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There's something going on that I think a lot of
people still haven't fully processed, in part because it's almost
unbelievable how bad it is. I think we first saw
signs of this five years ago in twenty twenty, when
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you saw the depth of the riots and the just
hatred directed toward police all over the United States using
the George Floyd situation. I think as an excuse. In Wahwatosa,
you had night after night after night after night of
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marches that's all fine, but included these massive mobs of
people walking right up to Wahwatosa police officers and screaming
in their faces the most vile and hateful thing. You
could write that off as a one off. The lefties
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are the people that were scared to death that they'd
all die from COVID. That was twenty twenty. You could
write that off as dead in retrospect, it was the
first sign of a phenomenon that I think the evidence
just overwhelming is way worse than most people, including those
of us on the right, are aware of. And that
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is the remarkable amount of hate that's just pervasive. And
people will say that this is a stretch. I don't
think it is the entire Democratic Party. It's case after
case after case of it. It's not just the political violence,
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not just the assassinations, not just the threats, not just
the seeming glee that Charlie Kirk was killed. It's everything.
And the reason I say pervasive throughout the entire party
is I never that's a stretch. Almost never hear any
condemnation of it, calling out of or consequences for coming
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from other Democrats. Here's my latest example. Again, all of
these stories are unbelievable because it's hard to believe that
you have people in this country that are this vile,
this evil, this ugly. Oshkosh Oshkosh they've had to kick
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the Winnebago County Democrat Party out of the Oshkosh Farmers
Market because one of the people that was working the
Democrat booth at the farmer's market was handing out bracelets,
one of which was given to an eight year old kid.
The bracelet it's like one of these rubber bracelets that
people have that have sayings on him and so on.
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It is he dead yet? The presumption is it's a
reference to President Trump. Who else would it be? Is
he dead yet? Apparently the person had a lot of
the bracelets. We don't know how many were handed out.
We do know that one of them was given to
an eight year old and the eight year old happened
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to be a child of one of the people who
runs the Farmer's market. And that's why the story made
some news. Some news. It's been covered by a Green
Bay TV station. I put it up on my account
on X yesterday. If you want more details, you can
find it there. Mark Bellings Show is my handle on X.
But the story's been ignored by much of the mainstream media.
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I haven't seen any coverage of it by any of
the gannet papers. That's JS online and so on. And
the Oshkosh paper is one of the ones they own.
But imagine this, and by the way, the Democrats and
When to Go, you're saying, well, this is a volunteer
and this wasn't authorized. Well, they haven't named the volunteer
who ought to be named, And I haven't heard a
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peep of reaction from Democrats in Wisconsin condemning Winnebago Counties Democrats. Furthermore,
I don't know how many people this's a booth at
the farmers I don't know how many people are sitting there?
Was this person the only one manning the booth? How
many other bracelets were handed out? How many for that
matter of lefties just out there are wearing these things?
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Is he dead yet? You've got it? First of all,
nobody on my side can do something like this because
you'd be ruined if you did it, which is probably
a good thing. But second this you can't keep saying
that this is isolated cases. This isn't the entire democratic
it seems to be. If it wasn't, every Democrat in
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that party would say, it's this person here, we disassociate
ourselves from them, and everyone would name this person. So
the whole world knows what a monstrous creep is running out,
but they won't. I would like to share with you
some information and then we will proceed with the program.
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is he said, not an option. Now this story, it's related.
It comes from the state of Virginia. Give you some
background on politics in Virginia. Virginia is one of those
states that over the last thirty years has gone from
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being Republican to very solidly democrat. The biggest reason for
it is simply the explosion in the size of the
federal government. Those federal government employees they all have in
either merrily of Virginia. They're not going to live in
the city of Washington, d C. And the metro area
of Washington, d C. The Virginia part has just boomed
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and exploded, and it is unbelievably democratic. Then there's college
towns in there and so on. Much of the geographically.
If you do the red blue chart of morning patents,
the whole state is red. The blue is though, where
the population all is. They did have that incredible election
where Glenn youngin a Republican managed to win the governor's race,
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but it seems to have been a one off and
Young Cain is term limited out he can't run for
reelection this year. But the point is is that it's
an extremely democratic state in the big way of the
Trump had for example of the twenty forty four election,
he did not win the state of Virginia. Anyway, to
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the governor's race there, I won't say it's a close race.
In the latest polls at six to seven points, they
can be wrong. The Democratic candidate is leading. The Republican
candidate is very interesting. Woman wins the Earl series. African
American woman has quite the life story to tell, and
so she's trailing. Anyway. Now into that race is a
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new controversy. The Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia
has been caught making vile texts. Again, are all of
these people vile? And I'll tell you about him in
a moment. They're really vile. Now, the Democrat candidate, he
won't drop out of the race for attorney general. Whether
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he wins or not is not the point here. The
bigger point is the Democrat candidate for governor will not
disavow the Democratic candidate for attorney general who put out
the vile texts. The vile texts basically cheered the killing
of a political opponent in Virginia. Guy was killed, and
the guy did texts about how essentially alluding to what
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a good thing that that was. Now the easy thing
to do for a Democratic candidate for governor, You know,
why tie yourself to this guy over there who said
this is disavowed, say this terrible thing to do. Democrats
can't do this, And I think they can't do it
because they know huge swaths of their voter base agree
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with the guy who said it. They're all in and
this hate, and they want true believers. There's an interesting
column on this that appeared to the Wall Street Journal
a couple of days ago, and I want to share
it because, well, the story is from Virginia. I just
think it's increasingly typical. Democrat Abigail Spanburger is the favorite
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of the Virginia race for governor. Abba Gail's camp amburgers.
She's the Democrat running for governor, not the attorney general
put this out, but she's leading the commonwealths add year
elections tend to favor the party that isn't in the
White House, and Northern Virginia's full of federal employees. She
has millions more in campaign cash than a Republican opponent
lieutenant governor wins some earl series. Let me interject, I'd
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love to read a story once in which the story
says the Republican has more money than the Democrat. Well,
it is the last time, well, I know, the last
time it happened before Citizens United, the case Supreme Court
case that the Democrats so criticized and now has turned
out to be the best thing that has ever happened
to them anyway, So the Democrat candidate has way more
campaign funds than the republic Spanberger, a mother of three
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and former CIA officer, is a candidate from Central Casting
to appeal for suburban swing votes. She is up six
point five points to the latest Real Clear Politics average.
Yet for all her advantages, Spanberger looked uncomfortable in the
contest's only debate on Thursday, That's last week at Norfolk
State University. That's doubtless because the biggest story of the
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past week has involved Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for
Attorney General. Fantasizing in leaked text messages about the murder
of a political opponent and his family. Quote he receives
both bullets every time. Jones told a then colleague about
a Republican in a text that much of the country
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has now seen. You may have seen coverage of this.
Somebody obviously leaked one of these texts in which he's
fantasizing about the bullets. Two bullets every time he gets
every time in this fantasy, this guy gets the two bullets.
Back to the story, when the moderator asked Spamberger, now
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Democrat cannedate for governor, She's not the one who put
out the text. It's the Cannifer Herney general who did.
But the moderator asks, you can tell that this isn't
a political debate in Wisconsin where the Wisconsin Broadcast Association
picks a bunch of hack some local TV stations. Because
its a good question, they asked the Democratic Cannifer governent, Hey,
what do you think about this? If she still supports Jones,
she dodged. Voters now have the information, and it is
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enough to voters to make an individual choice based on
this information. I mean, that's just Kamala Harri's stuff. Only
it was coherent, but it's a complete dodging of the question. Yeah,
no kidding. Voters have enough to make every The question
is what about you? Do you ges avow this cretan? Wouldn't, no, kid,
why wouldn't you if you're running for governor? Isn't the
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path at least resistance that just shed this guy off
your back, this idiot with these And the answer is
she must calculate that she would be fearful if their
new backlash from other Democrats if she condemned somebody who
is cheering to have Republicans killed. She denounced his words
as absolutely abhorrent, but when pressed, she repeated her non answer.
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The story goes on, people keep saying, you're cherry picking
these things. Well, yeah, we're cherry picking them up. But
that's tons That cherry pickic just keeps on coming. The
backdrop of this, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I want
you to follow my tim in here yesterday Tuesday. We're
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doing this podcast. On Wednesday, President Trump awarded posthumously Charlie
Kirk America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
and declared the day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. I'm
actually going to read the proclamation here. Obviously, the White
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House staff's in charge of this, and it's rather short,
but I think just an outstanding mini biography of what
made Charlie Kirk the great human being that he was.
Proclamation signed by the President on the afternoon of Wednesday,
September tenth, twenty twenty five, Pure evil struck down struck
when the legendary Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight
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in a campus courtyard, triggering a ground swell of righteous
fury all across our land. Today, our nation honors the
immortal memory of Charlie, a father, a husband, a Christian martyr,
and a titan of the American Conservative movement. We honor
his life, we send our condolences to his beautiful family,
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and we pledge to advance the values for which he
laid down his life. Every day, Charlie devoted himself to
a set of simple causes, defending the truth, encouraging debate,
and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was gracious
and articulate beyond measure, always welcomed opposing perspectives, and never
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deviated from his noble goal of bridging our political, cultural,
and philosophical divides. As we mourn this extraordinary loss, my
administration will continue to do everything in its power to
end this devastating wave of political violence. No civilized society
can endure a culture where open debate is met with gunfire,
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the pursuit of truth is met with bloodshed, and love
of country is met with seething hatred. In Charlie's absence,
we are now tasked with continuing his mission of giving
voice to our cherished American ideals. While with confidence and
clarity like him, we must not flinch in the face
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of darkness and hostility, and we must never waver in
speaking the truth with joyful and steadfast resolve. Today, on
what would have been his thirty second birthday, our nation
honors the loving memory of Charlie Kirk. We offer our
condolences to his beautiful wife, Erica, and two precious children.
We call on every American to pray for peace in
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our public square. Above all, we renew our resolve to
always defend our principles of truth, faith, and the open
exchange of ideas. Now, Therefore, I Donald J. Trump, President
of the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution of the Laws
of the United States, to hereby proclaim October fourteenth, twenty
twenty five, is a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.
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I call on the American people to assemble on this
day in their respective places of worship, therefore to pay
homage to Charlie's memory. I invite the people of our
nation to pray for the advancement of peace, truth, and
justice all across our country. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord twenty twenty five and of
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the Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and fiftieth. And then it's signed, of course by
President Trump. Some comments the left in its attacks on
those of us on the right, when it criticizes someone
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say who has bluster and is loud and vocal like Trump,
demands that we be calm and respectful at advancing our
ideas well. That's what Kirk was. As I've said in
the past, I don't think I ever recall hearing him
raise his voice. He engaged with people who disagreed with him,
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and he argued politely and logically his case. Yet they
hated him as much as Trump. So don't give me
that it's the tone, it's the this and the that.
They simply seem to hate us, and hate is the
right word. Look at the venom that came out when
he was killed, and they acted as though he was
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this you know, racous screaming, you know, Alex Jones type.
The reason Charlie Kirk was bigger than Alex Jones as
ever was, is because people admired the style that Charlie
Kirk presented. So my point is they seem to hate
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all of us. You've got this person working the booth
at the Farmer's Market in Oshkosh handing out a bracelet.
Is he dead? Yet you have people all across this
country screaming, and yet look at the attacks on ICE
officers for trying to enforce the law and get some
lawbreakers out of our nation, by the way, a job
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that they have been assigned to do. ICE agents don't
impose the policy. This hatred, as I say, is all
over and they keep saying it's the people in the
right that are the voices of hate bot. The reality
is we're five years now into this, starting with the
old George Floyd thing. It is NonStop rage and hate
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that again and again and again is turning in violence.
And when it does turn into violence, it's greeted for
nuons to the left because their actual reaction, I think,
is to cheer it on. There are people who say
that that point that I just made is over the top.
To me, I think it's undeniable. Timing. One day after
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we had a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk,
the board of directors of a local school, the God
itself started by raising money from Conservatives, will vote on
whether or not to band an organization founded by Charlie
Kirk from having a chapter at the school. The timing
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is sort of coincidental, but not really, because the push
to start these chapters really grew after Charlie was killed,
as young people are determined they need not be snuffed out.
So you have the board of directors at the school,
Lake Country Classical Academy apparently meeting to decide whether or
not to tell the principle of the school, who has
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sanct demoniously said I'm not allowing a turning Point USA
chapter here. Her name is Margaret Hagenor, and yes she's
the wife of Supreme Court Justice Brian from banning the organization.
And in this period of time, many of the people
who want to defend the school pretend that they are
standing up for some sort of principle as opposed to
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doing exactly what we all know they're doing. They don't
want a Charlie Kirk group there because no matter how
polite and respectful Charlie Kirk is, Jayas think that they're
above that. This is after they went and shilled for
money from us. As I've said repeatedly, there are any
number of ways that this could have been accommodated beyond
the principle sending on a sanctimonious letter to the community saying, well,
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Attorney Point wants to come in and tell us that
they're up to our standards, shut up. I just did
a segment on the podcast maybe two or three ago
on the drift of conservative organizations. This particular school, Lake
Country Classical Academy, its board of directors is like field
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of Scott Walker types. The an honorary member of the
board of directors is Scott Walker. To his credit, he
has publicly condemned the actions of the principle that has
urged the voting members of the board to reach an
accommodation here, and I would hope that they would do so.
But again, this is a relatively new school. It was
cheered when it opened because it's affiliated with Hillsdale College,
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probably the best known conservative college in the United States
of America, to develop a curriculum that would be essentially
anti woke. So who was it that, first of all,
the public schools are all horrified by all these schools,
because every kid that goes to a school like this
is somebody not going to a regular public school. And
I should mention this school is a semi public school.
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It's a charter school. Charter schools are public schools not
run by the school district. This one is chartered by
a Native American tribe, the La Cordee Charter School. But
it's the left that hates all these schools because they
take away potential enrollments and therefore jobs on the union
higed schools. And secondly, who comes up with the money
to get these conservatives is it's Hillsdale backed and so on.
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And here you are real quickly just doing everything that
can to run away from anything that any conservative would
stand for, and it's got to be nipped in the bud.
If it isn't nipped in the bud, give this school
two or three more years, and it's going to be
the same left wing piece of crap that most of
the other public schools are unless you nip it in
the bud. And nipping in of the bud means that
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you can't allow people like Margaret Haggart or to run
around and tyrannically obstruct things like this. They'll saying, well,
they got a rule that we don't have both side organizations.
Now you got that rule. I get that, Like the WYA,
we have a rule. There are always ways to do
the right things within the confines of the rules. And
one of the things I suggested is that they have
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the chapter. They can meet in the school and so on,
and they simply consider it to be an independent chapter
by the students at the stud school will facilitate the
space for them to do it, and they can, you know,
do all of that stuff, but it be an independent chapter.
In the same way that you have many of these
club sports at high schools that don't have an official
team in a specific sport. There's, like I said, there's
a zillion ways you could do it. You know, boy
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scout troops often use schools, but this boy scout troup
might not be a direct part. There's a million ways
you can do it, but there was no attempt to
do that. Instead, there was a public attempt. Hold no, no, no,
no way, Charlie Curley, We're not that. Where do all
your money come from? Conservatives who endorsed you on his program?
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May I think all this that I'm describing as part
of the same thing. There is a loathing and hatred
of anything right, and that loathing and hatred it doesn't
mean that every single last one of them wants to
kill us, but many do. And when you see this,
it's never condemned. There isn't even a story, as I
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said in jas online about the fact. Can you imagine
if some Republican volunteer was handing up bracelets like this
and during the Biden years, name that hammer ended up.
I mean, for heaven's sakes, person be locked up in jail. Now,
this this is part of the ongoing series of here's
what we're up against. One of these things I just
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honestly don't know. Is for some of you who don't
live who live in the suburbs, and I know, obviously
if you're live outside the country, do you have any
idea what's happened to the streets in downtown Milwaukee. I
do know this. I remember the first time Paul saw
the trolley tracks, or might have been the first time
you saw the trolley it was, but whatever it was,
whenever that came in how many years ago, and Paul
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said he made some comment about it. Who couldn't believe it?
I've been describing this for seven years, and it's just
the function of if I've learned anything, people react more
strongly to that that they see than what they merely
hear about. It doesn't seem to matter how much I
describe something. People just never believe it's as bad as I. Well,
what's happening on the streets of downtown Milwaukee, no matter
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how bad you think it is. They've taken all of
these four lane streets that had you know, two and
four lanes plus parking lanes and taking it all down
to just two lanes, one in each direction. And they
don't allow you to like pass on the right or anything,
because they put these curbs, the concretes right in the
middle of the street and they call it a dedicated
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bike lane. There's no bikes using these things. The reason
that it's up there is they're simply trying to narrow
up the street. And the reason it's being done is
because the mayor is clueless is how to stop the
reckless driving going on like crazy, So he's just figuring
make the streets almost impos to drive on. And it's
going on all over the city. The worst street is
Van Buraen, but they're doing all of Michigan Street, all
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the way from about I don't know about eighth Street
to the Lake they're doing. They're ripping that one and
it's just continuing and continuing, continuing. Anyway. They got this
money from a Biden program that was funded in twenty
twenty four. Trump and the Republicans did recently the clawback.
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You may recall the clawback. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled
out it yet. The clawback is funds that were appropriated.
Does Trump have to spend them? In other words, if
there was money appropriated in the past, does that mean
that the current president has to spend it? We know this.
The president can't spend money that wasn't appropriated, but if
it is appropriated, does it have to be spent? And
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the Republicans said, well, we don't agree with this, so
we're not going to spend it. We're simply gonna let
the money sit in the treasury and cut the size
of the deficit. This program, this Urban Streets program that
Milwaukee's tapped into for all of this is the source
of the funding. Well. Among the streets that are next
up on the hopper to be ripped up are two
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major thoroughfares. One is Sixth Street, which runs all the
way from downtown into the near south side. It's a
very heavily trafficked street. There are a couple of others
as well. National l Avenue is another one. This is
the part of National Avenue that would be we're not
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talking West National Avenue out in West Allis and so on.
This is like in Milwaukee from about sixteenth Street. It's
right in the middle. It's in the area where Milwaukee
Tech is. It's in the middle of a heavily Latino area.
It's kind of the link to Walker's Point. Heading toward
the third ward, it's already an extremely busy street. I
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just can't even imagine what it would be like if
you rip at and just turn it into the two
lanes with all the buses and the Amazon trucks and
the places that do the restaurant deliveries that double it
just excess them anyway. Now they don't have the money.
Liberals are very creative when they're told they don't have
the money. So Mayor Chevy doesn't have the federal money
because Trump and the Republicans, thankfully they have clawed it back.
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There's a story in JS online on this what Mayor
Chevy is now again. For those of you who just
do not understand how liberals think, don't worry. I'm here
to help you out by telling you, like you have
no idea what they could possibly do if Trump clawed
back the money, do you no, Well, they go to
somebody else. Who's next Tony Abers. They're going to the
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state Department of Transportation and will seek unallocated funds there
at The Republican legislature has not allocating any funds for this,
but DOT has it. I've been on this thing for years.
DOT has this massive slush fund of cash just laying around.
So mayor Chevy is going to ask the taxpayers of
the rest of the state of Wisconsin, all of you
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people sitting there in Veroqua and fond alec at everywhere else,
to take millions and millions of dollars out of the
state road fund to allow me or Chevy to screw
up even more streets in the city of Milwaukee. I
don't know if any Republicans in the legislature are even
aware of this, of this being going on. And as
I say, many of you out there, you think, go, well, okay,
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he's got a little curbs and maybe it's a little
harder to drive. You just you have no idea. Serrely, seriously,
you have no idea. I don't know how much better
I can describe it other than you have no idea.
Whatever you think it is, it's fifteen times worse. I
want to address hard to figure out what the right
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term is. Obviously, tragic is partly correct. Case in Milwaukee.
A Milwaukee woman has been arrested and charged with beating
her mother to death with a rock. She took a
rock to where mother's had and kept slamming. Was caught
in the act by a witness who called the police.
The Fox six report and the report of the other
local TV station websites all say the same through all
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quoting neighbors at saying nobody surprised the woman being charged.
Her name is Laurence Spores, that spelled spo Rs. The
dead woman is named Carrie Zettel. The neighbors say that
the daughter has been violent and a problem forever. She's
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apparently been diagnosed schizophrenic. One of the problems, and it's
been discussed by me in the past, and many of
you are aware of it, is it's almost impossible to
institutionalize someone against their will. The standard of proof is
incredibly difficult. You have to prove that they are of
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imminent danger to themselves or someone else. And again that's
a high standard. And in the case, for example, this
until she hits her mother over the head with a
rock a zillion times, people said, well, she won't do that.
It's again almost impossible to do it. And it's likewise
almost impossible. There are very yeah, I think this is correct,
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very good drugs to treat these kinds of things. But
people who have these kind of psychoses schizophrenia, a manic, depressive,
and so on. Many of them can't stand taking their meds.
I'm sure that there are hundreds of people listening to
this podcast who have a relative or know of this situation.
They hate taking their meds, and of a situation if
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someone I knew in Florida she had a kid that
was like this, I mean, the parents never know what
to do, but they don't want to take their meds.
When they take their meds, they're if not fine close.
The problem is the meds tire them out and they're
just they don't like it. I wouldn't like it either,
But the alternative is they're this. I'm raising this issue
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here for a reason. However, I'm just telling you I
don't know this, but I'm gonna make a guess. I'm
gonna make a guess that this woman is on pod.
The link between marijuana use in schizophrenia is getting overwhelming.
And again when people say a link, well, I do
spot and I'm not schizophatic. I didn't say that not
everyone who smokes pot or gets cannabis in another form
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is schizophrenic. But I'm just telling you just about everybody
who is schizophrenic uses pot. The length there is seemingly
very real the marijuana, the cannabis that we have right
now is extremely powerful lenotia that it can get in
there and buzz your brain into the zombiesm that you're
at without potentially doing numerous other things, particularly when some
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of these people are on all sorts of other meds
as well. The interaction. I don't know that there's a
connection with the booze and the schizophrenia either, and there
may be. I'm just never, I'm just never. I'm just never. No,
I'm just saying that I don't know that there's a
connection in any way with alcohol and schizophrenia. Maybe there
will be, I know, not saying that there is or
there is it. I'm talking here with regard to the
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thing that you see again and again and again every
time they find I mean, there's been studies that just
show that almost everyone with schizophrenic is a cannabis user.
Not everyone, but it's an incredibly high number. And we
just keep running around legalizing and legalizing and legalizing and
encouraging and encouraging, encouraging despite the fact that, and I
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understand what the point is. Not everybody who uses pot
becomes mentally ill, so we well, why shouldn't I be
able to use it. I didn't. I'm not becoming mentally ill,
and it's a valid enough point. The question is how
common does the association have to be? But schizophrenic, I
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just it's the same thing with autism. I've been around
long enough that when I was younger, these illnesses they existed,
but they were so rare it's now all over. I'm
not suggesting the link between autism and POT. I think
Kennedy is onto something though, that with other types of
pills that are blocking the nerves, the pain receptors in
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the brain, that they may be contributing to a dulling
in general of what's going on in the fetus. And
maybe it is the tylenal thing or not. But I
do know, though, is this I'm just gonna predict, And
again maybe I'm wrong. I'm gonna predict that this woman
who killed her mother by banging her head with a rock,
it's a POT user. Again, maybe I'm wrong about that,
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but I think it's a pretty safe. Guest, you're listening
to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
One of the things that I've liked to do over
the years. In fact, whenever somebody tells me about something
like this, They always say, I know you Like that
is to kind of bring things to people's attention before
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most people know about it. In other words, kind of
get ahead of the curve on something that is going
to be a big friend or is going to be
a big deal. And the downside of this is I
never say nobody's ever told. I'm just saying I don't
think most people are aware of it. Clearly some are, well,
you're the first there's That's not what I'm saying. What
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I'm saying is I am trying to bring to your
attention and highlight something that most are not aware of.
The story is rather extraordinary. Now I know why most
people aren't aware of it, but that's almost part of
the thing that makes the story interesting. Jordan Stoltz just
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stole an namo it. My guess is about ninety eight
percent of you don't know who I'm talking about. There
is a very good chance that in four months, ninety
eight percent of you will know who I'm talking about.
As you probably know, the Olympics are three and a
half months away. They're in Milan, well kind of in Milan.
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They're actually all over northern in a Liba. Milan is
the biggest city there winner Olympics of course they start
early February. Jordan stolt is from Kewaskam. He has a
chance to win gold in multiple speed skating events. He's
knocked out a couple of world records. The thing about
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him is is that in the sport, and by the way,
I should mention, there are two forms of speed skating,
long crack and short track. And you know the differre
sitting long crack and short track. One is long and
one is short. Short track is the newer sport. It's
almost it's almost like a circle that they go around
in whereas longer tracks are you know, they're longer. It's
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it's a different form. The longer tracks are guys that
will think of Eric Heiden, Body Blair and so on.
That's long crack. He he competes. He competes in the now.
There are short races, there are spreads, but it's just
it's it's long crack, is what Stoltz is it. He
trains at the peddict in that particular sport. You tend
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to get a little bit better as you get a
little older. In some sports, in say track and field
and so on seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. You
never get any faster than that. Speed skating. It tends
to be in your mid to late twenties. Eric Heide
and Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair, many of them, they lasted
in that sport for a number of years. Because it's
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a sport in which you're combining so many different traits.
Strength comes into play as much as speed, development of
the muscles, stamina, technique, all that stuff. Anyway, I've linked
up on my site on x dot com two stories
they tell you a lot about. One was written by
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the Washington County Insider. That's Judy Stephus's publication. That's very,
very good. She quotes a journalist from the Netherlands who's
come to the United States to report on him. Why
the Netherlands, What do you know about the Netherlands and
speed skating? Call? Come on, Hans Brinker and the Golden
skate it is. It's like the like our version of football.
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That's the United States. That's what the Netherlands is. Speed
skate it is their big sport. I also linked up
a piece on nbcsports dot com, which is profiling major
American athletes. There's the chance that he's going to win
more medals than anybody at this Olympics, or maybe or not.
I mean you have to compete. His forte is the
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shorter distances, the five hundred, one thousand and fifteen hundred
and that's meters. And again in speed skating for the
long crack, those would be shorter races if it's shorter
than that, but that's basically the range that he's in. Anyway.
There are some quotes here. This is from Judy Steph
his story and the Washington County Insider. She interviewed this journalism.
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This journalist is Dutch journalist who came in from Amsterdam.
I want to read his name, but I'm telling you
if I say his name, it will take up the
rest of the podcast. Should I give it a shot?
I think the first name is these. It's spelled t
h I JS. I'm guessing these. I'm guessing that Jay
is silent, wouldn't you. I don't think it's stigious. I
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think it's these or here's the last name. I have
to say it. I think that there are forty nine
syllables here. I exaggerated. This is though this is right
up there with with Giannis's last name's length. Niemann's fat
vert driat. I'm just saying Niemant vert driat. Now, I
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suppose if you say it fasted, if you'll have his name.
But I had to go that slowly to be able
to announciate and get all this. Anyway, these is came
to Kuwaskam to do a story here because this guy
may be the star of the Olympic sport that is
so big over there. I'm going to quote a few
lines from the story in the Washingtononian Center means med zend.
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I'm just gonna say these I'm going to say his
first name. A writer from Amsterdam made the trip across
the Atlantic to me. Jordan Stolt's the twenty one year
old speed skating phenom whose rise is captivated fans worldwide
and especially in the Netherlands. A country. We're skating is
closer to a national religion than a pastime. They quoted thief. Quote,
He's a phenomenon very well known in Holland. I think
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even better known there than in the United States. Well,
I think that's correct, because I don't think anybody knows
them in the United States. Quote. We see him as
the main candidate to win a lot of medals at
the coming Olympics in Milan, and that makes his story fascinating. Quote.
I saw a Dutch TV report where they went to
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his parents' house and showed the pond where he learned
to skate. Where these stories get to be. He learned
to skate in a pond in the backyard. It's just
I mean, I suppose you got to learn to skate somewhere,
but it just seems to me that most of what
that's where you learned. How many Olympic medals did you win?
You know? That's like saying the Williams sisters learned in
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the backyard when they were two, with I'm guessing by
the time they were four they were at a tenants
academy with their crazed father who said, I'm going to
make the two greatest tennis players in the world. That anyway,
quote the says that really struck me. Who learns to
skate on their own pond and then turns out to
be this talented that's the key. People learn how to
skate on their own pond, are you. It's a story
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that feels very pure, almost old fashioned in the best way.
In a country like the Netherlands, where Olympic skaters are
household names, Stoltz's rise has sparked both awe and friendly rivalry.
The Dutch have long dominated the sport with vast resources,
deep tradition, and pack stadiums, but these said Stalls represents
something new, a humble American shaking up a sport that
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one seemed untouched by outsiders. Quote. Every once in a
while someone comes from abroad and beats the Dutch. It
looks like this is going to happen with Jordan. Honestly,
I don't know who's going to beat him in Milan.
Back home in Europe, Stoltz his face is familiar. It
appears on TV sports pages and skating broadcasts across the continent.
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But in the United States he can still shop at
the grocery store unnoticed. Well, you kind of from up there.
You think if Jordan walks to the grocery store a Kiwasca,
anybody knows who he is. I don't know. I don't know.
But if he goes up the road to West bed
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probably then he's anonymous again. Right, Yeah, Okay, it's kind
of weird, he said in Holland, Norway or Germany. People
will recognize him. Here. He can walk into a supermarket
and no one will know who he is. Again, this
guy has come over to the United States report of
the story. He probably asked a few people they know
who Jordan's and then provo said, no, who's that? But
if he wins a few gold medals in Milan, that
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will change. He'll become an American star. That part is true.
And this is where I wanted to interject as to
why it is. There are some sports you almost need
a psychoanalyst to figure out why this is. There are
some sports that Americans go crazy over but only during
the Olympics. Gymnastics would be number one on that list.
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I'm telling you, nobody pays any attention to some owned
bios and she competes on the nationals in a non
Olympic year. The same thing with women's figure skating or
men's figure skating when they have the gold medal events
and that they have world championship with that, every year
they have other meets and so on. I'm not saying
when I say nobody, I mean hardly anybody pays any
attention to that. Track and field is another one. We
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just had the Every year they have the American Championships
in Eugene, Oregon, hardly anybody pays attention when you have
the Olympics. There are a number of sports that here
in the United States just get I would see another
one to throw in a couple of others. The kind
of skateboarding that they do in those half shells and
all of that. I never see p I don't think
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people know who the top figures in that are. But
when you get to the Olympics and two or three
or four people beach volleyballs another one. Remember those two
women that won it like sixteen years in a row
or whatever. Yeah, I know, but I don't think anybody
paid attention. And then when they were just competing. There
are just a number of sports that like that in
the United States, and it's curious. It's to why Americans
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have such an incredible interest in these sports. Greetings monstrous
in the Olympics, but almost zero any other time. So
you know, in the Netherlands, the sport's a big deal
all the time. So if Jordan wins, America loves winners
in the Olympics. If Jordan does knock out, say one
gold or maybe multiple silvers. You know, does a mini
Eric Heiden thing or anything. Everybody is going to know
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about him. And the point that's being raised here is
and again, you can be an early favorite. End. You know,
it took Dan Jansen forever to win his gold, so
one things can happen, et cetera. Continuing with the story,
in the February twenty twenty six Olympics, Stoles has set
has sits on competing in the five hundred meter, one
thousand meters and fifteen hundred meter events. He currently holds
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the world record in all three events. So I mean
this means he's it. He's already the world record holder
in all three of those events. See, he's the world
record holder. He's probably the favorite to win the gold
and all of them. Again, it doesn't mean he will.
You can slip, anything can happen, but he's already the
world record holder in all three of these. He's from Kewaska.
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Don't say you knew who he was because I threw
his name out there a minute to going you didn't
know what he was. And again, how would anyone know?
When's the last time you saw any local? It's just
it isn't covered, continuing, this would be stole. It's the
second trip to the Olympics. He competed in twenty twenty
two in Beijing, where, according to NBC Sports, he was
the third youngest American at seventeen to ever compete in
long track speed skating. So again, this is a sport
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where like nineteen twenty that's when you start to get
to world class level and so on. So in twenty
twenty two he was the third youngest American ever in
long track, I think, And again short track is a
separate sport. Doesn't reference that for now. These that's this
long name. Guy is happy to tell a story what
Americans are only just beginning to appreciate. But a young
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what a quiet, modest young man from rural Wisconsin who
might be the best skater in the world. He's not
someone who brags, he said. He's calm, modest, but inside
you can see that there's this fire, this competitiveness that
drives him. That's what makes him special. As for predictions,
these is cautious. The Olympics are unpredictable. There's always some surprise,
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he said. But if all goes well, I think he
could win three gold medals five hundred, one thy fifteen hundred.
That would be truly unique. It's amazing. Really, a boy
from a pond in Keywascam might just conquer the Dutch
at their own game. That's the kind of story you
fly halfway around the world to tell a good story
on the watching a Cony insider about this guy who's
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over there in so again, now you know who Jordan
Stoltz is, and see what happens. The Olympics start February third,
and again they're saying Milan. But as I understand it,
the events are all over and again. Northern Italy is
the mountainous region and so on, and it's cold there
in the winter. So on, what do you know about Milan?
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We've been to Milan, haven't we? Well, I gotta think
now we went to Florida. We went. We went to Florence,
which is right in the vicinity. I don't remember anymore,
but I have the I have the disadvantage of being old.
I don't mean this is always on cruises and so on.
I don't I don't think we actually, I don't know.
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We didn't go to Milan. For one thing. It's more
inland and the other cities are closer to the sea,
if not on the sea that we end up going to.
I know that the people in southern Italy they think
that the northern Italy people twity twity, you know how.
I know that there was a Sopranos about that. That's
that's what Fourio said. Maybe he made it up, and
maybe there isn't any any of that bigotry. But the north,
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you know that was Da Vinci and all that, they
think they're the culture and all of that, and they
think the ones in southern Italy they think that they're
just they're just you know, boors and so on. Again,
maybe that's not true, but that's what Fourio said in
the Sopranos. That's the extent of my knowledge on this.
Now it's time to move on. The Business journal they're
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known for. I think these lists. Every public every week
they have one of these lists on the one the most,
the most that, the most other thing. You've seen these lists,
haven't you? Even every year put on a book of
all the lists. Well, I learned something about these lists,
you know what I learned? They might be crap. They're
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in the most recent issue they have a list You're
of corporate charitable contributions in Wisconsin ranked by total contributions
to Wisconsin charity organizations in twenty twenty four. So they
take all the companies in the state of Wisconsin and
rank who gave the most money to charity. So look
at the list again. My brain is wired different than
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everybody else. I'm seeing something and the analytical gears are
just going. Most people take things at face value. Here's
those number one WEC Energy Corporation, two, Northwestern Mutual three,
Husco International four, Freighted five, Coals six, Johnson Controls seven,
Associated Bank eight, BEMO nine, bared Can Brewers Community Foundation eleven,
West Bend Insurance twelve, Johnson Financial thirteen, Aosmith fourteen, Town
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Bank fifteen, M three Insurance sixteen, The Marcus Corporation seventeen,
Godfriancan eighteen, Waterstone Financial goes on. I'm looking at this list,
know and again some of you who just take everything
get fased out. Oh it's interesting, Waterstone Financials eighteen. We
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have giant companies and what are they chincy, They don't
give any money. Are you telling me that Kohler's not
on that list? Sc Johnson Minards go through American Family Insurance.
But they're not on the list. It's not inquired about this.
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I emailed Timothy Gibbons, who's the editor. You know why
they're none of the list because the list is only
based on companies that volunteered the information. This isn't an
actual list of donations. They said that many companies didn't
respond to with it. Well, of course many don't. Many
companies don't want to indicate how much they want to
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give others do, so the list is based solely on
self reporting. And I said, was just the case with
all your lists when you put for example, largest schools
and all that. If somebody doesn't respond to you not
include them. I thought when I saw a lists like this,
that that meant that they were doing digging or try
to come up with you know, like the we mentioned
the four four hundred ordranks the four hundred richest people
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in the world. And soon they have people who do
nothing all year but try to estimate the worth of
say someone like Donald Trump or Judy Faulkner of EPIC
and soone. That's their sole jobs all year and they
try to come up with it anyway, So I emailed
Gibbons and he gave me a response, and I'm going
to read it to you. Let me start with some
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context around the list. The majority of our lists, this
one included, are built out of surveys sent to a
group of target companies, usually ones that have volunteered for inclusion,
either by filling out the link I included in my
previous email, or by reaching out to us directly, including
after we publish a list they're not on or wish
to be. For this specific list, we spent several years
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soliciting companies who wish to be included, creating the pool
of organizations we survey. You will, of course, have known us.
The footnote that states about the list participation in the
list of Corporate Charitable Contribute contributors was solicited from the
participation request for possible inclusion. And indeed that is here
in small type pall. You should see this, this little
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tidy type. No one would read that is reading that
down there. He continues, As far as I know, there
was no one who reached out to be included who
was not. Well, Okay, that means all these big giant
corporations that I mentioned didn't reach out to be included.
Because there's zillion reasons why many companies don't want us
disclose how much money that they give. Sometimes it's proprietary.
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Sometimes it comes across as bragging. Like one of the
entities that's not a list. I don't know. You know,
there's a certain businesses in Milwaukee that are sanctimonious and
to go on and on Potawatomy is insufferable, miracle like
Canal Street and all of this stuff. They don't give
that much money away, but they brag about every last
dollar as if that's going to make it more justifiable
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for somebody to go in the slot machines. But then
there are many others who it's unseemly to do so,
or they think by doing so, they're just going to
be hit up for more people for more money and
so on. But anyway, the point of all of this
is is that all these lists that they have, it's
based basically on whether or not they tell them. Secondly,
do they addit? How do you know that somebody there
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are some people in business I think that might inflate
their amount of money that they give, like you. Let's
discuss the Brewers Dodgers series. First of all, the context
of how the series has gone so far, and as
we do this podcast, of course the Dodgers are up
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two to nothing. It's just so easy after the fact
to say this, and I grant this, but I had
very little expectation that the Brewers would win. For any
of you who've ever paid any attention to my commentary
on baseball, I think pitching is about all that matters
in baseball. Some people disagree, and it just the way
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it worked out is the Brewers pitching fell apart down
the stretch with injuries and guys just got banged out,
and they really only going into the postseason hit two
starting pitchers, Freddy Parolta and Quinn Priester. Quinn Priester is inexperienced.
After getting Sheldon one start, they don't even want him
to start. They'll have him pitch multiple innings, but do
it by coming in in the second of the third inning.
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Jacob Mezerowski stopped being a reliable starter, so they're trying
to use him by you pitching in multiple innings without
starting the game and so on. And in the case
of Freddy Parolta, it's just clear if you've looked at
his performances down the stretch, he's worn out. In fact,
as at the game last night, his fastballs normally ninety six.
I saw him at ninety six only twice the entire game.
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He was in the ninety three to ninety four rage.
So I just think that the starting pitching is kind
of worn out, and they've been trying to cobble together
these games. Their best games have been ones in which
they use five or six gate guys out of the
bullpen and so on. And the thing with the Dodgers
is all year they're pitching as stunk, except Blake Snell
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has come along down the stretch and is right now
as effective as any pitcher in baseball. He almost pitched
the perfect game against the Brewers in Game one, a
game the Brewer is almost won because the manager of
the Dodgers our secret repon is Dave Roberts is an idiot,
I mean, the Dodger fan, and bitched about it. He
took a guy out who had pitched essentially a perfect
game through eight hittings. He gave up one base runner
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and that base runner immediately got thrown out trying to
steal second anyway, and then there was the game last night.
The Dodgers are a team filled with home run hitters
and so on, and if the Brewer pitching isn't sharp,
I don't see him winning. So again, it's so simple.
After you're down to nothing. Oh, I figured they'd be
down to nothing. And I understand just saying something after
the fact, but it is what it is. More to
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the point, there was a big story in the Wall
Street Journal earlier this week on this series, and that's
what I want to dive into here. I didn't know
if you all know that, But there is a very
strong chance there will need be no baseball season in
twenty twenty seven. The current player union contract expires at
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the end of the twenty six season. The owners want
a salary cap. Baseball does not have a salary cap.
They have attacks. The baseball system works that after you
go over a certain amount, you have to pay a
tax to the league and the money is distributed to
the rest of the teams. But there's no cap. Football
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has a salary cap. Basketball is a salary cap. Both
are really complicated as to how they work, but there
is a number that if you butt up against it,
you really can't spend any more than that. Baseball doesn't
have one. The owners want a salary cap, but that
has to be negotiated with the union. Obviously, the players'
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union don't want a salary cap because the salary cap
whatever that is multiply by the thirty teams. That's the
max that can go to the players and salaries. And
it is perceived that neither side will budge on this,
and both might be willing to forego an entire season
in order to win that battle. That's the backdrop anyway
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that has brought up this discussion of the Brewers Dodgers series.
The players Union is making the case baseball doesn't need
a salary cap, and what is that case? Premison the Brewers.
The Union is saying, look, you don't need a salary cap.
You've got one of the lowest payroll teams in all
of Major League Baseball and they're in the playoffs every
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year's there in the final four. So you don't need
a salary cap. What's the problem. The Brewers prove you
don't need one, and then they'll point out, look at
the teams that have salaries. There are teams with two
times the payroll of the Brewers, not double two. That
means triple. Brewers I think are in the range of
what are they won thirty five? The team's over four hundred,
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and the Brewers do better than they are. So the
Union is saying you don't need one. Baseball is retorting, Okay,
who's the other Brewers? Though the Brewers are the only
ones that can figure this out. Pittsburgh's not in there.
Once at a bloomoon, Minnesota's in that. That's true. In fact,
of the final four teams, here's the ranking the Dodgers have.
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I think it was number two. I think the Mets
were number one in Pei role this year. It's in
the story. Mark find this quickly. It's either one or two,
and then five and fifteen. Toronto's five. Toronto's a huge market.
By the way, people think Toronto's a small market because
Toronto's in Canada. The Toronto metroery is just unbelievable. It
goes on and on and on and out. Toronto has
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the fifth highest payroll Seattle, which is the third team
in they're in the middle, they're at fifteen. The Brewers
are in the twenties. So that's the distinction that's there. Actually,
the Brewers payroll is one hundred and twenty two million
this year. That ranks twenty second out of thirty. The
story goes on that the Brewers seem to be be
aberrational in that there are certain things that the Brewers
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do that other teams have not done. The Brewers make
it a religion to get rid of guys when they
hit thirty. They will sign retreads over thirty that they
can get for discount, but they will not overpay for
guys on the downside of their career. For example, I
do believe that unless the Brewers win a couple of
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games in Los Angeles, Freddy Perol that pitched his last
game for the Brewers last night, he's a free agent
year after next. And the Brewers MO has been to
trade a guy when there's one year left in his
contract when they can still get a lot. They did
that with Devin Williams, and that's why we have Caleb
Durban at third. They've done it with Corbyn Burns. Who
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do we get for Corbyn? And we're's getting fuzzy here
one of our starters. It wasn't Ortiz anyway, THEIRMO has
been rather than spend three thirty five million dollars on
a contract of a player who's probably going to go
on the DL or might be borderline washed up cases
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of both Burns and Williams, to try to get somebody
young back who they can plunk out of the starting
line up immediately. The Brewers' other m always to try
to acquire players who have multiple years left in their
contract or extend guys early, and most teams don't do that.
The other key, I think though, to the Brewers is
and I think the Erin Savali trade is indicative of this.
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The Brewers had a starting pitcher was bitching and mourning Savally,
you gotta trade him. Andrew Vaughan was in the Triple
A in the minor leagues. He was washing out with
the White Sox. The Brewers scouting felt that he still
had a lot of talent in him, that probably he's
simply it's not a losing team forever in an empty stadium,
that you could turn him around. They've done this with
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any number of pitchers they traded at the beginning of
this season for Quinn Priester. Yet a pretty good young
player for him, But Quinn Priesters signed for multiple years
because he's a young player. They saw something in him
and they can develop them. So the Brewers keep winning
all these awards for being the best organization in baseball
because they can do all of this. The counter, though, is,
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in the postseason you need superstars, and the Brewers tend
to develop all of these stars. But do they have superstars?
My take is somewhere in between. Of course, it's easier
for the Dodgers with their payroll to win. The counter
to that is, I believe it was the Mets that
had the number one payroll in all of baseball. Where
are they? The Angels are always in the top five,
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and they've stunk forever. Having a ton of money doesn't
guarantee success, but it makes it much easier. I think
baseball needs a salary cap. Some people say that's not American.
The difference is they're in an association. These are not
independent businesses competing against one another. This is not you know,
one drugstore chain competing against another. They're joining an association
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for the purpose of competition. So there's nothing wrong with
the association putting in rules to create a level in
fair playing. It's the same for example, in the NFL,
everybody has the same roster. You can't have two hundred
guys in your roster. Will let somebody else's fifty three.
There are limitations that you have. One of the reasons
football has been so successful is they've had a salary cap.
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In revenue sharing, one team can spend disproportionately more than
the other. Head you get the money that you haven't
try to figure out who's going to use it most
wisely say that again, it was our keys and dl
Hall who another problem that we have with the playoffs here.
Dl Hall got hurt and wasn't quite a very good
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pitcher and a guy that can pitch three or four innings.
And so I mean, Corbyn Burns blew out his arm
this year. He signed a big contract with Arizona. May
not pitch for two more years. He'll be thirty two
to thirty three when he comes back. And Joey Ortiz
maybe the best fielding shortstop and all of baseball and
so on. I mean, and you combine that with the
Brewers doing an excellent job of drafting young players and
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then finding somebody and Venezuela like Jackson Curio when he
was sixteen years old, and so on. It's the reason
that they are where they are, whether or not it
could ever turn into a world Series. I mean, I
think it's kind of luck. I think that Seattle might
win the World Series this year. It's a team that
made a zillion moves at the middle of the season.
Sometimes those works sometimes, though't they don't. They seem to
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be the hottest team. The Dodgers problem is once you
get packed, it's the top two starters not good. Their
number three starter is Shohaiotani. He's a much better hitter
than a pitcher. He's a good pitcher, but he's he's
not anywhere near as dominant as the first first two games,
and the Dodger bullpen is rather weak. I mean, you say,
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final story about the Dodger Brewer game. I do need
to bring this up. You cannot imagine how many people,
including I think you were one of them. There's a
guy with a massive following on YouTube. It's just enormous.
His name is John Boy. He does Baseball breakdown. Were
you aware of John Boy before this video? Just zillions
(01:03:06):
of people followed John by Jomboy. What he'll do is
he'll find something weird that happens in a game, and
he does incredible editing to break it down. Often it's
an argument or a fighter when somebody's buzzed with a
fastball or something unusual, or an argument with the umpires.
He is an unbelievable lip reader, so he'll show the
cameras and he's saying you could say, okay, that's what
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the person is saying. So he did this breakdown of this.
Some of you were saying, strangest play in baseball history.
It was close. Max Months the other Dodgers in Game
one hit what appeared to what looked like it was
going to be a Grand Slam home run that turned
into a double play with no runs being scored. I mean,
I could go through the whole description, but any of
you who care probably knew about it. Anyway. Anyway, John
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Boys got all this video and he's going through all
of this, and he put it out that he's on
paternity lead because they having a kid, so he's not
been spending as much time. So he slapped this together
in the middle of the night. And I know that
he slapped it together because he didn't seem to know
sell Freelik's name he put it. But anyway, he sees this,
they got the shot. The cameras are always on the
third base side for a right handed hitter. So they're
showing the shot. When the ball is hit, I'm throwing
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my hands up in the air, and nobody else is react. Well,
the reason I throw my hands say, I pay more attention.
Oh man, this could be a Grand Slam home run.
So they zone in on this and John Boyce says,
look at this guy saying oh no, and everybody else
is sitting there like it takes them an extra second
to realize, here's this ball going to deep center field.
So he closes up on me and shows it. And
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I'm just telling you, there may not be a state
in the United States where I'm not heard from somebody say,
you were on the job boy video. I linked that
up on x dot com. There's a lot of content
that you can find. Yeah, I mean, it's it's just everywhere.
In my reaction, Thank god, it was the proper reaction, like,
oh no, this could be a Grand Slam home run,
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as opposed to me picking my nose or I'm going
to explain something to you when we come back. I'm
going to explain to you why Obamacare is falling apart.
You don't know why it's falling apart, do you? I mean,
you know that it's falling apart because Obama and Pelosi
(01:05:17):
did it. But I mean the actual that explanation coming
up next on the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the
Mark Belling Podcast. A prominent poster on X he goes
onto the handle of Wall Street MAV. I'm guessing that's
short from Maverick. He has a very short post in
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which he essentially explained the problem with Obamacare. If you're
not aware, Obamacare is hitting that financial brick wall and
it's exploding right now. The costs are going to go
to the roof, and they're asking the Congress, which now
is the Republican Congress, and Trump to come up with
a massive baiload. Now, before I get into the guy's explanation,
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when obama Care was passed now better than a decade ago,
every one of the critics said this was going to happen.
So they said, this thing is not self sustaining, that
there is no way that you can make endspeed anyway.
That's the shorthand version. Wall Street Map does a spectacular
job of explaining in two paragraphs what the problem is,
(01:06:20):
so I'm going to share it with you. He writes. Obamacare,
otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, explained, Democrats passed Obamacare,
which made deductible so high that you rarely ever reach them.
Let me interject, Sometimes people hear the especially people who
never get sick, they hear these terms. Your deductible is
the amount you pay before the insurance kicks in. The
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point that he makes is that when they drafted Obamacare,
which was an attempt to make the insurance companies rich,
essentially that's what it was. When they created Obamacare, they
made the deductibles really, really high. So unless you're somebody
who had a lot of illness, everything was out of pocket.
Anyway that you essentially didn't have insurance. Your insurance was
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if you go to the hospital, you get cancer or something,
then they kicking. But the point that he's making, and
again I don't want to belabor this, is that Obamacare,
the Affordable Care Act, that the people under it, the plans,
almost all had very high deductibles. So continuing Democrats passed Obamacare,
which made deductibles so high that you rarely ever reach them,
So you pay for insurance plus out of pocket for
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insurance you rarely use. Designed to fund health care for
deadbeats and the illegal aliens, now that's his explanation here.
The reason that they had to create it this way
so that so many individuals ended up essentially not getting
anything out of Obamacare because everything was out of pocket.
They did this so that they would have the funds
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to cover the people who don't kick in in anything
at all, like all the illegal aliens are on Obamacare.
This is one of the things now that's being debated
with regard to Trump should be paying for the healthcare
expenses of people that are in the United States illegally.
That's why the Democrats have shut down the government. They
want that continue. Back now to Wall Street map designed
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to fund healthcare for deadbeats and illegal aliads. From twenty
twenty four to twenty twenty one, it was getting worse
the Biden Then Biden and the Democrats passed temporary subsidies
to hide how crazy expenses ACA insurance had become. Those
subsidies expire December thirty, first twenty five. In other words,
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when the Biden administration was in they passed subsidies to
cover all these shortfalls that were in place with regard
to Obamacare. But like almost all of these other funding bills,
it expires as I've planted on any number of times
whenever the government creates a program, Oh, it's only temperate,
it's only temperate's only temporary. The pressure is just overwhelming
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to keep the program going. Once you create an entitlement,
people go nuts if they expect that, if they don't
think it's going to last forever. Okay, so that's coming
up now in two and a half months now. Democrats
want to extend those subsidies. If they could, they would
even expand the subsidies more to further hide the disaster
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of Obamacare. Before Obamacare, health insurance companies could offer cheaper
plans with certain things excluded, but Obamacare banned the cheaper plans.
You may recall that when Obamacare came in, you couldn't
do the plans that a lot of small businesses and
others liked, in which the plan was more tailored to
a person. For example, if you're a small business and
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you got three employees and they're all guys, you're not
going to put pregnancy coverage and all of that stuff
in there. Obamacare require that all of this stuff being
all of these plans. That there were no low cost
plans that were out there, so you ended up with
this financial cliff that we hit to Zamacare is costing
a fortune with the losses being more and more and more.
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In addition to that, all insurance cost is going to
explode next year, all having to do with some of
these subsidies. Healthcare costs are going to go way way
up next year because we got an aging population. We're
covering all of these things that maybe some of the
policies shouldn't cover, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
the point that was being explained by this poster here
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on Wall Street MAB is that when they created Obamacare,
they created these enormous government subsidies to cover for the
fact that it was hemorrhaging money. And then sunset and
the subsidies. So now we're facing the sunset and they're
demanding that the subsidization continues, which is what drives this
whole issue of whether or not we should be paying
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for health care for illegal immigrants or not.
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There's something going on that I think a lot of
people still haven't fully processed, in part because it's almost
unbelievable how bad it is. I think we first saw
signs of this five years ago in twenty twenty, when
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you saw the depth of the riots and the just
hatred directed toward police all over the United States using
the George Floyd situation. I think as an excuse. In Wahwatosa,
you had night after night after night after night of
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marches that's all fine, but included these massive mobs of
people walking right up to Wahwatosa police officers and screaming
in their faces the most vile and hateful thing. You
could write that off as a one off. The lefties
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are the people that were scared to death that they'd
all die from COVID. That was twenty twenty. You could
write that off as dead in retrospect, it was the
first sign of a phenomenon that I think the evidence
just overwhelming is way worse than most people, including those
of us on the right, are aware of. And that
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is the remarkable amount of hate that's just pervasive. And
people will say that this is a stretch. I don't
think it is the entire Democratic Party. It's case after
case after case of it. It's not just the political violence,
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not just the assassinations, not just the threats, not just
the seeming glee that Charlie Kirk was killed. It's everything.
And the reason I say pervasive throughout the entire party
is I never that's a stretch. Almost never hear any
condemnation of it, calling out of or consequences for coming
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from other Democrats. Here's my latest example. Again, all of
these stories are unbelievable because it's hard to believe that
you have people in this country that are this vile,
this evil, this ugly. Oshkosh Oshkosh they've had to kick
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the Winnebago County Democrat Party out of the Oshkosh Farmers
Market because one of the people that was working the
Democrat booth at the farmer's market was handing out bracelets,
one of which was given to an eight year old kid.
The bracelet it's like one of these rubber bracelets that
people have that have sayings on him and so on.
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It is he dead yet? The presumption is it's a
reference to President Trump. Who else would it be? Is
he dead yet? Apparently the person had a lot of
the bracelets. We don't know how many were handed out.
We do know that one of them was given to
an eight year old and the eight year old happened
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to be a child of one of the people who
runs the Farmer's market. And that's why the story made
some news. Some news. It's been covered by a Green
Bay TV station. I put it up on my account
on X yesterday. If you want more details, you can
find it there. Mark Bellings Show is my handle on X.
But the story's been ignored by much of the mainstream media.
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I haven't seen any coverage of it by any of
the gannet papers. That's JS online and so on. And
the Oshkosh paper is one of the ones they own.
But imagine this, and by the way, the Democrats and
When to Go, you're saying, well, this is a volunteer
and this wasn't authorized. Well, they haven't named the volunteer
who ought to be named, And I haven't heard a
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peep of reaction from Democrats in Wisconsin condemning Winnebago Counties Democrats. Furthermore,
I don't know how many people this's a booth at
the farmers I don't know how many people are sitting there?
Was this person the only one manning the booth? How
many other bracelets were handed out? How many for that
matter of lefties just out there are wearing these things?
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Is he dead yet? You've got it? First of all,
nobody on my side can do something like this because
you'd be ruined if you did it, which is probably
a good thing. But second this you can't keep saying
that this is isolated cases. This isn't the entire democratic
it seems to be. If it wasn't, every Democrat in
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that party would say, it's this person here, we disassociate
ourselves from them, and everyone would name this person. So
the whole world knows what a monstrous creep is running out,
but they won't. I would like to share with you
some information and then we will proceed with the program.
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is he said, not an option. Now this story, it's related.
It comes from the state of Virginia. Give you some
background on politics in Virginia. Virginia is one of those
states that over the last thirty years has gone from
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being Republican to very solidly democrat. The biggest reason for
it is simply the explosion in the size of the
federal government. Those federal government employees they all have in
either merrily of Virginia. They're not going to live in
the city of Washington, d C. And the metro area
of Washington, d C. The Virginia part has just boomed
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and exploded, and it is unbelievably democratic. Then there's college
towns in there and so on. Much of the geographically.
If you do the red blue chart of morning patents,
the whole state is red. The blue is though, where
the population all is. They did have that incredible election
where Glenn youngin a Republican managed to win the governor's race,
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but it seems to have been a one off and
Young Cain is term limited out he can't run for
reelection this year. But the point is is that it's
an extremely democratic state in the big way of the
Trump had for example of the twenty forty four election,
he did not win the state of Virginia. Anyway, to
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the governor's race there, I won't say it's a close race.
In the latest polls at six to seven points, they
can be wrong. The Democratic candidate is leading. The Republican
candidate is very interesting. Woman wins the Earl series. African
American woman has quite the life story to tell, and
so she's trailing. Anyway. Now into that race is a
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new controversy. The Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia
has been caught making vile texts. Again, are all of
these people vile? And I'll tell you about him in
a moment. They're really vile. Now, the Democrat candidate, he
won't drop out of the race for attorney general. Whether
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he wins or not is not the point here. The
bigger point is the Democrat candidate for governor will not
disavow the Democratic candidate for attorney general who put out
the vile texts. The vile texts basically cheered the killing
of a political opponent in Virginia. Guy was killed, and
the guy did texts about how essentially alluding to what
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a good thing that that was. Now the easy thing
to do for a Democratic candidate for governor, You know,
why tie yourself to this guy over there who said
this is disavowed, say this terrible thing to do. Democrats
can't do this, And I think they can't do it
because they know huge swaths of their voter base agree
(08:52):
with the guy who said it. They're all in and
this hate, and they want true believers. There's an interesting
column on this that appeared to the Wall Street Journal
a couple of days ago, and I want to share
it because, well, the story is from Virginia. I just
think it's increasingly typical. Democrat Abigail Spanburger is the favorite
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of the Virginia race for governor. Abba Gail's camp amburgers.
She's the Democrat running for governor, not the attorney general
put this out, but she's leading the commonwealths add year
elections tend to favor the party that isn't in the
White House, and Northern Virginia's full of federal employees. She
has millions more in campaign cash than a Republican opponent
lieutenant governor wins some earl series. Let me interject, I'd
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love to read a story once in which the story
says the Republican has more money than the Democrat. Well,
it is the last time, well, I know, the last
time it happened before Citizens United, the case Supreme Court
case that the Democrats so criticized and now has turned
out to be the best thing that has ever happened
to them anyway, So the Democrat candidate has way more
campaign funds than the republic Spanberger, a mother of three
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and former CIA officer, is a candidate from Central Casting
to appeal for suburban swing votes. She is up six
point five points to the latest Real Clear Politics average.
Yet for all her advantages, Spanberger looked uncomfortable in the
contest's only debate on Thursday, That's last week at Norfolk
State University. That's doubtless because the biggest story of the
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past week has involved Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for
Attorney General. Fantasizing in leaked text messages about the murder
of a political opponent and his family. Quote he receives
both bullets every time. Jones told a then colleague about
a Republican in a text that much of the country
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has now seen. You may have seen coverage of this.
Somebody obviously leaked one of these texts in which he's
fantasizing about the bullets. Two bullets every time he gets
every time in this fantasy, this guy gets the two bullets.
Back to the story, when the moderator asked Spamberger, now
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Democrat cannedate for governor, She's not the one who put
out the text. It's the Cannifer Herney general who did.
But the moderator asks, you can tell that this isn't
a political debate in Wisconsin where the Wisconsin Broadcast Association
picks a bunch of hack some local TV stations. Because
its a good question, they asked the Democratic Cannifer governent, Hey,
what do you think about this? If she still supports Jones,
she dodged. Voters now have the information, and it is
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enough to voters to make an individual choice based on
this information. I mean, that's just Kamala Harri's stuff. Only
it was coherent, but it's a complete dodging of the question. Yeah,
no kidding. Voters have enough to make every The question
is what about you? Do you ges avow this cretan? Wouldn't, no, kid,
why wouldn't you if you're running for governor? Isn't the
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path at least resistance that just shed this guy off
your back, this idiot with these And the answer is
she must calculate that she would be fearful if their
new backlash from other Democrats if she condemned somebody who
is cheering to have Republicans killed. She denounced his words
as absolutely abhorrent, but when pressed, she repeated her non answer.
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The story goes on, people keep saying, you're cherry picking
these things. Well, yeah, we're cherry picking them up. But
that's tons That cherry pickic just keeps on coming. The
backdrop of this, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I want
you to follow my tim in here yesterday Tuesday. We're
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doing this podcast. On Wednesday, President Trump awarded posthumously Charlie
Kirk America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
and declared the day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. I'm
actually going to read the proclamation here. Obviously, the White
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House staff's in charge of this, and it's rather short,
but I think just an outstanding mini biography of what
made Charlie Kirk the great human being that he was.
Proclamation signed by the President on the afternoon of Wednesday,
September tenth, twenty twenty five, Pure evil struck down struck
when the legendary Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight
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in a campus courtyard, triggering a ground swell of righteous
fury all across our land. Today, our nation honors the
immortal memory of Charlie, a father, a husband, a Christian martyr,
and a titan of the American Conservative movement. We honor
his life, we send our condolences to his beautiful family,
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and we pledge to advance the values for which he
laid down his life. Every day, Charlie devoted himself to
a set of simple causes, defending the truth, encouraging debate,
and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was gracious
and articulate beyond measure, always welcomed opposing perspectives, and never
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deviated from his noble goal of bridging our political, cultural,
and philosophical divides. As we mourn this extraordinary loss, my
administration will continue to do everything in its power to
end this devastating wave of political violence. No civilized society
can endure a culture where open debate is met with gunfire,
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the pursuit of truth is met with bloodshed, and love
of country is met with seething hatred. In Charlie's absence,
we are now tasked with continuing his mission of giving
voice to our cherished American ideals. While with confidence and
clarity like him, we must not flinch in the face
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of darkness and hostility, and we must never waver in
speaking the truth with joyful and steadfast resolve. Today, on
what would have been his thirty second birthday, our nation
honors the loving memory of Charlie Kirk. We offer our
condolences to his beautiful wife, Erica, and two precious children.
We call on every American to pray for peace in
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our public square. Above all, we renew our resolve to
always defend our principles of truth, faith, and the open
exchange of ideas. Now, Therefore, I Donald J. Trump, President
of the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution of the Laws
of the United States, to hereby proclaim October fourteenth, twenty
twenty five, is a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.
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I call on the American people to assemble on this
day in their respective places of worship, therefore to pay
homage to Charlie's memory. I invite the people of our
nation to pray for the advancement of peace, truth, and
justice all across our country. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord twenty twenty five and of
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the Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and fiftieth. And then it's signed, of course by
President Trump. Some comments the left in its attacks on
those of us on the right, when it criticizes someone
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say who has bluster and is loud and vocal like Trump,
demands that we be calm and respectful at advancing our
ideas well. That's what Kirk was. As I've said in
the past, I don't think I ever recall hearing him
raise his voice. He engaged with people who disagreed with him,
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and he argued politely and logically his case. Yet they
hated him as much as Trump. So don't give me
that it's the tone, it's the this and the that.
They simply seem to hate us, and hate is the
right word. Look at the venom that came out when
he was killed, and they acted as though he was
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this you know, racous screaming, you know, Alex Jones type.
The reason Charlie Kirk was bigger than Alex Jones as
ever was, is because people admired the style that Charlie
Kirk presented. So my point is they seem to hate
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all of us. You've got this person working the booth
at the Farmer's Market in Oshkosh handing out a bracelet.
Is he dead? Yet you have people all across this
country screaming, and yet look at the attacks on ICE
officers for trying to enforce the law and get some
lawbreakers out of our nation, by the way, a job
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that they have been assigned to do. ICE agents don't
impose the policy. This hatred, as I say, is all
over and they keep saying it's the people in the
right that are the voices of hate bot. The reality
is we're five years now into this, starting with the
old George Floyd thing. It is NonStop rage and hate
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that again and again and again is turning in violence.
And when it does turn into violence, it's greeted for
nuons to the left because their actual reaction, I think,
is to cheer it on. There are people who say
that that point that I just made is over the top.
To me, I think it's undeniable. Timing. One day after
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we had a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk,
the board of directors of a local school, the God
itself started by raising money from Conservatives, will vote on
whether or not to band an organization founded by Charlie
Kirk from having a chapter at the school. The timing
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is sort of coincidental, but not really, because the push
to start these chapters really grew after Charlie was killed,
as young people are determined they need not be snuffed out.
So you have the board of directors at the school,
Lake Country Classical Academy apparently meeting to decide whether or
not to tell the principle of the school, who has
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sanct demoniously said I'm not allowing a turning Point USA
chapter here. Her name is Margaret Hagenor, and yes she's
the wife of Supreme Court Justice Brian from banning the organization.
And in this period of time, many of the people
who want to defend the school pretend that they are
standing up for some sort of principle as opposed to
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doing exactly what we all know they're doing. They don't
want a Charlie Kirk group there because no matter how
polite and respectful Charlie Kirk is, Jayas think that they're
above that. This is after they went and shilled for
money from us. As I've said repeatedly, there are any
number of ways that this could have been accommodated beyond
the principle sending on a sanctimonious letter to the community saying, well,
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Attorney Point wants to come in and tell us that
they're up to our standards, shut up. I just did
a segment on the podcast maybe two or three ago
on the drift of conservative organizations. This particular school, Lake
Country Classical Academy, its board of directors is like field
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of Scott Walker types. The an honorary member of the
board of directors is Scott Walker. To his credit, he
has publicly condemned the actions of the principle that has
urged the voting members of the board to reach an
accommodation here, and I would hope that they would do so.
But again, this is a relatively new school. It was
cheered when it opened because it's affiliated with Hillsdale College,
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probably the best known conservative college in the United States
of America, to develop a curriculum that would be essentially
anti woke. So who was it that, first of all,
the public schools are all horrified by all these schools,
because every kid that goes to a school like this
is somebody not going to a regular public school. And
I should mention this school is a semi public school.
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It's a charter school. Charter schools are public schools not
run by the school district. This one is chartered by
a Native American tribe, the La Cordee Charter School. But
it's the left that hates all these schools because they
take away potential enrollments and therefore jobs on the union
higed schools. And secondly, who comes up with the money
to get these conservatives is it's Hillsdale backed and so on.
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And here you are real quickly just doing everything that
can to run away from anything that any conservative would
stand for, and it's got to be nipped in the bud.
If it isn't nipped in the bud, give this school
two or three more years, and it's going to be
the same left wing piece of crap that most of
the other public schools are unless you nip it in
the bud. And nipping in of the bud means that
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you can't allow people like Margaret Haggart or to run
around and tyrannically obstruct things like this. They'll saying, well,
they got a rule that we don't have both side organizations.
Now you got that rule. I get that, Like the WYA,
we have a rule. There are always ways to do
the right things within the confines of the rules. And
one of the things I suggested is that they have
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the chapter. They can meet in the school and so on,
and they simply consider it to be an independent chapter
by the students at the stud school will facilitate the
space for them to do it, and they can, you know,
do all of that stuff, but it be an independent chapter.
In the same way that you have many of these
club sports at high schools that don't have an official
team in a specific sport. There's, like I said, there's
a zillion ways you could do it. You know, boy
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scout troops often use schools, but this boy scout troup
might not be a direct part. There's a million ways
you can do it, but there was no attempt to
do that. Instead, there was a public attempt. Hold no, no, no,
no way, Charlie Curley, We're not that. Where do all
your money come from? Conservatives who endorsed you on his program?
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May I think all this that I'm describing as part
of the same thing. There is a loathing and hatred
of anything right, and that loathing and hatred it doesn't
mean that every single last one of them wants to
kill us, but many do. And when you see this,
it's never condemned. There isn't even a story, as I
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said in jas online about the fact. Can you imagine
if some Republican volunteer was handing up bracelets like this
and during the Biden years, name that hammer ended up.
I mean, for heaven's sakes, person be locked up in jail. Now,
this this is part of the ongoing series of here's
what we're up against. One of these things I just
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honestly don't know. Is for some of you who don't
live who live in the suburbs, and I know, obviously
if you're live outside the country, do you have any
idea what's happened to the streets in downtown Milwaukee. I
do know this. I remember the first time Paul saw
the trolley tracks, or might have been the first time
you saw the trolley it was, but whatever it was,
whenever that came in how many years ago, and Paul
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said he made some comment about it. Who couldn't believe it?
I've been describing this for seven years, and it's just
the function of if I've learned anything, people react more
strongly to that that they see than what they merely
hear about. It doesn't seem to matter how much I
describe something. People just never believe it's as bad as I. Well,
what's happening on the streets of downtown Milwaukee, no matter
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how bad you think it is. They've taken all of
these four lane streets that had you know, two and
four lanes plus parking lanes and taking it all down
to just two lanes, one in each direction. And they
don't allow you to like pass on the right or anything,
because they put these curbs, the concretes right in the
middle of the street and they call it a dedicated
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bike lane. There's no bikes using these things. The reason
that it's up there is they're simply trying to narrow
up the street. And the reason it's being done is
because the mayor is clueless is how to stop the
reckless driving going on like crazy, So he's just figuring
make the streets almost impos to drive on. And it's
going on all over the city. The worst street is
Van Buraen, but they're doing all of Michigan Street, all
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the way from about I don't know about eighth Street
to the Lake they're doing. They're ripping that one and
it's just continuing and continuing, continuing. Anyway. They got this
money from a Biden program that was funded in twenty
twenty four. Trump and the Republicans did recently the clawback.
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You may recall the clawback. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled
out it yet. The clawback is funds that were appropriated.
Does Trump have to spend them? In other words, if
there was money appropriated in the past, does that mean
that the current president has to spend it? We know this.
The president can't spend money that wasn't appropriated, but if
it is appropriated, does it have to be spent? And
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the Republicans said, well, we don't agree with this, so
we're not going to spend it. We're simply gonna let
the money sit in the treasury and cut the size
of the deficit. This program, this Urban Streets program that
Milwaukee's tapped into for all of this is the source
of the funding. Well. Among the streets that are next
up on the hopper to be ripped up are two
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major thoroughfares. One is Sixth Street, which runs all the
way from downtown into the near south side. It's a
very heavily trafficked street. There are a couple of others
as well. National l Avenue is another one. This is
the part of National Avenue that would be we're not
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talking West National Avenue out in West Allis and so on.
This is like in Milwaukee from about sixteenth Street. It's
right in the middle. It's in the area where Milwaukee
Tech is. It's in the middle of a heavily Latino area.
It's kind of the link to Walker's Point. Heading toward
the third ward, it's already an extremely busy street. I
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just can't even imagine what it would be like if
you rip at and just turn it into the two
lanes with all the buses and the Amazon trucks and
the places that do the restaurant deliveries that double it
just excess them anyway. Now they don't have the money.
Liberals are very creative when they're told they don't have
the money. So Mayor Chevy doesn't have the federal money
because Trump and the Republicans, thankfully they have clawed it back.
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There's a story in JS online on this what Mayor
Chevy is now again. For those of you who just
do not understand how liberals think, don't worry. I'm here
to help you out by telling you, like you have
no idea what they could possibly do if Trump clawed
back the money, do you no, Well, they go to
somebody else. Who's next Tony Abers. They're going to the
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state Department of Transportation and will seek unallocated funds there
at The Republican legislature has not allocating any funds for this,
but DOT has it. I've been on this thing for years.
DOT has this massive slush fund of cash just laying around.
So mayor Chevy is going to ask the taxpayers of
the rest of the state of Wisconsin, all of you
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people sitting there in Veroqua and fond alec at everywhere else,
to take millions and millions of dollars out of the
state road fund to allow me or Chevy to screw
up even more streets in the city of Milwaukee. I
don't know if any Republicans in the legislature are even
aware of this, of this being going on. And as
I say, many of you out there, you think, go, well, okay,
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he's got a little curbs and maybe it's a little
harder to drive. You just you have no idea. Serrely, seriously,
you have no idea. I don't know how much better
I can describe it other than you have no idea.
Whatever you think it is, it's fifteen times worse. I
want to address hard to figure out what the right
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term is. Obviously, tragic is partly correct. Case in Milwaukee.
A Milwaukee woman has been arrested and charged with beating
her mother to death with a rock. She took a
rock to where mother's had and kept slamming. Was caught
in the act by a witness who called the police.
The Fox six report and the report of the other
local TV station websites all say the same through all
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quoting neighbors at saying nobody surprised the woman being charged.
Her name is Laurence Spores, that spelled spo Rs. The
dead woman is named Carrie Zettel. The neighbors say that
the daughter has been violent and a problem forever. She's
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apparently been diagnosed schizophrenic. One of the problems, and it's
been discussed by me in the past, and many of
you are aware of it, is it's almost impossible to
institutionalize someone against their will. The standard of proof is
incredibly difficult. You have to prove that they are of
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imminent danger to themselves or someone else. And again that's
a high standard. And in the case, for example, this
until she hits her mother over the head with a
rock a zillion times, people said, well, she won't do that.
It's again almost impossible to do it. And it's likewise
almost impossible. There are very yeah, I think this is correct,
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very good drugs to treat these kinds of things. But
people who have these kind of psychoses schizophrenia, a manic, depressive,
and so on. Many of them can't stand taking their meds.
I'm sure that there are hundreds of people listening to
this podcast who have a relative or know of this situation.
They hate taking their meds, and of a situation if
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someone I knew in Florida she had a kid that
was like this, I mean, the parents never know what
to do, but they don't want to take their meds.
When they take their meds, they're if not fine close.
The problem is the meds tire them out and they're
just they don't like it. I wouldn't like it either,
But the alternative is they're this. I'm raising this issue
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here for a reason. However, I'm just telling you I
don't know this, but I'm gonna make a guess. I'm
gonna make a guess that this woman is on pod.
The link between marijuana use in schizophrenia is getting overwhelming.
And again when people say a link, well, I do
spot and I'm not schizophatic. I didn't say that not
everyone who smokes pot or gets cannabis in another form
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is schizophrenic. But I'm just telling you just about everybody
who is schizophrenic uses pot. The length there is seemingly
very real the marijuana, the cannabis that we have right
now is extremely powerful lenotia that it can get in
there and buzz your brain into the zombiesm that you're
at without potentially doing numerous other things, particularly when some
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of these people are on all sorts of other meds
as well. The interaction. I don't know that there's a
connection with the booze and the schizophrenia either, and there
may be. I'm just never, I'm just never. I'm just never. No,
I'm just saying that I don't know that there's a
connection in any way with alcohol and schizophrenia. Maybe there
will be, I know, not saying that there is or
there is it. I'm talking here with regard to the
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thing that you see again and again and again every
time they find I mean, there's been studies that just
show that almost everyone with schizophrenic is a cannabis user.
Not everyone, but it's an incredibly high number. And we
just keep running around legalizing and legalizing and legalizing and
encouraging and encouraging, encouraging despite the fact that, and I
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understand what the point is. Not everybody who uses pot
becomes mentally ill, so we well, why shouldn't I be
able to use it. I didn't. I'm not becoming mentally ill,
and it's a valid enough point. The question is how
common does the association have to be? But schizophrenic, I
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just it's the same thing with autism. I've been around
long enough that when I was younger, these illnesses they existed,
but they were so rare it's now all over. I'm
not suggesting the link between autism and POT. I think
Kennedy is onto something though, that with other types of
pills that are blocking the nerves, the pain receptors in
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the brain, that they may be contributing to a dulling
in general of what's going on in the fetus. And
maybe it is the tylenal thing or not. But I
do know, though, is this I'm just gonna predict, And
again maybe I'm wrong. I'm gonna predict that this woman
who killed her mother by banging her head with a rock,
it's a POT user. Again, maybe I'm wrong about that,
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but I think it's a pretty safe. Guest, you're listening
to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
One of the things that I've liked to do over
the years. In fact, whenever somebody tells me about something
like this, They always say, I know you Like that
is to kind of bring things to people's attention before
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most people know about it. In other words, kind of
get ahead of the curve on something that is going
to be a big friend or is going to be
a big deal. And the downside of this is I
never say nobody's ever told. I'm just saying I don't
think most people are aware of it. Clearly some are, well,
you're the first there's That's not what I'm saying. What
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I'm saying is I am trying to bring to your
attention and highlight something that most are not aware of.
The story is rather extraordinary. Now I know why most
people aren't aware of it, but that's almost part of
the thing that makes the story interesting. Jordan Stoltz just
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stole an namo it. My guess is about ninety eight
percent of you don't know who I'm talking about. There
is a very good chance that in four months, ninety
eight percent of you will know who I'm talking about.
As you probably know, the Olympics are three and a
half months away. They're in Milan, well kind of in Milan.
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They're actually all over northern in a Liba. Milan is
the biggest city there winner Olympics of course they start
early February. Jordan stolt is from Kewaskam. He has a
chance to win gold in multiple speed skating events. He's
knocked out a couple of world records. The thing about
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him is is that in the sport, and by the way,
I should mention, there are two forms of speed skating,
long crack and short track. And you know the differre
sitting long crack and short track. One is long and
one is short. Short track is the newer sport. It's
almost it's almost like a circle that they go around
in whereas longer tracks are you know, they're longer. It's
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it's a different form. The longer tracks are guys that
will think of Eric Heiden, Body Blair and so on.
That's long crack. He he competes. He competes in the now.
There are short races, there are spreads, but it's just
it's it's long crack, is what Stoltz is it. He
trains at the peddict in that particular sport. You tend
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to get a little bit better as you get a
little older. In some sports, in say track and field
and so on seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. You
never get any faster than that. Speed skating. It tends
to be in your mid to late twenties. Eric Heide
and Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair, many of them, they lasted
in that sport for a number of years. Because it's
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a sport in which you're combining so many different traits.
Strength comes into play as much as speed, development of
the muscles, stamina, technique, all that stuff. Anyway, I've linked
up on my site on x dot com two stories
they tell you a lot about. One was written by
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the Washington County Insider. That's Judy Stephus's publication. That's very,
very good. She quotes a journalist from the Netherlands who's
come to the United States to report on him. Why
the Netherlands, What do you know about the Netherlands and
speed skating? Call? Come on, Hans Brinker and the Golden
skate it is. It's like the like our version of football.
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That's the United States. That's what the Netherlands is. Speed
skate it is their big sport. I also linked up
a piece on nbcsports dot com, which is profiling major
American athletes. There's the chance that he's going to win
more medals than anybody at this Olympics, or maybe or not.
I mean you have to compete. His forte is the
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shorter distances, the five hundred, one thousand and fifteen hundred
and that's meters. And again in speed skating for the
long crack, those would be shorter races if it's shorter
than that, but that's basically the range that he's in. Anyway.
There are some quotes here. This is from Judy Steph
his story and the Washington County Insider. She interviewed this journalism.
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This journalist is Dutch journalist who came in from Amsterdam.
I want to read his name, but I'm telling you
if I say his name, it will take up the
rest of the podcast. Should I give it a shot?
I think the first name is these. It's spelled t
h I JS. I'm guessing these. I'm guessing that Jay
is silent, wouldn't you. I don't think it's stigious. I
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think it's these or here's the last name. I have
to say it. I think that there are forty nine
syllables here. I exaggerated. This is though this is right
up there with with Giannis's last name's length. Niemann's fat
vert driat. I'm just saying Niemant vert driat. Now, I
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suppose if you say it fasted, if you'll have his name.
But I had to go that slowly to be able
to announciate and get all this. Anyway, these is came
to Kuwaskam to do a story here because this guy
may be the star of the Olympic sport that is
so big over there. I'm going to quote a few
lines from the story in the Washingtononian Center means med zend.
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I'm just gonna say these I'm going to say his
first name. A writer from Amsterdam made the trip across
the Atlantic to me. Jordan Stolt's the twenty one year
old speed skating phenom whose rise is captivated fans worldwide
and especially in the Netherlands. A country. We're skating is
closer to a national religion than a pastime. They quoted thief. Quote,
He's a phenomenon very well known in Holland. I think
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even better known there than in the United States. Well,
I think that's correct, because I don't think anybody knows
them in the United States. Quote. We see him as
the main candidate to win a lot of medals at
the coming Olympics in Milan, and that makes his story fascinating. Quote.
I saw a Dutch TV report where they went to
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his parents' house and showed the pond where he learned
to skate. Where these stories get to be. He learned
to skate in a pond in the backyard. It's just
I mean, I suppose you got to learn to skate somewhere,
but it just seems to me that most of what
that's where you learned. How many Olympic medals did you win?
You know? That's like saying the Williams sisters learned in
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the backyard when they were two, with I'm guessing by
the time they were four they were at a tenants
academy with their crazed father who said, I'm going to
make the two greatest tennis players in the world. That anyway,
quote the says that really struck me. Who learns to
skate on their own pond and then turns out to
be this talented that's the key. People learn how to
skate on their own pond, are you. It's a story
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that feels very pure, almost old fashioned in the best way.
In a country like the Netherlands, where Olympic skaters are
household names, Stoltz's rise has sparked both awe and friendly rivalry.
The Dutch have long dominated the sport with vast resources,
deep tradition, and pack stadiums, but these said Stalls represents
something new, a humble American shaking up a sport that
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one seemed untouched by outsiders. Quote. Every once in a
while someone comes from abroad and beats the Dutch. It
looks like this is going to happen with Jordan. Honestly,
I don't know who's going to beat him in Milan.
Back home in Europe, Stoltz his face is familiar. It
appears on TV sports pages and skating broadcasts across the continent.
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But in the United States he can still shop at
the grocery store unnoticed. Well, you kind of from up there.
You think if Jordan walks to the grocery store a Kiwasca,
anybody knows who he is. I don't know. I don't know.
But if he goes up the road to West bed
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probably then he's anonymous again. Right, Yeah, Okay, it's kind
of weird, he said in Holland, Norway or Germany. People
will recognize him. Here. He can walk into a supermarket
and no one will know who he is. Again, this
guy has come over to the United States report of
the story. He probably asked a few people they know
who Jordan's and then provo said, no, who's that? But
if he wins a few gold medals in Milan, that
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will change. He'll become an American star. That part is true.
And this is where I wanted to interject as to
why it is. There are some sports you almost need
a psychoanalyst to figure out why this is. There are
some sports that Americans go crazy over but only during
the Olympics. Gymnastics would be number one on that list.
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I'm telling you, nobody pays any attention to some owned
bios and she competes on the nationals in a non
Olympic year. The same thing with women's figure skating or
men's figure skating when they have the gold medal events
and that they have world championship with that, every year
they have other meets and so on. I'm not saying
when I say nobody, I mean hardly anybody pays any
attention to that. Track and field is another one. We
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just had the Every year they have the American Championships
in Eugene, Oregon, hardly anybody pays attention when you have
the Olympics. There are a number of sports that here
in the United States just get I would see another
one to throw in a couple of others. The kind
of skateboarding that they do in those half shells and
all of that. I never see p I don't think
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people know who the top figures in that are. But
when you get to the Olympics and two or three
or four people beach volleyballs another one. Remember those two
women that won it like sixteen years in a row
or whatever. Yeah, I know, but I don't think anybody
paid attention. And then when they were just competing. There
are just a number of sports that like that in
the United States, and it's curious. It's to why Americans
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have such an incredible interest in these sports. Greetings monstrous
in the Olympics, but almost zero any other time. So
you know, in the Netherlands, the sport's a big deal
all the time. So if Jordan wins, America loves winners
in the Olympics. If Jordan does knock out, say one
gold or maybe multiple silvers. You know, does a mini
Eric Heiden thing or anything. Everybody is going to know
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about him. And the point that's being raised here is
and again, you can be an early favorite. End. You know,
it took Dan Jansen forever to win his gold, so
one things can happen, et cetera. Continuing with the story,
in the February twenty twenty six Olympics, Stoles has set
has sits on competing in the five hundred meter, one
thousand meters and fifteen hundred meter events. He currently holds
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the world record in all three events. So I mean
this means he's it. He's already the world record holder
in all three of those events. See, he's the world
record holder. He's probably the favorite to win the gold
and all of them. Again, it doesn't mean he will.
You can slip, anything can happen, but he's already the
world record holder in all three of these. He's from Kewaska.
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Don't say you knew who he was because I threw
his name out there a minute to going you didn't
know what he was. And again, how would anyone know?
When's the last time you saw any local? It's just
it isn't covered, continuing, this would be stole. It's the
second trip to the Olympics. He competed in twenty twenty
two in Beijing, where, according to NBC Sports, he was
the third youngest American at seventeen to ever compete in
long track speed skating. So again, this is a sport
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where like nineteen twenty that's when you start to get
to world class level and so on. So in twenty
twenty two he was the third youngest American ever in
long track, I think, And again short track is a
separate sport. Doesn't reference that for now. These that's this
long name. Guy is happy to tell a story what
Americans are only just beginning to appreciate. But a young
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what a quiet, modest young man from rural Wisconsin who
might be the best skater in the world. He's not
someone who brags, he said. He's calm, modest, but inside
you can see that there's this fire, this competitiveness that
drives him. That's what makes him special. As for predictions,
these is cautious. The Olympics are unpredictable. There's always some surprise,
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he said. But if all goes well, I think he
could win three gold medals five hundred, one thy fifteen hundred.
That would be truly unique. It's amazing. Really, a boy
from a pond in Keywascam might just conquer the Dutch
at their own game. That's the kind of story you
fly halfway around the world to tell a good story
on the watching a Cony insider about this guy who's
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over there in so again, now you know who Jordan
Stoltz is, and see what happens. The Olympics start February third,
and again they're saying Milan. But as I understand it,
the events are all over and again. Northern Italy is
the mountainous region and so on, and it's cold there
in the winter. So on, what do you know about Milan?
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We've been to Milan, haven't we? Well, I gotta think
now we went to Florida. We went. We went to Florence,
which is right in the vicinity. I don't remember anymore,
but I have the I have the disadvantage of being old.
I don't mean this is always on cruises and so on.
I don't I don't think we actually, I don't know.
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We didn't go to Milan. For one thing. It's more
inland and the other cities are closer to the sea,
if not on the sea that we end up going to.
I know that the people in southern Italy they think
that the northern Italy people twity twity, you know how.
I know that there was a Sopranos about that. That's
that's what Fourio said. Maybe he made it up, and
maybe there isn't any any of that bigotry. But the north,
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you know that was Da Vinci and all that, they
think they're the culture and all of that, and they
think the ones in southern Italy they think that they're
just they're just you know, boors and so on. Again,
maybe that's not true, but that's what Fourio said in
the Sopranos. That's the extent of my knowledge on this.
Now it's time to move on. The Business journal they're
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known for. I think these lists. Every public every week
they have one of these lists on the one the most,
the most that, the most other thing. You've seen these lists,
haven't you? Even every year put on a book of
all the lists. Well, I learned something about these lists,
you know what I learned? They might be crap. They're
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in the most recent issue they have a list You're
of corporate charitable contributions in Wisconsin ranked by total contributions
to Wisconsin charity organizations in twenty twenty four. So they
take all the companies in the state of Wisconsin and
rank who gave the most money to charity. So look
at the list again. My brain is wired different than
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everybody else. I'm seeing something and the analytical gears are
just going. Most people take things at face value. Here's
those number one WEC Energy Corporation, two, Northwestern Mutual three,
Husco International four, Freighted five, Coals six, Johnson Controls seven,
Associated Bank eight, BEMO nine, bared Can Brewers Community Foundation eleven,
West Bend Insurance twelve, Johnson Financial thirteen, Aosmith fourteen, Town
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Bank fifteen, M three Insurance sixteen, The Marcus Corporation seventeen,
Godfriancan eighteen, Waterstone Financial goes on. I'm looking at this list,
know and again some of you who just take everything
get fased out. Oh it's interesting, Waterstone Financials eighteen. We
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have giant companies and what are they chincy, They don't
give any money. Are you telling me that Kohler's not
on that list? Sc Johnson Minards go through American Family Insurance.
But they're not on the list. It's not inquired about this.
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I emailed Timothy Gibbons, who's the editor. You know why
they're none of the list because the list is only
based on companies that volunteered the information. This isn't an
actual list of donations. They said that many companies didn't
respond to with it. Well, of course many don't. Many
companies don't want to indicate how much they want to
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give others do, so the list is based solely on
self reporting. And I said, was just the case with
all your lists when you put for example, largest schools
and all that. If somebody doesn't respond to you not
include them. I thought when I saw a lists like this,
that that meant that they were doing digging or try
to come up with you know, like the we mentioned
the four four hundred ordranks the four hundred richest people
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in the world. And soon they have people who do
nothing all year but try to estimate the worth of
say someone like Donald Trump or Judy Faulkner of EPIC
and soone. That's their sole jobs all year and they
try to come up with it anyway, So I emailed
Gibbons and he gave me a response, and I'm going
to read it to you. Let me start with some
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context around the list. The majority of our lists, this
one included, are built out of surveys sent to a
group of target companies, usually ones that have volunteered for inclusion,
either by filling out the link I included in my
previous email, or by reaching out to us directly, including
after we publish a list they're not on or wish
to be. For this specific list, we spent several years
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soliciting companies who wish to be included, creating the pool
of organizations we survey. You will, of course, have known us.
The footnote that states about the list participation in the
list of Corporate Charitable Contribute contributors was solicited from the
participation request for possible inclusion. And indeed that is here
in small type pall. You should see this, this little
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tidy type. No one would read that is reading that
down there. He continues, As far as I know, there
was no one who reached out to be included who
was not. Well, Okay, that means all these big giant
corporations that I mentioned didn't reach out to be included.
Because there's zillion reasons why many companies don't want us
disclose how much money that they give. Sometimes it's proprietary.
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Sometimes it comes across as bragging. Like one of the
entities that's not a list. I don't know. You know,
there's a certain businesses in Milwaukee that are sanctimonious and
to go on and on Potawatomy is insufferable, miracle like
Canal Street and all of this stuff. They don't give
that much money away, but they brag about every last
dollar as if that's going to make it more justifiable
(51:59):
for somebody to go in the slot machines. But then
there are many others who it's unseemly to do so,
or they think by doing so, they're just going to
be hit up for more people for more money and
so on. But anyway, the point of all of this
is is that all these lists that they have, it's
based basically on whether or not they tell them. Secondly,
do they addit? How do you know that somebody there
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are some people in business I think that might inflate
their amount of money that they give, like you. Let's
discuss the Brewers Dodgers series. First of all, the context
of how the series has gone so far, and as
we do this podcast, of course the Dodgers are up
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two to nothing. It's just so easy after the fact
to say this, and I grant this, but I had
very little expectation that the Brewers would win. For any
of you who've ever paid any attention to my commentary
on baseball, I think pitching is about all that matters
in baseball. Some people disagree, and it just the way
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it worked out is the Brewers pitching fell apart down
the stretch with injuries and guys just got banged out,
and they really only going into the postseason hit two
starting pitchers, Freddy Parolta and Quinn Priester. Quinn Priester is inexperienced.
After getting Sheldon one start, they don't even want him
to start. They'll have him pitch multiple innings, but do
it by coming in in the second of the third inning.
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Jacob Mezerowski stopped being a reliable starter, so they're trying
to use him by you pitching in multiple innings without
starting the game and so on. And in the case
of Freddy Parolta, it's just clear if you've looked at
his performances down the stretch, he's worn out. In fact,
as at the game last night, his fastballs normally ninety six.
I saw him at ninety six only twice the entire game.
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He was in the ninety three to ninety four rage.
So I just think that the starting pitching is kind
of worn out, and they've been trying to cobble together
these games. Their best games have been ones in which
they use five or six gate guys out of the
bullpen and so on. And the thing with the Dodgers
is all year they're pitching as stunk, except Blake Snell
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has come along down the stretch and is right now
as effective as any pitcher in baseball. He almost pitched
the perfect game against the Brewers in Game one, a
game the Brewer is almost won because the manager of
the Dodgers our secret repon is Dave Roberts is an idiot,
I mean, the Dodger fan, and bitched about it. He
took a guy out who had pitched essentially a perfect
game through eight hittings. He gave up one base runner
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and that base runner immediately got thrown out trying to
steal second anyway, and then there was the game last night.
The Dodgers are a team filled with home run hitters
and so on, and if the Brewer pitching isn't sharp,
I don't see him winning. So again, it's so simple.
After you're down to nothing. Oh, I figured they'd be
down to nothing. And I understand just saying something after
the fact, but it is what it is. More to
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the point, there was a big story in the Wall
Street Journal earlier this week on this series, and that's
what I want to dive into here. I didn't know
if you all know that, But there is a very
strong chance there will need be no baseball season in
twenty twenty seven. The current player union contract expires at
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the end of the twenty six season. The owners want
a salary cap. Baseball does not have a salary cap.
They have attacks. The baseball system works that after you
go over a certain amount, you have to pay a
tax to the league and the money is distributed to
the rest of the teams. But there's no cap. Football
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has a salary cap. Basketball is a salary cap. Both
are really complicated as to how they work, but there
is a number that if you butt up against it,
you really can't spend any more than that. Baseball doesn't
have one. The owners want a salary cap, but that
has to be negotiated with the union. Obviously, the players'
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union don't want a salary cap because the salary cap
whatever that is multiply by the thirty teams. That's the
max that can go to the players and salaries. And
it is perceived that neither side will budge on this,
and both might be willing to forego an entire season
in order to win that battle. That's the backdrop anyway
(56:12):
that has brought up this discussion of the Brewers Dodgers series.
The players Union is making the case baseball doesn't need
a salary cap, and what is that case? Premison the Brewers.
The Union is saying, look, you don't need a salary cap.
You've got one of the lowest payroll teams in all
of Major League Baseball and they're in the playoffs every
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year's there in the final four. So you don't need
a salary cap. What's the problem. The Brewers prove you
don't need one, and then they'll point out, look at
the teams that have salaries. There are teams with two
times the payroll of the Brewers, not double two. That
means triple. Brewers I think are in the range of
what are they won thirty five? The team's over four hundred,
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and the Brewers do better than they are. So the
Union is saying you don't need one. Baseball is retorting, Okay,
who's the other Brewers? Though the Brewers are the only
ones that can figure this out. Pittsburgh's not in there.
Once at a bloomoon, Minnesota's in that. That's true. In fact,
of the final four teams, here's the ranking the Dodgers have.
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I think it was number two. I think the Mets
were number one in Pei role this year. It's in
the story. Mark find this quickly. It's either one or two,
and then five and fifteen. Toronto's five. Toronto's a huge market.
By the way, people think Toronto's a small market because
Toronto's in Canada. The Toronto metroery is just unbelievable. It
goes on and on and on and out. Toronto has
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the fifth highest payroll Seattle, which is the third team
in they're in the middle, they're at fifteen. The Brewers
are in the twenties. So that's the distinction that's there. Actually,
the Brewers payroll is one hundred and twenty two million
this year. That ranks twenty second out of thirty. The
story goes on that the Brewers seem to be be
aberrational in that there are certain things that the Brewers
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do that other teams have not done. The Brewers make
it a religion to get rid of guys when they
hit thirty. They will sign retreads over thirty that they
can get for discount, but they will not overpay for
guys on the downside of their career. For example, I
do believe that unless the Brewers win a couple of
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games in Los Angeles, Freddy Perol that pitched his last
game for the Brewers last night, he's a free agent
year after next. And the Brewers MO has been to
trade a guy when there's one year left in his
contract when they can still get a lot. They did
that with Devin Williams, and that's why we have Caleb
Durban at third. They've done it with Corbyn Burns. Who
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do we get for Corbyn? And we're's getting fuzzy here
one of our starters. It wasn't Ortiz anyway, THEIRMO has
been rather than spend three thirty five million dollars on
a contract of a player who's probably going to go
on the DL or might be borderline washed up cases
(59:06):
of both Burns and Williams, to try to get somebody
young back who they can plunk out of the starting
line up immediately. The Brewers' other m always to try
to acquire players who have multiple years left in their
contract or extend guys early, and most teams don't do that.
The other key, I think though, to the Brewers is
and I think the Erin Savali trade is indicative of this.
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The Brewers had a starting pitcher was bitching and mourning Savally,
you gotta trade him. Andrew Vaughan was in the Triple
A in the minor leagues. He was washing out with
the White Sox. The Brewers scouting felt that he still
had a lot of talent in him, that probably he's
simply it's not a losing team forever in an empty stadium,
that you could turn him around. They've done this with
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any number of pitchers they traded at the beginning of
this season for Quinn Priester. Yet a pretty good young
player for him, But Quinn Priesters signed for multiple years
because he's a young player. They saw something in him
and they can develop them. So the Brewers keep winning
all these awards for being the best organization in baseball
because they can do all of this. The counter, though, is,
(01:00:09):
in the postseason you need superstars, and the Brewers tend
to develop all of these stars. But do they have superstars?
My take is somewhere in between. Of course, it's easier
for the Dodgers with their payroll to win. The counter
to that is, I believe it was the Mets that
had the number one payroll in all of baseball. Where
are they? The Angels are always in the top five,
(01:00:30):
and they've stunk forever. Having a ton of money doesn't
guarantee success, but it makes it much easier. I think
baseball needs a salary cap. Some people say that's not American.
The difference is they're in an association. These are not
independent businesses competing against one another. This is not you know,
one drugstore chain competing against another. They're joining an association
(01:00:54):
for the purpose of competition. So there's nothing wrong with
the association putting in rules to create a level in
fair playing. It's the same for example, in the NFL,
everybody has the same roster. You can't have two hundred
guys in your roster. Will let somebody else's fifty three.
There are limitations that you have. One of the reasons
football has been so successful is they've had a salary cap.
(01:01:15):
In revenue sharing, one team can spend disproportionately more than
the other. Head you get the money that you haven't
try to figure out who's going to use it most
wisely say that again, it was our keys and dl
Hall who another problem that we have with the playoffs here.
Dl Hall got hurt and wasn't quite a very good
(01:01:38):
pitcher and a guy that can pitch three or four innings.
And so I mean, Corbyn Burns blew out his arm
this year. He signed a big contract with Arizona. May
not pitch for two more years. He'll be thirty two
to thirty three when he comes back. And Joey Ortiz
maybe the best fielding shortstop and all of baseball and
so on. I mean, and you combine that with the
Brewers doing an excellent job of drafting young players and
(01:01:58):
then finding somebody and Venezuela like Jackson Curio when he
was sixteen years old, and so on. It's the reason
that they are where they are, whether or not it
could ever turn into a world Series. I mean, I
think it's kind of luck. I think that Seattle might
win the World Series this year. It's a team that
made a zillion moves at the middle of the season.
Sometimes those works sometimes, though't they don't. They seem to
(01:02:21):
be the hottest team. The Dodgers problem is once you
get packed, it's the top two starters not good. Their
number three starter is Shohaiotani. He's a much better hitter
than a pitcher. He's a good pitcher, but he's he's
not anywhere near as dominant as the first first two games,
and the Dodger bullpen is rather weak. I mean, you say,
(01:02:43):
final story about the Dodger Brewer game. I do need
to bring this up. You cannot imagine how many people,
including I think you were one of them. There's a
guy with a massive following on YouTube. It's just enormous.
His name is John Boy. He does Baseball breakdown. Were
you aware of John Boy before this video? Just zillions
(01:03:06):
of people followed John by Jomboy. What he'll do is
he'll find something weird that happens in a game, and
he does incredible editing to break it down. Often it's
an argument or a fighter when somebody's buzzed with a
fastball or something unusual, or an argument with the umpires.
He is an unbelievable lip reader, so he'll show the
cameras and he's saying you could say, okay, that's what
(01:03:28):
the person is saying. So he did this breakdown of this.
Some of you were saying, strangest play in baseball history.
It was close. Max Months the other Dodgers in Game
one hit what appeared to what looked like it was
going to be a Grand Slam home run that turned
into a double play with no runs being scored. I mean,
I could go through the whole description, but any of
you who care probably knew about it. Anyway. Anyway, John
(01:03:51):
Boys got all this video and he's going through all
of this, and he put it out that he's on
paternity lead because they having a kid, so he's not
been spending as much time. So he slapped this together
in the middle of the night. And I know that
he slapped it together because he didn't seem to know
sell Freelik's name he put it. But anyway, he sees this,
they got the shot. The cameras are always on the
third base side for a right handed hitter. So they're
showing the shot. When the ball is hit, I'm throwing
(01:04:11):
my hands up in the air, and nobody else is react. Well,
the reason I throw my hands say, I pay more attention.
Oh man, this could be a Grand Slam home run.
So they zone in on this and John Boyce says,
look at this guy saying oh no, and everybody else
is sitting there like it takes them an extra second
to realize, here's this ball going to deep center field.
So he closes up on me and shows it. And
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I'm just telling you, there may not be a state
in the United States where I'm not heard from somebody say,
you were on the job boy video. I linked that
up on x dot com. There's a lot of content
that you can find. Yeah, I mean, it's it's just everywhere.
In my reaction, Thank god, it was the proper reaction, like,
oh no, this could be a Grand Slam home run,
(01:04:54):
as opposed to me picking my nose or I'm going
to explain something to you when we come back. I'm
going to explain to you why Obamacare is falling apart.
You don't know why it's falling apart, do you? I mean,
you know that it's falling apart because Obama and Pelosi
(01:05:17):
did it. But I mean the actual that explanation coming
up next on the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the
Mark Belling Podcast. A prominent poster on X he goes
onto the handle of Wall Street MAV. I'm guessing that's
short from Maverick. He has a very short post in
(01:05:38):
which he essentially explained the problem with Obamacare. If you're
not aware, Obamacare is hitting that financial brick wall and
it's exploding right now. The costs are going to go
to the roof, and they're asking the Congress, which now
is the Republican Congress, and Trump to come up with
a massive baiload. Now, before I get into the guy's explanation,
(01:05:59):
when obama Care was passed now better than a decade ago,
every one of the critics said this was going to happen.
So they said, this thing is not self sustaining, that
there is no way that you can make endspeed anyway.
That's the shorthand version. Wall Street Map does a spectacular
job of explaining in two paragraphs what the problem is,
(01:06:20):
so I'm going to share it with you. He writes. Obamacare,
otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, explained, Democrats passed Obamacare,
which made deductible so high that you rarely ever reach them.
Let me interject, Sometimes people hear the especially people who
never get sick, they hear these terms. Your deductible is
the amount you pay before the insurance kicks in. The
(01:06:43):
point that he makes is that when they drafted Obamacare,
which was an attempt to make the insurance companies rich,
essentially that's what it was. When they created Obamacare, they
made the deductibles really, really high. So unless you're somebody
who had a lot of illness, everything was out of pocket.
Anyway that you essentially didn't have insurance. Your insurance was
(01:07:07):
if you go to the hospital, you get cancer or something,
then they kicking. But the point that he's making, and
again I don't want to belabor this, is that Obamacare,
the Affordable Care Act, that the people under it, the plans,
almost all had very high deductibles. So continuing Democrats passed Obamacare,
which made deductibles so high that you rarely ever reach them,
So you pay for insurance plus out of pocket for
(01:07:31):
insurance you rarely use. Designed to fund health care for
deadbeats and the illegal aliens, now that's his explanation here.
The reason that they had to create it this way
so that so many individuals ended up essentially not getting
anything out of Obamacare because everything was out of pocket.
They did this so that they would have the funds
(01:07:52):
to cover the people who don't kick in in anything
at all, like all the illegal aliens are on Obamacare.
This is one of the things now that's being debated
with regard to Trump should be paying for the healthcare
expenses of people that are in the United States illegally.
That's why the Democrats have shut down the government. They
want that continue. Back now to Wall Street map designed
(01:08:14):
to fund healthcare for deadbeats and illegal aliads. From twenty
twenty four to twenty twenty one, it was getting worse
the Biden Then Biden and the Democrats passed temporary subsidies
to hide how crazy expenses ACA insurance had become. Those
subsidies expire December thirty, first twenty five. In other words,
(01:08:37):
when the Biden administration was in they passed subsidies to
cover all these shortfalls that were in place with regard
to Obamacare. But like almost all of these other funding bills,
it expires as I've planted on any number of times
whenever the government creates a program, Oh, it's only temperate,
it's only temperate's only temporary. The pressure is just overwhelming
(01:08:58):
to keep the program going. Once you create an entitlement,
people go nuts if they expect that, if they don't
think it's going to last forever. Okay, so that's coming
up now in two and a half months now. Democrats
want to extend those subsidies. If they could, they would
even expand the subsidies more to further hide the disaster
(01:09:21):
of Obamacare. Before Obamacare, health insurance companies could offer cheaper
plans with certain things excluded, but Obamacare banned the cheaper plans.
You may recall that when Obamacare came in, you couldn't
do the plans that a lot of small businesses and
others liked, in which the plan was more tailored to
a person. For example, if you're a small business and
(01:09:44):
you got three employees and they're all guys, you're not
going to put pregnancy coverage and all of that stuff
in there. Obamacare require that all of this stuff being
all of these plans. That there were no low cost
plans that were out there, so you ended up with
this financial cliff that we hit to Zamacare is costing
a fortune with the losses being more and more and more.
(01:10:05):
In addition to that, all insurance cost is going to
explode next year, all having to do with some of
these subsidies. Healthcare costs are going to go way way
up next year because we got an aging population. We're
covering all of these things that maybe some of the
policies shouldn't cover, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
the point that was being explained by this poster here
(01:10:26):
on Wall Street MAB is that when they created Obamacare,
they created these enormous government subsidies to cover for the
fact that it was hemorrhaging money. And then sunset and
the subsidies. So now we're facing the sunset and they're
demanding that the subsidization continues, which is what drives this
whole issue of whether or not we should be paying
(01:10:47):
for health care for illegal immigrants or not.
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