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I have a perfect item to start the podcast with today.
One of the things that I've been saying I can't
say forever, but i'd say the last ten years that
I started saying on my radio program, and I said
it all the time, is you can't exaggerate liberalism anymore.
I mean, if I come out and say the next thing,
you know they'll do, and then come up with the
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craziest possible thing, invariably I will find out that it
in fact is already happening, that it's reality. Anyway. Here's
an example of this. There's a post that appeared on
X over the weekend. It's the poster is an important
other than I'll identify the handle for the poster. There
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is to Tania McGrath. And here's the post. My friends
and I have been out all day protesting against this ceasefire.
We demand a ceased fire that wasn't arranged by Donald Trump.
We will never give up the struggle for peace. Now
here's The thing about this, there's all sorts of reaction
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to this post, and here's where the reaction is. No
one knows if this is a sarcastic post making fun
of the left, or if it actually is a Lefty
expressing that position. And that is what it's come to.
The left is so extreme that you now don't know
unless you know who the person is individually. You know,
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if a Chuck Schumer or something. Unless you know the person,
you don't know if it's somebody pretending to be a
leftist so stupid, or if it actually is a leftist
that is that stupid. There's no way of knowing anymore. Seriously,
how do you even know when they're kidding? Like Schumer
said over the weekend, every day of the shutdown gets better, Well,
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that's an odd thing. I'm assuming he meant it. But again,
if you would have put those words in his mouth
to make fun of him, they would have been insulted
that you would. That is what it's come to. You
no longer can tell when the Left is kidding or not,
because everything that they believe in is so crazy that
it sounds like they're kidding even when they're not. So,
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Rather than decide whether or not this is real or not.
The more important point is you can no longer tell
there is obviously truth, and they're thinking to this. They
hate the fact, you know, And as you know, I'm
a skeptic as to whether or not this ceasefire can hold. Nonetheless,
if it does, it's an undeniably good thing. They can't
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stand good things happening if Trump has anything to do
with that good thing. They'd rather have terrible things. I mean,
it's just an unbelievable concept. I mean, if Trump walked
up to one of them, See, they're selfish, so this
wouldn't work. Trump walked up to one of them and
gave them a million outs. It turned it down because
of Trump. They would not do that because they're selfish.
But things that don't directly affect them, like world peace
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and so on, they're more frosted if Trump brings us peace.
If Trump brought us some terrible war and there was
massive conflict that people were dying, they would be happy
by that because then they could bitch about him. Extraordinary thing. Really, Oh,
they've belonging against. I mean, Obama changed their whole peace thing.
Obama and Killery are warmongers for Heaven's sakes, and we
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could dive into the history of all of it. But
enough hift history for the day, although there will certainly
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It is certainly not surprising that President Prompe did not
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win the Nobel Peace Prize. I said, I don't remember
which podcast it was, maybe Thursday or Wednesdays of last week,
that he's not gonna win the Nobel Peace Prize. They
aren't going to give it to him. It goes back
to the point that we were making in that introductory
sacred here. It doesn't matter how much Trump could somehow
wave a magic wand and war could end forever and
he wouldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he
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really wanted to win it because he's out for ratification
for stuff like this, but it isn't gonna happen. It's
the same chance that a Mel Gibson movie would have
of winning an Academy Award for Best Picture. But that's
not the reason I bring up this segment. Many people
do not know who did win it. Her name is
Maria Coriina Machado. She's deserving. I don't mean like pitted
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against Trump or anything, but in less than a vacuum
isolated on herself, she's deserving. She is somebody who has
been advocating for the victims in Venezuela who have suffered
so terribly under communist rule. Anyway, she put out the
following statement after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. This recognition
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of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to
conclude our task to conquer freedom. We are on the
threshold of victory, and today, more than ever, we count
on President Trump, the people of the United States, the
peoples of Latin America, and the Democratic nations of the
world as our principal allies to achieve freedom and democracy.
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I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela
and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause.
So the woman who did win the Nobel out of
all the leaders of the world, called out Trump for
praise in Trump's push for peace globally without having to
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use American military force. I wonder, and I don't know,
because I didn't check every I wonder how widely covered
that component of her statement was given. All I could
see in the media is Trump doesn't win Nobel Peace
for I not even mentioned Trump didn't get it. You
know the term for this when you see the IF
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a lot of times they throw out initials and people
don't know what they stand for. TDS is Trump Derangement syndrome,
and it's the explanation for all things in which the
Left has simply lost its mind because of their loathing
over Trump. There's a really interesting story to examine here
that's part of this, and that is Letitia James turning
general New York State. She's now facing criminal charges for
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mortgage fraud, which it's pretty clear she did it in
her defense. The crime that she's accused of another prominent
Democrat prosecutor is facing similar charges. Is a crime that's
committed all the time and rarely prosecuted. It's lying in
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order to get favorable treatment on your mortgage. But here's
the thing. This crime she's charged with is in the
exact same area as her own. The term is just
so appropriate. Trump up charge against Trump. Trump was criminally
charged for in his loan applications for financing of some
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of his properties, that he overstated the underlying value of
the property, which again happens all the time. In order
to justify I'll just use short, smaller numbers to make
it understandable. Let's suppose I'm looking for a five million
dollar loan for some piece of property and I say
it's worth five million. Well, maybe it's assessed that only
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two point seven million. That the five million isn't going
to be what it's worth until after I do the
improvements or whatever I think I'm gonna do. Happens all
the time. Here's the thing, though, with regard to this,
and it was a loan via bond holders. This loan
was in the past, and it's been paid off. The
loan's paid off, so there's no victim here, whether or
not Trump overstated the underlying value. Nobody was conned because
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they all got their money and their interests back. So
it was simple. And again and all these people they're
going after things for Trump, they're looking for anything because
they can't find anything anything actually illegal. That was Letitia James.
So now in her instance, here we see her doing
something similar, but in this case she actually did it.
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There are all these government programs regarded owning of properties.
Some are based on principal residences, some are second residents.
She was seeking financing for what she listed as a
second residence. You're able to get a break on the
interest rate if it's a second residence. Now, what's a
second residence you I'm surprised you don't have a second
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residence by now as rich as you are in there. Well,
now what do you have that condo wind Door County?
What is that a timeshare or reddle or what is it?
It's a timeshare? Yeah, see that they don't they would
not fit into that category. But a second residence is
somebody who owns I don't have I rent my property
in Florida. Let's imagine I owned a residence in Florida.
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In addition to hear I qualify for preferential rates more
so than if it is income property. I suppose I
bought a building in Florida and readed it out for tenants. Well,
I can't call that a second residence because it's not
for the purpose of my residence. That's what James did.
She rented the property out, meaning she should have gotten
a different interest rate. But she said on the document
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and everywhere, I just uh close on a lease on
a new vehicle. I mean, I have no clue what
I'm signing. It's just you just keep signing and signing
and signing and signing and sign and the sign and
the sign and signing. But when I say no clue
you know kind of what it all is, and they explain,
They sort of explain, but they aren't gonna They don't
want the thing to take ninety seven hours. It's all
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of this that you after this goes and so on.
So she signed her name to this and under all
of these things. It's probably your you're affirming that everything
that you're stating is true. But in this instance, she
knew exactly what she's doing. Her defenders are saying, yeah,
but you know how many people do this? My Grandcha.
She went after the ex president of the United States,
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and she campaigned when she ran for the office, she
campaigned she get Trump. So she had to fulfilling her promise.
So she brought up this ridiculous charge against Trump for
something that is by any standard, a non crime. If
there's no victim, it's not a crime. If Trump had
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in fact defaulted on the loan after overstating the underlying
value of the property. Remember also that there were rulings
in that case that valued Trump's assets said a fraction
of what they were worth. There's a ruling in which
they said mar Laga was worth like a dollar and
a half. All this stuff was done and attempt to
justify these charges. But now James herself is facing a
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mortgage fraud charge. It's a felony, and the if she's convicted,
the normal sentencing recommendation is a short period in prison.
Had she not and people said this is all just
payback from Trump, payback from Well maybe it is, but
what would you expect if you charge an innocent guy
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Trump was something When you yourself are guilty of something, you
would not expect you to have those charges brought against you.
So now all these quotes that Legicia James came, all
these posts that she made over the years, are all
coming back to haunt her, all of those, you know,
just like the whole nobody is ever going to stop
bringing up on Adam Schiff his saying nobody is above
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the law, and then Schiff himself gets caught similar type
of crime, claiming two different residences as his principal residence.
Is so on, Anderson Cooper of CNN, see now all
these Democrats admitting after the fact that well, maybe Tiss
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James should not have been crowing about indicting Trump in
the first place. According to PolitiFact, the day after she
was elected in twenty eighteen, Letitia James was asked by
a community activist if she was going to sue President Trump,
but she replied, Oh, we're definitely going to sue him.
We're going to be a real pain in the ass.
He's going to know my name personally. Cooper recalled on
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Thursday of last week, I mean, that's not a great
look for somebody who has just been elected, who has
just been campaigning, who hasn't even looked, I guess deeply
at any evidence. Now, Anderson Cooper says, this now in
twenty twenty five, nobody was saying any of that when
these people were crowing to go out and get Trump
at the time that they actually said it. In her
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own bragging about the charges that she brought. Letitia James
herself was you know, she was doing the poems and
putting out the big statements in that nobody's above the
law kind of crap and all of that stuff. And
here it now is, do I think that what she
did is an extraordinary violation of the law? Ay, it's
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clearly a violation of the law. And b it's one
of those violations of the law that all sorts of
people do, including sanctimonious liberals. I go back in time
to the nineties, they made a big deal. This is
when the liberals are on the opposite side of illegal immigration.
I forget who he the first one was, but some
politician was caught they were using an illegal immigrant to
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do daycare for their child, you know, a live in daycare,
the live in nanny types. Even back then, huge numbers
of them are illegals. Because try to find an American
citizen who's going to just move into your house and work.
One hundred and sixty eight hours a week and so on. Secondly,
the illegals were giving you a higher quality of employment
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pool than some of the legal citizens on their drugs. Anyway,
it was. And then there were number of other cases
of people that were caught using illegal immigrants to do
their home health care and home care and all of
that stuff and so on, and the liberals are just
outraged over this. Well, of course that was then and
this is now. They now think that illegal immigrants are
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the best people in the world, and they would ever
make a deal about that. But the point that was
brought up at the time is it was such a
common crime, should anybody be individually targeted because you raised
the prospect of hypocrisy? Given that probably million we're doing it,
is it fear to charge only a few. It's the
old speeding ticket argument. Guys speeding on the freeway, cop
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pulls him over. Guy says to the cop, everybody else
is going over the speed limit too. The cop says, yeah,
but you're the one I caught. It's kind of the
same point story here. One of the ramifications of the
crackdown on illegal immigrants, and secondly, the closing of the
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border is the American businesses whose business model basically was
to market to illegals. Company collapsed over the past week.
It's called it Try Color. That name had a meaning.
Do you know about the Try Color collapse? Do you
know anything about this? Or you you do not? You
don't know anything about it. It's involved in making loans
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to finance in someone. It's logo Tricolor. The logo that
the company has is almost exactly the Mexican flag. It's
not the Mexican flag, but if you didn't know any better,
you'd think that it was. So they were communicating who
their target market was. Start kicking illegals out. Add more importantly,
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and the potential flow of any new business sentence, we're
not letting anybody back in. They went under and again
their business model, as I said, they never really made
much of an attempt to hire. They call themselves Tricolor,
and the tri color three colors are the colors that
almost exactly match the Mexican flag. And this is a
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huge segment of their business. They were focusing on. Think
of the old mortgages. You heard the term subprime. They
were focusing on caier loans for people that basically weren't creditworthy.
And the business model is you charge very very high
interest rates because the person is a huge individual risk,
and you hope you make enough money on the people
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who pay back their loans to swallow the amount of
losses that you have. Now with their potential client base
shriveling up, they're out of business. You know, I'm always
thinking about ways to make money in our world. As
you know, there are a couple of businesses out there
that I think are kind of premised on the same
thing of doing a lot of business with illegals, but
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the notion of like shorting a stock, and if a
company goes bankrupt, the stock usually goes close to zero
or to zero. I just have a hard time doing
that when the stocks keep going up and the one
or two that I was thinking of their stacks keep
going up. Well, I mean, you can lose an astonishing
amount of money if you short a stock that's going up,
and often when they go down, it's an instantaneous thing
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where they declare bankruptcy, and nobody even seemed to have
any indication that it was coming. Columbus Day. Trump issued
a proclamation for Columbus Day, and then he sent out
a social media post. It said we're back Italians. Columbus
a has, you know, in the minds of the liberals
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become a terrible day, and in many communities they've changed
the name to Indigenous People's Day, reflecting the people who
were here before Columbus was here. I want to comment
for a moment on it whether or not Columbus they
should be a federal holiday or not. I'm agnostic. We
can't keep creating new holidays. And obviously if you create
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a new one, unless you're just going to keep saying
that we're never going to deliver the mail in this
country or federal workers. That put kind of a kick
in the butt for the federal workers who would have
had to day off, though, is it it? The reality
of Columbus. Now, let's start with this. If Columbus, who
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while Italian, was actually working for Spain, Spain funded him.
Italians wouldn't give him the money. If Columbus had not
come and discovered the New World, someone was going to
he'd probably beat whoever the next guy was by one
or two years. It was beginning to dawn on a
lot of people that the earth isn't flattered. That if
you if you start heading to the West. Eventually you're
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going to bump into something the great irony, you know.
Columbus and many of those, you know, they thought that
the first thing you get to would be India, that
you'd beginning to the edge of Asia, rather than this
whole other continent and whole other half of the world
that was there. But they went. And because they went,
and because he discovered land, and because word was sent back,
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the new world was explored. Now in terms of identifying
it with Columbus, he was first, and he was courageous,
and he was a visionary. Could you just imagine what
it would have been like on those three ships setting
sailed for a new world, and you're sailing and sailing
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and by these ships were going you know, they're countering headwinds.
There's no motors on these ships. It's taken forever and
they're going through nothing and nothing and nothing, and you
see just a bunch of nothing. The word is is
that Columbus had about two more weeks and they were
going to hang them. Well, Benci, they stumbled in one
of the lands, one of the islands in the Caribbean.
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Ind word came back here it is, and then everything
else was discovered In reality, the Norwegians were probably first,
and some think people from what we now call Russia
came over to the other side of North America long
before that. It's hard to really know, but the case
is pretty compelling that Leif Erikson came over and landed
somewhere in what we would call Canada or New England
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many years prior to that. The thing that was curious
is that it was not followed by any type of
exploration from anyone else. What was key about Columbus is
that it did start the migration to the New World.
The fact that it was Columbus and the fact that
it was a European nation meant that what came over
to the United States from all of those nations of
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Europe was a sense of a civilization. It was a
civilization that was both premised on where they came from
and a rebellion against it. While the Spanish, as I say,
Columbus being Italian, he was still funded by Spain, which
is why much of that part of the world was
colonized by the Spaniards. The English came in and they
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took a good chunk of the North American mainland, and
in particular we now know as the founding states of
the United States of America, and the religion, the culture,
the beliefs of those countries came over here, but there
was a rebellion against the form of government that did
not empower the individual. Who knows if someone else's first,
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what kind of a culture and civilization we would have had.
Columbus and the Spanish, and for that matter, the Italians
were Christians and Catholics, specifically the Salvation. If you're a believer,
if you're of a Christian of the people who came
over here and the people who ended up finding this religion,
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if you're a Christian, I understand if you're not, you
wouldn't think it's a good thing. Would certainly be a
good thing. The most overwhelmingly overwhelmingly Christian population in the
world is Latin America and South America. These are people
who descended from the indigenous people and then bread and
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had kids with if you want to call them invaders
or colonizers, whatever they did. If you're a Christian, you
have to believe that souls are saved as a result
of this. This notion, however, that any of this is
an invasion. First of all, Columbus didn't invade anything. Columbus
didn't go and run rough shot across the wild West,
killing off. He's hanging around there on the Caribbean. They
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made a couple more trips, and then everybody else came.
For people who argue that the bringing of Western civilization,
bringing a civilization to the US in simpilation and creating
it is a good thing. They can go back to
the earth and live the lifestyle that the indigenous people
were living. Then they can do that, or they can
leave and go back to Europe out of their guilt,
which they never do. It has been a slur and
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it's it's always been interesting to me, actually that it's
been the Italians that have most objected to the de
Columbus staying of Columbus because, as I say, he was
actually representing Spain. He's working for Spain. Isabella and Ferdinand,
the royal family of Spain. They're the ones that funded
and bankrolled them. You cannot even name the ships that
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Columbus came over on, can you. He's got he's gonna
bolix this right and left. I'm gonna repeat this. You
said the Santa Maria. That's one whenever you start a
question with it is that it's a side of lack
of confidence. What were you gonna say? I want to
hear this. Yeah, we're stalled at one. Pinta is right,
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that's two. That was my first cow I ever had
was a pinto. There were any number of jokes on that.
I said, my pinto the same horse power as the
pin to the game of the Nina or Nina Nina
sata mav and which one did Columbus himself sail on?
There was a command ship, he was on the Saturary
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and Santa Maura of course stands for Saint Mary. So
I mean the Christianity of this? Well, yeah, there was
a Sopranos episode where they all object. They had a
rally against the people who were trying to knock there,
and Tony was the only one that wasn't in duty.
All this stuff about Pridy your ethnicity is a bunch
of huey. And you kept saying that there was a
there was a site field about everything, and I could
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tell there's a Sopranos about there's a Sopranos about everything.
I want to get to a more serious story. I
can't say that this story had a positive ending because
it's not the right way of saying it. But I
think that the family of Elijah Wilks, who is the
man that essentially attacked an off duty mill w police officer,
they came out and via their attorney, issued a statement
over the weekend saying that the shooting was justified. One
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of the things that I didn't know since the officer
was off duty, was is there any video? You know?
And I didn't know if he was off duty as
in just leaving work or coming into work er for
hours away from his shift. But he wasn't in a
squad car, so there wouldn't be the dash cam, and
he if he wasn't in uniform, would he have a
body camera. But there was video out there and it
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did indeed appear to back up most of what the
original version of the story was. One guy caughts off
another guy. They get out of the car, they're yelling
at each other, in Wilkes starts pistol whipping the police
officer off duty who did have a gun with him,
and shot and killed him. The family viewed the video
and they said that the use of force by the
officer was justified. They deserve credit for saying that No.
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It's been suggested that the race of the officer is
one of the reasons that they reacted that way, But
I don't buy that. We had a police officer who
was harassed essentially out of a job, who was in
African American Joseph Mensa, So I don't think that's the case.
I think that what you had here is a family
that saw the video and realized that the guy I
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can't imagine him doing anything like this, lost his temper.
People can go nuts over some of these fender benders
and so on, and you know, in the city of
Milwaukee were driving is so hard and being made harder
by Chevy Johnson footing his curbs all over the middle
of the streets. These things happen, and you know, the
guy overreacted and so on. But if you're smacking somebody
around with a gun, you have a right to use
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deadly force to kill him, and the officer did. And
I think the family of Wilkes deserves credit for coming
out and saying this, because I just know there were
people in this community that were waiting for them to
light a match and they chose not to do it,
and they deserve credit. For that. This is the Mark
Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. Bait and switch.
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You've all heard that term, right, I'm not gonna keep
asking you. Well, you you sort of did I give
you a correct and your n Indipena and Santa Maria?
Or did I not? I ruled it correct even though
you stumbled around in your way of you were like
a drunk that's walking around in a hallway who you
know in a hotel and he does actually find his
hotel room, but he bounced against the sides of the
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wall anyway. Bait and switch, it's a classic marketing scheme.
You know, you run an ad for something that looks
really really really really attractive and all of that, and
then you see that they get person and it's not
quite the like when you see these produce ads for
the grocery stores. You never see a banana that's all
bruised up. You go to the store and off and
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that's what's in there. Paul says that's true of the
Big Mac as well. It's been such a long time
since I've ordered a Big Mac. You're saying the Big Mac.
I always thought the Big Mac look great, But you're
saying not anymore or does it look great? People take
that up with Paul Bait and switch. Lake Country Classical Academy.
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When it was announced, it got the support of just
about all of us on the right. It's a charter school.
The charter school is a public school, but not run
by the public school district. It's a hybrid between a
private school and a public school. The charter school is
going to be part of the story. Charter school in
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Occonavoy Hillsdale Affiliated. Hillsdale College in Michigan is I'm not
going to say the most conservative college in the United States,
but it's the best known conservative college in the United States.
It has just stood up for American values and conservative
values and so on. And in particular, the education they
offer at Hillsdale is a rebellion against all of the
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new fangled education that we see everywhere else. They teach
in the classics, it's a traditional curriculum, high academics and
so on, and Hillsdale's created a curriculum for below college
K through twelve. They've created this curriculum and they're offering
it up to other schools to adopt the Hillsdale curriculum.
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Lake Country Classical Academy when they started up, said that
they were going to be a Hillsdale affiliated college, meaning
that they would operate under the principles established by Hillsdale.
The story was first reported by Wisconsin Right Now after
a social media post from the family of the child involved.
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When you have a school like this, you're going to
have a lot of smart kids, and one of them
and obviously probably a fair number of conservative smart kids.
You go to a Hillsdale affiliated school for two reasons.
You don't want a stupid liberal education and be you
want a good education. She proposes to start a turning
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Point chapter at Lake County Classical Academy. These things a
lot of them before Charlie Kirk was killed. They're popping
up all over. Whether or not the movement lasts or not, again,
I don't know, but we do know that lots and
lots of young people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's
assassination are more determined than ever that his message in
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what he stood for, will live on. And there have
been more. I think the number is more new chapters
started in the few weeks since his death than were
in existence before his death. If it's not that it's
really close student proposed to do one at Lake Huntry
Class Academy and the school principal turned it down. This
would be I can't say if you would have just
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mark guess the last guess the most likely school in
Wisconsin to accept a turning point chapter. It probably be
that's one. It's founded by Hillsdale. Say, Charlie Kirk did
not graduate from college famously, but he had a close
relationship with Hillsdale. They gave him an honorary degree. He
went over to the to the college several times and spoke.
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He was linked more with Hillsdale than any other college
or university in the United States of America. The story
gets better when I think of like the term bait
and switch. Hey, this is the whole bait and switch
comes in here that they appealed to conservatives people like
myself to speak up on behalf of them. They put
the Hillsdale thing out. But then when it comes time
to actually let your actions match your words, suddenly you're
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something other than that. You're the same leftist crap that
rejects these things. Can you think of any other case
of bait and switch than a victimized They conservatives in
Wisconsin in the past ten years. I even think I've
created a verb for it. It's called to be hagadorned.
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Brian Hagudoron ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court as a conservative.
He's not been a liberal. He's just not consistently conservative.
He's somebody who votes with both sides. He's conservative more
often than not. But he's disappointed a number of conservatives
in that he wasn't a more solidly conservative vote. And
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when Brian ran for office, I think he created the
impression that he would be a conservative. He has said
I only ever said I was going to stand up
for the rule of law, no matter which way is
going to go. So in any event, it was he's
turned out to be disappointing. As it turns out now
with the conservatives and the majority, he's one of only
three and probably soon to be two conservative votes left
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in the court, even if it's not always a conservative vote. Nonetheless,
do you know who the principal of the school is?
The Lake has wife? I mean as I say they've
been hagrid arned again. Margaret Haggard Order is the principal
of the school, and she denied the request. This has
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created an uproar because and this is one of the
things that happens when it wouldn't have been in the past,
when obstruct or block a young conservative person like the
student here. The family's name is Smiley. I'll get to the
names in a minute. They posted the daughter's mother posted
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on social media about this, and it is angered a
fair number of conservatives who believe that Lake Country Classical
Academy is basically just lied via it's marketing about what
it's about. Now, I'll give you their defense. It's a
plausible defense, and we'll get to that in a moment.
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But the board of directors of this school, it's like
I'm looking at the cabinet at Scott Walker. It's almost
all Walker types. In fact, an honorary member of the
board is Scott Walker. He's listed his honor I don't
know that means other than they wanted to get his
infromoderate and his endorsement on there. But and this is
a good thing. The first person to come out and
blast this decision is Scott Walker. No, he's not a
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voting member of the board, but he's on there on
their website and so on, and he's blasted this saying
that they should have a chapter. But the other members
of the board, some of them I'll admit that I've
never heard of, but others that I have came out
of the Walker administration or are sort of out of
that realm of Wisconsin politics. The board president is Randy Goodsill.
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Georgia Maxwell is the vice president. Georgia Maxwell prominent conservative activist,
Republican appointing to a state agent. She's still on the board.
Skyler file. He's a conservative lawyer. He's a guy who
filed a lawsuit against requiring lawyers to be members of
the Wisconsin Bar Association. Ellen Nowak again, she's been involved
in Republican politics forever. She's in the Walker administration. She's
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not the president of America Transmission Company. Tom Brannigan, John
wu Matthew Bandry. In some cases, I don't know these people,
but of the ones that I've known, they're all conservative people.
So I'm wondering how the Board of Directors allows this
to happen. Now, there's a report in Wisconsin right now
that I linked up to on my x account over
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the weekend that goes into this insignificant detail. The young
student is well, not that young. She's in high school.
Katie Smiley is her name. She's the one who wanted
to start the chapter, and she and her mother are
standing the ground and are weighing in on this that
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they sought to continue it. In the credit of Scott Walker,
he posted an X they should absolutely be able to
have a chapter. We will fight for students to have
a Turning Point USA or any other conservative group at
their school. Now, Initially, when I heard of this story,
I wanted, is this a rival over here? Scott Walker
heads another young adults conservative group, Young Americans Foundation, and
Turning Points kind of pass them up in terms of
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name recognition and so on. My initial thought was, all
these Walker affiliated people don't want Turning Point there because
it's kind of getting in the way of you. Why
if that's not true? Scott Walker, to his credit, immediately
step forward in defense. I've turned Point and the chapter.
So do you have here an arrogant principle that simply
screwed the board. I'm gonna do what I want kind
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of a Brian Hagan and I'm gonna you know, the
rule a lot, et cetera. Now, the defense is this,
first of all, the principal hag She sent out a
letter I guess it was a form of evil, but
a letter to the parents, and it was so obnoxiously condescending.
It's enough. It's the kind of crap that I know
you're gonna get from liberals when people who are conservative
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put this out and it was just filled with condescending.
At Lake Country Christian Classical Academy, we use the Socratic method, that's,
you know, teaching by asking questions, the method I use
here with poor Paul in there, and you know we
don't we're not activists, et cetera. Now, first of all,
she's diminishing the teaching capabilities of Turning Point USA. But secondly,
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anybody who's anything about Charlie Kirk, he is the guy
that used the Socratic method. It's the whole means for
what they do. Ask people questions to make them think
about their beliefs and thinking things to you're gonna convert
them over to the other side because the views that
they hold, once they realize they can't defend them, they
realize that they're wrong. It's exactly what Turning Point try
to do. Now their position is we don't allow and
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we don't allow any of these outside clubs or activities,
and my favorite one, if you let one in, you
have to let them all in. I hear people say
that all the time. No, you don't. If I let
somebody into my home, it doesn't mean I have to
let Paul in. No, you don't. Now, the fact that
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they're a charter school puts in a little different category.
If you're a private association, you know, whatever the hell
you want. Basically, by being a charter school, there is
a public component to it. And you can make the
case that they're arguing that this would and they brought
this up should Does that mean we have to have
an Antifa chapter. No, it doesn't. But that argument if
you let one in and you let in the other.
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I just always debug that how many Nazi chapters of
anything do we have anyway? Almost none in any walk
of life meeting, But we have all sets of other groups.
Meaning you can say no toe some. But furthermore, there
was a way of working this out. You could set
this up in a way in which the chapter is
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like at the school, but maybe not on their website
or something like that. But secondly, they do have other
outside groups they deal with. They don't have their own
independent sports program. They partner with another school for the
were athletic because the schools are small do not have
sports teams with enough kids to make a team go.
They partner with another school out there. So that's an
outside organization that's in there, and so on. I can't
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try to contact Margaret Haggerer and she has not responded
to me. I can tell you that I did speak
to data one of the board members, Ellen ellen Nowek,
and she indicated to me that there's going to be
a board meeting Wednesday night, and she said she's very
optimistic that there will be a positive resolution of this. Well,
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I hope so. But the bigger problem here, and it's
just it's always the problem, and I've explained it with
regard to the news media and many other things. When
you try to and I talked about in another group,
you know, the drift of conservative organizations. You start something conservative,
but eventually the people that are involved aren't that conservative
and they drift off to the other side. This will
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handled terribly by the principle the letter that she said, oh,
it was obnoxious. She didn't make any attempt whatsoever to
accommodate or work with the board better understand that if
these are the people that you hire or run your school,
you are never going to live up to the principles
that you claim that you were going to live by,
which is the Hillsdale principles. As I say that there
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was a way to deal with this, but the principle
has not herself backed out, meaning she could have shown
the initiative to do so, she could speak in a
less insulting turn, but she didn't. And the reason EVER
got the whole bait and switch is there's lefty schools
that do lefty crap all the time. I complain about it,
bot what do you expect. I supported on my program
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this school when it was proposed, and I said it
was a great thing that it was going to happen.
If I go out there and give you my endorsement
and then you turn around and you'd be the same
stink job that every other public school is out there,
I do resent it. I'm going to quote the letter
from the principal, Margaret Hagito, and this is what she
said on on Friday and attempt to knock down this story, which,
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of course it's like knocking down a fire by throwing
gasoline on it, Dear Lake Country Classical Academy community, There
has been some confusion on social media today about school
sanctioned clubs at LCCA. With this in mind, we are
an active conversation with Turning Point USA. It is clear
that we have a lot of common ground. We respect
tpusa's mission and apply our own club policy consistently similar
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to TPUSA. Classical education is an antidote to trends in
coeducation and education that emphasize political activism over reason debate.
If t us TPUSA, that's Turning Put USA, we're to visit.
We hope they would appreciate the honest, open, socratic discussion
and civil debates that are a hallmark of a classical education.
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And oh condescend well if they come and like they're
supposed to come in and bowance, scrape in front of you,
and that appreciate shut up and that our LCCA students
have in the classrooms every day since its founding, LCCA
has not approved student clubs affiliated with outside political or
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religious organizations. Our position, which is consistent with Hillsdale's guidance
and reflection in our Family Handbook, which refers to extracurricular
clubs as in Richmond classes and states. The school may
sponsor a number of student enrichment classes that enhance the
curriculum of the school, and in keeping with the school's mission,
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the school will not sponsor enrichment classes that are open
to only parts of the student body, including classes for
students who with particular religious or political views. All enrichment
classes must be appreciated by it, must be approved of
the principle, and have an active faculty sponsor. Mean it,
it's hard to imagine any group that wouldn't have some
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type of political view. It's impossible at some level you're
going to have this. But beyond that, when they call
themselves a Hillsdale approved curriculum and they state the type
of edgy, that's a political statement in and of itself,
and it would seem to me the turning quite perfectly
aligns with their mission. To be clear, LCCA has not
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and does not discriminate against anyone based on their views.
The suggestion that a proposed TPUSA student club was rejected
due to its viewpoint is completely false. I consider that
statement to essentially be I won't say a lie, dishonest.
It is because of their views. You've described them as
a political orgation. So that means it's because they have views.
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You may say it's you know, I would have said
the same thing to a liberal group as our conservative,
But don't say it's not because of their views, because
their views are that they steal in an educational context,
but from a conservative and for that matter, Christian perspective.
I hope the board works this out, and I hope
the board understands that it has a problem with its administration.
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As I say, we have enough trouble trying to stop
public schools from being leftist hell holes. We need to
make sure that the alternatives that are created too this
the parents are sending there because they're specifically looking for,
not that other thing. On a somewhat related topic, I
want to follow up on a discussion from last week.
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I commented on Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty filing
a lawsuit aimed at stopping a provision of the current
state budget that provides funding for additional prosecutors in Milwaukee
and potentially walk A, Shaw County. Will not will excuse
me wrong, Yeah, Well made the statement that, well, the
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state law doesn't allow this diversion of funds for prosecutors.
The money's got to go into a fund for schools
and libraries. My retort to that is, the state budget
diverts funds from things all over the place. Why are
you diverting one of the things that actually addresses a
law and order problem that we have. Can't you pick
your spots. At the time of the last podcast, I
had not gotten a response from Rickysenberg, who runs WILL.
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When again, I see this is a very good organization WILL,
and I'm trying to stop them from drifting off and
being the same you know crap. Okay, we'll do one
for the lefties here to show that we're you know,
he gave me a lengthy response, and in fairness to them,
I want to share a portion of it. I don't
think he addresses a single one of my points, but
I'll read it anyway. I know about progressive public interest
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law firms. We've been beating them for years. I understand
your contention about nonprofits becoming less conservative. It's a version
of O'Sullivan's first law from National Review back in day,
and I've had it in mind for a long while that,
by the way, that was the law. Any organization that
isn't a version of any organization that isn't specifically conservative, isn't.
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I didn't state it correctly, But if you're not going
to be conservative, you're just going to drift off and
become something else continuing. Sometimes that does happen, just as
more recently some conservative organizations have abandoned conservatism for populism.
But it would be absurd to say that WILL has
shifting priorities or is no longer conservative. I can I
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didn't say they were no longer conservative. I said I
was concerned about the drift. I can go through the drill.
Wisconsin opened during pandemic. Wisconsin opened during pandemic because we
and others brought lawsuits that insisted on the rule that
rule of law tripe. We got the definition court, We
got the definitive court order that prevented the Biden administration
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from giving away fourteen billion dollars based on race and gender.
We got a restraining round, and they go through a
number of other cases. All good, and I repeatedly praised
them for doing all of this because there's nobody else
said to do it. And they go on a number.
Then he continues, I could do pages of this stuff.
I don't mind if people disagree with our choice of
a particular case. But the idea that Will is not
conservative or has shifting priorities is false. Again, I said,
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I feared that there was drift here. My fear is
that this is a sign that they won't be conservative
and say that they didn't. I appreciate your larger point,
but trying to fit us it does not work. And
then he went through all the reasons again, nitpicking, why
you're not supposed to be able to do this under
the law, so forth, so forth, and so on and again.
My question here is just a matter of priorities, whether
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or not you figure the belief that the law was
violated or not. We're actually spending public money in Milwaukee
on something that isn't stupid for once, and I would
much rather that you devote your clearly limited resources. You
only have so much money on staff on all of
the idiotic uses of funds that fits in the stupidity category.
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Let me move to this story. We've got another one
of these cases dealing with a public employee and the
residency rule. In this instance, the person who was elected
the municipal judge in South Milwaukee is turning in her
resignation after an investigation into whether or not when she
ran for office she didn't live in South Milwaukee. Now
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the evidence against her is strong, depending on your point
of view. Her name is Kelly Martinka, she's married to
a police officer. That police officer and applying for a
job in another community stated his residence as received. The
Martinkas presumably are still living together. It's not a divorce
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filing or anything. If he lives in Racene, didn't that
mean that she lived in Recene. When you run for
public office, you do not have to be a resident
of that community, but you have to move into that
community after being elected. But here's the thing. On her
nominating petition she listed South Milwaukee. So when she ran
for office, you have to sign petition and signatures to
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get on the ballot. She stated South Milwaukee. And the
question is whether or not this was a false statement
about her residence, given the fact that her husband at
the same time was claiming to live and Racide. Martenka
is saying she won by thirty six votes. Who is
a close election. Martenka is resigning, saying she doesn't believe
that she did anything wrong, but she wants to end
the controversy, so forth, and so on. Now to this
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story here. We discussed last week for a different reason,
the proposed garbage fee in the City of Wakashaw. They're
going to charge all property owners one hundred and sixty
dollars a year to collect the garbage and take the
garbage out of the property out of the city budget.
It's going to still be in the city budget, but
it will not be covered by property taxes. Here's why
communities do this. You see this all over the place.
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In Milwaukee is the master of it. Take a city
service and put people on a special expert charge for
that so you can take it out of your general
property tax budget. It allows you to tax people more
than the state limit. State law. Currently, the Supreme Court
is not a return to it yet. They'll get to it,
partly in Act ten and partly in the revenue limits.
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They limit the amount of money that a city can
raise your taxes every year. So in order to get
around that, they're creating all of these fees. And in
Waukeshaw they're creating this garbage fee. The vote on the
city council to who it was nine to five. Here's
why I bring this up one of the nine. One
of the people who decided that Walker Straw isn't tax
enough just declared her candidacy for mayor. Walkshaw is of
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all the cities in Waukeshaw County, it may be the
least Republican, but it's still Republican. For instance, the president's election,
Burkefield is getting close to Trump carried the city. It's
still more Republican the Democrat. But they keep electing lefty mayors.
The current mayors are lefty. The predecessor Mayor, Larry Nelson,
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was an even bigger lefty. And now they're gonna have
a new election because currently or as I say, I
describe him as a left he maybe more accurately he's
a moderate, but he's not a conservative, and he's not
a Republican. And he's supported Kamala Harris a president. Now
here's one of Belling's rules. It doesn't hold all the time.
It just holds almost all the time. No matter where
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a community is really liberal, really conservative, in between the
city leader of the community, the village president of the
mayor or whatever the title is almost always more liberal
than the community. I didn't say always, I said almost
so just grab whatever city it is, and the mayor
is going to tandem BRIT's case in Brookfield, It's been
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the case in Waukesha. It's certainly been the case in
o'conhom Walk, where they've had a Democrat running for mayor,
and they've got their own mayoral election too. That Democrat, Mangus,
is not running for reelection anyway. They're gonna have a
choice here, Scott Allen, who's a member of the State
Assembly and is conservative. He's in fact, he might be
more conservative than me. He's a conservative guy. He's running
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for mayor. And this raised the garbage fee because we
aren't taxing you enough. Helven Seben. And I don't know
if I pronounced that correctly. Helvin Seben, I believe is
how I pronounce the name. She's the opponent. So I
don't know who's going to win the election. But I
can tell you is that there is a long history
of communities electing mayors that are to the left of
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the populace of the city, and it's one of the
reasons why they somehow never seem to be able to
figure out ways to cut the city budget. I would
argue that the first place to start is to get
rid of the city administrator. They have a full time
mayor at Waka Shaw. You do not need to have
a city administrator who's full time and a mayor who's
full time. And most cities that have full time mayors
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don't have. Milwaukee doesn't even have a city administrator. It's duplicative,
and it's a sign of a mayor that simply it
is too lazy to do the job of running the
agencies underneath the mayor. You can have a chief of
staff and all of that stuff that is similar, but
the pay for chiefs of staff is never as high
as city administrators. I've covered a lot of territory on
this program today. Don't you think I've covered a lot
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of territory. But I've got one more Walgreens. I've driven
past Walgreens corporate headquarters, I bet at least nine hundred times,
except not much of the corporate headquarters is in there anymore.
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They're in Deerfield, Illinois, and it's right on I ninety four,
real close to where I ninety four splits where if
you go, I want to get my numbers right. If
you go one way, you're heading toward downtown Chicago and
onto the Edens, and the other way is taking you west.
In any event, it's right around where it splits, kind
of near Lake Cook Road for those of you who
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know that area. They've got other office building. That's the
Corporate d Quotas they made with great fanfare a decade ago. However,
they were going to move into the old downtown Chicago
Post Office. The post office moved out, but that building
is famous. It's in downtown. I think it's the one
where they shot the shooting scene from The Untouchables. I
might be wrong about that, but I think so. It's
a big, famous building in the Lower Loop of Chicago.
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Walgreens has announced that it is pulling out of that
building in Chicago, even though it has six years left
on the lease. It doesn't take a genius to figure
why they're getting the hell out of downtown Chicago and
they're gonna move it all back to the suburbs. Leftist
cities are killing themselves. That's hundreds of jobs. Now. My
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guess is that a lot of those employees lived in
the suburbs and were commuting into the city on the
trains on the systems that they have in Chicago and
so on, and they're relieved by this. But remember why
all of this started ten years ago at the same thing,
the millennial generation wanted to live in cities and wanted
to live downtown. You saw the same thing in Milwaukee.
A number of businesses that were out in the suburbs
moved to the city. Most famous example Northwestern. It's shutting
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everything down in the Franklin campus and they're building new
buildings in Milwaukee. A lot of the employees younger would
rather work in cities than in the suburbs. And that
works until the city becomes a crime and fested hell hole.
When you become San Francisco, nobody wants to work there
when you want it. When you become Portland, nobody normal
wants to work there. And when you become Chicago. The
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great strength of Chicago is that it had this incredibly
vibrant downtown. They're killing it. Sadly, they'll never learn. If
they were going to learn, they would have learned by now.
They'll never learn. You in there, you may learn. I
drill this into your head every day. I use the
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Charlie Kirk method. I knew right and left you what
you mean you've learned You've just not learned at a
fast enough pace for me. By the way, I uh
lost my football picked by half a point. I knew
I was gonna lose. But the reason I feel confident
my picks this year, I couldn't just couldn't find a
good game that I liked. And in fact, in full disclosure,
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if I would have had a backup game, it would
have been an even worse loss. I would have taken
Detroit over Kansas City, and Kansas City slaughtered them. So
it's not like if only I picked the other game
and so on. But the thing that has to be
confident is even when I lost, it was only by
a half point, and the team that beat me scored
in the last forty five seconds or so of the
game to do So what about those Brewers? Should we
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talk about them? All right? That's next on the Markedlling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling podcast. Now we do this podcast,
and I recognize that many people listen to podcasts well
after the fact. We're doing this on Monday afternoon, is
before several hours before the Brewers played Game one of
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the National League Championship Series with the Dodgers. So I'm
speaking only about events that occurred prior to that. The
Brewers over the weekend finish off the Cubs in really
dramatic five game series, winning in Milwaukee three to one
with outstanding pitching, all by young pitchers, and all but
two of them pitchers that were not on the roster
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the beginning of the season. The pitchers that started and
ended the game were the two best relievers at the
beginning of the year. Even the starter kind of functioned
as a reliever. McGill and then Abnery Revit. The other
guys were younger players. Chad Patrick was called up right
at the beginning of the season, but was sent down
as a starter for an effectiveness and was clearly the
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key player in the game. The Cubs had one rally
going in that game. Chad came on the first and
second and went out in the sixth inning end got
out of it ing got out of it by retiring
the first guy retired as Suzuki who just killed the Brewers.
In any event, the Brewers did dispatch the Cub's end.
I mean when the game was over, ipes for a
second unsure so what it is to do, because I
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don't know what to do after clinching games, because the
Breweries going into that game were three and ten in
clinching games in the postseason. The Brewers had not won
a playoff series since twenty eighteen, which doesn't sound so
bad until you remember the Brewers always make the playoffs
for most games, you know, you make it once every
three or four years, that would be the norm. The
Brewers made it seven of the last eight years. And
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the knock just is for one reason or another, they
get knocked out, and several instances they were heartbreaking, they
close and so on, and in this case it kind
of reversed itself. But there was just this explosion of
euphouria that you just sensed from everyone over the whole thing.
We finally won one again. This comment will be dated
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for any of you who listen more than a few
hours later, but I just think beating the Dodgers is
going to be borderline impossible. If you follow my comments
in baseball over the years, I focus almost entirely on
pitching and not on anything else. And the Dodgers' weakness
all year was depth, and they're starting pitching. But in
the postseason, you don't need depth. You need three good
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starting pitchers and you can cobble together a fourth game
if you need one. With the bullpen and the Dodgers,
what happened with Blake Snell in the final weeks of
the season. He's just become an extremely good pitch and
they didn't have that for most of the year. Otani
is probably at best at number three or four starter.
They're just more deep in pitching, and the Brewers starting
pitching is right now the weakness of the team. It
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was their strength all season. But as I say speak
here on Monday, the Brewers just don't know who to
start tonight. It's thought to be it's going to be
both Josekantana and Quinn Priester, and they're trying to decide
who's going to go first and who's going to go
second and try to squeeze two or three innings out
of each of them. Kantana's badly banged up and Priester
was shelled in his most recent start. Freddy Peralta has
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not been sharp in his starts, and it's just hard
to see surviving this and cobbling together all of these
bullpen games. The Brewers have made only one roster change.
You are allowed to change your roster after each series.
You can change it during a series, but the only
roster change again is to reflect this situation with pitching
Tobias Myers, who mostly has been in the miners, but
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otherwise when a Brewer starter has been added to the
postseason roster and Nick Miers has been boos. And that's
simply a function of they need guys who can Let's
imagine you fall behind God forbid eight to one in
the third inning, you still need to cover those seven
innings of pitching. They haven't got Robert Gosser to do that.
Got You need to have somebody to go multiple innings
because you just don't want to burn up your pitchers.
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You really really need in a game that if not
a loss cause you're way behind on you need guys
that can eat some innings up in a longer series
and hopefully even pitch effectively. But the rulers are just
loaded to the guys that can go one inning, and
I think that's the reason that they made that shift.
There's no indication Brandon would have can play. Even in
the World Series. They have not put them on the
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sixty day injured list, so that means they're holding out
hope that maybe for a World Series. But from what
I hear, he wasn't close to being able to be
added to the roster here that he's not even really
thrown off a mound or anything like that. But they're
they can just rule it out and put them on
a sixty day injured list. But since the season's sport
an end, you know, what's the point of that. So
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there's still perhaps some hope of that. Dodgers lineup's really good.
It's even better in terms of hitting. The Cubs lineup.
The Brewers, on the other hand, scrap out runs. Interestingly,
they won the final game three to one on three
home runs. That's not the norm by which they win
in the postseason. Home runs tend to be the way
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the teams score rather than scrapping them out. So I
just the big bread that I had was getting knocked
out by the Cubs, and it's just because of the
insufferability of Cubs fans. And it was the same thing
and just proof of this. Apparently the Brewers puts on
social media or something. You know, the Cubs have this
flag they fly at Ridley after everyone in w The
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Brewers on their website put an l flag. The Cubs
fans are ballistic. I mean that is the mildest, softest,
nicest little tweak that you can imagine. They're like liberals.
They can dish it out and they can't take anything.
I know what it would have been like, we lost
this game. So they won, and let's see what they
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can do from here on out. The other problem, of course,
is just when you have to use just about everybody
in Game five and you play two days later, it's
an advantage for the team greater rest. They can reset
their pitching staff, the Dodgers and so on. But part
of that is the Dodgers finish their series off in
four games and the Brewers needed the five, so they
get that reward off of that. At least for the
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Brewers by having home field, they get to stay home
and don't have to get on a plane and waste
a day on all of that. But there's only four
teams that are in it, and we're one of them,
and that's a good thing. We'll save comments on our
other sports teams for another time. Anyway, that's it for
today's podcast. Why don't you cobble together a thousand dollars
and go to a game? No, it's more fun to
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be there. It's more fun to be there checking the
ticket prices and so on. What struck me is there
isn't the normal gap in which it's usually almost free
to sit in the corner of the up deck a
very expensive. The gap is it's not insanely expensive with
a great seat and really cheap for the bad seat.
The range is closer together if you want to be
in the wall part right.
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I have a perfect item to start the podcast with today.
One of the things that I've been saying I can't
say forever, but i'd say the last ten years that
I started saying on my radio program, and I said
it all the time, is you can't exaggerate liberalism anymore.
I mean, if I come out and say the next thing,
you know they'll do, and then come up with the
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craziest possible thing, invariably I will find out that it
in fact is already happening, that it's reality. Anyway. Here's
an example of this. There's a post that appeared on
X over the weekend. It's the poster is an important
other than I'll identify the handle for the poster. There
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is to Tania McGrath. And here's the post. My friends
and I have been out all day protesting against this ceasefire.
We demand a ceased fire that wasn't arranged by Donald Trump.
We will never give up the struggle for peace. Now
here's The thing about this, there's all sorts of reaction
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to this post, and here's where the reaction is. No
one knows if this is a sarcastic post making fun
of the left, or if it actually is a Lefty
expressing that position. And that is what it's come to.
The left is so extreme that you now don't know
unless you know who the person is individually. You know,
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if a Chuck Schumer or something. Unless you know the person,
you don't know if it's somebody pretending to be a
leftist so stupid, or if it actually is a leftist
that is that stupid. There's no way of knowing anymore. Seriously,
how do you even know when they're kidding? Like Schumer
said over the weekend, every day of the shutdown gets better, Well,
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that's an odd thing. I'm assuming he meant it. But again,
if you would have put those words in his mouth
to make fun of him, they would have been insulted
that you would. That is what it's come to. You
no longer can tell when the Left is kidding or not,
because everything that they believe in is so crazy that
it sounds like they're kidding even when they're not. So,
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Rather than decide whether or not this is real or not.
The more important point is you can no longer tell
there is obviously truth, and they're thinking to this. They
hate the fact, you know, And as you know, I'm
a skeptic as to whether or not this ceasefire can hold. Nonetheless,
if it does, it's an undeniably good thing. They can't
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stand good things happening if Trump has anything to do
with that good thing. They'd rather have terrible things. I mean,
it's just an unbelievable concept. I mean, if Trump walked
up to one of them, See, they're selfish, so this
wouldn't work. Trump walked up to one of them and
gave them a million outs. It turned it down because
of Trump. They would not do that because they're selfish.
But things that don't directly affect them, like world peace
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and so on, they're more frosted if Trump brings us peace.
If Trump brought us some terrible war and there was
massive conflict that people were dying, they would be happy
by that because then they could bitch about him. Extraordinary thing. Really, Oh,
they've belonging against. I mean, Obama changed their whole peace thing.
Obama and Killery are warmongers for Heaven's sakes, and we
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could dive into the history of all of it. But
enough hift history for the day, although there will certainly
be a segment on Columbus Day as we move forward,
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It is certainly not surprising that President Prompe did not
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win the Nobel Peace Prize. I said, I don't remember
which podcast it was, maybe Thursday or Wednesdays of last week,
that he's not gonna win the Nobel Peace Prize. They
aren't going to give it to him. It goes back
to the point that we were making in that introductory
sacred here. It doesn't matter how much Trump could somehow
wave a magic wand and war could end forever and
he wouldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he
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really wanted to win it because he's out for ratification
for stuff like this, but it isn't gonna happen. It's
the same chance that a Mel Gibson movie would have
of winning an Academy Award for Best Picture. But that's
not the reason I bring up this segment. Many people
do not know who did win it. Her name is
Maria Coriina Machado. She's deserving. I don't mean like pitted
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against Trump or anything, but in less than a vacuum
isolated on herself, she's deserving. She is somebody who has
been advocating for the victims in Venezuela who have suffered
so terribly under communist rule. Anyway, she put out the
following statement after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. This recognition
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of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to
conclude our task to conquer freedom. We are on the
threshold of victory, and today, more than ever, we count
on President Trump, the people of the United States, the
peoples of Latin America, and the Democratic nations of the
world as our principal allies to achieve freedom and democracy.
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I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela
and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause.
So the woman who did win the Nobel out of
all the leaders of the world, called out Trump for
praise in Trump's push for peace globally without having to
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use American military force. I wonder, and I don't know,
because I didn't check every I wonder how widely covered
that component of her statement was given. All I could
see in the media is Trump doesn't win Nobel Peace
for I not even mentioned Trump didn't get it. You
know the term for this when you see the IF
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a lot of times they throw out initials and people
don't know what they stand for. TDS is Trump Derangement syndrome,
and it's the explanation for all things in which the
Left has simply lost its mind because of their loathing
over Trump. There's a really interesting story to examine here
that's part of this, and that is Letitia James turning
general New York State. She's now facing criminal charges for
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mortgage fraud, which it's pretty clear she did it in
her defense. The crime that she's accused of another prominent
Democrat prosecutor is facing similar charges. Is a crime that's
committed all the time and rarely prosecuted. It's lying in
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order to get favorable treatment on your mortgage. But here's
the thing. This crime she's charged with is in the
exact same area as her own. The term is just
so appropriate. Trump up charge against Trump. Trump was criminally
charged for in his loan applications for financing of some
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of his properties, that he overstated the underlying value of
the property, which again happens all the time. In order
to justify I'll just use short, smaller numbers to make
it understandable. Let's suppose I'm looking for a five million
dollar loan for some piece of property and I say
it's worth five million. Well, maybe it's assessed that only
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two point seven million. That the five million isn't going
to be what it's worth until after I do the
improvements or whatever I think I'm gonna do. Happens all
the time. Here's the thing, though, with regard to this,
and it was a loan via bond holders. This loan
was in the past, and it's been paid off. The
loan's paid off, so there's no victim here, whether or
not Trump overstated the underlying value. Nobody was conned because
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they all got their money and their interests back. So
it was simple. And again and all these people they're
going after things for Trump, they're looking for anything because
they can't find anything anything actually illegal. That was Letitia James.
So now in her instance, here we see her doing
something similar, but in this case she actually did it.
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There are all these government programs regarded owning of properties.
Some are based on principal residences, some are second residents.
She was seeking financing for what she listed as a
second residence. You're able to get a break on the
interest rate if it's a second residence. Now, what's a
second residence you I'm surprised you don't have a second
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residence by now as rich as you are in there. Well,
now what do you have that condo wind Door County?
What is that a timeshare or reddle or what is it?
It's a timeshare? Yeah, see that they don't they would
not fit into that category. But a second residence is
somebody who owns I don't have I rent my property
in Florida. Let's imagine I owned a residence in Florida.
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In addition to hear I qualify for preferential rates more
so than if it is income property. I suppose I
bought a building in Florida and readed it out for tenants. Well,
I can't call that a second residence because it's not
for the purpose of my residence. That's what James did.
She rented the property out, meaning she should have gotten
a different interest rate. But she said on the document
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and everywhere, I just uh close on a lease on
a new vehicle. I mean, I have no clue what
I'm signing. It's just you just keep signing and signing
and signing and signing and sign and the sign and
the sign and signing. But when I say no clue
you know kind of what it all is, and they explain,
They sort of explain, but they aren't gonna They don't
want the thing to take ninety seven hours. It's all
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of this that you after this goes and so on.
So she signed her name to this and under all
of these things. It's probably your you're affirming that everything
that you're stating is true. But in this instance, she
knew exactly what she's doing. Her defenders are saying, yeah,
but you know how many people do this? My Grandcha.
She went after the ex president of the United States,
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and she campaigned when she ran for the office, she
campaigned she get Trump. So she had to fulfilling her promise.
So she brought up this ridiculous charge against Trump for
something that is by any standard, a non crime. If
there's no victim, it's not a crime. If Trump had
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in fact defaulted on the loan after overstating the underlying
value of the property. Remember also that there were rulings
in that case that valued Trump's assets said a fraction
of what they were worth. There's a ruling in which
they said mar Laga was worth like a dollar and
a half. All this stuff was done and attempt to
justify these charges. But now James herself is facing a
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mortgage fraud charge. It's a felony, and the if she's convicted,
the normal sentencing recommendation is a short period in prison.
Had she not and people said this is all just
payback from Trump, payback from Well maybe it is, but
what would you expect if you charge an innocent guy
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Trump was something When you yourself are guilty of something, you
would not expect you to have those charges brought against you.
So now all these quotes that Legicia James came, all
these posts that she made over the years, are all
coming back to haunt her, all of those, you know,
just like the whole nobody is ever going to stop
bringing up on Adam Schiff his saying nobody is above
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the law, and then Schiff himself gets caught similar type
of crime, claiming two different residences as his principal residence.
Is so on, Anderson Cooper of CNN, see now all
these Democrats admitting after the fact that well, maybe Tiss
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James should not have been crowing about indicting Trump in
the first place. According to PolitiFact, the day after she
was elected in twenty eighteen, Letitia James was asked by
a community activist if she was going to sue President Trump,
but she replied, Oh, we're definitely going to sue him.
We're going to be a real pain in the ass.
He's going to know my name personally. Cooper recalled on
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Thursday of last week, I mean, that's not a great
look for somebody who has just been elected, who has
just been campaigning, who hasn't even looked, I guess deeply
at any evidence. Now, Anderson Cooper says, this now in
twenty twenty five, nobody was saying any of that when
these people were crowing to go out and get Trump
at the time that they actually said it. In her
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own bragging about the charges that she brought. Letitia James
herself was you know, she was doing the poems and
putting out the big statements in that nobody's above the
law kind of crap and all of that stuff. And
here it now is, do I think that what she
did is an extraordinary violation of the law? Ay, it's
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clearly a violation of the law. And b it's one
of those violations of the law that all sorts of
people do, including sanctimonious liberals. I go back in time
to the nineties, they made a big deal. This is
when the liberals are on the opposite side of illegal immigration.
I forget who he the first one was, but some
politician was caught they were using an illegal immigrant to
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do daycare for their child, you know, a live in daycare,
the live in nanny types. Even back then, huge numbers
of them are illegals. Because try to find an American
citizen who's going to just move into your house and work.
One hundred and sixty eight hours a week and so on. Secondly,
the illegals were giving you a higher quality of employment
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pool than some of the legal citizens on their drugs. Anyway,
it was. And then there were number of other cases
of people that were caught using illegal immigrants to do
their home health care and home care and all of
that stuff and so on, and the liberals are just
outraged over this. Well, of course that was then and
this is now. They now think that illegal immigrants are
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the best people in the world, and they would ever
make a deal about that. But the point that was
brought up at the time is it was such a
common crime, should anybody be individually targeted because you raised
the prospect of hypocrisy? Given that probably million we're doing it,
is it fear to charge only a few. It's the
old speeding ticket argument. Guys speeding on the freeway, cop
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pulls him over. Guy says to the cop, everybody else
is going over the speed limit too. The cop says, yeah,
but you're the one I caught. It's kind of the
same point story here. One of the ramifications of the
crackdown on illegal immigrants, and secondly, the closing of the
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border is the American businesses whose business model basically was
to market to illegals. Company collapsed over the past week.
It's called it Try Color. That name had a meaning.
Do you know about the Try Color collapse? Do you
know anything about this? Or you you do not? You
don't know anything about it. It's involved in making loans
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to finance in someone. It's logo Tricolor. The logo that
the company has is almost exactly the Mexican flag. It's
not the Mexican flag, but if you didn't know any better,
you'd think that it was. So they were communicating who
their target market was. Start kicking illegals out. Add more importantly,
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and the potential flow of any new business sentence, we're
not letting anybody back in. They went under and again
their business model, as I said, they never really made
much of an attempt to hire. They call themselves Tricolor,
and the tri color three colors are the colors that
almost exactly match the Mexican flag. And this is a
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huge segment of their business. They were focusing on. Think
of the old mortgages. You heard the term subprime. They
were focusing on caier loans for people that basically weren't creditworthy.
And the business model is you charge very very high
interest rates because the person is a huge individual risk,
and you hope you make enough money on the people
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who pay back their loans to swallow the amount of
losses that you have. Now with their potential client base
shriveling up, they're out of business. You know, I'm always
thinking about ways to make money in our world. As
you know, there are a couple of businesses out there
that I think are kind of premised on the same
thing of doing a lot of business with illegals, but
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the notion of like shorting a stock, and if a
company goes bankrupt, the stock usually goes close to zero
or to zero. I just have a hard time doing
that when the stocks keep going up and the one
or two that I was thinking of their stacks keep
going up. Well, I mean, you can lose an astonishing
amount of money if you short a stock that's going up,
and often when they go down, it's an instantaneous thing
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where they declare bankruptcy, and nobody even seemed to have
any indication that it was coming. Columbus Day. Trump issued
a proclamation for Columbus Day, and then he sent out
a social media post. It said we're back Italians. Columbus
a has, you know, in the minds of the liberals
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become a terrible day, and in many communities they've changed
the name to Indigenous People's Day, reflecting the people who
were here before Columbus was here. I want to comment
for a moment on it whether or not Columbus they
should be a federal holiday or not. I'm agnostic. We
can't keep creating new holidays. And obviously if you create
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a new one, unless you're just going to keep saying
that we're never going to deliver the mail in this
country or federal workers. That put kind of a kick
in the butt for the federal workers who would have
had to day off, though, is it it? The reality
of Columbus. Now, let's start with this. If Columbus, who
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while Italian, was actually working for Spain, Spain funded him.
Italians wouldn't give him the money. If Columbus had not
come and discovered the New World, someone was going to
he'd probably beat whoever the next guy was by one
or two years. It was beginning to dawn on a
lot of people that the earth isn't flattered. That if
you if you start heading to the West. Eventually you're
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going to bump into something the great irony, you know.
Columbus and many of those, you know, they thought that
the first thing you get to would be India, that
you'd beginning to the edge of Asia, rather than this
whole other continent and whole other half of the world
that was there. But they went. And because they went,
and because he discovered land, and because word was sent back,
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the new world was explored. Now in terms of identifying
it with Columbus, he was first, and he was courageous,
and he was a visionary. Could you just imagine what
it would have been like on those three ships setting
sailed for a new world, and you're sailing and sailing
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and by these ships were going you know, they're countering headwinds.
There's no motors on these ships. It's taken forever and
they're going through nothing and nothing and nothing, and you
see just a bunch of nothing. The word is is
that Columbus had about two more weeks and they were
going to hang them. Well, Benci, they stumbled in one
of the lands, one of the islands in the Caribbean.
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Ind word came back here it is, and then everything
else was discovered In reality, the Norwegians were probably first,
and some think people from what we now call Russia
came over to the other side of North America long
before that. It's hard to really know, but the case
is pretty compelling that Leif Erikson came over and landed
somewhere in what we would call Canada or New England
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many years prior to that. The thing that was curious
is that it was not followed by any type of
exploration from anyone else. What was key about Columbus is
that it did start the migration to the New World.
The fact that it was Columbus and the fact that
it was a European nation meant that what came over
to the United States from all of those nations of
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Europe was a sense of a civilization. It was a
civilization that was both premised on where they came from
and a rebellion against it. While the Spanish, as I say,
Columbus being Italian, he was still funded by Spain, which
is why much of that part of the world was
colonized by the Spaniards. The English came in and they
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took a good chunk of the North American mainland, and
in particular we now know as the founding states of
the United States of America, and the religion, the culture,
the beliefs of those countries came over here, but there
was a rebellion against the form of government that did
not empower the individual. Who knows if someone else's first,
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what kind of a culture and civilization we would have had.
Columbus and the Spanish, and for that matter, the Italians
were Christians and Catholics, specifically the Salvation. If you're a believer,
if you're of a Christian of the people who came
over here and the people who ended up finding this religion,
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if you're a Christian, I understand if you're not, you
wouldn't think it's a good thing. Would certainly be a
good thing. The most overwhelmingly overwhelmingly Christian population in the
world is Latin America and South America. These are people
who descended from the indigenous people and then bread and
(22:30):
had kids with if you want to call them invaders
or colonizers, whatever they did. If you're a Christian, you
have to believe that souls are saved as a result
of this. This notion, however, that any of this is
an invasion. First of all, Columbus didn't invade anything. Columbus
didn't go and run rough shot across the wild West,
killing off. He's hanging around there on the Caribbean. They
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made a couple more trips, and then everybody else came.
For people who argue that the bringing of Western civilization,
bringing a civilization to the US in simpilation and creating
it is a good thing. They can go back to
the earth and live the lifestyle that the indigenous people
were living. Then they can do that, or they can
leave and go back to Europe out of their guilt,
which they never do. It has been a slur and
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it's it's always been interesting to me, actually that it's
been the Italians that have most objected to the de
Columbus staying of Columbus because, as I say, he was
actually representing Spain. He's working for Spain. Isabella and Ferdinand,
the royal family of Spain. They're the ones that funded
and bankrolled them. You cannot even name the ships that
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Columbus came over on, can you. He's got he's gonna
bolix this right and left. I'm gonna repeat this. You
said the Santa Maria. That's one whenever you start a
question with it is that it's a side of lack
of confidence. What were you gonna say? I want to
hear this. Yeah, we're stalled at one. Pinta is right,
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that's two. That was my first cow I ever had
was a pinto. There were any number of jokes on that.
I said, my pinto the same horse power as the
pin to the game of the Nina or Nina Nina
sata mav and which one did Columbus himself sail on?
There was a command ship, he was on the Saturary
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and Santa Maura of course stands for Saint Mary. So
I mean the Christianity of this? Well, yeah, there was
a Sopranos episode where they all object. They had a
rally against the people who were trying to knock there,
and Tony was the only one that wasn't in duty.
All this stuff about Pridy your ethnicity is a bunch
of huey. And you kept saying that there was a
there was a site field about everything, and I could
(24:44):
tell there's a Sopranos about there's a Sopranos about everything.
I want to get to a more serious story. I
can't say that this story had a positive ending because
it's not the right way of saying it. But I
think that the family of Elijah Wilks, who is the
man that essentially attacked an off duty mill w police officer,
they came out and via their attorney, issued a statement
over the weekend saying that the shooting was justified. One
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of the things that I didn't know since the officer
was off duty, was is there any video? You know?
And I didn't know if he was off duty as
in just leaving work or coming into work er for
hours away from his shift. But he wasn't in a
squad car, so there wouldn't be the dash cam, and
he if he wasn't in uniform, would he have a
body camera. But there was video out there and it
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did indeed appear to back up most of what the
original version of the story was. One guy caughts off
another guy. They get out of the car, they're yelling
at each other, in Wilkes starts pistol whipping the police
officer off duty who did have a gun with him,
and shot and killed him. The family viewed the video
and they said that the use of force by the
officer was justified. They deserve credit for saying that No.
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It's been suggested that the race of the officer is
one of the reasons that they reacted that way, But
I don't buy that. We had a police officer who
was harassed essentially out of a job, who was in
African American Joseph Mensa, So I don't think that's the case.
I think that what you had here is a family
that saw the video and realized that the guy I
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can't imagine him doing anything like this, lost his temper.
People can go nuts over some of these fender benders
and so on, and you know, in the city of
Milwaukee were driving is so hard and being made harder
by Chevy Johnson footing his curbs all over the middle
of the streets. These things happen, and you know, the
guy overreacted and so on. But if you're smacking somebody
around with a gun, you have a right to use
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deadly force to kill him, and the officer did. And
I think the family of Wilkes deserves credit for coming
out and saying this, because I just know there were
people in this community that were waiting for them to
light a match and they chose not to do it,
and they deserve credit. For that. This is the Mark
Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. Bait and switch.
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You've all heard that term, right, I'm not gonna keep
asking you. Well, you you sort of did I give
you a correct and your n Indipena and Santa Maria?
Or did I not? I ruled it correct even though
you stumbled around in your way of you were like
a drunk that's walking around in a hallway who you
know in a hotel and he does actually find his
hotel room, but he bounced against the sides of the
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wall anyway. Bait and switch, it's a classic marketing scheme.
You know, you run an ad for something that looks
really really really really attractive and all of that, and
then you see that they get person and it's not
quite the like when you see these produce ads for
the grocery stores. You never see a banana that's all
bruised up. You go to the store and off and
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that's what's in there. Paul says that's true of the
Big Mac as well. It's been such a long time
since I've ordered a Big Mac. You're saying the Big Mac.
I always thought the Big Mac look great, But you're
saying not anymore or does it look great? People take
that up with Paul Bait and switch. Lake Country Classical Academy.
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When it was announced, it got the support of just
about all of us on the right. It's a charter school.
The charter school is a public school, but not run
by the public school district. It's a hybrid between a
private school and a public school. The charter school is
going to be part of the story. Charter school in
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Occonavoy Hillsdale Affiliated. Hillsdale College in Michigan is I'm not
going to say the most conservative college in the United States,
but it's the best known conservative college in the United States.
It has just stood up for American values and conservative
values and so on. And in particular, the education they
offer at Hillsdale is a rebellion against all of the
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new fangled education that we see everywhere else. They teach
in the classics, it's a traditional curriculum, high academics and
so on, and Hillsdale's created a curriculum for below college
K through twelve. They've created this curriculum and they're offering
it up to other schools to adopt the Hillsdale curriculum.
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Lake Country Classical Academy when they started up, said that
they were going to be a Hillsdale affiliated college, meaning
that they would operate under the principles established by Hillsdale.
The story was first reported by Wisconsin Right Now after
a social media post from the family of the child involved.
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When you have a school like this, you're going to
have a lot of smart kids, and one of them
and obviously probably a fair number of conservative smart kids.
You go to a Hillsdale affiliated school for two reasons.
You don't want a stupid liberal education and be you
want a good education. She proposes to start a turning
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Point chapter at Lake County Classical Academy. These things a
lot of them before Charlie Kirk was killed. They're popping
up all over. Whether or not the movement lasts or not, again,
I don't know, but we do know that lots and
lots of young people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's
assassination are more determined than ever that his message in
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what he stood for, will live on. And there have
been more. I think the number is more new chapters
started in the few weeks since his death than were
in existence before his death. If it's not that it's
really close student proposed to do one at Lake Huntry
Class Academy and the school principal turned it down. This
would be I can't say if you would have just
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mark guess the last guess the most likely school in
Wisconsin to accept a turning point chapter. It probably be
that's one. It's founded by Hillsdale. Say, Charlie Kirk did
not graduate from college famously, but he had a close
relationship with Hillsdale. They gave him an honorary degree. He
went over to the to the college several times and spoke.
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He was linked more with Hillsdale than any other college
or university in the United States of America. The story
gets better when I think of like the term bait
and switch. Hey, this is the whole bait and switch
comes in here that they appealed to conservatives people like
myself to speak up on behalf of them. They put
the Hillsdale thing out. But then when it comes time
to actually let your actions match your words, suddenly you're
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something other than that. You're the same leftist crap that
rejects these things. Can you think of any other case
of bait and switch than a victimized They conservatives in
Wisconsin in the past ten years. I even think I've
created a verb for it. It's called to be hagadorned.
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Brian Hagudoron ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court as a conservative.
He's not been a liberal. He's just not consistently conservative.
He's somebody who votes with both sides. He's conservative more
often than not. But he's disappointed a number of conservatives
in that he wasn't a more solidly conservative vote. And
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when Brian ran for office, I think he created the
impression that he would be a conservative. He has said
I only ever said I was going to stand up
for the rule of law, no matter which way is
going to go. So in any event, it was he's
turned out to be disappointing. As it turns out now
with the conservatives and the majority, he's one of only
three and probably soon to be two conservative votes left
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in the court, even if it's not always a conservative vote. Nonetheless,
do you know who the principal of the school is?
The Lake has wife? I mean as I say they've
been hagrid arned again. Margaret Haggard Order is the principal
of the school, and she denied the request. This has
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created an uproar because and this is one of the
things that happens when it wouldn't have been in the past,
when obstruct or block a young conservative person like the
student here. The family's name is Smiley. I'll get to the
names in a minute. They posted the daughter's mother posted
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on social media about this, and it is angered a
fair number of conservatives who believe that Lake Country Classical
Academy is basically just lied via it's marketing about what
it's about. Now, I'll give you their defense. It's a
plausible defense, and we'll get to that in a moment.
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But the board of directors of this school, it's like
I'm looking at the cabinet at Scott Walker. It's almost
all Walker types. In fact, an honorary member of the
board is Scott Walker. He's listed his honor I don't
know that means other than they wanted to get his
infromoderate and his endorsement on there. But and this is
a good thing. The first person to come out and
blast this decision is Scott Walker. No, he's not a
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voting member of the board, but he's on there on
their website and so on, and he's blasted this saying
that they should have a chapter. But the other members
of the board, some of them I'll admit that I've
never heard of, but others that I have came out
of the Walker administration or are sort of out of
that realm of Wisconsin politics. The board president is Randy Goodsill.
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Georgia Maxwell is the vice president. Georgia Maxwell prominent conservative activist,
Republican appointing to a state agent. She's still on the board.
Skyler file. He's a conservative lawyer. He's a guy who
filed a lawsuit against requiring lawyers to be members of
the Wisconsin Bar Association. Ellen Nowak again, she's been involved
in Republican politics forever. She's in the Walker administration. She's
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not the president of America Transmission Company. Tom Brannigan, John
wu Matthew Bandry. In some cases, I don't know these people,
but of the ones that I've known, they're all conservative people.
So I'm wondering how the Board of Directors allows this
to happen. Now, there's a report in Wisconsin right now
that I linked up to on my x account over
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the weekend that goes into this insignificant detail. The young
student is well, not that young. She's in high school.
Katie Smiley is her name. She's the one who wanted
to start the chapter, and she and her mother are
standing the ground and are weighing in on this that
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they sought to continue it. In the credit of Scott Walker,
he posted an X they should absolutely be able to
have a chapter. We will fight for students to have
a Turning Point USA or any other conservative group at
their school. Now, Initially, when I heard of this story,
I wanted, is this a rival over here? Scott Walker
heads another young adults conservative group, Young Americans Foundation, and
Turning Points kind of pass them up in terms of
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name recognition and so on. My initial thought was, all
these Walker affiliated people don't want Turning Point there because
it's kind of getting in the way of you. Why
if that's not true? Scott Walker, to his credit, immediately
step forward in defense. I've turned Point and the chapter.
So do you have here an arrogant principle that simply
screwed the board. I'm gonna do what I want kind
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of a Brian Hagan and I'm gonna you know, the
rule a lot, et cetera. Now, the defense is this,
first of all, the principal hag She sent out a
letter I guess it was a form of evil, but
a letter to the parents, and it was so obnoxiously condescending.
It's enough. It's the kind of crap that I know
you're gonna get from liberals when people who are conservative
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put this out and it was just filled with condescending.
At Lake Country Christian Classical Academy, we use the Socratic method, that's,
you know, teaching by asking questions, the method I use
here with poor Paul in there, and you know we
don't we're not activists, et cetera. Now, first of all,
she's diminishing the teaching capabilities of Turning Point USA. But secondly,
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anybody who's anything about Charlie Kirk, he is the guy
that used the Socratic method. It's the whole means for
what they do. Ask people questions to make them think
about their beliefs and thinking things to you're gonna convert
them over to the other side because the views that
they hold, once they realize they can't defend them, they
realize that they're wrong. It's exactly what Turning Point try
to do. Now their position is we don't allow and
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we don't allow any of these outside clubs or activities,
and my favorite one, if you let one in, you
have to let them all in. I hear people say
that all the time. No, you don't. If I let
somebody into my home, it doesn't mean I have to
let Paul in. No, you don't. Now, the fact that
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they're a charter school puts in a little different category.
If you're a private association, you know, whatever the hell
you want. Basically, by being a charter school, there is
a public component to it. And you can make the
case that they're arguing that this would and they brought
this up should Does that mean we have to have
an Antifa chapter. No, it doesn't. But that argument if
you let one in and you let in the other.
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I just always debug that how many Nazi chapters of
anything do we have anyway? Almost none in any walk
of life meeting, But we have all sets of other groups.
Meaning you can say no toe some. But furthermore, there
was a way of working this out. You could set
this up in a way in which the chapter is
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like at the school, but maybe not on their website
or something like that. But secondly, they do have other
outside groups they deal with. They don't have their own
independent sports program. They partner with another school for the
were athletic because the schools are small do not have
sports teams with enough kids to make a team go.
They partner with another school out there. So that's an
outside organization that's in there, and so on. I can't
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try to contact Margaret Haggerer and she has not responded
to me. I can tell you that I did speak
to data one of the board members, Ellen ellen Nowek,
and she indicated to me that there's going to be
a board meeting Wednesday night, and she said she's very
optimistic that there will be a positive resolution of this. Well,
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I hope so. But the bigger problem here, and it's
just it's always the problem, and I've explained it with
regard to the news media and many other things. When
you try to and I talked about in another group,
you know, the drift of conservative organizations. You start something conservative,
but eventually the people that are involved aren't that conservative
and they drift off to the other side. This will
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handled terribly by the principle the letter that she said, oh,
it was obnoxious. She didn't make any attempt whatsoever to
accommodate or work with the board better understand that if
these are the people that you hire or run your school,
you are never going to live up to the principles
that you claim that you were going to live by,
which is the Hillsdale principles. As I say that there
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was a way to deal with this, but the principle
has not herself backed out, meaning she could have shown
the initiative to do so, she could speak in a
less insulting turn, but she didn't. And the reason EVER
got the whole bait and switch is there's lefty schools
that do lefty crap all the time. I complain about it,
bot what do you expect. I supported on my program
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this school when it was proposed, and I said it
was a great thing that it was going to happen.
If I go out there and give you my endorsement
and then you turn around and you'd be the same
stink job that every other public school is out there,
I do resent it. I'm going to quote the letter
from the principal, Margaret Hagito, and this is what she
said on on Friday and attempt to knock down this story, which,
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of course it's like knocking down a fire by throwing
gasoline on it, Dear Lake Country Classical Academy community, There
has been some confusion on social media today about school
sanctioned clubs at LCCA. With this in mind, we are
an active conversation with Turning Point USA. It is clear
that we have a lot of common ground. We respect
tpusa's mission and apply our own club policy consistently similar
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to TPUSA. Classical education is an antidote to trends in
coeducation and education that emphasize political activism over reason debate.
If t us TPUSA, that's Turning Put USA, we're to visit.
We hope they would appreciate the honest, open, socratic discussion
and civil debates that are a hallmark of a classical education.
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And oh condescend well if they come and like they're
supposed to come in and bowance, scrape in front of you,
and that appreciate shut up and that our LCCA students
have in the classrooms every day since its founding, LCCA
has not approved student clubs affiliated with outside political or
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religious organizations. Our position, which is consistent with Hillsdale's guidance
and reflection in our Family Handbook, which refers to extracurricular
clubs as in Richmond classes and states. The school may
sponsor a number of student enrichment classes that enhance the
curriculum of the school, and in keeping with the school's mission,
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the school will not sponsor enrichment classes that are open
to only parts of the student body, including classes for
students who with particular religious or political views. All enrichment
classes must be appreciated by it, must be approved of
the principle, and have an active faculty sponsor. Mean it,
it's hard to imagine any group that wouldn't have some
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type of political view. It's impossible at some level you're
going to have this. But beyond that, when they call
themselves a Hillsdale approved curriculum and they state the type
of edgy, that's a political statement in and of itself,
and it would seem to me the turning quite perfectly
aligns with their mission. To be clear, LCCA has not
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and does not discriminate against anyone based on their views.
The suggestion that a proposed TPUSA student club was rejected
due to its viewpoint is completely false. I consider that
statement to essentially be I won't say a lie, dishonest.
It is because of their views. You've described them as
a political orgation. So that means it's because they have views.
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You may say it's you know, I would have said
the same thing to a liberal group as our conservative,
But don't say it's not because of their views, because
their views are that they steal in an educational context,
but from a conservative and for that matter, Christian perspective.
I hope the board works this out, and I hope
the board understands that it has a problem with its administration.
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As I say, we have enough trouble trying to stop
public schools from being leftist hell holes. We need to
make sure that the alternatives that are created too this
the parents are sending there because they're specifically looking for,
not that other thing. On a somewhat related topic, I
want to follow up on a discussion from last week.
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I commented on Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty filing
a lawsuit aimed at stopping a provision of the current
state budget that provides funding for additional prosecutors in Milwaukee
and potentially walk A, Shaw County. Will not will excuse
me wrong, Yeah, Well made the statement that, well, the
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state law doesn't allow this diversion of funds for prosecutors.
The money's got to go into a fund for schools
and libraries. My retort to that is, the state budget
diverts funds from things all over the place. Why are
you diverting one of the things that actually addresses a
law and order problem that we have. Can't you pick
your spots. At the time of the last podcast, I
had not gotten a response from Rickysenberg, who runs WILL.
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When again, I see this is a very good organization WILL,
and I'm trying to stop them from drifting off and
being the same you know crap. Okay, we'll do one
for the lefties here to show that we're you know,
he gave me a lengthy response, and in fairness to them,
I want to share a portion of it. I don't
think he addresses a single one of my points, but
I'll read it anyway. I know about progressive public interest
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law firms. We've been beating them for years. I understand
your contention about nonprofits becoming less conservative. It's a version
of O'Sullivan's first law from National Review back in day,
and I've had it in mind for a long while that,
by the way, that was the law. Any organization that
isn't a version of any organization that isn't specifically conservative, isn't.
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I didn't state it correctly, But if you're not going
to be conservative, you're just going to drift off and
become something else continuing. Sometimes that does happen, just as
more recently some conservative organizations have abandoned conservatism for populism.
But it would be absurd to say that WILL has
shifting priorities or is no longer conservative. I can I
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didn't say they were no longer conservative. I said I
was concerned about the drift. I can go through the drill.
Wisconsin opened during pandemic. Wisconsin opened during pandemic because we
and others brought lawsuits that insisted on the rule that
rule of law tripe. We got the definition court, We
got the definitive court order that prevented the Biden administration
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from giving away fourteen billion dollars based on race and gender.
We got a restraining round, and they go through a
number of other cases. All good, and I repeatedly praised
them for doing all of this because there's nobody else
said to do it. And they go on a number.
Then he continues, I could do pages of this stuff.
I don't mind if people disagree with our choice of
a particular case. But the idea that Will is not
conservative or has shifting priorities is false. Again, I said,
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I feared that there was drift here. My fear is
that this is a sign that they won't be conservative
and say that they didn't. I appreciate your larger point,
but trying to fit us it does not work. And
then he went through all the reasons again, nitpicking, why
you're not supposed to be able to do this under
the law, so forth, so forth, and so on and again.
My question here is just a matter of priorities, whether
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or not you figure the belief that the law was
violated or not. We're actually spending public money in Milwaukee
on something that isn't stupid for once, and I would
much rather that you devote your clearly limited resources. You
only have so much money on staff on all of
the idiotic uses of funds that fits in the stupidity category.
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Let me move to this story. We've got another one
of these cases dealing with a public employee and the
residency rule. In this instance, the person who was elected
the municipal judge in South Milwaukee is turning in her
resignation after an investigation into whether or not when she
ran for office she didn't live in South Milwaukee. Now
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the evidence against her is strong, depending on your point
of view. Her name is Kelly Martinka, she's married to
a police officer. That police officer and applying for a
job in another community stated his residence as received. The
Martinkas presumably are still living together. It's not a divorce
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filing or anything. If he lives in Racene, didn't that
mean that she lived in Recene. When you run for
public office, you do not have to be a resident
of that community, but you have to move into that
community after being elected. But here's the thing. On her
nominating petition she listed South Milwaukee. So when she ran
for office, you have to sign petition and signatures to
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get on the ballot. She stated South Milwaukee. And the
question is whether or not this was a false statement
about her residence, given the fact that her husband at
the same time was claiming to live and Racide. Martenka
is saying she won by thirty six votes. Who is
a close election. Martenka is resigning, saying she doesn't believe
that she did anything wrong, but she wants to end
the controversy, so forth, and so on. Now to this
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story here. We discussed last week for a different reason,
the proposed garbage fee in the City of Wakashaw. They're
going to charge all property owners one hundred and sixty
dollars a year to collect the garbage and take the
garbage out of the property out of the city budget.
It's going to still be in the city budget, but
it will not be covered by property taxes. Here's why
communities do this. You see this all over the place.
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In Milwaukee is the master of it. Take a city
service and put people on a special expert charge for
that so you can take it out of your general
property tax budget. It allows you to tax people more
than the state limit. State law. Currently, the Supreme Court
is not a return to it yet. They'll get to it,
partly in Act ten and partly in the revenue limits.
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They limit the amount of money that a city can
raise your taxes every year. So in order to get
around that, they're creating all of these fees. And in
Waukeshaw they're creating this garbage fee. The vote on the
city council to who it was nine to five. Here's
why I bring this up one of the nine. One
of the people who decided that Walker Straw isn't tax
enough just declared her candidacy for mayor. Walkshaw is of
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all the cities in Waukeshaw County, it may be the
least Republican, but it's still Republican. For instance, the president's election,
Burkefield is getting close to Trump carried the city. It's
still more Republican the Democrat. But they keep electing lefty mayors.
The current mayors are lefty. The predecessor Mayor, Larry Nelson,
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was an even bigger lefty. And now they're gonna have
a new election because currently or as I say, I
describe him as a left he maybe more accurately he's
a moderate, but he's not a conservative, and he's not
a Republican. And he's supported Kamala Harris a president. Now
here's one of Belling's rules. It doesn't hold all the time.
It just holds almost all the time. No matter where
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a community is really liberal, really conservative, in between the
city leader of the community, the village president of the
mayor or whatever the title is almost always more liberal
than the community. I didn't say always, I said almost
so just grab whatever city it is, and the mayor
is going to tandem BRIT's case in Brookfield, It's been
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the case in Waukesha. It's certainly been the case in
o'conhom Walk, where they've had a Democrat running for mayor,
and they've got their own mayoral election too. That Democrat, Mangus,
is not running for reelection anyway. They're gonna have a
choice here, Scott Allen, who's a member of the State
Assembly and is conservative. He's in fact, he might be
more conservative than me. He's a conservative guy. He's running
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for mayor. And this raised the garbage fee because we
aren't taxing you enough. Helven Seben. And I don't know
if I pronounced that correctly. Helvin Seben, I believe is
how I pronounce the name. She's the opponent. So I
don't know who's going to win the election. But I
can tell you is that there is a long history
of communities electing mayors that are to the left of
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the populace of the city, and it's one of the
reasons why they somehow never seem to be able to
figure out ways to cut the city budget. I would
argue that the first place to start is to get
rid of the city administrator. They have a full time
mayor at Waka Shaw. You do not need to have
a city administrator who's full time and a mayor who's
full time. And most cities that have full time mayors
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don't have. Milwaukee doesn't even have a city administrator. It's duplicative,
and it's a sign of a mayor that simply it
is too lazy to do the job of running the
agencies underneath the mayor. You can have a chief of
staff and all of that stuff that is similar, but
the pay for chiefs of staff is never as high
as city administrators. I've covered a lot of territory on
this program today. Don't you think I've covered a lot
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of territory. But I've got one more Walgreens. I've driven
past Walgreens corporate headquarters, I bet at least nine hundred times,
except not much of the corporate headquarters is in there anymore.
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They're in Deerfield, Illinois, and it's right on I ninety four,
real close to where I ninety four splits where if
you go, I want to get my numbers right. If
you go one way, you're heading toward downtown Chicago and
onto the Edens, and the other way is taking you west.
In any event, it's right around where it splits, kind
of near Lake Cook Road for those of you who
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know that area. They've got other office building. That's the
Corporate d Quotas they made with great fanfare a decade ago. However,
they were going to move into the old downtown Chicago
Post Office. The post office moved out, but that building
is famous. It's in downtown. I think it's the one
where they shot the shooting scene from The Untouchables. I
might be wrong about that, but I think so. It's
a big, famous building in the Lower Loop of Chicago.
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Walgreens has announced that it is pulling out of that
building in Chicago, even though it has six years left
on the lease. It doesn't take a genius to figure
why they're getting the hell out of downtown Chicago and
they're gonna move it all back to the suburbs. Leftist
cities are killing themselves. That's hundreds of jobs. Now. My
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guess is that a lot of those employees lived in
the suburbs and were commuting into the city on the
trains on the systems that they have in Chicago and
so on, and they're relieved by this. But remember why
all of this started ten years ago at the same thing,
the millennial generation wanted to live in cities and wanted
to live downtown. You saw the same thing in Milwaukee.
A number of businesses that were out in the suburbs
moved to the city. Most famous example Northwestern. It's shutting
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everything down in the Franklin campus and they're building new
buildings in Milwaukee. A lot of the employees younger would
rather work in cities than in the suburbs. And that
works until the city becomes a crime and fested hell hole.
When you become San Francisco, nobody wants to work there
when you want it. When you become Portland, nobody normal
wants to work there. And when you become Chicago. The
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great strength of Chicago is that it had this incredibly
vibrant downtown. They're killing it. Sadly, they'll never learn. If
they were going to learn, they would have learned by now.
They'll never learn. You in there, you may learn. I
drill this into your head every day. I use the
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Charlie Kirk method. I knew right and left you what
you mean you've learned You've just not learned at a
fast enough pace for me. By the way, I uh
lost my football picked by half a point. I knew
I was gonna lose. But the reason I feel confident
my picks this year, I couldn't just couldn't find a
good game that I liked. And in fact, in full disclosure,
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if I would have had a backup game, it would
have been an even worse loss. I would have taken
Detroit over Kansas City, and Kansas City slaughtered them. So
it's not like if only I picked the other game
and so on. But the thing that has to be
confident is even when I lost, it was only by
a half point, and the team that beat me scored
in the last forty five seconds or so of the
game to do So what about those Brewers? Should we
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talk about them? All right? That's next on the Markedlling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling podcast. Now we do this podcast,
and I recognize that many people listen to podcasts well
after the fact. We're doing this on Monday afternoon, is
before several hours before the Brewers played Game one of
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the National League Championship Series with the Dodgers. So I'm
speaking only about events that occurred prior to that. The
Brewers over the weekend finish off the Cubs in really
dramatic five game series, winning in Milwaukee three to one
with outstanding pitching, all by young pitchers, and all but
two of them pitchers that were not on the roster
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the beginning of the season. The pitchers that started and
ended the game were the two best relievers at the
beginning of the year. Even the starter kind of functioned
as a reliever. McGill and then Abnery Revit. The other
guys were younger players. Chad Patrick was called up right
at the beginning of the season, but was sent down
as a starter for an effectiveness and was clearly the
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key player in the game. The Cubs had one rally
going in that game. Chad came on the first and
second and went out in the sixth inning end got
out of it ing got out of it by retiring
the first guy retired as Suzuki who just killed the Brewers.
In any event, the Brewers did dispatch the Cub's end.
I mean when the game was over, ipes for a
second unsure so what it is to do, because I
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don't know what to do after clinching games, because the
Breweries going into that game were three and ten in
clinching games in the postseason. The Brewers had not won
a playoff series since twenty eighteen, which doesn't sound so
bad until you remember the Brewers always make the playoffs
for most games, you know, you make it once every
three or four years, that would be the norm. The
Brewers made it seven of the last eight years. And
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the knock just is for one reason or another, they
get knocked out, and several instances they were heartbreaking, they
close and so on, and in this case it kind
of reversed itself. But there was just this explosion of
euphouria that you just sensed from everyone over the whole thing.
We finally won one again. This comment will be dated
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for any of you who listen more than a few
hours later, but I just think beating the Dodgers is
going to be borderline impossible. If you follow my comments
in baseball over the years, I focus almost entirely on
pitching and not on anything else. And the Dodgers' weakness
all year was depth, and they're starting pitching. But in
the postseason, you don't need depth. You need three good
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starting pitchers and you can cobble together a fourth game
if you need one. With the bullpen and the Dodgers,
what happened with Blake Snell in the final weeks of
the season. He's just become an extremely good pitch and
they didn't have that for most of the year. Otani
is probably at best at number three or four starter.
They're just more deep in pitching, and the Brewers starting
pitching is right now the weakness of the team. It
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was their strength all season. But as I say speak
here on Monday, the Brewers just don't know who to
start tonight. It's thought to be it's going to be
both Josekantana and Quinn Priester, and they're trying to decide
who's going to go first and who's going to go
second and try to squeeze two or three innings out
of each of them. Kantana's badly banged up and Priester
was shelled in his most recent start. Freddy Peralta has
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not been sharp in his starts, and it's just hard
to see surviving this and cobbling together all of these
bullpen games. The Brewers have made only one roster change.
You are allowed to change your roster after each series.
You can change it during a series, but the only
roster change again is to reflect this situation with pitching
Tobias Myers, who mostly has been in the miners, but
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otherwise when a Brewer starter has been added to the
postseason roster and Nick Miers has been boos. And that's
simply a function of they need guys who can Let's
imagine you fall behind God forbid eight to one in
the third inning, you still need to cover those seven
innings of pitching. They haven't got Robert Gosser to do that.
Got You need to have somebody to go multiple innings
because you just don't want to burn up your pitchers.
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You really really need in a game that if not
a loss cause you're way behind on you need guys
that can eat some innings up in a longer series
and hopefully even pitch effectively. But the rulers are just
loaded to the guys that can go one inning, and
I think that's the reason that they made that shift.
There's no indication Brandon would have can play. Even in
the World Series. They have not put them on the
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sixty day injured list, so that means they're holding out
hope that maybe for a World Series. But from what
I hear, he wasn't close to being able to be
added to the roster here that he's not even really
thrown off a mound or anything like that. But they're
they can just rule it out and put them on
a sixty day injured list. But since the season's sport
an end, you know, what's the point of that. So
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there's still perhaps some hope of that. Dodgers lineup's really good.
It's even better in terms of hitting. The Cubs lineup.
The Brewers, on the other hand, scrap out runs. Interestingly,
they won the final game three to one on three
home runs. That's not the norm by which they win
in the postseason. Home runs tend to be the way
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the teams score rather than scrapping them out. So I
just the big bread that I had was getting knocked
out by the Cubs, and it's just because of the
insufferability of Cubs fans. And it was the same thing
and just proof of this. Apparently the Brewers puts on
social media or something. You know, the Cubs have this
flag they fly at Ridley after everyone in w The
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Brewers on their website put an l flag. The Cubs
fans are ballistic. I mean that is the mildest, softest,
nicest little tweak that you can imagine. They're like liberals.
They can dish it out and they can't take anything.
I know what it would have been like, we lost
this game. So they won, and let's see what they
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can do from here on out. The other problem, of course,
is just when you have to use just about everybody
in Game five and you play two days later, it's
an advantage for the team greater rest. They can reset
their pitching staff, the Dodgers and so on. But part
of that is the Dodgers finish their series off in
four games and the Brewers needed the five, so they
get that reward off of that. At least for the
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Brewers by having home field, they get to stay home
and don't have to get on a plane and waste
a day on all of that. But there's only four
teams that are in it, and we're one of them,
and that's a good thing. We'll save comments on our
other sports teams for another time. Anyway, that's it for
today's podcast. Why don't you cobble together a thousand dollars
and go to a game? No, it's more fun to
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be there. It's more fun to be there checking the
ticket prices and so on. What struck me is there
isn't the normal gap in which it's usually almost free
to sit in the corner of the up deck a
very expensive. The gap is it's not insanely expensive with
a great seat and really cheap for the bad seat.
The range is closer together if you want to be
in the wall part right.
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