didn't pick it up. So five to fourth down
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: plays and the game green Bay went for three and
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: got all three. Detroit went for two and didn't get
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: there two. Everything else in that game was even. Both
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: teams had zero turnovers, The first down in the yard
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: age were almost identical across the board. Yet the Packers
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: won by two scores, and it was those fourth down plays.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: A fourth down play. Got to think about it this way.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: It's the equivalent of a turnover. Let's imagine you fumble
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: the ball on third down, the other team recovers, it's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: a turnover. Fourth down is the same thing. You get
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: the ball where the other team was. It's it's it's
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: just it's the same as a turnover. And the Packers
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: essentially had five turnovers to none when you consider the
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: fourth down situation. All right, that's it for today's podcast.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Back with another one on Wednesday. Bye.
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