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I found a survey result something well pool that's really interesting.
We're going to spend a few minutes here before I
actually opened the show and roll into everything else. But
I think it's a good introduction to the program. I
found the story on Foxnews dot com and it's based
on a survey that was done of It's described as
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young women, but that's not probably the right term because
it's a broadcross section of females fifteen to four, so
some of them are girls. And obviously would you say
a woman who's forty three as a young woman. I mean,
from the perspective of me, if they want to start
moving all all of that that stuff back up, that's
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fine nonetheless as saying young women, but it's actually fifteen
to forty four. Now, part of this I don't have
how they worded the question, because the way you word
a question can influence the result. But they've been asking
the same question over a lengthy period of time, so
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they can track the results, so it's an apples to
apples comparison. The poll was conducted by Gallup. Forty percent
of women in this age group say they would like
to leave the United States. Forty Let me start with
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before we dive into who any of them are. My
guess is the overwhelming majority of the forty percent of
women who say they would like to leave the United
States vote for Democrats. So we should all do everything
we can to empower them to go ahead and do it.
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But see, that's the point. What do you mean you
want to leave the United States? The caveat of the
pole said, if given the opportunity, what opportunity? It's not
that hard. See, I think it's an insincere response. If
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you wanted to leave the United States, you would leave
the United States. It's not that hard to do. The
question didn't even say leave the United States to go
to Canada or Britain or it just leave the United States.
Some countries are hard to get to others it's really easy.
I mean, zillions of senior citizens have retired to Costa Rica.
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That's become one of those countries that's sort of become
a retirement destination. So I don't know they won't move
it to Costa Rica. But if a bunch of old
farts can move to Costa Rica, some of these young
women can why I don't want to go there. Ooh.
So maybe they'd like to leave the United States. But
when asked where would you like to leave? To who?
They can't come up with anything else. But they're saying
they would like to leave. Now, let's unpack this a
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little bit. First of all, they're saying they would like
to leave. The United States have given the opportunity, but
they haven't left. Isn't this an indictment of their own helplessness.
I mean, unless it's something you can't afford, if you
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want to do something, you do it. And I have
a guess in terms of leaving the United States, there
are all sorts of places in which the cost of
living would be lower than the United States, so affordability
wouldn't be that much of an issue. I know personally
people who moved back and forth between Canada. There's rigamarole
with the Canadians and doing it, but people have done it.
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So what they're really saying is I'd like to leave
the United States, but I'm too inept to be able
to figure out how to do it, or maybe they're thinking, man, Okay,
i've got kids, I can't leave for that reason, but
I'd like to do what i'd like to do what
I'd like to do it. Nonetheless, forty percent. That means
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that forty percent say that they just can't stand it
here and would prefer to be somewhere else. And as
I say, I just think it's intuitive that the overwhelming
majority of those people would be leftists. They've been tracking
this number over a number of years. When they conducted
the survey in twenty fourteen, it was twenty five percent.
By the way, the numbers for young women way higher
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than for young men. Now, I think that I know
where all of this comes from. I think you have
lots and lots and lots of people, particularly younger people,
who are extremely unhappy. And I think that their unhappiness
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is both complex and simple, but it all comes down
to I think just a general codleg of them. I
think that they are inculcated when they are young in
schools with being told about how terrible the United States is,
how much injustice there is, and so on, so they
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take on a victim mentality. They're steered away from God
or anything that might lead to fulfillment or a sense
of purpose, enjoy doing much of anything. So they have
this just overwhelming malaise in their lives in which everything's
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a blah. And rather than take any kind of accountability
for that blah, Okay, my life screwed up. I'm unhappy,
do something about it. It's like, what can I do
about it? The whole notion that you can do something
and you can take action, they don't want to do
any of that. They think that it is the responsibility
of everyone else to make them happy. This is why
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so many of them are voting for people like Mom Donnie.
I wish things didn't cost as much. I wish I
could do this, I wish I could do that. And
this socialist says that we'll be able to get all
of these things for free. So this mentality, I think
comes from an overall sense of coddling. The opposite of
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coddling would be to culturalize people at a young age,
to tell them charge of your destiny. If you want
to get ahead, do this, and then do that and
do the other thing. Generally speaking, the harder you work,
the more your chances are of succeeding. But that's not
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the message that they're given. They're given every other possible
type of message, and they end up, particularly I think
younger people and particularly younger women, very very unhappy. So
they say they want to leave, but then they haven't
left again because just like everything else, they refuse to
take charge of their own lives and do it. Now,
my guess is those that could do it haven't done it,
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meaning they're just lying. So they're forty percent. Thing is
just one more way of bitching about this, because all
they do is bitch and complain about everything. It's like
their own personal version of you know, there's all these
diseases that people have that they can't you know, they
do medical tests on them and they can't find any symptoms,
so they call it a syndrome and something, and they
may exist, they may not, I don't know, like epstein,
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barr and chronic fatigue send them. Those things might all
be real or maybe they're not. I honestly don't know,
but I do know that the people who tend to
have one or two of them tend to have nine
or ten of them, and they become an excuse, I think,
to not move forward and again I'm not talking about
people who have actually have these conditions. I'm just talking
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to people who just want to glimb on and claim
that they have this, that they have that, that they
have the other thing, all that excuse to not take
control of their lives and do anything about it. So
they therefore blame it all in the United States and
say I wish I could leave. I guarantee you this.
Let's imagine all of them left. This forty percent they
all left, and by the way, what a great thing.
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There's just zero reason to oppose this. We should empower them. Leave.
Renounce your citizenship too. Don't go off and leave and
then try to send for a ballot to still vote
in our election. No, no, no, you hate it here, get
the hell out and become a citizen of something else.
Let's imagine they all did it, I guarantee you. In
five years. Let's suppose they all moved to England, and
they all moved to France, and they're all over to Canada.
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They would all say they want to move from that
country too, because nothing will have changed. They'll probably be
even more miserable than they are here. There are some
people who are predisposed to whining, and it is about
half of the females under the age of forty four,
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and you see it by their thing. They say, what
I'd friend of somewhere else, it's whining. Half are predisposed
to that. And the half that are predisposed to whining
are the half that are mostly miserable. So all of
this babying and pampering and coddling that we have done
to them all in an attempt to be nice and
to be understanding of them, has just made them more miserable.
And that number is just going to keep going up.
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All these people that were convincing all these girls were
convincing that they're males, and males that we're convincing that
they're females, and soon they're all gonna be miserably unhappy.
They're gonna blame it on the United States. They're gonna
want to leave too, And all of this messaging is
coming from people who themselves are miserably unhappy. I believe
I've just in a sense, explained the entire world. You
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to this. Don't you have anything you want to chip in?
On this. You're soaking it in. Do you not think
I'm right about this? Well, you have two daughters that
are under the age of forty four. They don't want
to leave, do they. That's my point, because they have
a sense of purpose, they have something that they want
to do, They've got all of this, they've got a
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Big Story. We're going to analyze this one here. If
you I just told you come up with somebody who's
had a remarkably up and down political career in Wisconsin.
Brad Shibble's the definition of that talk about battlescard. He's
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like one of these players in the NBA that's really
good but ends up on a lot of different teams,
like say Anthony Davis or something. Brad Shimmel is going
to be the new United States Attorney for eastern Wisconsin.
Story broke over the weekend. I don't know who had
it first. I know that dani ol'donald had something on
this before I had heard about it. Wisconsin right now
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had reported it, So I don't know who it is
that had it first, but it developed over the weekend.
Now there's everything about this story. Is it arresting? He's
not been named United States Attorney that requires confirmation by
the Senate. He's been named by the Justice Department and
President Trump interim United States Attorney. Why do it that way?
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I bet most of you know don't know why you
do it that way. Some of you do. You don't
know why you're the name of an interim US attorney,
do you no? I'm good, That's why I know you
don't that's why I'm going to explain it. The people
who know are the ones that are just political junkies
and in others. An interim US Attorney does not need
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to be confirmed. You can be an interim United States Attorney.
It's either four or six months. I believe four months,
but it means you start, you know, the instant that
they make the apployment. You can start and be in
charge and go down to the office and be in there.
This is the same thing that President Trump did with
the US Attorney for DC. Attorney for DC, that's the
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big one, because that's the one that's the United States
Attorney for the federal government. He didn't want any of
the holdover hacks from the Biden Justice Department to do that,
so he quickly named Jeanine Perrol, former personality on Fox
Judge Janeen. He named her the interim United States Attorney
for DC, but it meant she went in there right there.
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She has since gotten the permanent position. So what the
President will no doubt do is also down the road
nominate sim Will to be the permanent United States Attorney,
which requires set of confirmation. But once you're in as
the interim a that becomes an easier thing to accomplish.
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B you don't have the whole thing held up with
the Senate Delly Deally's around it. So it's his way
of getting somebody in there today right now. Second part,
why shimmo. First of all, there are a lot of
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fronts on which the Trump presidency is fighting right now.
One of them is to clean up the Justice Department.
In our law enforcement agencies, the FBI ice, they've had
wholesale changes at their top and wholesale changes in the
way they're operating. The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has a
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mandate to do some of these things. In addition, all
across the country, these agencies and individual branches of the
Justice Department are starting to look at all sorts of
criminal activity that's been going on for years. In some
cases criminal activity committed by the Justice Department. A number
of the individuals who behaved badly and illegally during the
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Biden era are now themselves being prosecuted. But at the
same time, there are all sorts of things that were
you just generally knew if you did certain crimes on
the left that you get a pass. One of them
would be the case of Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County
Circuit judge who just figured she could obstruct an ice
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warrant and help an illegal em we're going to escape.
She's facing criminal charges, and we're going to get to
an update on that story right after this one. Let
me go back to the w Bush era. We had
an aggressive United States attorney then he's now a defense attorney,
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Steve Biskupik. A number of prosecutions into political corruption in
Milwaukee and in the region went on during that time.
A lot of it was Milwaukee Alderman, Milwaukee public officials
using campaign funds for personal expenses. There were other cases
of bribery. You remember Michael McGee junior Senior was a
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piece of work himself. But Michael McGee junior called himself,
you know, he is a gatekeeper of his automatic district.
You want to get something done, you had to pay
him money. Well, there was investigations, prosecutions of people like that.
There's been almost nothing since. The political corruption stuff that's
been going on has been pretty much left to the
local county district attorney's offices. The Milwaukee County DIA has
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moved on several things, but a lot of the suburban counties.
There's nothing and that's not certainly not because there isn't
criminal activity going on. There's numerous violations of the law
and misconduct and public office and sweetheart deals, etc. One
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of the reasons that Shimmel is extremely well qualified for
this is because he's been battered around himself, you know
the old term. He knows where all the bodies are buried,
shovel those where all the bodies are buried. First of all,
let's look at his career. Was an assistant district attorney
in Waukeshaw County. He was kind of anointed to become
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the DA after Paul Booker left the office DA in
Waukeshaw County. He then built enough of a reputation. He
wasn't the most aggressive prosecutor, but he was very good.
Waukeshaw County in my lifetime, or at least in my
pier period here setting in nineteen eighty nine, has always
needed a hard hitting, marauding district attorney. It's never had one,
but they've Most of them who've been in there during
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the time have been very good, but just not marauding
on hard hit against shim will fit into that category,
but he developed enough of a reputation that he was
able to run for the Republican nomination for attorney general.
Got it twenty ten. Twenty ten was the Republican landslide
in Wisconsin. All the Dems got swept out and all
the Republicans came in. That was the year that Scott
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Walker got elected governor. It was the year that Ron
Johnson knocked off Fengald the first time to become United
States Senator. It was on the Republicans made massive gains
in both houses of the state legislature and picked up
a Congressional seat and swept in with this with Brad Shimmel.
The thing about the position of Attorney general is it
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often becomes a party line vote race. Not always, but
almost always, the party that wins the attorney general wins
the governorship because people tend to vohomin to vote for
all the Democrats and vote off for all the Republicans.
And indeed Shimo was re elected in fourteen along with Walker,
and then when Walker was beaten in eighteen, Shimmo was beaten. Okay,
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so here's Brad career is on the ascendancy. This attorney
DiscT Attorney then he's the attorney general for eight years,
thrown out of office by the voters. Walker lost in
the same election. Remember what happens to a governor or
a president after they lose. The term is called lame duck.
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It's a goofy term, but it's been the term as
long as I've been alive. Surprise, somebody hasn't complained about it.
I mean, it's not really making fun of the handicapped
and disabled because it's a duck, not a person. It's
a duck, So I mean, who would complain. I guess
ducks or animal nuts or something. A lame duck is someone.
It's actually a terrible it's an inaccurate term. Lamb ducks
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are incredibly powerful. They call them lame docks because their
term is about to end, but they are still in
office and still governing. In fact, it's when they are
most powerful because they are not that to lose. Scott
Walker during that period turned around and named Brad Shimmel,
a Walkershaw County Circuit judge. There was a vacancy, so
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Walker filled it by vacancy, and Shimmel was then elected
to a full term by the voters. And then he's
been a Walkershaw County judge. So again the ups and
downs already and we're just halfway through this. He then
made the decision to not run for reelection as a
walker Shaw County Circuit judge and instead run for the
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Wisconsin Supreme Court that was earlier this year. He got plastered.
He got plastered the way all conservative candidates now get
plasted when they run for the state Supreme Court. The
biggest single reason for this is I've explained many a time,
is the Democrats have simply been much better at getting
their people to turn out in spring elections than Conservatives
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of Republicans. They're nonpartisan elections, you don't run by party,
but everybody knows that the Democrats want a liberal Supreme
Court justice and the Republicans want a conservative, and it's
always a liberal against the conservative, and the Democrats just
more other people to turn out. And we're going to
face the same thing this coming April when there's a
state Supreme Court election when a really lefty judge from Madison,
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Chris Taylor runs. The likely conservative opponent she's declared is
Maria Lazar, who's a state Appeals Court judge. But Maria
is going to be running uphill just because it's my side.
Has has just not been as good at getting our
low propensity voters to vote in the other So Brad lost.
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So now he's not in the Supreme Court anymore. He's
designated by Bondi and Trump now to be the interim
United States Attorney. When Shivel ran for the State Supreme Court,
you saw how he was slimed and batted around and
so on. That's what makes him ideal for this. He
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wasn't slimed and batted around as badly as saying Trump
has been slimmed and batted around, but he knows what's
going on. In addition to that, as a former district attorney,
he knows how to assemble an office on these federal prosecutors,
most of our career prosecutors, and they have civil service protection.
The acting United States Attorney has been rich for Richard Frohling.
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He's done a pretty good job. Now acting is different
than interim the acting United States Attorney. The position is
just vacant. Someone ascends to it, and that was Froling
ever since Biden lost reelection. But now Shimmel is put
in and interim means he is the person in that
position until he's not, and I would unless Trump and
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BONDI are not happy with what he does, still dominated
for the full position and presumably get confirmed by the Senate.
The other part of this is you can do rolling inromes.
So if the Senate tries to slow walk this thing,
Trump's are very very good at putting people in these
interim positions if there's slow walking their confirmation or obstructing
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them and so on. So anyway, there's a very very
big story, and I think you're going to see, along
with the reinvigoration of the FBI and Milwaukee, a much
more aggressive justice department. And again this position, I should mention.
The state of Wisconsin in terms of the federal Judiciary
is divided into just two districts, Eastern and Western. Western Is.
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It's almost exactly this. It isn't, but it's really close.
Western Is. Remember the old Highway fifty one, It still exists,
but it's been replaced by what's that interstate called the
Interstate that runs in the middle of the state. That
was where Highway fifty one was. I'm forgetting right now.
You know, it goes straight up the middle of the state.
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Goes north from Madison all the way up toward Wasaw.
It's now in thirty nine. That's it pretty much. This
is not exactly correct, but it's close enough to work.
Everything west of thirty nine, including the city of Madison,
is the Western District, and everything east is the Eastern District.
The thing in the Eastern District is way more population.
The Eastern District includes Milwaukee and all of southeastern Wisconsin,
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and it includes the Fox Valley you know at Fondeleac Oshkosh,
the Fox Cities, Appleting at Connaught, than up to Green Bay,
and then Mana Rock Sheboygan, way more of the population base.
So it's a big time position with fur ground here
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for investigations into the kinds of things that have been
looked the other way at for some time. And as
I say, Shimmelt does not require confirmation to take over
to get the job on a permanent basis, he does
require confirmation. Trump is naming him as an interim. Another
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point on this, there's been this thing that we've had
in Wisconsin for decades now, in which when there's a
vacancy for federal judge or for federal prosecutor, it goes
to a Bipartisan Nominating Commission. The two heads of the
commission of the two United States senators, and there's one Democrat,
one Republican. Tammy Baldwin's a Democrat. Ron Johnson's a Republican.
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So they come up and they recruit and they get
these candidates that they then recommend to the president. When
the president's a Democrat are the ones that are recommended,
they grab a Democrat off the list, and when it's
a Republican, they grab a Republican off the list. Trump
has no time for this. Do you think Trump wants
to look at what some commission is recommending or do
you think that he and BONDI want to hire who
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they want by going the route of an interim That
means that this commission, whatever they're doing, is pointless. The
law calls for the president to fill these positions. In
the past, members of the Congress of each individual state
had a great say in this, and a term Trump
has decided, I'm going to have to say it says
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I'm supposed to appoint. Well, he's going to appoint. Let's
motilate to an update on the Dugan story. I mentioned
it a moment ago. Hanna Dugan is the Milwaukee County
Circuit judge facing federal felony charges in connection with her
obstructing ice agents who had a warrant for an illegal
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immigrant who was to appear in her court. As reported
on JAIS Online on Friday, Dugan's attorneys filed their response.
Let me explain, in the federal court system, essentially the government,
the United States Attorney's Office, they put their case in
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writing before there's a trial. In other words, you make
a filing and the judge then has an opportunity to
rule on whether or not there's a problem with the filing.
But you're laying out most of your case in the filing,
and then the defense attorney puts out their response. The
jury still has to hear the evidence if it does
go to jury trial, but both sides lay out their
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cases in these filings. Hanna Dugan's defense team, which is
about nineteen lawyers, all being paid by somebody other than
Hannah Dugan, have filed their response and it is quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
The response is handed didn't do anything wrong. Here's why
they are laying this on the chief judge in Milwaukee County,
Carl Ashley. A moment for explanation. This happens a lot.
There's two Milwaukee Judge Ashley's. They're related, kyl Ashley's the
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chief judge. Corey Ashley is a terribly lenient judge. She's
as bad as they get. This is not her, This
is Carl. Carl's the chief judge. Let me quote from
the JS online story here and see whether or not
the defense here has a credible case that Hannah didn't
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do anything wrong but was simply doing what she was
supposed to do. This is again I'm quoting from the
JS online report, which has numerous bylines out it. Everybody's
byline on this has been with that paper for like
decades combined. It's like, that's amazing, because there's like nobody
who survived at the Drinal all the old fires. The
only three that have been there for a long time.
Thinkins's name is not on the other three. Dan Biss,
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Mary Spacuza, and John Didrich the only ones who have
not been laid off or taken the buyouts or whatever
on this. In a court filing on November fourteenth, Dugan's
attorneys argued that she was not trying to obstruct immigration.
Dy I love this. She wasn't trying to She sent
them in the coast, hit him and said go to
the Chief judges office. She wasn't trying to obstruct. Now
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here's the key on this. They're now claiming she wasn't
really trying to obstruct. They're no longer in a position
of trying to claim that this isn't criminal activity to
obstruct the Nce Wood. She's not saying she wasn't trying
to do it. You know, and not trying to do
it is a key component of the law. It's a
different crime. If you shoot somebody by accident, you're messing
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a room with a gun, as opposed to you intended
to kill someone because you hate them. They're different things.
He was not trying to obstruct immigration agents from arresting
Eduardo Flores Mare's outside her courtroom, but instead abiding by
a draft policy provided prepared by Milwaukee County Chief Judge
Carl Ashley. See what there's saying is the chief judge
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came up with a policy. What do you do if
ice shows up? And all she was doing was following it.
But the key hero is draft. That means it wasn't
a policy yet, continued Ashley is likely to become a
central witness in the high profile case set to go
to trial December fifteenth. So Carl Ashley, the Chief Judge,
he's gonna be called, probably by the defense. In an
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attempt by the defense to make the case that Henna
Dugan wasn't doing anything wrong other than following what the
Chief Judge, Karl Ashley told her to do. The indictment
alleges Judge Dugan obstructed a proceeding by telling ice agents
to go to the Chief Judge's office. The defense attorneys wrote,
even though that's what Chief Judge Ashley's policies required, she
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asked for guidance, received it, and followed it. Now, I
will add nothing of the policy said go hide the
guy in another office while you're sending them on this
wild goufchase out of the Chief Judge's office. But they're saying, look,
she sent him that way. The defense are saying, you
were trying to you know, misdirection, sent him the wrong
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place while she she allowed him to get away. She's saying,
the policy said you're supposed to go to the Chief
judge off continuing. The defense arguments come in response to
the prosecutions filing on November seventh, laying out their most
detailed description of to date of how they allege Dugan
tried to help Floresa Reese avoid arrest. Flores Mares pleaded
guilty to illegally re entering the United States and was
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being deported, his attorney said November fifth, Defense attorneys rely
on emails on a draft policy from Ashley. The policy
was meant to guide Milwaukee Quartos personnel on how they
should respond by US Immigration and Customs enforcement agents at
size to arrest undocumented immigrants, part of President Donald Trump's
cracked down an illegal immigration. Ashley has not yet released
the formal policy and immigration arrest of the quartos. So
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remember she said this is this draft she said she
was going, but Ashley doesn't have a policy yet. I
would suggest to Ashley if he wants to put up
a polo, see if a law enforcement agent comes in
with a warrant, cooperate with them in the same way
that you would any other agent. All this stuff has
been treated differently at immigration. There's not been a policy
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in place. If the FBI here is that somebody is
a child abuser and he's running around in the courthouse
for a child support case, they don't say you don't
let them arrest them. This all has been changed because
of a desire on people on the left to simply
violate immigration laws. Back to the story. In one April
sixth the email the judges, Ashley warned that ice arrests
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at the courthouse we're having a chilling effect, and that
courts must remain safe havens. The filing says, I've never
heard of anybody refer to a court as a safe
haven before. Why is the court supposed to be a
safe haven? That just the opposite. It's where people that
need to have justice brought upon them go. I mean,
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it's all It is a safe haven for victims. And
you know you're filing a lawsuit. It's the one anyway.
And continuing tuesdays later, the filing says, Dugan sent an
email requesting that protocols being acted for handling such situations code.
I have seen in my court more people not showing
up for court dates. I have had two immigration attorneys
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asking me just today about what protocols are in place.
Obviously this is me no interjecting. The Feds have been
on this thing in which they realize one of the
easiest ways to catch it illegal is to find out
when the illegal is doing court for something else, because
a lot of the illegals are breaking other laws. So
instead of ice running around trying to find this illegal,
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if they see that the illegal is doing court on
a traffic thing or a gun charge or something, they
just go there. So now the Dugan is saying, well,
people aren't showing up. On the morning of April eighteenth,
six agents appeared outside Dugan's sixth floor court room. When
she was alerted, Dugan questioned the agents and directed them
to go to Ashley's office, which is nearby. Ashley was
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out of the office away on business. Now, let me
interject that harms Dugan's case. Did Dugan know that Ashley
was not there, because if she knew that he was
not there, never mind any kind of protocol, You're sending
him to an office in which you know that the
chief judge isn't there. Now, again, I don't know if
they have evidence that she knew that or not. Continuing,
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Dugan's lawyers wrote that during federal agent's call with Ashley,
they asked what they had permission to make an arrest,
whether they had permission to make an arrest in a
public hallway or a courtroom. A chief Judge Ashley declined
to give them permission because he wanted to work out
an agreement with Ice. The defense argues that is why
the agents followed floraes Ariz down the hallway and into
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an elevator before arresting him outside the Milwaukee County quodos.
The indictment alleges that the ICE agents planned to arrest
floras Ariz in the public hallway, the defense team wrote,
but again, that plan seems to have shifted. Instead, the
agent followed flora'z Ouiz down the elevator and out of
the courthouse to arrest him outside the street. Dugan's attorneys
also repeatedly cited Ashley's draft policy, which instructed people to
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promptly refer agents to their managers. Quote. Court personnel may
not authorize the enfrey of Immigration agency personnel into the
non public areas of any court facility, and must refer
Immigration agent personnel to their immediate supervisor manager the filing rates.
Quoting the draft policy. I'll interject, but the manager here
would be the judge. This isn't a court reporter, this
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was the judge. Dugan. I suppose you could argue that
a chief judge would be her supervisor, but each judge
is duly elected and they don't really have to listen
to the chief judge on anything. It adds if an
immigration agency officer insists on access to a non public area,
the employee should not resist, but should say I do
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not consent, but because I have no other choice at
this time, I will not interfere with your order and
immediately contact their supervisor about the officer's order, pair a
written statement about the encounter and submitted to their supervisor.
In their November fourteenth filing, prosecutors argued that defense attorneys
are trying to reprise their argument that Dugan was immune
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from prosecution for her actions on April eighteenth. Dugan's lawyers
say she is being prosecuted for five specific actions she
took while she was a judge, and that all of
them are protected by judicial imminity. No two things. The
case is in front of federal Judge Len Adelman. He
has rejected arguments to dismiss the charge, which surprised me.
On the other hand, he also gets to make all
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the procedural rulings, and I would think that they're all
going to go in the favor of the defense, but
maybe little surprise me. Then there's the whole problem of
a jury. Now, this case is I mentioned this earlier
Eastern District of Wisconsin, so it's not a Milwaukee County
jury exclusively. It would be from the entire southern half
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of the Eastern District. There's a courthouse in Green Bay
and a courthouse in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee hord of those cases,
the potential jury would come from this entire region. You know,
Sheboygan fond of Laca, Washington, Milwaukee. It was like the
whole corner of the State's big corner of the state.
So you wouldn't necessarily get only Milwaukee jurors. Obviously, the
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defense is going to try hard to get lefties on
the jury, and I'm guessing the prosecutors it's going to
try hard not to get lefties on the jury. Second
point I want to make it does appear as though
defense the defense is changing its strategy. They were initially
she's immune because she's a judge. I think perhaps they
now have decided that that isn't going to work, and
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instead they're going to say she was only doing what
Kyle Ashley told her to do. I'm certainly thinking and
by the way, we're going through the United States Attorney's Office,
the interim United States Attorney Brad Schimmel, I mean, he
now is on the eat. Don't know if he showed
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up today, but he's it's imminent, it's going to be
this week. Richard Frohling has been the acting US Attorney
and he was prosecuting the case, and he certainly did
not show any signs of not moving forward with this
because it came from the Justice Department. So there may
be shots called in this from above at the local
level or not. But Pam BONDI had made it clear
that people that you know it's Trump, has made it
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clear anybody that Trump obstructs ICE agents anywhere, they're going
to be criminally prosecuted. And this just seems to me
to be a black and white case of obstruction. I
have suggested, and I don't think it's going to happen.
I think Dugan's going to roll the dice and hope
she can win a jury, and if she doesn't, hope
to get it overturned on appeal. I would suggest that
there'll be a plea bargain here. I don't know that
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Hanna Dugan has to go to prison, but I think
that a proper plea bargain would beat here for her
to acknowledge that she did obstruct this resign as a judge,
and there wouldn't be an agreement that she wouldn't be
incarcerated as a result. But there needs to be a consequence,
a conviction and a designation as a judge for people
to do this, and it would send a message all
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over the country that you can't have individual judges and
cops obstructing federal agents who have jurisdiction everywhere in the
United States of America with regard to federal laws. All right,
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I need to update you on another story. This is
one of those stories that while I didn't spend a
lot of time on it at the time, I'm glad
I spent some time on it because I am being
in I'm in the process of being proven correct. There's
this company from Madison. You may me making fun of
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them at the time. They came up with this idea
to build three to four different massive developments in downtown Milwaukee,
all near the Water Street era area. The company's name
is Neutral. The first project was a big high rise
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on the property of the old parking garage at the
Marcut Center for the Performing Arts. Most people felt that
that first proposal was the only one that seemed plausible.
And I said at the time that the city of
Milwaukee biting onto this thing, which they're going to put up,
you know, thousands of apartment units and so one, that
it was insanity. I never named the person, but I
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said I had spoken to a prominent local developer, and
that local developer told me that this idea seems doable
in Dubai, not in Milwaukee. The defense like head of
neutral this company, he's in his twenties. Because who we're
gonna do all? I'm gonna be the Donald Trump of Milwaukee. Well,
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the first project construction stopped Threeway tis ago. The worst
thing is they've dug the hole in the ground. Now
you're approaching winner. That's bad. This thing has to be
sealed off and so on. Construction stopped. Apparently the contractors
were not getting paid. In other words, the project tears
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to have failed before it literally got off the ground.
It got under the ground, but nothing built up yet.
So on js online Today and in the preddiction of
the Journal the City of Milwaukee is now seeking new
developers for the entire site. In other words, they're willing
to divorce themselves from Neutral. There's a backstory here. In
this instance, the Milwaukee Common Council never approved a development
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agreement with Neutral. This was done only by the Mayor's office.
The mayor's office is an apartment of community Development. All
mayor's offices has the problem with DCD and Milwaukee, and
this goes back decades is it's run by bureaucrats and bureach.
It's the same problem that you see with Northridge. Well,
we've got all these ideas for Northridge, all the ideas
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you want, but in Kills somebody puts up their own
money and says I can make a buck doing this.
You can't just say we're gonna put such and such here.
Somebody has to have the money and think they can
mike make money doing it. So DCD, which consists of
people who are bureaucrats and not developers who have ever
put their own capital at risk, endorse this idea because
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it sounds a wallid wonderful. Well it was is kaka
mami bs. In addition to that, as I've been arguing
for some time. I've been arguing this long before, long
before it happened. But the apartment the residential market in
Milwaukee has now finally been overbuilt. At some point it
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was going to happen. Things get overdone, and I suspect
that that's one of the reasons that they were having
a financing on this, that some of the lenders may
have noticed that two other high rises in downtown Milwaukee
that were completed in the last two years are not full.
So why would this with an inferior location? You want
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to live on Water Street? No, I don't know why
anybody who want to live on Water Street maybe South
Water into the third Ward or something or another at
Water Street. That's a nice place to live weekend nights,
thousands of people coming around, bombing around of their cars,
turning wheelies. Why I just anyway, the city is now willing,
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ready to move on from neutral. And you may recall
that I had suggested from the very beginning that none
of this was ever going to come to fruishing. You're
listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
Belling podcast. Here's the thing about when a consensus of
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thought develops in the media on the left. He says,
this is what's going to happen. Most people aren't smart
enough to actually know what's going to happen. So whatever
this expert says, this is what's going to happen, they
just accept that as gospel. COVID was the perfect example
of this, and then when it doesn't happen, they can't
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process that it's not happening because they were just it
was going to happen. Tariffs, we have been told, and
the talking plan from the left now and the media
for the entire time Trump is and the President is
the tariffs are going to be inflationary. Well, again, it's
like the Milwaukee apartment market being overbuilt. Maybe at some
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point they will be, but so far they're not. An
interesting report now from the San Francisco Fed. Remember that
the Federal Reserve is broken into districts around the United States.
This is the San Francisco Fed. The San Francisco Fed
has done US study on the economic impacts of tariffs,
and interestingly they break from this earlier consensus. In the
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report from the San Francisco Fed they say, in fact,
tariffs are not inflationary, but they have a different downside
that what they do is slow the economy down, in
other words, the opposite of driving up inflation overheating. In fact,
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the problem with tariffs, according to the San Francisco Fed,
is they actually slow down economic activity because all of
these cheap goods are no longer being dumped into the
United States. Let me quote briefly. We find that a
tariff hike raises unemployment, lowering economic activity, and lowers CPI inflation. No,
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you'll note this is completely different than the original leftist narrative.
The original leftist narrative was that the tariffs create inflation.
The San Francisco FED and don't be surprised now if
the lefties jump on this and now clay hold on,
let's cause it unemployment when their earlier clan was inflation.
The San Francisco Freed is saying, actually, tariff's lower inflation,
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lower CPI using only tariff changes, as the San Francisco
Fed driven by long term considerations, that traditional narrative identification
gives similar results. We also obtain similar results if we
restrict the sample to the modern post World War II period,
or if we use independent variations from other countries like
France and the UK. Now, the takeaway on. This is
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all these people on the left who just automatically said
the tariffs are going to be inflationary never actually looked
at the data, because a comprehensive study would show the
tariffs and or not inflationary. But they but they might
have another effect. Now, I do believe the economy is slowing.
So far, the GPI, the growth in the economy has
been very good. It's three point four percent GPI. That's excellent.
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It's not booming, but it's excellent. But you see signs
of slowing, job softening, lots of slowing out there, less demand.
Christmas sales are not thought to be very going to
be very good this year. All of that. Trump has
been arguing for lowering interest rates. The opponents have been
saying no, no, no, no way. Because of your tariffs, things
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are going to be inflationary. But in fact inflation is
now seemingly under control. You don't end you know, all
things are still high. Well see, that's the problem with
the inflation that came in during Biden. You don't want deflation.
That's terrible. Deflation probably means you're in a depression. The
damage has been done with the inflation that has been there,
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but it seems to have been brought under control. The problem,
if there is one from the tariffs, is that it
may slow down the economy. Now, I agree with Trump
that interest rates should be lowered. I do not think
that we're in an inflationary period. I think that you're
seeing a slowing economy for zillions of reasons, and therefore
lowering interest rates would be a smart thing to do.
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That's the man the position of Trump, and I think
now the evidence is going to be that we are
not seeing an acceleration of inflation in the economy, just
the opposite. We're seeing slowing and therefore a lowering of
interest rates would be the smart thing to do. But
from the overall Fed, not the San Francisco Fed. They've
been fretting for the past year that Trump's tariffs would
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be inflationary, and again maybe they will be by twenty
ninety six. They're not now. And you can go into
all of the reasons why a tariff charged on the
importer wouldn't be inflationary. Whether or not would be inflationary,
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the fact of the matter is the consumer's ability to
buy something remains the same. If the tariffs create an
added cost but it also reduces the desire of somebody
to buy the product. You end up with things not inflating,
because the demand for our product is always the thing
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that sets the price. Things like tariffs may be a contributor,
but the demand for a product will always be more
important than any external cost that is building to those
that are trying to sell the product. In the meantime,
despite what I'm saying, there was an interesting i'll use
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the term pivot by Trump. Over the weekend, the White
House Office of Communications put on a big multi page
thing about how Trump is making progress on affordability. I
think you know why he's doing that. What in my
Donnie run on in New York affordability And that's the
appeal to the leftist. Let's just give everybody stuff for free.
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Everything's too expensive. The problem, of course with socialists is
in their attempt to give everything away for free, they
run out of money. And you never and we never
have anything to give away at all. You just have
shortages everything, nothing's ever produced. The famous Margaret Thatcher line.
Socialism works until we run out of other people's money.
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It's the problem. Nonetheless, this message has resonated, particularly with
younger people who don't want to work. So Trump is
now responding with a number of statements with regard to
the progress he's made on affordability, which I think the
case that he makes is compelling. Inflation exploded under Biden,
and the growth rate and the increase in the CPI
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grows down every quarter. The inflation is now, you you know,
right around one and a half to two percent, as
I think optimal, and we're almost to that level after
Biden pushing us nearly double digits. In the statement from
the Trump Office of Communication, President Trump came Biden's inflation crisis.
Under Biden, inflation averaged nearly five percent, hitting nine point
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one percent during the worst inflation crisis in decades, fueled
by radical less spending, and President Prump's second term, inflation
is dropped to an average of just two point seven percent. Next,
Americans have made real wage gains, but there's still work
to do. Under Biden, workers lost over twenty nine hundred
dollars in purchasing power. What's purchasing power? Do you know
what purchasing power is? Yeah, you don't know what it is.
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It's your pay compared to inflation. Let's imagine your pay
goes up seven percent and inflation goes up seven percent,
you'd be flat. That would mean your purchasing power didn't change.
If your pay goes up more than the rate of inflation,
that means your purchasing power increased. Under Biden, wage growth
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was not close to the increase in price, so's that's
a purchasing part. Means under Biden, workers lost over twenty
nine hundred dollars in purchasing power, meaning inflation rows faster
than wages. In President Prump's second term, even after accounting
for higher prices, Americans' real wages have grown by nearly
seven hundred dollars and are on track to increase by
nearly twelve hundred dollars after his first full year in office.
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Gas prices are falling. Here's the thing about gas prices.
When there's a Republican in the White House, the media
covers gas prices only when they go up. When there's
a Democrat in the White House, the media covers gas
prices only when they go down. The gas price thing
has been one of those kind of slow bleeds downward.
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Here in Wisconsin, we've got that thing with the changing
in the formulation of the gas that causes a hiccup
right around the beginning of spring and beginning of fall
when they change the formulation. But there's been a general
downward trend. I use you now have a high falutin car,
so you use ninety three, don't you. Yeah? So, And
I've been track, and I mean I generally the weird
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thing in Florida. And I honestly don't know what this is, Paul.
As long as I've had that place in Florida, the
price of the ninety three has moved maybe ten cents.
It never moves, and it's hardly at all higher than
regular it up here. Though in Wisconsin it's like a
buck higher for the ninety three than the eighty seven.
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In Florida, the gap doesn't barely doesn't exist. I don't
know why it is. I honestly don't know. It must
have something to do with supply. Well, no, the taxes
the same. It must have something to do with the reformulation.
I don't know. I actually don't know. I don't know
what it is to do with so it's barely moved.
But I mean, I'm now paying for the ninety three
in Wisconsin somewhere. The last I filled up. I think
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it was three forty nine, and it seems to be
going down even more since yeah, yeah, And I usually
go to one of the stations around here and there
are usually around the same price, and there's certain neighborhood,
and again the geographic variation is remarkable. You buy gas
and the Lord East Saide where I live, it's fifty
to sixty cents higher than when I go out here
in the suburbs. So I mean, I mean, well, what
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do you care with all your money? It adds up
with eighteen gallons plus I'm not an idiot, you know,
all right? That was the next thing on trop Grocery
prices and housing prices are trending in the right direction.
Housing prices are going down because we're starting to get
I think and end of this total imbalance of there
simply wasn't any supply, and I think that that's one
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of the reasons for the sum softening in housing prices.
As for grocery prices, the one thing that's keeping grocery
prices someone high is meat is out of control, and
that's why Trump is pushing for the importing of beef.
And I have some sense of what's going on with
meat prices. I just think that for a zillion reasons. Gradually,
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over time American ranchers lowered their beef herds and move
to other type of farming. And the demand for beef
has been really high in the United States, and beef prices,
for example, pork prices are just they used to be.
Pork prices are. Pork is rather inexpensive right now. It
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just never went up. And I haven't looked lately at
the hog futures as opposed to the cattle futures, because
that'll tell you what the future is going to be.
But the meat prices remain high. And Trump, I think
it's the one area where he wants something important. He's
been tariffing careffin, caraffin tariff and caraffing. But beef prices
have been at all levels, from like the cheap old beef,
ground beef and so on to the really high and
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you buy the prime stake, et cetera. They're off the charts,
and they are coffees another one. But those are unique
individual things that don't have anything to do with government policy,
but they're built into the average with regard to the
food prices. So Trump goes on Anyway, the point on
this is, as we move toward the mid terms, I
think the Republicans are sensing that even though everybody you
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should know, the reason things are high is because everything
in flated under Biden. But they're now going to try
to blame Trump for this and run on this whole
notion of affordability, and Trump is going to try to
make the case, Look, we've made tremendous progress in this area.
I want to now go to the latest rift within
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the Republican Party. Part of this is I kind of
think Trump is culling the herd a little bit. You
know what that term means. You know, you don't we
are there is. I just think that there are some
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of these people that were in the Trump universe that
he's decided are more trouble than they're worth, like Marjorie
Tailor Greed. Now here's the thing about Marjorie Taylor Greed.
She's very courageous, and she's very outspoken, and she's been
willing to take all sorts of crap from the left.
She also has a few ideas that are nutty, but
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in general, I think her positions are correct and solid
with those few exceptions, but she's also a pain in
the ass. She's one of these people that demands that
you agree with her on everything. Marjorie Taylor Green has
been There's always somebody, you know, on our side of
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the right that the left likes to mock as stupid
and looney and an idiot. They've tried it with Trump,
but just you can't sell anymore that Trump is stupid.
You could try to argue that he's an egomaniac and
so on, but the left can't make the case credible
anywhere that Trump isn't a smart guy. So they've just
gone after Marjorie Taylor Green. I think they don't like them.
They don't like her look, they don't like her blondness
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and her outspoken and all of that. Yeah, she'd wear
the mag the whole thing, and they just didn't like her. Now,
Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green a broken. I know why
they've broken. She wants She wanted to run for Senate
in Georgia. She would lose the seat. She might win
the primary, but she'd lose the seat because she not
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only is despised by the left, people in the middle
don't like her, and Trump does not want to lose
the Senate. So Trump told her, I'm not going to
endorse you if you run for the Senate. Margorie got
to stay in the house. Marjorie doesn't like carrying that.
So Marjorie pops off something with regard to Epstein, And
there's this rift. I here's what I'm wondering, And I says,
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is sincere wondering if Marjorie Taylor Green now goes wholesale
anti Trump, that if she doesn't understand, if you get
into a pissing match with Trump, you're gonna lose. Let's
suppose Marjorie doesn't understand that. You understand that, don't you.
I know she would not win it, right, But the
thing about some people like her is she may not
know that. If she does get into that match, though,
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will the left embrace her as courageous? I wonder see.
One of the things is I've argued forever the political
spectrum is not a lie, that you don't go all
the way to the left and on the other end is
all the way right. That it's a circle that the
extreme left and the extreme right ultimately bump into one another,
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that where they bump into one another. That was Hitler
hilar was a leftist. He's a socialist, government control all
of that stuff, anti Semitic, hateful monster. We'll look at
our left now and then I'm want of anti semitism,
and you're seeing some of that, I think also on
the right. Anyway, Marjorie Taylor Green mos far enough into
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this fringe while batting Trump around and et cetera. I
can't rule out that she and AOC would develop some
sort of an alliance. Right, Well, I know, but now
she hadn't gotten her way in a couple of things.
And see, I think that Trump will put anybody in there,
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and he tolerates this agreement, but he doesn't want somebody
that's kicking him in the teeth, particularly when he was
he elevated her, you know, at the inauguration. He didn't
have to give her a prime seat. Everywhere Trump would be,
she'd be one of the three or not every member
Congresses in that orbit. She had that spot. Same thing
with Tucker, he was being trotted around everywhere and all
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of that. Well, you don't get to be in the
inner circle if you're going to be somebody who turns
in the guy. And again that doesn't mean that everybody
is beholding you offt to agree with Trump on everything.
But if you want to be in Trump's inner circle,
if you want Trump to prop you up constantly, you
can't be somebody who not only disagrees but take shots
the bulls that maybe Fetterman could take ivan. So anyway,
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that's what's going on with that. On the whole issue
of Epstein. There is now a change in the Trump
response on this. I'm going to get in first of all,
to what I think the whole Trump Epstein thing relationship is.
I think Trump knew Epstein just the way, in the
same way that Trump knew everybody in that orbit, and
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because he knew him, I think he probably said some
friendly things about him. Do I think Trump went to
the island and had sex with any of these No,
and if there was any evidence of that, they come
they would have produced it during the time that Biden
was the president. But there's probably a couple of emails
where Okay, you want to do a deal or something
like that where that happened. So the Democrats are trying
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to bring this up to try to again implicate Trump
and this whole Epstein thing, in which the implication is
only what I just said. So Trump is now here's
the new position. He's saying, fine, if you really want
to revisit Epstein, we're revisiting who it was that actually
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had sex with women with Epstein. The only name that's
been nailed down for certain is Prince Andrew. Nobody's disputing that,
including I think almost even him now he's even kicked
out of the royal family. But all this other stuff,
and I understand why this whole problem with the files
is names and emails in there. There aren't things in
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which there's like a chart that says this person had
sex with this girl. It's just who knew this and
who knew that? But clearly some people went down to
that island. The next thing is not all the women
at the island were under age, some were over as,
some were of legal age, were correct way of saying it,
and who was doing what been vague? Anyway, Trump is
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now firing out five you want to go look at this,
Let's talk about the people who actually did stuff with Epstein,
because they're all of the left. Here's Trump in a
post on truth social now that the Democrats are using
the Epstein holks involving Democrats not Republicans to try to
deflect from the disaster, shutdown and all of the other failures.
I will be asking ag Pambondi in the Department of Justice,
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together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate
Jeffrey Epstein's involvements and relationships with and then he names names.
For those of you who don't know these names, I'll
tell you all. Bill Clinton no need to explain who
he is. Right by the way, I don't think the
Democrats care Bill Clinton. The Clintons are in their rearview mirror.
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No Democrat cares what happens to Hillary, and they don't
care at all about Bill's reputation. Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman,
that's a Biggie founded LinkedIn billionaire. He's right there with
Soros and bank rolling Democrat candidates. JP Morgan Chase, that's
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Jamie Diamond's company. That was Epstein's bank, and many other
people and institutions. Records show that these men and many
others spent large portions of their life with Epstein and
on his island. Next, The Washington Post reported over the weekend,
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I should give you a background. The United States Territory
tories do not have voting members of Congress, but they
have representatives in Congress who can't vote. For example, Puerto
Rico is a United States territory. There's a Puerto Rican
delegate to the Congress, but that person doesn't get a
vote because they're not a state. But they're allowed to
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sit in there and represent and you know, if there's
an issue that a constitute of Puerto Rico has, they
can you know, work with the government the same way
you're Congress and good, but they can't vote. This deals
with the United States. Representatives from the US Virgin Islands
also requires explanation. Some of the Virgin Islands are British,
some are the United States. You should know which are
the United States. From all of the cruises that we've
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taken to the Virgin Islands, what are the three US
Virgin Islands? Saint Thomas is one, you got two left,
one down, two to go. No, I gotta think Saint
Croix is a second one. No, it's not saying Lucia, No,
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I got to think myself. It's that it's that small
island near Saint Thomas. Remember that, you know, we take
a side trip from Saint Thomas. Some people could take
on that Saint John. That's it. Saint John's Saint John,
and I've never I've never taken that side trip, but
everybody goes to Saint John says it's beautiful. The problem
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is if you're going on the cruise, that means you
can't spend a day in Saint Thomas, which is really cool.
It has great beach and great shopping, but Saint John.
Everybody says it's beautiful, but I've never been. Yeah, Michael Jordan,
et cetera. It's basically beautiful and place for fun for
snorkling going on the water, but there's otherwise anyway, that's
the US Virgin Islands. This is the representative from the
US Virgin Islands, Stacy Plaskett. The Washington Post reported over
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the weekend that Stacy Plaskett, and I'll just quote here,
was texting and coordinating her questioning of Michael Cohen. Remember
Michael Cohen, He was the Trump lawyer who then turned
on Trump in the first term. Stacy Plaska was coordinating
or questioning of Michael Cohen with Jeffrey Epstein during a
twenty nineteen congressional hearing. So when Stacey Plaska was grilling
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Michael Cohen, it was Jeffrey Epstein feeding her the questions.
In other words, the implication here is that Epstein was
trying to get Trump and going through this Virgin Islands
congressman to do so. House democrat exchanged texts with Epstein
during nineteen twenty nineteen congressional hearing. Stacey Plaska, a Democrat
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who represents the US Virgin Islands in Congress as a
non voted delegate, exchanged texts with convicted sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein during a twenty nineteen congressional hearing. Well, this would,
first of all, certainly imply that Epstein was not anybody
that was looking out for Donald Trump. Secondly, that at
least one Democrat was totally compromised by our relationship with
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Jeffrey Epstein. I want to get to this story now,
and this is one of those that I've been on
the following issue on a number of podcasts, and this
just feeds into a narrative that I have. Jim Farley
is the CEO of Ford. He was on a podcast
over the weekend in which he talked about the difficulty
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Ford has. He says they have five thousand mechanic jobs
right now unfilled in which they're offering one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars a year almost said, an hour, one
hundred twenty thousand dollars a year, and they can't fill them.
I've talked forever about this. It's so many fields in
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which even in a slowing economy, we have jobs that
employers can't fill, even when they start offering almost insane
amounts of money. Now finally's bringing this up. The whole
notion of the four to one. It's not the right number.
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The visas, the visas for the skilled people would come
into the United States legally through the front door forwarders
that they're simply are not enough Americans that are capable
of filling some of these jobs. And they're just people
keep arguing, no, no, no, there are, there are, there are,
there are, But then people like you know, the CEO
Fords is, we can't find mechanics. I'm not going to
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go into my whole spiel that I've done. Look at
the monitor on Fox there's the story we just said
about the text of Stacey Paskett and Jeffrey Epstein. It's
just uncanny how I'll talk about something and Fox News
will be covering it at the same time that I'm
covering it. Anyway, we have millions of people in America
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under the age of forty five, underemployed. They're looking at socialism,
have nothing to do with their degree. And then we
have zillions of high paying jobs that they'd be wonderful,
that would be great, good lives for them, but A
they don't want to do those jobs, and b they
don't have any skill at all. And I'm guessing that
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these mechanic positions at Ford that it's rather skilled mechanic.
And you know, some of these companies are spending two
and three years training workers themselves. But for a lot
of these companies, the problem with that is, let's imagine
Ford hires you and trains you, you then quit and
go to work for somebody else at the skills that
you haven't they don't want to do that. We have
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this complete disconnect between the jobs that are available in
our economy and the things that a people want to
do and be that they know how to do. You've
got a kid sixteen seventeen years old, rather smart, but
they're not like book smart, college smart, but they can
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just don't waste your money sending them to college. There's
zillions of physicians that they can do. If they have
a little bit of street smarts in them, they can
go into that field and maybe end up owning their
own business moving forward, or go to a company like
Ford and move up the ladder and become a form
and become somebody who's in charge of manufacturing and a division.
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Just any number of jobs, all the skilled trade. And
my guess is the type of mechanic that Farley's talking
about would be a skilled mechanic that just falls into
that area, just generally of skilled trades. When we come back,
I'm going to talk about something that I don't get
what football, Well, that's one of them, but that's not
(01:09:43):
where I'm focused. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This
is the Mark Belling Podcast. I did lose my football
pick again. You know what you were whining earlier in
the year that you can't pick any that's I was
off to a great start. And the only I'll point
I mentioned that I'm in this contest with friends in
which we picked three games. You get choose three games
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to pick against the point spread. The last two weeks
I did go two and one in that contest. Unfortunately,
my radio pick has lost four weeks in a row.
The two that I got right were both I won
by half a point or one point in each of them,
but at least something. They're just so many. I just
look at complete. Paul. Explain the Detroit Lions to me, Well,
(01:10:28):
I know they're not that good, but explain how a
team that put up forty points now can't score a touchdown.
Now here's the next thing, here's the next, here's the
next thing. The Philadelphia Eagles this month. I didn't say
this season have the best defense in the NFL, but
they didn't in September. Philadelphia has now shut down two
very very good offenses and not allowed them to score
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at all. Shouldn't a team that has an incredibly dominant defense.
Shouldn't you see signs of that all year rather than
the pop out of nowhere? Well, I injuries and all that,
But how do you become that good suddenly? Cincinnati's like
the weirdest one to be a ball teams started the
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season with no offense at a great defense. They all
have an unstoppable offense at a terrible defense, and then
yesterday they couldn't do anything on either side of the
just it's been very, very difficult. But with regard to
the Packers, I mean, finally there's a game that made
total sense. The Packers are favored by seven and they
won by seven, so for good well, they didn't look
that they won exactly by what the expectation was. It
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was one of the few games this weekend that I think,
I think the Bears and the Vikings, I think, you
did you take the Rams? You take the forty nine Ers.
Paul Paul won that won his pick there, Like, the
Rams were favored by three over Seattle, and that game
was decided by two. Seattle missed a field goal that
would have won the game. So there were when you
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look at a points spread and if it's right near it,
it means that the outcome would not be surprising. But
they just spent so much. There's so many but I mean,
but that game was in Minnesota and it was right
right around. In fact, Minnesota was favored by two and
the Bears one by two, so some of those results
made some degree of sense. No, here's the thing I
wanted to talk about is I just read a report
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about the seemingly limitless growth potential of door dash. First
of all, they have almost no competitors. They have a
semi competitive relationship with Uber eats. But door dash and
Uber some of those are so closely related. A lot
of the people that do door dashings type stuff affiliate
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with a ride service firm to do it. But beyond
those two, I mean, there may be other businesses that
I haven't heard of. If you're going to order some
food out, it's DoorDash or Uber eats, right, and probably
DoorDash first. So the notion of this, of the story
that I was reading is the e I'm a growth
potential for a company. Think about a company in which
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there's almost no or maybe one competitor that they have.
Uber and Lyft would be another example of that. There's Uber,
and there's left named the third one. I don't know.
That's my boy. That's like, well, what a great business
to have. You're globally involved in something that's grown out
of nowhere and you have at most one competitor. I know,
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Uber's It's the same thing with DoorDash and Uber eats.
There's one huge, then a medium and nothing. Here's the
thing I don't get, and I've just not got it
from the beginning, and I always like to admit when
things happen that surprise me. As I keep telling people,
don't fight it and deny it. Just the opposite. When
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you acknowledge you are wrong about something, it means you've
learned and you're now smarter. One of the things that
I'm just surprised by, because I don't get it at all,
is the whole DoorDash concept. I don't understand it. And
here's what I don't understand. It seems to me with
regard to eating, you got two choices. You can go
out and eat or you can eat at home. The
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advantages of eating at home is you have control over
what you're eating and it's cheaper. The downside is you
actually have to do it, and that means you have
to have the food in the house and maybe some
things you don't know how to cook. But otherwise, if
you're eating at home, it's virtually unless you're making something
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insanely expensive, it's generally cheaper. They needed the same thing
out and you have control over exactly what it is
you're gonna eat and how much, and the cost saving.
The advantage of going out is they make the food
for you, they bring it to your table. You don't
have to wash the dishes, and you get the social
experience of going out with friends without having good invite it.
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You know, that's why you go out, right, you go
out to dinner. I mean, I went out for Chinese
last night with some friends and we went to China.
We went and ate Chinese, which is a good Sunday
thing to do with the football games are over and
so on. Well, you think I wanted to make sweet
and sour shimp and then somebody else at the general
trot chicken. No, I don't want no. So no, you
go out to a Chinese rest and you do that,
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and you pay more, probably than it would cost. Here's
what I don't get, Paul. I don't get why you
want to pay the price that you have to pay
for going out but eat at home. I've not gotten
it now. Obviously it's a massive market. So there's zillions
of people who think otherwise than me. The way my
this is how my brain is wired. If I'm going
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to eat home, I'm making it myself to say, buddy,
if I want to eat out, the point of eating out,
it seems to me, is you get the social experience
of eating out, it's a way of going with friends.
Maybe there's things going on in the place, maybe you
have a drink, You're in an experience, you're seeing all
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of the other stuff. If you're gonna eat at home,
why would you order the same thing that you get
at a restaurant to pay a restaurant price, but then
you're just sitting in home. And I get the whole thing.
People are lazy and that they don't want to cook.
And I know of millennials and exers love it. Am
I in either of those groups? No, I'm clear that
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you mentioned the whole convenience thing to me. I I know,
I think I get all those explanations. I'm just saying
I don't get personally why that's what it is that
you would want to do. And it just seems to
me that if you were going to I mean, it's
generally fun to go out and eat. So if you're
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gonna eat somewhere, if I'm gonna pay those prices and
get all of it, I think I'd want to go
to the restaurant and you know, have that experience. I
somehow you lived in the middle of nowhere, But if
you live in the middle of nowhere you don't have
door dash to bring from all these restaurants because you
might only have one within twenty seven miles. So it's
one of those things that if you would have asked
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me when door dash and these things started fifteen twenty
years ago, will this business work? I would have said no.
I also didn't really see initially the whole thing with
Uber as opposed to taxi cabs. And you remember my
initial thing. I just was very wary of going into
a stranger's car. Well, now the entire world uses Uber
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and one set of loomowning. You hear about something bad happening,
but it's worked out, and it was something I certainly
didn't see coming. But the Uber thing at least makes
some sense. It's more convenient than a taxi and you
know how much you're gonna pay, and you can get
him to come right where you are and all of that,
and you see on the app where the thing is
and so on, as opposed to the poor taxi companies
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that still have to put the meter in the car
and all that. But the whole idea of well, I
just think about last night. Now, the one thing that
you take out people have done in the past is
pizza and Chinese ben Really, making a pizza at home
on your own is hard to do, and a fresh
pizza tastes better than a frozen pizza, and pizzas aren't
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real expensive. The same thing with Chinese. Chinese generally isn't
that expensive. But who has all the stuff to make Chinese?
But to order like door dash of McDonald's just seems
crazy to me. I or door dash of like a
seventy five dollars dinner from a restaurant and then well
fuls is the gratuities? I thought, No, this is Do
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you know how many times I've used door dash never?
I'm honestly, it's possible. I've forgotten, even in Florida where
I heard like ever cook, I don't. But I've had
pizzas delivered in the past and some Chinese in the past,
and it is the same thing. But those are different.
I mean, I I don't even know how to make
I throw on the dough. How a You're gonna make
your own pizza and I much prefer but I, well,
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you have a wife who knows how to do that.
Do you see me flipping the dough up of the
ear and chopping up all of the such such and
such and so forth and so on. Anyway, I just okay, now,
let's take me. When I'm down there in Florida. I
go out some of the times and go to places
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where I know people and eat at the bar and
talk with freads and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I can't do
that every night. I have to sit at home. The
idea that I would order for one of the restaurants
that I go to and pay that price and then
eat at home, why not just go to the restaurant
and have the fun of that. If somebody eat at home,
it's gonna be something that costs hardly anything that I
can make myself, and that's the night that I save
money and eat healthier than I would otherwor I Paul's
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explaining to me the appeal of it, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying I don't see the appeal of it.
And I just think that there's a way of making
something simple at home that especially since you know to
go to the grocery store up, there's zillions of things
that you can make that require no preparation. I mean,
they cost a little bit more than restaurants stuff. But
a salad that you pick up at the grocery store
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is still wait cheaper than the same salad as in
a restaurant and you just open up the bag and
there it is. Or your kids, I just I just
don't get it. I just don't get why they don't
then just want to. Now you introduce the whole thing
of kids, But I get that. I get that if
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I had kids, do I think i'd want to I
would probably want to take them out as much as
my parents took us out, which was never That is
the other thing. By when I was a kid, when
my parents wanted to go out, you know what they did,
They got a babysitter and we sat in our butts.
But now that does anybody even babysitter all anymore? I
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don't think there's many babies. I when I see like
one year old kids at Brewers' games, that tells me
there are that The babysitter industry has crashed. Is it
because people do cheap to pay the babysitter. Is it
because they're afraid the babysitter is a pervert or what's
the thing on that? Both and hardly anybody babysits, so
it's probably way more expensive. I remember when I was
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a kid, how much you got for babysitting? Did you
ever babysit? How much did you get paid? Paul's like
ten years younger than me. Ten bucks an hour? I
think when I was a kid, it was like a
buck or two. Well, I suppose that's part of it,
but that's simply supply and demand. Again. But like if
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you're a high if you're a high school kid, See
that's the thing. Parents give high school kids too much money,
don't they, because that used to be who babysat really,
isn't it, But now they none of them do that.
But also, if you're a parent, would you trust some
sixteen year old kid? It just seems like the sixteen
year old kids are way more dangerous and you could
never trust them than they were when I was a kid,
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in which, of course you would trust the sixteen Yeah,
a relative, I would say, because you would trust the
relative and not somebody down the street who you might
be fearing is going to be giving the kid fed
at all or something or another. All right, the camera, yeah,
well all of that stuff. Anyway, the point of all
of this is I just don't understand paying for restaurant
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food but then having to sit at home and eat it.
Just go to the restaurant. And Paul's got all these
other theories and explanations of the whole Why isn't it
pretty easy to cook at home? If they make it
so much easier, I can't cook. Well, it depends on
what it is that you're I know, okay, Paul, But
I want to make a steak. I put it in
the airfyer and I put on a salad. The effort
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that I put into that is about forty five seconds. Right.
If I have a piece of fish, I put it
in the oven. Do you think I bet? I have
not in the last ten years taken more than six
minutes to prepare something. The things that take more than
six minutes, I don't make. That's what you do when
you're a single guy. Unless you're a single guy and
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you have a hobby of liking to do that, and
I don't. Your wife sends out it because you but
you have that all the more reason why you would
you think you would never do DoorDash since she's gonna
she's willing to do all of that crap herself. For you.
She she likes that we've clearly exhausted this topic. But
now I'll get all sorts of react. You don't understand.
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I know, I don't understand. There's the whole point. I
do think it's generational, though I would bet that almost
nobody of the universe of door dash users it's minuscule
sixty and over. And I'm not saying some people will
say that they do. I'm just saying I would guess
that in my age group, I'm the norm for all
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of the reasons that I mentioned, And it's just an
attitudinal And then there's a whole thing of no matter
how much money you have, there's just some things you're
gonna be a chief skate on. There's certain things that
I don't mind spending way too much money for, but
there are others in which it just drives me. I mean,
just try. I just think the whole DoorDash thing is
and it's sae waste of money to order from a
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restaurant when you're or even I mean, if the restaurant
does take what takeout? Why not just go to wood?
I mean, are you that lazy that you need to
have them drive it to you? You save it. I mean, see,
that's the thing. Though I'm single and now I'm only
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working three days a week, I don't need to save
any trips. I'm still looking for things to do. You
don't want to, you don't even want to, just want
to be one of those slumps. Well that's the whole
of the forty percent of these women that want to
leave the United States that we opened. They want to
leave the country they're doing they're so lazy, they don't
want to do anything, and they don't probably don't have kids,
and they all at Also I think they're all smoking
pot or taking their taking their cannabis, which makes them lazy,
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and they don't want to move. I'm still a go getter.
You're more like me than you are like them, aren't you.
Probably see you should aspire to be more like me
and just all things. You haven't passed me in the football,
have you. Yeah, I'm a slump. I am committed to
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finding a winner. This is when I you know, I
lost fo in a row. I gotta get mine. I
mean I just had another terra. I had a big
ten point favorite that lost the game outright. I mean
it was two terrible picks in a row Id Warner,
Roll Losses, all Right out of Time, Fuck You Next
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I found a survey result something well pool that's really interesting.
We're going to spend a few minutes here before I
actually opened the show and roll into everything else. But
I think it's a good introduction to the program. I
found the story on Foxnews dot com and it's based
on a survey that was done of It's described as
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young women, but that's not probably the right term because
it's a broadcross section of females fifteen to four, so
some of them are girls. And obviously would you say
a woman who's forty three as a young woman. I mean,
from the perspective of me, if they want to start
moving all all of that that stuff back up, that's
(01:13):
fine nonetheless as saying young women, but it's actually fifteen
to forty four. Now, part of this I don't have
how they worded the question, because the way you word
a question can influence the result. But they've been asking
the same question over a lengthy period of time, so
(01:33):
they can track the results, so it's an apples to
apples comparison. The poll was conducted by Gallup. Forty percent
of women in this age group say they would like
to leave the United States. Forty Let me start with
(01:59):
before we dive into who any of them are. My
guess is the overwhelming majority of the forty percent of
women who say they would like to leave the United
States vote for Democrats. So we should all do everything
we can to empower them to go ahead and do it.
(02:23):
But see, that's the point. What do you mean you
want to leave the United States? The caveat of the
pole said, if given the opportunity, what opportunity? It's not
that hard. See, I think it's an insincere response. If
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you wanted to leave the United States, you would leave
the United States. It's not that hard to do. The
question didn't even say leave the United States to go
to Canada or Britain or it just leave the United States.
Some countries are hard to get to others it's really easy.
I mean, zillions of senior citizens have retired to Costa Rica.
(03:07):
That's become one of those countries that's sort of become
a retirement destination. So I don't know they won't move
it to Costa Rica. But if a bunch of old
farts can move to Costa Rica, some of these young
women can why I don't want to go there. Ooh.
So maybe they'd like to leave the United States. But
when asked where would you like to leave? To who?
They can't come up with anything else. But they're saying
they would like to leave. Now, let's unpack this a
(03:34):
little bit. First of all, they're saying they would like
to leave. The United States have given the opportunity, but
they haven't left. Isn't this an indictment of their own helplessness.
I mean, unless it's something you can't afford, if you
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want to do something, you do it. And I have
a guess in terms of leaving the United States, there
are all sorts of places in which the cost of
living would be lower than the United States, so affordability
wouldn't be that much of an issue. I know personally
people who moved back and forth between Canada. There's rigamarole
with the Canadians and doing it, but people have done it.
(04:25):
So what they're really saying is I'd like to leave
the United States, but I'm too inept to be able
to figure out how to do it, or maybe they're thinking, man, Okay,
i've got kids, I can't leave for that reason, but
I'd like to do what i'd like to do what
I'd like to do it. Nonetheless, forty percent. That means
(04:47):
that forty percent say that they just can't stand it
here and would prefer to be somewhere else. And as
I say, I just think it's intuitive that the overwhelming
majority of those people would be leftists. They've been tracking
this number over a number of years. When they conducted
the survey in twenty fourteen, it was twenty five percent.
By the way, the numbers for young women way higher
(05:08):
than for young men. Now, I think that I know
where all of this comes from. I think you have
lots and lots and lots of people, particularly younger people,
who are extremely unhappy. And I think that their unhappiness
(05:29):
is both complex and simple, but it all comes down
to I think just a general codleg of them. I
think that they are inculcated when they are young in
schools with being told about how terrible the United States is,
how much injustice there is, and so on, so they
(05:49):
take on a victim mentality. They're steered away from God
or anything that might lead to fulfillment or a sense
of purpose, enjoy doing much of anything. So they have
this just overwhelming malaise in their lives in which everything's
(06:10):
a blah. And rather than take any kind of accountability
for that blah, Okay, my life screwed up. I'm unhappy,
do something about it. It's like, what can I do
about it? The whole notion that you can do something
and you can take action, they don't want to do
any of that. They think that it is the responsibility
of everyone else to make them happy. This is why
(06:32):
so many of them are voting for people like Mom Donnie.
I wish things didn't cost as much. I wish I
could do this, I wish I could do that. And
this socialist says that we'll be able to get all
of these things for free. So this mentality, I think
comes from an overall sense of coddling. The opposite of
(06:53):
coddling would be to culturalize people at a young age,
to tell them charge of your destiny. If you want
to get ahead, do this, and then do that and
do the other thing. Generally speaking, the harder you work,
the more your chances are of succeeding. But that's not
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the message that they're given. They're given every other possible
type of message, and they end up, particularly I think
younger people and particularly younger women, very very unhappy. So
they say they want to leave, but then they haven't
left again because just like everything else, they refuse to
take charge of their own lives and do it. Now,
my guess is those that could do it haven't done it,
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meaning they're just lying. So they're forty percent. Thing is
just one more way of bitching about this, because all
they do is bitch and complain about everything. It's like
their own personal version of you know, there's all these
diseases that people have that they can't you know, they
do medical tests on them and they can't find any symptoms,
so they call it a syndrome and something, and they
may exist, they may not, I don't know, like epstein,
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barr and chronic fatigue send them. Those things might all
be real or maybe they're not. I honestly don't know,
but I do know that the people who tend to
have one or two of them tend to have nine
or ten of them, and they become an excuse, I think,
to not move forward and again I'm not talking about
people who have actually have these conditions. I'm just talking
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to people who just want to glimb on and claim
that they have this, that they have that, that they
have the other thing, all that excuse to not take
control of their lives and do anything about it. So
they therefore blame it all in the United States and
say I wish I could leave. I guarantee you this.
Let's imagine all of them left. This forty percent they
all left, and by the way, what a great thing.
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There's just zero reason to oppose this. We should empower them. Leave.
Renounce your citizenship too. Don't go off and leave and
then try to send for a ballot to still vote
in our election. No, no, no, you hate it here, get
the hell out and become a citizen of something else.
Let's imagine they all did it, I guarantee you. In
five years. Let's suppose they all moved to England, and
they all moved to France, and they're all over to Canada.
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They would all say they want to move from that
country too, because nothing will have changed. They'll probably be
even more miserable than they are here. There are some
people who are predisposed to whining, and it is about
half of the females under the age of forty four,
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and you see it by their thing. They say, what
I'd friend of somewhere else, it's whining. Half are predisposed
to that. And the half that are predisposed to whining
are the half that are mostly miserable. So all of
this babying and pampering and coddling that we have done
to them all in an attempt to be nice and
to be understanding of them, has just made them more miserable.
And that number is just going to keep going up.
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All these people that were convincing all these girls were
convincing that they're males, and males that we're convincing that
they're females, and soon they're all gonna be miserably unhappy.
They're gonna blame it on the United States. They're gonna
want to leave too, And all of this messaging is
coming from people who themselves are miserably unhappy. I believe
I've just in a sense, explained the entire world. You
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On this. You're soaking it in. Do you not think
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to leave, do they. That's my point, because they have
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Big Story. We're going to analyze this one here. If
you I just told you come up with somebody who's
had a remarkably up and down political career in Wisconsin.
Brad Shibble's the definition of that talk about battlescard. He's
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like one of these players in the NBA that's really
good but ends up on a lot of different teams,
like say Anthony Davis or something. Brad Shimmel is going
to be the new United States Attorney for eastern Wisconsin.
Story broke over the weekend. I don't know who had
it first. I know that dani ol'donald had something on
this before I had heard about it. Wisconsin right now
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had reported it, So I don't know who it is
that had it first, but it developed over the weekend.
Now there's everything about this story. Is it arresting? He's
not been named United States Attorney that requires confirmation by
the Senate. He's been named by the Justice Department and
President Trump interim United States Attorney. Why do it that way?
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I bet most of you know don't know why you
do it that way. Some of you do. You don't
know why you're the name of an interim US attorney,
do you no? I'm good, That's why I know you
don't that's why I'm going to explain it. The people
who know are the ones that are just political junkies
and in others. An interim US Attorney does not need
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to be confirmed. You can be an interim United States Attorney.
It's either four or six months. I believe four months,
but it means you start, you know, the instant that
they make the apployment. You can start and be in
charge and go down to the office and be in there.
This is the same thing that President Trump did with
the US Attorney for DC. Attorney for DC, that's the
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big one, because that's the one that's the United States
Attorney for the federal government. He didn't want any of
the holdover hacks from the Biden Justice Department to do that,
so he quickly named Jeanine Perrol, former personality on Fox
Judge Janeen. He named her the interim United States Attorney
for DC, but it meant she went in there right there.
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She has since gotten the permanent position. So what the
President will no doubt do is also down the road
nominate sim Will to be the permanent United States Attorney,
which requires set of confirmation. But once you're in as
the interim a that becomes an easier thing to accomplish.
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B you don't have the whole thing held up with
the Senate Delly Deally's around it. So it's his way
of getting somebody in there today right now. Second part,
why shimmo. First of all, there are a lot of
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fronts on which the Trump presidency is fighting right now.
One of them is to clean up the Justice Department.
In our law enforcement agencies, the FBI ice, they've had
wholesale changes at their top and wholesale changes in the
way they're operating. The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has a
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mandate to do some of these things. In addition, all
across the country, these agencies and individual branches of the
Justice Department are starting to look at all sorts of
criminal activity that's been going on for years. In some
cases criminal activity committed by the Justice Department. A number
of the individuals who behaved badly and illegally during the
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Biden era are now themselves being prosecuted. But at the
same time, there are all sorts of things that were
you just generally knew if you did certain crimes on
the left that you get a pass. One of them
would be the case of Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County
Circuit judge who just figured she could obstruct an ice
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warrant and help an illegal em we're going to escape.
She's facing criminal charges, and we're going to get to
an update on that story right after this one. Let
me go back to the w Bush era. We had
an aggressive United States attorney then he's now a defense attorney,
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Steve Biskupik. A number of prosecutions into political corruption in
Milwaukee and in the region went on during that time.
A lot of it was Milwaukee Alderman, Milwaukee public officials
using campaign funds for personal expenses. There were other cases
of bribery. You remember Michael McGee junior Senior was a
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piece of work himself. But Michael McGee junior called himself,
you know, he is a gatekeeper of his automatic district.
You want to get something done, you had to pay
him money. Well, there was investigations, prosecutions of people like that.
There's been almost nothing since. The political corruption stuff that's
been going on has been pretty much left to the
local county district attorney's offices. The Milwaukee County DIA has
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moved on several things, but a lot of the suburban counties.
There's nothing and that's not certainly not because there isn't
criminal activity going on. There's numerous violations of the law
and misconduct and public office and sweetheart deals, etc. One
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of the reasons that Shimmel is extremely well qualified for
this is because he's been battered around himself, you know
the old term. He knows where all the bodies are buried,
shovel those where all the bodies are buried. First of all,
let's look at his career. Was an assistant district attorney
in Waukeshaw County. He was kind of anointed to become
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the DA after Paul Booker left the office DA in
Waukeshaw County. He then built enough of a reputation. He
wasn't the most aggressive prosecutor, but he was very good.
Waukeshaw County in my lifetime, or at least in my
pier period here setting in nineteen eighty nine, has always
needed a hard hitting, marauding district attorney. It's never had one,
but they've Most of them who've been in there during
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the time have been very good, but just not marauding
on hard hit against shim will fit into that category,
but he developed enough of a reputation that he was
able to run for the Republican nomination for attorney general.
Got it twenty ten. Twenty ten was the Republican landslide
in Wisconsin. All the Dems got swept out and all
the Republicans came in. That was the year that Scott
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Walker got elected governor. It was the year that Ron
Johnson knocked off Fengald the first time to become United
States Senator. It was on the Republicans made massive gains
in both houses of the state legislature and picked up
a Congressional seat and swept in with this with Brad Shimmel.
The thing about the position of Attorney general is it
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often becomes a party line vote race. Not always, but
almost always, the party that wins the attorney general wins
the governorship because people tend to vohomin to vote for
all the Democrats and vote off for all the Republicans.
And indeed Shimo was re elected in fourteen along with Walker,
and then when Walker was beaten in eighteen, Shimmo was beaten. Okay,
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so here's Brad career is on the ascendancy. This attorney
DiscT Attorney then he's the attorney general for eight years,
thrown out of office by the voters. Walker lost in
the same election. Remember what happens to a governor or
a president after they lose. The term is called lame duck.
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It's a goofy term, but it's been the term as
long as I've been alive. Surprise, somebody hasn't complained about it.
I mean, it's not really making fun of the handicapped
and disabled because it's a duck, not a person. It's
a duck, So I mean, who would complain. I guess
ducks or animal nuts or something. A lame duck is someone.
It's actually a terrible it's an inaccurate term. Lamb ducks
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are incredibly powerful. They call them lame docks because their
term is about to end, but they are still in
office and still governing. In fact, it's when they are
most powerful because they are not that to lose. Scott
Walker during that period turned around and named Brad Shimmel,
a Walkershaw County Circuit judge. There was a vacancy, so
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Walker filled it by vacancy, and Shimmel was then elected
to a full term by the voters. And then he's
been a Walkershaw County judge. So again the ups and
downs already and we're just halfway through this. He then
made the decision to not run for reelection as a
walker Shaw County Circuit judge and instead run for the
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Wisconsin Supreme Court that was earlier this year. He got plastered.
He got plastered the way all conservative candidates now get
plasted when they run for the state Supreme Court. The
biggest single reason for this is I've explained many a time,
is the Democrats have simply been much better at getting
their people to turn out in spring elections than Conservatives
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of Republicans. They're nonpartisan elections, you don't run by party,
but everybody knows that the Democrats want a liberal Supreme
Court justice and the Republicans want a conservative, and it's
always a liberal against the conservative, and the Democrats just
more other people to turn out. And we're going to
face the same thing this coming April when there's a
state Supreme Court election when a really lefty judge from Madison,
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Chris Taylor runs. The likely conservative opponent she's declared is
Maria Lazar, who's a state Appeals Court judge. But Maria
is going to be running uphill just because it's my side.
Has has just not been as good at getting our
low propensity voters to vote in the other So Brad lost.
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So now he's not in the Supreme Court anymore. He's
designated by Bondi and Trump now to be the interim
United States Attorney. When Shivel ran for the State Supreme Court,
you saw how he was slimed and batted around and
so on. That's what makes him ideal for this. He
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wasn't slimed and batted around as badly as saying Trump
has been slimmed and batted around, but he knows what's
going on. In addition to that, as a former district attorney,
he knows how to assemble an office on these federal prosecutors,
most of our career prosecutors, and they have civil service protection.
The acting United States Attorney has been rich for Richard Frohling.
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He's done a pretty good job. Now acting is different
than interim the acting United States Attorney. The position is
just vacant. Someone ascends to it, and that was Froling
ever since Biden lost reelection. But now Shimmel is put
in and interim means he is the person in that
position until he's not, and I would unless Trump and
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BONDI are not happy with what he does, still dominated
for the full position and presumably get confirmed by the Senate.
The other part of this is you can do rolling inromes.
So if the Senate tries to slow walk this thing,
Trump's are very very good at putting people in these
interim positions if there's slow walking their confirmation or obstructing
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them and so on. So anyway, there's a very very
big story, and I think you're going to see, along
with the reinvigoration of the FBI and Milwaukee, a much
more aggressive justice department. And again this position, I should mention.
The state of Wisconsin in terms of the federal Judiciary
is divided into just two districts, Eastern and Western. Western Is.
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It's almost exactly this. It isn't, but it's really close.
Western Is. Remember the old Highway fifty one, It still exists,
but it's been replaced by what's that interstate called the
Interstate that runs in the middle of the state. That
was where Highway fifty one was. I'm forgetting right now.
You know, it goes straight up the middle of the state.
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Goes north from Madison all the way up toward Wasaw.
It's now in thirty nine. That's it pretty much. This
is not exactly correct, but it's close enough to work.
Everything west of thirty nine, including the city of Madison,
is the Western District, and everything east is the Eastern District.
The thing in the Eastern District is way more population.
The Eastern District includes Milwaukee and all of southeastern Wisconsin,
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and it includes the Fox Valley you know at Fondeleac Oshkosh,
the Fox Cities, Appleting at Connaught, than up to Green Bay,
and then Mana Rock Sheboygan, way more of the population base.
So it's a big time position with fur ground here
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for investigations into the kinds of things that have been
looked the other way at for some time. And as
I say, Shimmelt does not require confirmation to take over
to get the job on a permanent basis, he does
require confirmation. Trump is naming him as an interim. Another
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point on this, there's been this thing that we've had
in Wisconsin for decades now, in which when there's a
vacancy for federal judge or for federal prosecutor, it goes
to a Bipartisan Nominating Commission. The two heads of the
commission of the two United States senators, and there's one Democrat,
one Republican. Tammy Baldwin's a Democrat. Ron Johnson's a Republican.
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So they come up and they recruit and they get
these candidates that they then recommend to the president. When
the president's a Democrat are the ones that are recommended,
they grab a Democrat off the list, and when it's
a Republican, they grab a Republican off the list. Trump
has no time for this. Do you think Trump wants
to look at what some commission is recommending or do
you think that he and BONDI want to hire who
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they want by going the route of an interim That
means that this commission, whatever they're doing, is pointless. The
law calls for the president to fill these positions. In
the past, members of the Congress of each individual state
had a great say in this, and a term Trump
has decided, I'm going to have to say it says
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I'm supposed to appoint. Well, he's going to appoint. Let's
motilate to an update on the Dugan story. I mentioned
it a moment ago. Hanna Dugan is the Milwaukee County
Circuit judge facing federal felony charges in connection with her
obstructing ice agents who had a warrant for an illegal
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immigrant who was to appear in her court. As reported
on JAIS Online on Friday, Dugan's attorneys filed their response.
Let me explain, in the federal court system, essentially the government,
the United States Attorney's Office, they put their case in
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writing before there's a trial. In other words, you make
a filing and the judge then has an opportunity to
rule on whether or not there's a problem with the filing.
But you're laying out most of your case in the filing,
and then the defense attorney puts out their response. The
jury still has to hear the evidence if it does
go to jury trial, but both sides lay out their
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cases in these filings. Hanna Dugan's defense team, which is
about nineteen lawyers, all being paid by somebody other than
Hannah Dugan, have filed their response and it is quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
The response is handed didn't do anything wrong. Here's why
they are laying this on the chief judge in Milwaukee County,
Carl Ashley. A moment for explanation. This happens a lot.
There's two Milwaukee Judge Ashley's. They're related, kyl Ashley's the
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chief judge. Corey Ashley is a terribly lenient judge. She's
as bad as they get. This is not her, This
is Carl. Carl's the chief judge. Let me quote from
the JS online story here and see whether or not
the defense here has a credible case that Hannah didn't
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do anything wrong but was simply doing what she was
supposed to do. This is again I'm quoting from the
JS online report, which has numerous bylines out it. Everybody's
byline on this has been with that paper for like
decades combined. It's like, that's amazing, because there's like nobody
who survived at the Drinal all the old fires. The
only three that have been there for a long time.
Thinkins's name is not on the other three. Dan Biss,
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Mary Spacuza, and John Didrich the only ones who have
not been laid off or taken the buyouts or whatever
on this. In a court filing on November fourteenth, Dugan's
attorneys argued that she was not trying to obstruct immigration.
Dy I love this. She wasn't trying to She sent
them in the coast, hit him and said go to
the Chief judges office. She wasn't trying to obstruct. Now
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here's the key on this. They're now claiming she wasn't
really trying to obstruct. They're no longer in a position
of trying to claim that this isn't criminal activity to
obstruct the Nce Wood. She's not saying she wasn't trying
to do it. You know, and not trying to do
it is a key component of the law. It's a
different crime. If you shoot somebody by accident, you're messing
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a room with a gun, as opposed to you intended
to kill someone because you hate them. They're different things.
He was not trying to obstruct immigration agents from arresting
Eduardo Flores Mare's outside her courtroom, but instead abiding by
a draft policy provided prepared by Milwaukee County Chief Judge
Carl Ashley. See what there's saying is the chief judge
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came up with a policy. What do you do if
ice shows up? And all she was doing was following it.
But the key hero is draft. That means it wasn't
a policy yet, continued Ashley is likely to become a
central witness in the high profile case set to go
to trial December fifteenth. So Carl Ashley, the Chief Judge,
he's gonna be called, probably by the defense. In an
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attempt by the defense to make the case that Henna
Dugan wasn't doing anything wrong other than following what the
Chief Judge, Karl Ashley told her to do. The indictment
alleges Judge Dugan obstructed a proceeding by telling ice agents
to go to the Chief Judge's office. The defense attorneys wrote,
even though that's what Chief Judge Ashley's policies required, she
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asked for guidance, received it, and followed it. Now, I
will add nothing of the policy said go hide the
guy in another office while you're sending them on this
wild goufchase out of the Chief Judge's office. But they're saying, look,
she sent him that way. The defense are saying, you
were trying to you know, misdirection, sent him the wrong
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place while she she allowed him to get away. She's saying,
the policy said you're supposed to go to the Chief
judge off continuing. The defense arguments come in response to
the prosecutions filing on November seventh, laying out their most
detailed description of to date of how they allege Dugan
tried to help Floresa Reese avoid arrest. Flores Mares pleaded
guilty to illegally re entering the United States and was
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being deported, his attorney said November fifth, Defense attorneys rely
on emails on a draft policy from Ashley. The policy
was meant to guide Milwaukee Quartos personnel on how they
should respond by US Immigration and Customs enforcement agents at
size to arrest undocumented immigrants, part of President Donald Trump's
cracked down an illegal immigration. Ashley has not yet released
the formal policy and immigration arrest of the quartos. So
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remember she said this is this draft she said she
was going, but Ashley doesn't have a policy yet. I
would suggest to Ashley if he wants to put up
a polo, see if a law enforcement agent comes in
with a warrant, cooperate with them in the same way
that you would any other agent. All this stuff has
been treated differently at immigration. There's not been a policy
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in place. If the FBI here is that somebody is
a child abuser and he's running around in the courthouse
for a child support case, they don't say you don't
let them arrest them. This all has been changed because
of a desire on people on the left to simply
violate immigration laws. Back to the story. In one April
sixth the email the judges, Ashley warned that ice arrests
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at the courthouse we're having a chilling effect, and that
courts must remain safe havens. The filing says, I've never
heard of anybody refer to a court as a safe
haven before. Why is the court supposed to be a
safe haven? That just the opposite. It's where people that
need to have justice brought upon them go. I mean,
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it's all It is a safe haven for victims. And
you know you're filing a lawsuit. It's the one anyway.
And continuing tuesdays later, the filing says, Dugan sent an
email requesting that protocols being acted for handling such situations code.
I have seen in my court more people not showing
up for court dates. I have had two immigration attorneys
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asking me just today about what protocols are in place.
Obviously this is me no interjecting. The Feds have been
on this thing in which they realize one of the
easiest ways to catch it illegal is to find out
when the illegal is doing court for something else, because
a lot of the illegals are breaking other laws. So
instead of ice running around trying to find this illegal,
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if they see that the illegal is doing court on
a traffic thing or a gun charge or something, they
just go there. So now the Dugan is saying, well,
people aren't showing up. On the morning of April eighteenth,
six agents appeared outside Dugan's sixth floor court room. When
she was alerted, Dugan questioned the agents and directed them
to go to Ashley's office, which is nearby. Ashley was
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out of the office away on business. Now, let me
interject that harms Dugan's case. Did Dugan know that Ashley
was not there, because if she knew that he was
not there, never mind any kind of protocol, You're sending
him to an office in which you know that the
chief judge isn't there. Now, again, I don't know if
they have evidence that she knew that or not. Continuing,
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Dugan's lawyers wrote that during federal agent's call with Ashley,
they asked what they had permission to make an arrest,
whether they had permission to make an arrest in a
public hallway or a courtroom. A chief Judge Ashley declined
to give them permission because he wanted to work out
an agreement with Ice. The defense argues that is why
the agents followed floraes Ariz down the hallway and into
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an elevator before arresting him outside the Milwaukee County quodos.
The indictment alleges that the ICE agents planned to arrest
floras Ariz in the public hallway, the defense team wrote,
but again, that plan seems to have shifted. Instead, the
agent followed flora'z Ouiz down the elevator and out of
the courthouse to arrest him outside the street. Dugan's attorneys
also repeatedly cited Ashley's draft policy, which instructed people to
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promptly refer agents to their managers. Quote. Court personnel may
not authorize the enfrey of Immigration agency personnel into the
non public areas of any court facility, and must refer
Immigration agent personnel to their immediate supervisor manager the filing rates.
Quoting the draft policy. I'll interject, but the manager here
would be the judge. This isn't a court reporter, this
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was the judge. Dugan. I suppose you could argue that
a chief judge would be her supervisor, but each judge
is duly elected and they don't really have to listen
to the chief judge on anything. It adds if an
immigration agency officer insists on access to a non public area,
the employee should not resist, but should say I do
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not consent, but because I have no other choice at
this time, I will not interfere with your order and
immediately contact their supervisor about the officer's order, pair a
written statement about the encounter and submitted to their supervisor.
In their November fourteenth filing, prosecutors argued that defense attorneys
are trying to reprise their argument that Dugan was immune
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from prosecution for her actions on April eighteenth. Dugan's lawyers
say she is being prosecuted for five specific actions she
took while she was a judge, and that all of
them are protected by judicial imminity. No two things. The
case is in front of federal Judge Len Adelman. He
has rejected arguments to dismiss the charge, which surprised me.
On the other hand, he also gets to make all
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the procedural rulings, and I would think that they're all
going to go in the favor of the defense, but
maybe little surprise me. Then there's the whole problem of
a jury. Now, this case is I mentioned this earlier
Eastern District of Wisconsin, so it's not a Milwaukee County
jury exclusively. It would be from the entire southern half
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of the Eastern District. There's a courthouse in Green Bay
and a courthouse in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee hord of those cases,
the potential jury would come from this entire region. You know,
Sheboygan fond of Laca, Washington, Milwaukee. It was like the
whole corner of the State's big corner of the state.
So you wouldn't necessarily get only Milwaukee jurors. Obviously, the
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defense is going to try hard to get lefties on
the jury, and I'm guessing the prosecutors it's going to
try hard not to get lefties on the jury. Second
point I want to make it does appear as though
defense the defense is changing its strategy. They were initially
she's immune because she's a judge. I think perhaps they
now have decided that that isn't going to work, and
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instead they're going to say she was only doing what
Kyle Ashley told her to do. I'm certainly thinking and
by the way, we're going through the United States Attorney's Office,
the interim United States Attorney Brad Schimmel, I mean, he
now is on the eat. Don't know if he showed
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up today, but he's it's imminent, it's going to be
this week. Richard Frohling has been the acting US Attorney
and he was prosecuting the case, and he certainly did
not show any signs of not moving forward with this
because it came from the Justice Department. So there may
be shots called in this from above at the local
level or not. But Pam BONDI had made it clear
that people that you know it's Trump, has made it
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clear anybody that Trump obstructs ICE agents anywhere, they're going
to be criminally prosecuted. And this just seems to me
to be a black and white case of obstruction. I
have suggested, and I don't think it's going to happen.
I think Dugan's going to roll the dice and hope
she can win a jury, and if she doesn't, hope
to get it overturned on appeal. I would suggest that
there'll be a plea bargain here. I don't know that
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Hanna Dugan has to go to prison, but I think
that a proper plea bargain would beat here for her
to acknowledge that she did obstruct this resign as a judge,
and there wouldn't be an agreement that she wouldn't be
incarcerated as a result. But there needs to be a consequence,
a conviction and a designation as a judge for people
to do this, and it would send a message all
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over the country that you can't have individual judges and
cops obstructing federal agents who have jurisdiction everywhere in the
United States of America with regard to federal laws. All right,
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I need to update you on another story. This is
one of those stories that while I didn't spend a
lot of time on it at the time, I'm glad
I spent some time on it because I am being
in I'm in the process of being proven correct. There's
this company from Madison. You may me making fun of
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them at the time. They came up with this idea
to build three to four different massive developments in downtown Milwaukee,
all near the Water Street era area. The company's name
is Neutral. The first project was a big high rise
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on the property of the old parking garage at the
Marcut Center for the Performing Arts. Most people felt that
that first proposal was the only one that seemed plausible.
And I said at the time that the city of
Milwaukee biting onto this thing, which they're going to put up,
you know, thousands of apartment units and so one, that
it was insanity. I never named the person, but I
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said I had spoken to a prominent local developer, and
that local developer told me that this idea seems doable
in Dubai, not in Milwaukee. The defense like head of
neutral this company, he's in his twenties. Because who we're
gonna do all? I'm gonna be the Donald Trump of Milwaukee. Well,
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the first project construction stopped Threeway tis ago. The worst
thing is they've dug the hole in the ground. Now
you're approaching winner. That's bad. This thing has to be
sealed off and so on. Construction stopped. Apparently the contractors
were not getting paid. In other words, the project tears
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to have failed before it literally got off the ground.
It got under the ground, but nothing built up yet.
So on js online Today and in the preddiction of
the Journal the City of Milwaukee is now seeking new
developers for the entire site. In other words, they're willing
to divorce themselves from Neutral. There's a backstory here. In
this instance, the Milwaukee Common Council never approved a development
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agreement with Neutral. This was done only by the Mayor's office.
The mayor's office is an apartment of community Development. All
mayor's offices has the problem with DCD and Milwaukee, and
this goes back decades is it's run by bureaucrats and bureach.
It's the same problem that you see with Northridge. Well,
we've got all these ideas for Northridge, all the ideas
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you want, but in Kills somebody puts up their own
money and says I can make a buck doing this.
You can't just say we're gonna put such and such here.
Somebody has to have the money and think they can
mike make money doing it. So DCD, which consists of
people who are bureaucrats and not developers who have ever
put their own capital at risk, endorse this idea because
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it sounds a wallid wonderful. Well it was is kaka
mami bs. In addition to that, as I've been arguing
for some time. I've been arguing this long before, long
before it happened. But the apartment the residential market in
Milwaukee has now finally been overbuilt. At some point it
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was going to happen. Things get overdone, and I suspect
that that's one of the reasons that they were having
a financing on this, that some of the lenders may
have noticed that two other high rises in downtown Milwaukee
that were completed in the last two years are not full.
So why would this with an inferior location? You want
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to live on Water Street? No, I don't know why
anybody who want to live on Water Street maybe South
Water into the third Ward or something or another at
Water Street. That's a nice place to live weekend nights,
thousands of people coming around, bombing around of their cars,
turning wheelies. Why I just anyway, the city is now willing,
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ready to move on from neutral. And you may recall
that I had suggested from the very beginning that none
of this was ever going to come to fruishing. You're
listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
Belling podcast. Here's the thing about when a consensus of
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thought develops in the media on the left. He says,
this is what's going to happen. Most people aren't smart
enough to actually know what's going to happen. So whatever
this expert says, this is what's going to happen, they
just accept that as gospel. COVID was the perfect example
of this, and then when it doesn't happen, they can't
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process that it's not happening because they were just it
was going to happen. Tariffs, we have been told, and
the talking plan from the left now and the media
for the entire time Trump is and the President is
the tariffs are going to be inflationary. Well, again, it's
like the Milwaukee apartment market being overbuilt. Maybe at some
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point they will be, but so far they're not. An
interesting report now from the San Francisco Fed. Remember that
the Federal Reserve is broken into districts around the United States.
This is the San Francisco Fed. The San Francisco Fed
has done US study on the economic impacts of tariffs,
and interestingly they break from this earlier consensus. In the
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report from the San Francisco Fed they say, in fact,
tariffs are not inflationary, but they have a different downside
that what they do is slow the economy down, in
other words, the opposite of driving up inflation overheating. In fact,
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the problem with tariffs, according to the San Francisco Fed,
is they actually slow down economic activity because all of
these cheap goods are no longer being dumped into the
United States. Let me quote briefly. We find that a
tariff hike raises unemployment, lowering economic activity, and lowers CPI inflation. No,
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you'll note this is completely different than the original leftist narrative.
The original leftist narrative was that the tariffs create inflation.
The San Francisco FED and don't be surprised now if
the lefties jump on this and now clay hold on,
let's cause it unemployment when their earlier clan was inflation.
The San Francisco Freed is saying, actually, tariff's lower inflation,
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lower CPI using only tariff changes, as the San Francisco
Fed driven by long term considerations, that traditional narrative identification
gives similar results. We also obtain similar results if we
restrict the sample to the modern post World War II period,
or if we use independent variations from other countries like
France and the UK. Now, the takeaway on. This is
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all these people on the left who just automatically said
the tariffs are going to be inflationary never actually looked
at the data, because a comprehensive study would show the
tariffs and or not inflationary. But they but they might
have another effect. Now, I do believe the economy is slowing.
So far, the GPI, the growth in the economy has
been very good. It's three point four percent GPI. That's excellent.
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It's not booming, but it's excellent. But you see signs
of slowing, job softening, lots of slowing out there, less demand.
Christmas sales are not thought to be very going to
be very good this year. All of that. Trump has
been arguing for lowering interest rates. The opponents have been
saying no, no, no, no way. Because of your tariffs, things
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are going to be inflationary. But in fact inflation is
now seemingly under control. You don't end you know, all
things are still high. Well see, that's the problem with
the inflation that came in during Biden. You don't want deflation.
That's terrible. Deflation probably means you're in a depression. The
damage has been done with the inflation that has been there,
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but it seems to have been brought under control. The problem,
if there is one from the tariffs, is that it
may slow down the economy. Now, I agree with Trump
that interest rates should be lowered. I do not think
that we're in an inflationary period. I think that you're
seeing a slowing economy for zillions of reasons, and therefore
lowering interest rates would be a smart thing to do.
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That's the man the position of Trump, and I think
now the evidence is going to be that we are
not seeing an acceleration of inflation in the economy, just
the opposite. We're seeing slowing and therefore a lowering of
interest rates would be the smart thing to do. But
from the overall Fed, not the San Francisco Fed. They've
been fretting for the past year that Trump's tariffs would
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be inflationary, and again maybe they will be by twenty
ninety six. They're not now. And you can go into
all of the reasons why a tariff charged on the
importer wouldn't be inflationary. Whether or not would be inflationary,
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the fact of the matter is the consumer's ability to
buy something remains the same. If the tariffs create an
added cost but it also reduces the desire of somebody
to buy the product. You end up with things not inflating,
because the demand for our product is always the thing
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that sets the price. Things like tariffs may be a contributor,
but the demand for a product will always be more
important than any external cost that is building to those
that are trying to sell the product. In the meantime,
despite what I'm saying, there was an interesting i'll use
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the term pivot by Trump. Over the weekend, the White
House Office of Communications put on a big multi page
thing about how Trump is making progress on affordability. I
think you know why he's doing that. What in my
Donnie run on in New York affordability And that's the
appeal to the leftist. Let's just give everybody stuff for free.
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Everything's too expensive. The problem, of course with socialists is
in their attempt to give everything away for free, they
run out of money. And you never and we never
have anything to give away at all. You just have
shortages everything, nothing's ever produced. The famous Margaret Thatcher line.
Socialism works until we run out of other people's money.
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It's the problem. Nonetheless, this message has resonated, particularly with
younger people who don't want to work. So Trump is
now responding with a number of statements with regard to
the progress he's made on affordability, which I think the
case that he makes is compelling. Inflation exploded under Biden,
and the growth rate and the increase in the CPI
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grows down every quarter. The inflation is now, you you know,
right around one and a half to two percent, as
I think optimal, and we're almost to that level after
Biden pushing us nearly double digits. In the statement from
the Trump Office of Communication, President Trump came Biden's inflation crisis.
Under Biden, inflation averaged nearly five percent, hitting nine point
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one percent during the worst inflation crisis in decades, fueled
by radical less spending, and President Prump's second term, inflation
is dropped to an average of just two point seven percent. Next,
Americans have made real wage gains, but there's still work
to do. Under Biden, workers lost over twenty nine hundred
dollars in purchasing power. What's purchasing power? Do you know
what purchasing power is? Yeah, you don't know what it is.
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It's your pay compared to inflation. Let's imagine your pay
goes up seven percent and inflation goes up seven percent,
you'd be flat. That would mean your purchasing power didn't change.
If your pay goes up more than the rate of inflation,
that means your purchasing power increased. Under Biden, wage growth
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was not close to the increase in price, so's that's
a purchasing part. Means under Biden, workers lost over twenty
nine hundred dollars in purchasing power, meaning inflation rows faster
than wages. In President Prump's second term, even after accounting
for higher prices, Americans' real wages have grown by nearly
seven hundred dollars and are on track to increase by
nearly twelve hundred dollars after his first full year in office.
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Gas prices are falling. Here's the thing about gas prices.
When there's a Republican in the White House, the media
covers gas prices only when they go up. When there's
a Democrat in the White House, the media covers gas
prices only when they go down. The gas price thing
has been one of those kind of slow bleeds downward.
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Here in Wisconsin, we've got that thing with the changing
in the formulation of the gas that causes a hiccup
right around the beginning of spring and beginning of fall
when they change the formulation. But there's been a general
downward trend. I use you now have a high falutin car,
so you use ninety three, don't you. Yeah? So, And
I've been track, and I mean I generally the weird
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thing in Florida. And I honestly don't know what this is, Paul.
As long as I've had that place in Florida, the
price of the ninety three has moved maybe ten cents.
It never moves, and it's hardly at all higher than
regular it up here. Though in Wisconsin it's like a
buck higher for the ninety three than the eighty seven.
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In Florida, the gap doesn't barely doesn't exist. I don't
know why it is. I honestly don't know. It must
have something to do with supply. Well, no, the taxes
the same. It must have something to do with the reformulation.
I don't know. I actually don't know. I don't know
what it is to do with so it's barely moved.
But I mean, I'm now paying for the ninety three
in Wisconsin somewhere. The last I filled up. I think
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it was three forty nine, and it seems to be
going down even more since yeah, yeah, And I usually
go to one of the stations around here and there
are usually around the same price, and there's certain neighborhood,
and again the geographic variation is remarkable. You buy gas
and the Lord East Saide where I live, it's fifty
to sixty cents higher than when I go out here
in the suburbs. So I mean, I mean, well, what
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do you care with all your money? It adds up
with eighteen gallons plus I'm not an idiot, you know,
all right? That was the next thing on trop Grocery
prices and housing prices are trending in the right direction.
Housing prices are going down because we're starting to get
I think and end of this total imbalance of there
simply wasn't any supply, and I think that that's one
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of the reasons for the sum softening in housing prices.
As for grocery prices, the one thing that's keeping grocery
prices someone high is meat is out of control, and
that's why Trump is pushing for the importing of beef.
And I have some sense of what's going on with
meat prices. I just think that for a zillion reasons. Gradually,
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over time American ranchers lowered their beef herds and move
to other type of farming. And the demand for beef
has been really high in the United States, and beef prices,
for example, pork prices are just they used to be.
Pork prices are. Pork is rather inexpensive right now. It
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just never went up. And I haven't looked lately at
the hog futures as opposed to the cattle futures, because
that'll tell you what the future is going to be.
But the meat prices remain high. And Trump, I think
it's the one area where he wants something important. He's
been tariffing careffin, caraffin tariff and caraffing. But beef prices
have been at all levels, from like the cheap old beef,
ground beef and so on to the really high and
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you buy the prime stake, et cetera. They're off the charts,
and they are coffees another one. But those are unique
individual things that don't have anything to do with government policy,
but they're built into the average with regard to the
food prices. So Trump goes on Anyway, the point on
this is, as we move toward the mid terms, I
think the Republicans are sensing that even though everybody you
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should know, the reason things are high is because everything
in flated under Biden. But they're now going to try
to blame Trump for this and run on this whole
notion of affordability, and Trump is going to try to
make the case, Look, we've made tremendous progress in this area.
I want to now go to the latest rift within
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the Republican Party. Part of this is I kind of
think Trump is culling the herd a little bit. You
know what that term means. You know, you don't we
are there is. I just think that there are some
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of these people that were in the Trump universe that
he's decided are more trouble than they're worth, like Marjorie
Tailor Greed. Now here's the thing about Marjorie Taylor Greed.
She's very courageous, and she's very outspoken, and she's been
willing to take all sorts of crap from the left.
She also has a few ideas that are nutty, but
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in general, I think her positions are correct and solid
with those few exceptions, but she's also a pain in
the ass. She's one of these people that demands that
you agree with her on everything. Marjorie Taylor Green has
been There's always somebody, you know, on our side of
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the right that the left likes to mock as stupid
and looney and an idiot. They've tried it with Trump,
but just you can't sell anymore that Trump is stupid.
You could try to argue that he's an egomaniac and
so on, but the left can't make the case credible
anywhere that Trump isn't a smart guy. So they've just
gone after Marjorie Taylor Green. I think they don't like them.
They don't like her look, they don't like her blondness
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and her outspoken and all of that. Yeah, she'd wear
the mag the whole thing, and they just didn't like her. Now,
Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green a broken. I know why
they've broken. She wants She wanted to run for Senate
in Georgia. She would lose the seat. She might win
the primary, but she'd lose the seat because she not
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only is despised by the left, people in the middle
don't like her, and Trump does not want to lose
the Senate. So Trump told her, I'm not going to
endorse you if you run for the Senate. Margorie got
to stay in the house. Marjorie doesn't like carrying that.
So Marjorie pops off something with regard to Epstein, And
there's this rift. I here's what I'm wondering, And I says,
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is sincere wondering if Marjorie Taylor Green now goes wholesale
anti Trump, that if she doesn't understand, if you get
into a pissing match with Trump, you're gonna lose. Let's
suppose Marjorie doesn't understand that. You understand that, don't you.
I know she would not win it, right, But the
thing about some people like her is she may not
know that. If she does get into that match, though,
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will the left embrace her as courageous? I wonder see.
One of the things is I've argued forever the political
spectrum is not a lie, that you don't go all
the way to the left and on the other end is
all the way right. That it's a circle that the
extreme left and the extreme right ultimately bump into one another,
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that where they bump into one another. That was Hitler
hilar was a leftist. He's a socialist, government control all
of that stuff, anti Semitic, hateful monster. We'll look at
our left now and then I'm want of anti semitism,
and you're seeing some of that, I think also on
the right. Anyway, Marjorie Taylor Green mos far enough into
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this fringe while batting Trump around and et cetera. I
can't rule out that she and AOC would develop some
sort of an alliance. Right, Well, I know, but now
she hadn't gotten her way in a couple of things.
And see, I think that Trump will put anybody in there,
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and he tolerates this agreement, but he doesn't want somebody
that's kicking him in the teeth, particularly when he was
he elevated her, you know, at the inauguration. He didn't
have to give her a prime seat. Everywhere Trump would be,
she'd be one of the three or not every member
Congresses in that orbit. She had that spot. Same thing
with Tucker, he was being trotted around everywhere and all
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of that. Well, you don't get to be in the
inner circle if you're going to be somebody who turns
in the guy. And again that doesn't mean that everybody
is beholding you offt to agree with Trump on everything.
But if you want to be in Trump's inner circle,
if you want Trump to prop you up constantly, you
can't be somebody who not only disagrees but take shots
the bulls that maybe Fetterman could take ivan. So anyway,
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that's what's going on with that. On the whole issue
of Epstein. There is now a change in the Trump
response on this. I'm going to get in first of all,
to what I think the whole Trump Epstein thing relationship is.
I think Trump knew Epstein just the way, in the
same way that Trump knew everybody in that orbit, and
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because he knew him, I think he probably said some
friendly things about him. Do I think Trump went to
the island and had sex with any of these No,
and if there was any evidence of that, they come
they would have produced it during the time that Biden
was the president. But there's probably a couple of emails
where Okay, you want to do a deal or something
like that where that happened. So the Democrats are trying
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to bring this up to try to again implicate Trump
and this whole Epstein thing, in which the implication is
only what I just said. So Trump is now here's
the new position. He's saying, fine, if you really want
to revisit Epstein, we're revisiting who it was that actually
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had sex with women with Epstein. The only name that's
been nailed down for certain is Prince Andrew. Nobody's disputing that,
including I think almost even him now he's even kicked
out of the royal family. But all this other stuff,
and I understand why this whole problem with the files
is names and emails in there. There aren't things in
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which there's like a chart that says this person had
sex with this girl. It's just who knew this and
who knew that? But clearly some people went down to
that island. The next thing is not all the women
at the island were under age, some were over as,
some were of legal age, were correct way of saying it,
and who was doing what been vague? Anyway, Trump is
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now firing out five you want to go look at this,
Let's talk about the people who actually did stuff with Epstein,
because they're all of the left. Here's Trump in a
post on truth social now that the Democrats are using
the Epstein holks involving Democrats not Republicans to try to
deflect from the disaster, shutdown and all of the other failures.
I will be asking ag Pambondi in the Department of Justice,
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together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate
Jeffrey Epstein's involvements and relationships with and then he names names.
For those of you who don't know these names, I'll
tell you all. Bill Clinton no need to explain who
he is. Right by the way, I don't think the
Democrats care Bill Clinton. The Clintons are in their rearview mirror.
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No Democrat cares what happens to Hillary, and they don't
care at all about Bill's reputation. Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman,
that's a Biggie founded LinkedIn billionaire. He's right there with
Soros and bank rolling Democrat candidates. JP Morgan Chase, that's
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Jamie Diamond's company. That was Epstein's bank, and many other
people and institutions. Records show that these men and many
others spent large portions of their life with Epstein and
on his island. Next, The Washington Post reported over the weekend,
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I should give you a background. The United States Territory
tories do not have voting members of Congress, but they
have representatives in Congress who can't vote. For example, Puerto
Rico is a United States territory. There's a Puerto Rican
delegate to the Congress, but that person doesn't get a
vote because they're not a state. But they're allowed to
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sit in there and represent and you know, if there's
an issue that a constitute of Puerto Rico has, they
can you know, work with the government the same way
you're Congress and good, but they can't vote. This deals
with the United States. Representatives from the US Virgin Islands
also requires explanation. Some of the Virgin Islands are British,
some are the United States. You should know which are
the United States. From all of the cruises that we've
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taken to the Virgin Islands, what are the three US
Virgin Islands? Saint Thomas is one, you got two left,
one down, two to go. No, I gotta think Saint
Croix is a second one. No, it's not saying Lucia, No,
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I got to think myself. It's that it's that small
island near Saint Thomas. Remember that, you know, we take
a side trip from Saint Thomas. Some people could take
on that Saint John. That's it. Saint John's Saint John,
and I've never I've never taken that side trip, but
everybody goes to Saint John says it's beautiful. The problem
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is if you're going on the cruise, that means you
can't spend a day in Saint Thomas, which is really cool.
It has great beach and great shopping, but Saint John.
Everybody says it's beautiful, but I've never been. Yeah, Michael Jordan,
et cetera. It's basically beautiful and place for fun for
snorkling going on the water, but there's otherwise anyway, that's
the US Virgin Islands. This is the representative from the
US Virgin Islands, Stacy Plaskett. The Washington Post reported over
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the weekend that Stacy Plaskett, and I'll just quote here,
was texting and coordinating her questioning of Michael Cohen. Remember
Michael Cohen, He was the Trump lawyer who then turned
on Trump in the first term. Stacy Plaska was coordinating
or questioning of Michael Cohen with Jeffrey Epstein during a
twenty nineteen congressional hearing. So when Stacey Plaska was grilling
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Michael Cohen, it was Jeffrey Epstein feeding her the questions.
In other words, the implication here is that Epstein was
trying to get Trump and going through this Virgin Islands
congressman to do so. House democrat exchanged texts with Epstein
during nineteen twenty nineteen congressional hearing. Stacey Plaska, a Democrat
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who represents the US Virgin Islands in Congress as a
non voted delegate, exchanged texts with convicted sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein during a twenty nineteen congressional hearing. Well, this would,
first of all, certainly imply that Epstein was not anybody
that was looking out for Donald Trump. Secondly, that at
least one Democrat was totally compromised by our relationship with
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Jeffrey Epstein. I want to get to this story now,
and this is one of those that I've been on
the following issue on a number of podcasts, and this
just feeds into a narrative that I have. Jim Farley
is the CEO of Ford. He was on a podcast
over the weekend in which he talked about the difficulty
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Ford has. He says they have five thousand mechanic jobs
right now unfilled in which they're offering one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars a year almost said, an hour, one
hundred twenty thousand dollars a year, and they can't fill them.
I've talked forever about this. It's so many fields in
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which even in a slowing economy, we have jobs that
employers can't fill, even when they start offering almost insane
amounts of money. Now finally's bringing this up. The whole
notion of the four to one. It's not the right number.
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The visas, the visas for the skilled people would come
into the United States legally through the front door forwarders
that they're simply are not enough Americans that are capable
of filling some of these jobs. And they're just people
keep arguing, no, no, no, there are, there are, there are,
there are, But then people like you know, the CEO
Fords is, we can't find mechanics. I'm not going to
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go into my whole spiel that I've done. Look at
the monitor on Fox there's the story we just said
about the text of Stacey Paskett and Jeffrey Epstein. It's
just uncanny how I'll talk about something and Fox News
will be covering it at the same time that I'm
covering it. Anyway, we have millions of people in America
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under the age of forty five, underemployed. They're looking at socialism,
have nothing to do with their degree. And then we
have zillions of high paying jobs that they'd be wonderful,
that would be great, good lives for them, but A
they don't want to do those jobs, and b they
don't have any skill at all. And I'm guessing that
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these mechanic positions at Ford that it's rather skilled mechanic.
And you know, some of these companies are spending two
and three years training workers themselves. But for a lot
of these companies, the problem with that is, let's imagine
Ford hires you and trains you, you then quit and
go to work for somebody else at the skills that
you haven't they don't want to do that. We have
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this complete disconnect between the jobs that are available in
our economy and the things that a people want to
do and be that they know how to do. You've
got a kid sixteen seventeen years old, rather smart, but
they're not like book smart, college smart, but they can
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just don't waste your money sending them to college. There's
zillions of physicians that they can do. If they have
a little bit of street smarts in them, they can
go into that field and maybe end up owning their
own business moving forward, or go to a company like
Ford and move up the ladder and become a form
and become somebody who's in charge of manufacturing and a division.
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Just any number of jobs, all the skilled trade. And
my guess is the type of mechanic that Farley's talking
about would be a skilled mechanic that just falls into
that area, just generally of skilled trades. When we come back,
I'm going to talk about something that I don't get
what football, Well, that's one of them, but that's not
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where I'm focused. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This
is the Mark Belling Podcast. I did lose my football
pick again. You know what you were whining earlier in
the year that you can't pick any that's I was
off to a great start. And the only I'll point
I mentioned that I'm in this contest with friends in
which we picked three games. You get choose three games
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to pick against the point spread. The last two weeks
I did go two and one in that contest. Unfortunately,
my radio pick has lost four weeks in a row.
The two that I got right were both I won
by half a point or one point in each of them,
but at least something. They're just so many. I just
look at complete. Paul. Explain the Detroit Lions to me, Well,
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I know they're not that good, but explain how a
team that put up forty points now can't score a touchdown.
Now here's the next thing, here's the next, here's the
next thing. The Philadelphia Eagles this month. I didn't say
this season have the best defense in the NFL, but
they didn't in September. Philadelphia has now shut down two
very very good offenses and not allowed them to score
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at all. Shouldn't a team that has an incredibly dominant defense.
Shouldn't you see signs of that all year rather than
the pop out of nowhere? Well, I injuries and all that,
But how do you become that good suddenly? Cincinnati's like
the weirdest one to be a ball teams started the
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season with no offense at a great defense. They all
have an unstoppable offense at a terrible defense, and then
yesterday they couldn't do anything on either side of the
just it's been very, very difficult. But with regard to
the Packers, I mean, finally there's a game that made
total sense. The Packers are favored by seven and they
won by seven, so for good well, they didn't look
that they won exactly by what the expectation was. It
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was one of the few games this weekend that I think,
I think the Bears and the Vikings, I think, you
did you take the Rams? You take the forty nine Ers.
Paul Paul won that won his pick there, Like, the
Rams were favored by three over Seattle, and that game
was decided by two. Seattle missed a field goal that
would have won the game. So there were when you
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look at a points spread and if it's right near it,
it means that the outcome would not be surprising. But
they just spent so much. There's so many but I mean,
but that game was in Minnesota and it was right
right around. In fact, Minnesota was favored by two and
the Bears one by two, so some of those results
made some degree of sense. No, here's the thing I
wanted to talk about is I just read a report
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about the seemingly limitless growth potential of door dash. First
of all, they have almost no competitors. They have a
semi competitive relationship with Uber eats. But door dash and
Uber some of those are so closely related. A lot
of the people that do door dashings type stuff affiliate
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with a ride service firm to do it. But beyond
those two, I mean, there may be other businesses that
I haven't heard of. If you're going to order some
food out, it's DoorDash or Uber eats, right, and probably
DoorDash first. So the notion of this, of the story
that I was reading is the e I'm a growth
potential for a company. Think about a company in which
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there's almost no or maybe one competitor that they have.
Uber and Lyft would be another example of that. There's Uber,
and there's left named the third one. I don't know.
That's my boy. That's like, well, what a great business
to have. You're globally involved in something that's grown out
of nowhere and you have at most one competitor. I know,
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Uber's It's the same thing with DoorDash and Uber eats.
There's one huge, then a medium and nothing. Here's the
thing I don't get, and I've just not got it
from the beginning, and I always like to admit when
things happen that surprise me. As I keep telling people,
don't fight it and deny it. Just the opposite. When
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you acknowledge you are wrong about something, it means you've
learned and you're now smarter. One of the things that
I'm just surprised by, because I don't get it at all,
is the whole DoorDash concept. I don't understand it. And
here's what I don't understand. It seems to me with
regard to eating, you got two choices. You can go
out and eat or you can eat at home. The
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advantages of eating at home is you have control over
what you're eating and it's cheaper. The downside is you
actually have to do it, and that means you have
to have the food in the house and maybe some
things you don't know how to cook. But otherwise, if
you're eating at home, it's virtually unless you're making something
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insanely expensive, it's generally cheaper. They needed the same thing
out and you have control over exactly what it is
you're gonna eat and how much, and the cost saving.
The advantage of going out is they make the food
for you, they bring it to your table. You don't
have to wash the dishes, and you get the social
experience of going out with friends without having good invite it.
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You know, that's why you go out, right, you go
out to dinner. I mean, I went out for Chinese
last night with some friends and we went to China.
We went and ate Chinese, which is a good Sunday
thing to do with the football games are over and
so on. Well, you think I wanted to make sweet
and sour shimp and then somebody else at the general
trot chicken. No, I don't want no. So no, you
go out to a Chinese rest and you do that,
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and you pay more, probably than it would cost. Here's
what I don't get, Paul. I don't get why you
want to pay the price that you have to pay
for going out but eat at home. I've not gotten
it now. Obviously it's a massive market. So there's zillions
of people who think otherwise than me. The way my
this is how my brain is wired. If I'm going
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to eat home, I'm making it myself to say, buddy,
if I want to eat out, the point of eating out,
it seems to me, is you get the social experience
of eating out, it's a way of going with friends.
Maybe there's things going on in the place, maybe you
have a drink, You're in an experience, you're seeing all
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of the other stuff. If you're gonna eat at home,
why would you order the same thing that you get
at a restaurant to pay a restaurant price, but then
you're just sitting in home. And I get the whole thing.
People are lazy and that they don't want to cook.
And I know of millennials and exers love it. Am
I in either of those groups? No, I'm clear that
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you mentioned the whole convenience thing to me. I I know,
I think I get all those explanations. I'm just saying
I don't get personally why that's what it is that
you would want to do. And it just seems to
me that if you were going to I mean, it's
generally fun to go out and eat. So if you're
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gonna eat somewhere, if I'm gonna pay those prices and
get all of it, I think I'd want to go
to the restaurant and you know, have that experience. I
somehow you lived in the middle of nowhere, But if
you live in the middle of nowhere you don't have
door dash to bring from all these restaurants because you
might only have one within twenty seven miles. So it's
one of those things that if you would have asked
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me when door dash and these things started fifteen twenty
years ago, will this business work? I would have said no.
I also didn't really see initially the whole thing with
Uber as opposed to taxi cabs. And you remember my
initial thing. I just was very wary of going into
a stranger's car. Well, now the entire world uses Uber
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and one set of loomowning. You hear about something bad happening,
but it's worked out, and it was something I certainly
didn't see coming. But the Uber thing at least makes
some sense. It's more convenient than a taxi and you
know how much you're gonna pay, and you can get
him to come right where you are and all of that,
and you see on the app where the thing is
and so on, as opposed to the poor taxi companies
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that still have to put the meter in the car
and all that. But the whole idea of well, I
just think about last night. Now, the one thing that
you take out people have done in the past is
pizza and Chinese ben Really, making a pizza at home
on your own is hard to do, and a fresh
pizza tastes better than a frozen pizza, and pizzas aren't
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real expensive. The same thing with Chinese. Chinese generally isn't
that expensive. But who has all the stuff to make Chinese?
But to order like door dash of McDonald's just seems
crazy to me. I or door dash of like a
seventy five dollars dinner from a restaurant and then well
fuls is the gratuities? I thought, No, this is Do
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you know how many times I've used door dash never?
I'm honestly, it's possible. I've forgotten, even in Florida where
I heard like ever cook, I don't. But I've had
pizzas delivered in the past and some Chinese in the past,
and it is the same thing. But those are different.
I mean, I I don't even know how to make
I throw on the dough. How a You're gonna make
your own pizza and I much prefer but I, well,
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you have a wife who knows how to do that.
Do you see me flipping the dough up of the
ear and chopping up all of the such such and
such and so forth and so on. Anyway, I just okay, now,
let's take me. When I'm down there in Florida. I
go out some of the times and go to places
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where I know people and eat at the bar and
talk with freads and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I can't do
that every night. I have to sit at home. The
idea that I would order for one of the restaurants
that I go to and pay that price and then
eat at home, why not just go to the restaurant
and have the fun of that. If somebody eat at home,
it's gonna be something that costs hardly anything that I
can make myself, and that's the night that I save
money and eat healthier than I would otherwor I Paul's
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explaining to me the appeal of it, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying I don't see the appeal of it.
And I just think that there's a way of making
something simple at home that especially since you know to
go to the grocery store up, there's zillions of things
that you can make that require no preparation. I mean,
they cost a little bit more than restaurants stuff. But
a salad that you pick up at the grocery store
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is still wait cheaper than the same salad as in
a restaurant and you just open up the bag and
there it is. Or your kids, I just I just
don't get it. I just don't get why they don't
then just want to. Now you introduce the whole thing
of kids, But I get that. I get that if
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I had kids, do I think i'd want to I
would probably want to take them out as much as
my parents took us out, which was never That is
the other thing. By when I was a kid, when
my parents wanted to go out, you know what they did,
They got a babysitter and we sat in our butts.
But now that does anybody even babysitter all anymore? I
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don't think there's many babies. I when I see like
one year old kids at Brewers' games, that tells me
there are that The babysitter industry has crashed. Is it
because people do cheap to pay the babysitter. Is it
because they're afraid the babysitter is a pervert or what's
the thing on that? Both and hardly anybody babysits, so
it's probably way more expensive. I remember when I was
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a kid, how much you got for babysitting? Did you
ever babysit? How much did you get paid? Paul's like
ten years younger than me. Ten bucks an hour? I
think when I was a kid, it was like a
buck or two. Well, I suppose that's part of it,
but that's simply supply and demand. Again. But like if
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you're a high if you're a high school kid, See
that's the thing. Parents give high school kids too much money,
don't they, because that used to be who babysat really,
isn't it, But now they none of them do that.
But also, if you're a parent, would you trust some
sixteen year old kid? It just seems like the sixteen
year old kids are way more dangerous and you could
never trust them than they were when I was a kid,
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in which, of course you would trust the sixteen Yeah,
a relative, I would say, because you would trust the
relative and not somebody down the street who you might
be fearing is going to be giving the kid fed
at all or something or another. All right, the camera, yeah,
well all of that stuff. Anyway, the point of all
of this is I just don't understand paying for restaurant
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food but then having to sit at home and eat it.
Just go to the restaurant. And Paul's got all these
other theories and explanations of the whole Why isn't it
pretty easy to cook at home? If they make it
so much easier, I can't cook. Well, it depends on
what it is that you're I know, okay, Paul, But
I want to make a steak. I put it in
the airfyer and I put on a salad. The effort
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that I put into that is about forty five seconds. Right.
If I have a piece of fish, I put it
in the oven. Do you think I bet? I have
not in the last ten years taken more than six
minutes to prepare something. The things that take more than
six minutes, I don't make. That's what you do when
you're a single guy. Unless you're a single guy and
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you have a hobby of liking to do that, and
I don't. Your wife sends out it because you but
you have that all the more reason why you would
you think you would never do DoorDash since she's gonna
she's willing to do all of that crap herself. For you.
She she likes that we've clearly exhausted this topic. But
now I'll get all sorts of react. You don't understand.
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I know, I don't understand. There's the whole point. I
do think it's generational, though I would bet that almost
nobody of the universe of door dash users it's minuscule
sixty and over. And I'm not saying some people will
say that they do. I'm just saying I would guess
that in my age group, I'm the norm for all
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of the reasons that I mentioned, And it's just an
attitudinal And then there's a whole thing of no matter
how much money you have, there's just some things you're
gonna be a chief skate on. There's certain things that
I don't mind spending way too much money for, but
there are others in which it just drives me. I mean,
just try. I just think the whole DoorDash thing is
and it's sae waste of money to order from a
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restaurant when you're or even I mean, if the restaurant
does take what takeout? Why not just go to wood?
I mean, are you that lazy that you need to
have them drive it to you? You save it. I mean, see,
that's the thing. Though I'm single and now I'm only
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working three days a week, I don't need to save
any trips. I'm still looking for things to do. You
don't want to, you don't even want to, just want
to be one of those slumps. Well that's the whole
of the forty percent of these women that want to
leave the United States that we opened. They want to
leave the country they're doing they're so lazy, they don't
want to do anything, and they don't probably don't have kids,
and they all at Also I think they're all smoking
pot or taking their taking their cannabis, which makes them lazy,
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and they don't want to move. I'm still a go getter.
You're more like me than you are like them, aren't you.
Probably see you should aspire to be more like me
and just all things. You haven't passed me in the football,
have you. Yeah, I'm a slump. I am committed to
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finding a winner. This is when I you know, I
lost fo in a row. I gotta get mine. I
mean I just had another terra. I had a big
ten point favorite that lost the game outright. I mean
it was two terrible picks in a row Id Warner,
Roll Losses, all Right out of Time, Fuck You Next
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