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October 1, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

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SPEAKER_12: Good morning today is today.
0:03
SPEAKER_12: And yesterday was today, yesterday.
0:07
SPEAKER_12: Tomorrow will be today, tomorrow.
0:11
SPEAKER_12: So live today.
0:14
SPEAKER_12: So the future today will be as the past today as it is tomorrow.
0:24
SPEAKER_27: Good morning, John, Alex, friend of the show.
0:28
SPEAKER_27: I have to say, from one Star Wars fanatic to another, I appreciate all that you do for Minnesota and the Twin Cities in keeping us informed and aware of what the left is trying to pull over our eyes.
0:44
SPEAKER_27: So thank you.
0:45
SPEAKER_27: I appreciate all that you do, and I'm so happy that you have this opportunity to continue doing it at your new home.
0:53
SPEAKER_27: Great show so far.
0:55
SPEAKER_27: Have a good day.
0:57
SPEAKER_33: Well, uh, thank you so much for the kind words.
1:00
SPEAKER_33: We have a hell of a show planned for today.
1:04
SPEAKER_49: The best part of the wake up is going to Kamala!
1:11
SPEAKER_11: Hey guys, I don't got his robe again.
1:14
SPEAKER_11: Just finished up the podcast.
1:15
SPEAKER_11: Oh, what a way to end.
1:17
SPEAKER_11: Mildred or Eric from Brainer.
1:20
SPEAKER_11: What a moron.
1:22
SPEAKER_11: That guy should really learn how to press his top left to his bottom left.
1:28
SPEAKER_11: Very, very hard experience.
1:31
SPEAKER_11: What it's like to shut the hell off.
1:34
SPEAKER_11: What a moron.
1:37
SPEAKER_11: Whatever that thing is.
1:39
SPEAKER_11: I I mean, just no credible relevance anything.
1:42
SPEAKER_11: Like these people just watch Whoopee and they're like, oh my god, that's what truth is.
1:48
SPEAKER_11: Anyways, I gotta go to work.
1:50
SPEAKER_11: Have a wonderful Thursday.
1:52
SPEAKER_33: Thank you.
1:52
SPEAKER_11: Can't wait to get off work and start up the Thursday podcast.
1:56
SPEAKER_11: Have a great day.
1:57
SPEAKER_33: Alex, Brandon, you guys are the best.
2:23
SPEAKER_33: I'm glad you're with us for a Thursday.
2:26
SPEAKER_33: We have uh news.
2:29
SPEAKER_33: So much news to cover today.
2:31
SPEAKER_33: We have the news that broke during the show.
2:34
SPEAKER_33: I'm actually talking with everybody.
2:35
SPEAKER_33: Uh producer Devin pushing the buttons this morning, talking with the powers that be about getting a uh monitor in studio so we can keep an eye on the breaking news because this happened during the show yesterday, where an Israeli flight was hijacked by the co-pilot in an apparent uh attempt of terrorism.
2:53
SPEAKER_33: I'll give you details on that in the first hour of the show.
2:57
SPEAKER_33: Um David Grush, the UAP, former military uh United States government whistleblower, bombshell podcast with Joe Rogan talking about non-human intelligence UAPs.
3:12
SPEAKER_33: I want to talk a little bit about that aspect of it, but there's a sidebar relating to Trump that we have to get into as well.
3:21
SPEAKER_33: We have uh arrests, that thing that never happens happened again.
3:25
SPEAKER_33: Arrests of individuals here in Minnesota via a press conference yesterday, the Department of Justice.
3:31
SPEAKER_33: I think 10 individuals involved in election fraud, but we were all assured by uh Secretary of State Steve Stein, this stuff didn't happen.
3:40
SPEAKER_33: And it it does.
3:42
SPEAKER_33: Also, uh the DOJ condemning a handful of Minnesota judges for uh rushing to the New York Times to complain about Operation Metro Surge.
3:55
SPEAKER_33: We have an update on Governor uh Dim Walls and his communist uh Minnesota Truth Council.
4:01
SPEAKER_33: They held their final meeting earlier uh this week.
4:05
SPEAKER_33: Also, the MCA test scores for Minnesota got released yesterday.
4:09
SPEAKER_33: Speaking of Operation Metro Surge, um, this will we'll we'll dive into this in the 7 o'clock hour.
4:15
SPEAKER_33: They're abysmal.
4:17
SPEAKER_33: Math and reading continue to be just depressing in terms of the less than half of the students here in Minnesota are proficient in math and reading.
4:29
SPEAKER_33: What most of the media has been ignoring, though, is the science numbers.
4:33
SPEAKER_33: So you're looking at 44, 48 percent.
4:35
SPEAKER_33: I'll get to the exact numbers when it comes to math and reading.
4:38
SPEAKER_33: Science proficiency was twenty-six percent.
4:44
SPEAKER_33: But unsurprisingly, most of the media outlets just they just blew right past that.
4:50
SPEAKER_33: And the excuse, and I won't bury the lead on this, I don't want to keep you waiting.
4:54
SPEAKER_33: We're gonna talk about we're not gonna get into it now.
4:57
SPEAKER_33: We're gonna talk about it in the 7 o'clock hour, but the excuse that the Minnesota Department of Education is giving is Operation Metro Surge.
5:03
SPEAKER_33: You I you could not I I I could not have made this up.
5:09
SPEAKER_33: I mean, I I guess maybe I could have.
5:11
SPEAKER_33: Maybe if you asked me what sort of excuse, because I was given a bit of a heads up that the MCA test grades were coming out.
5:19
SPEAKER_33: And on top of that, very conveniently, two days before the release of the MCA test scores, the Minnesota Department of Education decided that they're convening a task force, doing that thing with my fingers, to examine whether or not the state of Minnesota wants to reassess how they grade students.
5:43
SPEAKER_33: Oh, I'm sure they didn't see the MCA scores beforehand, and this whole task force wasn't created in order to save face weeks before a midterm election when it's shown once again that the billions upon billions and an increase, an exponential increase in billions of dollars.
6:01
SPEAKER_33: I have all the numbers next hour.
6:03
SPEAKER_33: Because they're also pointing to the pandemic, they're going, oh, we just haven't, you know, it's just that damn COVID.
6:08
SPEAKER_33: That damn COVID.
6:08
SPEAKER_33: The kids haven't recovered since COVID.
6:11
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
6:12
SPEAKER_33: So what did we do?
6:13
SPEAKER_33: We threw billions year over year over year at education, and guess what?
6:19
SPEAKER_33: Things got worse.
6:23
SPEAKER_33: Plus exclusive information that you won't hear, not only about these MCA scores, but also Bill Walsh from Center of the American Experiment will be joining us in studio this morning coming up at uh 8.30 to give to you the Thinking Minnesota polling numbers specifically relating to uh how the DFL has a massive DSA problem.
6:44
SPEAKER_33: And we're gonna talk a little bit about the election coming up later on in the hour.
6:47
SPEAKER_33: I found an article, an editorial written by Newt Gingrich, and I thought it was really interesting.
6:52
SPEAKER_33: I'm not gonna lie, it made me feel better in my assessment when we talk about the possibility of Republicans keeping control, which typically doesn't happen.
7:00
SPEAKER_33: And I'm gonna I'm gonna go back and give you some of the details of the historical anomalies where the party in power ended up retaining power in the midterms to provide some context.
7:11
SPEAKER_33: But as I've said to you, those other times in history where the party in power did go and retain power, there was usually some external factor involved that ended up bringing about the party in power retaining power.
7:26
SPEAKER_33: And I've been arguing that we're living through an external factor right now with everything that's going on.
7:31
SPEAKER_33: Newt Gingrich has a piece that points directly to that, basically saying that this is the most difficult election that he's ever tried to go and analyze.
7:42
SPEAKER_33: Now, listen, if you're a betting, you know, man or woman, right, the smart money is still on Republicans losing some control.
7:53
SPEAKER_33: More than likely the Senate retaining power in the House when you look at the numbers.
7:57
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
7:58
SPEAKER_33: So I mean again, that that that is the likely outcome.
8:02
SPEAKER_33: But the difficulty that we have right now is all of these externalities, these variances that are taking place during this election cycle, the politics of which we've never seen before.
8:14
SPEAKER_33: And I'm not even just talking about things relating specifically to politics and candidates and issues.
8:21
SPEAKER_33: I'm talking about other factors like artificial intelligence.
8:24
SPEAKER_33: I have audio of Secretary of War and friend of the show, Pete Heggseth, announcing a new uh a new govern, a new government organization relating to autonomous warfare.
8:38
SPEAKER_33: It's Skynet.
8:40
SPEAKER_33: It's incredible.
8:40
SPEAKER_33: I the to be living right now, to be blessed to be able to do this show right now, at this point in history, I could not feel more blessed and privileged.
8:52
SPEAKER_33: So we have a lot of ground to cover today on the show.
8:55
SPEAKER_33: A lot of comments are already uh rolling in this morning.
8:58
SPEAKER_33: So again, we're gonna dive fully into the education issue next hour.
9:01
SPEAKER_33: I do want to give you a voice early in the show before we kick off with um a headline roundup, and then I definitely want to get into the details of this is this Israeli flight yesterday that was almost um the the uh hundreds of passengers on board were almost all murdered by a terrorist.
9:21
SPEAKER_33: I just the details are harrowing.
9:23
SPEAKER_33: I have audio to share.
9:24
SPEAKER_33: But first, let's go ahead and hear from you.
9:26
SPEAKER_33: Remember, you can listen to the show live, the audio only stream on the MixLR app completely free or at americanexperiment.org.
9:33
SPEAKER_33: I always know which way.
9:34
SPEAKER_33: I'll look at the camera, I don't know which way to point, like to look at the sign.
9:37
SPEAKER_33: I've got to figure it's over here, right?
9:38
SPEAKER_33: I always look at the screen and it throws me off.
9:40
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9:45
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9:52
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9:59
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10:03
SPEAKER_25: Hey John, this is uh Daryl from EDINA.
10:06
SPEAKER_25: Wash Whoopee?
10:07
SPEAKER_25: Oh my god, racehorse fan name.
10:10
SPEAKER_25: Have a great day.
10:11
SPEAKER_33: Which one?
10:12
SPEAKER_33: What what is what what did he say?
10:13
SPEAKER_33: I missed what what did I say that he wants to be at?
10:15
SPEAKER_25: Watch Whoopi.
10:16
SPEAKER_25: Watch Whoopi, I think.
10:17
SPEAKER_25: I think that's what let me play it again.
10:19
SPEAKER_25: Hey John, this is uh Daryl from EDA.
10:22
SPEAKER_25: Wash Whoopi?
10:23
SPEAKER_33: Oh my I have no idea.
10:25
SPEAKER_33: I don't know what that was.
10:27
SPEAKER_33: I don't know.
10:28
SPEAKER_33: Maybe somebody else can clue me in.
10:29
SPEAKER_33: Sorry, Daryl.
10:30
SPEAKER_33: I don't know.
10:31
SPEAKER_33: I can't choose because I don't know what it is I said.
10:34
SPEAKER_36: Hi, John.
10:35
SPEAKER_36: This is Chris.
10:36
SPEAKER_36: I just want to say I really appreciate the way you coordinate your t-shirts to the background, but I'd really rather see some of your graphic tea collections, just a thought.
10:46
SPEAKER_33: Can I tell you?
10:47
SPEAKER_33: I know this is complete.
10:48
SPEAKER_33: This is more Freedom Friday commentary.
10:50
SPEAKER_33: Do you know that I struggle with that?
10:53
SPEAKER_33: So I wanted a specific look for the show.
10:55
SPEAKER_33: I don't want to spend a lot of time on this.
10:56
SPEAKER_33: I wanted a specific look for the uh look for the show.
10:58
SPEAKER_33: I wanted something uniform.
11:00
SPEAKER_33: And uh Melinda and I were talking about it.
11:02
SPEAKER_33: I have a good friend my good friend uh James T.
11:04
SPEAKER_33: Harris, who hosts the show in uh in Phoenix.
11:07
SPEAKER_33: We talked years ago.
11:08
SPEAKER_33: He has a very specific look.
11:09
SPEAKER_33: I don't really have one.
11:10
SPEAKER_33: I guess my t-shirt is my look.
11:13
SPEAKER_33: Right.
11:13
SPEAKER_33: So I typically try to try to reserve um my uh my printed t-shirts for uh for uh Fridays.
11:22
SPEAKER_33: But you know what?
11:22
SPEAKER_33: I'll tell you what.
11:23
SPEAKER_33: I'll tell you what.
11:24
SPEAKER_33: Next week, maybe I'll switch it up.
11:26
SPEAKER_33: I'll do a different printed t-shirt every day and I'll color match to the uh to the background.
11:30
SPEAKER_33: It's one of the first things I do when I get into the studio.
11:33
SPEAKER_33: Is uh I added a little bit more color today, I added some purple.
11:36
SPEAKER_33: Okay, sorry.
11:37
SPEAKER_09: My children are in school right now.
11:38
SPEAKER_09: We're both homeschooled, uh, and they're in high school now, both well above math, reading, and science.
11:46
SPEAKER_09: We homeschooled them.
11:48
SPEAKER_09: We went in metro surge.
11:50
SPEAKER_09: We just taught them anyway.
11:52
unknown: Yeah.
11:52
SPEAKER_09: Isn't that metro surge?
11:54
SPEAKER_09: These people have been failing the students in Minnesota since I was in high school 40 years ago.
12:01
SPEAKER_33: I almost I I I I um I almost in my house blew my top when I saw in the story that the idiots over at the Minnesota Department of Education and those that were commenting on the MCA scores after they were released just said it was Operation Metro Surge.
12:18
SPEAKER_33: So again, we're gonna talk about this in more detail.
12:20
SPEAKER_33: Don't have time to get into it now.
12:21
SPEAKER_33: I want to make sure that we have the full audience because usually everybody has arrived right around uh 7 o'clock uh this morning.
12:29
SPEAKER_33: But for those that don't remember, Operation Metro Surge ran from December 1st to February 12th.
12:35
SPEAKER_33: So the argument that they're giving for the horrible math, reading, and science assessment proficiency is that apparently all of the education for the students took place between December 1st and February 12th.
12:50
SPEAKER_33: That's that's what that's how stupid they think you are.
12:55
SPEAKER_33: That's how stupid they think that the broken and brainwashed a base.
12:59
SPEAKER_33: Because people will buy into it.
13:00
SPEAKER_33: Oh, you know, it's just the absenteeism and all of the struggles, and I just, you know, I just of course it was Operation Metro Surge.
13:07
SPEAKER_14: Test scores?
13:08
SPEAKER_14: We don't need no stinking test scores.
13:11
SPEAKER_14: They're doing exactly what they want to do.
13:13
SPEAKER_14: They're building one day at a time in school.
13:17
SPEAKER_14: Loyal, socialist, and communist.
13:20
SPEAKER_14: That's what they want.
13:21
SPEAKER_14: You don't have to learn to do anything.
13:24
SPEAKER_14: You just know how to pull levers.
13:26
SPEAKER_14: And they'll pay you to do it.
13:28
SPEAKER_14: That's all they're gonna do.
13:30
SPEAKER_14: Loyal, loyal, loyal to the government.
13:35
SPEAKER_14: Have a wonderful day.
13:37
SPEAKER_14: And if we don't get out and get these people out of office and take our country back this fall in a couple weeks.
13:44
SPEAKER_14: This country's done for.
13:55
SPEAKER_33: Brandon, thank you for the comment.
13:58
SPEAKER_33: Brandon, um, friend of the show, Brandon, had said was talking about Mildred and said that quit what he's watching Whoopee.
14:09
SPEAKER_33: That's where that came from before.
14:11
SPEAKER_33: I just I I missed it.
14:13
SPEAKER_33: So often what happens is I read the transcript, and then when I play the talk back, my mind is going other places, preparing for the next element, even though I've got enough information where I can go and comment on it later on, so that just blew right uh past me.
14:25
SPEAKER_33: Thank you for the uh for the clarif uh for the clarification this morning.
14:29
SPEAKER_33: It's uh much appreciated.
14:31
SPEAKER_23: John, my guy.
14:32
SPEAKER_23: Did you just say you felt blessed to be living through Skynet?
14:37
SPEAKER_33: My God, he doesn't listen.
14:39
SPEAKER_33: Do you ever listen, Mildred?
14:41
SPEAKER_33: Ever.
14:43
SPEAKER_33: I said I was blessed to be just it's neither here nor there.
14:49
SPEAKER_33: But it's like you just grab these little you take these chunks.
14:53
SPEAKER_33: I mentioned Skynet, I mentioned Pete Heggseth, and he goes on a rant here, and I'll play it for you in a second.
14:58
SPEAKER_33: I mentioned Skynet, you know, and and I mentioned around that conversation along with Pete Heggseth that I feel so blessed to be living in this time right now because of everything that's happening, the totality.
15:11
SPEAKER_33: You got that right.
15:11
SPEAKER_33: Devin understood it.
15:12
SPEAKER_33: Devin's over here listening to me.
15:14
SPEAKER_33: He's going, Yeah.
15:15
SPEAKER_33: I feel blessed and privileged to be a talk host and to continue to do what God gave me in terms of talents and a gift in a time like right now of historical significance, not just because of Skynet, you moron.
15:32
SPEAKER_23: You should play some clips of Pete Heggseth.
15:35
SPEAKER_23: Uh I'm going to.
15:36
SPEAKER_23: Yeah, that was absolutely insane.
15:38
SPEAKER_23: This is a madman.
15:39
SPEAKER_23: But we already knew that, um, especially when he was vomiting in the hotel lobby, screaming, kill all Muslims randomly.
15:46
SPEAKER_23: This man is absolutely inhibited.
15:48
SPEAKER_23: He's going to be impeached.
15:50
SPEAKER_23: And the everyday war is going to be his legacy if he ever tries to run.
15:55
SPEAKER_23: He's a monster.
15:56
SPEAKER_23: He has killed young girls that are just going to school based on bad data from AI, sorry, super intelligence and other crap.
16:07
SPEAKER_23: He is a war criminal and deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.
16:13
SPEAKER_23: MAGA, some of you also deserve to be in prison for the rest of your life for supporting this insane, irrational, unprovoked war with Iran.
16:23
SPEAKER_23: Thank you.
16:25
SPEAKER_33: Mildred just said that MAGA people should be locked up for simply supporting policy.
16:32
SPEAKER_33: You're a parody.
16:34
SPEAKER_33: You're a joke.
16:35
SPEAKER_33: It's not real.
16:37
SPEAKER_33: This person's not real.
16:39
SPEAKER_33: I can't.
16:39
SPEAKER_33: I just, if if they're real, yeah, we're we're doomed.
16:42
SPEAKER_33: You know, listen, speaking of Pete Heggseth, here's a little bit of what he uh had to say uh yesterday.
16:48
SPEAKER_33: This was a state of the force address uh yesterday.
16:52
SPEAKER_33: He was talking about the mainstream media.
16:54
SPEAKER_43: But it's worth saying again, so that the fake news understands it.
16:59
SPEAKER_43: We are no longer the woke department or the weak department.
17:04
SPEAKER_43: Simple translation translation of that no fanny, no fatties, no trannies, no beirdos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.
17:13
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, oh such a monster.
17:16
SPEAKER_33: Oh, what an evil person.
17:18
SPEAKER_33: Oh my gosh.
17:19
SPEAKER_33: Speaking common sense, getting rid of the lunacy from the previous administration.
17:24
SPEAKER_33: Just warriors.
17:25
SPEAKER_43: Just tough, ready, committed troops.
17:29
SPEAKER_43: The war department, as you know, is colorblind, gender-neutral, and merit-based.
17:36
SPEAKER_43: Or as a president likes to say me to central casting.
17:41
SPEAKER_43: I want central casting.
17:44
SPEAKER_43: The ideological clowns are out, the patriotic cowboys are in with testosterone testing on top.
17:55
SPEAKER_43: Diversity is not our strength, unity is our strength.
18:00
SPEAKER_43: Because what that's all that really matters when the missiles are flying.
18:05
SPEAKER_43: You see, the delusional media will downplay all of the progress of the past year, but this group, right here, and I look forward to hearing from you all tomorrow morning as well, knows how real and how important cultural change is and has been.
18:21
SPEAKER_33: You know, the reason why um foes of the show uh like Mildred go and speak about Pete Heggseth like they do, um, it's because they're envious.
18:32
SPEAKER_33: When an individual uh who exudes strength speaks truth, it's a threat to them.
18:40
SPEAKER_33: They wish that they were more like them.
18:43
SPEAKER_33: It's really quite sad, to be to be honest with you.
18:47
SPEAKER_33: I do appreciate the fact that Mildred left that that comment because they really did go and show their hand with that final comment.
18:55
SPEAKER_33: Like it's one thing to have an opinion to go off, you know, uh, you know, half-cocked on the ridiculous theories that he presents.
19:02
SPEAKER_33: And yeah, it's all entertaining.
19:04
SPEAKER_33: And uh, you know, when it comes to just listening to an individual that is that delusional, certainly has been the case with other foes of the show as well.
19:13
SPEAKER_33: But that was that was the one moment of truth.
19:16
SPEAKER_33: MAGA individuals should be locked up as well for simply supporting the efforts of the administration.
19:24
SPEAKER_33: Tells you all you need to know about moron lunatics like Eric from Brainerd.
19:31
SPEAKER_33: All right, we're gonna get to your comments coming up.
19:33
SPEAKER_33: I need to dive into the material.
19:34
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20:43
SPEAKER_33: We're definitely going to be getting into education next hour as I previewed.
20:46
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20:57
SPEAKER_46: You've heard about Education Minnesota, the statewide teachers' union that's affiliated with Randy Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers.
21:06
SPEAKER_46: Well, they're at it again.
21:08
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21:13
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21:25
SPEAKER_35: Hi, I'm Joe Scott, and I'm the only conservative on the Eastern Carver County Schools Board.
21:31
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21:43
SPEAKER_35: Ideology becomes policy.
21:45
SPEAKER_35: We need to keep these outside ideologies away from our children.
21:50
SPEAKER_35: These national interests are going to have to get through me to get to your kids.
21:55
SPEAKER_46: The tab was paid for by reelect Joe Scott.
21:58
SPEAKER_32: You can tell that.
22:00
SPEAKER_32: Mildred from Brainerd wishes she or he had more testosterone because he is using a voice changer to lower the voice to sound very manly.
22:13
SPEAKER_33: Well, which is funny because Bob actually has a really low voice.
22:18
SPEAKER_33: Like that's a real low voice that Bob has.
22:20
SPEAKER_33: You can clearly tell.
22:23
SPEAKER_39: Hey, good morning.
22:25
SPEAKER_39: I think as much as we have to listen to Mildred every day, I'm beginning to think she's your ignorant sidekick on the show.
22:34
SPEAKER_39: No.
22:34
SPEAKER_39: No.
22:36
SPEAKER_33: Let's never let's never think that or revisit that ever, ever again.
22:42
SPEAKER_14: Mildred for Brainerd is insulted by PK because he insulted clowns.
22:49
SPEAKER_14: I'm convinced that Mildred during your show in the morning.
22:54
SPEAKER_14: Because she's in the process of putting her clown makeup before she goes out into public and does her movie in the Brainerd area.
23:04
SPEAKER_14: So Mildred, we're really sorry that she makes a clown graded clown.
23:11
SPEAKER_14: But once you get your makeup on and you're done watching the view, go make a happy day on Brainerd.
23:20
SPEAKER_14: Making kids happy with your happy clown face.
23:24
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23:25
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23:28
SPEAKER_33: Mildred needs to relax.
23:30
SPEAKER_33: Right?
23:30
SPEAKER_33: Just needs to chill out.
23:31
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23:33
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23:40
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25:32
SPEAKER_33: Text that rolled in.
25:34
SPEAKER_33: Whatever Eric the Mildred is, he's fortunate to be in a country that allows his delusional, self-centered, narcissistic personality to exist and that you allow him to spew.
25:44
SPEAKER_33: Kudos to you, John.
25:46
SPEAKER_33: Well, you know what, to be honest with you, I just kind of wanted to get it out of the way.
25:49
SPEAKER_33: You know, I try to keep to a one blast per person rule here.
25:54
SPEAKER_33: If you do text messages, that's different.
25:56
SPEAKER_33: But when it comes to the audio, I try to keep to a one blast per person uh minimum on the show.
26:01
SPEAKER_33: It's not, it's not easy to do, but I do.
26:03
SPEAKER_33: So I figured, ah, you know what?
26:04
SPEAKER_33: This one definitely went off the rails, so I figured I'd share it this morning.
26:07
SPEAKER_33: Chad from Anoka, friend of the show, says Mildred should be in uh in prison.
26:13
SPEAKER_33: Uh, let's see, for supporting uh Oban when he ordered the assassination of an American citizen according to her logic.
26:21
SPEAKER_33: Uh, I'm a testing coordinator, writes another comment.
26:24
SPEAKER_33: Oh, first off, they said uh Mildred was being fascist.
26:27
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, that really was fascist.
26:28
SPEAKER_33: To go and lock up individuals for just going and supporting the efforts of an administration.
26:32
SPEAKER_33: Uh they do get into some details regarding uh public high school.
26:35
SPEAKER_33: I'm gonna save that until we get into the um conversation about education uh next uh next hour.
26:43
SPEAKER_33: All right, uh let's get to some of the news.
26:45
SPEAKER_33: First off, I want to do a headline roundup.
26:48
SPEAKER_33: We're gonna get into the election aspect of what I talked about here um earlier in Newt Inkrich talking about this is the most difficult election that he's ever had to go in uh and analyze, uh, and the fact that we are living through very different times than we have in the past.
27:05
SPEAKER_33: Just look at and listen to all of these were headlines on the front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune this morning.
27:14
SPEAKER_33: University data shows administrative payroll jobs have grown the most.
27:20
SPEAKER_33: University of Minnesota is gonna cut 225 million from its budget across all campuses.
27:26
SPEAKER_33: These are two headlines back to back.
27:29
SPEAKER_33: The number of administrative employees has grown faster than other groups, though the University of Minnesota officials say the picture is more nuanced than this than the numbers suggest.
27:38
SPEAKER_33: And you heard that right.
27:40
SPEAKER_33: So they have the most growth in payroll when it comes to our university here in Minnesota, and yet they're about to cut$225 million from the budget across all the campuses.
27:51
SPEAKER_33: University of Minnesota faculty and alumni decry administrative bloat, despised proposed budget cuts.
27:58
SPEAKER_33: University of Minnesota faculty and students fear budget cuts and tuition hikes will reduce staffing and enrollment.
28:04
SPEAKER_33: And again, those are all in relation to the MCA scores yesterday.
28:09
SPEAKER_33: What's really interesting about this, though, is the focus that the Strib gave to the University of Minnesota and all its negativity while avoiding on their homepage what I will share with you next hour, and that is the disastrous, the continued disastrous MCA test results.
28:27
SPEAKER_33: More headlines from this morning.
28:29
SPEAKER_33: Police say teens in deadly Minneapolis crash that we talked about yesterday.
28:34
SPEAKER_33: They had just left uh a scene involving gunfire.
28:40
SPEAKER_33: So now you have speeding being a factor, despite all the red light hammers that the communists on the Minneapolis City Council have put up.
28:48
SPEAKER_33: And now you have the fact that these individuals, who several of them were juveniles, I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, I'm just providing you the facts here.
28:56
SPEAKER_33: They had just left a gunfire scene.
28:59
SPEAKER_33: Property tax hikes could hit double digits across the twin cities in the suburbs.
29:05
SPEAKER_33: Justice Department charging ten people in Minnesota with voter fraud.
29:10
SPEAKER_33: And then you finally get to way down Minnesota student test scores stagnating.
29:18
SPEAKER_33: Where to look up your school?
29:20
SPEAKER_33: And again, they completely ignore this the uh they completely ignored the science numbers.
29:26
SPEAKER_33: They're ignoring the science.
29:28
SPEAKER_33: But isn't it funny how they framed it?
29:31
SPEAKER_33: Oh, they're just stagnating.
29:32
SPEAKER_33: No, they're not stagnating, they're getting worse.
29:35
SPEAKER_33: Especially when you consider the amount of money, the billions of dollars over funding, because it's over a course of a couple years, it's broken up into sections.
29:46
SPEAKER_33: It's not year by year, right?
29:47
SPEAKER_33: It's 20 to 20 and 21 that they spent this much, 22 and 23.
29:51
SPEAKER_33: We spent this much, you know, 23 and 24.
29:54
SPEAKER_33: You get the you get the idea.
29:56
SPEAKER_33: But the way that they frame it in our local media is, oh, they're stagnating.
30:02
SPEAKER_33: They want the kids stupid and easily manipulated.
30:08
SPEAKER_33: And there's a reason why they're ignoring that 26 26% of Minnesota students are proficient in science.
30:15
SPEAKER_33: Isn't that interesting?
30:17
SPEAKER_33: But follow the science, everybody, remember?
30:21
SPEAKER_33: All right, before we get into that Israeli um potential terrorist attack, uh, this one struck a chord with me personally.
30:30
SPEAKER_33: A shooting on Highway 100 near Highway 7 in St.
30:33
SPEAKER_33: Louis Park resulted in a man sustaining non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
30:38
SPEAKER_33: The southbound lanes were closed during the investigation.
30:42
SPEAKER_33: This is uh the highway that I traverse and this area that I traverse every single day.
30:46
SPEAKER_33: I certainly did back when I was working for the previous employer, and I still do when I come in here to Center of the American Experiment in Minnetonka.
30:54
SPEAKER_33: St.
30:55
SPEAKER_33: Louis uh police uh St.
30:56
SPEAKER_33: Louis Park Police Department said that its officers responded to the reports of a highway shooting of a shooting on Highway 100 and Highway 7 at 6 p.m.
31:06
SPEAKER_33: Police say that they recovered evidence and found a man who had sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
31:13
SPEAKER_33: Investigators believe the shooting appears to have been between occupants of multiple vehicles.
31:21
SPEAKER_33: Can you I don't even want to think about it?
31:26
SPEAKER_33: I mean, I did.
31:27
SPEAKER_33: I thought about it right when I went past where this took place on the drive-in this morning.
31:32
SPEAKER_33: The southbound lanes of Highway 100 were closed between Highway 7 and Excelsior Boulevard as the authorities investigated the shooting.
31:39
SPEAKER_33: It was opened uh later on.
31:42
SPEAKER_33: They do not know the details of what led to the shooting.
31:44
SPEAKER_33: They're asking the public for uh help in determining what had uh what had taken place.
31:49
SPEAKER_33: It's spreading.
31:51
SPEAKER_33: It's absolutely spreading.
31:52
SPEAKER_33: You know, one incident I would give you, and just kind of go, you know, this is scary, and this is probably gangs and blah, blah, blah.
31:59
SPEAKER_33: No, it's a constant.
32:01
SPEAKER_33: It's an absolute constant.
32:03
SPEAKER_33: And when you get into the elections, there's a reason why, and Newt Gingrich actually points to Minnesota, there's a reason why Minnesota is the outlier.
32:12
SPEAKER_33: You know, my prayers are that what may happen here in terms of our election here in Minnesota will reverberate across the country and we won't be so much of an anomaly because we certainly have our fair share of ridiculousness taking place in other parts of the country.
32:28
SPEAKER_33: Be that as it may, Minnesota is incredibly unique because we have our own very unique set of difficulties that we're dealing with, a lot of which I just shared with you in that headline uh roundup.
32:42
SPEAKER_33: Israel, major disaster avoided and sus uh suspected attempted hijacking.
32:48
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35:15
SPEAKER_47: You talked about this thing in Britain.
35:17
SPEAKER_47: You want to hear how absurd things are there and how far the anti-Israel propaganda has gone.
35:23
SPEAKER_47: We gave the Brits the intel that there was going to be an attack, and it's an Iranian-sponsored attack, and pretty much the next day they slapped sanctions on us.
35:34
SPEAKER_47: On us.
35:35
SPEAKER_47: You know, so it's it's wild.
35:37
SPEAKER_47: I mean, the the caving in the collapse before the uh Islamist uh Marxist alliance is uh is very dangerous for the future of the West.
35:49
SPEAKER_33: So that was Benjamin Netanyahu uh yesterday.
35:52
SPEAKER_33: I have some further comments from him uh in this fly Dubai attack that took place uh yesterday.
35:58
SPEAKER_33: But laying out the details of the warnings that were that were given and the concerns.
36:05
SPEAKER_33: Because there's some concerns now, even though they haven't confirmed who this co-pilot was belonging to and who and what motivated him.
36:12
SPEAKER_33: Hopefully we will uh find out.
36:13
SPEAKER_33: But there are concerns that Iran may have been involved in this attack on this fly Dubai flight uh yesterday.
36:21
SPEAKER_33: I want to keep for um just a moment with the theme of what was uh taking place in at the RAF uh base with that thwarted terror attack.
36:33
SPEAKER_33: I don't think I mentioned on the show yesterday, but apparently it was one of the terrorists themselves who actually may have called police.
36:40
SPEAKER_33: And I had speculated, I had speculated that perhaps this was a setup.
36:49
SPEAKER_33: That perhaps this was a test run.
36:53
SPEAKER_33: And it turns out I'm not the only one that thinks that.
36:55
SPEAKER_33: Nigel Farage was on some doing the media rounds yesterday, and he uh, the British politician leader of Reform UK, he actually went and mentioned something very similar regarding how he felt that that RAF thwarted attack because it was the vehicles were filled with uh with gasoline, but they didn't have any explosives.
37:16
SPEAKER_33: So there was a lot of consideration that maybe, just maybe, this was something that was planned.
37:23
SPEAKER_33: These guys were patsies, and they were testing the vulnerabilities of the United States.
37:28
SPEAKER_33: So, as we wait to find out what motivated this attacker, let me give you some of the details of what transpired yesterday.
37:35
SPEAKER_33: An Israeli official said the major disaster was narrowly avoided.
37:39
SPEAKER_33: The fly Dubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Saudi Arabia Wednesday amid what Israeli officials described as an attempted hijacking by one of the pilots.
37:48
SPEAKER_33: It was a copilot, the aircraft flight FZ-1073 landed safely at Prince Sultan uh airport.
37:57
SPEAKER_33: Investigators believe uh the co-pilot tried to hijack the aircraft.
38:01
SPEAKER_33: Now, this was early reporting that I'm pulling these initial details from.
38:05
SPEAKER_33: Uh, it remained unclear whether he intended to crash it, fly it to Israel, or carry out an attack similar to 9-11.
38:12
SPEAKER_33: Israeli security establishment, including the IDF, Masad, and Shin Bet, increasingly believes the incident was an attempted terrorist attack.
38:20
SPEAKER_33: The Jerusalem Post reported there was no evidence the suspected hijacker had backing from a foreign government or organization.
38:27
SPEAKER_33: Unconfirmed reports that the pilot, reportedly an Omani national who had worked for the airline for about a year, stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane before the passengers subdued him.
38:38
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, my understanding is, and I'll have more details, is that in the midst of when the pilot was being attacked by the co-pilot, the pilot had the wherewithal to go and unlock the cockpit door, which enabled the passengers to come in and help fend off the co-pilot.
38:53
SPEAKER_33: All the passengers were safe and accounted for.
38:57
SPEAKER_33: The airline planned to send another aircraft to Saudi Arabia to get the passengers yesterday in Tel Aviv.
39:03
SPEAKER_33: There is some footage available that passengers uh shot on the inside of the plane, and you could, I mean, it was like watching something out of a movie.
39:11
SPEAKER_33: To listen to the plane, the engines throttling up and throttling back to see the plane dipping at the angle that it was, and I have more details on what actually happened physically with the aircraft, which is also truly stunning.
39:24
SPEAKER_33: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, it's too early to determine if Iran was involved in the attempted hijacking.
39:30
SPEAKER_33: The co-pilot, again, allegedly stabbed the captain, tried to take control of the aircraft.
39:34
SPEAKER_33: That's when the aircraft began to make its erratic moves.
39:37
SPEAKER_33: The crew did overpower him, allowing the plane to land safely.
39:41
SPEAKER_33: So here's a little bit more.
39:42
SPEAKER_33: First hand accounts describe the chaotic struggle as the passengers and the crew members rushed towards the cockpit and subdued the attacker.
39:50
SPEAKER_33: The flight was carrying 174 passengers.
39:54
SPEAKER_33: The aircraft transmitted the International Distress Code before switching to the code used to indicate unlawful interference or, if possible, hijacking.
40:05
SPEAKER_33: The plane plunged thousands of feet before eventually leveling out and diverting to Saudi Arabia.
40:12
SPEAKER_33: And when I give you the details in just a moment, most aviation experts, based on the preliminary data of what transpired physically with the plane, are saying that it is an absolute miracle that the pilot was able to pull the aircraft out of the descent that it was on, saying that it may have been an even more difficult and dramatic saving of the lives on board compared to what happened with Sully Sullenberger a number of years back.
40:45
SPEAKER_33: The attacker, allegedly stabbing the captain, attempted to seize the aircraft.
40:48
SPEAKER_33: The passengers did not simply wait for help.
40:50
SPEAKER_33: One Israeli passenger described the fight in a video recorded after the plane was under control.
40:55
SPEAKER_33: He says about the Dubai flight, we took control of the flight.
40:59
SPEAKER_33: There was an incident with a crazy guy with a knife to stab one of the pilots.
41:03
SPEAKER_33: We jumped in and we got him.
41:04
SPEAKER_33: After the cockpit was secured, the passenger then reassured those watching that the situation was under control.
41:10
SPEAKER_33: Looks like we've landed in Saudi Arabia.
41:12
SPEAKER_33: You can see that I'm okay.
41:14
SPEAKER_33: He went on to describe the condition of the pilots and the efforts to keep the aircraft secure.
41:18
SPEAKER_33: The terrorist has been neutralized, the pilot who was seriously wounded, and apparently another pilot in front who was slightly wounded, but he managed to land the plane anyway.
41:29
SPEAKER_33: Another passenger involved subduing the attacker gave an even more succinct description of the struggle.
41:34
SPEAKER_33: We jumped on the pilot to force and tie him up using headphones.
41:39
SPEAKER_33: You know, there's an interesting angle on this, and they're saying that this mid-air terror attack, it really shatters a post-9-11 assumption.
41:50
SPEAKER_33: An Israeli airline captain is warning that the terrifying mid-air attack could force changes now to cockpit security, comparing the potential impact to the sweeping aviation changes that followed the 9-11 terrorist attack.
42:05
SPEAKER_33: Of course, as you know, the aviation industry at that time dramatically changed the cockpit security procedures after 9-11 when the hijackers gained control of the commercial aircraft.
42:14
SPEAKER_33: This Israeli pilot comments suggest that Wednesday's incident couldn't prompt another examination of those assumptions, this time centered on the possibility of an attack originating from inside the flight deck itself.
42:26
SPEAKER_33: And we're entering a whole new realm if we have to worry about terrorists that have gone and embedded themselves inside the airline industry, or more likely, individuals already working in the airline industry who end up becoming radicalized.
42:41
SPEAKER_33: Because I think that is the bigger threat that we're faced with right now.
42:46
SPEAKER_33: It's probably a lot faster to go and radicalize an individual to join your potential in this case, we don't know yet.
42:55
SPEAKER_33: But for the sake of argument, you know, your battle, your jihadi battle, if you go and radicalize an individual that's already within the industry.
43:04
SPEAKER_33: And so, point being, getting back to the how the passengers subdued them, I was watching these interviews, and the passengers were like, we didn't know what to do in order to try to subdue the co-pilot.
43:14
SPEAKER_33: So all they can end up finding were the available headphones that they supply on the flight for the in-flight entertainment, and they ended up using those to go and tie the dude up.
43:25
SPEAKER_33: One passenger's mother described what her daughter had seen, telling the Jerusalem Post that they heard screams before the pilot before seeing the pilot on the floor in blood inside the cockpit.
43:35
SPEAKER_33: The aircraft was rapidly losing altitude during the confrontation.
43:39
SPEAKER_33: Israeli fighter jets were scrambled as authorities initially feared the aircraft had been hijacked.
43:44
SPEAKER_33: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the defense minister, uh Israel Katz convened an emergency security consultation as the plane remained out of contact and headed away from Israel, and again, ultimately landing without any injury to the Passengers.
44:01
SPEAKER_33: The pilot who was stabbed by his co-pilot has been identified as an Indian national named Smith Monchar uh Mokchar.
44:12
SPEAKER_33: Schmidt Mokchar.
44:14
SPEAKER_33: We'll call him Smit for the remainder of uh his background.
44:19
SPEAKER_33: Uh the accounts emerged as the aircraft uh the accounts emerging from the aircraft credit his flight his fight for control and helping to alert the passengers to the danger unfolding inside the cockpit.
44:32
SPEAKER_33: Uh Smith is a veteran pilot, nearly 10,000 hours of flight experience.
44:38
SPEAKER_33: Uh he was the one at controls when the Omani first officer allegedly attacked him.
44:44
SPEAKER_33: Fought back against the attacker as they were plunging thousands of feet.
44:47
SPEAKER_33: His struggle also helped alert the crew and passengers to what was going on.
44:51
SPEAKER_33: According to the New York Post, the second set of relief pilots on board were there to take over for the rest of the flight.
45:00
SPEAKER_33: They were the ones who landed the plane per the post.
45:03
SPEAKER_33: Relief pilots were European, one of them being British, and the other still unknown at the time of the publication.
45:09
SPEAKER_33: So the flight data showed the plane dropping rapidly during the confrontation.
45:19
SPEAKER_33: Can you just imagine?
45:20
SPEAKER_33: I mean, of all the threats that you're expecting, you would never ever expect it to be coming from the guy that's seated right next to you.
45:27
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45:31
SPEAKER_33: Let me share with you some uh expert analysis.
45:33
SPEAKER_33: I grabbed this uh going through and doing my prep uh overnight.
45:37
SPEAKER_33: But some aviation experts were saying that the plane was cruising at about 34,000 feet when it started its dive.
45:44
SPEAKER_33: The ground speed was 410 knots, so you're looking about a 500 miles per hour.
45:50
SPEAKER_33: Uh this equates to about a 40 knot headwind.
45:54
SPEAKER_33: In the dive, it got to 595 to 6 knots ground speed.
46:00
SPEAKER_33: That's close to 690 miles per hour.
46:07
SPEAKER_33: Using simple calculations, it translates to about 630 to 640 knots airspeed, which converts to about 500 knots indicated aired speed.
46:16
SPEAKER_33: Now the number matters.
46:18
SPEAKER_33: And the reason why the number matters is for the 340 knot limit.
46:23
SPEAKER_33: Using the 630 and 640 knots true airspeed, and just hang with me.
46:29
SPEAKER_33: And the 95 degrees at the surface based on the local weather reports, the plane was orders of magnitude above the limits and beyond the calculated safety factors built into airlines and it managed to survive.
46:46
SPEAKER_33: I don't mean to be disrespectful.
46:48
SPEAKER_33: I just want to give you sort of a pop culture reference.
46:51
SPEAKER_33: Uh Top Gun Maverick.
46:53
SPEAKER_33: When Maverick is doing his solo flight to sh prove that the mission could be accomplished and he ends up bending the airframe of his fighter jet, this is what we're talking about.
47:03
SPEAKER_33: This plane was not designed to be stressed to the level of what it was stressed yesterday during this attempted terrorist attack.
47:12
SPEAKER_33: They go on to say this is genuinely a testament to the 737 Max and the modern composite airframes.
47:18
SPEAKER_33: In virtually every historical incident where an airliner got anywhere close to these speeds, the tail ripped off the entire back of the plane.
47:26
SPEAKER_33: And as a matter of fact, they lost a piece of the rudder, apparently, of the plane in all of this.
47:31
SPEAKER_33: They go wonder right if there is anybody on the fence asking the question that the 737 was safe to fly on, just realize that this airframe was hundreds of times stronger than required, tested, and certified to be.
47:43
SPEAKER_33: It clipped 30,000 feet per minute in the descent.
47:48
SPEAKER_33: They went on to say, I fly C-17s and we put our thrust reversers out in flight, and we are limited to 20 knots.
47:57
SPEAKER_33: The inerrant strength of that airframe is genuinely unbelievable, as are the excellent piloting skills of whoever pulled it out of that dive.
48:06
SPEAKER_33: I'm even going out on a limb here, and this is where I got my comment earlier, to say that the dive recovery is at least as impressive as Sully's landing on the Hudson.
48:19
SPEAKER_33: You know what the sad part is about this whole thing?
48:21
SPEAKER_33: It's all gonna get memory hold.
48:23
SPEAKER_33: Hopefully they make an amazing movie of the incident, but this is all gonna get memory hold.
48:29
SPEAKER_33: Because this was potentially an act of terrorism, and because it could be perceived as benefiting Trump and Republicans, even though this was an Israeli flight, especially if it turns out that this was inspired by, you know, Iranian terrorism, yeah, it's all gonna get memory hold.
48:46
SPEAKER_33: And it that's a that's a travesty.
48:48
SPEAKER_33: This is an incredible story.
48:51
SPEAKER_33: Incredible.
48:52
SPEAKER_33: I hope I'm wrong, but I can tell you that based off of the prep that I was doing this morning today, there already was very little about this in the wake of what had happened.
49:02
SPEAKER_33: I mean, in normal circumstances, and this goes back to what I talked about before, the variances in the world that we live in right now, heading into this midterm election.
49:10
SPEAKER_33: In normal circumstances, this would be a story that would continue to just get national news.
49:14
SPEAKER_33: I mean, all the different angles.
49:16
SPEAKER_33: Who was the co you know, who who radicalized?
49:20
SPEAKER_33: What was the co-pilot's intention?
49:22
SPEAKER_33: The pilot being able to save everybody because of what had happened with the plane and the way that it was operating, the passenger stepping and all of it.
49:29
SPEAKER_33: But nope.
49:30
SPEAKER_33: Oh no, can't do that.
49:31
SPEAKER_33: Can't can't have spent much more time on it because that could go and help.
49:34
SPEAKER_33: You know, it can make Trump look legitimate when it comes to his, you know, efforts to keep Iran from rage waging war against us and our allies.
49:42
SPEAKER_33: So better not talk much more about this incredibly amazing and compelling story.
49:46
SPEAKER_22: Good morning, John Rich here.
49:48
SPEAKER_22: In reference to the hijacked airplane, I guess as a passenger, we're gonna have to profile our pilots from now on.
49:58
SPEAKER_22: I mean, you want to get on that plane where you don't have the actual pilot anymore.
50:04
SPEAKER_22: And what happens if the the head pilot would have gone to the bathroom and the first pilot left him out?
50:11
SPEAKER_22: And then they didn't know if you're all great questions.
50:17
SPEAKER_08: That was a handful of intervention.
50:21
SPEAKER_08: That plane should have ripped apart.
50:25
SPEAKER_08: Um that was a miracle.
50:28
SPEAKER_08: That it didn't crash in the ground or rip apart.
50:33
SPEAKER_33: I will uh thank you to both Rich and uh Lou, friends of the show, getting their comments in uh early this morning to 651-964-0294.
50:42
SPEAKER_33: And obviously we'll be keeping an eye on this if we get any uh any uh more information about the motivation of the uh co-pilot.
50:50
SPEAKER_33: We'll certainly uh go and uh let you know.
50:53
SPEAKER_33: Somebody left a comment.
50:54
SPEAKER_33: Pretty sure Mildred is very confused by this info.
50:59
SPEAKER_33: Somebody also wrote, think of all the ancillary workers in the airline industry, like baggage handlers and the people that come in and clean the airplane airplane.
51:06
SPEAKER_33: Really bad things could happen.
51:07
SPEAKER_33: No, I was thinking exactly the same thing.
51:11
SPEAKER_33: I was thinking exactly the same thing.
51:14
SPEAKER_33: Somebody else wrote in, keep in mind, John, just like October 7th, several years ago, it was at the end of the Feast of Tabernacle.
51:21
SPEAKER_33: We are in the midst of the Feast of Tabernacle right now.
51:23
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, we are.
51:25
SPEAKER_33: All right, let's switch gears here.
51:27
SPEAKER_33: So don't worry, I'm not gonna wipe out too hard on the details of what David Grush said.
51:31
SPEAKER_33: I am gonna share with you some comments regarding UAP's uh NIH that's non-human intelligence.
51:38
SPEAKER_33: If you have, I'm about I have about 45 minutes left in the podcast.
51:42
SPEAKER_33: I was listening to it um as I was doing prep and on the drive-in this morning.
51:46
SPEAKER_33: It is worth a listen.
51:48
SPEAKER_33: Uh David Grush, uh, of course, this is an individual who uh has quite an extensive military uh background.
51:56
SPEAKER_33: Uh David Grush arguing that the UAPA UAP secrecy stems from contractor fraud liability, not public panic.
52:05
SPEAKER_33: He believes disclosure is a governance issue with significant market implications, including potential legal exposure to defense contractors and the need to reorient defense industrial base.
52:18
SPEAKER_33: Grush predicts threshold disclosure will occur before Trump leaves office with specific signals to watch for in terms of uh public uh verification.
52:30
SPEAKER_33: Now, again, this is an individual who has firsthand accounts working inside of the government, has given congressional testimony.
52:38
SPEAKER_33: He's been at the forefront of UFO disclosure uh over the course of the past uh few years.
52:44
SPEAKER_33: But there's an interesting sidebar to all of this and why I bring it up.
52:47
SPEAKER_33: First, let me go ahead and share with you a couple of clips from uh yesterday.
52:52
SPEAKER_33: Uh first, we'll start off with uh Joe Rogan, speaking of disclosure, at the UFC Freedom 250 event, actually uh met with Stephen Miller for just a brief moment, and they had an exchange regarding the potential disclosure fully of uh non-human intelligence UAPs.
53:12
SPEAKER_03: I met him very briefly at the UFC event at the White House, and he told me that it's gonna come out.
53:16
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, okay.
53:17
SPEAKER_02: That's good.
53:18
SPEAKER_02: Well, there you go.
53:19
SPEAKER_02: It was really quick.
53:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
53:20
SPEAKER_03: It's like he's like, I'm just I know you're interested in this.
53:23
SPEAKER_03: This is literally all we talked about.
53:24
SPEAKER_03: The UFO thing is gonna come out.
53:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
53:26
SPEAKER_03: Like, okay, when?
53:27
SPEAKER_03: When's that coming out?
53:28
SPEAKER_03: Let's go.
53:31
SPEAKER_33: Now, this initial Stephen Miller's gonna make another appearance in my commentary here in just a moment.
53:35
SPEAKER_33: It's the reason why I'm bringing this story up.
53:36
SPEAKER_33: Let me play for you another clip, though.
53:38
SPEAKER_33: Uh, to what I was talking about a moment ago.
53:40
SPEAKER_33: Uh David Grush um talking about the government not disclosing everything.
53:45
SPEAKER_33: Um, and if and when they do, it'll more than likely benefit a much larger agenda.
53:51
SPEAKER_33: Here's a little of what David Grush had to say.
53:53
SPEAKER_03: So what's the holdup in terms of disclosure?
53:59
SPEAKER_02: I necessarily can't read the president's mind.
54:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh, there's certainly a uh multilateral kind of diplomatic issue.
54:07
SPEAKER_02: I mean, so we're in this this issue now where once we cross the Rubicon, then we affect allies and adversaries.
54:14
SPEAKER_02: You know, our adversaries have programs, what are they going to tell their citizenry?
54:17
SPEAKER_02: You have uh possible theological distress, Vatican, et cetera.
54:21
SPEAKER_02: And I'm you know I'm a Catholic and I I certainly appreciate uh the Vatican's long study on this subject, and they've just stayed quiet on what they know.
54:30
SPEAKER_02: And so it's there's a lot of like collateral effects.
54:33
SPEAKER_02: If you're not careful with certain stuff, you you can you know trigger a response, and there is great fear that uh I don't necessarily believe in this, but like there has been assessments in the past that you know revealing certain things may, you know, trigger a response from a third party.
54:51
SPEAKER_03: Trigger a response from them, from these possible entities.
54:55
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
54:56
SPEAKER_02: And that is a that has been written up.
54:59
SPEAKER_02: Uh so the government think tanks wrote that up in reports the previous president.
55:03
SPEAKER_03: So the con the the the theory is that we disclose people are now aware of it all over the globe, and they decide to show themselves.
55:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean I think there's a real fear of like a Ghostbusters moment, I'll say.
55:17
SPEAKER_33: So I have one more clip of David to share, and it's probably one of the most compelling um pieces of information that he shared regarding the existence of uh NAHI UAPs.
55:29
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
55:30
SPEAKER_33: So the reason I wanted to bring this up though was something very interesting happened online yesterday.
55:35
SPEAKER_33: You see, in the middle of this interview, if you go and listen to it, David Grush speaks positively about President Donald Trump.
55:44
SPEAKER_33: Talks about how Trump will more than likely go and leave office.
55:48
SPEAKER_33: It might have been in that clip I just played, but m will probably at the end of his term do full uh you know, full U UAP NHI disclosure.
56:01
SPEAKER_33: Just get it all out there and let the public decide what they want to do with it and then sort of hand the reins over to whatever the next administration is that Trump wants this to be a part of his legacy.
56:14
SPEAKER_33: He also, David Grush, also talked positively about Stephen Miller, which is why Joe Rogan had brought up Stephen Miller in his commentary.
56:24
SPEAKER_33: When I hopped online yesterday, I saw all these comments of individuals that were criticizing David Grush.
56:30
SPEAKER_33: And these were all individuals, and some of them prominent, who have been at the forefront of trying to get to the truth of, you know, non-human intelligence and UAPs.
56:41
SPEAKER_33: These are individuals who had a tremendous amount of respect for David Grush.
56:44
SPEAKER_33: And I'm like, what is going on?
56:45
SPEAKER_33: I mean, he's actually coming out and saying even more than what we've been told before.
56:50
SPEAKER_33: And then I realized, oh, he talked positively about the administration is Trump derangement syndrome.
56:58
SPEAKER_33: That's that's that's all that it is.
57:00
SPEAKER_33: So now there are all these individuals out there who used to go and be fans of David Grush, supported his efforts in full disclosure, but because he dares speak positively about Trump and Stephen Miller in the administration, they all are dis they're they're all discrediting him now.
57:21
SPEAKER_33: I it just again, I'm I'm not surprised this is what happens with Trump derangement syndrome.
57:30
SPEAKER_33: But that's the reason I wanted to bring it up.
57:32
SPEAKER_33: All he did was speak positively about Trump and Stephen Miller.
57:34
SPEAKER_33: And staunch defenders of the existence of UAPs, ETs, transdimensional beings, suddenly they all say, Oh, he can't be able to do that.
58:12
SPEAKER_33: Presented by American Experiment.
58:14
SPEAKER_33: Glad you're with us uh this morning.
58:16
SPEAKER_33: We're gonna get into the indictment, an election fraud from the DOJ yesterday, the condemnation of judges also by the DOJ yesterday, who went and rushed out to the New York Times to go and complain about Operation Metro Surge.
58:31
SPEAKER_33: We have an update on Governor Dimwalls and his Communist Gakafska-esque Ministry of Truth, plus the disastrous M uh MDA scores, and how the Department of Education here in Minnesota is trying to blame Operation Metro Surge for these horrific numbers.
58:52
SPEAKER_33: So we got a lot of ground to cover.
58:53
SPEAKER_33: We have a horny her update coming up as well.
58:55
SPEAKER_33: Uh, I want to play this last clip, though, as a holdover from the first uh hour of the show.
58:59
SPEAKER_33: Uh David Grush, UAP, a UAP expert uh analyst, member of the military for quite a number of years at the forefront of being uh one of the most prominent whistleblowers regarding non-human intelligence and UAP, sat down for almost three hours with Joe Rogan in a bombshell podcast.
59:18
SPEAKER_33: However, all of his supporters suddenly now are jumping ship because David Grush dare go and speak positively about Trump and Stephen Miller and Trump derangement syndrome keeps people from uh using common sense or acting rational.
59:32
SPEAKER_33: If you were listening earlier in the show, you heard, and if you didn't, I'll tell you, a foe of the show left a uh comment and basically that didn't basically straight up said that they believed that not only Secretary of War Pete Heggseth uh should be um thrown in jail for war crimes, but that members of MAGA voters should be tossed in jail for supporting uh the efforts of this administration.
59:56
SPEAKER_33: So uh true fascism on full display from the foes of the show.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_33: So one more clip from David Grush yesterday, probably one of the most compelling moments, at least in my opinion, especially being a massive fan of James uh James Cameron's The Abyss, of which all of this sounds very, very familiar.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_33: There's a lot of Timber Shed has talked about the ocean.
1:00:18
SPEAKER_02: There is yes, the we know a lot about that.
1:00:21
SPEAKER_02: What do we know about that?
1:00:22
SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm gonna be careful because it gets into sense of Navy underwater things.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_02: Um there's clearly some sort of base of operations in certain locations.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_02: Um large.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_02: Don't know when it got there.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_02: So it's it's large.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_02: Large.
1:00:39
SPEAKER_02: Like multiple city blocks type stuff.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_03: So there's multiple city blocks somewhere in the bottom of the ocean.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_02: And it's like Yeah.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_03: Do you know what about the Baltic Sea anomaly?
1:00:50
SPEAKER_02: Well, look the yeah, the What's going on with that?
1:00:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's there's some interesting stuff there, and um, once again, I will allow the federal government to deal with that one in our allies and adversaries.
1:01:01
SPEAKER_03: So you did say that there's multiple city blocks under the ocean.
1:01:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I will tell you underwater people I know um that come from that community, they're they always like, you know, the movie The Abyss, Dave?
1:01:16
SPEAKER_02: It's kind of a docudrama.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, holy fuck.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_02: You know, that movie, you know, with Ed Harris back in 89.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_02: And so that kind of gives you a sense in a pop side kind of way for people to visualize there is large shit down there.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_02: And it's like the origin is indeterminate.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_02: I'm sure we know a little bit more.
1:01:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm not privy to that.
1:01:38
SPEAKER_02: And and the way we know things and track that that gets in a sensitive national security stuff.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, the government may have to reveal some of that through some sort of acknowledgement strategy.
1:01:48
SPEAKER_03: The way it's been described to you are these large city blocks or whatever the hell it is under the ocean.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_03: Is this a waypoint?
1:01:54
SPEAKER_03: Is this a stop-off?
1:01:57
SPEAKER_02: Stuff comes and goes.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_02: So this is like where they observe and yeah, I'm sure we've done an anal a behavioral analysis on it, and we probably have figured out maybe the mission or whatever you want to call it.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_02: So I don't know the answer to that.
1:02:14
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm as curious as anybody, honestly.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_33: So Again, regardless of what your overall opinion about the existence of UAPs and NHIs, it's all incredibly uh fascinating.
1:02:26
SPEAKER_33: And as I mentioned at the top of the show, what an amazing time to be alive in the middle of all of this.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_33: I know there's a level of fear, because we always fear the unknown, right?
1:02:38
SPEAKER_33: I put my faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, that all things work together uh for good.
1:02:43
SPEAKER_33: Try to do my best not to uh to worry.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_33: That's practical atheism if you do.
1:02:48
SPEAKER_33: Uh that being said, uh, you cannot deny that we are living in unprecedented times.
1:02:53
SPEAKER_33: And to that point, during the uh State of Force address that Secretary of War and friend of the show, Pete Heggseth, uh, gave uh yesterday, he had uh this to say, which I thought was also, again, just keeping with the theme, we live in an unprecedented time right now.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_43: So let's go.
1:03:12
SPEAKER_43: First, today at my direction, we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or Auto Warcomp.
1:03:20
SPEAKER_43: A new four-star combatant command with service-like authorities built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force in the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history.
1:03:34
SPEAKER_43: It's kinda.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_33: I mean, listen, you know, you go to pop culture, you know, what we saw.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_33: It's pretty, it's pretty incredible because I not even realizing it, like I own like a lot of movies that deal with artificial intelligence because there's a lot of movies in science fiction that I love that deals with artificial intelligence.
1:03:53
SPEAKER_33: And I just I was stunned.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_33: I was like, oh my gosh, we're creating the Autonomous Warfare Commando Auto Warcom.
1:04:00
unknown: Yeah.
1:04:01
SPEAKER_33: Our lifetime.
1:04:02
SPEAKER_33: Robotic soldiers, just watch.
1:04:04
SPEAKER_33: Just watch.
1:04:05
SPEAKER_33: You know what?
1:04:06
SPEAKER_33: Oh, unless, you know, except they will not be, of course, on the streets of the city of Minneapolis.
1:04:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, and then you can use the Waymo.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_00: You don't know which way they may go or may not go.
1:04:17
SPEAKER_00: Just get in, okay?
1:04:18
SPEAKER_00: There's way more ways than the way that you got.
1:04:22
SPEAKER_00: So let's go with those ways.
1:04:23
SPEAKER_00: The end.
1:04:25
SPEAKER_33: That may be one of that's that's got that's gotta be one of my favorite recent recent clips.
1:04:30
SPEAKER_33: That just kills me every single time.
1:04:34
SPEAKER_37: Good morning, John.
1:04:35
SPEAKER_37: I wanted to leave a message regarding the crazily insane person that calls him from Brainer.
1:04:42
SPEAKER_37: Um, you know the difference between Republicans, which he always likes to call us, is that I mean, I don't want him to be thrown in jail.
1:04:53
SPEAKER_37: I think he might belong in a mental institution.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_37: However, you know, we get to have our own opinions.
1:04:59
SPEAKER_37: And so the fact that he runs around and you read in the comments his uh the test that he has, right?
1:05:07
SPEAKER_37: Um to mention that we should be thrown in jail.
1:05:11
SPEAKER_37: Well, um you want to try to throw us in jail, little man and or woman, whatever they are.
1:05:18
SPEAKER_37: Um, keep talking like that.
1:05:20
SPEAKER_37: I don't think that's gonna benefit you very well.
1:05:22
SPEAKER_37: So have a nice day.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_33: Well, it's a really good example of left versus right.
1:05:27
SPEAKER_33: You know, Republicans just oppose the policies of those on the on the left, unless you're facing a direct threat, right?
1:05:35
SPEAKER_33: But that's what when it comes to politics, Republicans oppose the policies.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_33: That's what they fight against.
1:05:39
SPEAKER_33: When it comes, when it goes left to right, Democrats, leftists, they oppose the people.
1:05:45
SPEAKER_33: They vilify and demonize.
1:05:47
SPEAKER_33: It's very effective for them because then they don't have to run on any sort of sound policy.
1:05:53
SPEAKER_33: And we're living, again, in an unprecedented time right now.
1:05:56
SPEAKER_33: Let's turn our attention over to the election.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_33: Uh New Gingrich.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_33: Interesting piece that echoes what I was saying over the course of the past few weeks.
1:06:05
SPEAKER_33: Saying the upcoming election is difficult to predict due to various factors.
1:06:10
SPEAKER_33: Gas prices remain high, the ongoing war, President Donald Trump's approval numbers suggest a Democratic victory.
1:06:18
SPEAKER_33: Unexpected events like the fraud scandal in Minnesota, the attacks on Susan Collins' campaign headquarters in Maine could sway the results.
1:06:26
SPEAKER_33: Ultimately, voter turnout and the effectiveness of President Donald Trump's campaign strategy will go and determine the outcome.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_33: I want to get into, and then I keep saying there's two.
1:06:37
SPEAKER_33: There are two.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_33: There's one more that needs to be mentioned in this.
1:06:39
SPEAKER_33: There's uh 2002 with George W.
1:06:42
SPEAKER_33: Bush.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_33: You got to go back to 1934.
1:06:48
SPEAKER_33: And that was at the height of the Great Depression, and that was Franklin D.
1:06:52
SPEAKER_33: Roosevelt.
1:06:53
SPEAKER_33: But you can also kind of include 1998 and Bill Clinton because Democrats were able to make some gains during that election cycle as well.
1:07:03
SPEAKER_33: All three of those time periods, all three of those midterm elections, all had outside factors involved.
1:07:10
SPEAKER_33: I want to share with you what they were.
1:07:12
SPEAKER_33: I have some audio.
1:07:13
SPEAKER_33: Representative Tom Emmer is traveling this week.
1:07:15
SPEAKER_33: He couldn't join us on the show.
1:07:16
SPEAKER_33: I do have some audio to share from Tom in just a moment.
1:07:21
SPEAKER_33: And some very revealing polling numbers that we will uh get into as well.
1:07:26
SPEAKER_33: Now, more than likely, you're going to see Democrats do very, very well.
1:07:31
SPEAKER_33: However, there is this other chance that with President Donald Trump and what he's planning on doing for the next 32 days, starting in a few days, all of the things that we'll be talking about on the show this morning could all have a massive impact that could make this another year where the midterms do not go the way of the party out of power.
1:07:55
SPEAKER_16: Interesting subject this morning.
1:07:58
SPEAKER_16: Have you ever wondered what that's the deepest point of Ray Canter?
1:08:05
SPEAKER_16: We think you know more than you are letting on.
1:08:14
SPEAKER_16: All the plan.
1:08:15
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1:09:18
SPEAKER_33: Uh, here's some interesting new polling data from uh CNN.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_33: Again, we are not living in a normal election cycle heading into these midterms.
1:09:27
SPEAKER_51: Okay, Midwest polling message.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_51: GOP outperformed September polls by the major 2024 races, that is, president and Senate in the states ahead of Senate race.
1:09:35
SPEAKER_51: In Iowa where the Democrats have been getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by nine points back in 2024.
1:09:41
SPEAKER_51: How about Ohio, six points?
1:09:43
SPEAKER_51: How about Michigan, five points, and I will note that the leads that the Democrats have in all of these races right now are under how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024?
1:09:54
SPEAKER_51: So you look at this and you go, you know what?
1:09:56
SPEAKER_51: Maybe we should just hold on a second here because we've seen this dance before, and it was not a dance that Democrats like when the voters were actually came through.
1:10:04
SPEAKER_42: Okay, but if you're taking a look at the saying, this is 2024.
1:10:07
SPEAKER_42: Donald Trump was on the bill again.
1:10:09
SPEAKER_42: What about races where the president's not on the bill?
1:10:11
SPEAKER_51: Yeah, exactly right.
1:10:11
SPEAKER_51: So, you know, 2024, 2020, 2016, Donald Trump outperformed in these three states by significant markets.
1:10:18
SPEAKER_51: But what about a midterm election?
1:10:20
SPEAKER_51: You can go back to Donald Trump's first midterm election, and it's the same exact story.
1:10:24
SPEAKER_51: Look at this.
1:10:24
SPEAKER_51: The GLP now performed September polls in the major 2018 statewide races by six points in Iowa, six points in Ohio, and eight points in Michigan.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_51: The bottom line is this over the land's view cycles, whether it be 2018, 2016, 2020, 2024, Republicans have outperformed their September polls by at least five points in all these three states where Democrats right now are ahead, but not by a wide enough margin whereby if Republicans outperform their September polls again, it could become very, very interesting.
1:10:56
SPEAKER_51: Okay, now overlay this on the current Senate map.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_33: And by the way, uh my apologies for the uh spicy language earlier.
1:11:04
SPEAKER_33: That got by the censors.
1:11:05
SPEAKER_33: That would be me.
1:11:07
SPEAKER_33: Thankfully, we can get away with it on here, but I do try to bleep it out when I have a chance, so my apologies for that.
1:11:11
SPEAKER_33: Uh Newt Ingrid says this may be the hardest election cycle to analyze in my lifetime.
1:11:17
SPEAKER_33: I've been watching the elections since 1956 in Dwight Eisenhower and the Stevenson and the uh Al D.
1:11:25
SPEAKER_33: Stevenson race.
1:11:26
SPEAKER_33: Yet everything I have lived through and studied, I find this campaign deeply frustrating and puzzling.
1:11:31
SPEAKER_33: I could make a case for a blue tsunami, high gasoline prices, an inadequately explained war.
1:11:38
SPEAKER_33: That's a good way to put it.
1:11:39
SPEAKER_33: An intense dislike of Trump by a great majority of Democrats, and all these indicate a Democratic victory night of historic proportions.
1:11:47
SPEAKER_33: My good friend Barry Castleman, who's been a great observer of Minnesota politics for a generation, just uh penned a piece on the fraud scandal being so enormous that Republicans have a real shot at winning the Minnesota U.S.
1:12:02
SPEAKER_33: Senate, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State seats.
1:12:05
SPEAKER_33: He also notes that everyone is surprised, including the fact that incumbent Senator Amy Clobizar, who should be winning easily, has a close race, even according to the Democratic polls.
1:12:19
SPEAKER_33: As I was mentioning, uh Tom Emmer has been making the uh rounds talking with a number of different individuals traveling uh this week.
1:12:26
SPEAKER_33: He uh was uh he posted this on his own timeline.
1:12:30
SPEAKER_33: I grabbed it for you, talking about uh fraud and elected officials.
1:12:34
SPEAKER_33: Here's what Representative Tom Emmer had to say.
1:12:36
SPEAKER_44: Public officials need to be held accountable.
1:12:39
SPEAKER_44: It's not just the criminals who are taking the money and who are causing all kinds of potential pain to vulnerable folks that are entitled to these benefits.
1:12:48
SPEAKER_44: It's public officials who either are directly benefiting because they're trying to win elections with votes that they're buying the taxpayer money through fraudulent programs, or they're not doing their job.
1:13:00
SPEAKER_44: They know what's going on and they refuse to do anything about it.
1:13:04
SPEAKER_33: They need By the way, it was Adlai Stevenson.
1:13:07
SPEAKER_33: My apologies.
1:13:07
SPEAKER_33: I had Aldi on the mind.
1:13:09
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, that's my bad.
1:13:11
SPEAKER_33: I have more audio on to share of uh Tom Emmer coming up.
1:13:14
SPEAKER_33: Uh Gingrich goes on to say, in Iowa, we clearly have tough races for the governor and senator, yet Trump just visited, announced the largest steel plant in America, thousands of jobs in rural areas in uh areas.
1:13:25
SPEAKER_33: This has a strong positive message for the Iowa media.
1:13:28
SPEAKER_33: In Maine, Democrats pin their hopes on beating the last statewide Republican in New England.
1:13:32
SPEAKER_33: Some vicious, nasty person just painted a disgusting attack on Susan Collins' campaign headquarters.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_33: That could push her into a sympathetic lead with her fellow citizens.
1:13:42
SPEAKER_33: In Texas, we have a candidate with easy with an easy-to-track record to attack.
1:13:48
SPEAKER_33: The Democrats have a candidate who says things like, God is non-binary and there are six genders.
1:13:53
SPEAKER_33: Maybe Texas has changed enough to vote for a nutcake left winger with weird values, but my hunch is that Attorney General Ken Paxton will end up winning by four or five points.
1:14:05
SPEAKER_33: Elections are determined by turnout, not by polls.
1:14:09
SPEAKER_33: Remember when the liberal Detroit newspaper had Republican candidate uh John Engler 19 points behind the incumbent governor on Saturday, and Engler won decisively three days later.
1:14:20
SPEAKER_33: I don't think that many people changed their minds.
1:14:22
SPEAKER_33: I think the liberal poll was designed to demoralize Republicans and keep them home.
1:14:26
SPEAKER_33: I've been saying that as well.
1:14:28
SPEAKER_33: And I'm certainly not the not the only uh one.
1:14:33
SPEAKER_33: If President Trump focuses the next 35 days as intensely as Harry Truman did in 1948, he may very well increase the turnout and win the arguments enough to have one of the greatest off-ear surprises in American history and maybe the most consequential.
1:14:48
SPEAKER_33: So Trump is going to be launching a 32-day um state-by-state midterm blitz starting in just a few days.
1:14:58
SPEAKER_33: So he's going out on the campaign trail as we suspected and is going to be going to all of these states that I was just mentioning.
1:15:05
SPEAKER_33: Remember that Truman was so far behind that Gallup quit polling at the time.
1:15:10
SPEAKER_33: But the American people did not quit listening.
1:15:12
SPEAKER_33: The third quarter economic growth uh growth rate is now 5.1% or better.
1:15:17
SPEAKER_33: Real wages are starting to rise.
1:15:19
SPEAKER_33: We were talking about how, according to certain metrics, the economy is actually doing very, very well.
1:15:25
SPEAKER_33: Jobless numbers, median household income as high as it's higher than it's ever been before.
1:15:30
SPEAKER_33: The jobless numbers have been better than what, some 60-some odd years?
1:15:35
SPEAKER_33: The amount of people, um, the amount of money people have kept in their family budgets through the one big beautiful bill is astounding.
1:15:43
SPEAKER_33: It is reflected in the continued consumer demand.
1:15:46
SPEAKER_33: The Trump administration has lowered the cost of pharmaceuticals for the first time in modern times.
1:15:50
SPEAKER_33: Big government socialism still loses decisively when matched against small business.
1:15:56
SPEAKER_33: And again, exclusive polling information coming up with Bill Walsh this morning at 8:30 on the show, specifically looking at how the DFL in Minnesota has a massive DSA problem.
1:16:09
SPEAKER_33: Socialism does dramatically better than big government socialism.
1:16:13
SPEAKER_33: And when people look at what the Democrats would really uh do, they lose ground.
1:16:17
SPEAKER_33: Despite every complaint, the GOP is still in the hunt, and the election is far from over.
1:16:22
SPEAKER_33: My tea leaves, says Newton, are too confused for me to read them.
1:16:26
SPEAKER_33: So I'm just gonna continue to working to save the country from those who would guarantee uh guarantee two years of investigation, impeachments, impeachments, and decay.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, and you know what?
1:16:36
SPEAKER_33: That's what would happen.
1:16:37
SPEAKER_33: It would just be stagnation.
1:16:39
SPEAKER_33: Everything would just grind to a halt.
1:16:42
SPEAKER_33: If you had if you have Democrats taking over Congress, they're gonna do all they're gonna waste all kinds of time on everything that New Gingrich just said, and Trump's just gonna stop whatever it is that they attempted to go and pull and pull off.
1:16:56
SPEAKER_33: Now, regarding the previous times when the party in power retained power.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_33: So again, you go back to 1930 uh 34 and Roosevelt.
1:17:08
SPEAKER_33: That was at the height of the Great Depression.
1:17:10
SPEAKER_33: So that was the external factor.
1:17:12
SPEAKER_33: You go to 1998, which you can loosely include in this because Democrats did gain some did gain some uh power in uh Congress.
1:17:20
SPEAKER_33: That was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
1:17:24
SPEAKER_33: And at that time, the GOP overcalculated, which was certainly a sign of the times moving forward.
1:17:31
SPEAKER_33: They miscalculated how much the American public uh was gonna care, or in this case, didn't care about what happened between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
1:17:41
SPEAKER_33: And then, of course, in 2002, George W.
1:17:43
SPEAKER_33: Bush, that was post-9-11, that one uh speaks for itself.
1:17:47
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1:17:52
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, hey, John, I'm optimistic for the midterm for a couple of different reasons.
1:17:58
SPEAKER_06: First of all, the Republicans, the polls on Republicans are always off, they always underperform.
1:18:04
SPEAKER_06: In other words, we usually do much better than the polls say we do.
1:18:08
SPEAKER_06: So when races that are close, I'm optimistic.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_06: Secondly, this has been so much different in the last year and a half to two years.
1:18:31
SPEAKER_06: And so I am optimistic that uh we might come out ahead.
1:18:38
SPEAKER_06: Um Geno seems to be pretty optimistic too.
1:18:41
SPEAKER_06: Anyway, we'll see what happens in a couple months.
1:18:44
SPEAKER_06: Have a great morning.
1:18:45
SPEAKER_33: All right, we'll get to the arrests of the election fraudsters coming up in just a moment.
1:18:50
SPEAKER_33: The DOJ criticizing those those uh judges for speaking to the New York Times, and then we'll get into these test results showing just what an absolutely abysmal job the Minnesota Department of Education has been doing, and now essentially what is turning into what I believe is uh I don't want to go I mean I shouldn't say cover-up, but an ignoring of the reality of the situation.
1:19:15
SPEAKER_33: We'll dive into the numbers, the spending on education year over year, and the excuses being given in this case, they're saying that it was Operation Metro Surge, and that's why all of these numbers were uh these reading, uh, math and uh science proficiency numbers were as bad as they are.
1:19:33
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, it's one of the most ridiculous but unsurprising arguments that they could have put uh forward.
1:19:38
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1:23:49
SPEAKER_33: Remember, exclusive polling information from our Thinking Minnesota poll, specifically regarding how the DFL has a DSA problem.
1:23:57
SPEAKER_33: Bill Walsh from Center of the American Experiment, just down the hall, will be joining us in studio on the comfy sofa.
1:24:03
SPEAKER_33: Also tomorrow for a Freedom Friday.
1:24:06
SPEAKER_33: And I have a there's something I might do tomorrow.
1:24:09
SPEAKER_33: I don't know.
1:24:09
SPEAKER_33: We're gonna we have a couple of things planned, but I might do some other things too.
1:24:13
SPEAKER_33: So um I one thing we're gonna do, let me say this up front because I don't want to tease you, don't want to leave out the tease.
1:24:19
SPEAKER_33: Uh, I've been collecting audio that's been posted online over the course of the past week of all of these radically progressive pastors and all the lunacy that they've been spouting.
1:24:28
SPEAKER_33: That's all sacrilegious.
1:24:29
SPEAKER_33: So I've got a handful of clips, including Hillary Clinton throwing jet fuel on the fire regarding Christian nationalism.
1:24:37
SPEAKER_33: We're definitely gonna get into that on tomorrow's show.
1:24:39
SPEAKER_33: But I've got a huge stack of stories that I just have not had a chance to get to.
1:24:42
SPEAKER_33: I may not even prep before tomorrow's show.
1:24:44
SPEAKER_33: I may just grab that stack and say we're just gonna go through all of it.
1:24:47
SPEAKER_33: Uh, but in studio, we'll have from Turning Point USA, uh, we'll have Amanda Lamar back, uh, Catherine Johnson, my lieutenant uh uh governor and the wild card, and of course, Max Reimer and uh A.K.
1:24:57
SPEAKER_33: Kamara.
1:24:58
SPEAKER_33: Before I get into the St.
1:24:59
SPEAKER_33: Paul City uh City Council story, do you guys see about this botched execution of this woman that was convicted of murder that took place?
1:25:08
SPEAKER_33: So Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is now halting the state's remaining.
1:25:12
SPEAKER_33: I was following this overnight, is now halting the state's remaining execution for 2026 and ordering a third-party review after officials failed to execute a death row inmate, Krista Pike.
1:25:26
SPEAKER_33: Apparently she was convicted years ago, I think back when she was 18 or 19 years old of murder.
1:25:31
SPEAKER_33: I think she's like 36 now.
1:25:32
SPEAKER_33: I could be getting my dates wrong.
1:25:34
SPEAKER_33: But she was sentenced to to death for the murder.
1:25:39
SPEAKER_33: She received two syringes of the lethal injection on Wednesday night, but remained alive and could be heard snoring, according to her attorneys and the media witnesses.
1:25:50
SPEAKER_33: Her legal team filed an emergency motion to stop the execution and as the situation unfolded.
1:25:56
SPEAKER_33: She was then later transported to an off-site medical facility.
1:26:00
SPEAKER_33: Maybe this is something we have to talk about on tomorrow's show, because I have so many questions regarding.
1:26:04
SPEAKER_33: Like, what do you do now?
1:26:06
SPEAKER_33: Like if she was already I mean, at this point in time, if she's already, you know, being executed for murder, she's convicted, this was the punishment.
1:26:17
SPEAKER_33: I I mean I hate to be grim, but I know the lethal injections didn't work, but you're still in a hospital facility.
1:26:24
SPEAKER_33: There are still ways to go and carry out the I I I I guarantee there are legal ramifications about how the executions can only be done in a certain fashion, in a certain way.
1:26:35
SPEAKER_33: You can't just go and grab a pillow.
1:26:39
SPEAKER_33: I I get it.
1:26:41
SPEAKER_33: But I've seen some people arguing that maybe she shouldn't be executed now because they're well, you didn't pull it off, so too bad, so sad.
1:26:47
SPEAKER_33: Like what, you get one shot and that's it.
1:26:50
SPEAKER_33: Anyway, okay.
1:26:51
SPEAKER_33: We'll save that for tomorrow.
1:26:54
SPEAKER_33: You watch.
1:26:54
SPEAKER_33: I'm gonna be slammed with blast now on the blaster line at 651-964-0294.
1:27:00
SPEAKER_33: Let's go here.
1:27:01
SPEAKER_33: Just a real quick update.
1:27:03
SPEAKER_33: St.
1:27:03
SPEAKER_33: Paul City Council is meeting to discuss uh Mayor uh Cooley Her and her sexual harassment lawsuit.
1:27:10
SPEAKER_33: They're meeting behind they met behind closed doors yesterday to discuss the sexual harassment lawsuit.
1:27:16
SPEAKER_33: Of course, the police chief, Henry Axel, uh excuse me, Axel Henry accuses her of unwanted touching and inappropriate sexual comments.
1:27:24
SPEAKER_33: The independent investigation did not find enough evidence to substantiate the specific sexual harassment or retaliation, did determine that she engaged in inappropriate behavior.
1:27:35
SPEAKER_33: The city council is now calling for the full report of that investigation to be released to the public.
1:27:41
SPEAKER_33: City leaders say they will not comment on the act of investigation, but have laid out a roadmap for what uh comes next.
1:27:48
SPEAKER_33: Uh this is all in preparation for if things get uglier for horny her.
1:27:53
SPEAKER_33: That's all that this is.
1:27:55
SPEAKER_33: This is nothing more than a means to lay the groundwork because he's individual.
1:28:00
SPEAKER_33: Have probably seen that investigative report and know the further details that are in it.
1:28:06
SPEAKER_33: So they're going to hold, they hope they held this behind closed door meeting Wednesday.
1:28:10
SPEAKER_33: This is all speculation on my part, but I will say it's informed speculation.
1:28:15
SPEAKER_33: But they held this closed door meeting, probably because they're fully aware that there's more dirt that is going to come out, and they want to make sure that they're getting out ahead of it.
1:28:24
SPEAKER_33: So she may not be out of the woods by uh by any uh by any stretch.
1:28:30
SPEAKER_33: So something we're certainly keeping an eye on.
1:28:32
SPEAKER_33: Oh, by the way, as I predicted.
1:28:33
SPEAKER_24: Hey John, failed lethal injection really isn't that big a deal, particularly if you're snoring.
1:28:39
SPEAKER_24: Way better than when the Texas electric chair failed and they called it Sparky and they had to fix it during a execution.
1:28:46
SPEAKER_24: Have a good day.
1:28:46
SPEAKER_33: Oh yeah, to see what happened in Green Mile.
1:28:48
SPEAKER_33: That was really bad.
1:28:49
SPEAKER_33: That was awful.
1:28:50
SPEAKER_31: Oh I'm sorry, that was uh maybe everybody would have been okay with it if after the failed injections they just grabbed some exercise bands and did it that way.
1:29:03
SPEAKER_33: Is it too soon for those jokes?
1:29:07
SPEAKER_20: Is it is it is that too soon?
1:29:10
SPEAKER_20: How hard is it to kill someone?
1:29:13
SPEAKER_33: Well, you know, I'm just gonna leave it.
1:29:15
SPEAKER_33: I'm just gonna leave it at that.
1:29:17
SPEAKER_33: You know, just let's just stop there.
1:29:20
SPEAKER_33: How hard how hard is it?
1:29:22
SPEAKER_33: A question that we will not be tackling on the show today, as I bring you the DOJ filing a misconduct complaint against federal judges here in Minnesota.
1:29:32
SPEAKER_33: Bill Glawn covered this today, Center of the American Experiment, AmericanExperiment.org.
1:29:37
SPEAKER_33: You can check out the entirety of the article.
1:29:39
SPEAKER_33: Alleging that these judges made improper comments to the New York Times about pending cases and immigration law enforcement.
1:29:47
SPEAKER_33: The complaint specifically names judges Schlitz and Tunheim, highlighting their alleged bias and questioning Tunheim's impartiality involving illegal aliens.
1:30:00
SPEAKER_33: So Judge Schlitz, reading from Bill Glont's piece, is no longer on active status.
1:30:06
SPEAKER_33: The DOJ complaint uh names Schlitz and Judge John uh Tunheim by name.
1:30:12
SPEAKER_33: Tunheim is also on senior status.
1:30:15
SPEAKER_33: It's not clear which of the remaining six active judges skipped the Times interview.
1:30:20
SPEAKER_33: The tumult, uh, the the tumult refers to Operation Metro Surge, that we'll talk about later on in the show.
1:30:27
SPEAKER_33: Resulting in these habeas corpus petitions, federal cases, and other lawsuits.
1:30:31
SPEAKER_33: The obvious problem with the judge's uh intemperate uh intemperate rantings to the Times is uh the revealed bias in favor of illegal aliens and against the enforcement of immigration laws.
1:30:45
SPEAKER_33: Page two of the complaint proper lists some of the statements made by the judges, Schlitz and Tunheim.
1:30:52
SPEAKER_33: Bill says, I personally find this statement from the latter to be incredible, referring to federal law enforcement authorities.
1:31:00
SPEAKER_33: They, meaning federal law enforcement authorities, according to the judge, they weren't arresting, in my view, people who were dangerous criminals on the street.
1:31:12
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
1:31:13
SPEAKER_33: That's not your determination to make.
1:31:15
SPEAKER_33: Incredibly subjective.
1:31:18
SPEAKER_33: I made something of a side career, writes Bill, in documenting exactly the opposite, the depraved and dangerous crimes committed by arrestees in Bill's habeas corpus and Minnesota man series of posts, which are all available at AmericanExperiment.org.
1:31:37
SPEAKER_33: I would hope going forward that Judge Tunheim excuses himself from every case involving illegal aliens.
1:31:43
SPEAKER_33: Since the Times piece appeared two weeks ago, he's been assigned six additional habeas uh cases.
1:31:50
SPEAKER_33: So here is a bit of uh D.O.J., um the A.G.
1:31:55
SPEAKER_33: Todd Blanch talking about when they made the announcement yesterday of these judges.
1:32:00
SPEAKER_01: We're also announcing that just a few minutes ago, the Department of Justice filed a judicial misconduct complaint with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against all but one district court judge in the District of Minnesota for violating various judicial canons.
1:32:18
SPEAKER_01: These judges talk to the media, or at least to the New York Times, about cases, some of which are ongoing in a matter that the Department views as a clear violation of their ethical duties.
1:32:31
SPEAKER_01: Specifically, the former chief judge spoke on the record to the New York Times about the immigration surge late last year and early this year in Minneapolis.
1:32:42
SPEAKER_01: His comments, along with a picture he appeared to pose for, were included in a September 17, 2026 article in the New York Times.
1:32:52
SPEAKER_01: And according to that article, the judge sat for a 90-minute interview with the New York Times.
1:32:58
SPEAKER_01: According to the article, six other members of Minnesota's Federal Bench also agreed to speak to the New York Times about last winter's um efforts in Minneapolis.
1:33:09
SPEAKER_01: It, according again, according to the article, included six of the seven judges who held active status in Minnesota, at least uh as of um last winter.
1:33:21
SPEAKER_01: During this 90-minute interview, the judge apparently told the reporter that the trust that the Trump administration has a quote disregard for court orders, end quote, and continued to um give his view that this disregard clogged his courthouse to a near standstill, contributing to rising tensions in the protest-filled city of Minneapolis.
1:33:43
SPEAKER_01: This judge also told the New York Times that um his impression was that most, if not all, of the noncompliance was due to incompetence, not due to conscious defiance of orders, and that the lack of resources led to a result that should have been anticipated and that threatened the foundations of the legal system.
1:34:02
SPEAKER_01: He complained about other things that the Trump administration had supposedly done in this article, all of which was on the record.
1:34:10
SPEAKER_01: And um obviously, in in our view, um, this is a a violation of not only the judicial canons, but of his ethical duties as a judge.
1:34:20
SPEAKER_01: Another judge in Minnesota spoke on the record about the immigration surge as well.
1:34:25
SPEAKER_33: Radical activist judges.
1:34:27
SPEAKER_33: That's all that it is.
1:34:29
SPEAKER_33: Their own subjective view of lawful law enforcement as they try to do everything they can to carry the water for the DFL to perpetuate these false narratives.
1:34:40
SPEAKER_33: Now, the crux of the press conference yesterday was focused on the Department of Justice indicting 10 non citizens for voting illegally in the 2024 Minnesota election.
1:34:51
SPEAKER_33: Bill Walsh, who will be in studio here in about an hour, writes, and as I mentioned the same thing uh yesterday, that thing that never happens happened again.
1:34:59
SPEAKER_33: The U.S.
1:34:59
SPEAKER_33: Department of Justice announced the indictments of 10 non-citizens who somehow voted in the 2024 Minnesota election.
1:35:06
SPEAKER_33: This is despite the fact that Secretary of State Steve Simon, the waste of space, my words not his that he is, has repeatedly assured Minnesotans that combing driver's licenses for uh that combining, excuse me, driver's licenses for all with automatic voter registration would not lead to illegal voting.
1:35:26
SPEAKER_33: He testified last year we have a back-end AVR automatic voter registration system, and the only folks who are eligible to even be in the pile to be considered registered to vote are those who produce a citizenship affirming documentation at the time they apply for the ID.
1:35:43
SPEAKER_33: But these indictments, Bill says, and he's right, were entirely predictable when Minnesota combined driver's licenses for illegals with automatic voter registration.
1:35:55
SPEAKER_01: Today we are announcing that a federal grand jury returned indictments against ten foreign nationals alleged to have committed unlawful voting and registration offenses in the state of Minnesota.
1:36:09
SPEAKER_01: In total, the grand jury's indictments include nine counts of illegal voting by an alien and nine counts of making a false claim of citizenship in order to register to vote.
1:36:20
SPEAKER_01: Charges include illegally voting in the general elections of 2022, 2024, and the midterm, um, the primary elections of August of this year, of August 2026.
1:36:31
SPEAKER_01: The defendants that have been charged include foreign nationals from Brazil, Ghana, and Liberia.
1:36:39
SPEAKER_01: So we we have talked repeatedly about the importance of election integrity, and we're we're certainly not going to stop talking about that now.
1:36:47
SPEAKER_01: Voter fraud erodes the public's trust in our electoral system, and it's vital to our democratic process that we do everything that we can to restore that trust.
1:36:57
SPEAKER_01: The most basic way the Department of Justice can accomplish this restoration of trust is by working to make sure the only people voting in an election in the United States are American citizens who are eligible to vote.
1:37:13
SPEAKER_33: We're not talking about widespread voter fraud here, rights Bill.
1:37:17
SPEAKER_33: Although, how would we know?
1:37:19
SPEAKER_33: Today's indictments highlight obvious vulnerabilities in the system that Simon and his allies in the legislature have set up with the intention of making voting easy for everyone.
1:37:30
SPEAKER_33: Too easy.
1:37:31
SPEAKER_33: Listen, in my view, uh Simon, the DFL, uh, it's enabled and they do not care.
1:37:37
SPEAKER_33: They do not care.
1:37:39
SPEAKER_33: They've created a baseline argument against anybody on the right, against President Donald Trump, that they use every single step of the way as an argument to justify the vulnerabilities that are across the board, whether it's fraud, whether it is our elections, or even our test scores for crying out loud.
1:38:02
SPEAKER_33: We'll get into that in just a moment as we dive into that issue.
1:38:05
SPEAKER_33: Now, keeping with the theme of what we were talking about earlier regarding this year could be like those previous years, wherein the party in power retains power when it typically doesn't happen in the midterms.
1:38:19
SPEAKER_33: Uh, Representative Tom Emmer uh feels a sense of confidence.
1:38:22
SPEAKER_33: He had this to say on a recent uh podcast as he was traveling this week.
1:38:26
SPEAKER_44: This is a big deal for Minnesotans.
1:38:28
SPEAKER_44: That's why I'm telling you it's not about Republicans and Democrats.
1:38:31
SPEAKER_44: It's about good government and an honest, uh uh an honest system that actually works for the people it's intended for, not for the criminals.
1:38:40
SPEAKER_44: You easily could have Michelle Tefoya uh being the next U.S.
1:38:44
SPEAKER_44: Senator from the state of Minnesota, a Republican.
1:38:47
SPEAKER_44: You could have Lisa Damuth as the uh Republican governor.
1:38:51
SPEAKER_44: Uh and already the Attorney General candidate Ron Schutz and the uh state auditor candidate Scott Jensen, the polling is showing that they are leading.
1:38:59
SPEAKER_44: So, yes, Minnesota is going to be one of those places where you see surprises.
1:39:03
SPEAKER_44: I think you're gonna see surprises in Michigan as well and other places all across the country.
1:39:09
SPEAKER_33: So let's go here.
1:39:10
SPEAKER_33: Speaking of elections, and then we're gonna talk about education.
1:39:13
SPEAKER_33: I'm really looking forward to getting into this.
1:39:15
SPEAKER_33: So this arrived in my inbox yesterday.
1:39:18
SPEAKER_33: I don't know who put me on the St.
1:39:19
SPEAKER_33: Paul mailing list, be that as it may, I'm on the St.
1:39:21
SPEAKER_33: Paul mailing list.
1:39:22
SPEAKER_33: So, City Council member Rebecca Knocker.
1:39:26
SPEAKER_33: No, I don't care.
1:39:29
SPEAKER_33: The council president.
1:39:31
SPEAKER_33: Ramsey County must act now to protect voters.
1:39:34
SPEAKER_33: I thought that's an interesting headline.
1:39:36
SPEAKER_33: I wonder what she is referring to.
1:39:39
SPEAKER_33: In the press release, it says this just now, the federal government announced that it will once again target our community ahead of the November election.
1:39:48
SPEAKER_33: This press release from Rebecca Knocker in St.
1:39:53
SPEAKER_33: Paul, the council president, is based off of the information I just shared with you.
1:39:59
SPEAKER_33: Ten individuals being indicted for voter fraud, those radical judge activist judges going and talking to the New York Times, and what is her concern?
1:40:09
SPEAKER_33: Her concern is the federal government trying to shore up our election integrity.
1:40:14
SPEAKER_33: Ramsey County is the sole entity responsible for administering our elections.
1:40:19
SPEAKER_33: It must proactively and aggressively prepare for federal interference.
1:40:25
SPEAKER_33: This is the tactic by the left.
1:40:29
SPEAKER_33: When they talk about federal interference, think about what they're talking about.
1:40:32
SPEAKER_33: They're talking about their own government.
1:40:36
SPEAKER_33: They're separating the two out.
1:40:38
SPEAKER_33: It is a slick attempt to be clever without saying that this is a dictatorship, an authoritarian uh regime, that ICE is the Gestapo.
1:40:53
SPEAKER_33: No, they just very subtly say we have to prepare for federal interference, as if the federal government is against the American people.
1:41:02
SPEAKER_33: That's the idea that they're trying to perpetuate.
1:41:05
SPEAKER_33: Then it says this this is so funny.
1:41:06
SPEAKER_33: This is not a hypothetical concern.
1:41:09
SPEAKER_33: You see, she's worried about federal agents coming and watching over the polling places.
1:41:13
SPEAKER_33: She says this is not a hypothetical concern.
1:41:15
SPEAKER_33: The Department of Justice sent election monitors to Ramsey County during the August primary.
1:41:22
SPEAKER_33: She just owned herself.
1:41:23
SPEAKER_33: Nothing happened.
1:41:26
SPEAKER_33: I mean, apart from the controversy that was surrounding Lindahl's campaign, there were there were no problems with election monitors.
1:41:36
SPEAKER_33: Nothing bad happened in the August primary.
1:41:38
SPEAKER_33: Hennepin County has demonstrated what look what it looks like for a county to prepare for establishing clear boundaries, communicating those rules publicly, and committing to protecting the rights and safety of our election workers.
1:41:50
SPEAKER_33: This is nothing more than pure propaganda.
1:41:53
SPEAKER_33: It's fear mongering at its best.
1:41:56
SPEAKER_33: Council president calls for decisive action to protect voters and election workers from federal interference ahead of the November election.
1:42:08
SPEAKER_33: It is pure, pure propaganda.
1:42:12
SPEAKER_33: DHS Secretary, John Wayne Mullen, keeping with the theme and why we may have more election monitors across the country, but he confirms illegal aliens are voting in our elections.
1:42:27
SPEAKER_50: When we start talking about cases, yes, we just made 10 ar uh uh I think we just had 10 convictions.
1:42:34
SPEAKER_50: We have a hundred administrative arrests, 53 criminal arrests, 37 indictments, and 10 convictions, and we're just getting started.
1:42:44
SPEAKER_50: We have over 1,600 voter fraud cases that we are currently investigating, and we have 300,000 more that we're getting to.
1:42:55
SPEAKER_50: HSI is leading these investigations.
1:42:57
SPEAKER_50: These investigations are going back five years.
1:43:00
SPEAKER_50: The president said it for a long time, and the Democrats were sitting there denying it, saying there's no fraud.
1:43:06
SPEAKER_50: That wasn't taking place.
1:43:07
SPEAKER_50: There's no fraud, there's nothing, nothing here.
1:43:08
SPEAKER_50: Don't look over here.
1:43:10
SPEAKER_50: And as we're getting the uh the voter logs from 47 states and a few territories, we're realizing there's actually a lot.
1:43:21
SPEAKER_50: And we believe that some of these states probably even knew about it, chose not to look into it.
1:43:26
SPEAKER_50: Well, we are.
1:43:28
SPEAKER_50: And just a clear message if you voted in our elections and you weren't legally able to vote, we're gonna find you.
1:43:37
SPEAKER_50: Might not find you today, may not find you tomorrow, but we will find you.
1:43:41
SPEAKER_50: We're going through every single one of these names.
1:43:45
SPEAKER_50: We have partnerships with other agencies where we're cross-referencing each one.
1:43:51
SPEAKER_50: And we're looking at a pattern or a history of individuals that may voted illegally, may have frauded the system.
1:44:01
SPEAKER_33: Again, that was uh DHS Secretary uh Mullen yesterday confirming what we already knew.
1:44:09
SPEAKER_33: And that was we do have election fraud going on.
1:44:12
SPEAKER_33: There was uh an individual on X yesterday who I posted, I think it was it was in regard to the Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:44:20
SPEAKER_33: So it was it was uh regarding the arrests of the 10 fraudsters.
1:44:23
SPEAKER_33: And all I posted was that thing that never happens happened again.
1:44:27
SPEAKER_33: And then this individual popped into the thread with all these data points showing the number of cases that have been uh put forward and convicted, individuals convicted of uh fraud, and said it's not widespread.
1:44:39
SPEAKER_33: And I was like, I never said it was widespread.
1:44:42
SPEAKER_33: I mean, one time is is too much.
1:44:44
SPEAKER_33: It's like they're arguing with themselves.
1:44:48
SPEAKER_33: You know, it's the kind of individual that would uh support the Minneapolis city council and their desire to put a babysitter being paid minimum wage inside of every autonomous vehicle.
1:45:00
SPEAKER_00: You know, and then you can use the Waymo.
1:45:02
SPEAKER_00: You don't know which way they may go or may not go.
1:45:05
SPEAKER_00: Just get in, okay?
1:45:07
SPEAKER_00: There's way more ways than the way that you got.
1:45:10
SPEAKER_00: So let's go with those ways.
1:45:12
SPEAKER_00: The end.
1:45:13
SPEAKER_33: All right.
1:45:16
SPEAKER_33: Here we go.
1:45:18
SPEAKER_33: Minnesota's comprehensive assessment results, MCAs.
1:45:22
SPEAKER_33: Got a couple of different uh headlines here for you.
1:45:24
SPEAKER_33: Okay, we're gonna work off a couple uh two uh two different, actually, three different versions here.
1:45:28
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
1:45:30
SPEAKER_33: Uh we have the uh Channel 5 version, uh, we have the care 11 version, and then we have uh my research.
1:45:39
SPEAKER_33: Let's get into it.
1:45:40
SPEAKER_33: Minnesota's comprehensive assessment results show that fewer than half of students are proficient in reading and math.
1:45:46
SPEAKER_33: The Minnesota Department of Education attributes the results to new rigorous standards for reading and disruptions to student attendance.
1:45:57
unknown: Okay.
1:45:59
SPEAKER_33: Minnesota Department of Education released the MCA results.
1:46:02
SPEAKER_33: The score showed that fewer than half of the students are proficient in reading and math.
1:46:06
SPEAKER_33: For reading, 49% of students are proficient.
1:46:10
SPEAKER_33: The state leaders noted this year's assessments are based on new, rigorous standards.
1:46:15
SPEAKER_33: It's BS, don't buy a second of it.
1:46:20
SPEAKER_33: The department said the new reading test means the results can can't be compared to previous versions.
1:46:26
SPEAKER_33: Sure they can.
1:46:27
SPEAKER_33: There's still standards.
1:46:29
SPEAKER_33: The previous versions, the students couldn't read proficiently.
1:46:33
SPEAKER_33: The new versions, the students can't read proficiency.
1:46:36
SPEAKER_33: All you've done is proven that regardless of the way you test the students, the students can't read proficiently.
1:46:43
SPEAKER_33: And the same thing rings true for math, and the same thing rings true for science.
1:46:47
SPEAKER_33: Although that's ignored in both the uh Channel 5 and the Care 11 stories.
1:46:53
SPEAKER_33: For math, the results showed that 45% of students are proficient.
1:46:56
SPEAKER_33: Compared to last year, the scores remain flat.
1:46:59
SPEAKER_33: They have gone down, just not by a full percentage point.
1:47:02
SPEAKER_33: I have the numbers here in just a moment.
1:47:05
SPEAKER_33: The department called the results stable doing that thing with my fingers.
1:47:10
SPEAKER_33: There's a reason why I waited on the story, by the way.
1:47:15
SPEAKER_33: Said disruptions to student attendance like Operation Metro Surge could have affected the scores.
1:47:25
SPEAKER_33: Meanwhile, the Department of Education is using a 28-member task force to review the standardized tests as the number of students opting out and skipping tests climb.
1:47:35
SPEAKER_33: Kara Levin had a similar version to the story, also pointing to the Minnesota Department Department of Education noted that Operation Metro Surge had a big impact on the students and test results.
1:47:46
SPEAKER_33: About 75% of students reported an increase in absences, and 80% of school leaders reported that Operation Metro Surge had a negative impact on learning.
1:47:54
SPEAKER_33: The MCAs were taken, I believe, around May 1st.
1:47:58
SPEAKER_33: Operation Metro Surge started December 1st and ended February 12th.
1:48:04
SPEAKER_33: It is absolute and total BS.
1:48:07
SPEAKER_33: Like I want to say the words.
1:48:08
SPEAKER_33: It is absolute and total BS for anybody, especially in a position of power, especially within the Department of Education, to try to go and say that an operation that lasted between December 1st and February 12th had any impact at all on these test scores.
1:48:26
SPEAKER_33: What did math, science, and reading and the education regarding those three only happen during Operation Metro Surge?
1:48:33
SPEAKER_33: I guarantee you, if the students had taken the MCA prior to December 1st and the start of Metro Surge, the results would have been exactly the same.
1:48:45
SPEAKER_33: I want to get into the numbers.
1:48:50
SPEAKER_33: Fewer than half of Minnesota students.
1:48:52
SPEAKER_33: I'm going to cover some more ground here, but just bear with me as you leave your comments on the blaster line.
1:48:57
SPEAKER_33: 651-964-0294.
1:49:00
SPEAKER_33: So simply put, fewer than half of Minnesota students met the grade level standard in reading and math, and only one quarter met the standard for science.
1:49:09
SPEAKER_33: And yet both of those articles, Channel 5 and Care 11, neither of them bothered to mention the science.
1:49:14
SPEAKER_33: Twenty-six percent of students are proficient in science.
1:49:17
SPEAKER_33: And they're using the same excuse.
1:49:19
SPEAKER_33: They changed the formulation relating to science achievement.
1:49:26
SPEAKER_33: There's an old science assessment and a new science assessment.
1:49:29
SPEAKER_33: But my same argument that I mentioned a moment ago still rings true.
1:49:33
SPEAKER_33: Just because you have a new standard of testing and the students are failing that standard of testing, the students are still failing regardless of the type of assessment and testing that you are doing.
1:49:46
SPEAKER_33: So math forty four point nine percent met the math standard in twenty twenty six.
1:49:53
SPEAKER_33: That's compared to forty five point two one percent in twenty twenty five.
1:49:58
SPEAKER_33: So you're looking at roughly point Three percentage points.
1:50:02
SPEAKER_33: It's a small decline, but the point is it's gotten worse.
1:50:06
SPEAKER_33: And this is despite an exponential increase in funding.
1:50:11
SPEAKER_33: Because the thing that they most blame these test results on is the pandemic.
1:50:18
SPEAKER_33: The argument beyond Operation Metro Surge, which again is one of the s most ridiculous things that anybody could have mentioned.
1:50:27
SPEAKER_33: That's all that is all purely about the election.
1:50:30
SPEAKER_33: That's all.
1:50:31
SPEAKER_33: That you would go and spike something that that ridiculous of an argument.
1:50:38
SPEAKER_33: No, they go back to pre- they say, well, we haven't recovered from pre-pandemic levels.
1:50:43
SPEAKER_33: And yet leftists constantly tout money's the problem, money will solve the problem, money will solve the problem.
1:50:49
SPEAKER_33: We threw billions more year over year over year over year, and guess what?
1:50:54
SPEAKER_33: The education actually got worse.
1:50:59
SPEAKER_33: The bigger historical concern is that math hasn't substantially recovered, as I was saying, from the pandemic era decline.
1:51:06
SPEAKER_33: The Star Tribune reports that math scores have changed little since 2020.
1:51:10
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, no, they have, and they've gotten worse in those changes.
1:51:15
SPEAKER_33: Alright, let's get back to uh some of your thoughts.
1:51:18
SPEAKER_33: 651-964-0294.
1:51:21
SPEAKER_33: I have a lot more data to share.
1:51:23
SPEAKER_21: Hey John, I'm going out on the limb here, but I don't think it's Metro Surge that cause these kids not to be able to read.
1:51:30
SPEAKER_21: I think it's the fact that teachers are activists now instead of educators.
1:51:34
SPEAKER_21: Maybe they should go back to being educators and uh not activists.
1:51:39
SPEAKER_21: That might help.
1:51:41
SPEAKER_33: I'm gonna go deeper.
1:51:42
SPEAKER_33: It's by design.
1:51:44
SPEAKER_33: They want the students stupid.
1:51:48
SPEAKER_33: This is all by design.
1:51:50
SPEAKER_33: They do not want an educated group of potential voters here in Minnesota because the dumber the student, the more likely the leftists are to remain in power.
1:52:02
SPEAKER_33: It's that simple.
1:52:05
SPEAKER_33: The trust the science crowd?
1:52:07
SPEAKER_33: Oh, trust the science, except the students know nothing about science because they're not getting a quality science education here in Minnesota.
1:52:18
SPEAKER_18: You know, the problem is the people that are reporting on the low MCA scores are probably products of Minnesota schools.
1:52:28
SPEAKER_18: And can't actually read the report.
1:52:33
SPEAKER_18: And if they can read the words of the report, they probably can't read the numbers.
1:52:38
SPEAKER_18: Because, you know, numbers with decimals or numbers that are more than five digits long are very hard to read for people in Minnesota, especially in Minnesota politics.
1:52:51
SPEAKER_18: So they probably just couldn't read the report.
1:52:53
SPEAKER_18: And who wouldn't want to blame old ICE agents?
1:52:56
SPEAKER_18: They are the devil.
1:52:57
SPEAKER_33: Well, and uh, what happened to those 430 meals that have been served for free, not for free, paid for by your tax dollars, my tax dollars, Devin's tax dollars, the foes of the shows of the show tax dollars.
1:53:12
SPEAKER_33: A lot of good all those full bellies did to increase the quality of education here in Minnesota.
1:53:20
SPEAKER_33: Governor Dim Walls can stuff it for all I care.
1:53:24
SPEAKER_33: Anyone touting the free school meals program.
1:53:26
SPEAKER_33: What a colossal waste of food and money that's resulted in absolutely nothing except an even worse education than what the students were already getting.
1:53:40
SPEAKER_33: Let's get back to some of uh your thoughts.
1:53:45
SPEAKER_21: Hey, I'm gonna uh do a little give DHS a little help here.
1:53:49
SPEAKER_21: Peter Riverside.
1:53:58
SPEAKER_26: If they give middle school and high schoolers a chance to miss school and an excuse, I can see most of them taking that because they don't know how to think yet.
1:54:12
SPEAKER_33: 26% of Minnesota students reached the required performance level in science in 2026.
1:54:19
SPEAKER_33: Now, Minnesota introduced the Science MCA uh version four in 2025.
1:54:26
SPEAKER_33: This replaced the previous science assessment.
1:54:30
SPEAKER_33: Consequently, the Minnesota Department of Education says the old and new results aren't directly comparable.
1:54:37
SPEAKER_33: Okay, they're not directly comparable, but the outcome is.
1:54:43
SPEAKER_33: You can absolutely compare the outcome.
1:54:44
SPEAKER_33: So in 2024, under the old assessment, you had 40% of students in Minnesota proficient in science.
1:54:54
SPEAKER_33: In 2026, under the new assessment, it's 26%.
1:54:57
SPEAKER_33: That 40% number was already pathetic.
1:55:02
SPEAKER_33: So the new assessment is less about providing f uh facts regarding science.
1:55:10
SPEAKER_33: The old assessment was more just being able to recite from memory scientific facts based off the education they were giving.
1:55:18
SPEAKER_33: The new assessment focuses on actually applying the science.
1:55:24
SPEAKER_33: Actually taking the science and making it useful in everyday life in various facets.
1:55:30
SPEAKER_33: How do you take the science?
1:55:31
SPEAKER_33: How does the science work as opposed to memorization?
1:55:35
SPEAKER_33: So while the Department of Education wants to sit back and go, oh, you can't compare these two standards, guys, it's two different things.
1:55:41
SPEAKER_33: It's a lot harder now.
1:55:44
SPEAKER_33: It's another cell phone.
1:55:45
SPEAKER_33: It's another self-own because when you think about what the new assessment is actually doing, it shows just how stupid the students are.
1:55:53
SPEAKER_33: So they already weren't proficient in the old science standard at 40%, only 40% being proficient.
1:56:01
SPEAKER_33: And now when you actually have to go and have them apply how the science actually works, it's only 26%.
1:56:11
SPEAKER_33: So all you've done is reinforced how bad the education is under the leftist leadership, Governor Dimwalls, and the Minnesota Department of Education.
1:56:23
SPEAKER_17: Good morning, John.
1:56:25
SPEAKER_17: I used to think at the start that Operation Metro Surge and the all the pushback was to distract from the fraud.
1:56:34
SPEAKER_17: It was they were fighting the ice to distract from the fraud.
1:56:37
SPEAKER_17: They were creating their campaign platform at that point.
1:56:40
SPEAKER_17: Because they knew the fraud wasn't gonna go away, but they're gonna have to have something when elections came around to run on.
1:56:48
SPEAKER_17: They couldn't run on anything they accomplished because that's terrible.
1:56:51
SPEAKER_17: So they're like, well, we're gonna push back on ice, and that's gonna be our campaign strategy.
1:56:57
SPEAKER_17: Anti-Trump, anti-Republican, anti-everything.
1:57:01
SPEAKER_17: Somebody better check to make sure Renee Good and now it's Freddie don't vote in this election.
1:57:06
SPEAKER_17: That's all I gotta say.
1:57:08
SPEAKER_33: So 26% meet the current standard.
1:57:12
SPEAKER_33: Right.
1:57:12
SPEAKER_33: That is a significant finding in its own right.
1:57:16
SPEAKER_33: You're talking about a 14-point difference.
1:57:22
SPEAKER_33: And they want to sit back and say, oh, it was Operation Metro Surge as to why the math and reading scores were bad.
1:57:28
SPEAKER_33: Oh, we have a new assessment.
1:57:29
SPEAKER_33: It's a lot harder now for the science students.
1:57:33
SPEAKER_33: Except it's even it's exposing what's even worse about it.
1:57:37
SPEAKER_33: Couple of comments that uh rolled in.
1:57:40
SPEAKER_33: Since eighth grade reading scores actually increased, can we therefore contribute that to the presence of ICE?
1:57:47
SPEAKER_33: Oh, that's a really good point.
1:57:52
SPEAKER_33: Somebody said if they weren't going to school for fear of being deported, likely because they shouldn't be here.
1:57:57
SPEAKER_33: Should we even be counting their scores, assuming they even took the test?
1:58:01
SPEAKER_33: You know, the data point that we don't have right now, the data point that we don't have, I know we see the absentee rates.
1:58:07
SPEAKER_33: As a matter of fact, I need to look at it.
1:58:09
SPEAKER_33: I didn't get a chance to to uh to preview it, but there's an article right now talking about the chronic absenteeism inside of the public education system here in Minnesota.
1:58:21
SPEAKER_33: The question that I have is I want to see the numbers directly relating to the absenteeism rates, pre-operation metro surge, and post-operation metro surge.
1:58:30
SPEAKER_33: Now I have a lot more to get to regarding this, including more of your thoughts.
1:58:34
SPEAKER_33: Let's go ahead and uh make it official as we enter the third power, uh, third power of the show.
1:59:15
SPEAKER_33: For math, the results showed 45% of students are proficient compared to last year.
1:59:20
SPEAKER_33: Scores remained flat at 45 percent.
1:59:22
SPEAKER_33: That's actually a lie, uh, KSTP.
1:59:28
SPEAKER_33: It was forty-four point nine percent met the math standard in 2026.
1:59:32
SPEAKER_33: Last year it was 45.21%.
1:59:35
SPEAKER_33: It was a 0.3 percentage point difference.
1:59:39
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, I know.
1:59:40
SPEAKER_33: You can take the technically flat route, but when you actually account for the number of students in Minnesota, that is still a significant 0.03% for as much as they want to run cover for the DFL here in Minnesota.
1:59:56
SPEAKER_33: The department called the results stable, said the disruptions to student attendance linked to Operation Metro Surge could have affected the scores.
2:00:05
SPEAKER_33: And again, for those that are just joining us, Metro Surge started December 1st and ended of 2025 and ended February 12th of 2026.
2:00:15
SPEAKER_33: I uh there is no justification that you can give whatsoever that suddenly within the course of that month and a couple of weeks, or actually a couple of months, about two months, right?
2:00:27
SPEAKER_33: I think it's December 1st to February 12th.
2:00:30
SPEAKER_33: That in that time frame of less than 90 days, is suddenly all the students forgot how to do science, all the students forgot how to read, and all the students forgot how to do math.
2:00:42
SPEAKER_33: Give me a break.
2:00:43
SPEAKER_29: Hey John, my kids' test scores, I should say, even our my kids' school test scores are above national average and way above state average.
2:00:55
SPEAKER_29: We are in rural Minnesota.
2:00:58
SPEAKER_29: We're doing just fine.
2:00:59
SPEAKER_29: We can read, we can read my kids know what time.
2:01:04
SPEAKER_28: I think if you just down there in the metro and read after the idiot and I think the color of the metro is one of the issues that doesn't get brought up in terms of the test coin of one of each classroom has each ten different languages in it, it's really kind of difficult to teach the all the kids.
2:01:29
SPEAKER_28: So that's a problem.
2:01:34
SPEAKER_05: Don't forget, also during that Operation Metro Surge would have been the holiday or Christmas break.
2:01:41
SPEAKER_05: So isn't that like two weeks that they're not in school anyway?
2:01:44
SPEAKER_33: Just saying, I mean No, you're right, and I thought about that too, and I specifically didn't call attention to it because I felt that you're right, and I'm glad that you did.
2:01:54
SPEAKER_33: So thank you for for actually filling that in because it is an important point.
2:01:57
SPEAKER_33: The reason I didn't bring it up is because, in my view, even if you had between December 1st and February 12th, if that was a completely consistent level, a consistent time of teaching, that there wasn't a break for the holidays and whatnot, I still feel that the argument is incredibly relevant.
2:02:16
SPEAKER_33: But yes, it actually makes it worse when you account for the fact that the holidays are taking place, a lot of people are checking out, a lot of people are going on vacation, kids have time off from school.
2:02:26
SPEAKER_33: You're absolutely right.
2:02:28
SPEAKER_33: It's an even it's an even better way to go and describe just how utterly ridiculous it is and how stupid they think the public is to believe that Operation Metro Surge could have had any impact on any of these scores.
2:02:49
SPEAKER_13: But she will tell you that she has tried so hard to get these test scores up from these kids, but the administration, they really don't care as much as they claim they do.
2:03:01
SPEAKER_13: The parents don't care.
2:03:03
SPEAKER_33: And what I always Oh, my apologies there, Scott.
2:03:06
SPEAKER_33: I didn't mean to uh click away from you.
2:03:08
SPEAKER_33: But thank you for the comments as uh always.
2:03:10
SPEAKER_33: Now there's more to this because I haven't gotten into what the Minnesota Department of Education is planning on doing and what I firmly believe is one big massive setup.
2:03:22
SPEAKER_33: It's the John Justice show here on American Experiment.
2:03:26
SPEAKER_33: Let's go here.
2:03:27
SPEAKER_33: So they want to cite Operation Metro Surge, and they want to say that, well, really, you got to go back to COVID.
2:03:33
SPEAKER_33: The students here in Minnesota never recovered from the pandemic, and this is why we're still dealing with these atrociously bad, consistently bad reading, math, and science scores.
2:03:46
SPEAKER_33: MPR reports that Minnesota results remain below pre-pandemic levels, and that this isn't unique to Minnesota.
2:03:53
SPEAKER_33: National academic performance has also continued to struggle.
2:03:56
SPEAKER_33: Then why do we keep throwing money at the problem?
2:04:00
SPEAKER_33: In 2020 to 2021, so you're looking at coming out of COVID and the pandemic,$22.4 billion was spent on education in Minnesota.
2:04:10
SPEAKER_33: In um 22 to 23,$24.4 billion was spent on education here in Minnesota.
2:04:18
SPEAKER_33: Uh 24 to 25,$27.9 billion.
2:04:24
SPEAKER_33: There has been a 25% increase in taxpayer funding, some of that coming from the federal government in our education funding here in Minnesota, and we've gotten jack squat for it.
2:04:38
SPEAKER_33: As a matter of fact, it's gotten worse.
2:04:42
SPEAKER_33: So they can blame the pandemic.
2:04:44
SPEAKER_33: They can blame Operation Metro Surge all they want.
2:04:48
SPEAKER_33: This is disastrous for Democrats running here in the state.
2:04:53
SPEAKER_33: Further disastrous for Peggy Flanagan.
2:04:57
SPEAKER_33: You have hit pieces out now for Ron Schutz, if you haven't seen them, ridiculous things about stock options or some stupid nonsense that's being peddled by your left-wing media outlets.
2:05:11
SPEAKER_33: They are desperate, desperate to change the narrative.
2:05:17
SPEAKER_33: So here's the question: what happens now?
2:05:19
SPEAKER_33: Well, you may not realize this, but a 28-member task force is being asked to examine Minnesota's entire standardized testing framework.
2:05:30
SPEAKER_33: This task force, uh, by the way, was uh let's see, I gotta get further into my notes here.
2:05:38
SPEAKER_33: On uh the 24th of uh September, MDA announced this 28 member uh ta uh testing and assessment task force.
2:05:48
SPEAKER_33: That was the uh 24th.
2:05:50
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
2:05:51
SPEAKER_33: The uh MCA results were released on September 30th.
2:05:56
SPEAKER_33: That's interesting.
2:05:57
SPEAKER_33: The scuttle of this task force is that the task force and their intention is to go and completely revamp how students are graded here in Minnesota.
2:06:09
SPEAKER_33: And if you think they're getting more stringent, yeah, I have a beachfront property in Blaine to sell you.
2:06:16
SPEAKER_33: Of course they're not.
2:06:18
SPEAKER_33: They're gonna game the system.
2:06:21
SPEAKER_33: No money is gonna be able to fix the problem of the Minnesota Department of Education.
2:06:26
SPEAKER_33: No, there is no number with a billion next to it that can solve this problem of our atrocious education here in Minnesota.
2:06:37
SPEAKER_33: So instead, what do they do?
2:06:39
SPEAKER_33: They blame Operation Metro Surge, they blame the pandemic, and now they're convening a task force that is gonna look at upending the way that we actually go and assess and grade the students all together just so they can get the desired result.
2:06:56
SPEAKER_33: I'm gonna give you more details on this coming up in just a moment on the show.
2:07:00
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SPEAKER_10: Hey John, James Vicky.
2:10:09
SPEAKER_10: You know, the one of the worst things about this demand for more funding, and as we're seeing increased funding and increased tax dollars going to education, at least on its face, is that I'm looking here at Bill Blonde's recent tweet just yesterday showing that Education Minnesota has donated like$1.7 million in uh political contributions just this year.
2:10:30
SPEAKER_10: And Catherine Winfall had an article just the other day at AmericanExperiment.org that said Yeah, actually they donated like$3.7 million to political stuff over the over the previous biennial.
2:10:42
SPEAKER_10: So you've got money flowing from the teachers into education in Minnesota going into just basically promoting these left-lane policies that are just not working.
2:10:52
SPEAKER_33: Uh thank you as always, James.
2:10:53
SPEAKER_33: Uh great to hear from you and fantastic insight as well.
2:10:56
SPEAKER_30: Good morning, Tim from Chicago.
2:10:57
SPEAKER_30: So here's another indicator of our uh systemic issues in Chicago Late School District, where 56% of the kids are proficient in math, 56% in reading, and 42% in science.
2:11:10
SPEAKER_30: And the uh the district is hanging their head on that they're beating the state average, so they're doing a good job.
2:11:17
SPEAKER_30: So there's an indication of how deep the problem really is.
2:11:21
SPEAKER_30: Have a good day.
2:11:22
SPEAKER_33: So, what could this new task force change?
2:11:24
SPEAKER_33: So they're expected to evaluate the effectiveness of the assessments Minnesota currently uses, examine the testing models used in other states, consider whether assessments can provide information that teachers can use more quickly to adjust instruction, examine the effects of high stake testing.
2:11:43
SPEAKER_33: MDA itself acknowledges the MCA score doesn't tell the whole story about what a student can know or do.
2:11:50
SPEAKER_33: Mm hmm.
2:11:51
SPEAKER_33: Okay.
2:11:52
SPEAKER_33: So based off of MDA stated objectives, so here's what this task force uh could examine.
2:12:00
SPEAKER_33: Periodic statewise standardized measurements of whether students meet Minnesota's academic standards.
2:12:07
SPEAKER_33: A combination of standardized assessment, ongoing classroom assessment, measures of student growth, and evidence of demonstrated learning.
2:12:15
SPEAKER_33: They're not looking at anything that has to do with the quality of education itself.
2:12:20
SPEAKER_33: They're not examining where the money is going.
2:12:23
SPEAKER_33: They're aren't examining the critical race theory Marxist garbage that they put in place.
2:12:28
SPEAKER_33: They're not examining the activism that's taking place in the schools, the propaganda that's posted on all the walls and adorned with necklaces and clothing and flags.
2:12:39
SPEAKER_33: None of it.
2:12:40
SPEAKER_33: They're all looking at, well, how do we reassess the students so that we can get the outcome that we want?
2:12:47
SPEAKER_33: None of it is about improving the education system at all.
2:12:52
SPEAKER_33: MDE uh published a specific set of recommendations and is currently offering professional development training to Minnesota school systems on equitable grading policies and practices.
2:13:06
SPEAKER_33: So what does this include?
2:13:08
SPEAKER_33: Are you sitting down?
2:13:10
SPEAKER_33: Eliminating the zero to one hundred grading scale.
2:13:15
SPEAKER_33: My understanding is there's no other state that's done this.
2:13:19
SPEAKER_33: We would be one of the uh first.
2:13:23
SPEAKER_33: Eliminate zero grades.
2:13:26
SPEAKER_33: So let me go back to hold on, hold on.
2:13:28
SPEAKER_33: I'm getting I'm getting ahead of myself here.
2:13:29
SPEAKER_33: I'm getting ahead of myself.
2:13:30
SPEAKER_33: So MDE argues going back to the zero to one hundred grading scale.
2:13:37
SPEAKER_33: My wife Melinda's got to be pulling her hair out right now.
2:13:40
SPEAKER_33: Also, probably much like I am, incredibly thankful that our boys are out of school.
2:13:48
SPEAKER_33: MDE's document argues, right?
2:13:51
SPEAKER_33: And this is what the task force is going to be looking at, potentially, that the zero to one hundred scale, oh, that disproportionately weights the failing portion of the scale and recommends a narrow scale if a point system is used.
2:14:05
SPEAKER_33: So there is uh example number one about how they want to uh game the results to get the desired outcome.
2:14:13
SPEAKER_33: MDE argues that a zero often reflects missing late or incomplete work rather than an absence in learning.
2:14:21
SPEAKER_33: It's recommended that an alternative is used to mark work incomplete and give the student another opportunity to demonstrate learning.
2:14:31
SPEAKER_33: See, the logic here is that if there's missing uh late or incomplete work, that there's no accounting for, well, the student might have learned something.
2:14:41
SPEAKER_33: I mean, they could have they could have absorbed some of the information.
2:14:45
SPEAKER_33: I mean, just because they didn't turn the assignment in on time or it wasn't finished all the way, or you know, it was late, it doesn't mean they didn't learn that they learned nothing.
2:14:57
SPEAKER_33: Although, based off of that argument, look at what happened with the test scores.
2:15:01
SPEAKER_33: 40% proficient, which was more just, you know, reciting facts relating to science, periodic table, and stuff like that.
2:15:08
SPEAKER_33: And then the new assessment was how do you actually apply the science in real-world scenarios?
2:15:14
SPEAKER_33: And it dropped to 26%.
2:15:16
SPEAKER_33: So I guess that answers that question.
2:15:21
SPEAKER_33: It's recommended that an alternative is to mark work incomplete, give the student another opportunity.
2:15:26
SPEAKER_33: Uh, they also recommend separate academic performance from behavior, separate the two out.
2:15:34
SPEAKER_33: MDE recommends that grades reflect what students know and can do academically rather than incorporating behavior compliance, participation, or attitude in an academic grade.
2:15:47
SPEAKER_33: I can't, I I I can't.
2:15:49
SPEAKER_33: I just I just I just can't.
2:15:53
SPEAKER_20: You know they're just gonna change the standards of the test, so they look better than anything though.
2:16:01
SPEAKER_21: Yes, a hundred percent.
2:16:04
SPEAKER_21: Hey, John, the only way to fix this, and it'll never happen, but you need to abolish the public education system.
2:16:11
SPEAKER_21: You need to give every taxpayer their money and they can spend it where they want.
2:16:37
SPEAKER_21: Nope.
2:16:38
SPEAKER_21: It doesn't.
2:16:38
SPEAKER_21: So here we are.
2:16:39
SPEAKER_21: Have a good day.
2:16:40
SPEAKER_33: Nuke, the Department of Education from orbit is the only way to be sure.
2:16:46
SPEAKER_33: Uh the other the other recommendations as far as the equitable grading practices, don't grade the learning process itself.
2:16:55
SPEAKER_33: What?
2:16:58
SPEAKER_33: Huh?
2:17:00
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2:18:30
SPEAKER_38: This is Pat up in Aiken.
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SPEAKER_38: So you have to factor that in.
2:18:42
SPEAKER_38: Thanks.
2:18:42
SPEAKER_38: Bye.
2:18:43
SPEAKER_33: So on the don't grade the learning process itself recommendation, they say activities such as homework and other formative learning activities that shouldn't necessarily receive grades because they're opportunities to practice, make mistakes, and learn.
2:18:56
SPEAKER_33: I I I don't know.
2:18:57
SPEAKER_33: I don't know what is going on.
2:19:00
SPEAKER_33: This is a recipe to create the worst education curriculum you could ever go and create.
2:19:08
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, no homework, you know.
2:19:10
SPEAKER_33: I just, you know, they shouldn't be grading any of that.
2:19:15
SPEAKER_33: You know, it's so unnecessary.
2:19:17
SPEAKER_33: Talk more about their feelings and emotions.
2:19:20
SPEAKER_33: That's what we ought to be doing.
2:19:23
SPEAKER_33: Somebody wrote in this goes for thousands of government-funded programs.
2:19:26
SPEAKER_33: We never sunset programs, only continue to add more bad programs with no oversight.
2:19:34
SPEAKER_33: Like you said, John, I'm glad that my son is done with school in Minnesota, writes another blast, 651-964-0294.
2:19:43
SPEAKER_33: These new grading methods were partially in place after COVID.
2:19:47
SPEAKER_33: My son had months to turn in or complete assignments, and rarely did they get lower grades for work.
2:19:53
SPEAKER_33: The only testing that would get the results they want would be conditioning the kids to answer they identify as passing.
2:20:00
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, we're a stone's throw away from that.
2:20:03
SPEAKER_33: You know, why don't you you do you tell you tell us at the end of the year what kind how you did.
2:20:13
SPEAKER_33: Use standardized aligned rubrics.
2:20:16
SPEAKER_33: Instead of relying simply on accumulated points, MDE recommends rubrics tied directly to academic standards so students and teachers can see what advantage or skills have actually been demonstrated.
2:20:28
SPEAKER_33: Allow makeup work, retakes, and redo's.
2:20:30
SPEAKER_33: What, into infinity?
2:20:32
SPEAKER_33: The MDE document specifically recommends giving students additional opportunities to demonstrate mastery rather than using extra credit or earlier poor performance as the permanent measure of their achievement.
2:20:44
SPEAKER_33: Like, I mean, you would need billions of more dollars to just implement all of this.
2:20:49
SPEAKER_33: I mean, how would you even keep track as a teacher of all of these different nuanced, hippy-dippy ways of going and trying to assess the education of a student?
2:21:02
SPEAKER_33: And it goes further than this, okay?
2:21:04
SPEAKER_33: So there's two different conversations right now that are happening simultaneously in the wake of these MCA scores.
2:21:10
SPEAKER_33: I don't buy for a second, by the way.
2:21:12
SPEAKER_33: As I mentioned before, September 24th is when MDE announced this 28-member testing and assessment task force.
2:21:18
SPEAKER_33: They haven't begun meeting yet.
2:21:20
SPEAKER_33: September 30th, yesterday, was when MDE released the actual scores that we've been talking about this morning, which showed, for those that have just joined the John Justice show presented by American Experiments shows that students have again not reading.
2:21:33
SPEAKER_33: Less than half the students are not reading or being able to do math at the grade level proficiency.
2:21:39
SPEAKER_33: And they've only gotten worse.
2:21:40
SPEAKER_33: In science, it's even worse at 26%.
2:21:45
SPEAKER_33: I don't buy for a second that this uh testing and task force was just simply convened before knowing the results.
2:21:54
SPEAKER_33: They absolutely knew what the results were going to be.
2:21:57
SPEAKER_33: This was all a face-saving measure because this is disastrous news for the leftists here in Minnesota ahead of the elections coming up.
2:22:09
SPEAKER_33: So the two different conversations that are having happening simultaneously.
2:22:13
SPEAKER_33: The new task force will be asking, are Minnesota standardized tests the best way to measure student achievement and growth?
2:22:22
SPEAKER_33: MDE is asking, does the grade a student receive actually represent what the student has learned?
2:22:30
SPEAKER_33: Listen, this is so ridiculously simple.
2:22:34
SPEAKER_33: If the traditional schooling A, B, C, D, F, all of that, zero to one hundred, if the traditional schooling is failing, then moving to an equitable grading system without examining why the existing traditional schooling is failing is only going to exacerbate the problem.
2:22:57
SPEAKER_33: You would have to be a moron, or specifically want the students even dumber when they graduate because we lowered those standards as well.
2:23:09
SPEAKER_07: Well, all this going on, maybe they could just change the name of it to the Minnesota Department of Mediocrity.
2:23:16
SPEAKER_15: Good point.
2:23:17
SPEAKER_15: Good morning.
2:23:18
SPEAKER_15: Unfortunately, I tuned in a little late today, so maybe this has already been covered, but I heard you guys talking about education, and I will say that the one thing that drives me crazy is the left constantly pretending that we don't care about education.
2:23:32
SPEAKER_15: And if you look at how we fund it and compare our per pupil expenditures to other OECD countries, so basically other well-off countries across the world, we're probably number four in the world.
2:23:46
SPEAKER_15: And since Minnesota spends more than the state average, we're probably higher than that.
2:23:51
SPEAKER_15: So why aren't we getting number four in the world outcome from our educational system?
2:23:56
SPEAKER_15: Where does the money go?
2:23:58
SPEAKER_15: So don't ever let people basically imply that we don't care about education in this country because we do, and we're very generous.
2:24:06
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, no, you are you are a hundred percent correct.
2:24:09
SPEAKER_33: And as I mentioned um earlier, they want to blame Operation Metro Surge, which is one of the most ridiculous and asinine excuses one could ever give.
2:24:21
SPEAKER_33: December 1st to February 12th, that's when Operation Metro Surge took place.
2:24:26
SPEAKER_33: And in their MCA result assessment, they said, oh, it had an impact.
2:24:30
SPEAKER_33: Give me just okay.
2:24:32
SPEAKER_33: But on top of that, and to your point, they also blame the pandemic that things have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
2:24:39
SPEAKER_33: And again, from 2020 to 2021, it was$22.4 billion in education funding.
2:24:45
SPEAKER_33: In 22 to 23, it was$24.4 billion.
2:24:48
SPEAKER_33: And in 24 to 25, it was$27.9 billion.
2:24:52
SPEAKER_33: We increased education funding by 25% here in the state of Minnesota, and education got worse.
2:25:00
SPEAKER_33: Now, getting back to a few more points on this.
2:25:04
SPEAKER_33: A student's grade, they say, can reflect the accumulation of work, tests, homework, and deadlines, and other classroom factors.
2:25:11
SPEAKER_33: MDE's equitable grading approach, they say the grade should primarily communicate what the student ultimately knows and can demonstrate in relation to the academic standards.
2:25:22
SPEAKER_33: I Minnesota released results showing a substantial number of students aren't meeting the academic standards while simultaneously examining whether the way we measure and report student achievement needs to change.
2:25:39
SPEAKER_33: And yet there is no indication whatsoever in any of what I've shared with you that they have any thought at all of actually examining the quality of education the students are receiving.
2:25:51
SPEAKER_33: Now, the task force is scheduled to convene starting this month.
2:25:56
SPEAKER_33: Now they did not convene before the MCA results were released.
2:26:00
SPEAKER_33: It was announced six days before the results, and the actual work was scheduled to begin afterwards.
2:26:05
SPEAKER_33: But like I said before, I do not believe for a second that the Minnesota Department of Education did not have access to these MCA results prior to their release.
2:26:15
SPEAKER_33: And therefore, this task force was announced six days before as just a, oh, that's convenient.
2:26:22
SPEAKER_33: What it was just a hap-oh, that was just so regardless of whether or not the the uh the numbers were gonna bear out in a positive or negative way, we were gonna do this task force anyways.
2:26:32
SPEAKER_33: Uh-huh.
2:26:32
SPEAKER_33: Maybe that's the case.
2:26:34
SPEAKER_33: I, you know, I could be, I could be wrong.
2:26:36
SPEAKER_33: There is a fantastic piece up today.
2:26:38
SPEAKER_33: I won't have time to get into it now.
2:26:40
SPEAKER_33: We'll talk about it uh a little bit more on tomorrow's show.
2:26:42
SPEAKER_33: But Katrin Wigfall has a brand new piece up at americanexperiment.org.
2:26:46
SPEAKER_33: Minnesota is trying to use is uh trying to license a worldview with its new ethnic studies rules.
2:26:53
SPEAKER_33: And again, I've been sitting on this article.
2:26:55
SPEAKER_33: We won't have time to uh to dive into it, but Minnesota's school meals program should make uh room for kids with plant-based diets.
2:27:02
SPEAKER_33: I only bring it up because, as I mentioned before, you had Governor Walls out there touting 430 million meals served.
2:27:11
SPEAKER_33: When they put forward the free school meals program, it was all about, well, kids cannot get a good education unless they have a full belly in the morning.
2:27:19
SPEAKER_33: It is too hard for children to think if they haven't had their Pop-Tarts.
2:27:24
SPEAKER_33: So we gotta get them their bare claws.
2:27:27
SPEAKER_33: They gotta have their Pop-Tarts.
2:27:29
SPEAKER_33: That'll improve education along with a 25% increase in taxpayer funding and some federal funding going to education.
2:27:36
SPEAKER_33: Uh, maybe not.
2:27:39
SPEAKER_33: Certainly not based off these MCA scores.
2:27:42
SPEAKER_19: Teachers Union, Department of Education, it's the revolving door of accountability, constantly shifting the blame.
2:27:49
SPEAKER_19: What was the excuse in the 08 crash?
2:27:51
SPEAKER_19: What was the excuse during 9-11?
2:27:54
SPEAKER_19: What's the excuse why they can't rise to the occasion, regardless of what our economic conditions are, whatever political state that we happen to be in?
2:28:03
SPEAKER_19: You have a job, it's to educate, you need to adapt accordingly, stop asking for more money, getting less results, but there's never accountability.
2:28:13
SPEAKER_19: So nothing changes.
2:28:14
SPEAKER_19: And that's what needs to change.
2:28:16
SPEAKER_19: Establishing accountability and understanding we have the power to stop these people from taking more and more money by showing the results, getting the results out there, talking about it.
2:28:30
SPEAKER_33: You know, this is one of those mornings where uh unless I'd gotten a uh good night's sleep, I don't think I could have been able to go and uh cover and keep my sanity when it comes to all this news.
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2:29:09
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2:30:48
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2:30:56
SPEAKER_21: Hey John, sorry about this education thing gets my blood boiling.
2:30:59
SPEAKER_21: Um I think you could maybe fix it without even abolishing the public education system.
2:31:03
SPEAKER_21: Just abolish the teachers' union.
2:31:06
SPEAKER_21: Uh following up to that guy who just called about where's the money going.
2:31:10
SPEAKER_21: Well, it's going to protect these bad teachers with tenure and all this other BS.
2:31:15
SPEAKER_21: Get them out of the classroom.
2:31:17
SPEAKER_21: Put some people in there that care and aren't there for a paycheck.
2:31:21
SPEAKER_21: I know there's a got a lot of good teachers, but there's a lot of crappy ones, too.
2:31:26
SPEAKER_33: Thank you for the comment.
2:31:27
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2:31:30
SPEAKER_33: Bill Walsh, Thinking Minnesota poll.
2:31:33
SPEAKER_33: Bill joins us here in the center of the American Experiment uh studios.
2:31:37
SPEAKER_33: Good morning, Bill.
2:31:38
SPEAKER_33: How are we doing this morning, sir?
2:31:39
SPEAKER_33: Good morning.
2:31:39
SPEAKER_33: Doing great.
2:31:40
SPEAKER_33: You had a fantastic write-up, by the way, on uh that thing that never happened that uh happened again uh regarding uh the uh 10 individuals busted for election fraud and the uh previous statements that run headlong into that issue announced by the DOJ yesterday into statements made by uh Secretary of State Steve uh Steve Simon.
2:32:00
SPEAKER_48: Simon, he's just he's gotta stop being the chief cheerleader for our election system.
2:32:05
SPEAKER_48: I mean, it's fine, it's hey, we we a lot we we're very civic minded and everybody votes in Minnesota, but just stop being the cheerleader and start being the guy in charge of the system and looking for accountability and fixing it.
2:32:17
SPEAKER_48: And he just he just won't uh you know, I I'm being my our our boss would would say I'm being naive.
2:32:22
SPEAKER_48: I mean he he's got a very specific plan.
2:32:25
SPEAKER_48: Oh yeah, they're stuck they're stuck on stupid and they're stuck against Trump.
2:32:28
SPEAKER_48: I give people the benefit of the doubt.
2:32:30
SPEAKER_48: It's just like you know, ten more people, you know, how many and and it it's not like I said in the article, it's not we're not taking widespread fraud, you know.
2:32:37
SPEAKER_48: But but this is when you when you have these two systems going together, we all knew this was gonna happen.
2:32:42
SPEAKER_48: Yeah.
2:32:42
SPEAKER_48: And instead of saying, yeah, we gotta change our ways, we gotta fix this, um, we gotta add provisional ballots, which would be the number one thing to do.
2:32:51
SPEAKER_48: Uh he just defends, defends, defends.
2:32:53
SPEAKER_48: And downplays, downplay, ah, it's just just ten people, it's nothing.
2:32:56
SPEAKER_33: Well, and like you said, it was completely predictable.
2:32:58
SPEAKER_33: I mean, it's what this is exactly.
2:33:00
SPEAKER_33: You know, and I see and I saw the pushback too with other individuals saying, well, it's not widespread, it's not enough to go and impact an election.
2:33:06
SPEAKER_33: It doesn't matter.
2:33:07
SPEAKER_33: The fact that you're pr putting in a mechanism that enables this.
2:33:11
SPEAKER_33: I mean, what about the fraud that we haven't caught?
2:33:15
SPEAKER_33: You know, what if it ends up having an impact on your candidate, regardless of party?
2:33:19
SPEAKER_33: But they're so stuck on stupid when it comes to Trump.
2:33:22
SPEAKER_33: That's just the tactic that they've that they've chosen.
2:33:25
SPEAKER_33: It's just it's stunning to see day after day after day.
2:33:28
SPEAKER_48: Successful fraud doesn't get caught by by definition.
2:33:36
SPEAKER_48: It's like Yeah, it's a good point.
2:33:37
SPEAKER_48: It's great that we catch a few, but if you're successful at fraud, you don't get caught.
2:33:42
SPEAKER_33: Um we'll dive into these numbers really quick, but just I'm curious, these MCA results from uh from yesterday.
2:33:49
SPEAKER_33: I was talking with uh Josiah Padley about this yesterday uh uh after the show, and uh you know the news dropped and she was like, Hey, keep an eye on this.
2:33:57
SPEAKER_33: We don't know what to expect, but we do have expectations.
2:34:00
SPEAKER_33: And it was uh it was about what we expected, if not worse.
2:34:03
SPEAKER_33: But the excuses they're using the pandemic and Operation Metro Surge, it's like, come on, guys, we're not that dumb.
2:34:10
SPEAKER_48: No, and it's that's the problem.
2:34:11
SPEAKER_48: You're all you're hearing is excuses.
2:34:13
SPEAKER_48: You're not hearing, hey, we're gonna we're gonna change how we do things.
2:34:16
SPEAKER_48: There were the next big education reform in Minnesota is, you know, we don't hear any of that.
2:34:20
SPEAKER_48: More money, more money, uh, or or excuses from adults.
2:34:24
SPEAKER_48: You know, we had Metro Surge.
2:34:25
SPEAKER_48: Well, you you scared the crap out of everybody during Metro Surge.
2:34:29
SPEAKER_48: You told them to protest, you told them to stay home, not go to work, you shut down schools and prevented kids from getting to school to learn.
2:34:38
SPEAKER_48: And then, and then we we say, well, it's it's that's why that's why kids' test course are kids can't wait.
2:34:43
SPEAKER_48: They don't have time for adults to screw around and figure this out.
2:34:47
SPEAKER_48: The you know the kid that can't read by fourth or fifth grade is so far behind already that it's too late.
2:34:53
SPEAKER_48: And we gotta we gotta have some reforms.
2:34:55
SPEAKER_48: We we could talk all day on this.
2:34:57
SPEAKER_48: Uh, I know Katrin has a post coming uh today, I'm assuming, on on her analysis of the results and the excuse making.
2:35:04
SPEAKER_33: So well, you make a great point, and then we'll dive into this exclusive polling data that we've been teasing.
2:35:09
SPEAKER_33: But I didn't even land on that.
2:35:10
SPEAKER_33: You're right.
2:35:11
SPEAKER_33: Even if it had been, because I don't buy it for a second, but even if Operation Metro Surge had contributed to these horrible math reading and science proficiency numbers, it would have only been because you're right, they made a big deal about it.
2:35:24
SPEAKER_33: And we've seen the we've seen it bear out.
2:35:26
SPEAKER_33: We had more arrests and ICE operations through July and August this year than we did during Operation Metro Surge, and you only heard about it after I found out about it and talked about it on this show because there wasn't any controversy attached to it.
2:35:40
SPEAKER_33: They went and they did their law enforcement, they arrested the bad guys, they deported the bad guys in record numbers, and it was all fine and daily.
2:35:47
SPEAKER_33: It was just law enforcement doing their job.
2:35:49
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, with no Minnesota leaders uh goading everybody to go out and protest and blow whistles and and and and get really dangerous, as you as we saw.
2:35:57
SPEAKER_48: And by the way, most of the state did not have a metro surge impact.
2:36:02
SPEAKER_48: I mean, we we overplay this because we're in the core cities of Minneapolis, a little in St.
2:36:07
SPEAKER_48: Paul, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Center, maybe.
2:36:10
SPEAKER_48: But most of this, and and test scores have been going down across the state for before COVID, since COVID, and now it continues.
2:36:18
SPEAKER_48: So this is an excuse.
2:36:19
SPEAKER_48: Stop making excuses, bring us the reforms.
2:36:22
SPEAKER_33: So uh let's recap for those that aren't aware.
2:36:24
SPEAKER_33: Thinking Minnesota, the Thinking Minnesota poll uh this year, exclusive to Center of the American Experiment, uh, will be coming out in the uh the next magazine.
2:36:33
SPEAKER_33: And when will the uh Days Days we're days away?
2:36:36
SPEAKER_33: Yep.
2:36:37
SPEAKER_33: All right.
2:36:37
SPEAKER_33: So uh we had you on last week talking a little bit about these numbers.
2:36:40
SPEAKER_33: We want to talk specifically today a lot of data regarding the DFL and they have a DSA problem based off of the numbers in the Thinking Minnesota poll.
2:36:51
SPEAKER_33: I mean, we'll start here with this.
2:36:52
SPEAKER_33: I've got the stack in front of me, but um, and in no particular order here, Bill.
2:36:56
SPEAKER_33: Uh three in five Minnesota voters have already heard at least something about the Democrat Socialists of America, with three in ten saying they've heard a lot about it.
2:37:09
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, we before we wanted to kind of go deep with Minnesotans about the DSA, we ought to make sure do you even know what it is?
2:37:14
SPEAKER_48: Do you even kind of understand it?
2:37:16
SPEAKER_48: So that was a that's a pretty strong number.
2:37:18
SPEAKER_48: Uh 60 percent saying um, yeah, we know what the DSA is in Minnesota, and they've gotten a lot of pub.
2:37:24
SPEAKER_48: There's some some candidates, some high-profile candidates in Minnesota, Minneapolis, St.
2:37:27
SPEAKER_48: Paul, Duluth, um, that have run and won and are governing.
2:37:31
SPEAKER_48: So Minnesotans know about the DSA.
2:37:32
SPEAKER_48: Step one.
2:37:33
SPEAKER_33: A uh a DSA endorsement is a net negative for candidates statewide and a definite liability outside of the twin cities.
2:37:44
SPEAKER_33: So when you look at the numbers here, uh you have uh, let's see.
2:37:49
SPEAKER_33: The uh do you have the do you have the data in front of you here?
2:37:52
SPEAKER_48: 41% of Minnesotans in the poll told us that it would be it would be um the endorsement would make them less likely to support a candidate.
2:38:02
SPEAKER_48: 25% said more likely, which is the hardcore Democrat 25% we have in every poll.
2:38:08
SPEAKER_48: How did they even do that?
2:38:09
SPEAKER_48: Well, that's they they answer the way they're supposed to.
2:38:11
SPEAKER_48: 33% wouldn't make any difference.
2:38:13
SPEAKER_48: Um, but 41%, a plurality, said that they would be less likely to support a candidate if they knew they were part of the DSA.
2:38:20
SPEAKER_48: So that's a problem for the DFL because I think you're gonna get there next.
2:38:24
SPEAKER_48: Uh uh Minnesotans kind of understand that the DFL is the DSA.
2:38:29
SPEAKER_40: Yeah.
2:38:29
SPEAKER_48: Uh that the DSA is in the DNA of the DFL in Minnesota, and that's what they told us.
2:38:34
SPEAKER_48: So uh Democrat candidates uh, you know, they should run away from the DSA.
2:38:40
SPEAKER_48: Uh there where's the article in the Star Tribune, by the way, that says Democrat candidates uh running away from DSA.
2:38:45
SPEAKER_48: Uh we saw one about Trump, um, which is a similar issue, but but not similar.
2:38:49
SPEAKER_48: I can we can if we have time, we could talk about the Trump number.
2:38:52
SPEAKER_48: Um but yeah, Minnesotans are kind of they're aware of the DSA, they're gonna hold it against candidates.
2:38:57
SPEAKER_48: And we asked them, you know, how do you what do you think we asked Democrats even especially, what do you think that is the influence in the D in the DFL party?
2:39:04
SPEAKER_48: And and uh a majority of them said the progressive wing or the DSA wing.
2:39:08
SPEAKER_48: So they kind of self-report that.
2:39:10
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, on this DSA endorsement being a net negative for candidates statewide and uh definite liability outside the twin cities, you had Democrats more likely at 50%, less likely at 7%, and then plus 43 net more likely.
2:39:24
SPEAKER_33: Uh the independent numbers, uh six percent more likely, 45% less likely, and minus 39% uh net more likely.
2:39:33
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, if you're uh if you're in the election business, and we're not, but if you're in the election business, you key on independence, right?
2:39:39
SPEAKER_48: You expect Democrats to operate a certain way, Republicans are gonna operate a certain way.
2:39:42
SPEAKER_48: Where's that middle group?
2:39:44
SPEAKER_48: Because they decide elections.
2:39:45
SPEAKER_48: So uh uh independents get it and they're holding it, they're they would hold it against uh candidates uh if they're DSA endorsed.
2:39:53
SPEAKER_33: Uh nearly half of voters see the DFL and the Democrat socialists as part of the same political movement, even though Democrats are mixed on the issue.
2:40:04
SPEAKER_33: Yeah, 49% said largely the same in this polling.
2:40:09
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, that's the DSA problem for the DFL.
2:40:11
SPEAKER_48: I mean, they they they see the parties as the same.
2:40:13
SPEAKER_48: And I think a lot of that's this this national story you're seeing with the candidates in Michigan and Florida, Wisconsin, the woman that didn't win but but but competed uh in the in the DFL in the Democrat primary in in Wisconsin.
2:40:26
SPEAKER_48: Um, you know, they're seeing that the the the squad, you know, uh Cokesio Cortes, uh even Ilan Omar here in in the town uh in Minneapolis, you know, they're they're leading, they're the leading voice.
2:40:38
SPEAKER_48: And like they always say, they have the most energy in the party in the country.
2:40:42
SPEAKER_48: Actually, they have the most energy of any part of the electorate.
2:40:45
SPEAKER_48: There's no conservative group that has that kind of energy and excitement.
2:40:49
SPEAKER_48: Um and so Minnesotans are saying, yeah, it looks like the the the new brand of the DFL is the DSA.
2:40:54
SPEAKER_33: Well, and it's interesting too.
2:40:56
SPEAKER_33: We were talking about this earlier in the show in the first hour.
2:40:58
SPEAKER_33: I was uh working off of a piece from Newt Gingrich, and he was kind of echoing what I had said on the show.
2:41:03
SPEAKER_33: When you go back and look at the years wherein the party in power retained control, there's always these external factors.
2:41:12
SPEAKER_33: So you go back to 2002, George uh W.
2:41:14
SPEAKER_33: Bush kept control, Republicans kept control, you had 9-11.
2:41:18
SPEAKER_33: Uh, you go back to uh Roosevelt and the Great Depression, I think that was 1934.
2:41:23
SPEAKER_33: I don't have the number in front of me.
2:41:24
SPEAKER_33: Um, but that was another external factor of the Great Depression, leading to the party who was in power retaining power.
2:41:32
SPEAKER_33: Um, you can spike in '98 with Bill Clinton, where the Democrats had gained some uh some seats in Congress um during that time period.
2:41:41
SPEAKER_33: That was the Monica Lewinsky ordeal where the GOP kind of overplayed their hand a bit, thinking that scandal was gonna tank them.
2:41:47
SPEAKER_33: But you kind of kind of usually it's those other two.
2:41:50
SPEAKER_48: Also boom town in the in the economy.
2:41:52
SPEAKER_48: Yeah.
2:41:52
SPEAKER_48: I mean, with the tech boom and everything.
2:41:54
SPEAKER_48: 100%.
2:41:55
SPEAKER_48: Those were good years.
2:41:56
SPEAKER_33: So the point being, and what Newt was saying, he was saying that this was one of the most difficult election cycles for him to predict.
2:42:03
SPEAKER_33: And I'd also but like if you're a betting person, you're gonna bet on the fact that Democrats will retain or will gain some control.
2:42:09
SPEAKER_33: Probably grab the House, might be close in the Senate, but there's a possibility.
2:42:12
SPEAKER_33: Um, I say all this in light of the DSA problem because this is one of the wild cards.
2:42:16
SPEAKER_33: We just don't know yet, and you know, whether or not the voters are gonna be heavily impacted when they head to the polls, when they early vote on this issue of these DSA candidates.
2:42:27
SPEAKER_33: I mean, we'll find out after election day, but it's really hard to predict.
2:42:31
SPEAKER_33: And as Newt Gingrich had said, there's a difference between sort of your socialism, which ends up getting a lot of attention, but what people don't like, Democrats included, is big government socialism.
2:42:40
SPEAKER_33: And that's a lot of what's being peddled right now.
2:42:43
SPEAKER_33: And I think the numbers here, while Minnesota is certainly an outlier, and Newt Gingrich actually pointed that out in his piece about how Minnesota is not following the national trend on any of this stuff right now, and he pointed to how Republicans could sweep across the board these statewide races.
2:42:57
SPEAKER_33: It's this DSA issue that really is one of the biggest wildcards in all of this.
2:43:01
SPEAKER_48: Well, right.
2:43:01
SPEAKER_48: I I guess as I was listening to you, I was thinking the the last point that Minnesota is different.
2:43:06
SPEAKER_48: And there's there's this whole thing about framing.
2:43:09
SPEAKER_48: We talked about this last week on the in the polling.
2:43:11
SPEAKER_48: Minnesotans are focused on fraud.
2:43:13
SPEAKER_48: Um it's just front and center, it's it's in our polling, it continues in our polling.
2:43:16
SPEAKER_48: We've seen it in other other polling tops issue, top issue, uh fraud.
2:43:20
SPEAKER_48: What's your plan to fight the fraud?
2:43:22
SPEAKER_48: How are we going to end this fraud?
2:43:23
SPEAKER_48: By the way, it continues, you know, every day we have news stories, it's not gone away yet, it hasn't been solved.
2:43:27
SPEAKER_48: Um so there there isn't a lot of room for voters to deal with a lot of other issues.
2:43:32
SPEAKER_48: So if I was in the business of giving advice to candidates, I might say, hey, Republicans, based on this polling, you should try to tag your opponent as connected to the DSA because Minnesotans don't they they think they like low the DSA.
2:43:44
SPEAKER_48: But I wouldn't even say that because I'd say, hey, if you're running in this state, you should talk about fraud and stay on fraud and don't get off it for the next 30 days because that's where the voters are.
2:43:54
SPEAKER_48: There just isn't room in an election to talk about all the issues that are involved.
2:43:58
SPEAKER_48: So you we talked about this.
2:44:00
SPEAKER_48: The framing is good for those that are uh on the outside of government trying to get in because the fraud is the number one issue with voters.
2:44:07
SPEAKER_33: Well, and the fraud issue crosses the party lines.
2:44:10
SPEAKER_33: I mean, that's that's the big factor in all of this.
2:44:12
SPEAKER_33: You know, taxpayer dollars are taxpayer dollars, regardless of what party you you belong to.
2:44:17
SPEAKER_33: So you either buy into the argument or Keith Ellison coming out and announcing these charges in the final weeks, and I bet there will be more.
2:44:26
SPEAKER_33: I want to remind everybody, he has some 220 open cases regarding investigations into fraud.
2:44:32
SPEAKER_33: And suddenly now, as we enter into the closing weeks, as we start off October, suddenly he comes out with charges.
2:44:39
SPEAKER_33: And I bet you anything that over the course of the next few weeks, we're gonna have several press conferences of him charging individuals.
2:44:44
SPEAKER_33: So if people buy into it, that's on them.
2:44:46
SPEAKER_33: But the reality is, much like the immigration issue used to be years ago, and I can tell you firsthand, working in a border state, that that was an issue that absolutely crossed party lines.
2:44:57
SPEAKER_33: People didn't care.
2:44:59
SPEAKER_33: They wanted to see immigration take place if it was done legally, and especially in a place like Tucson, Arizona, where you had a lot of immigrants that immigrated legally, they were just as upset as the illegal aliens coming into the country.
2:45:11
SPEAKER_33: The issue of fraud that affects if it affects all of us, regardless of who you plan on voting for or voted for in the past.
2:45:18
SPEAKER_48: Well, right.
2:45:18
SPEAKER_48: I think we talked about this last week.
2:45:20
SPEAKER_48: The suburban vote on fraud uh in our poll kind of pops, and we were trying to figure out why that that group is more concerned about fraud than the rest of the state.
2:45:29
SPEAKER_48: And we just think that it kind of gets to that that suburban voter is is doing well, maybe better than the other rest of the state.
2:45:36
SPEAKER_48: They're empathetic, they want to help people, but there's a limit.
2:45:39
SPEAKER_48: And the limit is you're stealing the money.
2:45:42
SPEAKER_48: So now you're stealing my money and you're not helping the people that I want you to help because I'm empathetic and I'm a suburban voter.
2:45:48
SPEAKER_48: But man, you can you're not even doing it right.
2:45:50
SPEAKER_48: So they drew the line, I think.
2:45:51
SPEAKER_48: And that's what you're seeing, like the party crossover independence.
2:45:54
SPEAKER_48: People have drawn the line on this.
2:45:56
SPEAKER_48: They need it to stop, and there isn't it's not stopped yet.
2:46:00
SPEAKER_48: I mean, that's one of our messages.
2:46:01
SPEAKER_48: Bill Glon's still writing and uncovering new things, and not just Bill, I mean the Lou Ragus and others in the in the media.
2:46:08
SPEAKER_48: There's new stories every day on on new fraud that we haven't known about that still needs to get prosecuted.
2:46:14
SPEAKER_48: So the fraud persists, and you know, have a care who you pick because they they they need to address it.
2:46:20
SPEAKER_33: Well, and that issue really sort of underscores how ridiculous it is, in my opinion, that Amy Clobishar is running on this.
2:46:28
SPEAKER_33: Hey, if you elect me, I'll conduct this audit.
2:46:31
SPEAKER_33: No, that audit needs to be done right now.
2:46:34
SPEAKER_33: Do it right, do the audit right right now.
2:46:36
SPEAKER_33: Because we don't I'm it we're at a point now where any program that's accepting any sort of money from the taxpayer to provide services needs to be examined top to bottom.
2:46:46
SPEAKER_33: Every single one.
2:46:46
SPEAKER_33: But yeah, nope, only if you vote for her will you be able to get that audit done, apparently.
2:46:50
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, and I I just have my my radar goes up for any candidate that's funded uh by the public employee unions in such a strong way.
2:46:58
SPEAKER_48: And the first job in your audit is gonna be to talk to public employee union uh members about their own staff and trying to change the culture in state agencies, which is the number one thing you need to do to fix the fraud.
2:47:10
SPEAKER_48: Who's I don't know if she's gonna be able to do that uh with all the support she's gotten from public employee unions for her campaign.
2:47:17
SPEAKER_48: That's the difficult part for any Democrat, really.
2:47:19
SPEAKER_48: It's been difficult for Tim Walls.
2:47:21
SPEAKER_48: I don't think he's cared.
2:47:22
SPEAKER_48: He hasn't even wanted to.
2:47:23
SPEAKER_48: If you give Amy the benefit of the doubt that she wants to change it, she's gonna have a hard time working her way through the public employee union bureaucracy to culturally change the agencies.
2:47:33
SPEAKER_33: You know, it's really interesting.
2:47:34
SPEAKER_33: Covering the news of the day, you get a lot of these outside perspectives, and again, this Newt Gingrich piece was was one of them.
2:47:40
SPEAKER_33: But it is fascinating to see people outside of Minnesota, Newt Gingrich and others looking at the races here when you look at how there was a new poll that came out yesterday regarding Flanagan and Tefoya, and Flanagan was only up by one or tied.
2:47:54
SPEAKER_33: I mean, definitely within the margin of error, they're tied.
2:47:56
SPEAKER_33: Um, and you know, Newt Gingrich pointed out that it was stunning to him that Amy Klobishar, that Lisa Damuth was in striking distance of Amy Klobuchar, were in his mind looking for at the outside in.
2:48:07
SPEAKER_33: They're thinking she should be up based off the demographics of the state and previous elections.
2:48:11
SPEAKER_33: She should be way up there, and she's simply she's simply not.
2:48:13
SPEAKER_33: It tells you what the rest of the country is looking at regarding what's happening here.
2:48:16
SPEAKER_48: Well, it's logical.
2:48:17
SPEAKER_48: A city and U.S.
2:48:18
SPEAKER_48: senator decides to run for governor in their state, they're gonna be a 10-point favorite uh all the way to the end.
2:48:23
SPEAKER_48: I mean, why why wouldn't you be?
2:48:25
SPEAKER_48: And so the fact that she's kind of peaked, you know, and stalled, yeah, then that that tells me that there's a lot of opportunity there for the other side.
2:48:32
SPEAKER_33: Back to the thinking Minnesota poll as we continue our discussion with Bill Walsh.
2:48:36
SPEAKER_33: Uh, no single faction dominates the DFL in voters' minds.
2:48:40
SPEAKER_33: Democrat socialists and wealthy donors tie at the top, both at 27%, and they are way ahead of everything else.
2:48:48
SPEAKER_33: I mean, the next one down is LGBTQ plus activists at 21%, racial ethnic minority groups at 20%.
2:48:55
SPEAKER_33: But those two top numbers, Democrat socialists and wealthy donors, are the top of uh of mind for the voters.
2:49:01
SPEAKER_48: Well, yeah, this we asked, we asked, who do you think influences Democrats in the state?
2:49:06
SPEAKER_48: And that's the answer DSA and wealthy donors.
2:49:09
SPEAKER_48: Actually, when you break that down by Democrats, Democrats think wealthy donors dominate their party, which I think it's kind of funny in the poll.
2:49:16
SPEAKER_33: Well, they're constantly complaining about the other parties.
2:49:19
SPEAKER_48: On the other, just to switch to Trump a little bit, we asked the same question of the Republican Party.
2:49:23
SPEAKER_48: Who dominates the Republican Party and you know Republican leaders?
2:49:27
SPEAKER_48: Donald Trump, obviously.
2:49:29
SPEAKER_48: Sitting U.S.
2:49:30
SPEAKER_48: president normally, but even a personality like him, even more so.
2:49:34
SPEAKER_48: The good news is if you if you look at the polling for for Republicans, is that although they believe that Donald Trump runs the party, Republicans in Minnesota are more sticking more to the traditional GOP party of of old, not uh MAGA, you know, not the not the not the Trump.
2:49:52
SPEAKER_48: So I think there's yes recognition that Trump is is dominant, but um they see the party as the more traditional Republican party.
2:50:00
SPEAKER_48: So there will be a post-Trump era, you know.
2:50:02
SPEAKER_48: I can't uh you know, and you know, I honestly can't I kind of can't wait to get there because I think the whole country's gonna calm down uh when he's gone.
2:50:09
SPEAKER_48: But um Oh, you say that.
2:50:11
SPEAKER_48: I do, I do.
2:50:12
SPEAKER_33: You say that, but you are man, though if JD No, I you know, I listen, I would like to believe that, but I, you know, you get a JD Vance, you know, and Rocco Rubio less so, but a JD Vance, and they're just gonna apply all the same rules.
2:50:24
SPEAKER_33: So these are all the, but they're very, very different than Trump.
2:50:27
SPEAKER_33: Trump is the ultimate anomaly.
2:50:29
SPEAKER_33: Yes, he's unique, absolutely.
2:50:31
SPEAKER_33: Um, you know what's funny though about those numbers is that I think I actually think I I'd be curious to see the progression on those numbers in terms of Trump's influence because I can't help but wonder, I'll just speak for myself personally.
2:50:41
SPEAKER_33: I think people are starting to look at a at a post-to-Trump mentality.
2:50:46
SPEAKER_33: And so um, you know, even the most ardent Trump supporters, while they still consider themselves MAGA following Trump, I do think that even on a subconscious level, there is this sort of distancing that's taking place because they know that, okay, we're a few years out from the end of Trump, and it's time to start looking beyond that.
2:51:01
SPEAKER_33: I wonder if those numbers have shifted more away when it comes to the influence of Trump over the course of the past year or so.
2:51:07
SPEAKER_48: Well, I that's natural, not just for not for Trump, but for any president, uh any leader as they had.
2:51:12
SPEAKER_48: I mean, after the midterms, I mean, we're we're down to the two years left of because it's the it's the end of his term.
2:51:18
SPEAKER_48: Uh so that's that's a that's a natural thing that'll happen.
2:51:21
SPEAKER_33: Uh the DFL's own coalition splits three ways with half identifying with the DSA or progressives over the party, though only a quarter say the DSA controls the DFL.
2:51:33
SPEAKER_33: Uh these were and this was an interesting little snapshot as well.
2:51:36
SPEAKER_48: Well, I think, yeah, Minnesota Democrats um st like like Republicans, think of their party as the traditional DFL party.
2:51:44
SPEAKER_48: That was the number one thing.
2:51:45
SPEAKER_48: But then a big faction said progressive, you know, and then another faction, like you said, said DSA.
2:51:50
SPEAKER_48: So if you add the two progressive and DSA up together, lump them together, it's bigger.
2:51:55
SPEAKER_48: But the bigger number was, yeah, our traditional DFL uh be good for the state if if the if the Democrat voters returned to the traditional DFL party.
2:52:04
SPEAKER_48: Uh and we had just, you know, it wasn't the DSA dominant.
2:52:07
SPEAKER_48: Yeah.
2:52:08
SPEAKER_33: Along the same lines, we kind of mentioned this a moment ago.
2:52:10
SPEAKER_33: Republicans see the DFL as run by Democrat socialists, while the DFL sees its own party led by moderates, wealthy donors, and working class voters.
2:52:18
SPEAKER_33: There is a separation there that's rather that's rather odd.
2:52:22
SPEAKER_33: It almost seems like almost a self-preservation mode.
2:52:24
SPEAKER_33: Like they don't want to admit of the influence that the Democrat Socialist has on their own party.
2:52:29
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, we're we're getting really this is this is difficult polling.
2:52:33
SPEAKER_48: I mean, I I it's interesting.
2:52:35
SPEAKER_48: Sure.
2:52:35
SPEAKER_48: Um we're we're trying to uh really get into the weeds of like what what what the psychology is of a Democrat, a Republican, what they think of their parties.
2:52:44
SPEAKER_48: Um we we tried to kind of get at it with a you know how do we bring down the temperature, you know, and and part of that problem, I think, in the temperature is the perception.
2:52:53
SPEAKER_48: What Republicans think the Democrats are about and what Democrats think the Republicans are about is off.
2:52:59
SPEAKER_48: It's skewed.
2:53:00
SPEAKER_48: And if we could align that better, you know, if you you know, it's like it's like any relationship.
2:53:05
SPEAKER_48: If you knew more about uh what your what your friend, you know, opponent, uh business partner, you know, whatever it is, whatever it is, you know, world leader, you know, if you knew more about what their real intentions were and what they really believed, they would have a better line of communication.
2:53:20
SPEAKER_48: And we we have that lacking right now.
2:53:22
SPEAKER_33: There's a few more aspects of the polling that moves away from the uh well, first off, before we do that, was it anything else DSA DFL related that you that was noteworthy for uh for for you?
2:53:32
SPEAKER_33: Or do you think we covered our bases on that?
2:53:35
SPEAKER_33: Okay, let's go here.
2:53:36
SPEAKER_33: Um, and this is a couple more items of the polling, and then I'll cut you loose, and I have one more thing that I want to talk about on the show today before I close things out.
2:53:42
SPEAKER_33: Uh voters see both parties moving away from the center with the DFL shift to the left.
2:53:49
SPEAKER_33: Um, the more pronounced of the two.
2:53:52
SPEAKER_33: I found that very I found that very interesting.
2:53:54
SPEAKER_33: I mean, that would have been my my assumption.
2:53:57
SPEAKER_33: Um, but now we have some polling data to actually back up that assumption.
2:54:00
SPEAKER_48: I agree.
2:54:01
SPEAKER_48: I I that was our assumption going in.
2:54:03
SPEAKER_48: We you try and predict how this questions are going to come out, and uh yeah, they they see more extreme on the Democrat side.
2:54:10
SPEAKER_48: I think uh maybe maybe because we've had you know the events in Minnesota, leadership in Minnesota, and we've been led by some pretty extreme uh Democrat uh leaders.
2:54:20
SPEAKER_48: Um the surge we were just talking about a good example of that where they just they just lost their minds uh you know during the during the immigration uh surge.
2:54:28
SPEAKER_48: So not surprising, but um yeah, yeah, you know, is that that's part of that that trying to get rid of that polarization is just if the if the Minnesotans believe the parties are both going to the extremes.
2:54:40
SPEAKER_33: Um Republicans and Democrats describe two entirely different DFL agendas abortion and immigration versus health care and the cost of living.
2:54:51
SPEAKER_33: So you had on abortion, you had Republicans at 27% and then independents at 19%, Democrats only 3%.
2:54:59
SPEAKER_33: And again, these are this is based off of their perception of the of the agendas.
2:55:04
SPEAKER_48: Right.
2:55:05
SPEAKER_48: So there's a disconnect there too, I think.
2:55:07
SPEAKER_48: Uh Republicans think that uh Democrats are focused on abortion.
2:55:10
SPEAKER_48: I don't I mean they have been, certainly in the past, but I don't think they are this year.
2:55:14
SPEAKER_48: Uh Democrats, on the other hand, look at Republicans and say, oh, they're they're focused on, you know, um family issues, conservative, you know, pro-family issues.
2:55:23
SPEAKER_48: That's again kind of a hit almost a stereotype of Republicans, and I don't know that they've been focused on that lately.
2:55:28
SPEAKER_48: So again, that perception of the other party, I don't think matches the entire state in our poll.
2:55:34
SPEAKER_48: Right.
2:55:34
SPEAKER_48: Um, and so that's that's kind of what we wanted to get at is like how are these parties, how do people in the parties thinking of each other?
2:55:41
SPEAKER_48: Um is it fair, is it accurate?
2:55:43
SPEAKER_48: Um, how do we improve that?
2:55:44
SPEAKER_33: We have one more on uh fraud based off a Thinking Minnesota poll, which will be out as you mentioned in in days, and we'll give you details on how you can get your hands on that.
2:55:53
SPEAKER_33: Let's go to the uh blaster line uh and uh share the thought from a friend of the show.
2:55:58
SPEAKER_15: If I were a hardcore progress.
2:56:08
SPEAKER_15: But if you're if you have liberal bleeding hard progressive, you want that money to go and help people.
2:56:15
SPEAKER_15: That's why you vote that way.
2:56:17
SPEAKER_15: So when the government allows it to be flooded away and it doesn't do what it's supposed to do, you can be even more mad, more angry about it.
2:56:25
SPEAKER_15: Outrageous.
2:56:26
SPEAKER_33: So Republicans get credit for prioritizing fraud, but voters also see the parties spending time on issues that rank near the bottom of the list, with neither party working on the top issue.
2:56:41
SPEAKER_33: I know that gets a little bit confusing, but yeah.
2:56:44
SPEAKER_48: I mean the the top issue, fraud for sure, they see Republicans working on fraud, and we talked about that last week.
2:56:49
SPEAKER_48: 51% think the Republicans are focused on fraud.
2:56:53
SPEAKER_48: That's also their top issue.
2:56:54
SPEAKER_48: Right.
2:56:54
SPEAKER_48: So that's good framing.
2:56:55
SPEAKER_48: Uh, but but when you look at the affordability agenda, affordability issues, um, the perceptions of the parties is that neither party is working on affordability.
2:57:04
SPEAKER_48: Yeah.
2:57:04
SPEAKER_48: I think it's like 9% and 19% were the two numbers, uh, what the what the polls poll the poll respondents think the party's focus is.
2:57:11
SPEAKER_48: But by the way, it's their number one or number two, you know, issue, and they're seeing that, yeah, the parties aren't addressing it.
2:57:17
SPEAKER_48: So a box on both houses there.
2:57:18
SPEAKER_48: And also an opportunity.
2:57:20
SPEAKER_48: I mean, opportunity, uh while you're talking about fraud, you should, as you're a candidate, you should be talking about cost of living, affordability, all those other issues.
2:57:28
SPEAKER_33: Uh what was your do you have a do you have sort of uh a 30,000 foot view on the Thinking Minnesota poll and what people can expect when they actually see all of it?
2:57:35
SPEAKER_33: I know we we've gone over the numbers quite a bit uh off the air and we've done a lot of this here on the show, but I'm just curious to get your sort of broad assessment if you have a broad assessment of it, Bill.
2:57:44
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, I mean I think we talked about it last week, and it's this it's that elections are about framing.
2:57:49
SPEAKER_48: So why are people voting?
2:57:50
SPEAKER_48: What's then what's the issue that's gonna change their vote, make them vote a certain way?
2:57:54
SPEAKER_48: You know, we always talk about all these issues, abortion or taxes.
2:57:57
SPEAKER_48: Everybody thinks taxes are too high, but are they gonna actually vote on that when they walk into that polling booth?
2:58:01
SPEAKER_48: So our poll shows that fraud is the number one issue for voters.
2:58:05
SPEAKER_48: It's the top of mind.
2:58:06
SPEAKER_48: And so uh, and it also shows that Republicans are focused on that.
2:58:10
SPEAKER_48: So that if you're a Republican, you should be confident that you're out you're the election's actually framed on your issue, the issue that you're best at.
2:58:18
SPEAKER_48: As as a guy who worked on elections for years, I always tried to figure out what the voters cared about and then match that with what our solutions were.
2:58:25
SPEAKER_48: And if we did match, we're gonna win an election.
2:58:27
SPEAKER_48: That's number one thing.
2:58:28
SPEAKER_48: I'll leave with one last point, the last question in the poll.
2:58:31
SPEAKER_48: Uh uh if you wanted to look at bad news for Republicans, good news for Democrats, that's voter enthusiasm.
2:58:37
SPEAKER_48: So uh the enthusiasm gap in our poll, uh, we asked, you know, how how how enthusiastic are you to vote, you know, in the election?
2:58:45
SPEAKER_48: 51% of Republicans said, you know, yeah, more enthusiastic, you know, 28% less enthusiastic.
2:58:50
SPEAKER_48: But the DFL is 63% more enthusiastic than in the past, and 19% less enthusiastic.
2:58:58
SPEAKER_48: And uh basically, if you look at the the crosstabs, you break it down, you know, strong Republicans are very enthusiastic to vote.
2:59:05
SPEAKER_48: Strong Democrats, very enthusiastic to vote, lean Democrats, very enthusiastic to vote, lean Republicans, eh, not so much.
2:59:12
SPEAKER_48: So if you're a if you're a if you're a Republican trying to win an election in Minnesota right now, you better raise the enthusiasm level and convince those lean Republicans to show up.
2:59:23
SPEAKER_48: So that's a that's a problem, I think, nationwide.
2:59:26
SPEAKER_48: You know, it's a it's a problem.
2:59:27
SPEAKER_48: It's a it's a Trump thing.
2:59:29
SPEAKER_48: Somebody said, you know, Trump's always on the ballot for Democrats because they're so upset with him, but he's not always on the ballot for Republicans.
2:59:35
SPEAKER_48: And I think Republicans in this poll are telling us, yeah, we you know, we're not that enthusiastic about a midterm election where it's just a U.S.
2:59:41
SPEAKER_48: Senate seat and a governor.
2:59:42
SPEAKER_48: Well, we like the big show when the president's on it.
2:59:45
SPEAKER_33: I mean, typically you're looking at a base election when it comes to midterms.
2:59:48
SPEAKER_33: I know that uh Keith Ellison is running, uh is running on this.
2:59:51
SPEAKER_33: Um I guess two things, and then I'll cut you loose.
2:59:53
SPEAKER_33: Uh, I do want to mention just briefly, and we'll talk about this more on tomorrow's show.
2:59:57
SPEAKER_33: Uh, the Minnesota Truth Council concludes their public testimony.
3:00:00
SPEAKER_33: I want to share a couple of points with that.
3:00:01
SPEAKER_33: But in terms of this being a base election, uh, do you I mean, do you agree this time around and how and how much of that is gonna be a factor of, you know, just basically, you know, who tur who turns up to to vote, or do all these things that we've been talking about, these external factors that we typically don't deal with, you know, is this gonna be is that gonna be impacting it?
3:00:20
SPEAKER_48: Uh I mean, uh here's the thing about Minnesota, again, we're we're different than the rest of the country.
3:00:24
SPEAKER_48: And I I I took a shot at Steve Simon for cheerleading all the time, but so many people in Minnesota vote that you you can't assume you're in a base election and you just got to get your base out there because our voter turnout is gonna be really high, and I expect it to be really high again.
3:00:39
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, we're very engaged, and that's a good thing.
3:00:41
SPEAKER_48: And then um it's difficult when you're trying to win an election where you're trying to you know talk to voters in a very specific uh pool of voters uh when everyone's gonna vote.
3:00:51
SPEAKER_48: So I would say be ready, everyone's gonna vote.
3:00:53
SPEAKER_33: So AmericanExperiment.org is where everybody needs to go in terms of getting their hands on the poll in the latest Thinking Minnesota magazine.
3:00:59
SPEAKER_33: I'm assuming the website's the best place to go.
3:01:01
SPEAKER_48: Yeah, well, you want to be a you want to be an annual sustaining membership to American Experiment's work.
3:01:05
SPEAKER_48: You want to be an annual sustaining member supporting our work, uh, not just the magazine, not just the poll, not just the show, but everything we do.
3:01:12
SPEAKER_48: So 35 bucks a year is all it takes to be a member, you know, a sustaining member.
3:01:16
SPEAKER_48: You get 50, 100, you're you're good.
3:01:18
SPEAKER_48: Um, and then you've then you get all the benefits.
3:01:20
SPEAKER_48: You know, you get the magazine delivered to your house in a few days.
3:01:22
SPEAKER_48: We won't put this on the web for another three or four weeks.
3:01:25
SPEAKER_48: You know, we like to give the magazine uh subscribers, those the members, a couple weeks with the with the information before we share it on the website.
3:01:33
SPEAKER_48: But eventually it will be on the website too.
3:01:35
SPEAKER_33: AmericanExperiment.org.
3:01:36
SPEAKER_33: Bill Walsh, thanks, sir.
3:01:37
SPEAKER_33: It's great talking with you.
3:01:38
SPEAKER_33: Really enjoyed the discussion.
3:01:39
SPEAKER_33: And uh I'll see you as soon as the show wraps up down the hall.
3:01:42
SPEAKER_33: All right, before we close out today, the Minnesota Truth Council, established by Governor Dim Walls, held its final public meeting in Rochester to document the harms of Operation Metro Surge.
3:01:53
SPEAKER_33: The council, chaired by former judge Peter Cahill, the Yahoo from the George Floyd trial, heard testimony from former federal officials, legal experts, and immigrants affected by the operation.
3:02:03
SPEAKER_33: The council will include policy recommendations in its report to prevent similar operations in the future.
3:02:10
SPEAKER_33: Okay, you know what?
3:02:11
SPEAKER_33: If you just don't have illegal aliens, then you can kind of solve that problem.
3:02:15
SPEAKER_33: Uh, the truth commissions.
3:02:17
SPEAKER_33: So this is a piece from the Minnesota Reformer.
3:02:20
SPEAKER_33: We'll talk about this in more detail on a Freedom Friday.
3:02:22
SPEAKER_33: Might even open the show with it.
3:02:24
SPEAKER_33: We'll see.
3:02:25
SPEAKER_33: But in the Minnesota Reformer piece, this is what they had to say.
3:02:28
SPEAKER_33: Truth commissions are common practice in the aftermath of human rights abuses committed by governments.
3:02:36
SPEAKER_33: For example, in Argentina in the wake of a military dictatorship, and in South Africa following the end of apartheid.
3:02:45
SPEAKER_33: That tells you all you need to know about the lack of legitimacy and how over-the-top ridiculous and what a colossal waste of time and resources the Truth Council is.
3:02:58
SPEAKER_33: The truth of the matter is, though, this was put together specifically to impact this election.
3:03:03
SPEAKER_33: The results are supposed to be released on October 31st, right before people go to vote.
3:03:10
SPEAKER_33: And as I mentioned before, my prediction is that they're gonna come out with obviously all kinds of negatives regarding Trump.
3:03:18
SPEAKER_33: It's gonna be the worst of the worst of what happened with Operation Metro Surge.
3:03:22
SPEAKER_33: And my bold prediction is that they are going to attach a cost estimate to Operation Metro Surge that will be higher than the number that the local media that's carrying the water for the DFL has said that fraud cost us.
3:03:37
SPEAKER_33: They want to go and focus solely on the individuals who have been convicted and attach that number to the fraud.
3:03:43
SPEAKER_33: And that's only in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
3:03:46
SPEAKER_33: When the truth is, no, it was billions upon billions of dollars.
3:03:51
SPEAKER_33: But that's the only reason why this truth council exists.
3:03:55
SPEAKER_33: It's to make sure that at the last minute, the DFL has an argument, one last argument that they can use against their GOP opponents in this election.
3:04:03
SPEAKER_33: We'll talk about it more on tomorrow's show.
3:04:05
SPEAKER_33: Turning point uh USA, one of their chapter directors, Amanda uh Lamar will be joining us in studio again.
3:04:11
SPEAKER_33: Uh Catherine Johnson here from Center the American Experiment, the American Experiment podcast, and my lieutenant governor candidate.
3:04:17
SPEAKER_33: The wild card, she'll be sitting over there on the comfy chairs as well.
3:04:20
SPEAKER_33: Also, Representative Max Reimer, A.K.
3:04:22
SPEAKER_33: Kamara, and of course, you all morning long.
3:04:25
SPEAKER_33: You can text or leave a voice message for Freedom Friday.
3:04:29
SPEAKER_33: You can do that starting right now.
3:04:30
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3:04:34
SPEAKER_33: Got a lot to talk about on tomorrow's show, including spending some time getting into what is actually being taught via the priests, the reverends, the sermons inside of our wack-a-doodle progressive left-wing churches here in Minnesota.
3:04:49
SPEAKER_33: That'll be just a portion of what we cover on tomorrow's show as we take your on and off topic comments all morning long.
3:04:55
SPEAKER_33: Thank you for spending time, uh, your valuable time with the show today.
3:04:59
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3:05:02
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3:05:07
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3:05:13
SPEAKER_33: Also my uh X feed.
3:05:15
SPEAKER_33: I hope that you have a uh fantastic.
3:05:17
SPEAKER_00: You know, and then you can use the Waymo.
3:05:19
SPEAKER_00: You don't know which way they may go or may not go.
3:05:22
SPEAKER_00: Just get in, okay?
3:05:24
SPEAKER_00: There's way more ways than the way that you got.
3:05:27
SPEAKER_00: So let's go with those ways.
3:05:29
SPEAKER_00: The end.
3:05:30
SPEAKER_33: Thank you to uh uh producer Devin uh for the uh another great uh week producing the show.
3:05:35
SPEAKER_33: Isaac will be in tomorrow for a Freedom Friday.
3:05:38
SPEAKER_33: Uh God bless.
3:05:39
SPEAKER_33: I hope you have a fantastic Thursday.
3:05:41
SPEAKER_33: I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning right around uh 6 a.m.
3:05:44
SPEAKER_33: Have a great one.
3:05:45
SPEAKER_33: Bye.
3:07:11
SPEAKER_00: So let's go with those ways.
3:07:13
SPEAKER_00: The end.