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Speaker 2 (02:19):
He was right, what about everything?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I want to get through that coming up on a second,
But first he's warning severe consequences, folks, if Russia doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Come to the table and I'll get their act together
in good faith.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
There will be I don't have to say there will
be very severe consequences.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, yeah, there you go, there's severe consequences. That's a
just a day or so ahead of the meeting with
Vladimir Putin set for Alaska, Zelenski won't be there, so
maybe things will go a little bit better because he
tends to throw fits, and we know there's a move
now that end the war in Ukraine. If you can
(03:06):
get this done, I really don't see, and that just
remains to be seen whether he can or not. But
if you can get this done, I really don't see
how you can't give.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Him the Nobel peace prices.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's like impossible.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Dana Nessel's a Democrat Attorney general, ready to shut down
the EMDC. That's that group that's responsible for projects like
the gast Chinese Communist Party Link battery plan up north
in Macosta County. Lots of Shenanigan's running through through that organization.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Is she ready to shut it down?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, they're under investigation right now when it comes to
how they've been spending your money China, Michigan's attorney general
then and Essa openly questioning whether the state should keep
funding the MEDC while that investigation is ongoing. Her office
stonewalling the probably been stonewall in the probe that canceled
(04:03):
twenty million dollars a grant there to Global Link International,
nonprofit tied to the MDC Executive committee member Faybek Dune.
Remember forty five hundred dollars coffee makers, thirteen thousand dollars flights,
et cetera in that raid. Going back to June. There
more of that story continuing to come out.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
One will discuss a little bit later on today.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Plus Gretchen Wentmer finding herself in court, James Dixon joining
us at nine thirty five.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm recording for the latest.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He was right about everything. I've got a list here,
I've got a stack, the Trump effect. Ge will invest
three billion in manufacturing in America. Kellogg's makes it legal,
making America healthy again. They're ditching the dies in the foods.
It's one after another in these stories, and it's got
(04:51):
enough to make folks I think on the left just
close that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And but wait, there's more.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
There's the latest in fact, I got to give credit
where credit is Joe, one of the local TV stations
actually got.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It right and they're being honest with you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I look, I I've got a madman on my word.
Pat them on the bag for this. And it comes
down to stories that we've been seeing run maybe even
one of the maybe this station itself up up until
this point when it comes to school supplies and what
tariffs are going to do and all the rest of that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let's get in the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
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Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, I want to break all of this down for
you because I said I I've got multiple stories here,
but first and foremost and credit, where's credits?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Do the the radio station.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Here the morning and the news you've been hearing it
reported this morning to this this story because a lot
of the coverage on things, they'll use.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Channel eight to actually actually do that.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So there's a report on how much people are spending
back to school shopping and you know, it's a time
if you're a parent, you're getting everything do whether you
homeschool or you're sending the kids off. And this is
something that we have seen. Story after strike, been a
barage really about tariffs and what tariffs are going to
(06:30):
do this? Are they going to do that? And it's
fear mongering. That's all it really is. You break it
down to its most basic form, it's sheer mongerie and
it's propaganda. It's literally meant to get people upset with
Trump and the left or the media. But I repeat
myself is in lockstep on this and it comes in
(06:50):
different forms like this, could terriffs make school supplies unaffordable?
Could it be raising the price? And now we actually
have the report that's come out. A Tacit Crush is
her name, and I give her credit Toude. I don't
know anything about her.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I don't. I mean though she's a reporter with Channel eight.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But she took the microphone and the camera out here
in West Michigan at a Meyer and those people were shopping.
She stuck that microphone in their face and she got
these answers. I just want you to hear this for
all the folks on the left talking about how expensive
everything is and how the teriffs we're going to do
such damage. Stick a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
For many families, it's one of the most expensive times
of the year, back to school shopping.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Even with prices on some items holding steady, parents say,
the total still adds up fast. When you say it's
Tessa crash takes us inside the aisles as West Michigan
families were checking off their lists three.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Dozen make sharpened pencils.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
It's that time of year. It's the rush to grab
what's left on the shelves lit here.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I've bought like some fulls like I gotta stop it
already because I'm already being I already remember this is
this is I'm really reminded right now of what the
left because you know, you hear the Department of Education
Trump's out there trying to you know, cut certain things
and about it, and you saw parents and well it
(08:21):
was mostly uh, you know, teachers' unions and some of
the folks in the media. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna
have to pay for my kids my kids school supplies now,
or you're gonna have to pay for your skill.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't actually don't know if any I saw any
real parent saying that.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think it was, oh my gosh, you're gonna have
to pay for your kids' school supplies? Like, what what
universe are you living in? You've always had to pay
for your game. You always get a list. The Department
of Education was never paying for the pencils or the paper,
or the glue or anything that that your kids needed
in a classroom. I had to say that prices aren't
(09:04):
as bad as.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Feared, is one of the quotes from this story.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Back to school budgets are tighter this year, but the
cost of these school supplies is down and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
For kids like Kenzie ellen Boss, new supplies are part
of the excitement, but for parents.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
So that can get a little bit pricey.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Kenzie and her mom, Brooke ellen Boss, who's also a teacher,
start school in less than a week, and like many families,
they're navigating crowded aisles, school supply list in hand.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Or a pocket folder her homework.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Brook has three kids at home, all now in middle
or high school, so over the years she's seen the
list get longer.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Middle school is heavy into their three ring finders.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
And she's seen prices climb, But this year, she says,
the totals aren't as bad as she feared.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Pricing seems to be.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Similar to the last year.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Families with K through twelve children planned to spend an
average of eight hundred and fifty dollars on clothing, shoes,
back to school supplies, and electronics. But that's actually down
from last year.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Right about it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Wait a minute, here's the headline. By the way, you're
missing it is. They're bearing the lead that this is
the headline. That's down from last year. The prices went down. Fuck, now,
it's not. It's not a huge amount. You're gonna hear, say,
fifteen dollars less, Okay, not a big It's not like, hey,
you know, I can finally buy that lakefront cottage I
(10:35):
was dreaming of.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
No, but the prices went down. Now, if they would
have went up fifteen cents, we would have heard the opposite.
Trump's tariffs are wrecking the economy.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
These poor school children, these poor parents, they're having to
come out of their pucket and possibly cut their budget.
What do you get for fifteen cents? These I don't,
I don't, I don't know, but you know they would
make us believe that it was that it was the
sky was falling. Eight hundred dollars, Melissa says, really in
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Speaker 1 (11:19):
Ball.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yes, eight hundred dollars is still crazy. It's still and
by the way, that's an average. I don't know that
everybody's spending that much, but that includes clothes. And remember
there's a lot of people out there buying like designer
clothes and things for the kids that they don't have
to you know, they don't have to buy.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm not gonna tell you what you're doing. You don't
have to do. That's not my place.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm just saying, like, we got a story the other
day that came out of talking about uh. In fact,
maybe I get to this a little bit later, food
stamps and how much you know, people are complaining online
because some of the junk food is getting cut out
of the budget for food stamps. For some of these
people that are and they're complaining, it's like they're getting
something for free and then complaining because they can't buy
(12:01):
candy or junk or whatever with it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's just nuts.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So again, I want to roll this back because this
is the most important part here. Tessa crushes her name
with Channel eight. They deserve the credit. Now, it wasn't
the headline. She probably doesn't get to decide what that is,
but I think it is to me. It's the biggest
piece of the story. You're bearing the lead. Here is
a school prices that you told us. The terrists are
(12:29):
going to be ratcheting up on us, and all the
families are gonna feel the pain for.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
This entire time. Prices are actually down This.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Year, Families with K through twelve children planned to spend
an average of eight hundred and fifty dollars on clothing, shoes,
back to school supplies, and electronics. But that's actually down
from last year. I'm fifteen dollars lest some of the.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Stuff can be a little bit more pricey than others.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Between Brooks three kids back to school lists on Walmart,
how's the price tag of just school supplies coming close
to two hundred dollars? As both a mom and a teacher,
brook says, simpler is often better, not just for budgets,
but also for the classroom.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Often products that have a lot of flare or pom
poms on them tend.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
To be a distraction for our students.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And yeah, so the mom saying, look, don't buy a
bunch of fancy pants stuff, just get the basics.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So she's right, Kenzie, It's all part of the excitement
of a new school year. I'm really excited for like
all the news stuff and for Brook being mindful of
what can be reused makes.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
All the difference.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Like on the pub Colder in Grand Rapids, Tessa Crush
news ache.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All right, so they get credit. I'm a full credit
to this report.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Actually gave us the facts, actually gave us the truth.
But you know what, I don't say that this is
the headline, how much are people spending on back to
school shopping?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Question mark?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So I really think the headline because the actual news
here is that prices.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Are down year over year. Why is that important?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Because we've been lied to, We've been just mocked mercilessly
with other prices are gonna be through the roof and
just do you watch, it's gonna be crazy and you're
not gonna be afford everything, and that mean evil Trump
he's the one doing it with his terrace and whatnot.
And so I'm just telling you look at the truth
when it sort of makes it its way out.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's how you can see and look. I I just
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I honestly don't know where You're gonna hear this anywhere else.
This is what we have to do. We have to
break down these stories. You have to break down the
truth of these stories, and we have to make sure
that you actually you actually get you have to hear
it because if you're left to the what they want
(14:53):
to tell you and watching headlines come fast and furious
across social media, which.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I say the all time, just frustrating.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Because it's just not you're not you're not getting an
actual context, in the real picture of of what's really
going on out there, and that that that's something that
needs to happen, folks.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's my way.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
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Trump was right about everything, so I judge you. Today,
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school prices again, even amid the fears pushed by the
media of the propaganda the tariffs, We're going to just
take a chunk out of your wallet. Turns out back
to school shopping on the report done by Channel eight
here showing prices down this year from last. More on
the Trump effect, ge set to invest three million dollars
(19:36):
in manufacturing America Kellogg's making America healthy again, making it
official they're ditching the dies in foods. And then on
ms DNC thirteen, even Joe Scarmau has to admit Trump
was right about all that crime in DC.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
The answer to this, this this problem for Democrats is
not everything's okay, there's nothing to see here.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Move along, move along.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Oh, Washington has dropped twenty four percent or whatever in crime.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, let me give you some other numbers.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
The Washington Post took a poll in late April early May.
Ninety one percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem.
Ninety one percent.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
To wait about it? What did Jasmine Crockett say?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I gotta ask her, I gotta hear what Hillary said.
Speaker 11 (20:30):
Fifty one percent It is an extremely serious problem.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm not going to go in the full detail, but
apparently Joe just just excoriates the panel that their face
is very grim having to admit the facts because they've
lived it, they've been there, they've seen it up close
and personal. They know they have friends and people that
have been assaulted, carjacked, and even worse. So another example,
Trump was right about everything. I want to talk about
(21:00):
that but in a broader sense. But all of the
issues here in Michigan, Lansing, behind the scene court cases
that Gretchen Whitmer's finding herself having to deal with it more.
Good friend, James Dixon, you'll find him down I seventy
five over on X My favorite place is to catch
up with him. And James, we appreciate you taking the
(21:22):
time to be here with you. I want to start
with this this Trump was right about everything.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They're finally starting to do. You feel like you're living
in an upside down world.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Here we have been and justin thank you for having me.
It's so good to hear your boys. But it's been
this way for quite some time. There's a famous AT
headline from nineteen eighty nine that says, despite murders, you know,
crime is actually not that bad. If you were to
exclude the people who get killed in DC, crime is
not that bad, right, And what they were really saying
(21:53):
is that the people who are victims of those crimes
don't matter. It was kind of the opposite of black
lives matter. Black lives don't matter because because congressional staffers
would be safe. Now those kind of people aren't even
safe anymore. They just had a stafford kill last week,
I believe. And so now this is the crime situation,
(22:14):
the rain in DC just falling on the just and
the unjust. It's falling on the powerful and the everyday citizen.
Now it's a problem. Now it has to be fixed,
and the media is going to find itself on a
ledge where they're the only one saying it's not a problem,
even as their colleagues and their sources are subject to it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know what's interesting to me is I see this
and the most probably the most fascinating part about it is, James,
we're finally starting to hear some of the gun You
were called racist, I was called racist. Big it's crazy whatever. Yeah,
for all of these things that we would see, we
(22:54):
were just I think a little more in touch with
reality than some of the folks in the media. Maybe
they were, but they just pretended like they weren't. And
now you see why it's starting to become so obvious,
so apparent why Trump won this last election. It's it's
it's critical that they come to a reckoning. You know,
(23:16):
it's interesting. I just I just shared this report and
gave them, gave them credit. Channel eight here in Town
did a story about back to school shopping and reported, yeah,
prices are actually down this year. Now, I know you
saw the same headlines that I saw. I know you
saw exactly the same reporting that I saw, which was,
(23:41):
you know, the tariffs are gonna make things go through
the roofs and the kids and the parents, and how
these poor children. You know, Trump is so mean that
he wants to do this to these kids. But that's
just not the case. In fact, it's not a huge drop.
But prices are down fifteen dollars. Now, if they gone
up fifteen cents, you can imagine the stories they would
have done about it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I mean, this is the media that when Biden said,
what that Thanksgiving one year, the cost was down like
forty one cents for an entire Thanksgiving feast. They printed
that as if it were true and as if it
were meaningful. And what we have here is a media
that claims to be accurate and all powerful. Right, they
(24:22):
know all things. They have these crystal balls and that's
why we read them because they're so credible. But when
they're wrong, do they ever say so? When they're sources
are wrong, are they ever called back and said, hey,
how do we get this thing so wrong? Just about
every I can't actually think of one news source in
Michigan that Sump was going to win the election last year.
(24:45):
Detroit News Polster has Harris winning. Free Press Polster has
Harris winning. You're three four points. Often you don't explain
how that happened. You don't look within and consider your methodology.
So at this point, a good new monic for dealing
with the media is remember that episode of Seinfeld where
George Cassandra said he was living life so wrong. He
(25:06):
was just going to do the opposite of his insect.
Look at the opposite. There's probably so whatever they say,
go with the opposite. So I say DC crime is fine,
DC crimes. For I say, Trump Tarff's are going to
end the world. Trump Terris is going to bring prosperity.
Whatever they say the opposite is often true.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well, we got a couple of big stories in Lansing
right now.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
James Dixon down I seventy five with this over on
X and he's been doing some reporting about this, a
journey General Dana Nassel saying that maybe maybe the im
DC shouldn't be receiving any state funds at all right
now as they're digging into the investigation and that seemingly
corrupt organization and everything that's happening behind the scenes there.
(25:50):
But we also have Dan and excuse me, dretch and Whitmor,
the governor ending up in court herself and now in
the national spotline over this story where she you know,
the folks that were now terry, you know, they're defending democracy,
not allowing democracy to even take place, So you won't
even allow a special election so people can be represented.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
At Lancing, the wicked witch of the Midwest strikes again tonight.
We bring you inside the twisted mind of Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer. As we speak, two hundred and seventy thousand
Michiganders have absolutely no representation in the state Senate, and
Governor Whitmer is keeping them unrepresented to hold on to
political power.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
How witchy of her.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
When Governor Whitmer wanted to be vice president, she had
no problem lecturing us all about democracy.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Yeah, voting is about so much more than standing in
line and checking boxes on a piece of paper. When
you vote, you are telling your family, your neighbors, and
yourself what you want in the future. It is no
wonder that people have fought, bled and died for the
right to vote.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, how bad does that make what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Denying the people the opportunity to do that here in
the state of Michigan. That's that Matt Gates on the
OAM last night, what do you what do you make
about this story?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's serious, she's in court over this.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I mean taxation with representation without representation, if you think
about it, That's what started the American Revolution, was the
idea that we're being subject to a tax as a
British empire, but we don't have any seats in Parliament,
so we don't have any say on the bill that
is handed down to us. So whenever they do it,
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Michigan lawmakers are going to pass a budget probably in
the eighty billion dollar range, possibly more than that, and
two hundred and seventy thousand people aren't going to have
a waste in the Senate to say maybe we should
or maybe we shouldn't, or we suspend it.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
This way.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
This is taxation without representation. This is arch anti American.
I mean we we ever talked about people have fought
and died for this, yes, in the American Revolution.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Isn't it interesting? I just you watched all this coming
down and how it plays out. Holy smokes, I cannot
I I just I call this to find out era here, James,
because we are We're all finding out where people really are.
What do you make of this story with Attorney General
Dana Nssel and the MEDC funds?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Is she being oh? I guess uh? Is she be
genuine here? Or is this a play for something else?
Speaker 9 (28:35):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
I wrote it the enjoyer that data. Nessel is the
most dangerous Democrat, the most dangerous politician in Michigan right
now because with no next move, no next office, she
holds a big bully pulpit and a lot of legal
firepower and a lot of you know, information war firepower.
(28:56):
She has a lot of name equity out there. So
when she says something letters But the thing behind the
thing here is she feels free to buck the Lancing consensus,
which Republicans agree with it, Democrats agree with it at
the best way to create jobs or at least headlines
about jobs is by giving big bags of cash to
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their friends. Democrats did it under going back to Jennifer Granholm,
Republicans did it during the Rick Snyder era. They did
not break serve. And so Dana Nessel is free as
someone with no future to say this whole thing is
corrupt and I don't care that someone of my party
is doing it, because if a Republican wins, they'll do
(29:38):
the same thing and it'll be corrupt.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Then too fantastic. Always a pleasure, are good friend? James
Dixon down I seventy five over on X rights from Michigan, enjoyer.
What else are you working on folks need to know
about here in the near future?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Absolutely, Tuesday nights on X I'm going to have a
spaces the James podcasts call it see you next Tuesday.
Uh So, Yeah, we're gonna have song. We're gonna have
Anthony Hudson running for governor and the Republican race. Uh
and every week we're gonna just talk to somebody but
also interact with the people.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, that sounds like fun time.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Tuesday nights?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Win Tuesday Nights at seven pm.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Always X, thank you, Justin.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Our good friend James Dixon, thank you my free Yeah.
There you go back with more in moments, folks, don't
cony where We're gonna grab some phone calls in more.
Trump was right all along the stories you won't hear
anywhere else. We'll break them down for you coming up
here in just moments.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Some don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Setting the record straight. It's West Michigan Live with Justin
Barklay on News Radio one thirteen hundred and one oh
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Speaker 10 (30:56):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Thursday,
August fourteenth, I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story Dana Nessel raising serious questions about the future
of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Michigan's Attorney General investigating
whether the agency should continue to receive state funds. This
comes amid an ongoing scandal involving a twenty million dollar
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grant to a nonprofit linked to one of its executives.
Nessel sitting down for an interview on Channel four's Flashpoint program.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
If the investigation takes you toward the Governor's office.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
Could that also be part of this well, look as at.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
This point, I will definitely say that the Governor's had
a target of this investigation. But we are deeply concerned
about what we're seeing from the MEDC, the Michigan Economic
Development Corporation. This is a quasi public, quasi private agency
that sort of operates outside the rules of normal state government.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
In other news, Michigan State Senator Democrat Jeff Irwin of
vann Arbor is declining to give a direct answer as
to whether Governor Will Whitmer should call a special session
to fill that vacant thirty fifth Senate district seat. When asked,
Irwin instead shifting criticism to House Speaker Republican Matt Hall.
And he's off to Alaska. President Trump's schedule to meet
with Russian President Putin Friday to see if Putin will
(32:15):
agree to end his war in Ukraine. For these stories
and more, visit The Midwesterner at the Midwesterner.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Dot news everything every single thing.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Thanks seeing n now, I believe having to just to
tell people how unpopular the Democrats' strategy is and how
popular Trump's strategy really has been.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
On crime, This.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Sort of gives the game away here because Donald Trump
is like Eric Jordan, towering over Joe Biden when it
comes to their handling a crime. Look in twenty twenty four,
look at where Biden's net approver was on crime, way
on the water there at minus twenty six points. It
was one of Biden's whar issues. Granted, pretty much every
issue was one of Biden's wars issues. And again look
at where Donald Trump is, way way way above Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
What is that?
Speaker 12 (32:59):
That's twenty seven points. So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's
approach to crime, then they get you Joe Biden's. And
again I think it gets back to the point that
Americans are far more hawkish on crime than a lot
of Democrats want to it.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Now, that's pulling.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What about the people on the street, like the real
life to want to talk to them? In fact, I
got some of that during the after show. We're gonna
get to Justin Barkley, dot Com, Facebook, Twitter, Ax, rumble
x Getter, YouTube, all those different places.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
The iHeartRadio you can you can watch and listen live
there too.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Ron is on the line with us. Ron jumping in
before we just got about a minute here left wrong.
I want to give you a chance to have the
last word. Welcome on West Miss and live.
Speaker 13 (33:38):
Hey justin thanks for taking my call and Walt listening
to you for a long time just about every day.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
And I don't know if I need to throw any
names or any companies under the bus. This is a
news media out of grand rapping. I've contacted them like
three times about things climate change. One of them just
like two weeks ago, they came out and said that
kicks being longer now because of climate change. I got online.
I looked it up to have a built in and
(34:05):
a freeze, and it says they barely ever die off
in the winner. So it's like there's a climate change.
They said here about two years ago, and I don't
remember the exact data about this, but they said in Madagastar,
because of climate change, they are they've had their first month,
sou and it's either typhoon or monsu. I looked it up.
It's like they had one in nineteen ten, they had
(34:27):
another nineteen thirteen, nineteen eleven. It's like, come on, people,
climate change really well.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Too, to your point, Ron, and they're pushing it. They
had that big crap report is what I call it.
It's a cap CEAAP climate action plan that they wanted
to put through here in Grand Rapids. They voted on it,
that came through. We're going to dig in. I'm doing
a podcast episode on it this weekend. Steve Gorham, who's
big on debunking all this nonsense, he will join us.
(34:56):
He'll give us the latest in today. We're going to
record that around eleven so you can see it over
on locals if they want to watch first. But it'll
dropped this weekend and I'll probably play parts of it
for you tomorrow. But thank you for your call to
you to your point. You're absolutely right, and they continue,
by the way, this stuff on on these news stations
is just pure propaganda. Oh dag you Yeah, that's it.
(35:19):
Pure propaganda, that's all.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And by the way, it's with a number of stories.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Man oh man le they say, fastest our in radio
just flown by.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Again Trump was right about everything.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I'm We're going to continue to prove it the after
show coming up and next just moments you can join
us there. Ah, And the week is flying by, isn't it?
And the summer right along with it. I'm to make
sure that you still have time to soak it all
up and enjoy it. Folks, Hey, don't miss a moment.
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Lots of stories we didn't even have a chance to
get to today, including that story if you want to
share with everyone else about how much that back to
school shopping prices have actually gone down this year. All
the stories we talk about on the daily basis in
the stack at justin Barclay dot com. So go check
that out, including that that climate story we shared yesterday
out of Grand Rapids.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
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By the way, some really big news out details you
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Speaker 3 (01:55):
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get it all over podcast everywhere you consume this program.
We've got it posted up online. But you know, the
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Speaker 2 (02:19):
He was right, what about everything?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I want to get through that coming up on a second,
But first he's warning severe consequences, folks, if Russia doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Come to the table and I'll get their act together
in good faith.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
There will be I don't have to say there will
be very severe consequences.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, yeah, there you go, there's severe consequences. That's a
just a day or so ahead of the meeting with
Vladimir Putin set for Alaska, Zelenski won't be there, so
maybe things will go a little bit better because he
tends to throw fits, and we know there's a move
now that end the war in Ukraine. If you can
(03:06):
get this done, I really don't see, and that just
remains to be seen whether he can or not. But
if you can get this done, I really don't see
how you can't give.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Him the Nobel peace prices.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's like impossible.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Dana Nessel's a Democrat Attorney general, ready to shut down
the EMDC. That's that group that's responsible for projects like
the gast Chinese Communist Party Link battery plan up north
in Macosta County. Lots of Shenanigan's running through through that organization.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Is she ready to shut it down?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, they're under investigation right now when it comes to
how they've been spending your money China, Michigan's attorney general
then and Essa openly questioning whether the state should keep
funding the MEDC while that investigation is ongoing. Her office
stonewalling the probably been stonewall in the probe that canceled
(04:03):
twenty million dollars a grant there to Global Link International,
nonprofit tied to the MDC Executive committee member Faybek Dune.
Remember forty five hundred dollars coffee makers, thirteen thousand dollars flights,
et cetera in that raid. Going back to June. There
more of that story continuing to come out.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
One will discuss a little bit later on today.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Plus Gretchen Wentmer finding herself in court, James Dixon joining
us at nine thirty five.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm recording for the latest.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He was right about everything. I've got a list here,
I've got a stack, the Trump effect. Ge will invest
three billion in manufacturing in America. Kellogg's makes it legal,
making America healthy again. They're ditching the dies in the foods.
It's one after another in these stories, and it's got
(04:51):
enough to make folks I think on the left just
close that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And but wait, there's more.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
There's the latest in fact, I got to give credit
where credit is Joe, one of the local TV stations
actually got.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It right and they're being honest with you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And I look, I I've got a madman on my word.
Pat them on the bag for this. And it comes
down to stories that we've been seeing run maybe even
one of the maybe this station itself up up until
this point when it comes to school supplies and what
tariffs are going to do and all the rest of that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let's get in the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Call Justin now at six one six seven seven four
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Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, I want to break all of this down for
you because I said I I've got multiple stories here,
but first and foremost and credit, where's credits?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Do the the radio station.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Here the morning and the news you've been hearing it
reported this morning to this this story because a lot
of the coverage on things, they'll use.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Channel eight to actually actually do that.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So there's a report on how much people are spending
back to school shopping and you know, it's a time
if you're a parent, you're getting everything do whether you
homeschool or you're sending the kids off. And this is
something that we have seen. Story after strike, been a
barage really about tariffs and what tariffs are going to
(06:30):
do this? Are they going to do that? And it's
fear mongering. That's all it really is. You break it
down to its most basic form, it's sheer mongerie and
it's propaganda. It's literally meant to get people upset with
Trump and the left or the media. But I repeat
myself is in lockstep on this and it comes in
(06:50):
different forms like this, could terriffs make school supplies unaffordable?
Could it be raising the price? And now we actually
have the report that's come out. A Tacit Crush is
her name, and I give her credit Toude. I don't
know anything about her.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I don't. I mean though she's a reporter with Channel eight.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But she took the microphone and the camera out here
in West Michigan at a Meyer and those people were shopping.
She stuck that microphone in their face and she got
these answers. I just want you to hear this for
all the folks on the left talking about how expensive
everything is and how the teriffs we're going to do
such damage. Stick a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
For many families, it's one of the most expensive times
of the year, back to school shopping.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Even with prices on some items holding steady, parents say,
the total still adds up fast. When you say it's
Tessa crash takes us inside the aisles as West Michigan
families were checking off their lists three.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Dozen make sharpened pencils.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
It's that time of year. It's the rush to grab
what's left on the shelves lit here.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I've bought like some fulls like I gotta stop it
already because I'm already being I already remember this is
this is I'm really reminded right now of what the
left because you know, you hear the Department of Education
Trump's out there trying to you know, cut certain things
and about it, and you saw parents and well it
(08:21):
was mostly uh, you know, teachers' unions and some of
the folks in the media. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna
have to pay for my kids my kids school supplies now,
or you're gonna have to pay for your skill.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't actually don't know if any I saw any
real parent saying that.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think it was, oh my gosh, you're gonna have
to pay for your kids' school supplies? Like, what what
universe are you living in? You've always had to pay
for your game. You always get a list. The Department
of Education was never paying for the pencils or the paper,
or the glue or anything that that your kids needed
in a classroom. I had to say that prices aren't
(09:04):
as bad as.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Feared, is one of the quotes from this story.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Back to school budgets are tighter this year, but the
cost of these school supplies is down and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
For kids like Kenzie ellen Boss, new supplies are part
of the excitement, but for parents.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
So that can get a little bit pricey.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Kenzie and her mom, Brooke ellen Boss, who's also a teacher,
start school in less than a week, and like many families,
they're navigating crowded aisles, school supply list in hand.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Or a pocket folder her homework.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Brook has three kids at home, all now in middle
or high school, so over the years she's seen the
list get longer.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Middle school is heavy into their three ring finders.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
And she's seen prices climb, But this year, she says,
the totals aren't as bad as she feared.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Pricing seems to be.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Similar to the last year.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Families with K through twelve children planned to spend an
average of eight hundred and fifty dollars on clothing, shoes,
back to school supplies, and electronics. But that's actually down
from last year.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Right about it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Wait a minute, here's the headline. By the way, you're
missing it is. They're bearing the lead that this is
the headline. That's down from last year. The prices went down. Fuck, now,
it's not. It's not a huge amount. You're gonna hear, say,
fifteen dollars less, Okay, not a big It's not like, hey,
you know, I can finally buy that lakefront cottage I
(10:35):
was dreaming of.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
No, but the prices went down. Now, if they would
have went up fifteen cents, we would have heard the opposite.
Trump's tariffs are wrecking the economy.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
These poor school children, these poor parents, they're having to
come out of their pucket and possibly cut their budget.
What do you get for fifteen cents? These I don't,
I don't, I don't know, but you know they would
make us believe that it was that it was the
sky was falling. Eight hundred dollars, Melissa says, really in
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the chat, by the way, the behind the scenes livestream, Facebook, Twitter, Act,
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Speaker 1 (11:19):
Ball.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yes, eight hundred dollars is still crazy. It's still and
by the way, that's an average. I don't know that
everybody's spending that much, but that includes clothes. And remember
there's a lot of people out there buying like designer
clothes and things for the kids that they don't have
to you know, they don't have to buy.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm not gonna tell you what you're doing. You don't
have to do. That's not my place.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm just saying, like, we got a story the other
day that came out of talking about uh. In fact,
maybe I get to this a little bit later, food
stamps and how much you know, people are complaining online
because some of the junk food is getting cut out
of the budget for food stamps. For some of these
people that are and they're complaining, it's like they're getting
something for free and then complaining because they can't buy
(12:01):
candy or junk or whatever with it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's just nuts.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So again, I want to roll this back because this
is the most important part here. Tessa crushes her name
with Channel eight. They deserve the credit. Now, it wasn't
the headline. She probably doesn't get to decide what that is,
but I think it is to me. It's the biggest
piece of the story. You're bearing the lead. Here is
a school prices that you told us. The terrists are
(12:29):
going to be ratcheting up on us, and all the
families are gonna feel the pain for.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
This entire time. Prices are actually down This.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Year, Families with K through twelve children planned to spend
an average of eight hundred and fifty dollars on clothing, shoes,
back to school supplies, and electronics. But that's actually down
from last year. I'm fifteen dollars lest some of the.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Stuff can be a little bit more pricey than others.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Between Brooks three kids back to school lists on Walmart,
how's the price tag of just school supplies coming close
to two hundred dollars? As both a mom and a teacher,
brook says, simpler is often better, not just for budgets,
but also for the classroom.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Often products that have a lot of flare or pom
poms on them tend.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
To be a distraction for our students.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And yeah, so the mom saying, look, don't buy a
bunch of fancy pants stuff, just get the basics.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So she's right, Kenzie, It's all part of the excitement
of a new school year. I'm really excited for like
all the news stuff and for Brook being mindful of
what can be reused makes.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
All the difference.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Like on the pub Colder in Grand Rapids, Tessa Crush
news ache.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All right, so they get credit. I'm a full credit
to this report.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Actually gave us the facts, actually gave us the truth.
But you know what, I don't say that this is
the headline, how much are people spending on back to
school shopping?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Question mark?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So I really think the headline because the actual news
here is that prices.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Are down year over year. Why is that important?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Because we've been lied to, We've been just mocked mercilessly
with other prices are gonna be through the roof and
just do you watch, it's gonna be crazy and you're
not gonna be afford everything, and that mean evil Trump
he's the one doing it with his terrace and whatnot.
And so I'm just telling you look at the truth
when it sort of makes it its way out.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's how you can see and look. I I just
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I honestly don't know where You're gonna hear this anywhere else.
This is what we have to do. We have to
break down these stories. You have to break down the
truth of these stories, and we have to make sure
that you actually you actually get you have to hear
it because if you're left to the what they want
(14:53):
to tell you and watching headlines come fast and furious
across social media, which.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I say the all time, just frustrating.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Because it's just not you're not you're not getting an
actual context, in the real picture of of what's really
going on out there, and that that that's something that
needs to happen, folks.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's my way.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You live to fight another day. Back with you in moments,
don't go anywhere. We're gonna get our chance to hear
from James Dixon on the way plus the Midwestern and
report the latest out of lancing.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
In the courtroom.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Grutchea Whitmer may find her day that and more after this,
but first, if you're able, please stand in honor our
nation with our national anthem.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The trees pisonce Negotiable aids. Western Michigan Live with Justin
Barclay on News Radio would thirteen hundred and one oh
six nine a f m.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Thursday,
August fourteen, Thim Robin Hoffman, It's a Midwesterner Dot News
original story Michigan Attorney General Dinnan Nessel raising serious questions
about the future of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and
whether the agency should continue to receive state funds. This
comes amid an ongoing scandal involving a twenty million dollar
(17:31):
grant to a nonprofit link to one of its executives.
Nessl a guest on Channel four's Flashpoint program.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
In this particular set of circumstances, you know, this investigation
actually was launched as a result of, you know, reports
in the media about how this grant money was being utilized.
And we have other cases where we've investigated ear marks
or grants, and so we thought it was necessary to
pursue this as well.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
And well Russia's war in Ukraine. Ever end President Trump
will be meeting tomorrow in Alaska with Russian President Putin
to see if he is serious about a deal for peace.
For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot News.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Back on our standby coming up Dave James, David Dixon
shining the spotlight on the court cases UH that are
ongoing and uh and even developing and lansing right now.
(18:36):
Toorney General Dana Nasseil, heavily involved in Whitmer finding herself
in court. I we'll get down the business done, all
of it after our bottom of the hour news.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's all coming up. I think you're you're not gonna
want to miss it. Folks.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
This is a This is a big one. Plus you
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Trump was right about everything, so I judge you. Today,
(19:13):
school prices again, even amid the fears pushed by the
media of the propaganda the tariffs, We're going to just
take a chunk out of your wallet. Turns out back
to school shopping on the report done by Channel eight
here showing prices down this year from last. More on
the Trump effect, ge set to invest three million dollars
(19:36):
in manufacturing America Kellogg's making America healthy again, making it
official they're ditching the dies in foods. And then on
ms DNC thirteen, even Joe Scarmau has to admit Trump
was right about all that crime in DC.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
The answer to this, this this problem for Democrats is
not everything's okay, there's nothing to see here.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Move along, move along.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Oh, Washington has dropped twenty four percent or whatever in crime.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, let me give you some other numbers.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
The Washington Post took a poll in late April early May.
Ninety one percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem.
Ninety one percent.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
To wait about it? What did Jasmine Crockett say?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I gotta ask her, I gotta hear what Hillary said.
Speaker 11 (20:30):
Fifty one percent It is an extremely serious problem.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm not going to go in the full detail, but
apparently Joe just just excoriates the panel that their face
is very grim having to admit the facts because they've
lived it, they've been there, they've seen it up close
and personal. They know they have friends and people that
have been assaulted, carjacked, and even worse. So another example,
Trump was right about everything. I want to talk about
(21:00):
that but in a broader sense. But all of the
issues here in Michigan, Lansing, behind the scene court cases
that Gretchen Whitmer's finding herself having to deal with it more.
Good friend, James Dixon, you'll find him down I seventy
five over on X My favorite place is to catch
up with him. And James, we appreciate you taking the
(21:22):
time to be here with you. I want to start
with this this Trump was right about everything.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They're finally starting to do. You feel like you're living
in an upside down world.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Here we have been and justin thank you for having me.
It's so good to hear your boys. But it's been
this way for quite some time. There's a famous AT
headline from nineteen eighty nine that says, despite murders, you know,
crime is actually not that bad. If you were to
exclude the people who get killed in DC, crime is
not that bad, right, And what they were really saying
(21:53):
is that the people who are victims of those crimes
don't matter. It was kind of the opposite of black
lives matter. Black lives don't matter because because congressional staffers
would be safe. Now those kind of people aren't even
safe anymore. They just had a stafford kill last week,
I believe. And so now this is the crime situation,
(22:14):
the rain in DC just falling on the just and
the unjust. It's falling on the powerful and the everyday citizen.
Now it's a problem. Now it has to be fixed,
and the media is going to find itself on a
ledge where they're the only one saying it's not a problem,
even as their colleagues and their sources are subject to it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know what's interesting to me is I see this
and the most probably the most fascinating part about it is, James,
we're finally starting to hear some of the gun You
were called racist, I was called racist. Big it's crazy whatever. Yeah,
for all of these things that we would see, we
(22:54):
were just I think a little more in touch with
reality than some of the folks in the media. Maybe
they were, but they just pretended like they weren't. And
now you see why it's starting to become so obvious,
so apparent why Trump won this last election. It's it's
it's critical that they come to a reckoning. You know,
(23:16):
it's interesting. I just I just shared this report and
gave them, gave them credit. Channel eight here in Town
did a story about back to school shopping and reported, yeah,
prices are actually down this year. Now, I know you
saw the same headlines that I saw. I know you
saw exactly the same reporting that I saw, which was,
(23:41):
you know, the tariffs are gonna make things go through
the roofs and the kids and the parents, and how
these poor children. You know, Trump is so mean that
he wants to do this to these kids. But that's
just not the case. In fact, it's not a huge drop.
But prices are down fifteen dollars. Now, if they gone
up fifteen cents, you can imagine the stories they would
have done about it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I mean, this is the media that when Biden said,
what that Thanksgiving one year, the cost was down like
forty one cents for an entire Thanksgiving feast. They printed
that as if it were true and as if it
were meaningful. And what we have here is a media
that claims to be accurate and all powerful. Right, they
(24:22):
know all things. They have these crystal balls and that's
why we read them because they're so credible. But when
they're wrong, do they ever say so? When they're sources
are wrong, are they ever called back and said, hey,
how do we get this thing so wrong? Just about
every I can't actually think of one news source in
Michigan that Sump was going to win the election last year.
(24:45):
Detroit News Polster has Harris winning. Free Press Polster has
Harris winning. You're three four points. Often you don't explain
how that happened. You don't look within and consider your methodology.
So at this point, a good new monic for dealing
with the media is remember that episode of Seinfeld where
George Cassandra said he was living life so wrong. He
(25:06):
was just going to do the opposite of his insect.
Look at the opposite. There's probably so whatever they say,
go with the opposite. So I say DC crime is fine,
DC crimes. For I say, Trump Tarff's are going to
end the world. Trump Terris is going to bring prosperity.
Whatever they say the opposite is often true.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well, we got a couple of big stories in Lansing
right now.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
James Dixon down I seventy five with this over on
X and he's been doing some reporting about this, a
journey General Dana Nassel saying that maybe maybe the im
DC shouldn't be receiving any state funds at all right
now as they're digging into the investigation and that seemingly
corrupt organization and everything that's happening behind the scenes there.
(25:50):
But we also have Dan and excuse me, dretch and Whitmor,
the governor ending up in court herself and now in
the national spotline over this story where she you know,
the folks that were now terry, you know, they're defending democracy,
not allowing democracy to even take place, So you won't
even allow a special election so people can be represented.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
At Lancing, the wicked witch of the Midwest strikes again tonight.
We bring you inside the twisted mind of Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer. As we speak, two hundred and seventy thousand
Michiganders have absolutely no representation in the state Senate, and
Governor Whitmer is keeping them unrepresented to hold on to
political power.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
How witchy of her.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
When Governor Whitmer wanted to be vice president, she had
no problem lecturing us all about democracy.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Yeah, voting is about so much more than standing in
line and checking boxes on a piece of paper. When
you vote, you are telling your family, your neighbors, and
yourself what you want in the future. It is no
wonder that people have fought, bled and died for the
right to vote.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, how bad does that make what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Denying the people the opportunity to do that here in
the state of Michigan. That's that Matt Gates on the
OAM last night, what do you what do you make
about this story?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's serious, she's in court over this.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I mean taxation with representation without representation, if you think
about it, That's what started the American Revolution, was the
idea that we're being subject to a tax as a
British empire, but we don't have any seats in Parliament,
so we don't have any say on the bill that
is handed down to us. So whenever they do it,
(27:32):
Michigan lawmakers are going to pass a budget probably in
the eighty billion dollar range, possibly more than that, and
two hundred and seventy thousand people aren't going to have
a waste in the Senate to say maybe we should
or maybe we shouldn't, or we suspend it.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
This way.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
This is taxation without representation. This is arch anti American.
I mean we we ever talked about people have fought
and died for this, yes, in the American Revolution.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Isn't it interesting? I just you watched all this coming
down and how it plays out. Holy smokes, I cannot
I I just I call this to find out era here, James,
because we are We're all finding out where people really are.
What do you make of this story with Attorney General
Dana Nssel and the MEDC funds?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Is she being oh? I guess uh? Is she be
genuine here? Or is this a play for something else?
Speaker 9 (28:35):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
I wrote it the enjoyer that data. Nessel is the
most dangerous Democrat, the most dangerous politician in Michigan right
now because with no next move, no next office, she
holds a big bully pulpit and a lot of legal
firepower and a lot of you know, information war firepower.
(28:56):
She has a lot of name equity out there. So
when she says something letters But the thing behind the
thing here is she feels free to buck the Lancing consensus,
which Republicans agree with it, Democrats agree with it at
the best way to create jobs or at least headlines
about jobs is by giving big bags of cash to
(29:17):
their friends. Democrats did it under going back to Jennifer Granholm,
Republicans did it during the Rick Snyder era. They did
not break serve. And so Dana Nessel is free as
someone with no future to say this whole thing is
corrupt and I don't care that someone of my party
is doing it, because if a Republican wins, they'll do
(29:38):
the same thing and it'll be corrupt.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Then too fantastic. Always a pleasure, are good friend? James
Dixon down I seventy five over on X rights from Michigan, enjoyer.
What else are you working on folks need to know
about here in the near future?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Absolutely, Tuesday nights on X I'm going to have a
spaces the James podcasts call it see you next Tuesday.
Uh So, Yeah, we're gonna have song. We're gonna have
Anthony Hudson running for governor and the Republican race. Uh
and every week we're gonna just talk to somebody but
also interact with the people.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, that sounds like fun time.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Tuesday nights?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Win Tuesday Nights at seven pm.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Always X, thank you, Justin.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Our good friend James Dixon, thank you my free Yeah.
There you go back with more in moments, folks, don't
cony where We're gonna grab some phone calls in more.
Trump was right all along the stories you won't hear
anywhere else. We'll break them down for you coming up
here in just moments.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Some don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Setting the record straight. It's West Michigan Live with Justin
Barklay on News Radio one thirteen hundred and one oh
six nine alf A and on demand anytime on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Thursday,
August fourteenth, I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story Dana Nessel raising serious questions about the future
of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Michigan's Attorney General investigating
whether the agency should continue to receive state funds. This
comes amid an ongoing scandal involving a twenty million dollar
(31:20):
grant to a nonprofit linked to one of its executives.
Nessel sitting down for an interview on Channel four's Flashpoint program.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
If the investigation takes you toward the Governor's office.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
Could that also be part of this well, look as at.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
This point, I will definitely say that the Governor's had
a target of this investigation. But we are deeply concerned
about what we're seeing from the MEDC, the Michigan Economic
Development Corporation. This is a quasi public, quasi private agency
that sort of operates outside the rules of normal state government.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
In other news, Michigan State Senator Democrat Jeff Irwin of
vann Arbor is declining to give a direct answer as
to whether Governor Will Whitmer should call a special session
to fill that vacant thirty fifth Senate district seat. When asked,
Irwin instead shifting criticism to House Speaker Republican Matt Hall.
And he's off to Alaska. President Trump's schedule to meet
with Russian President Putin Friday to see if Putin will
(32:15):
agree to end his war in Ukraine. For these stories
and more, visit The Midwesterner at the Midwesterner.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Dot news everything every single thing.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Thanks seeing n now, I believe having to just to
tell people how unpopular the Democrats' strategy is and how
popular Trump's strategy really has been.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
On crime, This.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Sort of gives the game away here because Donald Trump
is like Eric Jordan, towering over Joe Biden when it
comes to their handling a crime. Look in twenty twenty four,
look at where Biden's net approver was on crime, way
on the water there at minus twenty six points. It
was one of Biden's whar issues. Granted, pretty much every
issue was one of Biden's wars issues. And again look
at where Donald Trump is, way way way above Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
What is that?
Speaker 12 (32:59):
That's twenty seven points. So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's
approach to crime, then they get you Joe Biden's. And
again I think it gets back to the point that
Americans are far more hawkish on crime than a lot
of Democrats want to it.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Now, that's pulling.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What about the people on the street, like the real
life to want to talk to them? In fact, I
got some of that during the after show. We're gonna
get to Justin Barkley, dot Com, Facebook, Twitter, Ax, rumble
x Getter, YouTube, all those different places.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
The iHeartRadio you can you can watch and listen live
there too.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Ron is on the line with us. Ron jumping in
before we just got about a minute here left wrong.
I want to give you a chance to have the
last word. Welcome on West Miss and live.
Speaker 13 (33:38):
Hey justin thanks for taking my call and Walt listening
to you for a long time just about every day.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
And I don't know if I need to throw any
names or any companies under the bus. This is a
news media out of grand rapping. I've contacted them like
three times about things climate change. One of them just
like two weeks ago, they came out and said that
kicks being longer now because of climate change. I got online.
I looked it up to have a built in and
(34:05):
a freeze, and it says they barely ever die off
in the winner. So it's like there's a climate change.
They said here about two years ago, and I don't
remember the exact data about this, but they said in Madagastar,
because of climate change, they are they've had their first month,
sou and it's either typhoon or monsu. I looked it up.
It's like they had one in nineteen ten, they had
(34:27):
another nineteen thirteen, nineteen eleven. It's like, come on, people,
climate change really well.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Too, to your point, Ron, and they're pushing it. They
had that big crap report is what I call it.
It's a cap CEAAP climate action plan that they wanted
to put through here in Grand Rapids. They voted on it,
that came through. We're going to dig in. I'm doing
a podcast episode on it this weekend. Steve Gorham, who's
big on debunking all this nonsense, he will join us.
(34:56):
He'll give us the latest in today. We're going to
record that around eleven so you can see it over
on locals if they want to watch first. But it'll
dropped this weekend and I'll probably play parts of it
for you tomorrow. But thank you for your call to
you to your point. You're absolutely right, and they continue,
by the way, this stuff on on these news stations
is just pure propaganda. Oh dag you Yeah, that's it.
(35:19):
Pure propaganda, that's all.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And by the way, it's with a number of stories.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Man oh man le they say, fastest our in radio
just flown by.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Again Trump was right about everything.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I'm We're going to continue to prove it the after
show coming up and next just moments you can join
us there. Ah, And the week is flying by, isn't it?
And the summer right along with it. I'm to make
sure that you still have time to soak it all
up and enjoy it. Folks, Hey, don't miss a moment.
(35:57):
Lots of stories we didn't even have a chance to
get to today, including that story if you want to
share with everyone else about how much that back to
school shopping prices have actually gone down this year. All
the stories we talk about on the daily basis in
the stack at justin Barclay dot com. So go check
that out, including that that climate story we shared yesterday
out of Grand Rapids.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
All right, that's it, make it a great one. The
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