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Mark Belling Podcast #69: Eight GOP Senators were targeted and wiretapped by Biden’s DOJ----THAT is the treat to democracy. Wisconsin Democrats try to anoint Sara Rodriguez as their candidate for Governor. Microsoft gives up on a data center in Caledonia. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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Speaker 3: It's worth it. I want to start with this.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying nobody's ever observed this before. I'm just
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Speaker 2: saying I've not seen anybody make this point. That doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean it hasn't made a million times. I just haven't
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Speaker 2: picked up on it. Credit unions, I think are the
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Speaker 2: new hospital companies. Let me explain, almost all the major
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Speaker 2: American hospital chains are nonprofit. But despite being nonprofit, meaning
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Speaker 2: they're not in business to make any shareholders any money,
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Speaker 2: they're in business to break even and provide a service.
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Speaker 2: They advertise and market aggressively. They compete more ferociously than
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Speaker 2: for profit businesses. And the reason for this is I've
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Speaker 2: explained many, many times there's a lot of profit to
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Speaker 2: be made in nonprofit. While there may not be shareholders
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Speaker 2: making money, boy o boyar, there's sure a lot of
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Speaker 2: high end executives and others that get big fat salaries
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Speaker 2: and their big fat salaries off and premise on market share.
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Speaker 2: Just because you are a quote unquote nonprofit doesn't apparently
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Speaker 2: mean that you aren't going to function like a profitable organization.
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Speaker 2: In the process, of course, you raise your cost of
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Speaker 2: doing business, and it's one of the reasons that hospital
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Speaker 2: prices are as high as they are credit unions. When
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Speaker 2: credit unions were in they were to be an alternative
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Speaker 2: tool the for profit banks and savings and loans. The
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Speaker 2: idea is is that we're not trying to produce a
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Speaker 2: rate of return. We're not trying to produce a return
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Speaker 2: on investment for shareholders, so therefore our cost can be lower.
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Speaker 2: We're basically running this as a break even operation. The
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Speaker 2: members of the credit union are essentially the owners of
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Speaker 2: the corporation. But look at what's happened lately. Some of
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Speaker 2: these credit unions have gotten to be huge, and I've
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Speaker 2: noticed the same thing that those hospitals. They're advertising like crazy. Now,
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Speaker 2: I don't know the particular need for a credit union
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Speaker 2: to advertise. What's the advantage to a credit union's members
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Speaker 2: if you've got hundreds of thousands of other members or not.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you want to be of a certain size
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Speaker 2: in order to be able to survive. That's true, But
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Speaker 2: why all of this marketing and the cost of them
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Speaker 2: marketing comes from somewhere? Which makes you wonder if the
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Speaker 2: whole notion of credit unions being these things that have
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Speaker 2: lower cost and lower fees for the people that are
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Speaker 2: members of the credit union goes down the terrain. I
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Speaker 2: know what you're thinking, what prompts this?
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Speaker 3: Is that? What you were thinking?
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Speaker 2: What prompts this? What promises were you thinking that or not?
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Speaker 2: Were you just going along and allowing me to do
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Speaker 2: your thinking?
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Speaker 3: Were you thinking? Were you thinking? What is prompting me
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Speaker 3: bringing this up?
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Speaker 2: All?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 2: Landmark Credit Union was huge has just bought the naming
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Speaker 2: rights for the new concert venue.
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Speaker 3: In the Deer District.
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Speaker 2: Why no, this is the concert venue that I thought
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Speaker 2: would never come to fruition because it seems to have
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Speaker 2: absolutely no market niche. But that was before we saw
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Speaker 2: the Convention Center District, which is adjacent to the Deer District,
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Speaker 2: planning to tear down the Miller High Life Theater, which
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Speaker 2: is almost the exact same size. Anyway, the thing's going
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Speaker 2: to be named Landmark, and it's going to be named
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Speaker 2: after Landmark Credit Union. They are not disclosing the terms
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Speaker 2: of the deal. I think at some point they must
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Speaker 2: have to. I would think that members of the credit
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Speaker 2: union want to know how much money they're paying to
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Speaker 2: put on Frank productions as concert facility in downtown Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: But the reason that they're doing it is the same
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Speaker 2: reason that Feiser bought the naming rights for the Bucks
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Speaker 2: and so on. It's a way of getting your name
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Speaker 2: out in marketing. American Family Field is called the American
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Speaker 2: Family field because American Family Insurance is trying to draw
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Speaker 2: attention to their product. I just think it's an interesting
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Speaker 2: observation that these credit unions that were set up to be,
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Speaker 2: you know, the little guy, not the big, fat pre
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Speaker 2: you know thing, charging all of these fees to gouge
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Speaker 2: the consumer, that they're suddenly doing all of this marketing,
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Speaker 2: the cost of which obviously comes from somewhere, and that
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Speaker 2: somewhere has to be their customers, and their.
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Speaker 3: Customers are the people that they call their members, so.
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Speaker 2: That's what it's coming from. And again, maybe a lot
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Speaker 2: of you know, it's more of a I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to say it's a lefty issue, but focusing on credit
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Speaker 2: Union's not becoming the same as big giant banks might
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Speaker 2: seem to be. It may have been raised by a
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Speaker 2: lot of other people. I've just never seen the point
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Speaker 2: an option. I'm going to read a quote. Listen to
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Speaker 2: it carefully. I'll tell you in advance I agree with
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Speaker 2: the quote, but that's really not the point it is.
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Speaker 3: Here's the quote.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether they were deprived as a youth,
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether or not they are the victims
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Speaker 2: of society. We have to remove them from the streets.
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Speaker 2: The folks born out of wedlock, without supervision, without any
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Speaker 2: developed conscience. We have predators on our street that society
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Speaker 2: has created.
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Speaker 3: That's quote.
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Speaker 2: The quote essentially says, who gives a crap whether or
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Speaker 2: not they had a hardship out of wedlock and all
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Speaker 2: of this stuff. In fact, if anything, these are the
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Speaker 2: reasons that we have predators because they're raised in terrible
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Speaker 2: family environments. But the fact that they have raised in
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Speaker 2: terrible family environments doesn't change the fact that they're predators
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Speaker 2: and we must remove them. Quote you might as you
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Speaker 2: might guess, well, it could be uttered by say Mark
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Speaker 2: Belling in twenty twenty five. The quote is thirty two
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Speaker 2: years old. The quote came from Joe Biden. There was
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Speaker 2: a time that the Democrats were liberal, yes, but nuts.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Back at the time, we thought they were nuts, but
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Speaker 2: we didn't realize that they could devolve from being simply
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Speaker 2: adult left wingers to the communists that they are.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: You make a quote like that, right now, you're going
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Speaker 2: to have every name but no. Democrats objected to Biden,
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Speaker 2: saying that there was a general consensus from both political
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Speaker 2: parties back in that era the crime in urban America,
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Speaker 2: crime on the streets was a serious problem. There were
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Speaker 2: disagreements about the best way to address it, but there
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Speaker 2: was universal agreement that it was a terrible thing. Look
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Speaker 2: at the Democrats now, they not only don't think this
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Speaker 2: is a problem. They don't think we should do anything
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Speaker 2: about it, and they would certainly recoil at the notion
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Speaker 2: that any of these individuals are predators.
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Speaker 3: When you keep hearing.
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Speaker 2: This idiotic babble from the left that somehow we on
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Speaker 2: the right are extremists, I believe this. I believe the
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Speaker 2: right in this country has moved leftward the last fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Years, not right, word mega.
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Speaker 2: The movement created by Trump has I think been more
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Speaker 2: centrist on many issues than the Republican Party of Reagan,
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Speaker 2: both Bushes, and so on. It's Trump that has been
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Speaker 2: much more of a peacenic, non militaristic. It has been
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Speaker 2: Trump that has stuck up for the little guy much
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Speaker 2: more than the old bull Republican Party. It has been
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Speaker 2: Trump that has been trying to use trade policy to
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Speaker 2: protect American workers and offer unionized workers. It is Trump
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Speaker 2: that has taken on some of the big corporate establishments,
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Speaker 2: any number of issues that you want to go and
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Speaker 2: take a look at. I think where the Republicans are
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Speaker 2: right now maybe not as far to the right as
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Speaker 2: they were fifteen to twenty years ago. In the meantime,
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Speaker 2: the left has wandered into insanity and you see the
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Speaker 2: results of it. No, obviously Joe Biden got dementia, and
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Speaker 2: who knows if he had remained of sound mind whether
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Speaker 2: or not he would have wandered off into Certainly the
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Speaker 2: way he governed is nothing in common with that comment
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Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety three that Joe Biden, who allowed ten
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Speaker 2: million illegal immigrants, many of who have come to the
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Speaker 2: United States to commit terrible crimes. Is not that Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden who would have said this is he's one? Is
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Speaker 2: he one of them who would been of sound mind
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Speaker 2: would have wandered off into this direction? No way of knowing.
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Speaker 2: Who knows that Biden's actual views were, because I think
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Speaker 2: they've all left his head. But the point that I
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Speaker 2: make is that quote that I read from nineteenty three
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Speaker 2: that was mainstream Democrat stuff. Remember, also, Bill Clinton ran
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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety two. He ran to the right of
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Speaker 2: George H. W. Bush on crime, He ran to the
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Speaker 2: right of Bush on any number of things. No, a
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Speaker 2: lot of it was just Charlatanism that he didn't really
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Speaker 2: believe in. That he said in order to get elected. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: this notion that we're going to celebrate not enforce any
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Speaker 2: of our laws abandoned women's rights by allowing any big
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Speaker 2: galute to get up there and claim he's a girl,
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Speaker 2: on and on and on is a rather new thing.
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Speaker 2: One of the points that I've made repeatedly is whenever
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Speaker 2: you hear the left fret and worry that the Republicans
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Speaker 2: are going to do something or are doing it, it
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Speaker 2: is always the thing that they are doing. You've heard
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Speaker 2: me say this any number of tios. You should write
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Speaker 2: these things down because of your lack of memory. Well
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Speaker 2: you should, well, but you'll forget this. You need to
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Speaker 2: carry on these pearls of wisdom and use them throughout life,
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Speaker 2: or walk around at act smarter than you are up
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Speaker 2: there in Cedarberg and quote me like this and pass
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Speaker 2: it off as your own kind of ideology. Thrught to democracy,
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Speaker 2: of course, he thought to democracy, thought to democracy. It's
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Speaker 2: like their only line. I mean, I don't think it
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Speaker 2: actually works. I don't think there's any sign that it
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Speaker 2: worked in twenty twenty four because nobody knew what that meant,
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Speaker 2: because nobody knew what the Republicans were supposedly actually doing.
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Speaker 2: That was threatening democracy. He just said it, But they
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Speaker 2: keep saying it. Now, What if I told you about this.
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Speaker 2: I told you just forty five seconds ago and told
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Speaker 2: Paul to take notes. Whenever they are accusing my side
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Speaker 2: of something like this that we are either going to
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Speaker 2: do or arguing, it's because that's what they're doing.
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Speaker 3: Revealed just this week.
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Speaker 2: I had to admire Old Chuck Grassley. He's three hundred
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Speaker 2: years old. I mean, he's been in the United States, said,
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Speaker 2: I swear he was there clapping when George Washington was
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Speaker 2: in argument. Grassley's been around forever. He's over ninety. He
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Speaker 2: in his state and the most conservative Republican. But he
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Speaker 2: and his staff are very aggressive. And you know, when
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Speaker 2: you're the senator, you choose who your staffers are. He's
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Speaker 2: been on Judiciary, he's been an oversight and so on.
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Speaker 2: It shared the committees that have the ability to do this,
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Speaker 2: and he's empowered his staff to go in and dig
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Speaker 2: in and ferret out things in the government that we
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Speaker 2: would never otherwise know about. The big revelation this week,
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Speaker 2: and it's a bombshell. The Department of Justice several years ago,
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Speaker 2: during the Biden administration, began investigating eight Republican members of
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Speaker 2: the United States Senate one member of the House as
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Speaker 2: well but we'll focus on the eight Republican members of
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Speaker 2: the United States Senate, including why are tapping their phones? Now,
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Speaker 2: let's just make the obvious point for can you imagine
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Speaker 2: if Trump's DOJ was caught right now wiretapping Schumer and
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Speaker 2: throwing a bunch of other Democratic senators?
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine?
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Speaker 2: Not, by the way, with any evidence of criminal activity.
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Speaker 2: It was authorized by Jack Smith, who was the Special
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Speaker 2: Council in Vet who was named to investigate the so
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Speaker 2: called electioneering activities of Trump January sixth and so on.
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Speaker 2: Now you may recall that the questioning of the results
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Speaker 2: of the election was mostly Trump. It wasn't like Chuck
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Speaker 2: Grassley and all of those people were the ones that
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Speaker 2: were jumping on there with the pillow guy and so on.
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Speaker 2: And January sixth was condemned by pretty much every Republican.
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Speaker 3: Trump was isolated in this.
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Speaker 2: So what was this reaching past Trump and using this
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Speaker 2: as the excuse to wiretap, investigate track eight Republican senators.
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Speaker 2: You talk about a threat to democracy, We keep your
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Trump is targeting for prosecution as political enemies.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a crook, call me. We've seen him dead to rights.
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Speaker 2: Not know that he i know he lied under oath
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Speaker 2: in front of the Congress because we saw the lie.
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Speaker 2: Senator Cruise was asking him the question.
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Speaker 3: Not to mention.
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Speaker 2: When did the Democrats suddenly become sure? It's just it's
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden they love the Chenese. I start
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Speaker 2: every Democrat, I'm not everyone that I know, but all
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Speaker 2: sorts of them claim the reason Hillary Clinton lost was
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Speaker 2: call me, they hated him, They really hated him. When
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Speaker 2: Kobe did the flip flop back and forth about Hillary
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Speaker 2: and the destroying of the evidence with regard you know,
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Speaker 2: on the uh the email server, he you know, closed
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Speaker 2: the investigation, reopened the investigation, et cetera. And the last
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Speaker 2: comment coming a month before the election. You know, Komy
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Speaker 2: was trying to protect his reputations going back and forth
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Speaker 2: with the whole Hillary thing. De regrets blamed him for
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Speaker 2: Trump winning in the first place. The answer, obviously is
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Speaker 2: that Kobe is simply an out of control guy who
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Speaker 2: was going to abandon his responsibility the FBI and may
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Speaker 2: have screwed Hillary and certainly screwed Trump, screwed all of them.
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Speaker 2: Suddenly they make him a victim. Nonetheless, call me Komee Komi, Kobe.
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Speaker 3: Puck Grassley crimes. Was he committing.
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Speaker 2: Old man from Iowa who asks a few good questions?
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Speaker 2: Ron john was on the list everyone, Ron Johnson, Lindsey Graham,
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Speaker 2: the closest thing you have to a write home among
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Speaker 2: the Republicans of the Senate. Who else is on here?
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Speaker 2: Josh Hawley's on here? I mean there are issues in
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Speaker 2: which John Josh Hawley is on the left. By the way,
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Speaker 2: I think Josh Hally's running for president in twenty eight
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Speaker 2: maybe JD.
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Speaker 3: It might be Marco.
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Speaker 2: I think Hally's gonna run, and Hally's gonna run to
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Speaker 2: the left of all of them. He's carving it out
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Speaker 2: his whole new version. He's a pro union guy. He's
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Speaker 2: against any cuts in Medicaid. He's kind of got this
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Speaker 2: notion of I'm going to stick up for the little
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Speaker 2: guy and take on their positions and so on, while
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Speaker 2: otherwise being a traditional kind of mega Republican. Anyway, Josh
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Speaker 2: Holly was being spied on. Dan Sullivan, Senator from Alaska.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one. The hell has he ever done?
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Speaker 3: You know why?
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Speaker 2: I asked, what the hell he's ever done? I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure I ever heard of him. Laska's funny. I mean
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Speaker 2: other than Murkowski and Sarah Pale in the politicians they produce.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Alaska is a huge I mean, you're running
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Speaker 2: for officer. Campaign headquarters is an igloo.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what do you.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know if I honestly don't think his
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Speaker 2: name has ever registered to me. I don't even know
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Speaker 2: if he's I'd have to think through whether he's anyway,
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Speaker 2: he was one of them, Tommy Tuberville, Senator from Alabama.
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Speaker 2: By the way, Tuberville is quitting the Senate. He's going
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Speaker 2: to run for governor. It's a former football coach.
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Speaker 3: Who else?
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Speaker 2: Cynthia Lumis Republican of Wyoming, Marsha Blackbird of Tennessee, and
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Speaker 2: then a congress from Pennsylvania, Mike Kelly Josh Pam Bondi
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Speaker 2: appeared before the United States Senate before the committee this week,
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Speaker 2: and all sorts of stuff happened. The Democrats, of course,
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Speaker 2: continue to try to go after I love this because
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Speaker 2: supposedly our Department of Justice now is targeting political enemies. Well,
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Speaker 2: this hearing is scheduled before this revelation comes out that
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Speaker 2: the Biden Department of Justice was wire tapping eight Republican senators.
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Speaker 3: So Hally.
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Speaker 2: Of course Pam Bondy was it in charge of that.
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Speaker 2: Then he's simply using the fact that Pam is sitting
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Speaker 2: there to raise this issue. So I want to pay
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Speaker 2: play a portion of this because Hally's dead on correct
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Speaker 2: here in drawing attention to not just the hypocrisy of
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Speaker 2: the left worrying about our side targeting them with prosecution.
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Speaker 2: But by the way, none of them, none of us
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Speaker 2: was known. None of these senators knew they were being wirecapped.
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Speaker 2: Who knows it was heard? Nobody knew this. This came
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Speaker 2: out this week because Grassley's committee investigators are diving into
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Speaker 2: DOJ documents that now they can get access to because
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Speaker 2: Bondy's in charge of it and not Merrick Garland, and
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Speaker 2: they found these warrants.
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Speaker 3: Here's Josh Holly boss.
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Speaker 5: Second document is a list.
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Speaker 3: Take a second, I should set this up.
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Speaker 2: Can you go back and remand it to the beginning
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Speaker 2: or not that If the intro is Senator Grassley, he's
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Speaker 2: the chairman of the committee, and then he turns it
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Speaker 2: over to Josh Hawley, but he's doing the setup here
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Speaker 2: talking about the documents that he and his people uncovered.
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Speaker 2: So the first voice is actually grassly, and then you'll
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Speaker 2: hear Hawley, who's asking, making his comments kind of in
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Speaker 2: the form of a question, sort of to Pambody.
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Speaker 3: All right, here it is again, Boss.
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Speaker 5: The second document is a list of Republican groups and
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Speaker 5: people that Argick Frost targeted, including Charlie Kirk's group Turning
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Speaker 5: Point USA. These documents show the political weaponization of the
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Speaker 5: Biden administration against Republicans. Senator Hawley, thank.
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Speaker 6: You very much, mister Chairman. Attorney General BONDI good to
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Speaker 6: see you. Welcome. I've been listening closely in this hearing,
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Speaker 6: and I've heard over and over from my Democrat colleagues
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Speaker 6: concerns about targeting political enemies, and they've accused you of
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Speaker 6: all manner of things and the current president. I've also
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Speaker 6: heard them sad and I just wrote it down because
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Speaker 6: I wanted to be sure I heard it correct. I've
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Speaker 6: heard them say that Joe Biden never targeted his political enemies,
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Speaker 6: Joe Biden never directed his attorney general to target his
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Speaker 6: political opponents. Huh. That's interesting because I could have sworn that.
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Speaker 6: Yesterday we learned that the FBI tap my phone. Let's
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Speaker 6: look at it. We've got a list tap my phone tap.
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Speaker 6: Lindsay Graham's phone tapped, Marshall Blackburn's phone tapped five other
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Speaker 6: phones of United States senators. Gee, it sure looks like
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Speaker 6: targeting political opponents to me, and yet I haven't heard
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Speaker 6: a word from that side of the DAIS about any
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Speaker 6: concern whatsoever. We've got nothing but concerns today, but no
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Speaker 6: concern at all for a Justice Department that is tapping
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Speaker 6: the phones of sitting United States senators because who knows
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Speaker 6: why they don't like them. They're members of the opposition party,
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Speaker 6: they're Republicans, their conservatives.
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Speaker 2: That was Senator Hawley drawing attention to this revelation. Let's
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Speaker 2: walk through it a little bit further. Jack Smith was
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Speaker 2: the Special Council. The Special Council reports to the Attorney General,
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Speaker 2: also reporting to the Attorney General the FBI. At the
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Speaker 2: time that this happened, it was Christopher Ray, who is
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Speaker 2: the head of the FBI. Merrick Garland was the Attorney General.
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Speaker 2: There's a report by Paul Sperry now that says he's
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Speaker 2: quoting FBI sources, and we now have some FBI sources
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Speaker 2: that are willing to talk to conservative journalists now that
22:48
Speaker 2: the witch hunt era is over. Cash, Buttella's in charge
22:51
Speaker 2: and not Ray, he SAYSI who sources say Christopher Ray
22:54
Speaker 2: had to sign off on the spying of the GOP senators.
22:58
Speaker 2: In other words, remember now the special counsel is Jack Smith.
23:02
Speaker 3: He's not a cop. He's not he can't. He's the lawyer.
23:06
Speaker 2: The wire tapping had to be executed and done by
23:09
Speaker 2: the FBI, meaning Christopher Ray had to sign off on it.
23:14
Speaker 2: So to think, well, if the Democrats are just said, well,
23:16
Speaker 2: that was Jack Smith. That was Jack Smith.
23:18
Speaker 3: He's not there anymore. He's just a special coast. It
23:20
Speaker 3: was Jack Smith.
23:22
Speaker 2: Christopher Ray had to sign off of this along with
23:25
Speaker 2: Merrick Greland, the Attorney General, because quote any investigation involving
23:30
Speaker 2: elected officials is quote a sim case that requires their approval.
23:35
Speaker 2: In other words, certain cases federal cases in which the
23:38
Speaker 2: FEDS are investigating an elected official, that has to be
23:41
Speaker 2: approved by the higher ups. That's to stop turns out
23:44
Speaker 2: to be the opposite, But that's to stop some rogue
23:47
Speaker 2: agent at a lower level just deciding that he's going
23:49
Speaker 2: to go after some politician he doesn't like. So it
23:51
Speaker 2: required the green lighting and approval of both the Attorney
23:54
Speaker 2: General and the head of the FBI. In the meantime,
24:00
Speaker 2: the FBI, now under Patel, has dismantled the soul called
24:05
Speaker 2: corruption Squad. The corruption Squad, we now know what it was.
24:08
Speaker 3: It's a bunch of.
24:09
Speaker 2: Lefties that were going after Republicans. Next part of this,
24:14
Speaker 2: this is from the same hearing old Dick Durbin. Should
24:18
Speaker 2: I put on again that he sat next to me
24:20
Speaker 2: at et in nineteen eighty two? How many times have
24:23
Speaker 2: I told that? How many times have I told that story?
24:26
Speaker 2: See now, Dick Durbin, as you know, I go back
24:29
Speaker 2: forever with him. He and I were like, I could
24:35
Speaker 2: match wits with I'm talking Dick Durbin in his prime.
24:38
Speaker 2: I could match wits with him. Derbin was pretty you
24:42
Speaker 2: know for a politician in Illinois's pretty sharp on his feet.
24:45
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Dick Durbin of four decades ago. He
24:49
Speaker 2: could He and I could match wits.
24:52
Speaker 3: You know who.
24:52
Speaker 2: Dick Durbin can't match wits with Cambody. First of all,
24:57
Speaker 2: di'x now in his eighties or nine one hundreds or
25:01
Speaker 2: two hundreds or whatever he is. And Bondi's pretty sharp
25:05
Speaker 2: en her.
25:05
Speaker 3: You know, she's a lawyer. The whole thing. So at
25:09
Speaker 3: the same hearing that.
25:10
Speaker 2: You know, these Democrats always use these hearings to try
25:13
Speaker 2: to embarrass Republicans. And he's getting up there and Dick's
25:17
Speaker 2: grumping about the fact that Pam Bondi is assigning some
25:22
Speaker 2: of the National Guard agents who were in Texas to
25:27
Speaker 2: patrol the streets of Chicago to go into Illinois. And
25:31
Speaker 2: he suggested, Oh.
25:33
Speaker 3: Can you dare to do that?
25:34
Speaker 2: How could you do that? How could you do that?
25:36
Speaker 2: How can you do that? That's the point he thinks
25:38
Speaker 2: that he's got a gotcha.
25:42
Speaker 3: I just.
25:44
Speaker 2: I would not try to play gotcha with Pam Bondy.
25:47
Speaker 2: Let's listen to this exchange.
25:49
Speaker 1: The word is, and I think it's been confirmed by
25:51
Speaker 1: the White House, they are going to transfer Texas National
25:54
Speaker 1: Guard units to the state of Illinois.
25:57
Speaker 3: What's the rationale.
25:58
Speaker 4: For that, Chairman, As you shut down the government, you
26:00
Speaker 4: voted to shut down the government, and you're sitting here.
26:03
Speaker 4: Our law enforcement officers aren't being paid, they're out there working.
26:06
Speaker 3: To protect you.
26:07
Speaker 4: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate
26:10
Speaker 4: President Trump, and currently the National Guard are on the
26:13
Speaker 4: way to Chicago. If you're not going to protect your citizens,
26:16
Speaker 4: President Trump will.
26:23
Speaker 3: Just sure.
26:26
Speaker 2: You know, usually the Democrats center, they say, Derbin, he's
26:30
Speaker 2: up there in years.
26:32
Speaker 3: You know, he.
26:33
Speaker 2: Probably needs to start throwing a counter punch now, but
26:35
Speaker 2: he doesn't know what hit him. This is like, here's
26:38
Speaker 2: a reference you will not remember. This is where YouTube
26:40
Speaker 2: comes in invaluable. That was George Foreman knocking out Michael Moore.
26:46
Speaker 2: You don't even know anything about that, do you do?
26:49
Speaker 2: You not remember that George Foreman was the oldest person
26:52
Speaker 2: ever to regrain the heavyweight championship of the world. Yeah,
26:56
Speaker 2: you know, he had that comeback that everybody made fun of,
26:58
Speaker 2: and so it's he made it all the way back
27:01
Speaker 2: to the top. He became the world heavyweight champion. He
27:03
Speaker 2: knocked out Michael Moore, who was a spectacular boxer. Well,
27:07
Speaker 2: my recollection is round ten, but I might be off
27:10
Speaker 2: on that. It could have been nine or even at eight.
27:13
Speaker 2: But you know formon. Foreman was plotting the way that
27:17
Speaker 2: he always did, and Moore was jabbing, jabbing, jabbing, jabbing,
27:22
Speaker 2: jabbing and got a little careless and his guard got
27:25
Speaker 2: down at Foreman. You know, Foreman had this like his
27:29
Speaker 2: jab was like a straight because he was just so
27:31
Speaker 2: stroy It was like a bronze statue, and he hit
27:36
Speaker 2: him once and couldn't really pick up on it, but
27:41
Speaker 2: it must have stunned him a bit, because then he
27:42
Speaker 2: was down again and Truman Foreman had him with a
27:45
Speaker 2: straight jab to the chin. A little bit I know
27:49
Speaker 2: about all of this is most people's weak spot is
27:52
Speaker 2: right on the chin. You get stunned, straight down to
27:56
Speaker 2: the ground, flattened. And you know, George former and had
28:00
Speaker 2: regained the heavy champion of the world. That man body
28:04
Speaker 2: shot to Dick Durban. That was a shot to the
28:07
Speaker 2: chi Durbin just man. I know, I didn't see the
28:10
Speaker 2: whole video, but I said Durban fell right back out
28:12
Speaker 2: of his chair and in his head on the back
28:14
Speaker 2: of the thing, and the blood was coming out of
28:15
Speaker 2: his mouth the same way that I saw Michael Moreland
28:17
Speaker 2: laying there on the carpet. You say, you should watch these.
28:21
Speaker 2: That fight was just historic and epic. It was a
28:24
Speaker 2: monstrous upset. Moore was kind of dominating. When I say dominating,
28:28
Speaker 2: he was scoring a lot more blows, but Foreman was
28:30
Speaker 2: never hurt. Foreman wasn't all bloodied or anything. But Moore
28:34
Speaker 2: was just scoring a lot more blows and Foreman lasted
28:37
Speaker 2: long enough that he it was a combination, and it
28:41
Speaker 2: was after an earlier punch. But it all happened within
28:43
Speaker 2: twenty five seconds. My mind tells me nineteen eighty six,
28:46
Speaker 2: But that could be way off, might be later than that.
28:51
Speaker 2: It was after Foreman fought holy Field.
28:53
Speaker 3: Holy Field beat.
28:53
Speaker 2: Him, you know, and they have two three boxing titles
28:58
Speaker 2: and so on, and maybe a year after that and
29:00
Speaker 2: got his title Bolt what again? And it was more
29:02
Speaker 2: that could be off on the years on that though.
29:04
Speaker 2: All right, here's a story for you. You want a story.
29:09
Speaker 2: Whenever you have undeniably good news under a republican administration,
29:13
Speaker 2: what can we always say about that?
29:19
Speaker 3: Think a guess you might get this.
29:21
Speaker 2: When you have undeniably good news that occurs at a
29:23
Speaker 2: republican administration, what could we always say about it? You
29:29
Speaker 2: are getting dumber? I think you used to be pretty
29:31
Speaker 2: good at the.
29:33
Speaker 3: That is a weird question.
29:34
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's and I use you I as
29:37
Speaker 2: you knows.
29:38
Speaker 3: What do they call that?
29:39
Speaker 2: The method of teaching by asking questions?
29:41
Speaker 3: Ah? I should know that it's the mythod that Charlie
29:45
Speaker 3: Kirk used in his right.
29:47
Speaker 2: He'd ask questions as a way of developing a point
29:50
Speaker 2: and so on. It's very very effective I think for
29:51
Speaker 2: either talk show host or a podcast there because when
29:53
Speaker 2: I asked Paul, and I use it.
29:55
Speaker 3: Obviously we make fun of Paul, but I.
29:56
Speaker 2: Use him as the guinea pig so that everybody else
29:59
Speaker 2: in the audience is think the same thing. And probably
30:01
Speaker 2: many of them are flummoxed by this as well. But
30:03
Speaker 2: you're the one that's here. I mean the alternatives that
30:07
Speaker 2: can bring in somebody else in the audience and sit
30:09
Speaker 2: in there and we can fire you.
30:10
Speaker 3: But I mean you don't want that, do you? What
30:12
Speaker 3: do they call that method?
30:14
Speaker 2: Well, see if this is a live talk show, nine
30:17
Speaker 2: million people be calling with that method, most to be wrong,
30:19
Speaker 2: but now they're going to be calling and the phone's
30:22
Speaker 2: going to be ringing, and who knows, O'donald's going to
30:24
Speaker 2: be in the air and his producer's going to have
30:25
Speaker 2: to be Should I just explain with here's again the
30:29
Speaker 2: setup is something undeniably good happens during a Republican administration.
30:33
Speaker 3: What can we always say about it? And the answer
30:35
Speaker 3: is you'd ever hear about it.
30:39
Speaker 2: The counter this would have been easier is if something
30:42
Speaker 2: really bad happens under some sort of Republican administration. What
30:46
Speaker 2: can we say about it? Everybody in the world will
30:48
Speaker 2: hear about it. It's kind of like the price of eggs.
30:54
Speaker 2: Remember how eggs were soaring the first few weeks of Trump.
31:00
Speaker 2: I was, I think one of the first to pick
31:01
Speaker 2: up on this because I follow the futures market. The
31:03
Speaker 2: futures market is not where consumer prices are, but tells
31:07
Speaker 2: you what they're going to be. And the prices of
31:08
Speaker 2: eggs were crashing. It had to do with the bird
31:12
Speaker 2: flu and supply shortages and so on. But Trump actually
31:16
Speaker 2: moved to intervene and assists in those markets. And egg prices.
31:20
Speaker 2: You haven't heard a thing about egg prices, but boil boy,
31:23
Speaker 2: did you hear about that when they were high. It's
31:26
Speaker 2: like gas prices. You don't hear much of anything about them.
31:28
Speaker 3: Right now.
31:29
Speaker 2: They continue to trend downward, even as many other things
31:33
Speaker 2: precious metals, crypto and so on trend upward.
31:36
Speaker 3: Here's the good thing.
31:41
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy, This, in fact, is I just think an
31:45
Speaker 2: astonishingly astonishing story, but it's not reported anywhere. Nineteen seventy
31:51
Speaker 2: that's the last time crossings at the border were as
31:56
Speaker 2: low as they are now. That is incredible. First of all,
32:03
Speaker 2: never mind the fact that Biden didn't enforce the border.
32:06
Speaker 2: The border is hard to enforce. We all know the
32:09
Speaker 2: problems with it. It's log there's a lot of ways
32:15
Speaker 2: to get through. The Rio Grande is a crossable river,
32:21
Speaker 2: even where there's fencing and so on. The wall is
32:23
Speaker 2: only partly constructed. And you have these smugglers that are
32:30
Speaker 2: being paid a fortune that bring people across. They're charging
32:33
Speaker 2: a lot of money. There's big money in them being
32:34
Speaker 2: able to get through and make it. All sorts of
32:38
Speaker 2: Republican presidents, you know, everybody until Biden is somewhat not Obama.
32:43
Speaker 2: Obama half ass enforced the border. Biden didn't enforce it
32:47
Speaker 2: at all, but every other president Clinton, they tried to
32:51
Speaker 2: enforce the border. There's only so much to Trump has
32:53
Speaker 2: sealed this border off. Border crossings are almost at zero
32:59
Speaker 2: and prime at the border, which is another component of this,
33:03
Speaker 2: is way down. The number right now is not at
33:06
Speaker 2: the slowest level that it was since nineteen seventy. In
33:10
Speaker 2: the early seventies, the border was for If Johnson, Nixon,
33:14
Speaker 2: all those presidents, they all enforced the border because it
33:16
Speaker 2: was just universal and both political parties that you have
33:19
Speaker 2: to come into the United States legally, not illegally, not
33:22
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy. So without regard to what you think
33:26
Speaker 2: about ice raids and so on, this issue of you know,
33:34
Speaker 2: and even Democrats are said, well, the first thing you
33:35
Speaker 2: need to do to seal the border. They finally came
33:37
Speaker 2: around and admitted.
33:38
Speaker 3: That he's done that.
33:40
Speaker 2: And it's an extraordinary accomplishment that the border control is
33:43
Speaker 2: and I think it's mostly that the smugglers and so
33:45
Speaker 2: they've given up second point on this. Every time that
33:50
Speaker 2: initially Biden and nan Kamala were asked about this in
33:52
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, they kept saying, you have to pass
33:56
Speaker 2: this compromise that a great immigration buill to and force
33:58
Speaker 2: the border. Remember that if we passed that bill. No,
34:02
Speaker 2: so how is it that Trump was Biden could have
34:05
Speaker 2: done well, he's inapt. But if they would have put
34:08
Speaker 2: in the commitment and resources and said we don't know
34:09
Speaker 2: any of it costs, then we went out have had
34:11
Speaker 2: any of this.
34:13
Speaker 3: So Trump again put you know, prove that.
34:15
Speaker 2: That statement was utter dishonesty. I need to move to
34:19
Speaker 2: this story. It is a big one. It's part of
34:22
Speaker 2: an ongoing debate. Microsoft has already given up on the
34:25
Speaker 2: Caledonia data center. It's a little confusing for those of
34:30
Speaker 2: you not.
34:31
Speaker 3: In this area.
34:31
Speaker 2: They had proposals for two in Racine County. Well two
34:35
Speaker 2: on the one site they have the one that's ongoing
34:37
Speaker 2: at the fox con site, and they want to expand
34:40
Speaker 2: that at the FOXGN site that southern Racine County, right
34:42
Speaker 2: on the Racine Kenosha County line. The one they just
34:45
Speaker 2: announced a few weeks ago was Caledonia. Caledonia is northern
34:49
Speaker 2: Racine County and Caledonia is a large community. It goes
34:54
Speaker 2: it's on both sides of I ninety four. This was
34:57
Speaker 2: to be let's see the east of I ninety four,
35:00
Speaker 2: kind of close to forward the city ever scene, but
35:02
Speaker 2: in a not fully developed area. It's near the big
35:06
Speaker 2: wi Energies plant. There's been tremendous local opposition to this,
35:11
Speaker 2: and Microsoft is said, Okay, screw, we won't goil here.
35:15
Speaker 2: This is going to be a significant issue. The data
35:19
Speaker 2: centers are necessary because we have AI and we have
35:23
Speaker 2: the cloud and everything is going there and you need
35:25
Speaker 2: to have the data centers to provide the infrastructure for this.
35:30
Speaker 2: And the thing about the data centers is boy they're
35:33
Speaker 2: pain in the ass, as I was, I think one
35:35
Speaker 2: of the first to bring up. They require massive amounts
35:37
Speaker 2: of electricity at a fair amount of water. On the
35:40
Speaker 2: other hand, they're probably the greatest opportunity for economic development
35:44
Speaker 2: in the United States in fifty years. This is the
35:47
Speaker 2: Industrial Revolution on steroids, and the jobs are spectacular, and
35:51
Speaker 2: the communities that get them they don't have to whine
35:55
Speaker 2: about their property tax bases anymore because the property taxation
35:57
Speaker 2: that they would collect off of this would allow them
35:59
Speaker 2: to significantly lower property taxes. The counter to that is,
36:04
Speaker 2: let's imagine I lived in Caledonia, and I lived west
36:07
Speaker 2: of I ninety four, in other words, nowhere near this
36:10
Speaker 2: city of Milwaukee, the auto manic district that I live in.
36:13
Speaker 2: You think that an automatic district is forty five blocks
36:17
Speaker 2: to the west of me. Is the same district somebody
36:19
Speaker 2: wanted to put something a block away from me, maybe
36:21
Speaker 2: I'd be opposed to it. Forty blocks away from the
36:24
Speaker 2: same district.
36:24
Speaker 3: Why not. That's a good thing.
36:27
Speaker 2: So it's great for these communities unless you like live
36:30
Speaker 2: right near it. So this is going to be the
36:33
Speaker 2: challenge for the location of.
36:34
Speaker 3: All of them.
36:34
Speaker 2: The one thing we do not want, especially after Trump
36:38
Speaker 2: is fighting to bring kech development back to the United States.
36:41
Speaker 2: We don't want these things being built in Mexico and Canada,
36:47
Speaker 2: where they get the massive economic windfall and all of
36:50
Speaker 2: the jobs and we get none of them. The counter
36:53
Speaker 2: to it, you know, it's the old Nimby thing. And
36:55
Speaker 2: again I'm sensitive to it because we have not addressed
36:57
Speaker 2: the electricity component or anything else. Kind of tells me
37:07
Speaker 2: I want to explain the prisons. That'll be my analogy
37:11
Speaker 2: point that I've made for decades about prisons is nobody
37:14
Speaker 2: wants a prison built near them, except when when the
37:18
Speaker 2: economy sucks. When and we've had people talk about the
37:23
Speaker 2: most recent period we had periods in which unemployment was
37:26
Speaker 2: well over ten percent. Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter,
37:30
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter. He certainly served that purpose of us.
37:33
Speaker 2: Whenever I need to draw attention to an economy being
37:35
Speaker 2: way worse than anything we have now, just bring up
37:37
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter, terrible unemployment in which, you know, prisons are
37:42
Speaker 2: tough jobs to work in, but well paying jobs in
37:45
Speaker 2: the infrastructure, the service industries commissary, you know, electricians, janitory
37:51
Speaker 2: all the people that are good jobs. Secondly, well, some
37:54
Speaker 2: people don't like the notion of the prison. Hardly ever
37:57
Speaker 2: does anybody break out of a prison. They can break
37:59
Speaker 2: out of the minute security, no walls prisons, but those
38:02
Speaker 2: people rarely escape because if you're in a minimum security
38:05
Speaker 2: and you escape and they catch you, you go back
38:07
Speaker 2: to a max. Secondly, the minimum security is often people
38:09
Speaker 2: close to release. They don't want to screw their thing up.
38:12
Speaker 2: But maximum security, I mean, it's happened, But when's last
38:15
Speaker 2: time somebody bust that out of a pond? I mean, I
38:18
Speaker 2: think it may have been very rare. I can't remember
38:21
Speaker 2: anybody busting out of Cheetah since Laarentzia, but bet I
38:26
Speaker 2: very rare. But you know, some people don't want to
38:28
Speaker 2: until there's an economic problem in which you chase the
38:31
Speaker 2: same thing with it. So the fact that I see
38:33
Speaker 2: some of this opposition to these data centers, when people
38:36
Speaker 2: are sneezing at zillions one hundred thousand dollars plus jobs,
38:40
Speaker 2: it makes me wonder if I'm wrong. I think the
38:43
Speaker 2: economy is slowing. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I don't know.
38:47
Speaker 2: And again, the component of how far away would you
38:51
Speaker 2: have to be if I didn't live in downtown Milwaukee,
38:55
Speaker 2: would I care if you put in a data center,
38:57
Speaker 2: It would be an upgrade over you know, the crime
38:59
Speaker 2: and the gun out of the motorcycles. And but I mean,
39:03
Speaker 2: if I lived in a quiet area, would I want
39:05
Speaker 2: to you know, say, Port Washington, whether this is beings.
39:08
Speaker 2: Would I want to live a block away in Port Washington?
39:10
Speaker 6: No?
39:11
Speaker 3: Would I want to live on the other side of
39:12
Speaker 3: town to Port. Yes, think of what bloom it would be.
39:16
Speaker 2: And your government would have no excuse but to lower
39:19
Speaker 2: taxes because the massive windfall that you would get off
39:22
Speaker 2: of that. But that's like anything else, and it's part
39:25
Speaker 2: of the debate in Franklin over the rock Complex was
39:28
Speaker 2: a huge geographic Those people who live a mile and
39:30
Speaker 2: a half away, they love the rockets of all the
39:32
Speaker 2: things that are going on there. You want to live
39:34
Speaker 2: across the street where there's hullaballoo every.
39:35
Speaker 3: No, you don't.
39:38
Speaker 2: This is going to be an ongoing problem with the
39:40
Speaker 2: location of these things everywhere. We do have an opportunity though,
39:43
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin to be a hub for this. The idea
39:46
Speaker 2: that we could act forever. We couldn't get any tax
39:48
Speaker 2: spending it was Silicon Valley in Austin, Texas and all
39:51
Speaker 2: of that stuff. And you know we're stuck with some dying,
39:55
Speaker 2: dirty industries and rust belt stuff and so on. You
39:59
Speaker 2: want to be part of it.
40:00
Speaker 3: They say.
40:01
Speaker 2: The data centers have components of not just their size.
40:05
Speaker 2: People talk about the water. It's the electricity. You've got
40:07
Speaker 2: to build new power plans to do it. They use
40:09
Speaker 2: it incredible. Oh not the electricity. But they're inevitable. The
40:13
Speaker 2: data centers are inevitable. All these people who embrace the
40:18
Speaker 2: tech revolution that's going on, and it is everybody you
40:23
Speaker 2: still and the data. When you hear data center data
40:26
Speaker 2: is I'm gonna be oversimplifying of this because I'm short
40:30
Speaker 2: on time, But like when you hear the cloud, the
40:33
Speaker 2: cloud isn't up in the air and invisible. It is
40:37
Speaker 2: big storage components that store data. It's stuff like that.
40:40
Speaker 2: It's the infrastructure of AI and the cloud, et cetera.
40:45
Speaker 3: That's what.
40:48
Speaker 2: Ser Yeah, all of that kind of stuff and ways
40:51
Speaker 2: of processing and hold. All of these data centers are
40:54
Speaker 2: big hubs where you have a lot of it there.
40:58
Speaker 2: Way oversimplifying this is not correct, but it's close enough
41:00
Speaker 2: to make the point. I mean those places would be
41:03
Speaker 2: where the cloud is. That's not really true, but it's
41:06
Speaker 2: along those lines. If it helps you understand, and if
41:09
Speaker 2: it doesn't help you to understand, you know, you know,
41:13
Speaker 2: go find Charlie Sykes's podcast, listen to him. Krevlin, all right,
41:16
Speaker 2: this is the Mark Belling podcast. You know, you pretty
41:21
Speaker 2: much knew this would happen until like today. The Democratic
41:30
Speaker 2: race for governor. I mean we're only in October. We're
41:33
Speaker 2: ten months away from the primary. The Wisconsin primary is late,
41:38
Speaker 2: it's in August. I think they should move it to April.
41:41
Speaker 2: I think it's ridiculous that the political parties fight one
41:44
Speaker 2: another for eighteen months and fight the opposition for only
41:47
Speaker 2: two and a half months. And it's hurt the Republicans
41:49
Speaker 2: more than the Democrats, because the Democrats don't have primaries anymore.
41:52
Speaker 2: It's the Republicans that beat one another up. We should
41:55
Speaker 2: move the primary to the spring election in April, so
41:57
Speaker 2: that the actual focus is the running against the Republican
42:01
Speaker 2: rather than Republicans beating.
42:02
Speaker 3: The other up.
42:03
Speaker 2: And so anyway, the Democrats had this free for all,
42:06
Speaker 2: but Tony Ever's not running for re election. There isn't
42:10
Speaker 2: an obvious era parent but the Democrats hate contested primaries.
42:17
Speaker 2: Now again the public should choose the candidates, but it's
42:20
Speaker 2: bad for the party. We've seen this on the Republican side,
42:25
Speaker 2: I mean, perfect example is Clayfish versus Michaels. The people
42:30
Speaker 2: on the losing side through what tantrum, suck their thumbs,
42:34
Speaker 2: sit in their hands, bitch, and then my side loses
42:38
Speaker 2: the general election by two points and before people think
42:42
Speaker 2: that that's a bashing Clayfish in her supporters. Had Michaels lost,
42:45
Speaker 2: some of his people would have done the same damn thing.
42:54
Speaker 2: It's just a problem, and the Democrats figured it out.
42:59
Speaker 2: They tell you're you're not gonna run. They just tell
43:01
Speaker 2: me you're not gonna run. The last the only time
43:04
Speaker 2: that this didn't this strategy didn't work for them was
43:07
Speaker 2: when they had the three way contest for the United
43:09
Speaker 2: States senator run against Ron Johnson in twenty two. They
43:13
Speaker 2: had Alex Lasri, Sarah Godluski, and Mendela Barnes. With six
43:20
Speaker 2: weeks left in the race, Barnes had a lead in
43:23
Speaker 2: the polls. That meant the only way for Godluski and
43:26
Speaker 2: Lazy to win would be to go after Barnes.
43:28
Speaker 3: With the baggage that he had.
43:30
Speaker 2: The Democrats didn't want fellow Democrats to tarnish Barnes and
43:34
Speaker 2: beat him up. They just got him to drop out
43:36
Speaker 2: of the race. They both dropped out ending the primary. Now,
43:42
Speaker 2: it didn't work out for them because I think you know,
43:45
Speaker 2: twenty two was a Democratic year and twenty two was
43:48
Speaker 2: the same year that Evers beat Michaels. Ron Johnson won
43:54
Speaker 2: that race. Had the candidate been Lazri or Godluski, maybe
43:57
Speaker 2: Ron would have lost. Mendela Barnes was a terrible candidate
44:01
Speaker 2: with more baggage than you see on the ground floor
44:04
Speaker 2: at Mitchell Airport. Thankfully that happened. Nonetheless, the Democratic strategy
44:12
Speaker 2: of clearing the field has been effective for them. But
44:16
Speaker 2: this time around, how are you going to clear the field?
44:18
Speaker 2: Sarah god Luski wants to run for governor. She's the
44:20
Speaker 2: Secretary of State now, Josh called the attorney General's been
44:23
Speaker 2: that forever. He's got more ambition than just about anybody
44:26
Speaker 2: in the state. He wants to run. Sarah Rodriguez is
44:28
Speaker 2: the Lieutenant governor, which is kind of a nothing job,
44:31
Speaker 2: but it's called lieutenant governor, and she has the advantage
44:35
Speaker 2: of being a female there are others. You've got every
44:39
Speaker 2: dippy lefty in Madison. You've got Hong running, you have
44:42
Speaker 2: Missy Hughes, who's the head of the state's Economic Development Association.
44:45
Speaker 2: And you have killed the dingbat Royce, the woman who
44:48
Speaker 2: said that Trump was going to come into all the
44:50
Speaker 2: women's houses and steal other birth control pills. I'm still
44:53
Speaker 2: waiting for that to happen. Well, any lefty reporter asked,
44:56
Speaker 2: kill the hell come that didn't happen, or she's still
44:59
Speaker 2: there hiding them things? Think that Trump's going to come
45:01
Speaker 2: in any day now. I mean, they missed the entire point.
45:03
Speaker 2: We weren't after your birth control pills, We're after your illegals.
45:08
Speaker 2: She's thinking Tom Holman's going to come in and take
45:10
Speaker 2: away you know, stealer eyud or whatever it is. Well,
45:15
Speaker 2: the Democrats don't want this free for all. The first
45:19
Speaker 2: thing that happened is Sarah god Luski said, I'm not
45:21
Speaker 2: going to run for governor, running for lieutenant governor. The
45:24
Speaker 2: deal on that is, Sarah, you get our endorsement running
45:27
Speaker 2: against Ron Johnson in twenty eight. All right, but what
45:30
Speaker 2: do you do about Josh call. Two things happened yesterday. First,
45:37
Speaker 2: the Democrats laundered legally two million dollars to Sarah Rodriguez's campaign.
45:45
Speaker 2: Many people don't understand the impact of this at this
45:48
Speaker 2: stage of the game in a primary, that's a ton
45:50
Speaker 2: of money. The money comes from a group that nobody's
45:53
Speaker 2: ever heard from before, the Democratic Lieutenant Governor's Association.
45:57
Speaker 3: How does this work?
46:00
Speaker 2: Imagine I'm a big shot behind the scenes Democrats, zillionaire.
46:06
Speaker 2: Example of such would be Soros, and you know Soros Junior.
46:10
Speaker 3: Now is the new Soros or the Pritzkers or Hoffmann.
46:20
Speaker 2: There is a limit, of course, as to how much
46:22
Speaker 2: money you can give a candidate, but I can give
46:25
Speaker 2: the Democratic Lieutenant Governor's Association as much as I want,
46:29
Speaker 2: and you simply turn around and kill them. You give
46:31
Speaker 2: it to Sarah Rodriguez. By the way, that's legal. It's wandering,
46:36
Speaker 2: but it is allowed under our system. They'll go back
46:38
Speaker 2: to the citizen in United's ruling and so on. And
46:41
Speaker 2: the Democrats just take greater advantage of it because they
46:43
Speaker 2: have way more big money donors than Republicans do. So
46:48
Speaker 2: this donation comes in now to Sarah. This is a
46:52
Speaker 2: message to Josh Call. We've decided it's not you it's Sarah.
46:57
Speaker 2: Josh Call then immediately announces I'm running for re election
47:00
Speaker 2: for Attorney General again. So apparently he's going to have
47:04
Speaker 2: to be the attorney general for the rest of his
47:05
Speaker 2: life because they're not going to allow a white guy
47:07
Speaker 2: like him to run for governor. Now, I do think
47:11
Speaker 2: Call would be a tough Democratic candidate to run for
47:13
Speaker 2: governor against. Democrats don't have much particular desire to run
47:19
Speaker 2: a white guy for anything.
47:21
Speaker 3: Though.
47:22
Speaker 2: Sarah Rodriguez is not Latino. She's that's her last name,
47:25
Speaker 2: be a marriage.
47:26
Speaker 3: But she is a woman.
47:27
Speaker 2: She's got her bonafides. You know, she's from the Milwaukee suburbs,
47:30
Speaker 2: she's from Brookfield, she's been the lieutenant governor. The one
47:34
Speaker 2: thing is Evrs's team, that wing of the Democratic Party
47:37
Speaker 2: can't stand her. And from what I've been able to
47:41
Speaker 2: pick up, Sarah over the last few years, has wanted
47:43
Speaker 2: to raise her profile, and you know, they just want
47:47
Speaker 2: to keep her down there because they didn't want somebody
47:50
Speaker 2: making their own way in that office.
47:52
Speaker 3: But she's the one.
47:54
Speaker 2: So all these other Democrats are there this two million
47:57
Speaker 2: dollars that had dropped in and at some point we'll
47:59
Speaker 2: find out who kicked in the two million that the
48:01
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Covenant Association had, and you can do it through
48:03
Speaker 2: any number of other groups. You can create democratic organization
48:06
Speaker 2: for this, and it's not like it's.
48:09
Speaker 3: Not done on the Republican side.
48:10
Speaker 2: Big money Republican donors will give a lot of money
48:13
Speaker 2: to just off the top of my head, a couple
48:15
Speaker 2: of the big Republican political organizations, and they'll then use
48:20
Speaker 2: the money to support a candidate. So the Democrats have
48:23
Speaker 2: anointed Sarah and I just think it's overwhelmingly like she's
48:29
Speaker 2: going to be the candidate for govern In the meantime,
48:32
Speaker 2: the only two Republicans of note or importance that are
48:34
Speaker 2: running are Gosh Shuman from Washington County and of course
48:37
Speaker 2: Tom Tiffany Northern Wisconsin. I want to briefly update a
48:42
Speaker 2: story that I did on the last podcast we did,
48:44
Speaker 2: the one we released on Monday that would have been
48:47
Speaker 2: number sixty eight. I commented on how the City of
48:50
Speaker 2: Walkershaw on its website they're shilling to create a new
48:53
Speaker 2: garbage fee. You create a garbage fee so that you
48:56
Speaker 2: take it off the property tax roles, and therefore you
48:59
Speaker 2: can use your property taxes for everything else and create
49:01
Speaker 2: a brand new fetus separate the garbage. It's a way
49:04
Speaker 2: of creating a tax sike. And in order to make
49:07
Speaker 2: the case for this, they created a graph that showed
49:09
Speaker 2: reported to show how the property tax levee has lagged
49:14
Speaker 2: behind the increase in the consumer price Index. And as
49:17
Speaker 2: I pointed out on Monday, while the numbers on the
49:20
Speaker 2: graph were correct, they plotted the graph inaccurately. There were
49:25
Speaker 2: years in which the CPI went up at a lower
49:28
Speaker 2: rate than the tax levee, but the tax levee on
49:31
Speaker 2: the graph was listed as a higher number. And the
49:34
Speaker 2: place where the thing ended you saw that there was
49:35
Speaker 2: a chart over on the side showing with the numbers
49:38
Speaker 2: they had the property they had the CPI going up
49:40
Speaker 2: way higher on the graph visually than the corresponding number.
49:45
Speaker 2: In fact, in reality, the CPI has gone up on
49:48
Speaker 2: an annualized basis over the last ten years one percent
49:51
Speaker 2: more than the Wakashaw property tax levee, So it has
49:53
Speaker 2: increased at a greater rate than the tax levee, but
49:56
Speaker 2: nowhere near with that graph made.
49:57
Speaker 3: It appear well.
49:58
Speaker 2: I called them out of that, I've gotten a response,
50:01
Speaker 2: They said, I hadn't gotten a response at the time.
50:02
Speaker 2: Of the podcast. I ever response from Sean Riley, who
50:06
Speaker 2: is the mayor of Wakashaw, and he basically says somebody
50:08
Speaker 2: in the data, the people produced the data screwed up.
50:12
Speaker 2: He said it was not deliberate. He said the graph
50:15
Speaker 2: was reviewed by numerous city staffers and nobody caught it,
50:18
Speaker 2: and they've since corrected it. Is this plausible? Is plausible?
50:25
Speaker 2: Paul says no. If plausible, is plausible incredible or sort
50:30
Speaker 2: of similar words on the nobody caught it.
50:34
Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
50:35
Speaker 2: You do something like this, somebody's going to catch it.
50:39
Speaker 2: Maybe not on the city staff. How I didn't catch this.
50:42
Speaker 2: I was tipped by a resident of Waukeshaw who looked
50:44
Speaker 2: at the chart and said, look at the best they're
50:47
Speaker 2: pullet air. If it wasn't caught, it was because of this.
50:52
Speaker 2: They've so bought their own bleep. Oh my god. Property
50:57
Speaker 2: taxes are not rising at the same level our costs.
51:00
Speaker 2: They've been singing this song and dance in the suburbs
51:02
Speaker 2: forever that our costs are going up faster than our
51:06
Speaker 2: tax revenues are going up. In fact, they are but
51:12
Speaker 2: minuscule one percent annualized. So the notion that every year
51:16
Speaker 2: the CPI was going up at a higher rate than
51:19
Speaker 2: the growth in the property taxes. They probably didn't even
51:22
Speaker 2: question that, even though anybody who might pay attention to
51:24
Speaker 2: economic data would certainly know that the CPI is more
51:28
Speaker 2: valuatable than property. That property, the property tax levy growth
51:31
Speaker 2: is based on new construction. In some of those new houses,
51:34
Speaker 2: they pay new property taxes. You've got a data set it.
51:36
Speaker 2: There'll be more property. You get that that would be
51:40
Speaker 2: there's rarely massive movements in that. There can be if
51:43
Speaker 2: somebody puts in a big housing development or an office
51:46
Speaker 2: tower or something, but the CPI goes so you would
51:48
Speaker 2: just assume they cross a few times. That was the explanation.
51:57
Speaker 2: In the meantime, there is the larger point of should
51:59
Speaker 2: walk Shaw or any other city create a garbage tax.
52:02
Speaker 2: We can't cut. We can't cut.
52:04
Speaker 3: You see the chart. Costs are going up fast the
52:06
Speaker 3: property tax.
52:06
Speaker 2: Levey well I made one observation of the mayor that
52:09
Speaker 2: he doesn't like to hear. Many communities have part time mayors,
52:13
Speaker 2: some communities have full time mayors. There's no particular well
52:18
Speaker 2: I actually do think the full time mayor is a
52:20
Speaker 2: better governmental model. But you can make the case that
52:24
Speaker 2: a part time mayor is a more appropriate way to go.
52:27
Speaker 2: When you have a part time mayor, you then hire
52:29
Speaker 2: a city manager or a city administrator to run the
52:31
Speaker 2: day to day and tell everybody what to do. If
52:33
Speaker 2: you have a full time mayor, the mayor could do that.
52:35
Speaker 2: For instance, President of United States, you know, Trump's in charge,
52:38
Speaker 2: and he tells his people that did this, that and
52:39
Speaker 2: the other thing. Same thing with the government. Well, the
52:41
Speaker 2: governor is a bad example. The governor he had a city,
52:44
Speaker 2: he had a governor manager of Maggie goll ran the
52:47
Speaker 2: whole state while Pony Ebers was sitting there trying to
52:49
Speaker 2: figure out whether or not his fly was zipped or not.
52:51
Speaker 3: Well he was.
52:54
Speaker 2: And I could tend probably badly, how many times they
52:57
Speaker 2: since he's with the governor that they tend to tell
52:59
Speaker 2: Tony to zipp fly.
53:01
Speaker 3: Daily. I mean, it's happened to me.
53:04
Speaker 2: You're going to deny that it's ever happened to you
53:07
Speaker 2: or anyway, I clearly digress. Why if you have a
53:11
Speaker 2: full time mayor, does Walker Shaw have a full time
53:13
Speaker 2: city administrator? And by the way, they go through them
53:16
Speaker 2: right and left. The latest is a guy named Brown
53:19
Speaker 2: the average waytime is like two years. They tend to
53:22
Speaker 2: hire city managers. It's just a racket. Some of them
53:26
Speaker 2: have a commitment to the community and they stay for
53:28
Speaker 2: thirty years. Most of them bounce every two or three years,
53:31
Speaker 2: moving up to a larger city, get a bigger salary,
53:34
Speaker 2: build the resume. How do you run a city when
53:36
Speaker 2: you don't know the city? It would be like when
53:38
Speaker 2: I was a talk show host. If I just suddenly
53:40
Speaker 2: got a job in Saint Louis, I know the same
53:42
Speaker 2: amount of Saint Louis that anybody who follows the news
53:44
Speaker 2: would pick up on. But how can I tell I
53:47
Speaker 2: have no credibility in there? How do you come in
53:49
Speaker 2: and run walk a shaw when you're from somewhere else. Well,
53:52
Speaker 2: if you have a full time mayor, you don't need that.
53:54
Speaker 2: Get rid of that department and get rid of a
53:56
Speaker 2: couple of the people under that, and maybe.
53:58
Speaker 3: You've suddenly closed that gap.
54:00
Speaker 2: Every community in this state can cut and every one
54:03
Speaker 2: of them that says you have to create this fee,
54:04
Speaker 2: or we have to go to the voters to overspend
54:06
Speaker 2: the revenue, cabs, etc. They're all full of crap. There
54:09
Speaker 2: isn't a government budget out there that I don't think
54:11
Speaker 2: I could cut, and I'd have to see each one
54:14
Speaker 2: of them before I could do it. But the point
54:16
Speaker 2: still stands, all right, this story the Edison. There's this
54:24
Speaker 2: company that blew into Milwaukee from Madison, called it Neutral,
54:30
Speaker 2: and they had this grand plan to take two whole
54:33
Speaker 2: blocks of Water Street in Milwaukee and do five buildings.
54:38
Speaker 2: The first one they actually were moving forward with, it's
54:42
Speaker 2: a high rise called the Edison. As for the other four,
54:46
Speaker 2: you may recall it in a segment. Well, I think
54:48
Speaker 2: it was back in the radio show days and not
54:50
Speaker 2: the podcast. I quoted somebody prominent in Milwaukee development. I
54:54
Speaker 2: did not name him, who told me he thought that
54:57
Speaker 2: this idea was plausible in Dubai, but not Milwaukee.
55:01
Speaker 3: He didn't think any city in.
55:02
Speaker 2: America was big enough to handle what they were proposing.
55:06
Speaker 2: In other words, and this is a guy who would
55:08
Speaker 2: have credibility.
55:09
Speaker 3: There's a lot of developers.
55:10
Speaker 2: But but the one project they were moving forward was
55:16
Speaker 2: the high rise called the Edison. And indeed two three
55:19
Speaker 2: high rise rental projects have indeed been completed in Milwaukee.
55:23
Speaker 2: The Contur got completed through thirty three North Water got completed.
55:26
Speaker 2: Prior to that, ascent got completed, so maybe this one
55:30
Speaker 2: could make a go of it. Construction, as you if
55:34
Speaker 2: you've been following the news, was halted two weeks ago.
55:37
Speaker 2: City officials are freaking because they now have a hole
55:40
Speaker 2: in the ground, very unsafe. Also, they've laid the foundational
55:44
Speaker 2: work on there. If they don't take action prior to
55:47
Speaker 2: the weather, that could all cave.
55:49
Speaker 3: And so on.
55:50
Speaker 2: They've stopped construction normally when you could stop construction, Why
55:55
Speaker 2: is that, Paul, you run out of money, thank you?
56:00
Speaker 2: Or you thought you'd get financing and you didn't. They
56:04
Speaker 2: haven't said, but they stop construction. The guy who is
56:13
Speaker 2: the CEO of Neutral, the company from Madison's twenty seven
56:18
Speaker 2: years old.
56:23
Speaker 3: His name is Nate Hellbeg.
56:27
Speaker 2: When you look at the company's mission statement, it's all
56:30
Speaker 2: this save the world stuff. They want to do mass timber,
56:32
Speaker 2: in other words, create break quality of life while making
56:35
Speaker 2: the planet better. The presumption therefore, is that he's a lefty.
56:41
Speaker 2: I don't think he is a lefty. His family, the
56:44
Speaker 2: hell Boc family. But the standards of Madison, they're.
56:48
Speaker 3: As right as you can be.
56:49
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how you could be right
56:50
Speaker 2: and live in Madison, But they're conservative case Lbeck say,
56:56
Speaker 2: ex Badger, I mean the business that they ran, they
57:00
Speaker 2: just said you can come in without a mask. They
57:03
Speaker 2: were big in the homeschooling committee and so on. So
57:05
Speaker 2: I don't know that he's a lefty, but maybe in
57:07
Speaker 2: order to do developments you need to put in that
57:10
Speaker 2: and this whole mass timber thing. Maybe it's a good idea,
57:13
Speaker 2: maybe it isn't. In any event, he's still twenty seven.
57:16
Speaker 2: I just think he's in over his head. In the meantime,
57:18
Speaker 2: there's a significant risk of the City of Milwaukee with
57:20
Speaker 2: regard to the safety of a project like this downtown.
57:24
Speaker 2: That's a giant hole, and at some point the city
57:28
Speaker 2: might have to move toward condemnation. But the counter to
57:31
Speaker 2: that is sometimes developers are able to go through on things,
57:34
Speaker 2: but it slows you can you just take.
57:35
Speaker 3: Away their property.
57:36
Speaker 2: It is, however, in indication that this whole thing of
57:39
Speaker 2: five other buildings and all of this especially I think
57:42
Speaker 2: water Street's the craziest thing to.
57:43
Speaker 3: Do it on is borderline wacko.
57:48
Speaker 2: Another political story for you, This is a flip the
57:51
Speaker 2: script story.
57:53
Speaker 3: We all know this.
57:54
Speaker 2: Conservatives can't win Wisconsin State Supreme Court elections. You know
57:58
Speaker 2: this though, right.
58:00
Speaker 1: But.
58:02
Speaker 2: I think liberals are fearful they can't win State Court
58:06
Speaker 2: of Appeals elections. We have three layers of courts in
58:10
Speaker 2: Wisconsin Circuit Court. Those are each county circuit judges. Any
58:16
Speaker 2: case do no matter what kind of case it is,
58:19
Speaker 2: criminal case, corporate dispute, any case that's decided in circuit
58:26
Speaker 2: court that has appealed, and you have a right to
58:27
Speaker 2: appeal anything. All appeals are heard by the Court of Appeals.
58:31
Speaker 2: The Court of Appeals has several districts around the state.
58:34
Speaker 2: Milwaukee County is its own district. District two is all
58:38
Speaker 2: of southeastern Wisconsin except Milwaukee County. There are several judges
58:44
Speaker 2: on the Court of Appeals. One of them is Lisa Neubauer.
58:51
Speaker 2: Lisa Neubauer, by the way, has the distinction of being
58:53
Speaker 2: the only liberal to lose the state Supreme Court race
58:55
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin in a decade. I hate picking eye and
59:00
Speaker 2: Jeff Newbauer or her husband was a panelist on my
59:02
Speaker 2: TV show Billing and Company, but that that is what
59:05
Speaker 2: it is. Their daughter, Greta, she's the leader of the
59:08
Speaker 2: Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly. Lisa Neubauer is a judge
59:11
Speaker 2: on the State Court of Appeals. Anthony Lecoco is a
59:16
Speaker 2: very sharp conservative lawyer, and he's running for that seat.
59:21
Speaker 2: What does Lisa Neubauer do? She just punted. Lisa Neubauer
59:25
Speaker 2: announced she is retiring. Here's why she's retiring. Lecoco was
59:30
Speaker 2: gonna beat her. See all this national money that comes
59:34
Speaker 2: to liberals for our state Supreme Court elections, they're not
59:37
Speaker 2: going to fart around with the Court of Appeals. So
59:39
Speaker 2: back on the Court of Appeals, you can run the
59:41
Speaker 2: kind of candidates campaigns that used to win in Wisconsin,
59:44
Speaker 2: but running against all this lefty crap and overturned convictions
59:47
Speaker 2: and all.
59:48
Speaker 3: The other stuff that left us do So, Lisa.
59:52
Speaker 2: Neubauer, she's over sixty five now, rather than lose an
59:55
Speaker 2: election and go out humiliatingly, she's going to leave with
59:58
Speaker 2: her boots on and walk out and say that she's
1:00:00
Speaker 2: going to retire. They'll try to recruit I'm sure another
1:00:03
Speaker 2: liberal to run. Now, here's the thing. The state Court
1:00:06
Speaker 2: of Appeals is important. Why very few cases decided by
1:00:12
Speaker 2: the Court of Appeals ever get to the state Supreme Court.
1:00:14
Speaker 2: That's just the end. I think it's one person. I
1:00:18
Speaker 2: used to know this. It's in the range of one percent.
1:00:21
Speaker 2: The State Supreme Court handles only a handful of appeals.
1:00:24
Speaker 2: The Court of Appeals handles every single appeal, So they're
1:00:27
Speaker 2: the last word a lot of times. When are they
1:00:29
Speaker 2: not the last word anything important? All the big stuff,
1:00:32
Speaker 2: you know, Act Tenerant, that all gets to the State
1:00:35
Speaker 2: Supreme Court. So the stuff that is huge and controversial
1:00:38
Speaker 2: and divisive, Supreme Court gets there. So if our side
1:00:42
Speaker 2: dominates the Court of Appeals, it's not like it's a
1:00:44
Speaker 2: bad thing, but it's nowhere near as big.
1:00:46
Speaker 3: A deal as the State Supreme Court as the say.
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Speaker 2: I just think I have explained so far today's program
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Speaker 2: numerous stories that people might not have thought through her
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Speaker 2: head inside on, haven't I I said this at the beginning.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I oversold the just a lot of
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Speaker 2: different content that I covered from numerous areas that's in there.
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Speaker 2: We have one story to go that's more than Neutral has.
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Speaker 2: On the Edison, they don't have one story.
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Speaker 3: They have all thirty five or fifty three or whatever.
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Speaker 2: It has stories too. Well, that's the problem. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's not Winter Rise through anything. I forget the a
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Speaker 2: site like that. They're concerned that the foundation work that's
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Speaker 2: in there will not survive winter if it's not sealed
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Speaker 2: off and so on, and so you know it's possible
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Speaker 2: that Neutral that's the company, could seal it off and
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Speaker 2: winter rise.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: They continue to try to seek money, but if they're bust,
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Speaker 2: if they're tapped out, they may be on the verge
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Speaker 2: of walking away from this thing. And I mean people
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Speaker 2: were concerned about the old Northridge site with people setting
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Speaker 2: all those fires in anything here there's nothing has set
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Speaker 2: fire too, but I mean, go pass it, just fencing
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Speaker 2: around it and so on. It's not a good thing.
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Speaker 2: It's also to me not surprising that this project is
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Speaker 2: going nowhere. First of all, I'll admit I've been wrong
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Speaker 2: about something I've been saying for fifteen years. The downtown
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee housing market is getting overbuilt and new high rises
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Speaker 2: keep going up and they keep getting killed. So I
1:02:19
Speaker 2: mean it's one of those things you predict something long enough,
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Speaker 2: eventually you're going to be right. So I don't want
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Speaker 2: to claim right about this. This development company just to
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Speaker 2: me to not have credibility to do it. There's certain
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Speaker 2: developers that have done zillions of projects, and you you know,
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Speaker 2: the Russians have done numerous projects they go through Berry Mendel's,
1:02:36
Speaker 2: then numerous projects they go through Johnny Maassalo's, the numerous
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Speaker 2: projects they go through, Gino Cataldo's done projects they've gone through.
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Speaker 2: So when developers do project and I've just just named
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Speaker 2: a few of them. Company from Chicago. This company came
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Speaker 2: in and they proposed it, as I say, five buildings,
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Speaker 2: three towers, thousands of residents, mini city, all on Water Street.
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Speaker 2: What as they say, the one that made the most sense,
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Speaker 2: which is how they got some financing, is the high
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Speaker 2: rise because they've been popping up. I will tell you, however,
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Speaker 2: the Couteur remains half empty.
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Speaker 3: This is a year now now.
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Speaker 2: I haven't checked the numbers, as that number of half
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Speaker 2: empty is two months old. I'm concerned about whether or
1:03:25
Speaker 2: not that project is going to stay financially viable. It's done,
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Speaker 2: why isn't it filled? I mean, well, it takes time.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, a lot of these buildings are filled
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Speaker 2: the day that the minute that they open, right, So
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Speaker 2: I just I think that probably what's happened here, and
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Speaker 2: maybe the thing that's facing the Edison with regard to
1:03:49
Speaker 2: the financing is people that know questioning is downtown Milwaukee's
1:03:53
Speaker 2: high rise apartment thing. Is it finally overbuilt? And again
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Speaker 2: I can say yes because that's what I believe. But
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Speaker 2: I thought it was the case years ago, and it wasn't.
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Speaker 2: There's been an overwhelming desire on the part of people
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Speaker 2: to live downtown, the third ward east side. Now moving
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Speaker 2: forward Walker's Point and someone the population boom has just
1:04:13
Speaker 2: been incredible. At the same time, every other part of
1:04:16
Speaker 2: the city has shriveled in population. But it's just like
1:04:23
Speaker 2: the price of gold right now, I'll throw this in quickly. Oh,
1:04:26
Speaker 2: I think gold is getting overvalued. I'm not saying it's
1:04:29
Speaker 2: time to sell. I would not give you that advice.
1:04:33
Speaker 2: Gold just costs four thousand dollars. I mean, if you
1:04:37
Speaker 2: bought gold when it was eleven hundred and you're looking
1:04:39
Speaker 2: to unload some of it, I would not say it's
1:04:41
Speaker 2: a bad idea to sell some of it. Now gold
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Speaker 2: could go to fifteen thousand.
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Speaker 3: There's a utul. I didn't tell you, boy.
1:04:48
Speaker 2: It just seems what's the term frothy. It's like everything
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Speaker 2: that's a bubble is obvious after the bubble bursts, hard
1:04:56
Speaker 2: to tell that something's a bubble, you know. And people
1:04:59
Speaker 2: said that about the housing market in six or row seven,
1:05:01
Speaker 2: and other people denied, Well, they're right. It was a
1:05:03
Speaker 2: bubble and it burst brutally, and all the signs of
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Speaker 2: a bubble in retrospect, creating divot derivatives one thousand times
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Speaker 2: to one of the actual underlying just to be able
1:05:13
Speaker 2: to match the mortgages. There were not enough mortgages for
1:05:16
Speaker 2: people to be able to invest in. Everybody wanted to
1:05:18
Speaker 2: own the mortgages the money who owned. How could Housing's
1:05:21
Speaker 2: not going to go down. It's the surest thing in
1:05:22
Speaker 2: the world. So you created all these the revenues were
1:05:24
Speaker 2: looking at it in retrospect, you're creating fake mortgages just
1:05:29
Speaker 2: so people can pretend to be investing in in set
1:05:31
Speaker 2: of a bubble, right what was it was?
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Speaker 3: But not everybody knew it at the time.
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Speaker 2: There are people who think of right now, that AI
1:05:39
Speaker 2: is a bubble, that some of these company stock valuations
1:05:42
Speaker 2: are insanity. Maybe they're right, maybe they're not open. AI
1:05:47
Speaker 2: strikes me as a bubble in Vidia. I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: on should I get to that other story or to
1:05:52
Speaker 2: these five stories that I just did, since I had
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Speaker 2: one more story, did they suffice well? Should I get
1:05:57
Speaker 2: to the other story or not all right, then I
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Speaker 2: will coming up next on the Marked Belling podcast. This
1:06:04
Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling Podcast. I talked to people who
1:06:11
Speaker 2: live near downtown Milwaukee. Of course, the ones that are lefty,
1:06:18
Speaker 2: they all know that what Mayor Chevy's doing to the
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Speaker 2: city streets is insane.
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Speaker 3: They just won't say so. Lefties have it.
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Speaker 2: It's impossible for them to say that something other lefties
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Speaker 2: are doing is stupid. It's like, I'm sure a lot
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Speaker 2: of lefties thought that what we were doing during COVID
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Speaker 2: was stupid, all the shutdowns and putting masks on and
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Speaker 2: so on. I'm sure a lot of lefties didn't buy
1:06:45
Speaker 2: that the Wuhan virus came out of like the wet
1:06:48
Speaker 2: market in China, and it didn't come from the lab
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Speaker 2: and all this stuff. But then I gotta say so,
1:06:54
Speaker 2: just like, but you know, when Biden didn't enforce the border,
1:06:57
Speaker 2: we're letting ken million illegals come in, and there were
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Speaker 2: probably some left thought this was stupid.
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Speaker 3: We'ren't gonna say so.
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Speaker 2: We saw that when Biden decided to run for reelection,
1:07:06
Speaker 2: numerous lefties thought that but was stupid. Hardly any of
1:07:09
Speaker 2: them said so until Biden fell apart during the debate,
1:07:12
Speaker 2: and there are probably a lot of lefties who realized
1:07:14
Speaker 2: that Kamala is a babbling idiot. She should not be
1:07:16
Speaker 2: annoyed and be given this position. You needed to stand
1:07:19
Speaker 2: up and speak out and say no. Put in Shapiro
1:07:21
Speaker 2: or somebody else. But they can't do it. So there
1:07:24
Speaker 2: are lefties who know that the stuff that we're doing
1:07:26
Speaker 2: on the streets, and it's you create these dedicated bike lanes,
1:07:29
Speaker 2: which means you put a second curb way out into
1:07:31
Speaker 2: the middle of the street, and then you put a
1:07:33
Speaker 2: bump all curves where at the end of the street
1:07:36
Speaker 2: the concrete comes out even farther to make a right
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Speaker 2: turn impossible, and so on, and you put these little
1:07:43
Speaker 2: humps in the middle of the street to create left
1:07:45
Speaker 2: turn only lanes. It's all an attempt to essentially gridlock.
1:07:49
Speaker 2: They trying to gridlock because this is their way of
1:07:52
Speaker 2: stopping the people driving recklessly through the city. Now, I
1:07:55
Speaker 2: would suggest an easier way of doing it is when
1:07:58
Speaker 2: you catch somebody who's driving recklessly through the city, instead
1:08:02
Speaker 2: of giving them a ticket that they aren't going to pay,
1:08:04
Speaker 2: you lock them up and put them in jail. That
1:08:06
Speaker 2: would be my suggestion. But instead of Milwaukee, we've made
1:08:08
Speaker 2: the streets impossible to drive on in an attempt to
1:08:12
Speaker 2: address the minority of people who are driving recklessly, and
1:08:15
Speaker 2: they've been doing us on more and more and more streets.
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Speaker 2: The first street that they did in none was Zamburen,
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Speaker 2: and I think a lot of lefties thought that would be.
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Speaker 3: The only one.
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Speaker 2: Well, now it's this one, and this one, and this one,
1:08:23
Speaker 2: and this one and this Now the latest they're going
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Speaker 2: to do it to Water Street. The only north south
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Speaker 2: thoroughfare in downtown Milwaukee that has several lanes in each
1:08:37
Speaker 2: direction that you can move through is Water Street. Now,
1:08:41
Speaker 2: I'm guessing even you know why they've picked Water Street
1:08:46
Speaker 2: a big one because of the reckless driving that's going
1:08:48
Speaker 2: on every night when people are turning the donuts. And
1:08:51
Speaker 2: I admit, you're not going to be able to turn
1:08:53
Speaker 2: your donuts and all this when this is put in,
1:08:54
Speaker 2: because you can't even drive on these streets when they're
1:08:57
Speaker 2: like this. However, for all the entertainment complexes and hotels
1:09:03
Speaker 2: and businesses and just how else are some people supposed
1:09:06
Speaker 2: to get from one end to downtown to the other.
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Speaker 2: To put this in there you're going to take a
1:09:10
Speaker 2: trip that might take in an afternoon, say seven minutes
1:09:13
Speaker 2: that traverse from say let's say Cliborne to Brady Street
1:09:18
Speaker 2: on Water probably five to six seven minutes traffic. You're
1:09:21
Speaker 2: talking twenty five or thirty. So may Or Chevy's gonna
1:09:23
Speaker 2: put in all the bump of curbs and do all
1:09:25
Speaker 2: of this and so on it. Like I said, I know,
1:09:28
Speaker 2: there are lefties who think that this is stupid. I
1:09:30
Speaker 2: never I've never heard one of them say isn't this great?
1:09:34
Speaker 2: You know, the ones that don't drive, perhaps the ones
1:09:37
Speaker 2: that are either just ubering or they use the stupid
1:09:39
Speaker 2: scooters to get around town and so on that you
1:09:41
Speaker 2: know that don't like cars. But even lefties who drive,
1:09:44
Speaker 2: they all hate it. They just aren't ever going to
1:09:46
Speaker 2: admit it because they can't break ranks. I mean, I
1:09:54
Speaker 2: don't know what. You know, you got the same kid
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Speaker 2: hotel down there that's owned by the Mark because they
1:10:01
Speaker 2: like this, this would have been. This pretty much seals
1:10:08
Speaker 2: the fate. I think Paula the Edison, now this thirty
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Speaker 2: five story high rise that they want to do that
1:10:12
Speaker 2: they can't get off the ground. They're going to have
1:10:14
Speaker 2: the street ripped up for a year and a half,
1:10:16
Speaker 2: or you can't pass through it at all while me
1:10:18
Speaker 2: or Chevy's putting at his bump pulker, Mabby, you.
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Speaker 3: Want him to drive vicousy anymore? All right?
1:10:30
Speaker 2: The continuing attempt by Mark Belling too right, shock and
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