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Mark Belling Podcast #68:  Finally, a Republican who knows how to fight: Trump flips the script on the government shutdown.  A local man faces criminal charges for fake revenge porn targeting an ex, and the new owners of CBS name a respected moderate journalist to try to fix the biased trainwreck that is CBS News · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: You know, when I used to do a live radio program,
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  Speaker 2: we would call this breaking news. But I think in
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  Speaker 2: a podcast nothing can be breaking news, right because anybody's
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  Speaker 2: got to hear it long after it was breaking. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: this story has just come down, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: comment on a briefly. I don't have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: dive into everything about it because it just happened, but
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  Speaker 2: I do want to address the story. A Wakashaw County
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  Speaker 2: Circuit judge, in a lawsuit that was filed many many
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  Speaker 2: months ago today, did rule that the Wisconsin Election Commission
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  Speaker 2: must verify the legal citizenship status of all Wisconsin registered voters.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big deal. Now, before you go too far
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  Speaker 2: on it, though it's a circuit judge, All lawsuits in
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin start in circuit court. Every county has a circuit court.
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  Speaker 2: Above the circuit court is the state Court of Appeals.
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  Speaker 2: There's several districts to that, and then the state Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: I do not believe that this ruling will stand up
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  Speaker 2: on appeal. The reason I don't believe it is I
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  Speaker 2: just don't believe that the leftists Wisconsin Supreme Court will
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  Speaker 2: not overturn it. I don't believe that the Wisconsin Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: controlled by leftists, is going to do what is ever
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  Speaker 2: in the political interests of the Democrats. They've made that clear. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: in the short term, this is a victory. The ruling
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  Speaker 2: by Judge Maxwell does state that before the next election,
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  Speaker 2: which would be the spring primary February eighteenth, the Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: Election Commission has to verify citizenship. Doesn't say how they
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  Speaker 2: have to do it, but they have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone knows that there are people who are non citizens
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  Speaker 2: registered to vote in Wisconsin. What we don't know is
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  Speaker 2: how many you know that school superintendent in Iowa with
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  Speaker 2: the criminal record who not only is not a citizen,
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  Speaker 2: but an illegal immigrant and everything else he was voting.
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  Speaker 2: He voted in multiple states before he got to Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Some people think that this issue pertains solely to illegal immigration,
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  Speaker 2: no legal immigrants, any nons visitors. In order to vote
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  Speaker 2: in America, you've got to be a citizen. We don't
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  Speaker 2: do anything to verify citizenship. When people register to vote,
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  Speaker 2: you got to show a bunch of things, but you
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  Speaker 2: never have to show that you're actually a citizen. So
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  Speaker 2: how you go back and retroactively do it, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: In any event, we need to clean up our voter
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  Speaker 2: rules by, among other things, getting non citizens off the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a good ruling today, I am not
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  Speaker 2: confident it will stand up on appeal, not because the
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  Speaker 2: ruling isn't correct, but because we voters in Wisconsin can't
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  Speaker 2: get conservatives to show up in voting Supreme Court elections
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  Speaker 2: in the spring, and the lefties control the state Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, more on that maybe on Wednesday's podcast. As
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  Speaker 2: that story was just developing, let's roll into the content
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  Speaker 2: that we had planned for today's program. I want to
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  Speaker 2: start with this, Paul. By the way, do not remind
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  Speaker 2: me that I need to do the spot. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: complete control of things today. I know that I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing the spot. Don't remind me, unless, of course,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes a parent that I've forgotten. Anyway. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that's becoming more common almost I didn't say entirely,
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  Speaker 2: almost entirely from the left is just lie to get
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  Speaker 2: a governmental decision that you want li An obvious example
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  Speaker 2: was the Hunter Biden laptop was not real. It was
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  Speaker 2: Russia collusion. A bunch of national security experts signed that
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  Speaker 2: they it was a total lie. It was aimed at
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  Speaker 2: getting Joe Biden elected president and not allowing this disclosure,
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  Speaker 2: which of course led to all the other things that
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  Speaker 2: we found out about the corruption and the Biden crime
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  Speaker 2: family to influence the twenty twenty election. That's just one example,
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  Speaker 2: but it's all over the place. I'm not doing it
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  Speaker 2: right now. This is kind of teasing content within the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You can, I suppose, scroll ahead and try to search
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  Speaker 2: it out, but I got to bury it in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the podcast in there. I want to tell
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  Speaker 2: you about that, but I want you to hold that
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  Speaker 2: thought as we think through the entire podcast, because almost
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  Speaker 2: every issue that we have right now requires analysis with
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  Speaker 2: an independent mind rather than simply accepting what you're told.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes what you're told is true. You know, it would
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  Speaker 2: be a good example of sometime what you're told is
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  Speaker 2: true whenever I'm telling it. The first thing I want
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  Speaker 2: to address is there's a term out there called flipping
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  Speaker 2: the script. Whenever a term got starts getting used too much.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it, but in this case it works.
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  Speaker 2: It has to do with how the Trump administration is
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  Speaker 2: flipping the script on the government shutdown. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: you line dot com. As long as there have been
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  Speaker 2: government shutdowns, and these government shutdowns occur every six months
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  Speaker 2: to two years, depending we don't have federal budgets in
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  Speaker 2: the United States anymore, we pass these continuing resolutions to
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  Speaker 2: keep funding the government for three months, six months, nine months,
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  Speaker 2: to hope whatever it is. And whenever you get to
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  Speaker 2: the deadline, we have these debates should we continue to
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  Speaker 2: fund the government again. Sometimes it involves raising the debt limit.
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  Speaker 2: In other cases, he just means reappropriating money that now expires.
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  Speaker 2: I actually don't remember when this started. It just seems
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  Speaker 2: to me as a kid, this was never an issue
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  Speaker 2: that both political parts. I don't know it's because we
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  Speaker 2: passed budgets then that both political parties never let the
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  Speaker 2: government shut down. I don't know when it started, but
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  Speaker 2: it's been decades and as long as it's gone on,
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  Speaker 2: there's been one thing that's just true. The Republicans get
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  Speaker 2: the blame. It doesn't matter who the president is, who
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  Speaker 2: the Congress is, the Republicans always get the blame. Trump
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  Speaker 2: is flipping the script on this. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: about PROMP that he does not get credit for from
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  Speaker 2: the kind of establishment conservative media. Of course he never
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  Speaker 2: opened the left, but even the establishment conservative media, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like National Review, Wall Street General Editorial Page,
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  Speaker 2: which is barely conservative anymore, is their extraordinary ability to communicate.
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  Speaker 2: The only Republican that I thought this had this type
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  Speaker 2: of ability to communicate was Reagan. You know, Reagan had
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  Speaker 2: Michael Deaver and others in which their job was to
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  Speaker 2: do like image making and communication, et cetera. When I
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  Speaker 2: was in Illinois they had a governor down there is
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  Speaker 2: a Republican. This is before liberals. He was, as Republicans go,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a liberal Republican. But Jim Thompson he was
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  Speaker 2: great at that too, but almost no others. They're just
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  Speaker 2: terrible at it. And in part there's you're the visiting team.
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  Speaker 2: It's not home field advantage. The media is the mouthpiece
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  Speaker 2: for communication, so everything you'd go through you do go through,
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  Speaker 2: goes through them. So it is more difficult if you're
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  Speaker 2: a Republican to communicate. I grant you that. So here
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  Speaker 2: we have this thing I'm going to shut down because
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate you need to get sixty votes to
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  Speaker 2: pass a bill, and the reason for that is they
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  Speaker 2: still have the filibuster rule. To end debate, you need
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  Speaker 2: sixty votes. The Republicans narrowly control the House, narrowly control
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  Speaker 2: the Senate, but in the Senate you need to have
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  Speaker 2: a larger majority than normal in order to pass legislation.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans passed the bill to it just says we're
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  Speaker 2: going to keep funding the government the same way the
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  Speaker 2: last document did. The Democrats, of course, want to put
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  Speaker 2: in all these things the Democrats believe in. There's not
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  Speaker 2: an agreement. The Republicans didn't cave the Democrats won't pass
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  Speaker 2: the clean spending bills. So here we are, and as
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  Speaker 2: I say, normally, this means the Republicans get the blame.
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  Speaker 2: Trump and his people are just better at this. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to use an example one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that Trump and his people and I say his people,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of them, because they're all part of
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  Speaker 2: the same communication here in Caroline Lovett, the White House
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  Speaker 2: Press Secretary, is an example of this, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear from her in a minute. One of the
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  Speaker 2: things that the Democrats put in their version is using
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  Speaker 2: Medicaid funds to provide healthcare for illegal limits. It's right
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  Speaker 2: in there. So Caroline Levett was asked in the White
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  Speaker 2: House press room last week and challenged on this notion
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  Speaker 2: that that's what the Democrats are trying to do. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to play a cut of about three minutes here.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to hear the question, which is put in
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  Speaker 2: an antagonistic fashion to her, and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen to how well she explains the administration position. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I'll stop and interjecting them in the
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  Speaker 2: meaning republic spokes people just generally are not this good.
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  Speaker 2: Let's listen to it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: At the top of the briefing, you made a statement
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  Speaker 3: about that the Democrats are interested in giving health care
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  Speaker 3: to illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they are.
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  Speaker 3: US law already prohibits that. It's a nineteen ninety six
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  Speaker 3: law saying that they cannot give unauthorized immigrants any federally
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  Speaker 3: subsidized healthcare coverage through Medicaid, the Affordable Care or the
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  Speaker 3: Children's Health Insurance Program. There seems to be a disconnect
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  Speaker 3: in the message.
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  Speaker 4: Are you declined? Are you denying that Medicaid money has
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  Speaker 4: never gone to illegal aliens in the United States of
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  Speaker 4: America on anything?
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking you if you can explain the disconnecting the message, I.
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  Speaker 4: Most certainly can. The Democrats proposal their continuing Resolution, Let
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  Speaker 4: me just reiterate the Republican's continuing Resolution was a clean
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  Speaker 4: continuing resolution. There was no partisan politics injected into it.
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  Speaker 4: There were no conservative wish lists injected to it. What
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  Speaker 4: the report Republicans want and still want to this very second,
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  Speaker 4: is a clean continuing resolution to fund the United States government.
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  Speaker 4: What did the Democrats want in their continuing resolution? They
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  Speaker 4: inserted a provision to undo a provision in the Work
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  Speaker 4: in Families Tax cut the One Big Beautiful Bill that
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  Speaker 4: ended taxpayer funded healthcare illegal benefits for legal aliens. Democrats
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  Speaker 4: proposal would require Medicaid to pay more for emergency care
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  Speaker 4: provided to illegal aliens than Medicaid does for American patients
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  Speaker 4: who are disabled, elderly, or children. And this bill would
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  Speaker 4: have also allowed California to continue a gimmick that funds
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  Speaker 4: its Medicaid for illegals program. Those are things that we ended.
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  Speaker 4: The Trump administration ended with the passage and the signage
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  Speaker 4: of the One Big Beautiful Bill. And it is an
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  Speaker 4: undisputed fact, a fact that under the Biden administration, illegal
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  Speaker 4: aliens were absolutely receiving taxpayer funded health care benefits. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: in fiscal year twenty twenty four, Medicaid costs for emergency
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  Speaker 4: services for legal immigrants sky I rocketed by one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and forty two percent from the previous year to nine
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  Speaker 4: point one billion dollars. That's nine point one billion taxpayer
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  Speaker 4: dollars that were going to emergency services for illegals. Between
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  Speaker 4: President Trump's last full fiscal year under his first administration
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  Speaker 4: in Joe Biden's last full fiscal year, Medicaid spending on
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  Speaker 4: emergency services for illegal immigrants nearly tripled. There was an
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  Speaker 4: increase of one hundred and ninety six percent between twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty and twenty twenty four. And I have a chart
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  Speaker 4: here for you, and I'm more than happy to email
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  Speaker 4: it to you. I'd also like to add, because some
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  Speaker 4: were asking dishonest questions yesterday about emergency rooms in Southern California.
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  Speaker 4: According to healthcare professionals, in twenty twenty three, under the
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  Speaker 4: Biden administration, Southern California's quote, entire healthcare system was being
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  Speaker 4: bombarded with illegal immigrants, enforcing American patients to endure longer
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  Speaker 4: wait times. In Denver, Colorado, the CEO of Denver Health
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  Speaker 4: stated that eight thousand illegal immigrants made twenty thousand visits
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  Speaker 4: to the city's health system in twenty twenty three, leaving
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  Speaker 4: an uncompensated bill totaling over ten million dollars. So when
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  Speaker 4: a legal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying
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  Speaker 4: for it? The American taxpayer. The main safety net hospital
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  Speaker 4: in Denver had to turn away patients due to the
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  Speaker 4: massive influx of illegal immigrants into the community. And you see,
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  Speaker 4: health hospitals in twenty twenty four reported their system was
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  Speaker 4: under stress from an increasing number of migrants as a result.
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  Speaker 4: According to the head of emergency departments and urgent cares
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  Speaker 4: across the hospital system, quote, access is impeded for everyone.
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  Speaker 4: These are healthcare professionals who dealt with this directly, and
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot more where that came from. It is
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  Speaker 4: an undisputed fact that Democrats want to give taxpayer funded
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  Speaker 4: healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants, period.
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  Speaker 3: A.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, my career is to explain things and
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  Speaker 2: make a case. That's what I do, so I know
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  Speaker 2: who's good at doing what I do. That was very good.
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  Speaker 2: She not only knocked down the leftist talking point, she
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  Speaker 2: backed it a point by point by point by point
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  Speaker 2: by point in a clear and understandable fashion. Now, on
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  Speaker 2: this issue of shutting down the government, that whole provision
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  Speaker 2: that the Democrats put in US Medicaid funding to provide
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  Speaker 2: health care for illegal immigrants, there's a term for that.
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  Speaker 2: It's called a poison pill. Kind of comes from the
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  Speaker 2: business world. This attempts to stop hostile takeovers and so on.
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  Speaker 2: The poison pill is inserting a provision that the other
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  Speaker 2: side can't accept. You know, they can't accept it. Why
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  Speaker 2: would the Democrats put that in the government funding bill.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason they put it in is that they
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  Speaker 2: wanted the Republicans to shut down the guvernment. If the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans had agreed to that, there would have been a
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  Speaker 2: revolt from everyone in mega in this country. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine if Ron Johnson voted for that, Glenn Grothman, etc.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way they knew the Republicans wouldn't accept it,
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  Speaker 2: and they knew the trumpn't accept it, But they put
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  Speaker 2: it in because they wanted this shutdown to occur. Because
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  Speaker 2: they just say there's a shutdown. They'll blame the Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: they'll blame the Republicans, they'll blame Trump. But you see that,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, of all the things that the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: picked out, Caroline chooses and the White House has chosen
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  Speaker 2: the most obnoxious of the provisions and then lays out
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  Speaker 2: the case. You can run around and try to claim
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  Speaker 2: Trump lies, Trump lies, Trump lies, Trump lies. Everything Caroline
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  Speaker 2: said there she is able to back up, and everyone
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  Speaker 2: knows that it's true. Everyone knows there are illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 2: that are collecting on Medicaid funds right now. Now. A
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  Speaker 2: second point that I want to make is just again,
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  Speaker 2: part of you can say, well, why don't Republicans do
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  Speaker 2: this all the time. Here's the answer. I'll use a
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  Speaker 2: football analogy. Why doesn't every quarterback? So why didn't every
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  Speaker 2: quarterback throw as many hail Mary's as Aaron Rodgers talent
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  Speaker 2: comes into this. Not everybody is as good at this
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  Speaker 2: as Caroline Levitt. Trump recognized it and gave her that job.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine just put the pre you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: always said in the past that if you take a
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  Speaker 2: new job, you always want to replace somebody who was
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  Speaker 2: just terrible at it. You know, you've got the very
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  Speaker 2: very bottom of you. Then you know where do you
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  Speaker 2: can you go but up? The immediate predecessor of her
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  Speaker 2: was KJP working for Joe Biden, who couldn't get her,
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  Speaker 2: who couldn't work her way through a heads or tails
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  Speaker 2: type of question. Anyway, on where we are on the
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  Speaker 2: government shutdown over the weekend, Kevin Hassett, one of Trump's
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  Speaker 2: economic advisors, says the layoffs will start to go out soon.
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  Speaker 2: Layoff notices will start to go off soon. Again, a
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  Speaker 2: very good tactic. They're attempting to put the pressure from
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  Speaker 2: government workers onto the Democrats. And again he says soon.
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  Speaker 2: What does soon mean? Well, that's key. He's making it
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  Speaker 2: open ended. He's giving the opportunity the Democrats an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to cave in here on this next here's a text
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  Speaker 2: from Eric Dhardy left wing federal bureaucrats are fury. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: before I get to that, I want to make this point.
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  Speaker 2: When the government is shut down in the semi capacity
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  Speaker 2: that it is right now, some essential services are running,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that you most notice, but other things are
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  Speaker 2: shut down. Who's more affected by this by political party?
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  Speaker 2: Well let's start with me, Paul. Have you been affected
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  Speaker 2: at all by the shutdown? Not yet, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that you won't be. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: every single agency. I know that like replacement Medicare cards
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that are delayed. It can happen. But
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  Speaker 2: the biggest people affected by the government shutdown are the
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  Speaker 2: federal workers who don't get a paycheck. Now, I think
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  Speaker 2: they're not that badly affected because they all know that
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  Speaker 2: when these things end, they get their pay retroactive to
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  Speaker 2: all of the time that they missed and they got
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  Speaker 2: to sit in their butt in the meantime. But this
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  Speaker 2: time around, Trump is threatening layoffs where you won't come
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  Speaker 2: back all right, who what political party do? Most federal
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  Speaker 2: government workers vote for the Democrats. So again I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying there are no Republican federal workers. I'm saying most
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  Speaker 2: of them are not Republicans. So if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have a situation here, if the Democrats want to play
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  Speaker 2: with this fire, whose people are going to be burned?
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  Speaker 2: If there is a burning Again, Fortunately, when we shut
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  Speaker 2: down the government, we're not shutting down TSA, We're not
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  Speaker 2: shutting down air traffic controls, so the planes keep flying
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  Speaker 2: and so on. The military is continuing to go, the
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  Speaker 2: National Guard is continuing to go. The postal service is
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  Speaker 2: quasi independent of the government, so the mail keeps getting
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. The benefit checks like Social Security and so on,
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  Speaker 2: they continue to flow and so on. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: getting back to the effectiveness that Trump and his people,
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  Speaker 2: this is just I just can't fathom w Bush doing this,
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  Speaker 2: and for that matter, any other Republican. You know how
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  Speaker 2: if you work for a company, or sometimes you do
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  Speaker 2: it voluntarily and sometimes it's automated. If you're out of
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  Speaker 2: the office for like a week on an email that
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  Speaker 2: when you send an email to someone, they'll get a
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: kickback message on there saying I'm out of the office
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in a tentheil, so forth and so on. You've seen
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: those things, right, do you put those up on your
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: own email? You used to when you stop. I've never
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: once done such a thing. I mean, what do I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: care if people send me an email and I don't
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: see it for five anyway? All right, all these federal
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: workers that are out of the office, this is just beautiful.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: This is, as I say, you wonder why some of
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: us just love Trump. This is so beautiful. The Trump
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: administer has put a kickback on all the emails of
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: all the federal employees who are shut down because of
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the government shutdown. This is what the message reads, thank
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you for contacting me. Now again, let's suppose I'm just
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: sending this to somebody who works for HUT or something
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like that. Thank you for contacting me. Democratic senators are
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: blocking passage of HR fifty three seventy one, which has
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: led to elapse and appropriations. So they, yeah, it's not
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: all of them. It's an automated thing. So what's happened
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: is some of the lefty employees have tried to manually
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: change the message, but they are not able to do
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: so because they've set it up that this you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: it's not their email, it's the government's email. The Fed
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Trump runs whatever system the government has for government employees
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: on their email thing. So anybody who emails a federal
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: employee who is shut down right now gets a message
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that the devil that's a I got, like just fury.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: By the way, the lefties are furious over this. This
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is the crap they've done forever. And as I've explained
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to you guys a million times, the lefties condition out
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of they can't take it. It's Paul. He's not only
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a step ahead of everybody, he fights in a way
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: of effectiveness that is not the norm for Republican politicians.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And again I'll use the term flip the script because
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I've used it several times here it is appropriate. This
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: is a related issue. These memes prompted this meme, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: a meme is like it's a fake thing that you
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: create and put on the internet, showing the two Democratic
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: congressional leaders that Kim Jeffries, the House Democratic Leader and
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader, and the first one
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: had Schumer saying a bunch of ridiculous things about why
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: nobody's voting for Democrats anymore, which is why they're reaching
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: out to illegal immigrants. And he and Jeffries both have
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: some barros on and Jefferies is strumming a guitar and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you're hearing mariachi music. This has been viewed by like
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: everybody on the planet. So the lefties say it's racist,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: it's racist, it's racist, it's racist. And Trump doubles down
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: by putting out another one. And it shows like four
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: different Trumps wearing wearing like hats behind him, playing the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: guitar and so on, singing the mariachi music, turning trumpet
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: of the mariachi band behind them. In other words, rather
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: than oh, I'm sorry for offending you for putting this thing,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: they doubled down. Here's a comment on CNN from Caitlyn Collins.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: You all know who she is. She's the only one
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: anybody knows him. Everybody else Scott Jennings, the token host Conservatives,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Caitlyn Collins is the She's the only left anybody can
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: name who works over there anymore. She seems to do
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: everything that they have. She's like their White House correspondent.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: She's on a show, and so so on. Calen Collins
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: commenting on this phenomenon of Trump not backing down on
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the memes, but in fact doubling down and putting on
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: another one quote. They simply don't care about the criticism.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That's it. This has been the key forever, and I've
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: just tried to lecture Republicans on this forever and ever
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and ever. Stop sucking up to the news media. You
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: will never get their approval. And that is the answer.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And it's one of the whole flips that we've seen
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in cancel culture and so on, where it isn't hitting
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: people on the right anywhere near as much as it
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: did in the past because we're simply ignoring their crap.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Who you're offended by it? So what you're offended? What
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: do we care? It's funny and it was an effective
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: way of communicating, and it's the kind of thing you
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: guys have been doing forever. The only difference between the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: attempts to use humor to mock Republicans and the attempts
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: to use human to mock Democrats is that the Republican
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: attempts tend to be funny, whereas the Democrat at it's
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: so snad and so snarly. So Whoopy Goldberg and Joy
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: behar Ish. You know, they're both comedians. That's what their
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: careers were. Behart kind of and Whoopee was a comic
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: actress and she didn't stand up you. They're not funny.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: It's just a yeah. Like I said this, Caitlyn Collins saying, well,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure that again, this is a frustrating thing
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: for the We'll just claim that it's racist. They did
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and what a Trump do? Came out and did another one.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I want to turn my attention to the future. The
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court is back. The Supreme Court has sessions. This
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: is the fall session. There are a number of major
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: cases here. Clearly Trump is testing the limits of his authority.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I'm all for it. Why not if he goes to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: a level that the Supreme Court says that the Constitution
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: doesn't allow him to go, will.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: So be it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: But the only way you know what the limit is
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: is for the Supreme Court to say what the limit is.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: That's their role. It's, by the way, their only rule.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: The role of the Supreme Court is to interpret the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Constitution in cases that come before it. And there are
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: some huge cases that are going to determine the future
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: not only of Trump's presidency and how he governs, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: of the nation. The Epic Times put together a list,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and I don't have time to walk through every one
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of the issues. I'm just going to give you a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: bullet point of them. The Trump tariffs. We've had all
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: these lower court rulings block this, take this, and so on.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: There's not yet been a definitive ruling as to whether
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: or not Trump has the authority to unil O I
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: really compose these tariffs. And when I say unilaterally, do
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it without the approch of the Congress. It's just the
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Constitution hasn't said you can interpret it one way or another.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: The Supreme Court will rule and whether or not Trump
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: can impose these tariffs. Obviously, if they rule against him,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: it means most of the tariffs are gone too. Removal
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: of high level bureaucrats. You have all these federal agencies
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that are not directly part of the administration. What's directly
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the White House present I just mentioned Caroline Love at
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the White House Press Secutor. She's directly part of the administration.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: The Treasury Secretary of BESSI, he's directly a part of
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the administration. What about all of these agency heads that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: have terms of appointment? Can Trump just remove them? Again,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: it's unclear. The Constitution sets aside the role of the president,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't dot every i and cross every tea
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: about every specific instance, because some you wouldn't anticipate. The
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court is a case, will have a case in which, again,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: lower courts have ruled on this. Some are ruled one ways,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: others have ruled an other than the stays issued and
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's allowed in the meantime, but there hasn't been
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a definitive ruling that one is coming. In this term
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: girls athletics, this is one of the big ones. President
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Trump has threatened to take away federal funding from states
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that allow males to continue to participate in girls athletics.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The issue seems to have come to an end at
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the NCAA level college sports, where there's been generally compliance,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: but in many state high school associations they're refusing to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: follow the Trump dictum. In addition to that, in other states,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the Republican legislatures and governors in those states have banned themselves.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Can they There's never been a ruling from the Supreme
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Court on this and why would there have been. The
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: founding fathers could not imagine we would live in a
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: world in which there's thousands of guys running around pretending
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to be girls. There will be a ruling on that
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: can a person self identify their gender? And can the
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: federal government withhold funding from states if they allow that
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to occur. I would hope that the Supreme Court would
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: affirm that one's gender and one's sex are the same,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: and restrictions in participation at certain events because of these
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: are allowable, and I would claim fear to women. Pregnancy
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: centers donor lists another case? Can pregnancy centers keep their
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: donors lists confidential? Confidential? Obviously some of the donors, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: a pregnancy center is a facility that helps all women
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: who perhaps they were considering having an abortion and they
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: decide to carry the baby to term. There are a
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: couple of very good ones here in I know of too.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: There may be more in southeastern Wisconsin. Many of the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: donors to these organizations don't want to be outed because
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: of the hate directed at them from the pro abortion crowd.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Do they have a right to keep their individual donors confidential?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They're not political organizations. They're charities that perform medical services.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: There have been states that have issued edicts ordering these
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: pregnancy centers to lay out their donors' names. Supreme Court
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: rule on whether or not that's legal. Ban on conversion
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: therapy in some states. This is not a federal case,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: but it comes from some states. In some states, conversion
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: therapy has been banned. Conversion therapy is let's imagine I'm
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: a guy and I think I'm gay, like a fourteen
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: year old kid. Medical experts can counsel you to talk
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you through that. No, no, no, maybe you're not. Some states
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: have banned Can you ban a counselor from trying to
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: talk a kid out of thinking that he or she
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: is gay? I would argue that you can't do that,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: that the parents have a free speech right to provide
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: this type of counseling if they think that their kid
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: is simply messed up. In the end, the kid can
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: reject the counseling. That's a case in front of the
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Next, the Hawaii gun law. It's hard to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: say which states have the most restrictive gun laws, but
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Hawaii's got to be right there at the top of
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the list. I mean, I've been to Hawaii a couple
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: of times on our cruise, but you can't like take
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the guns on the plane. And it wasn't like I
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: was going to go into a gun store in Hawaii.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: This is one that would not affect me. But of
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: course a Supreme Court ruling is what precedent setting Hawaii law.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: States that have concealed Carrie permit holders want to take
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: guns onto private property, including stores, restaurants, and hotels, they
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: need permission, either verbally or through a side no. The
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: way the law works in most states is if you
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: want to tell somebody. For instance, many buildings will say
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: you can't bring a gun in here. The courts have
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: allowed that. In Hawaii, you have to go the other way.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: You have to ask permission before you go in. In
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: other words, rather than require the store to put up
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: aside it. I mean, anytime you went into a building,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: you'd have to ask the building can I bring my
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: gun or my knife or my maze or whatever it
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: is that's in there. The Supreme Court will rule on
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: whether or not that is a violation of gun rights.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Death penalty and IQ this is another big one. Should
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: one's IQ affect whether or not they can get the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: death penalty? What do you think. Paul said, absolutely not.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: In some states the death penalty cannot be applied to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: people whose IQ is below a certain level. Now I
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: contend your IQ doesn't affect your moral compass. At some level,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: people may simply be the old term as vegetable. They
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: may not be able to fathom anything. And then there's
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: also insanity. But insanity is not the same as IQ.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: You can be extremely intelligent and be mentally insane. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: don't think a lack of intelligence makes one less culpable
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: for committing a murder. This is not a ruling on
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: whether or not we should have the death penalty. It's
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: a ruling on whether or not you can get out
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: of the death penalty because your IQ is low. The
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court has never addressed it. That's up in this
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: term as well. There's another campaign spending rule, and I
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: won't get into the dictims of all of this, but
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the biggest campaign spending rule of Supreme Court ever turned
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: down was thought to be good for the Republicans at
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: the time, and it turned out to be a god
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: send for the Democrats Citizens United because the Democrats raised
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: way more money from third party groups than do Republicans.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Is another ruling on campaign spending coming up. Defense contractor liability. Again,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I won't go into that in great detail, but it
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: has to do with companies that are contractors to the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Department of Defense. Can they then be held liable for
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: what has done with their equipment after it's turned over
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to the military. There's a number of other cases involving
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Trump as well. My point is is that this term
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: of the Supreme Court against only a month, We're going
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to get rulings on all of these things. It's going
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: to be enormous. Let me get to the Loop Puncher.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: You heard about the Loop Puncher. You have not the
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: story will be a benefit twenty Cubs fans that are
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: in town for the game. There's somebody in Chicago. There
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: may be more than one of them, but there's one guy.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: They know for sure because there's video evidence of him.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: He's called the Loop Puncher, but downtown Chicago was called
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the loop. He walks up to people and punches him
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: in the face in many cases women. He keeps doing
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: it and he gets arrested. Now, for those of you
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: that are naive as to what's going on in liberal
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: states in the United States, you may be wondering how
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: is he able to keep doing it if he keeps
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: getting arrested, And the answer is, Illinois passed cashless bail.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: You don't have to put up cash to bail out.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: And because his cases drag on forever and ever and ever,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: they arrest him and he comes, gets out and then
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: punches somebody in the face. Again. It just shows you
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: how idiotic no cash bail is. By the way, we
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: will have cashless bail in Wisconsin if the Democrats fit
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: the state legislature next year, which many people think they
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: will do with the new maps that are in place,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: it will be one of the first things that they do.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And I guarantee you the left of Supreme Court will
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: approve of it. So the problem that we have now,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: if judge's not setting high enough bail in Wisconsin, you'll
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: get to where we are in Illinois. But there's just
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: no bail. There are certain crimes in which they don't
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: set a bail, like murder, but other than that, people
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: don't have to put up any cash, and it's just
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: fueling the crime problem. There's now a case here of
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: some young men confronting the loop puncher. What can they do?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: They literally caught him. Here he is, and the police
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: are in the position of, okay, we can take him
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: back into custody, and he's going to be released as
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: soon as he sees the judge the following morning, because
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: you don't have cash bail in the state of Illinois.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: And now let me get to this story. You may
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: have noticed that healthcare premiums for those of you that
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: are signing up in your open enrollment periods and so on,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: and all of them, the ones for governments, there's three
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: types of Almost everybody is in one of three cat
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: well four, I guess. The three big ones are Obamacare,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: private employer provided health insurance, and Medicare. All of them
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: are coming into the open enrollment periods right now. And
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: you may have noticed, if you're already started to look
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: into this, or if you've already gotten the notice from
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the state of the company that you're in and so on,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the rates are exploding. They're going way, way, way up.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: It's driven by Obamacare. And for the people under Obamacare,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: their premiums are exploding. We're talking in some states twenty
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to fifty percent. Why when Obamacare was passed, which is
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: now nearly a decade ago, they put in place a
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: series of tax credits for the people covered by Obamacare.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: What's a tax credit? People confuse credits and deductions. A
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: credit is like cash. He means you just get it.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: You get it to the filing of your taxes. And
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the credit was aimed directly. You're only eligible if you're
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: on Obamacare. So the people who had Obamacare were getting
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: a huge chunk of cash to pay for their portion
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: of Obamacare. You followed me on this. These credits expire.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Now you may wonder why did the Democrats when they
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: passed Obamacare have these credits expire. You have no capability
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: of understanding this because you just not understand how Democrats think.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Why would they have them expire? No, no, no, they
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: want them to expire because they think that if Republicans
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: try not to extend the credits, they can plan and
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: they were planning this all they think ahead. So now
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: the Republicans have to decide whether or not to extend
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: these credits. In other words, spend a fortune when you
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: provide these credits. That's money straight out of the federal
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: but government budget makes the deficit explode even more. Or
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: do they allow them to expire the problem with Obamacare,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: as we said at the time, is that it was
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: a pyramids game, that there was no way you could
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: ever have this thing pay for itself. You can't simply
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: put all of these people that are above the level
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: of Medicaid health care for poor people in other words,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the lower income working poor, the lower income working I
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: shouldn't say poor, because not everybody in Obamacare is poor,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: but they're like below the middle of the middle class,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and then give them this subsidized healthcare without eventually having
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: the whole system financially topples. So what is happening now
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: is private health care insurance is going up because of
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: the losses that they're taking on Obamacare. They have to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: be able to make ends meet. And secondly, healthcare costs
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: of course generally going up. And third the ending of
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: these credits, which were in the many many zeros in
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: terms of the of the number here, are to expire.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: It will be an interesting test of not only the
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Republicans but Trump whether or not they want them to continue.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: My guess is that they will continue the credits in
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: order to mitigate against the massive increase in costs under Obamacare,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: but they'll still get the like you'll still still get
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: the blame anyway. The problem with Obamacare constantly going up
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: is that it is Obamacare, and the way that it
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: was set up was unlike what Obama said, to take
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: away your ability to choose your doctor, to limit the
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: ability to get certain kinds of treatments, all the craft
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: that was put in there, and the fact that there
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: was no way financially to make it pay for itself.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Thus that what an incredibly comprehensive first segment? What wasn't it?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: By the way, one of the most effective ways of
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: saying something is to say you're not going to say it.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: You follow that you did. What did I just say?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: What does that mean? I? Well, I just said, well,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I meant did you get that? I didn't mean could
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: you repeat it? I meant did you understand the point
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: of it? You think so, well, then explain it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: No.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: The opposite, one of the most effective ways of saying
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: something is to say that you're not going to say it.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't say not. I said to not say it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you an example of that. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: today am not going to say anything about the fact
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: that in our football contest, I'm five and one. Do
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: you not understand what that who's saying that I'm not right?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. Now here's an interesting story. There are certain
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: products that are out there that aren't worth it, and
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: when you decide if something is worth it, you're it's
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: not the same answer for everyone else. For example, is
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: a cruise worth it? Well, it depends how long is
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: the cruise, what cruise line are you going on, what
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: are your destinations, what's the cost, what's your means? And
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: mostly do you want to do it more than the
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: cost hit that you will have to take? Any number
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: of things would work like that. So somebody may say, I,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: for example, don't think going to Starbucks is worth it.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I just don't not understand. I'm paying eleven dollars for
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: a frappuccino, this and that, and another six dollars for
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: a dry scone. I don't get it, and I've never
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: got it. I said, well, you could afford to go.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I know I could afford to go there, but I
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: don't think it's worth it. If I'm in an airport
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: or something else and there's no other alternative, we'll go
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: to Starbucks. But usually even in the airport. I'll look
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: for like the non Starbucks down the thing to buy
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the coffee, or if I'm the Delta sky Club, they
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: give it to you for free there. If I'm not
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: flying Delta, I think or just okay, I'm not going
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to have the coffee. I'll wait to get anyway. That's
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: an example of that. Here's another example. Almost everybody who
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: is in the business of advising people what to spend
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: money on, say flood insurance is not worth it. Why
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: because hardly anybody who does not live in a floodplain
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: ever collects on it. It's very expensive relatively speaking, it's very
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: expensive because the insurance companies have to price it at
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: a level to cover the hit that they take if
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: there is flooding. Now, it's controversial in areas that are
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: prone to flooding because the rates there are extremely high
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Florida and so on. But now let's take a situation
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: like Wisconsin, especially if you don't live along a river
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: or something like that. Is flood insurance worth it? Almost
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: anybody would tell you, no, what is it. You're paying
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: a fortune over the years for doing something for which
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: you'll hardly how many people have flooding? Hardly anybody except
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: what if you do. And we obviously had a big
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: rainstorm here in southeastern Wisconsin a couple of months ago,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: and there are parts of the area the turk. It
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: was one of those storms in which the rain totals
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: were all over the map, but they were high many people.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: A big area was the southern half of Milwaukee County,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: but there are others were hard hit. And in many
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: instances the flooding was such that the some pumps were
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: not able to keep up. Some pump is trying to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: pump the water out from underneath your building and pump
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: it out of the air faster than it can get in.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: And in some cases the water is just working faster
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: some pumps. In other cases maybe the some pump doesn't work.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: But usually it's just the some pump can't keep up
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: because they're not created for all of this water. There's
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: also what do you call those things flood tiles? Is
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: that it drain toils? Is that it for sure? It's
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: like it's just that it's under the floor, say, of
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: your basement. It's an attempt to This is a real
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: technical but stop up and stop the water from getting in.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Most people aren't going to encounter. You have a basement,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: don't you Did you get any flooding from this recent storm?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Did not well, but some people did. There's a story
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: in JS online today about some people who are facing
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: massive hardship because they didn't have flood insurance. One woman
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: here sixty thousand dollars in coverage. The story also points
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: out that some people took you know, and with regard
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: to getting this, it's usually a rider on your homeowner's insurance.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: You get homeowners insurance, and they do you want to
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: pay extra for this and this and this and this
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: and this and this. One of the cheapest riders is
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: some pump insurance. You probably don't even know if you
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: have this, And this is part of the problem. Most
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: people when they get their insurance, they don't even know
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: what they saw. Do you know you don't have it,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: or you don't know if you have it, positive you
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: don't have it. The some pump insurance is not flood insurance,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: but some people think it is. The some pump insurance
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: is if your some pump breaks. It's not if the
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: some pump can't keep up. It's if you get the
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: flooding because the some pump broke. Well, many people sign
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: up for the According to the story and Jazz Online,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: they sign up for the SOMEU pump insurance and they
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: think that they're getting a They think that they're getting
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: flood insurance. And the story also points out the insurance
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: salespeople don't really push flood insurance because the insurance companies
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: are offering it because they have to. The insurance companies
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: don't make it much either, because it's unpredictable. One massive flood,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: they can take a big hit pan out all of
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: these claims. It's just an interesting story because it's one
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: of those deals in which you're paying for something that's
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: a bad deal in order to stop the slim chance
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: of being hammered. There's lots of things like that in life,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: where you're going through a whole lot of trouble to
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: pre you know, on the off chance something bad would
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: happen to you. I would also say it's like the
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: second end smoke thing. Very few people die of second
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: d smoke. They can bring up all this stuff that
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: your chance is, well, yeah, your chances are greater if
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: you're living with a smoker than if they're not, but
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: it's still not very likely to kill you. Okay, throwing
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: the guy out of the house and telling me he
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: can't smoke because of your fear of the second hand smoke.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Is it worth breaking up a marriage and so on? Again,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: it all depends on you know, your own take on
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: these things. I don't think that there's a governmental response here.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: People want flood insurance, They can buy flood insurance. I know,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: living a high rise before I did, I never took
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: it at a basement in the last place, I didn't
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: take flood insurance. What am I going to get? A flooded?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: And often when you're flooded, the cost isn't great. Sometimes
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: it's just letting the water clean out, you rip out
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: the carpeting and so on. But in other cases the
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: damage is massive, unfortunate. At least the people who tend
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: not to take flood insurance are lower income people because
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're really, really rich, well you could
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: afford it, and those are the people that our hardest
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: hit by this. If there's a teaching moment in this,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: you have to understand that your homeowner's policy doesn't cover everything,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: but almost all the things it doesn't cover. You can
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: buy a rider to put it on, and you need
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: to be aware of this. You say, well, that's probably not. Yeah,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: you're likely not to be hit by lightning either. By
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: the way, that's a thing in which you just changed
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: our entire attitudes. All these football games that they stop
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: because there's lightning in the area, Paul, that's a new
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: thing prior to nineteen. I don't know what it was.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I was at a college football game on the cross
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: where there was lightning going. They didn't clear the stadium
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: because what are the chances it's gonna hit you here?
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: And we just always that was always the example you're
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: likely to have this than being hit by lightning, and
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: hit by lightning was like one of the most remote
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: things that's possible. The difference, of course, is golf. As
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: long as I can remember, you had to come off
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: the golf course and there was lighting. You're holding a metal,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: lightning ritting your hand in your wide open spaces, you're
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: much greater. It's like you have a lightning rode out
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: in the field when you're holding the golf club. But
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: they didn't do that because the chances of an individuals Okay,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: you play the game, what are the chances? But no, well,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: safety first, it's the same thing with regard to the
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: flood insurance we're leaning over and to take this safety
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: safety safety, make sure something bad that even the possibility
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: of his remote this story is big Berry Wise, I
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: know you're thinking very white, Remember very remember that he thought,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: I said, remember very white. I claim the deepest voice
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: in the history of voices. Yeah, and you just I
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: don't know if it's because he only sang like I
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: was gonna say love songs. It's a different term for it.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: It's actually bleep songs. Very I don't know if we
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: associate deep voices with sexiness because very white, or if
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: just because the guy with the deepest voice sang like
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: sexy songs. I don't know if they like if I
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: just walk deep, would that be sexy? Or do we
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: just assume they're talking deep and sexy because Barry White
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: would say very it says not. However, about very white.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: I just throw it in because I'm an incredibly funny
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: and humorous guy. Somebody else doing a podcast, They're going
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: to do a very white story without going on for
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: ninety seconds, so totally waste the time of a very
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: white plus. You know, guys, a deep voices tend to
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: be big guys. Right. I don't know why that he is.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to like they would go together. Yeah,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: just but why would your side? That's always surprised, you know,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: in radio there's a lot of deep voice, because it's
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: always surprising when I'll see a guy with a deep voice,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: especially back in the day when you never saw the
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: picture of the person in radio and it was always
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: a little skinny ruddy. I'm thinking of one guy. I've
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: talked about it in the past, the guy. He did.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: It was country music station that I worked at. The
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: guy drank the entire time he was on the air
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: and smoked the entire time he was on the air.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: You were allowed to smoke, and by the way, in
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: that era, everyone in radio except me smoke. You got
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: in right when smoking stopped being a requirement for working
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: in radio, but you were never allowed to drink. The
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: guy would he put. He drank, of course, vodka, which
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: doesn't have a real odor to it, and he'd put
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: it in some of it like a water bottle or something,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: and hammered at the entire four hours that he was
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: He was the most effect I couldn't. You would not
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: have known had I not known, you would. He never
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: slurred his speech, but the combination should have constantly drinking
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: and smoking. You're just a skinny runt of a guy, Paul.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: His voice was so deep. I mean, should I get
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: to Barry Weiss here or should I keep going on
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: on these completely? Barry Weiss used to work for the
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: New York Times. She's not a conservative. I describe her
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: as a moderate. She was at the Times a brilliant
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: journalist and one of the few that asked questions that
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: were difficult for the left. She was not politically correct.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: She wrote a couple of opinion pieces challenging conventional wisdom
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: of the left, and they forced her out. She was
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: like in terms of journalism or of the New York Times,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: she was a superstar. The staff of the New York
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Times simply could not abide a prominent voice on the
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: paper that was not from the far left. So, of
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: course getting fired for Barry Weiss, forced out is the
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: better term. It's the best thing that could ever have
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: happened to her. She moved into the alternative media world
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: and she's become very, very huge. She's got a podcast,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: but she also started a news organization. For those of
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: you that follow a lot of news sources online, the
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: free press, very big so and if you've ever heard
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: her talk, she's just she's one of the few people
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: that's in the field of journalism which I entered, you know,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: half a century ago, that still has journalistic integrity, willing
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: to pursue stories without regard to who likes the outcome
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: where she was chasing. It's just a high quality person
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: and a strong reporter. Paramount, as you know, recently bought CBS.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: Paramount's subsidiary, Skideans. Skuidance is run by I keep forgetting
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: his name. He's Larry Ellison's son. Larry Ellison is the
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: second richest guy in the world. Oracle. His son has
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: taken over Skydeans, and Skydance owns Paramount, and Paramount bought CBS,
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: so CBS CBS News lefty as can be, is now
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: under control of this company. And Ellison is not a lefty.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's conservative, but he's bought CBS and
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: he's doing what I suggested forever and ever and ever
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: that one of the networks should do. Stop being leftist
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: and just play it down the middle. Stop chasing away
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: half your audience. Among the things that have happened since
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: they took this over. Colbert got fired and so on.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm putting two stories together. Who do you think
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: paramount just hired to be the editor in chief of
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: CBS News Barry Wise. Now this is a big deal.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I am skeptical as to whether or not Berry can
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: fix this. Here's why. The problem with bias in the
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: news media is hiring a staff that isn't biased. Almost
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: everybody that goes into journalism is a left wing shell.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Now when I went into it, I think most people
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: went into it or left wing as well, but there
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: was generally integrity in which you were more interested in
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: breaking stories and being a spectacular success as a reporter
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: than carrying who won an election or whose ox was
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: getting gord. When I went to Benton Harbor, Michigan, and
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: I did reporting that I managed to get the mayor
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: and the city manager both forced out of office. Was
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: it my golden doing this thing? Was they were bad?
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: They were. I think every single person in Bretton Harbor
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: was like borderline corrupt. It was just one of those
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: things that happens when an entire city runs on federal
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: and state funds. But I liked both of them personally,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: there's good stories and they are true stories. What do
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: I care what side of the issue they're on. But
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: now these people are all activists. So how do you
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: staff up CBS News without having left wing biased when
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: a everybody who works there is a left wing shell
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: who refuses not to be biased. Some people say, well,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: how does Fox do it? The problem is foxes. You
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people who work for Fox and News.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: They're liberal, but they're required to try to play the
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: news down the middle. I think every last person who's
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: willing to do it Fox already stapped up. So she's
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: going to be tasked with trying to turn this around. Now,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I would think one of the places she could start
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: at sixty minutes. Sixty minutes and it does a profile
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: piece of a conservative, it's a hit job. If it's
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: a liberal, it's a puff piece. Its just been the
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: case forever. She can simply require that we do a
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: few puff pieces on conservatives and hit jobs on liberals.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Just start from that point, because see, because sixty minutes
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: has like eighteen minute stories and they do what three
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: or four show, putting in one or two or three
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: that work. The other way would be one of the
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: easier things to do. Now this story revenge porn and
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: so called fake porn that we've talked about this forever,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: we have a concrete case of it. Revenge porn is
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: you know what revenge porn is? Don't you? Getting back
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: at your actually posting? You know, Let's suppose you had
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: an AX and you were in a man and she
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: sent your naked pictures and all of that stuff. See,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: you're married. I can't fathom a married couple doing it.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: What's the point of if you're married sending them naked
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: pictures wandering around in the same host naked all the time?
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: See what like in your dating? They send it because okay,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not here, And Paul ask me if I've ever
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: done this? If I didn't know, can you imagine me
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: being stupid enough to do it, or for that matter,
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: being enough of a dork? Oh look at me here,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: here's my thing. Well, just a lot of people I
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: have you. I'm just saying, would you can you imagine
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: me doing it? No? All right, that's revenge porn? Say,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: and then you break up when the person answering stuff
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: and they put it out there, and here's a that's
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: revenge porn. The other one is fake porn, which is
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: porn involving non humans. AI is getting better and better
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: and better, and we're debating in court whether or not
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: it should be illegal. For example, if you create fake
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: porn involving children, in other words, fake children, should that
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: be child porn? Not here to answer that. This involves
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: a combination of fake porn or AI generated porn with
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: revenge porn. Now you may be wondering how the two
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: can come together. The guys from Franklin, I'll get to
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: his name in a minute. He had a woman who
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: was dating back in twenty twenty two. Here's another thing,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: these guys who can't let go by the way I say, guys,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: it's women too fatal attraction be can't let go another
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: thing I don't get. See you now, you don't have
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: to get this. You've been married for eight hundred and
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: fifty seven years. I get people that get involved in
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: they're serious and all of that stuff. And I also
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: get your heart broken and you're angry and all of that.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: There's a statue of limitations that most people are able
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: to live by on that, and it's usually distraught for
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: three weeks angry for three months, totally over it by
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: nine months. That's what I've observed in my life is general,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: and the more serious the thing, you know that it
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: affects the timeline. But that's what I've generally seen. And you,
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: even as a merry guy, you've kind of seen, right,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: You've observed that. Then there are people who can't let
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: go all right. Twenty twenty two. Guy dates a woman.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Apparently it wasn't for real long, they break up and
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: she dumbs him. Quoting from the story and JS online,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: the two dated briefly in twenty twenty two. See now,
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: what I'm guessing is the guy has a hard time
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: getting women briefly is the key here? The other thing,
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: how can you get obsessed with somebody when you only
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: went out briefly? Wouldn't you think that would be hard?
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, I have dated in my life. You just
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: generally don't can to get an obsession if you've gone
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: out four times. That's what I'm saying. I don't know this,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: but it's my guess. When she broke up with him,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: he began to call her racial slurs and text her NonStop.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: The texting thing, well, I don't know how long blocking
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: has been on the phones. You know how long it's
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: been on there a while. Well, she's out of a
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: black So now he's really frustrated because he can't communicate.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: When you block on the text, you also blocked on
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: the phone calls. This leaves generally stalking. Okay, they keep
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: driving around, I don't. He doesn't appear to be accused
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: of that. He is accused, however, of both revenge porn
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: and AI porn. He doesn't have didn't have any photos,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: according to this of her naked or in a compromising position,
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: but he does have photo of her, so he took
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: the photo allegedly this is a criminal allegation, and then
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: used AI to put her face on a body of
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: someone doing the nasty and porn and you know, in
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: the you can make this look very real right now,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: and then distributed. So he's distributing a photo of his
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: ex in sexually compromising faces and it actually is her face,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: but it's not her body, it's AI generated. There are
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: criminal charges against him. He's from Franklin. His name is
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Kevin I think pronounced Schultz Sccholz, forty five of Franklin.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: He's charged with by the way, we just passed this
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: law in Wisconsin dealing with the whole issue of revenge
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: point and so on. And it's going to have to
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: be tested in the court as to whether or not
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: this is legal. And I hope that this is something
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: to be illegal. To imagine just taking someone's face and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: then presenting them doing things it can't be legal, capturing
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: an inter representation of someone without consent, and disorderly conduct.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: In late September, he used to work as a cop.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: That's from the js online story. His Lincoln page shows
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: he previously worked in law enforcement in Milwaukee and Walworth Counties.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: He worked for the town of Norway the Southwest Milwaukee
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: in the south West Milwaukee metro as a boat patrol
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: officer between twenty seven and twenty nineteen, before he resigned
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: before an internal investigation was completed. So you ever a
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: bit of him twenty nineteen. I don't know if it
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: had anything to do with this, because this happened years
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: before the thing in twenty twenty two. My advice to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: him and anybody else kind of let it go. Let
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: me say, well, it's easy for you to say yes,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: it's easy for me to say I know. This podcast
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: seems some of you don't think it last long enough.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: Others off you think I go on and on it forever.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: What did I tell you at the beginning of the podcast,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: you with the mind of whatever the opposite of a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: steel trap is, what would that be? Like a mesh netting,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: kind of sieve, kind of like gelatinous thing that everything
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: just kind of pours through. I don't remember I said
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: that I would work in the story somewhere. It's coming
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: up in a second here about lying as a way
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: of getting what you want in governmental activity, how it
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: has been, especially on the left, just become common to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: the point of acceptance. It's almost as well if we
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: can get away with it, so what, because we're doing
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: the right thing. I have an example of this in
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: a moment For those of you who do not even
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: remember that, I teas that, like Paul, I wonder what
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: percentage was sitting back there thinking I remember, I bet
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: more than half. It wasn't. What was it the longest
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: amount of time. I could have done it two minutes
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: ago and you would not have remembered it. This is
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: why I write things down, or I would then forget
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: go do a teasing. At the beginning of the podcast
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: and then forget to do it at the end. But
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: I haven't written right down for the third segment. You know,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: do this so if you want to know what this
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: is right here next to the Marked Belling podcast, this
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling podcast. I need to I'm not
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: going to name the person, but a listener found this
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: for me and forwarded it. I'm going to give you
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: the background of the story, and then I'm going to
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: give you the live The story itself is happening in
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of communities in Wisconsin. All these municipalities, cities, counties, etc.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: They all claim they're out of money, and they're up
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: against the limits that are in place as to how
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: much governmental bodies can raise their spending. They can only
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: raise the tax levy by a certain amount each year
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: without going to the voters and seeking approval. And I'm
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: just telling you all over the place, they're claiming we
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: need to raise, we need to raise, we need to raise.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: When they're not able to get voter approval to do
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: the raising. What's been resorted to in a number of
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: communities is to try to take something that is a
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: city service that you're already paying for under your property
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: tax and breaking it out and charging it as a
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: separate fee. In other words, take a service that's in
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: there and take it out of the regular city budget,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: so you've now lowered you're spending and therefore you can
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: spend that money on something else, but then charging it
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: out as a separate fee, separate from your property taxes.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Some of these have been challenged in court what Wisconsin
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Institute in Law and Liberty that have been struck down
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: as unconstitutional. Whether or not the one that I'm going
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: to discuss here will be or not, I don't know.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly whether or not you can charge
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: for these things or not. The story is some Waukeshaw
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: City of Waukeshaw, not to be confused with washing Wakashaw County.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: City of Wakshaw is proposing a garbage fee. Currently, garbage
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: services are included in the city budget and covered by
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: people's property taxes. Wakshaw is proposing to break out the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: garbage from the city budget and instead charge all property
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: owners a fee to have the garbage picked up. The
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: fee would be one hundred and sixty dollars. This story
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: is not about whether or not they should or shouldn't well,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: I will say they should and do it, but that's
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: not the point of the story. In order to gain
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: support for this, they've created a website in which they
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: make the case for creating the garbage fee. And one
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: of the things that they do is, we're gonna talk
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: about a chart.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna describe a chart. And obviously I don't have
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: a video podcast. You can't see this, but just pay
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: attention to me. I think you can follow this. I'm
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: very good at simplifying things. I'm right up there with
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Caroline love It. What they do is they create a
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: chart and the chart show. The chart shows two squiggly lines.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: One of the squiggly lines is the increase each year
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: in the property tax levee. The other squiggly line is
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: the CPI, the Consumer Price Index. Obviously both go up
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: over time. So one graph charts and they go back
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: let's see it starts in twenty fourteen, so they go
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: back eleven years and they're tracking the cp and that's
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: one of the lines in the graph, and then the
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: property tax levee and the other. And the point that
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: they're trying to make is the property tax levee increases,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: not keeping up with inflation so far fair enough. On
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: the left side of the chart, before the line start,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: they have a graph that shows percentages, and I'll read
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: here like zero point five one, one point five to two. So,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: in other words, as the as the lines on the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: graph move up, that indicates the corresponding higher number of
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: percentage increase. You're with me, so far right, So they've
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: got the two lines. Would you believe that they bleeped
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: with the lines on the line with regard to the
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: city property tax levee for all eleven years that line
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: is below the other squiggly line for the CPI, creating
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: the impression that in every one of those years the
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: tax levee went up less than the CPI. But there
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: are several years here in which the CPI went up
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: at a lower rate, yet on the graph its graphed
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: out is a higher level. So I remember when I said,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: over on the left, they've got the percentage chart. The
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: city tax levee does correspond to what the percentage is,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: and it's generally in the range of one to two percent,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: and you see it on the graph at that point.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: But the CPI number does not correspond to the chart
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: on the left. In one year. In fact, the highest
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: increase in the CPI was Biden's zero when it went
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: to seven point seven. But they've got it on the
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: graph as over nine and every year that I looked
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: at on here, the CPI number is higher on the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: chart than the corresponding percentage is off to the left.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: It creates the impression that the CPI is all always
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: way higher than the property tax level. Now, if you
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: looked at the number and under each of them they
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: have a tiny little number, you would see that the
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: that the chart is actually a lie in several years,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: that the two lines should be crossing against one another
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: because the CPI is lower than the increase in the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: property text. Let me, but they haven't higher the entire
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: time around. And then at the end they average out
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: the increase in the years, which is only one percent.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: But the lines are like miles apart. Could this just
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: be a walker Shaw bureaucrat who's an idiot who doesn't
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: know how to track, you know, create charts. We've seen
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: these charts all the time. In fact, you'll see it
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: a lot with regard to say a mutual fund versus
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: the S and P. Five hundred and some years, the
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: mutual fund will do better than the sp and the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: charts go zig zag back and forth. We have them
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: with interest rates and so on any number of charts
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: you'll see that they'll cross over from time to time.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: This one never crosses, even though the numbers crossed. I
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: think this is deliberate. I think that whoever did it,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Anthony Brown's the city administrator. Sean Riley is the mayor.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: Whoever did it is a liar. By the way, prior
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: to today's podcast, I both called and emailed the both
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: of them. I did not at the beginning as of
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: the start of the podcast get a response some either
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: of them on this. So again, the people in the
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: City of Walking show passing this garbage fee may or
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: may not be a good idea under your position, But
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: the material that they're putting out of the website is
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: a deliberately dishonest chart trying to create. Here's the thing. Actually,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: over the last eleven years there was the CPI did
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: go up a little bit more than the property tax levey,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: but only a little bit, so they could have said
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: that it went out more than that. But they have
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: to stack the deck by creating this chart to make
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: it look like it went up every year more than that,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: and that the end result it's a way higher in
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: carease rather than the mere one percent that I cited
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: a annualized basis. And again, I just there's there was
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: a time in which government officials, the local governments would
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: not do this, that they have an obligation to be
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: honest with the public with regard to their funds. We're
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: in an error right now, and this is you know,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: they lefties at Riley's finally leave it as mayor, thank god.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: In Waukeshaw, they've had two lefty mayors in a row
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: in that city, even though the city votes Republican. The
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: city administrator, they go through those things like it's gonna say,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: like I go through socks, but that's a bad analogy.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: I hang on to socks until there's a hole. That's
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: my theory on it. Isn't that your theory? You toss
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: them before the whole? No, I think your wife mid
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: tosses it before them. Well exactly, I do not know
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: the whole. That's when they get tossed. But the level
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: of being a pathetic single guy is to wear them
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: even after the hole. I am not at that level,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: So I don't really go through socks that fast. So
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: that's the point that I am making is is that
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: I was mentioned in the city managed they've had a lot.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: I'm brown is rather new. Just you know, go out
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: there and we've seen and you know the what's the term?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: This whole notion was created by the school referendums that
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: they put out there. They're never honest about that. They
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: never include the borrowing costs. They always work with the
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: numbers and massage them to try to do a cell
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: job on them. That's what the City of Wakashaw is
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: doing here make the case for creating the garbage fee. Again,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: whether it's legal or not, I don't know, but you
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: don't have to go and create this chart. That's a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: load of crap. And again I credit a listener who
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: sitting at home read the chart and he noticed this.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: My guess is because most people don't look at this
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: and they're not analytical, and who's going to go in
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: there and see what the actual number is? Never picked
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: up on it, but this guy did. If walk a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: Shaw retracts, apologizes and if necessary, I may file an
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: open record's request to see who designed this so we
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: know which particular city employee is an absolute lying piece
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: of you know what or not. And if they want
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: to say that the guy is just so stupid, well,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: if you're in charge of making grafts and you're too
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: stupid and know how to make a draft, maybe rather
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: than raise the garbage sheet, we should just get rid
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: of you. Add with that podcast us now quite a
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: good one. I think, what do you mean very good?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: I said up very I only said good myself. I
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: think you should say it was a great one. Here's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: a great one. You didn't even say that with any
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: sense of enthusiasm. What's the There's a lot of rotten
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: ones out there. Just scroll around and start listening to them.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: You want to know really bad one? I think she
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: stopped doing it. The Michelle Obama one was really really
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: all right by.
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