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