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Mark Belling Podcast #136: The Graham Platner (accused of rape) scandal in Maine explains EVERYTHING about the current state of the Democrats and their terror at confronting the Marxists who are taking over their party. Also, Memphis embraces data centers while Milwaukee scorns them (how do you think that'll work out?). And Mark looks at the GOP candidates for Wis Lt Governor and Secretary of State · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: extrapolate the story to apply to like everything else. It's
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  Speaker 2: the Graham Platner story from Maine. Now, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: about it. He's I won't say self destructing, he's being destructed.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the most repugnant candidates that the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have ever put up for national office. But until two
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  Speaker 2: days ago, it looked like he was going to win,
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  Speaker 2: and he was going to be their candidate and the
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  Speaker 2: most important election of twenty twenty six. I'll cover all
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  Speaker 2: the most important election in the United States in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six? Everyone knows that the Democrats are likely to
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  Speaker 2: retake the House the Republican margin there is very very narrow.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate up for grabs. Obviously, it is expected to
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  Speaker 2: be a Democrat year. It almost always is. The party
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  Speaker 2: that is in control of the White House usually sustains
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  Speaker 2: losses in the off your elections. But there are more
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  Speaker 2: Democrat incumbent seats up this year than Republican seats, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the swing states currently have Democrat senators,
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  Speaker 2: even though the states may be or Republicans, so the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans think they have a chance to hang on the
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  Speaker 2: closest the election of all and the one that may
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  Speaker 2: decide the whole thing, and control of the Senate is critical.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans needed to be at fifty to fifty because
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  Speaker 2: the vice president breaks the tie. If you get on
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  Speaker 2: to forty nine, it means you control no committees. You
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  Speaker 2: can't call a single bill for a vote. The party
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  Speaker 2: that controls the Senate determines the issues that are discussed.
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  Speaker 2: They control every committee. They can simply block a vote
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  Speaker 2: on anything that they want. That's what control is Maine.
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  Speaker 2: This is a state that the Democrats are obsessed with winning.
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  Speaker 2: Maine is a lefty state, but it's not extremely lefty,
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  Speaker 2: but it's lefty and it is stuck in the crow
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  Speaker 2: of the Democrats that one of the United States Senators
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  Speaker 2: from Maine is a Republican, Susan Collins. Susan Collins drives
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  Speaker 2: many Republicans crazy because she often wanders away and votes
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  Speaker 2: with the Democrats, so doesn't support Republican positions. On the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, this is one of those cases of somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's sort of a rhino by necessity. If Susan Collins
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a moderate, she'd lose, and you'd have a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: who never votes with the Republicans. And the Collins' credit,
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  Speaker 2: she's often there when you need her, and secondly, she's
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  Speaker 2: one of the votes that keeps you in control. But
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats want her out and they believe of all
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  Speaker 2: the seats in which you could flip a current Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Republican seat to Democrat, Maine is number one. So they've
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  Speaker 2: anointed this candidate who there is creating out of central casting.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously they want a radical that's the left wing of
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  Speaker 2: that party is demanding. But they need to make somebody
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  Speaker 2: that is defeats these constant stereotypes that we have of
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  Speaker 2: looney leftists because Maine, as I say, while Democrat is
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  Speaker 2: close to us wing said, most Marxist Democrats are weenies.
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  Speaker 2: So they picked this guy, Graham Plattner, who looks like
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  Speaker 2: a lumberjack, crude guy, swears all the time, tough talking.
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  Speaker 2: He's been embraced by lefties all over the country. The
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  Speaker 2: problem with this is, and it's happened on the Republican
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  Speaker 2: side as well. There was a Republican candidate for governor
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  Speaker 2: of North Carolina two years ago and the year the
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  Speaker 2: Trump won in the twenty twenty four election. It's African American, tremendous,
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  Speaker 2: compelling speaker. Republicans fell in love with him. He wasn't Fatti.
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  Speaker 2: He had unbelievable baggage. Same thing with Platner. Platner has
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  Speaker 2: tons of baggage. But here's the thing. Most of the
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  Speaker 2: baggage has been known about. This isn't something that should
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  Speaker 2: have snuck up on the lefties. The guy has a
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  Speaker 2: Nazi tattoo on his chest, has had it for eighteen years.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to that, there have been numerous stories over
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  Speaker 2: the years in which he has been criticized for his
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  Speaker 2: language and his behavior toward women. Despite all of this,
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  Speaker 2: and despite the red flags, he's been embraced by just
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  Speaker 2: about every Democrat in the country and all of the
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  Speaker 2: lefties they've come to mean a campaign for him, and
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  Speaker 2: they've just blown away and ignore this. As for the
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  Speaker 2: main voters, Platner won the Democrat primary despite all this crap.
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  Speaker 2: There was even a piece in the New York Times,
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  Speaker 2: hardly a place you would expect conservative plants to come
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  Speaker 2: in that outed Platner for much of this behavior. It
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  Speaker 2: ran before the primary, but he won anyway. One of
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  Speaker 2: the accusations came from a woman who said she was
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  Speaker 2: sexually assaulted by Platner. She's a Republican, her name is Feifeld.
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  Speaker 2: It was just dismissed because, well, yeah, this is just
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  Speaker 2: a Republican making this up. And indeed we have had
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  Speaker 2: a history in this country of people on a partisan
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  Speaker 2: basis making stuff up. Breck Cavada was on the receiving
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  Speaker 2: end of it, and most famously, Donald Trump was on
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  Speaker 2: the receiving end of it. Because you just dismiss this
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  Speaker 2: without regard to the fact that the allegations were made
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  Speaker 2: in real time and they were specific. It wasn't one
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  Speaker 2: of these foggy memories of thirty five years earlier on
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  Speaker 2: Breck Cavada or the forty year old allegations of against
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump about supposedly grabbing somebody right in the public
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  Speaker 2: at the entrance to I think it was Bergdorf Goodman.
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  Speaker 2: Now I forget the Department Stort of York. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's where it was. So then dismissed all of this
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  Speaker 2: Platner wins. Now after the primary election, everything's blown up
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  Speaker 2: in Platner because there's a new allegation, and this one
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  Speaker 2: comes from one of their own. It comes from a
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  Speaker 2: very lefty political activist in Maine. She initially said that
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  Speaker 2: she she's made allegations about the crude and inappropriate behavior,
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  Speaker 2: but she never said rape until now, and she said, well,
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  Speaker 2: politically he and I are a line, but he sexually
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  Speaker 2: assaulted me against Mike consent. Her name is Jenny, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure of the correct pronunciation. I've been watching
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  Speaker 2: on the cable TV shows and they're all over the
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  Speaker 2: map on this. Have you tried to pronounce it? I've
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  Speaker 2: heard ratchiko? Is that what you've Rasaicott? Okay, let's go
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  Speaker 2: with Rasaicott. That's the one you've heard more often than
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  Speaker 2: I've heard, But there's been a lot of different ones.
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  Speaker 2: Jenny Rassicott, her allegations are just clearly credible, and they
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  Speaker 2: fit the pattern as they always talk about with regard
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  Speaker 2: to people involved in any type of mis conduct. Rarely
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  Speaker 2: to somebody who does something terrible like this do it once.
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  Speaker 2: There's usually a pattern of abuse, and the pattern of
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  Speaker 2: abuse goes on and on. And on and on. This
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  Speaker 2: has resulted in an overwhelming number of Democrats suddenly abandoning
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  Speaker 2: him and calling on him to drop out of the race.
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  Speaker 2: He can still drop out of the race and be
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  Speaker 2: replaced by another Democrat. This is a key point. But
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  Speaker 2: they've got to do it within the next four or
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  Speaker 2: five days. That's the deadline that they have in Maine
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  Speaker 2: to put somebody else's name on the ballot in place
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  Speaker 2: of the person who won the primary. Among the questions
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  Speaker 2: that this race is is knowing all this crap about him,
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  Speaker 2: why did all of these Democrats who are now running
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  Speaker 2: away from Plattner stand by him. By the way, Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders is still with him. If there's anything that you
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  Speaker 2: need to know about Marxist is they are morally depraved.
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  Speaker 2: All they care about is power. Do you think Castro
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  Speaker 2: and chi Guevera cared whether or not there are any
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  Speaker 2: animals that were supporting their revolution back then? No. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal, which is, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: conservative and kind of mainstream, they have their take on
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  Speaker 2: this from the kind of pompous nose up in the
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  Speaker 2: air kind of view of conservative as opposed to the
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  Speaker 2: one that I bring to you. But in this case,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's instructive because they're going after the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: who until recently were backing Platner. By the way, Plattner
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  Speaker 2: has not dropped out, but he says he's reassessing his campaign.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to tell you he's dropping out. There's just
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt in my mind he's dropping out. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the piece from the Wall Street Hurtle. Democrats want
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  Speaker 2: to fall in love with their candidates right above this.
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  Speaker 2: It is a big thing for Democrats. I think Republicans
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  Speaker 2: don't necessarily have this hang m We certainly know that
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of Republican voters who voted for
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump even though they were not in love with him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to love the candidate at all. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to like them. I can think that they're
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  Speaker 2: kind of obnoxious. What I want is to have the
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  Speaker 2: ability they they their ability to govern, and they're aligned
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  Speaker 2: broadly speaking with my views. Anyway, Democrats want to fall
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  Speaker 2: in love with their candidates, and none more so than
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  Speaker 2: the supposed common man pluck from obscurity that was Maine's
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Senate nominee Graham Plattner. My kind of man, Senator
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren said, but long after the love died and
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  Speaker 2: the true emerged, they defended him until now when they can't.
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  Speaker 2: The latest is from main resident Jenny Rasicot, who alleges
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  Speaker 2: Platner drunkenly entered her home in twenty twenty one after
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  Speaker 2: she told him not to and raped her. Rasicott detailed
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  Speaker 2: his use of force and her repeated objections, sharing supporting
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  Speaker 2: messages with Politico, and said she told an ex boyfriend
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  Speaker 2: who has corroborated her account. Plattner denies the allegations. He
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  Speaker 2: also canceled campaign events to quote reflect on the best
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  Speaker 2: path forward. He may withdraw his candidacy before Monday's deadline,
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  Speaker 2: but he is reportedly negotiating to be replaced by a
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  Speaker 2: fellow left winger by rescinding endorsements and pushing out Platner.
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  Speaker 2: Big name Democrats now try to salvage their chance of
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  Speaker 2: unseating Senator Susan Collins, but they can't say they weren't warned.
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  Speaker 2: Plattner's Nazi tattoo, an SS emblem he kept on his
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  Speaker 2: chest for eighteen years, was waived away. The candidate denied
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  Speaker 2: knowing what it meant, despite evidence he did this guy
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  Speaker 2: has an authentic man, said at Reuben Diego's Democrat Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: He's not anti Semitic, and more importantly, not more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: but just as important, he's going to win this election.
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  Speaker 2: Anything to beat Collins, The Center's Republican who voted to
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  Speaker 2: convict President Trump after he was impeached. The second time.
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  Speaker 2: Asked about Platner's Nazi tattoo, Senator Chris Murphy, Democratic Connecticut,
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  Speaker 2: said he sounds like a human being to me, not
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  Speaker 2: one of those consultant crafted politicians, or you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the three hundred and forty million Americans without Nazi tattoos.
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  Speaker 2: The story went on that Platner and entered a dark
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  Speaker 2: period after his tours of military duty, but now was healed.
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  Speaker 2: The redemption arc was used to dismiss his online post
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  Speaker 2: disparaging blacks, whites, rape victims, and a Purple Heart recipient
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  Speaker 2: who he said didn't deserve to live. In twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: Plattner called himself a communist, but no matter. John Favreaux,
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  Speaker 2: the Obama alum and host of the leftist podcast Pods
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  Speaker 2: Save America, was typical, Graham Plattner isn't just our best
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  Speaker 2: and only chance to defeat Susan Collins. He's a good,
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  Speaker 2: decent man who struggled and grown. Now let me interject,
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  Speaker 2: can you imagine if all of this was a Republican
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  Speaker 2: and they go, oh, yeah, the Nazi thing that I
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  Speaker 2: don't like, flax the extremistsy all, I've grown. Remember now,
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  Speaker 2: standards are always different for Democrats. Now again, as I say,
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  Speaker 2: this story is interesting in and of itself, but there
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  Speaker 2: is a larger point that's going to be made as
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  Speaker 2: we move through it. Continuing. The same was said after
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  Speaker 2: Plattner was revealed to have sexted other women up to
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  Speaker 2: six per his campaign during his marriage, which began in
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  Speaker 2: late twenty twenty three. In other words, recent Vermont Senator
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders's endorsement brought Plattner to the four called that
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  Speaker 2: a distraction. Senator Martin Heinrich, Democrat New Mexico, hailed Platner
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  Speaker 2: as exactly the person of the Democratic Party needs to
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  Speaker 2: work to win back working people. Daniel Morff, the lefty
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  Speaker 2: political strategist who recruited Platner, said people do not want
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  Speaker 2: their candidate grown in vats. The implication was that all
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  Speaker 2: of this is normal, even relatable, for working class voters
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  Speaker 2: and veterans. That's condescending as usual from the left's arbiters
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  Speaker 2: of masculinity. In fact, Platner pulled poorly among the working class,
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  Speaker 2: who saw through what his college educated base projected onto him.
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  Speaker 2: Let me interject, this is to me classic elitism. The elitists,
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  Speaker 2: the ones who think of toxic masculinity and just look
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  Speaker 2: down their noses and say, anybody who would attend a
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  Speaker 2: MAGA rally. They see Plattner and they say, well, he
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  Speaker 2: looks like those people, so therefore, in their mind he
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  Speaker 2: is like those people. Whereas the overwhelming majority of people
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  Speaker 2: who should up at MAGA rallies don't have Nazi crap
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  Speaker 2: tattooed on their bodies, and the vast majority of them
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  Speaker 2: treat women well, they don't rape them. But from the
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  Speaker 2: hoity toity perspective of these leftists, this is how we're
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  Speaker 2: all like over here, so they think we'll grab on
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  Speaker 2: one of these although he's a liberal and he could
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  Speaker 2: win back to the peace. Contrary to the media hype,
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  Speaker 2: Platner comes from an affluent family, which sent him to
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  Speaker 2: the fancy Hotchkis prep school. His boister business as one
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  Speaker 2: substantial customer a restaurant owned by his mother. The first
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  Speaker 2: allegations of abuse against Platner surfaced in June. The New
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  Speaker 2: York Times focused on an ex girl friend, Lindsay Feifeld,
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  Speaker 2: a conservative, whose story it down pedaled. Seems like a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of nothing, said Senator Sheldon white House, Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Rhode Island. The only one who has anything to say
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  Speaker 2: that seemed unsettling was a woman who works for right
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  Speaker 2: wing political operator Operations. Representative Rocanna, Democrat California, said the
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  Speaker 2: behavior from miss Fifeld described was wrong, but campaigned with
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  Speaker 2: Platner the next day. The people of Man may deserve
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  Speaker 2: a senator who is going to stand up to the
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  Speaker 2: billionaire class against genocide and for the working class. Conna said,
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  Speaker 2: Fighting harder means you show up when an ally who
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  Speaker 2: challenges power is under attack. They can so easily dismiss Rasicot,
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  Speaker 2: who says she shares Platner's politics and hesitated to speak
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  Speaker 2: out for that reason. But now that a left winger
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  Speaker 2: has said it, the women are safe for Democrats to believe.
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  Speaker 2: A few scandals ago, Platner pivoted from the bad news
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  Speaker 2: by posting Senator Collins is bought and paid for by
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  Speaker 2: Benjamin nettan Yahoo. Look over there the Jews. The deflection
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  Speaker 2: scratched the itch of the Democratic activist base, but the
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  Speaker 2: party knows it won't suffice now. Senator John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: may be right the quote Bernie Sanders needs to apologize
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  Speaker 2: for pushing Predator to Democrats. But will Democrats reflect on
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  Speaker 2: why they bought in and kept buying despite the warnings? No,
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  Speaker 2: their hunt begins now for the next working class mystery hero.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Along the same lines, there's another story in the Spectator
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  Speaker 2: well quote, this one at the same length, but the
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  Speaker 2: headline is Graham Platner's defenders are the biggest losers of
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  Speaker 2: his implosion. The point that they make here and I
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  Speaker 2: read a couple of progress Democrats are finally pulling the
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  Speaker 2: plug on Graham Plattner fails on who the fail son
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  Speaker 2: whose juvenile addiction to schizophrenic online message boards, rad Nazi tattoos,
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  Speaker 2: anti Israel rhetoric mean drunkenness, infidelity, and alleged abuse of women.
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  Speaker 2: They believe would appeal to the white working class men
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  Speaker 2: they loathe. But they're only doing so after Political reported
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  Speaker 2: on Monday that quote a woman who dated main Us
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  Speaker 2: and a candidate, Graham Plattner says he forced her to
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  Speaker 2: have sex with him nearly five years ago to Spider repeated.
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  Speaker 2: So the story then goes on and outs all the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Democrats who back Platner right up to this latest allegation,
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  Speaker 2: now continuing on the first part of the story. The story,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, that is interesting in and of itself.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that they back him all along is revealing
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  Speaker 2: of not just the hypocrisy of the leftists, but the
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: fact that they don't stand for anything. They consider personal
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  Speaker 2: misbehavior to be a weapon to be used against Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: even if the allegations aren't cruel, but the actual misbehavior.
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  Speaker 2: And there are just so many things in here that
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in the past would have just been disqualifiers, like having
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a Nazi tattoo on for eighteen years and never bothering
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  Speaker 2: to remove it, or the repeated instances of abuse in
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a behavior toward women. No again, Democrat acceptance of this
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  Speaker 2: is not new. They idolized Teddy Kennedy for the entire
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  Speaker 2: twenty years of as miserable, drunken, abusive life. It is
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  Speaker 2: only when someone like Donald Trump gets ensnared in far
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  Speaker 2: less serious allegations that they object. This is the same
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Party that was perfectly fine with Bill Clinton's abuse
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  Speaker 2: and the very credible allegation against him by wanting to
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: broadwick of rape. But now the second part of this,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I mentioned something in passing in this discussion that I
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: now want to go back to and highlight. Some of
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you are really smart and have picked up on this
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  Speaker 2: and know what's going on. But don't worry if you're not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to make you as smart as everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: I said. The deadline to replace Platner on the ballot
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  Speaker 2: is Monday. Every state has different laws about what happens
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  Speaker 2: when somebody drops out of a race. Now, in this case,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Platner won the primary. He's the Democratic candidate. In some states,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that means his name is on the ballot regardless. In Maine,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: they have a law that says the Democratic Party can
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: replace their candidate, but there's a deadline. The elections not
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: till November. But the deadline in Maine happens to be
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: this coming Monday. So the Democratic Party, if Platner drops out,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: kean designated a replacement candidate who didn't win the primary.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: That's the lawn mate, do you think it's a coincidence
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that this story the hammer, the one that was the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: final straw, and Platner came out. Now, if it came
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: out next week, they couldn't replace him, and he'd be
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: on the ballot. Dropping out or not, he would be
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: on the ballot. This was a hit by the Democrats,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: won a hit by the Republicans. The Republicans would just
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: as soon have had Platner be the candidate and drop
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: this bomb in September or October, close hitt of the election.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: This was a hit by the Democrats. I believe the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: initial New York Times piece was a hit by mainstream
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: pragmatic Democrats. I've been talking forever about their refusal to
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: take on the Marxists within their own party. They're terrified
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: of them, so this is how they do it. In
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: this case, they had the advantage of all this baggage
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: on Platner. It's real, it's true. And when the first
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: New York Times story wasn't sufficient, I'm sure there was
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: strong encouragement to Jenny Rascott to do the painful thing
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of coming out and attacking her ex boyfriend, who somebody,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: as I say that she politically supported because they have
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: similarity elogies. This is how the Democrats fight. You can
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: say dirty, or you can say they're just getting the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: truth out. In this instance, probably both, But they could
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: have gotten all of this truth out much earlier on
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Why now because they realized that this baggage was accumulating,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and they realize that this guy is not their best
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: chance to beat Susan Collins. Remember, they want Susan Collins
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: out desperately. If the campaign becomes not as Susan Collins
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: voting with Trump too much, but is Graham Platner a
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Nazi rapist, that's no good for them. In addition, the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: more mainstream of the Democrats, the ones that don't want Marxists,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: they're terrified to attack Platina run as Marxism, so they
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: try to get him out this way so they don't
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: have to actually have an ideological battle. The story in
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the Wellstreet Turtle mentioned that the reason Bernie Sanders is
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: not withdrawn his support from Plattner is Bernie Sanders is
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: lobbying that the main Democrats pick a candidate just as
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: radical as Platner to replace him. They don't want to
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: choose a regular old Maine Democrat Bernie Sanders wants to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: get another socialist Marxist in there like Platner. We'll see
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: what they do now if they bring in one at
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the last minute that only the voters in the press
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: have only two to three months to bet, maybe they
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: can get somebody in there, a fresh race who can
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: beat Susan Collins. But understand this is how they roll.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Now to Wisconsin, we have a similar story. There's a
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: hit going on from mainstream Democrats and one of the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Democrats running for governor. Unfortunately, they don't have the same
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: dirt on this candidate that they have on Platiner. We
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: don't have any Nazi stuff so far as we know,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and we certainly don't have any rape. A story appears
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and on JAS online Today
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: on Francesca Han. Francesca Hank is the socialist I think
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: clearly marks as she says, I'm an anti capitalist, the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: one who believes in defunding the police. She's the front
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: running Democratic candidate for governor. Suddenly a story shows up
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: only a few weeks before the Democratic primary in Wisconsin
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: over mis defund the police, calling the cops calling nine
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to one one during a Protestant Madison, and the protest
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: was over the posting of and Israeli flagged with blood
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: spattered on it. Now you might think, well, what's the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: big deal that she called nine one one over the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: fact that this flag was hanging there. This is a
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: big deal for Democrat voters. A. They believe in all
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: these radical nut job protests. B. The Israeli flag with
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the blood spattered on it was an attack on Israel.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: It was part of the whole. They're responsible for what
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: happened in Gaza, and they don't like that, so they
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: put out this piece to tredacetand send some signals that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Francesca Han isn't as purely radical as we are, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that she's a hypocrite. Now again, how do I know
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that this story is coming from the Democrats? First all,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: how do you think that Milwaukee journal sentinels stumbled on this? Now,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: give me a break, She's been running for governor for
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: eight months, Suddenly this thing falls on their lap. I
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: see Mary Spacuzza and Jesse o'poyan are the writers of
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the story. You think Mary Spacuza was just running around
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: digging into the back of of Francesco hang or did
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: somebody in Madison, some Democrat operative have this story. Now,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: as I say, the Democrat establishment in Wisconsin, the old
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: bull Democrats, you know, go back to what was the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: mainstream of the Democratic Party forever in this state, all
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the way from Tony Earl, even to many of the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: people who backed Tony Evers. You know, the regular old
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Democrat pains in the ass that we have, not the
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: radical Marxist just the regular garden variety Democrats, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the part of the party that say David Crowley in
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee and Kevlar Johnson and Tom Barrett, they are they're
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: terrified of Hang. A. They realize they're losing control of
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: their own party. And B they do fear that if
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: the Democrats run a Marxist Tom Tiffany, the Republican will
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: be able to beat her. What they are unwilling to
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: do is get up and actually have the ideological battle
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and criticize her for being a Marxist. So they're looking
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: for whatever dirt they can they can find, and there's
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: this one which does show that she's a hypocrite, not
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: much beyond that. It's also shows that she's something of
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: a Karen If people in Milwaukee bitched every time some
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: lefties were doing a protest here nine to eleven when
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the end of the circuits would blow off. Nonetheless, understand
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: that this is the best that the mainstream Democrats can
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: offer an attacking her, rather than having an ideological fight
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: for the heart and soul and future of the party.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: In other words, the regular wing of the Democratic Party
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: taking on the Marxist wing. That regular wing is terrified
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: of the Marxist so they have to work in the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: margins and plant stories like this in the media. Mark Penn.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Way back when Bill Clinton won an nineteen ninety two
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: there was this pack of moderate centrist Democrats. I think
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: it was called the Democratic Leadership Council. Clinton came from it. Remember,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Clinton got himself elected governor of Arkansas. Arkansas is now
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: really really Republican, and even was very conservative back when
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Clinton won in the late eighties. Clinton had to pass
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: himself off as a moderate in order to win in Arkansas.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: When he ran for president, his message overwhelmingly was that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not a liberal. His campaign slogan, some of you
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: may recalled it, I'm a different kind of Democrat. He
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: criticized long term welfare recipients, he said, I will end
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: welfare as we know it. He stole the issue from
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Tommy Thompson, who initiated the first welfare reform in America
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: here in Wisconsin. When he got into office, Clinton governed,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: as you know, a pretty liberal guy, but certainly not
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a radical wing nut. He tried to do what Obama
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: pulled off at Obama and Obamacare when he put Hillary,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: his wife, in charge of the healthcare thing, but he
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: couldn't get it through. Otherwise, he was what he was.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: He presided over a sensational economy, foreign policy was something
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: of a mess, but he was what he was. Mark
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Penn is one of the guys that came from that
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: wing of the party. So did Carville in a few others.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Now Carville and those others they've wandered off with the
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: tide over to the left, but Mark Penn remains this
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: moderate type Democrat. In fact, Penn was throughout the year
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four warning the Democrats that if they ran
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden and feebled as he was, and then Kamala Harris,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: they would lose to Donald Trump. The Trump was far
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: closer to the mainstream than seen Al Biden or addled Kamalo.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: There's a column that appears in the Wall Street Journal.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: This is about a day or two old. It's written
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: by Penn and Andrew Stein. As I said, Penn was
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: a close political advisor for fifteen years to Bill Clinton.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Andrew Steine is another Democrat, as the president of the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: New York City Council from eighty six to ninety three.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: In this piece, they're speaking as regular old mainstream, old
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: line Democrats, saying that it is time for fellow Democrats
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: of theirs to stand up and fight for their party
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and not let the Marxist take it over. I'll share
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: a portion they rite. Last week's election results in New York, Colorado,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Nils who are are a nine to one to
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: one call for the Democratic Party in America. The advancement
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: of Democratic Socialists of America members to Congress, state legislatures,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: and local office, often by beating Democratic incumbents, shows how
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: broken the primary system is and how alienated young, educated,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: white voters in urban areas have become. The turnouts in
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: New York's election were well below anything that could be
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: called representative of the community. Only eighteen to twenty five
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: percent of registered Democrats voted in each of the closed
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: primaries for three contested House nominations. This means that a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: good organizational effort can impose its will with less than
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: fifteen percent of the party electorate. Alexandria Cassio Cortez won
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: her first primary in twenty eighteen with fewer than seventeen
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: thousand votes in a district of seven hundred and fifteen
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: thousand eligible voters. Now, the point they're making is in
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: these Democratic primaries, hardly anybody's voting. The Democrats are sitting
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: on their butts, not showing up, so they motivate the
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: radicals to turn out. The radicals may be only a
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: fringe of the Democratic Party, but the ones who show
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: up and vote in the primaries. This is the point
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: that they're making here, continuing, since these are overwhelming the
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Democrat districts, Republicans and independence don't count at all, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: turnout not viewpoint becomes the factor. This quote revolution is
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: driven not by the working class but by the urban
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: professional class that is willing to support candidates who celebrate
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: nine poet one cheer at the massacre of one thousand
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Israelis and American kids, would defund the police, abolish prisons
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and private property, and open the borders. New York Representative
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Arihanno Andriano Espiat, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, lost
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: his seat. Even Letitia James, the Empire State's left wing
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Attorney General, was troubled by the result. She said, quote
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: some of the candidates that mort Zoron Mandani has supported
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: are individuals who do not understand the politics of New
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: York City, the cultural differences from district and district, who
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: have not been part of the history and the struggle
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: of some of these districts, and are relatively new to
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the body politics. This wake up call requires action at
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: all levels. Representatives Tim Swazi New York and Adam Gray
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: California have formed a coal promised to America that stands
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: for moderate principles. Quote. We are capitalists, not socialists. We
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: want safety not lawlessness. We are fiscally responsible not reckless.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: We believe governments should solve problems, not create them. We
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: are mainstream not extreme. We are proud, not ashamed of America.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: So far, eight other Democratic lawmakers and five candidates have
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: signed on. In a closely divided Congress, this block could
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: wield considerable power, but moderates alone can't defeat this moment movement.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Left of centered voices like James Carville, Nearer Tandon and
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Letitia James has sounded the alirement will have to split
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: themselves from the far left or find themselves sidelined. Voter
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: registration and turnout are nonprofit activities, and that means mainstream
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: politicians need to get out the vote organizations to mobilize
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the huge majority of voters who are sitting at home
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: while socialists and communists make their way into positions of power. Lawmakers,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: law enforcement agencies, and journalists should investigate the DSA to
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: see if it is being funded by foreign governments and interests.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Let me interject again, this is democrats writing this, you know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: damn will that it is. But until the regular Democrats
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: this is me and not the writers start focusing their
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: attention on the communists who are knocking out Democrats, is
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: it going to happen. I just mentioned the little piece
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: here on the in js islandline out in Francesca hang,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: which as I see, I think came from the mainstream Democrats.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: So you see a little bit of it. Now what
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: do you not see? You don't see any attacks on
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: them ideologically, no battles for the intellect, the heart, and
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: soul of the voter, because, as I say, mainstream Democrats
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: are terrible, terrified of these radicals. Back to the piece
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: by Mark Penn and Andrews Sein, political action committees and
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: advocacy groups that have focused on federal races have to
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: realize that the DSA and Democrats Socialist America initially focuses
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: on low turnout local races and nonprofit boards as easy targets.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: They're right about this. The communists, the radicals, they tend
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: to run candidates in very low fil file races and
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: overwhelming leftist areas, and they try to get control of
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: all of these nonprofits. These are the bases of power
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: that they then used to launch and go for the
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: bigger thing. As I say, the governorship of Wisconsin is
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: one of the first of the bigger things they're going for.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Back to the Peace. Once in power, its members degrade
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: law enforcement with policies that encourage street fagrancy, drug abuse,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and higher taxes, fueling more voter anger which they exploited
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: election time. Moderate packs and other groups need a battle
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: plan for every campaign, from district attorney to congress city
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Council to state legislature. They also need a communication program
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: on social media aimed at educating young people about the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: events that schools ignore, from the bloody history of communism
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: to the Holocaust. At nine to eleven, let me interject
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: one of the questions I'm asked all the time is
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: how can solve Many of these liberals are really smart,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: yet they embrace all of this stuff. How do you
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: really think that the public schools are teaching about what
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Stalin did in Russia? Do you think they're teaching about
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the slaughter and repression and imprisonment that's been going on
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: for sixty five years in Cuba? They don't know these
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: things and it isn't taught. Nor we talk about the
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: fact that socialism has never worked ever in the history
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: of the world. Do you think economics professors at university
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: is a teaching that know a good half of them?
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: And that's not an exaggeration. Are themselves socialists? Now? The
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: point that they're making here is this belated attempt to
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: try to educate regular democrats as to the evils of
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: socialism and communism, since they've not been willing to do
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: with all these decades, and they're now left with what
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: have been thought to have been the totally discredited ideology
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: is sudden, is suddenly poised to knock all these Democrats out,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And even still, all you're getting are these little whimpers
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: of opposition. They need to learn the truth. This is
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the writers. The true aim of Iran and their proxies
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: like Hamas and hesbela Is is the destruction of Israel
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: and Jews everywhere. They need to understand that competence, not
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: TikTok videos matter, and that without police, urban life would
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: be hell. If these things don't happen, New York and
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: other cities will decay. Further More, productive citizens will vote
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: with their feet, vagrants and criminals will overtake more public spaces,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: social service costs will explode, and the schools will deteriorate further.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Republicans may gain in the short run, but they aren't
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: a factor in most major cities, and they have shown
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: a capacity to lose against an increasingly left wing Democratic Party,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: as they did in twenty oh six, twenty oh eight, twelve, eighteen,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and twenty. If mainstream Democrats don't retake their party, you
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: may not recognize America the next time it wins a
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: national election. No, the piece said Penn and Steinrdier, two Democrats,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: saying if the Marxists take over our party, not only
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: is our party in trouble, but America is in trouble
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: because they may win the whole thing. This is one
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: of the first peeps that we've heard. But again this
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: is written in the broad scheme. There were election campaigns
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: that go on. If the Democrats in Wisconsin, who aren't
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: radicalized to the total left, says Sarah Ron Riggers or
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: David Crowley, want to win, they need to start attacking
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Francesco and Mendela Barnes. Now, you can attack Mendela Barnes
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: on all of the skeletons that are in his closet,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: but you have to attack Francesca hang on what she is.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: You've got to get up there and say, Democrats don't
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: think we should defund the police. We simply don't know
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: if that would work in a Democratic primary. Do more
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: than half the Democrats in the state of Wisconsin truly
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: want to defund the police? We saw that after the
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: police were defunded in twenty twenty the year of George
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Floyd disaster occurred, and in twenty twenty four, no Democrat
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: was talking about it in an election. But now here
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: we are again, and they're right back to the same thing.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I do think that we are not yet at the
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: point where more than half the Democrats are Communists Democrat voters.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: But when only one side is fighting, they're going to
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: keep winning these fights. And this means that Democrats are
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: going this use. By the way, the Democrats, for most
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: of my life, it has to be the party that
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: thought about these things. Go back to the sixties. You
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: had the Liberals. There were never many Marxists. The Liberals
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: fighting for control of the Democratic Party against the Moderates.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: You know, Eugene McCarthy ran against Lyndon Johnson and Bobby
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Kennedy got into the race nineteen seventy two. The Liberals
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: had their candidates. When George McGovern won the nomination seventy
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: six to the moderates. That's what Carter was. They got
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: a pack. These fights are going on forever within the
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Democratic Party. Ideologically, somewhere around the time of Clinton, they
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: decided that we're not going to fight with anyone, fight
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: with one another over anything, knowing that if any of
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: us get in, they'll send the money down to all
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: of us, and we'll all keep power. So what Obama ran,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: it was Hillary that ran against him, and she didn't
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: so much attack him on his ideology, even though they're
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: from sort of different wings of the party. And it's
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: been this way ever since. In the meantime, it's been
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the Republicans who fight over everything, sometimes not even substantive issues,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: just personalities or power. I keep citing because it's such
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: a good example. Twenty twenty two was the year the
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Republicans were supposed to defeat Tony Avers. It was an
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: off yr election, Biden was in power. It was a
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: pretty good national year for the Republicans, but you had
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: this divisive Republican primary between Becky Clayfish and Tim Michaels.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: And again I've stressed all the time, I'm not blaming
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Clayfish and her supporters unilaterally for this, but it got
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: so difficive that they sat on their hands as they
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: sat on their checkbooks after Michaels won. I'm not saying
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: that if Clayfish hadn't won that Michaels aside, and I
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: don't mean Tim personally, I would have done the same
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: thing and powdered and sat on their hands. Thro's a
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: divide of the Republican Party in Wisconsin between I'll just
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: describe it broadly. It's an over generalization the Scott Walker
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: wing of the party and the Tommy Thompson wing of
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: the party. The Tommy Thompson wing of the party and
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the Mega Movement a side of a line, and the
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Walker wig of the party is what the rest of
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: it is. They have united this time around because they're
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: sick of losing, and they've united behind Tom Tiffany. But
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: by and large it's been look at the fights that
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: you know, the number of Republicans who hate Trump, the
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: never trumpers. So these fights have gone on within the
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Republican Party over on an ideological basis, but the Democrats
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: haven't wanted to fight about anything, and this has created
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: an opening for the Marxists to come in figuring if
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: nobody's going to fight us, we're going to have a
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: free ride, which by and large is what has happened
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: and it will continue to happen until the regular old Democrats,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: instead of wringing their hands in we scared the death
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: of the Madison radicals, attack them, come out and reclaim
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: their party and say we're not in favor of defunding
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the police. We're for all this other stuff that we're
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: for working wage and all the other stuff that democrats
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: go on and on about. But we are not for
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: defunding police. We are not anti capitalists. We don't want
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: to raise taxes so high that everybody leaves the state
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: and so on. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I received an interesting
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: email from a listener, and I'm going to pass it
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: along here and I'll give you the background of this.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: On the last podcast. On Monday's podcast, I discussed the
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: potential for cities like Milwaukee to become new industrial centers
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: just as vibrant as they were in the first half
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: of the twentieth century, where all these factories were in
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: the big cities. The next new booming industry at America
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: is the data centers. And while lefties are turning their
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: noses up at them, let's face it, the data centers
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: are a lot greener, a lot less disruptive, a lot
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: less noisy than the kinds of factories that we had
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: in the twentieth century coal mills, steel mills, paper mills,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: auto mobile manufacturing plants in Milwaukee, we had the yeast plants,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: the rendering plants. If you don't know what a rendering
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: plant is, looking up. We had every stinky, smelly kind
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: of industry that there was, and the carbon footprints of
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: some of them was through the roof. But the reality
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: is is that we had a massive middle class with
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: all sorts of family supporting jobs, and one after the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: other after the other, these businesses have tended to leave
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: the data centers downside as nothing in comparison to those
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: alas this minuscule, tiny data center five gallons of water
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: a day is what it would use. The developers have
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: pulled the plug knowing that you're not going to get
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee to go along with it, meaning the economic ghettoization
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee's going to get worse and worse and worse
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: and worse and worse. In the meantime, I've heard from
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: a listener who's from Memphis. Now you may know that
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Elon Musks big data center is being built in Memphis.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: If you didn't know what I just told you, his
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: AI company is part of SpaceX XAI and they're building
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: this massive data center in Memphis. But they're not the
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: only one. So I'm just going to share with you
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: this listener's perspective. Mark. I've been listening to you since
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: back in the nineteen eighties while growing up in Milwaukee,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: and I continued after moving to Memphis in the nineteen nineties.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I've been a regular listener ever since. On Monday's podcast,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: you mentioned that in addition to creating jobs, AI data
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: centers can become significant sources of property tax revenue for
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: their communities, but did not elaborate here. In Memphis, XAI,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: that's Musk's company, is building a data center on sites
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: that had been vacant for at least a decade. According
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: to WRIGTV, XAI is currently paying about thirteen million dollars
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: in property taxes, and once all of its planned facilities
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: are completed, that figure is expected to grow to approximately
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: twenty eight million dollars per year. Since memphis annual operating
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: budget is about nine hundred million, XAI alone could eventually
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: fund roughly three percent of the city budget. Wrig also
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: reported that Colossus one data center with Colossus two now
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: under construction, will use approximately one point two million gallons
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: of water a day. To help offset that demand, XAI
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: will build an eighty million dollar wastewater treatment facility capable
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: of treating up to thirteen million gallons of wastewater per day.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: That project will also benefit other local industries, including a
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: nearby TVA power plant. According to Memphis Light, Gas and
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Water President and CEO Doug McGowan, the original concept for
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: this wastewater recycling facility dates back to twenty eighteen, when
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: it was envisioned as a city project to provide cooling
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: water for the TVA plant. According to Wig, there are
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: currently thirteen data centers of various sizes under construction in
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: the Memphis area. While some have received property tax incentives,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: many are redeveloping long abandoned and blighted properties. One example
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: is a former one million square foot Fred's Discount corporate headquarters,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: which sat vacant for nearly a decade before being converted
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: into a data center. Five Sea Data Centers is investing
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty two million dollars in that retrofit.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Although its project received a pilot agreement, it will still
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: pay about one million dollars per year in property taxes
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: during its first fifteen years. I drive through that area
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: several times each month, and I can personally attest to
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: two things. First, the surrounding neighborhood is extremely blighted. Second,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: every time I've passed the site, there were at least
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: fifty contractors vehicles parked there on a Sunday afternoon. That's
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of people working on a property that had
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: contributed virtually nothing to the local economy for years. I
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say MEMPHISI has fully embrace these people. There is
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: a vocal group of radicals opposed to them. However, the
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: city's leadership still seems willing to weigh the economic benefit.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: It's alongside the concerns. Right, I'm a listener. I won't
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: give his name. I don't like to give games. So
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: let's just assume this plays out, and twenty years from now,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Memphis has thirty five data centers and Milwaukee has none.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Who do you think will be better off if not
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: data centers? What economic development are you going to get
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: away from the affluent areas of Milwaukee. True, Northwestern Mutual
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: is going to keep expanding its massive footprint downtown, and
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: we certainly have excellent economic development going on in the
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: suburbs Kenosha counties of Boomtown. But in the city you
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: can't even keep a grocery store in there. The grug
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: stores are closing. It's plighted everywhere. In the meantime, the
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: data centers that are obviously going to get opposition out
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: of the suburbs. They need a place to go. So,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: as I've been saying, the obvious place to put them
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: is in the big cities, where you already have lots
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: of noise, lots of sound, and you have massive available
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: land on the shape, and you have an extremely large
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: employment base that can come in and handle a lot
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: of the jobs, many of which are not particularly overwhelmingly
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: skilled jobs. The maintenance jobs, the gardening jobs, the landscaping jobs,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: the food service tips, all the stuff that occurs inside
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: a large employer. But since lefties oppose everything, they'll oppose this.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: We do know this. The data centers are going to
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: be as ubiquitous in the United States as the factories
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: were in the last half of the last century. Something's
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: got to do the processing, somebody's got to provide the
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: cloud storage, somebody's got to build the semiconductor chips. And
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: it looks as though a good chunk will be in
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: the United States, so that we're not going to outsource
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: and pay all of this revenue at China or Mexico
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: or somewhere else. They're going to be somewhere, and the
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: places that take them and cite them properly, like in
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: big cities, will thrive, and those that turn up their
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: noses will continue to rot in decay Iran. As they've
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: been saying, I have no expectation that this ceasefire is
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: going to hold. The Iranians are simply going to be
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: the Iranians. They fired on three tanker ships of the
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: United States is militarily retaliated. Here's the statement from Senkam.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: US Central Command forces have begun launching a series of
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: powerful strikes against the i Ran to impose heavy costs
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: for targeting an attack and commercial shipping crewed by innocent
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: civilians in an international waterway. The US strikes have a
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: transitting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's demonstrated aggression was unworned,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: a dangerous and a clear viol of the ceasefire. Now,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: the thing that I questioned when I heard that we
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: were hitting back is what are we heading Because if
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: you're not hitting I Ran where it really hurts you
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: provide note deterrence. Well, here's the follow up. A senior
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: American official. This is report from Axios. A senior American
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: official told me that the targets were The targets that
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: were attacked included Iranian air defense systems, coastal surveillance systems,
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: ground to wear missiles, launch sites for anti ship cruise missiles,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: drown launch sites, and Iranian port facilities. The senior American
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: official told me that the US Army's attacks and Iran
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: tonight were four or five times more extensive and more
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: powerful than the recent attacks carried out about ten days ago.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: So we're going after the sites that they're launching, growing
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: some the few cruise missiles that they have left were
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: going after that. I think that this is all you
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: can do with Iran. I think we can't resume all
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: our war, but you have to let them know. I'm
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: assuming that they care about this crap that we just
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: blew up. They had to spend a fortune to build
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: all this stuff. They must have some concern about it.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: They obviously have incredible tolerance for paying and they don't
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: care at all about their own people. But this is
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: what it's going to be. The good thing about this
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: is the amount of damage that it Ran can do.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: They're gonna, Okay, they attack a ship here and the
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: attack a ship there. Most of their offensive military capabilities
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: were shot by the first round of the attacks. I
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: do think at some point that it may dawn on
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Trump that he's going to have to abandon this notion
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: of negotiations in a long term deal is just not
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: in the nature of the Radians to be reasonable. But
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: instead of simply keep managing them that every time they
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: do something bad, we make them pay very badly. But
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: we have not been willing to do is go after
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: installations in civilian areas, like knock out their parliament building,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: something of that nature. I'm not saying that we should
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: do that. I'm saying that the war that we have
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: been fighting with them has been aimed at knocking out
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: all of their military capabilities, and this retaliation seemed to
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: be that. But the idea that you're going to get
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: the Iranians to be reasonable on anything, as I've been
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: saying on a brooking record in this, that change is
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: going to have to come from within. There's going to
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: have to be some force with inside the Iranian military
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: that decides to stage a coup and kill off the
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: other Iranian leaders and install a more moderate government, or
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to need the masses to go back to
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: the streets and have the police turn against the government
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: and join the citizenry. So far that hasn't happened. It
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: may be that this country is so radicalized, just as
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Cuba got so radicalized that they were incapable, lacking arms themselves,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: of throwing off their oppressors. NATO. Now we've been on
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: this for some time, even back in the days in
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: which I guess I would describe myself as something of
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: a neocon, I've purged those ideas from my mind because
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: the reality is they didn't work. Even then, I have
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: been critical of our relationship with NATO. I understand the
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: strategic value of the United States being allied with Western Europe.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I don't, however, understand the point of we pay for everything,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: they don't pay for anything. We provide cover for them,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: and all they do is gob in our face, which
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: is what it's bad. Yet every emer I mean Biden,
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: the only time you could awake him out of his
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: fossilized stupid was to bring up NATO, and he talked
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: about how great it was because he'd get to go
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: off to the meetings and shake the hands of the
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: heads of Spain and Breton and Finland and all. Anyway,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Finland's not in NATO, are they I always get mixed
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: up on that. You don't know either, do you, Jason? Yeah,
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I see, that's the thing. You feel like, it's like
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: the whole thing when you know Russia as it wout
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Ukraine to be in NATO. I swear most people thought
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: that they already were in NATO anyway, they did join. See.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: That's why it was a tricky thing, because they weren't,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: and it was a recent thing. Anyway, this is Trump.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Over the last two days, we've invested trillions of dollars
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: in NATO. Why to protect European countries and others. You
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: would think that they'd be very willing to do something
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: to help us, and they really weren't. I've long said
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: that we helped them, but I'm not sure that they'd
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: be there for us. And Italy turned as sound, and
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Germany turned us sound, and France turned us sound. And
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: that's okay, But why are we spending hundreds of billions
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: of dollars and they're not there for us? We've always
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: been there for them in the meantime. One of the
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: things that Trump has done since he came into office
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: the first time around with the election in sixteen, he
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: sees all of this stuff with fresh eyes. And I
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: think that Trump has sized up some nations that were
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: either sort of hostile to the United States or neutral.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and now Turkey. Turkey's complicated to
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: this day. People can't agree if it's in the Middle
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: East or not. Turkey is the country that's I guess
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: you could say it would be on the west edge
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: of the Middle East or not in the Middle East
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: at all. It's a Muslim nation, but it has a
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: rather vibrant economy and it seems to be less radicalized
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: than both. Trump has been cooperating with Turkey, and Turkey's
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: been providing cooperation with US. So in contrast to NATO,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: which Trump thinks never does anything for US, He's been
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: sizing up Turkey and saying I can work with Turkey.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: I'm getting nowhere working with France and Germany. Trump this
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: is from yesterday, praises Turk Turkey, calling them a great
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: ally that has helped the United States to try and
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: end the war with Iran or whatever you want to
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: call it. It's not even a war, it's a military operation.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: It's a denuclearization. From Fox News, President Trump praises Turkey
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: as a great ally, suggesting his influence stop the nation
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: from entering a wider Middle East conflict with Israel. They
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: could have gotten into that fight. They are a very
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: powerful military nation. They didn't do that. Maybe they didn't
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: do it because of me, but they could have gotten
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: into the fight. On the other side. Trump is suggesting
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: that we take sanctions off of Turkey. Now again, whether
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: you endorse that or not, the reality is is that
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Trump lobbied Turkey on an issue, and Turkey did what
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Trump wants. He lobbied NATO won an issue where NATO said,
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: go screw yourself. Trump. Just because we've had long term
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: alliances that the other side doesn't play ball with us,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: why do we need to keep bankrolling their defense. A
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: listener asked me a good question, Mark, can you please
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: comment on the Republican candidates for lieutenant governor of Secretary
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: of State on the ballot before the primary election. Yes. Now,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: here's the problem with this. There are a lot of
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: races in the August primary election, and I can't comment
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: on them each time, so I'm thinking one discussion on
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: one of the podcasts between now and the August election.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: There are several key legislative races. You know, several Republican
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: senators are not running for reelection, redrawing districts and so on.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Those races need to be commented on as well. Lieutenant
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: governor and Secretary of State. The lieutenant governor position is
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: the oddest governmental position in Wisconsin. The lieutenant governor runs
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: on a ticket with the governor. But unlike president and
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: vice president, you know, President Trump chose jd Vance to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: be his running made. The voters choose the lieutenant governor.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: So the lieutenant governor and the governor candidate get thrown
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: together by the voters. The lieutenant governor gets elected lieutenant
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: governor if the governor candidate wins. So Tom Tiffany is
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: going to have a running maide and that running bat
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: will be the lieutenant governor. We know who the Democrat
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: lieutenant governor is going to be. We don't know who
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: the Democratic candidate for governor will be. But Sarah god
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Luski the Secretary of States. They're only dumb one Democrat
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: running for lieutenant governor. There are two major Republicans running
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: for lieutenant governor, Will Martin and David Farnum. Now I'm
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: not going to use these segments to endorse a candidate.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: I will briefly analyze them, and for people who ask
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: after the fact, one of the advantages of the podcast
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: is we can just tell him to go back and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: listen to the podcast in which this was addressed, which
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: is this one one thirty six. Will Martin has been
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: endorsed by the Wisconsin Republican Party. He's from Racine, He's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: African American. He is very well spoken. He's been a
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: boots on the ground community activist, talk show host, and
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: force for good and receiving I would describe him as
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: a moderate Republican. Everybody claims they're a conservative Republican. I
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: would describe Will Martin as a mainstream moderate Republican. There
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: may be a couple of issues in which he's farther
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: to the left and most conservatives would want He is
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: an African American. It certainly is a plus for the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Republicans to have an African American on their governor lieutenant
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: governor ticket. That's not a negative. He's a qualified, strong
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  Speaker 2: and decent candidate. The other guy running is named David Varnum.
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  Speaker 2: His only elected office position is he was the mayor
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  Speaker 2: of Lancaster. Lancaster is in southwestern Wisconsin. It's not the
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  Speaker 2: biggest city in the world, but he got himself elected there.
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  Speaker 2: Varnum is a core conservative. He is if you just
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  Speaker 2: generally define the positions that Maga takes, those are the
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  Speaker 2: positions that Varnum takes. Everything from keeping boys out of girls'
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  Speaker 2: sports to being very very and a strong on enforcing
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  Speaker 2: the border and kicking out of the country the people
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  Speaker 2: who don't belong here, and so on. Martin has the
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  Speaker 2: support of the mainstream Republican party in the state of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Based on I think his political skills and what he
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  Speaker 2: brings to the rais, I would say that if you
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  Speaker 2: put them on an ideological scale, Varnum would probably be
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  Speaker 2: considered more conservative. Secretary of State. We still elect the
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  Speaker 2: candidate for secretary of State in the state of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: The secretary of State is a job that has virtually
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  Speaker 2: no duties. We have these two offices in Wisconsin that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: remain constitutional offices. They're separate from the governor They don't
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: work for anybody. They work for themselves. The Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: State can do whatever the hell he or she wants
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  Speaker 2: and sold in the state treasurer within the confines of
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  Speaker 2: state law. They're not part of the administration of the governor.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years, the voters believing in accountability have taken
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  Speaker 2: away most of the duties of the Secretary of State
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  Speaker 2: and treasurer and put them under the governor, feeling as though,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to have an executive branch, you can't
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: have five different offices in the executive branch. So these positions,
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  Speaker 2: you can argue, are relatively unimportant. They are relatively unimportant.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing they bring to the table is they
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  Speaker 2: can be launching pads for political careers. Sometimes. The secretary
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  Speaker 2: of State in Wisconsin for decades was Douglas Wallad. You'd
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  Speaker 2: always get re elect the secretary of State. Whenever he
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: tried to run for anything else, he get two percent
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  Speaker 2: of the vote. Dougla Folleck got elected secretary of State
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  Speaker 2: for the ninety seventh time in a row, or so
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  Speaker 2: it seems, in twenty twenty two and immediately quit. Sarah
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  Speaker 2: god Luski took over the job, and my guess is
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  Speaker 2: most of you don't know that Sarah Godluski is running
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  Speaker 2: for Lieutenant govenor this time around, and she's going to
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  Speaker 2: run against Ron Johnson. In twenty eight there are four
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  Speaker 2: Republicans running for Secretary of State. There is an endorsed candidate,
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  Speaker 2: and again, the Republican Party has a convention. It's up
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  Speaker 2: to the delegates at the party convention to decide whether
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  Speaker 2: or not they're going to endorse a candidate or not.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, they did issue an endorsement Nathan Paul. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he describes himself as a farmer. He's a grassroots Republican
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  Speaker 2: who's been active in the party and has a lot
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  Speaker 2: of respect from people within Republican operations. The other three
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  Speaker 2: candidates running don't have the official blessing of party leaders.
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  Speaker 2: One of them is Cindy Warner. Many of you from
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee know her. Cindy is African American. She has been
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  Speaker 2: a tireless grassroots activists in Milwaukee. She's run for offices
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  Speaker 2: in the past. She ran for the Democratic nomination for
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  Speaker 2: Congress against Gwen Wore in the past. Anyway, she's a
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  Speaker 2: very active Republican African American, clearly qualified She's hacked off
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  Speaker 2: some Republicans by opposing incumbent Republicans like Bob Donovan and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: the races for the state Legislature, but Cindy Warner's on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot. Jay Schroeder is a candidate from the kind
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: of the Fox Valley Greater region. He's run for office
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  Speaker 2: in the past. And the fourth candidate is named Braden Meyer.
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  Speaker 2: He's young, late twenties or early thirties. He's in the
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  Speaker 2: man Walk area. He to me, is the most interesting
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  Speaker 2: candidate in the race. He probably has the least name
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  Speaker 2: recognition and may not have much of a chance of winning,
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  Speaker 2: but he is a very active conservative on conservative issues,
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  Speaker 2: even though he's male. He formed one of the Manatawa
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  Speaker 2: chapters of Moms for Liberty, the outstanding conservative organization that
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  Speaker 2: has pressed for social issues grassroots level at the local level,
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  Speaker 2: especially the schools given the phase. He's also a guy
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  Speaker 2: that has taken the entire duties of the Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: State and put them all in a database. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: he's actually sized up what the job is and made
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: it clear that he can do the job by already
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  Speaker 2: digitizing the very few duties of that office. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that that office does is I think they
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  Speaker 2: still handle incorporation filings in the state and so on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not endorsing any candidate. Meyer is one of those
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  Speaker 2: guys that, if he had the job, might use it
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  Speaker 2: as a platform as a pulpit to speak out on
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  Speaker 2: other issues. I would describe all of these candidates as fine.
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  Speaker 2: Paulo seems to have the most supportive Republican Party establishment members.
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  Speaker 2: As I say, Cindy Warner has earned a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people's respect and has built up some enemies. There are
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: probably struggles in the Milwaukee kind of republic and operations.
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  Speaker 2: Schroeder has been around and run for office in the past.
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  Speaker 2: He also ran for the state legislature didn't come close
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  Speaker 2: to winning. And brand Braden Meyer is the guy from Manatorck.
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  Speaker 2: In none of these races, I'm I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: you an endorsement, but I will try to accurately summarize
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  Speaker 2: the candidates. There are legislative races at which a couple
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: of Republican state senators Vang Wanguard's not running for reelection,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Steve nas is not running for reelection. These in one
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: case very republican district, another a swing district, and who
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: the Republican candidate in their matters, and we'll cover elections
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: like that in future podcasts as we approach the August
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  Speaker 2: primary election. And again, I know anytime I discussed this,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: what did you say about this? Who do you support?
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not endorsing anybody. I tried to give you a
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  Speaker 2: quick synopsis in the time available of the candidates running.
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  Speaker 2: Just about all of them have a website if you
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: want to dive in and see who's endorsing them and
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: see something on their background. If they don't bother to
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: put up a website, it doesn't mean it means that
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: they're not trying very hard. But to my knowledge, all
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  Speaker 2: of these candidates running for both lieutenant governor and Secretary
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: of state real quickly. The Republican candidate for attorney general
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: is unopposed. That's Josh That's Josh Call's opponent, Eric Tony,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: the Fondeleece County District attorney to be a rematch of
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two election, and the incumbent Republican state treasurer.
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  Speaker 2: He's unopposed as well, So no point in discussing that.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: The governor's raised, Tom Tiffany, does have an opponent named Manski.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: He's a token opponent. Tom Tiffany's going to win the election,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: and he's obviously one of the better Republican candidates for governor.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: And sometime you're listening to the Mark. On Monday night,
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  Speaker 2: I watched the United States lose to Belgium in the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. No my position on the World Cup. As
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  Speaker 2: I've stated forever and ever and ever, I ten to
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  Speaker 2: watch big events in sports, even if I'm not particularly
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: interested in the event. Perfect example would be, of course,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: I watch the figure skating in the Olympics. I watch
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: almost all the stuff in the Olympics, but I acknowledge
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: I don't pay much attention to figure skating or speed
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  Speaker 2: skating or some of these other sports in non Olympic times.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: I don't watch a lot of tennis matches, but I'm
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: certainly watching a lot of the matches in the US Open.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Wimbledon is going on now and so on. The World
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  Speaker 2: Cup's a big thing, so when it gets to the
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  Speaker 2: final four, I know I'll pay attention. I have had.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sorry I have had. Part of it is
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not whining or anything. I've been a very busy
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: last several weeks. I just had my birthday. It was
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: one of those awful round number birthdays. I have a girlfriend.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: It was just her birthday. She lives in Florida, so
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: I was down there. There's just been a lot going on,
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  Speaker 2: and the World Cup's going on, and I find it
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  Speaker 2: easier to just check the scorer and see who won
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: the World Cup match then watch the boring thing. Now
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  Speaker 2: my way of watching sports on TV, it's about all
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: I have on TV. I turn it out and I
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: could be watching a game and doing other things at
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: the same time. So I turned on the United States
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  Speaker 2: game on Monday night against Belgium. Even as big as
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: this game is, this is the round of sixteen, I
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: still doing other things that I had the game on.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: In fact, I had the sound down most of the
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: time and I was kind of glancing over watching it.
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  Speaker 2: We got I think by soccer terms, it's fair to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: say we got killed. Jason's a big sports fan. Would
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  Speaker 2: you say we got killed four to one in soccer?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Is I'm not exaggerating. I would say that that's a
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  Speaker 2: kind to forty two to seven in football, wouldn't you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And in addition to the score, it was one to
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  Speaker 2: one for a while, but it just seemed to me,
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  Speaker 2: again as a not I mean, it's not that I
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  Speaker 2: know nothing about soccer, but I can certainly watch the
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  Speaker 2: floor of the game. It seemed to me that more
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  Speaker 2: of the game was controlled on I don't even know this.
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  Speaker 2: Do you refer to the American end as the end
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  Speaker 2: our goalie is in or the end that we try
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  Speaker 2: to score? And do you even know either? I think
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  Speaker 2: it's our The game seemed to be played more with
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  Speaker 2: Belgium on the attack and goal position than the Americans,
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  Speaker 2: But I can't say I was paying full attention anyway.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Belgium one four to one. I want to talk at
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  Speaker 2: one component of the game. It's about the only one
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: that's gotten a lot of attention. With the score two
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  Speaker 2: to one, and I don't know it was it twelve
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: minutes left in the game, it's still two to one.
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  Speaker 2: The United States gave up a goal that I would
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  Speaker 2: equate to what you see in hockey and the last minute,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: the last one to two minutes of a hockey game.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: If a team is down by one goal, they pulled
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: their goalie. They pulled their goalie, they have an extra
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  Speaker 2: attacker on the ice. The downside is if the other
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: team gets the pocket, has a chance to score. There's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: no goalie in there. The upside is you have an
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: extra man advantage out there. You're skating six against five defenders,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: a greater chance to score the goal. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: the United States didn't pull its goalie, but I looked
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  Speaker 2: like they didn't look like an empty neck goal. I
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: glance up and I'm looking there, and there's a Belgian
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  Speaker 2: player with the ball kind of at that last big
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: line whatever you call that, going into the final zone.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: There's no goalie. And in most of the coverage it
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: was described as a complete meltdown and bleep up by
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: the American goalie, Matt Freeze. I'll pull it from this report.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: I think it's Reuters. It's no ticket, it's MSN, but
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: they repeat it repeated from somewhere else. Team USA Golf
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  Speaker 2: came for Matt Freese made a critical miscalculation in his
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: squad's World Cup. With his god's World Clup life on
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: the line, the USMNT was desperate for an equalizer, trailing
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: tudo oau to Belgium in the World Cup Round of
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: sixteen at Lumen Park in Seattle, Washington. After the Belgians
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: thwarted a US attack. Brandon Michelle launched a long pass
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: downfield to Charles d ketel Air. You know who these
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: people are, I don't know who they are. That Freeze
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: should have easily dealt with just outside the box, but
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: Freeze never got to clear it properly. D Kettlair was
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: able to guide a pass back to Hans Vonnikan, who
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: scored a school yard goal from several yards out that
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: evaded the final efforts of the USM and T captain
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: Tim Reid. I watched this, it looked to me like
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: an absolute total breakdown. I've got a beer fan in here,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: as my producers will use something that I can relate
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: this to. Eight or nine years ago, there was that
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: game in which the Packers played the Bears and Soldier Field.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: I think was the first game of the playoffs, the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: last game of the regular season. I don't remember anywhere.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: It was fourth down and the Packers had the ball
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: in about their own forty five yard line and it
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: was fourth and one, and rather than run for a
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: first down, Aaron Rodgers went back to throw the bomb,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: and even though the Packers needed a touchdown to win,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: both of the Bears safety's bit and Randall Cobb was
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: wide open, all alone, and it was a complete blown
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: coverage by the Bear's safeties who clearly need to be
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: defending against the bomb because Cobb was wide open, there
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: wasn't a defender within ten yards of him, and it
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: was just described by Bear fans as a total screw
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: up in coverage and a total disaster. And Bears fans,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think got over it until they beat the
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Packers in the game this past season in the playoffs,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: which is probably the revenge to put that one behind them.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know if there'll be the same reaction in America,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: and that's part of my analysis here of America's relationship
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  Speaker 2: with soccer. I can tell you when fans are into
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: a team and into a sport, and that is when
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: they care when they lose, and they get mad when
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: they lose, and they demand that people be fired when
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: they lose. If a butchered up play like this was
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: done by a Packer to cross the Packers a playoff game,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: Packer fans would be furious at eviscerating the guy, and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: they'd be questioning on the level of coaching that will
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  Speaker 2: result in such a terrible misplaying of a ball that's
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: such a key point of the game. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I've heard much of that. I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: in some countries they'd be calling for the I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there have been players who've been killed who played in
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: the World Cup for other teams. Remember what Saddam Hussein
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: did when the Iranian when the Iraqi soccer team returned home,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: he made them kick cement soccer ball. I'm not suggesting
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: that you go to that level. I don't know. Even
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  Speaker 2: after all of these games are on TV, many Americans,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: even who watch the game, could name three players on
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  Speaker 2: the American team. You agree with that. I mean I
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: can name I might mispronounce. Is it Pulisic or pusil
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: at Pulisic, right, Christian Pulisic. I can name him because
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: he's a superstar. And I can name this Bolaga guy
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: just because he was not going to be allowed to
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: play and then Trump came to And by the way,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: even in that they said that he was one of
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: the key goalscorers. I didn't see him with the ball
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: the entire game, which they've criticized the American players for.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: They didn't even get the ball I was going to say,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: in the hands in the feet of their best offensive scorers.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: So I think you're not going to get When the
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  Speaker 2: American women were in the World Cups and Olympics that
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: they won, numerous of their players were household names, and
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: some to this day retired. Even are very few of
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: the men have gotten to that level. As for the
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: game itself, as I say, if as an amateur watching
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: the game, I thought it was an awful performance by
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: the Americans, I do know that these two teams are real.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: I did check the betting onds prior to the game,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: and the United States was a very slight favorite for Belgium.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: So Belgium and the United States, and the overall schema
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: things were thought to be relatively even teams. Now that
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: I'll go, I'll watch the World Cup when it gets
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: down to the final four, pay a little bit of
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: attention to that. But in the meantime I'm more than
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: happy to pay far more attention to what's going on
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: with the Brewers. All Right, that's it for today's podcast.
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