Graham Platner is Living Proof of Democrats' Situational Morality

On Tuesday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's rape accuser speaks publicly, and all of his socialist allies demand he drop out. But where were they a month ago when a Republican former girlfriend accused him of domestic abuse? Where were they when he had a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest? As Dan argues, they are only doing the right thing now because it is politically advantageous. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, good news, ladies and gentlemen. I can now report
exclusively that Team USA has been declared the winner of
last night's World Cup match against Belgium five to four
after four male in goals were received at three am

(00:20):
this morning and have been added to the tally. Ladies
and gentlemen, this is just how we're going to do
things in America. If this is how we do elections.
I'm kidding, of course, and I stole that joke from
pretty much every conservative on X Today. Heartbreaking loss for
a Team USA. But on the plus side, those of

(00:44):
you in my audience who hate soccer can go back
to not caring about it and probably not hearing a
whole lot about it until four years from now, we
will discuss soccer. At the request of my producer, Eric Paulson.
Why is it that nobody knows is how much time
is left in a half? Everything you've ever wanted to

(01:04):
know about the game, Eric, I'm going to assume that
you've got a ton of questions about this. I'll tell
you what we're gonna We're gonna put you on the
mic at some point in the five o'clock hour. I'm
just gonna answer your questions about soccer. You only have
one or two, all right, Well, then it will be
a quick segment and for those of you who aren't
watching the tournament, open your minds to it, because we

(01:25):
had another exceptional match today between Argentina and Egypt. Again,
no spoilers here. I know a lot of people are
trying to watch the matches once they get home from work,
the ones that kick off this one, I think eleven
am Central time, So I'm not gonna say it. I
will say it was another incredible match and just it

(01:46):
was a lot of fun to watch earlier this morning.
Now we are going to get down to business right away,
because it is now inevitable that Graham Platner, the Senate
candidate from Maine who yesterday was a cue of rape
by a former girlfriend named Jenny Ratchikant, he's going to
drop out. It is only a matter of time now.

(02:09):
He said that he was going to reassess the status
of his campaign and the best path forward, The best
path forward if these allegations against him are true, is
straight to prison, buddy. But this case actually says a
whole lot about who democrats are and really what their
moral standard is. Also, I am assuming that you have

(02:32):
already heard. If you have engaged in any political talk,
any talk about Graham Platner on social media, you will
get Democrats hit you with the two quo quai or
but you two fallacy of so what Trump's a rapist? Two?
That is also more commonly known as what about hism?

(02:54):
I think it's time once again to thoroughly debunk this
notion that Donald Trump has ever run raped anybody. I
have got the facts, not merely the innuendo that undoubtedly
has flooded the left's brain since President Trump descended down
the escalator in twenty fifteen. Here's a question for you.

(03:15):
Here's a question for you. It's a little bit of trivia.
How many times was Donald Trump accused of rape or
sexual assault or sexual harassment or groping or anything like
that before June of twenty fifteen, when he went down
the escalator? It was a grand total of whats Her
name was Jenny Haarth. Guess what she tried to do

(03:37):
after her lawsuit for sexual harassment against Trump was dropped.
She tried to date him in nineteen ninety eight, and
then when he ran for president in twenty fifteen, she
tried to join his campaign as a makeup artist the
guy who sexually harassed her. We will get into that

(03:57):
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or wherever you listen to podcasts. The allegations against Graham
Platner could not possibly be graver a named complaining witness,

(04:47):
alleged victim, former girlfriend on again, off again girl, forty
one year old woman now dated Platner periodically sporadically in
twenty twenty one. She says that one night he was
blackout drunk, broke into her home and forced himself on her.

(05:09):
Platner vehemently denies this, but the woman, Jenny Ratzikot, is
standing by those allegations, not only that she has contemporaneous evidence.
Obviously there is no longer any physical evidence bodily fluids,
ripped dress, something like that. The way you prove sexual
assault cases is if the victim says something about it

(05:34):
to somebody, a therapist, a friend, If there is a
contemporaneous account of the crime happening to her, that tends
to lend credibility to the fact that she's not just
making it up. Now that Platner is running for Senate,
and that would be a significant question, and that would

(05:54):
be a significant stain on her credibility if she didn't
actually share his politics. And in fact, one of the
reasons she said in an interview last night with Jake
Tapper of CNN that she didn't come forward was because
she loves Platner's socialist politics and worried about whether doing so,

(06:16):
whether coming forward would actually harm the Democrat Party's chances
of retaking the Senate in May. Now, far be it
from me to question the motivation or question the frankly
sanity of a rape victim or alleged rape victim. But
this got me thinking when I was watching this video

(06:37):
about the mindset of sadly far too many Democrats, for
whom the concept of morality itself right and wrong is
entirely dependent upon political expediency. In other words, something is
morally right, or even if it's morally wrong, it can
be excused and still be an ethical decision to excuse

(07:01):
that bad, heinous behavior if it advances the cause of leftism.
Think about this the left. Graham Plattner's supporters, and many
of them are far left radical socialists, had no problem
with the following the fact that he had a Nazi

(07:22):
tattoo on his chest, the totin cough skull, a prominent
symbol of concentration camp guards. He lied repeatedly about that tattoo,
saying he didn't know what it was, He didn't know
the meaning of it. It was just a cool looking
tattoo that he was going to put on his fans,
a cool looking skull, went to a tattoo parlor and

(07:42):
just bad luck there, they just gave him the not
the coolest looking tattoo just happened to be the Nazi one. Well,
he has got former girlfriends. He said, no, he totally
knew what that tattoo on his body was. He had
a Reddit account back in twenty thirteen in which he
repeatedly expressed fas about yes rape, rather bizarrely saying that

(08:05):
if somebody broke into his house, he would hold them
at gunpoint and rape them. He at least cheated in
spirit with his wife by sexting with other women while married.
You know, and I will say sexting is absolutely cheating.
There was no you know, physical contact, at least that
anyone's aware of. But the wife apparently said when Platner's

(08:30):
campaign came to her last year and said, is there
anything in his past that we should be aware? Oh yeah,
well he probably cheated on me or the whole ton
of women, and he cheated on them. He cheated on
the wife. On an app called Kick K I c K,
not K I K, or maybe it's the other way around.
There's one that's very popular for like video game screaming.

(08:51):
This is not that one. So if your kids are
on kick, they're probably not on the same kick that
Graham Platner was on, because that one is toorious for
allowing grown men to contact children. It is what's known
as a pedophiles playground, and there have been repeated efforts
to force the company to change its policies or to

(09:14):
shut it down because of all of the illegal activity
that goes on on it. Platner also praised Islamic terrorists,
made fun of American soldiers getting hurt or killed, said
he is a communist, and the list goes on and
on and on and on. Not only that, he was

(09:36):
accused by another former girlfriend in an article in The
New York Times about a month ago, of doing almost
the exact same thing that he did to Jenny Ratchikon
only this girlfriend is a very prominent conservative influencer. She
alleges that Platner held her against her will when she

(09:57):
tried to leave him, grab by the shoulder so hard
that it left a bruise, and then locked her in
a bathroom overnight at his house so she couldn't leave
and either call the cops or call a friend or
just get away. That's false imprisonment. That is also a crime.
That story dominated headlines for a couple of days, but

(10:21):
the consensus was that Platner was going to survive it.
Why well, apparently, if you're a Democrat, It's perfectly fine
to commit crimes against Republican women, including false imprisonment, including
physical abuse, and yes, grabbing somebody so hard that it
leaves a bruise is assault. It is domestic abuse, and

(10:42):
it is a crime. They're perfectly fine with Nazi tattoos.
They're perfectly fine with bizarre ripe fantasies, perfectly fine with
sexting other women well married, perfectly fine with really really
weird fantasies about what he does in porta potties. I

(11:03):
don't even know if this is so twisted. I'm fairly
certain I can't say this on an FCC regulated radio program.
But Democrats are perfectly fine with Democrats are perfectly fine
with the fact he says he's a communist, that he
praised Islamic terrorists, that he didn't just side with Belgium
against Team USA and a soccer match, lands he sided

(11:23):
with the Islamic terrorists against the US military by mocking
our troops who are getting maimed and badly injured at
the hands of radical psychopaths. None of that including documented
and sourced allegations of assault and false imprisonment, severe domestic abuse,

(11:49):
that apparently didn't rise to the level of any Democrat
calling for Platner to back out. It was only well
if there was another scandal on top of the ten
or twelve that have already been released about what just
may be the single most vile human being in recent

(12:09):
memory to ever seek any statewide office that I can
think of. This is truly a deranged human being. But
think about this for a month when it was a Republican.
Even the New York Times reporter who broke the story said, yeah,
I don't know if this makes Graham Platner a deviand

(12:34):
it just kind of makes him a bad boyfriend. Okay, ladies,
you know the difference between a bad boyfriend forgets your
birthday a domestic abuser locks you in the bathroom so
you don't leave the house. That was perfectly fine because

(12:57):
they thought there was still a chance that Latner was
going to win this election. Maine is a very liberal
leaning state. Susan Collins has been the most vulnerable Republican
in the Senate for probably four election cycles. She wins
every time because Democrats can't help themselves. They run terrible

(13:17):
candidates like Platner. This time, though, it was too much
and in truth. In her interview with Jake Tapper last night,
Ratchikott painted a truly disturbing picture of what took place.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Did grand review by definition?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yes, absolutely, because he had non consensual sect with you,
force himself on you.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
After you had done narrow and fought him off.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
He violated multiple layers of consent that night by coming
into my home when I asked him not to, and
by advancing on me when I told him not to,
and furthermore another incident that I had told him not
to do.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
And with protection.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, by the way that my nervous
system reacted to this experience, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
So that is obviously disqualifying, and in fact that should
result in I assume the statute. I don't know if
the statute of limitations for the crimes that she would
be accusing Platner of has run. I can only imagine
in Maine rape does not have only a five or

(14:41):
four or five year statute of limitations. Obviously that would
prompt the party to immediately call for Platner to drop out,
and of course even Zoron Mom Donnie, the new conscience
of the Democrat Party today said yeah, probably time for
him to go I believe that it's time for him

(15:03):
to drop out of the race.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
And when it comes to my own endorsements, I've made
eight endorsements at the state and federal level. They've all
been right here in New York City. I'm incredibly excited
at the fact that they won their races, and that's
where my focus is for now.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Shortly after that, Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont, the country's
most famous socialist. I think he's right up there with
AOC and Zorn Mamdani right now in a tweet, I
have spoken with Graham Plattner about the best path forward
for Maine in light of these very serious allegations. I
have recommended that he step aside. Supposedly, according to multiple

(15:39):
reports I believe won by the main wire, Plattner is
refusing to step aside unless he gets to pick the
successor who would get into the race and become the
Democrat nominee. Seriously, talk about the blind leading the scandal plagued.

(16:02):
If you're relying on Graham Plattner's judgment to pick a candidate,
then Democrats might be in much bigger trouble than we think.
But what does it say about the fact that that
Republican woman who is actually very prominent on social media.
You may have seen her on Fox News. I believe
she's done a couple of hits. Lindsay Feifeld, she was

(16:24):
actually Plattner's girlfriend for several years, about a decade or
so ago. She made credible allegations that were immediately dismissed.
Is it because the assumption was that Feifeld was politically motivated,
she was trying to take down Platner? Well, what does
it say about the fact that this story, the Jenny

(16:45):
Ratzikott allegations, came out on July sixth, a week to
the day before the deadline for Plattner to drop out
in Democrats to replace him on the main battle. If
this was a story that was a political hit, it
would have come out a month before the general election
when Democrats are stuck with him. Now this story came

(17:07):
out now. This story was timed to come out now
so that Democrats could cut bait with him. This was
not oh, we're going to wait, Oh this is going
to be this is going to be the bombshell that
it is being timed now because the only thing that
matters to either the Democrat Party or the corrupt media

(17:28):
that covers them by covering for them. The only thing
that matters is not what's right. The only thing that
matters is what's best for the Democratic Party to defeat Republicans.
This is the big problem when you get into the
mindset and right now where we're watching video footage in
our studio here of the Tyler Robinson hearing he is

(17:51):
the accused assassin of Charlie Kirk. When you get into
this mindset that your political opponents are the ultimate unspeakable evil,
well it's pretty easy to justify you to yourself anything
that you do to them, or any bad behavior that
you engage in, or any horrible human beings that you
support in the name of defeating those horrible people. If

(18:14):
you build up in your mind that your opponents are monsters,
well then you can do, however many monstrous things you
want and still be on the side of angels. And
that is a major problem. That sort of thinking, unfortunately
appears to have even infected the mind of Platner's accuser.

(18:35):
We'll dive into that and what it says more broadly,
but a huge portion of the American electorate stay tuned.
You're not going to want to miss this. Galls are
closing in on ground Platiner. Here's hoping that they are
prison walls, because what he is accused of is very
serious and no Liberals, he is not the exact same

(18:59):
as our president, because the president has never actually been
credibly accused of rape, even by E. Jean Carroll. I
am going to debunk that as a service to all
of you. This is the dominant political story today, Ladies
and gentlemen. Grand Platter is going to drop out. It's
very likely going to come today or tomorrow. You're probably

(19:22):
never going to see his face again. It's going to
come in the form of a tweet, a press release,
something like that. He's going to try to slink away
after he was credibly accused of not just rape by
a former girlfriend who happens to share his politics, also
false imprisonment by a Republican and very prominent social media

(19:42):
personality by the name of Lindsay Feifeld, who also was
his girlfriend many years ago, who accused him of severe
domestic abuse. Democrats were just fine with that. A month
ago after that New York Times story broke because apparently,
if you grab a Republican girlfriend, so badly she bruises,
and then lock her in a bathroom all night so

(20:03):
she can't get out and call the cops on you.
That's perfectly fine. This illustrates the broader problem that we
are seeing across the left wing and no Democrats please
do not try to equivocate. If a conservative Republican candidate
for Senate anywhere had a Nazi tattoo on his chest,

(20:27):
not only would he drop out immediately, every Republican in
the universe would be forced to disassociate with him. We
would have non stop stories for an entire election cycle
about how Republicans are the actual literal party of Nazis
that has tattoos of toten cough skulls on their chests.
You know exactly just as well as I do, what

(20:50):
would have happened. This guy was only able to hold
on because the only morality Democrats really ultimately have in
politics is the morality of power, the morality of what
is good politically for the advance of leftism. Unfortunately, that
belief seems to extend to Plattner's accuser, Jenny Ratchikott. Now

(21:16):
this is not bad, Dan O'Donnell. That wicked old conservative
shaming or rape victim. But what Ratchikott here says in
this interview she did with Jake Tapper and folks, I
know the audio is wonky. I'm not exactly sure why.
That's just how it was recorded. I assume this is

(21:36):
a pre production video that is all over social media
right now where I got this audio, So it's gonna
sound like Jake Tapper is a robot, at least more
of a robot than he normally is. But he asks her,
you know, there are gonna be people who say that
your timing is suspicious, that this is politically motivated. What

(21:57):
Ratchagot says is both deeply troubling and deeply revealing. She
says she didn't go public right away with a ripe
allegation because she was concerned that Main needed Graham Platners
so badly and more importantly, needed to stop Susan Collins.

(22:21):
There are.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Even his campaign, certainly his supporters, who say this is
politically motivated.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
What would you say to that?

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I couldn't disagree more. That was actually one of the
reasons that I didn't come out.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Politics.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I do I really agree with this politics. I think
we need somebody with those political stances and who are
willing to do the work. And you know, I see
his political videos. They get me fired up as well.
I understand why people want someone like him in office,
you know. And I felt like me coming forward would

(23:00):
essentially potentially take that away, and I felt really uncomfortable
with the responsibility of and the weight of my story
and what that might do.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Let's also not kid ourselves. She was terrified of what
Platner's supporters were potentially going to do to her. These
are some of the worst people on the face of
this country, the vile, violent, twitter, tough guy, just awful
people who will threaten her, who will malign her, who

(23:33):
will dox her, who will until of course the Democrats
say it's okay to dump Graham Platner, which of course
they're perfectly fine with, because frankly, I don't think the
party really wants socialists like him, or Francesca Hoong or
this guy in Michigan taking the party over like is

(23:54):
going on in New York City and also in Colorado.
The fact that, though she would say, I was concerned
that by me coming forward, by telling the world who
this guy really is, this guy wouldn't have a chance
to advance socialism. Boy, isn't that a metaphor for socialism itself?

Speaker 5 (24:18):
Right?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
If the people actually learn what's behind the mask, if
people actually learn what socialism communism is really all about.
We can't allow any of the voters to know that
Graham Platner is is not an upstanding guy. We can't
allow the voters. This is what they did with Barack

(24:40):
Obama for eight straight years. You can not ever, ever,
ever say what Obama really was. He was always a socialist.
He was just much much better. He's much more skilled
politically at hiding what he really wanted to do, what
he really believed. That the mask only slipped a couple
of times. It was I think if we spread the

(25:01):
wealth around, it'll be better for everybody. Remember that one.
How about if you've got a business you didn't build that,
someone else made that happen. He actually thought, because government
builds the roads that go to the business and provides
the electricity and utility wires and infrastructure that goes into

(25:22):
the business, that government is actually that is so fundamentally
a communist belief system that it's really I mean, you
may have, you know, had the idea, you may have
sacrificed your own money, millions of dollars of your own money,
untold hours of your time. You may have missed kids

(25:42):
birthdays and graduations to get your business off the ground,
But really it is the bureaucrats in government like Barack
Obama who deserve to own your means of productions. Fundamentally
a communist worldview, but he was always able to hide that.
And the trick for the media, for the Party, for
the entirety of the Obama era was don't let the

(26:05):
voters see that we're socialists now. There's a very famous
magazine article and either Time or news Week, I can't remember,
it was we're all socialists now, and it was after
the passage of Obamacare. This created such a stir because
how dare a media ally say what we really actually are? Well,

(26:27):
now it's we know where the movement and the energy
is in the Democrat Party. It's with the platters, it's
with the hangs, it's with the socialists. So now it's
all about, well, we can't allow the voters to know
what socialism really is. And the Democratic Socialists of America
President himself said, yeah, the end goal is communism. We're

(26:49):
all communists. We want communism in the United States. We
want the overthrow of the capitalist system. We want the
overthrow of the American system of governance, and we want
to replace it with well us a bunch of dirty
pot smoking apparently rape and fishermen from Maine. But the
fact that that rape and fisherman actually was defended by

(27:13):
the very woman he allegedly raped. Not because that woman said, oh, yes,
he is such a great man and I was victimized
in the service of la revolucione, but in ways she
sort of did. She said, La revolucione needs my silence.
That the cause of the overthrow of the capitalist system,

(27:35):
the cause of defeating the great evil conservative Republicans. Amazingly,
people actually think Susan Collins, of all people, is a
Conservative Republican. But again, when you believe that your enemies
are evil, supporting evil, engaging in evil becomes much more justified, now,

(27:56):
doesn't it. Now there are lefties you say President Trump
himself is an evil rapist, they will engage in a
whole lot of what about ism when presented with the
reality of the Grand Platner story. We are going to
debunk this narrative. Every single allegation against Trump it's coming
up next here on the Dan.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
O Donald Classical Conservatism Contemporary Style. Okay, since that Dano
Donald show, I kind of feel.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Like we should have like a word of the day
or something like that that kind of serves as the theme.
I'm gonna teach you very likely a new word today.
It's a phrase. It is a Latin phrase, and it
is too quo quay two quote quay. You were listening

(28:47):
to this show last week, we learned Wong Kim arc
It's a very famous Supreme Court case dealing with birthright citizenship,
which the Court absolutely mangled in its rule last week.
Two quoque is a Latin phrase that means but you
two A two quotquay. Fallacy, therefore, is by trying to

(29:10):
answer an opponent's argument with an appeal to the supposed
hypocrisy of the person making the argument, instead of dealing
with the actual argument itself. It is now more popularly
known as what aboutism. Graham Plattner's demise as a political
candidate because of rape allegations against him has caused Democrats

(29:35):
by the tens, if not hundreds of thousands to engage
in what aboutism or the two quo quay fallacy by saying, well,
Republicans are perfectly fine with a president who has been
credibly accused of rape more than thirty times. Here's the thing,
he has not been and in fact, if you actually

(29:57):
look into any of the allegations against him, they all
are completely unsupported by any evidence. The most notable, of course,
is e. Gene Carroll, but she was not the first.
The first was a woman by the name of Jill Hearth.
She was a business associated associate of Trump who alleged

(30:22):
multiple groping incidents. Now where this becomes a little odd
is because there was a federal lawsuit filed against Trump
for not just sexual harassment but also breach of contract
over some business deal that Trump and Hearth had a

(30:43):
falling out over. Almost immediately, as in, within about a week,
the sexual assault and harassment parts of the lawsuit were dropped.
This was part of settling that business dispute. Now you
might say, okay, well, the woman just wanted her money

(31:03):
and it didn't mean that she wasn't actually groped. Here's
the problem, though, that case was settled in nineteen ninety seven.
In nineteen ninety eight, Hearth herself has said that she
tried to date Trump again. I believe this was before
he was divorced from Ivana. He was divorced from the

(31:27):
second wife, and I believe this was just before he
was to marry Milania. She wanted to rape him or
rape him. She watched that boy, that would really be
a scandal. She wanted to date him after accusing him
of essentially raping her. This was like private part contact

(31:49):
under the dress that she alleged in this lawsuit. She
wanted to date him in twenty fifteen, she wanted to
join She was a I believe she owned a makeup
company because she wanted to in twenty fifteen be his
makeup artist for the presidential run. Now does this sound

(32:11):
like a woman who really did think that she was
sexually harassed by Trump or was trying to intimidate him
into settling in her favor in the actual contractual dispute. This,
believe it or not, was the only sexual misconduct allegation
that Donald Trump, who was one of the most famous

(32:31):
men in America from about the mid nineteen eighties on,
ever faced. That was the only one he ever faced
before he ran for president. If you can believe that,
right after the infamous Billy Bush access Hollywood tape, and
interestingly enough, also after Trump attempted to deflect that in

(32:53):
the twenty sixteen presidential campaign by going after Hillary Clinton's
shall we say very sexually free husband, Bill Clinton, did
twenty seven women come out of the woodwork to accuse
Trump of sexual misconduct. Nearly all of them. And it's

(33:14):
impossible to go through all of those claims because many
of them were never named. Most of them have deeply
conflicting stories over the years that would make any claim
they would make inadmissible in court. The most famous by
far is e Gen Carroll. Carol alleged that Trump raped

(33:34):
her in the Bergdorf Goodman Department store dressing room at
some point in the nineties. Here's the problem. Even though
she told two friends contemporaneously that something happened in that
dressing room, she could not remember when she could not
remember what season. Very critically, Bergdorf Goodman did not allow

(33:59):
any anybody in their dressing rooms without a door being opened.
For that, they kept the dressing room locked, and an
attendant actually had to allow you in to keep an
eye on you so you weren't shoplifting or apparently raping.
There were two civil trials. While a jury did find
Trump liable for defamation, the jury did not find that

(34:26):
he raped her. Here's the thing about Carol, she is nuts.
Not only did she say years after the supposed rape,
that her favorite show on television was The Apprentice. In
a Facebook post in twenty twelve, she said, what's everybody's

(34:47):
favorite TV show? Mind's The Apprentice hosted by her rapist.
She also went on CNN's Anderson Cooper Show and was
so bizarre in her claims about rape that Cooper uncomfortably
had to cut to commercial before she said anything more damaging.

(35:10):
Take a listen and.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Feel like a victim.

Speaker 7 (35:12):
I was not thrown on the ground and ravish, which
the word rape carries so many sexual kind of feel
like a victim. I was not thrown on the ground
and ravish, which the word rape carries so many sexual connotations.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
This was not This was not.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
Sexual for it just it hurt, it just what it
just you know.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
I think most people think of rape and as I
mean it is a violent assault, it is not.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think most.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
People think of rape as being sexy.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Let's take a short break. Think of the fantasies we've
got to take a quick break. If you can stick around,
we'll talk more.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
On the other side.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
You're fascinating to talk to.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
It sounded like she was thinking about raping poor Anderson
Cooper there. That is a truly bizarre thing to for anybody.
Was she trying to make a joke? What was she
doing a person? She as a writer had a very
larger than life. This is how way too many liberal

(36:15):
nineteen eighties nineteen nineties social climber women acted. Call it
the sex in the city effect. It just weird from
Egen Kara. Now, that doesn't mean necessarily that she was lying,
but taken together, sure doesn't seem like her story adds up,

(36:37):
does it? Sure doesn't seem like there was anything that
would make her seem a like a rape victim or
b that President Trump was guilty of rape. Not only that,
Not only that the infamous Jeffrey Epstein connection. The most

(37:02):
significant allegation to come from that was from a woman
named Katie Johnson that is a pseudonym. She's also known
as Jane Doe. She filed a civil lawsuit in twenty
sixteen alleging that both Trump and Epstein raped her at
parties in New York when she was just thirteen years old.
Lawsuits filed in California were dismissed, as well as another

(37:27):
one in New York, voluntarily dropped in November of twenty sixteen,
days before there was to be a press conference. Now,
the accuser cited threats, but none of the claims were
ever substantiated. None of the claims she made were ever
specific enough to actually pursue. But because it was a

(37:50):
rape allegation against Donald Trump, of course it got a
whole lot of coverage. This claim was incredibly dupe. Why
because the lawsuit, as I said, was withdrawn in November
of twenty sixteen, withdrawn right after Trump won the presidency.

(38:13):
This just like all of those women who came forward
at the to the benefit of Hillary Clinton. It was
a political op, and a rather obvious one. Democrats, though,
are just fine with doing things like that, making up
and running with obvious frauds to take out Republicans while

(38:33):
propping up very very evil people like Graham Plattner, provided
that they'll advance liberalism. You're listening to the Dan o'donald show.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Keith in touch with Dan on Twitter at Dan o'donald's show,
The show.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Some state political newies just breaking this afternoon. First Lieutenant
Governor Sarah Rodriguez. She is making a million dollar ad
buy in the run up to the Democratic primary for governor.
This is part of the furious effort on behalf of
institutional Dems to stop the Franny Hong express, a socialist candidate,

(39:19):
is by all appearances, running away with this primary. But
we have also gotten official confirmation from the Marquette University
Law School poll that the next m U Law poll,
considered to be the gold standard of polling in Wisconsin
and easily the most influential poll in Wisconsin, that's going

(39:40):
to drop on July twenty second, and that is going
to include a question on the preference for Democrat nominee
that is going to be thought to go a long
way in determining whether Democrats are even able to essentially
rig their primary against hang folks. Graham Platner is going

(40:01):
to drop out of this main Senate race. Francesca Hong
is instantly going to become one of the two most
prominent socialist candidates running for office. And I would argue
that Hong is going to be the most prominent, especially
if she wins the nomination for governor, because she would
be the very first Democrat socialist of America governor, and

(40:24):
she would also be the first governor in American history
to ever openly identify as a socialist. I had to
go back because there were some I thought, wait a second,
wait a second. In the you know, Eugene V. Debs
era of the nineteen teens and twenties, when Debs ran
for ran for president like five times, including once from prison.

(40:47):
If you can believe that, I would have thought there
was at least one progressive socialist governor. No, there has
never been an open socialist. Now we have obviously socialist
governors now in Hathy Hochel in New York, in JB. Pritzker, ironically,
the fattest man in politics is an adherent of the

(41:08):
philosophy where everybody starves. Well, I guess it's not too ironic.
The only people who are fat in Soviet countries are
the people at the top of the government food chain.
He also happens to be the billionaire heir of the
Hyatt hotel fortune. But none of them call themselves socialists. Now.

(41:30):
They all ultimately believe in socialist principles. But do they
want the true believer radical commis taking over their cushy
positions of power. No, of course they don't. So there
is going to be a furious effort that is starting
today and ramping up in earnest. It really has ramped

(41:53):
up since the start of the publication of hit pieces
coming from rival Democrat campaign against Hoong. Remember the one
that was leaked to CNN that Frannie Hoong still believes
in defunding the police. Then there was the Milwaukee Journal
story that she told a crowd somewhere at a Democratic

(42:15):
dinner in mid state Wisconsin that she believes in a
future that doesn't include prisons. She wants to ultimately abolish
all prisons. There was another rather remarkable hit piece that
was dropped against Frannie Hoong today. No, it was not
coincidental that this is the same day that Sarah Rodriguez

(42:38):
releases a video announcing that she's spending a million dollars
on ads to try to take out Franni Hank. All
of this is always connected, folks, It is always timed.
It is Nothing in politics is ever really a coincidence,
especially when it involves Democratic machiavellian maneuver. Ladies and gentlemen,

(43:00):
it is time now, just after the four o'clock hour,
to bring you the daily Trump Day.

Speaker 8 (43:06):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Just winning. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
We have to keep winning. We have to win.

Speaker 9 (43:19):
Boar.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
We're gonna win bore. The President making his way to Ankara,
Turkey today for the twenty twenty six NATO Summit, traveling
overnight aboard Air Force one, the new Air Force one.
He was greeted in Turkey by President receptayap Erdowin and
the First Lady of Turkey, and then there was a

(43:40):
state arrival ceremony and then a bilateral meeting followed by
a press conference. President Trump told reporters that he spoke
by phone yesterday to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski in the hopes of quickly ending
their protracted war.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
I had a very good with President Putin, who, by
the way, has a lot of respect for President Urdigan,
a lot of respect for him.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
We had a long talk yesterday less than.

Speaker 8 (44:09):
A long time, and I also spoke with President Zelensky
right after that. I think they both want to make
a deal. It's too bad it took so long, but
I think there's going to be something's going to come out,
and the President's also helping us with that. But I
think there's something. You know, I settled eight wars, and

(44:30):
I think we're going to be settling an It doesn't
seem likely now, but sometimes when with war, I see
when it's least likely, that's when it happens. I had
a very good talk with President Putin, had a very
good talk with I would say as a combination, a
lot of times I'd do well with Putin and Zelinsky
would be a probable, or vice versa. Zelinsky would be

(44:51):
great and Putin would be They both want to get
it settled down.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Hopefully that will happen the president tomorrow we will meet with
NATO's Secretary General Mark Route. There is the traditional NATO
family photo. They all do that. One remember very famously
in President Trump's first term, where he was in the
back of this photo and he sort of muscles people
out of the way to get right front and center,

(45:17):
and the left was like, oh, my gosh, this is
so terrible, and most normal people were like, yeah, he's
the President of the United States of America. He absolutely
should be front and center in the NATO picture, since
you know, the United States pretty much foots the bill
for most of NATO. President Trump has used pretty much
every NATO summit to reiterate some variation of the same

(45:38):
message that the Allies need to be spending more on
their own defense, that they can't rely on the United
States to just, out of its large ass, be everybody's
defense mechanism. The entire reason that there is a NATO
partnership is for shared defense. President is going to make

(45:59):
a speech tomorrow series of bilateral meetings, he will hold
another press conference, and of course we will cover it
all on The Dan o'donald Show in a segment we
call the Daily Trump Day Carpetland Usay Flooring Center Talking
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(46:20):
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(46:41):
every day on the iHeartRadio app or wherever it is
that you listen to podcasts. So Francesca Hong had to
apologize for calling nine to one one, or at least
she's backing down from calling nine to one one. In
this December of twenty twenty three, she called nine to

(47:03):
one one. Yes, she called the very police that she
wants to abolish, to report an anti Semitic display that
went up in Madison.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
Nine one one.

Speaker 9 (47:15):
What is the address of the emergency Hi.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
It's the top of State Street. It looks like just
before the Historical Museum something exactly what happens. I'm not
at the site, but I just received a photo received
a photo of an highly anti Semitic act. There's an

(47:46):
Israeli flag with red paint flattered on it, and what
looks like a makeshift body in a some sort of
crate that also has red paint dispewed on it.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
She believed that the display was well beyond the pale,
which it kind of was. It looks bad, but the
nine to one to one dispatcher correctly told Hon it's
not entirely clear that police can do anything about this, because,
of course, this is freedom of expression Texas v. Johnson.

(48:24):
Flag burning is a protected act. An Israeli flagg covered
in blood used to make a political point that is
most likely protected speech. Hong, though, told the dispatcher that
she wanted it removed because it was so anti Semitic,
and she wanted it investigated as potentially hate speech.

Speaker 6 (48:43):
I don't know who did it. I'm just trying to
figure out what the fastest way to take it down
is because I'm not at the location.

Speaker 9 (48:53):
Okay. I mean, I will have an officer look into this,
but I don't know legally if bufficers can force somebody
to take this down.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
I mean, it's on city property. Is there any way
that we could just remove it?

Speaker 9 (49:04):
I don't know. I'll have an officer look into it
and see what they can.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
Do, Okay, Okay, I'd like this to potentially be investigated
as a hate crime as well as possible.

Speaker 9 (49:13):
Okay, I understand first they're going to investigate whether a
crime was committed, So I'll have somebody look into this
as soon as they can.

Speaker 6 (49:19):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Now reached for comment today. Hong told the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel three years ago, there was a piece of protest
art at the encampments in Madison which was photographed and
posted to social medium. My constituents reported they felt threatened
and alerted me. But the image was cropped and incomplete
to represent anti Zionism as anti Semitism, a distinction I

(49:45):
take seriously. You see, she doesn't hate Jewish people. She
just hates the people who believe that Jewish people should
be able to live in Israel. Distinction distinctioning based on
their concerns, Han continued, for their safety and my incomplete information,

(50:08):
I did something I regret deeply. I called the police
and asked them to look into it. This turned out
to be a mistake because the image posted to social
media was intentionally misleading. I believe in free speech. I
support a free Palestine. The genocide in Gaza and the
colonization of the West Bank must end. Here is what

(50:28):
I always want to ask you, ladies and gentlemen. Why
did the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel run this story, which was
very clearly orchestrated by one of Hank's opponents in the
Democrat Party to run today? Yes, as I told you
at the beginning of this hour, Sarah Rodriguez is making

(50:48):
her move. She put out a big video saying I
am finally spending big bucks, million dollars going into my
campaign to try to boost me. Why though this particular
story about Hong calling nine to one one to report
an anti Semitic art display, that's it who likely made

(51:13):
that art display? In fact, I can say, without any
equivocation or any reservation, even though I don't know who
made the art display, I can probably guess with about
ninety percent accuracy who that person is going to vote
for if they vote in the Democrat primary, because this
is very likely a Francesca Hon supporter, a far left

(51:37):
radical socialist who made this art display. Why did Hong
feel it necessary to walk back and essentially apologize for
calling nine to one one to report a bloody Israeli
flag as anti Semitic hate speech because her voter base

(52:00):
agrees with the fundamental tenets of anti semitism. Anti Semitism
on the socialist left is a massive problem and has
been since literally the day October seventh, twenty twenty three,
of the worst terror attack in Israeli history. Left wingers,

(52:22):
including those in Madison started rallying against the believed Israeli
response that Israel Is going to wipe out the Palestinian
people after this, but weirdly enough, in New York and
in Madison, Wisconsin, starting October seventh. I believe Madison's first
demonstration was October eighth, day after Sunday, October head. I'll

(52:44):
never forget this because it shocked me to my core.
This was not a solemn, concerned rally about what the
Israeli military was going to do to those poor innocent
Palestinians who you know, just slaughtered thousands of inn and Israelis.
It was a jubilant celebration. They were celebrating the deaths

(53:08):
of those Israelis. Don't believe me, go back and look
up the video. Go back and watch for yourselves what
they were chanting and the tone of those protests. All
of those people, or at least the overwhelming majority, don't
just vote Democrat. They vote for Francesca Hong Democrats. This

(53:35):
story is dropping right now, and Francesca Hong thought that
she needed to apologize for it because it is a
deliberate attempt to separate her from her anti Semitic, anti Israel,
rabid pro Palestine, terror adjacent or even terror supporting voters.

(53:59):
This is aimed directly at eroding her support with her
own base, in the hopes that just enough of them
move on over to Mandela Barnes, that those two split
the far left commy vote, and that Sarah Rodriguez wins
just enough Normies that she's able to win a plurality
and somehow squeak by to this nomination. Here's the thing

(54:22):
about that, though it may be too late to stop
the Socialist express and if it's not Francesca Hong, it's
very likely going to be Mandela Barnes. We will discuss
that coming up next right here on the Dan o'donald Show,
The Classical Conservatism Contemporary Style. It is the Dan o'donald Show.

(54:45):
We are a little more than one month away from
the Democratic gubernatorial primary here in Wisconsin and a lot
of movement today. A hit piece that doesn't seem like
it's significant, but actually is very, very significant in the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Today. Francesca Hang actually called nine to

(55:06):
one to one back in December of twenty twenty three,
so two months after the October seventh terror attacks, as
the left wing anti Semitism just built in this country,
especially in college towns like Madison, And honestly, to this day,
three years later, that is still one of the more
shameful things that I have seen, the anti Semitic just

(55:29):
open hatred of Jewish people being allowed on college campuses
because the hate was coming from the left, because they
were supposedly standing up for the marginalized Palestinians. Those marginalized
Palestinians had just committed the worst terror attack on Israeli
soil ever, the worst wholesale slaughter of Jewish people since

(55:53):
the Holocaust, and we're supposed to feel bad for them
because Israel is running an apartheid state where Palestinians, Muslims, Christians,
people of all walks of life, all faiths, all races
can serve in the Kanesset, can serve in the Israeli parliament.
That's an apartheid state. Muslims in Israel can be judges,

(56:15):
they can be police officers, they can be uh prosecutors,
they can serve in parliament. Theoretically, a Muslim could be
elected Prime Minister of Israel. That is not, by definition
an apartheid state. Israel is not by any meaningful definition,
committing or ever committed any sort of genocide in Gaza.

(56:37):
The Palestinians, though, are seen as the marginalized, the oppressed,
the colonized, and Israel and the Jewish people are seen
as the colonizers, the bullies, the oppressors. Because of this dichotomy,
and because liberals always have to side with the oppressed,
no matter how awful the oppressed people might behave they

(57:00):
have to side with the Palestinians. Palestine is sort of
the omni cause of the left because it incorporates everything.
This is sort of their worldview in a nutshell, it
does not matter. These are oppressed people. They can commit
acts of terrorism, they can even commit acts of mass murder.
And yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll pay lip service to the

(57:22):
idea that we don't condone acts of mass murder, but really, really,
what would you do if you were part of an
ongoing apartheid state and genocide against your people. We understand
democrats say what the people of Palestine are going through.

(57:43):
This is where you get the most insane signs that
I think I've ever seen. Saying queers for Palestine. I
will personally and I've been saying this for three years.
I will personally pay the airfare for anybody who will
go under the banner of Queers for Palestine to Palestine.

(58:07):
You have to wear exactly what you wear to a
Queers for Palestine rally here in America. But you come
to me, you prove that you are going to do so,
and I will personally pay for your airfare. You think
I am kidding? Producer Eric, how much money did we
get up to? It was like fifty thousand dollars I

(58:29):
was going to offer for what was it, the Susan Crawford.
Let's rig the primaries, let's rig the Supreme Court so
we can overturn the congressional maps. That was Susan Crawford. Right.
It did get absolutely did get up that twenty twenty
five Supreme Court. Right. I believe I topped out at

(58:50):
fifty thousand dollars. My wife sent me like text, She goes,
this is a bit right, Like, you're not actually going
to dip into our savings to pay the Dems for
proof that Susan Crawford wants to rig the congressional maps.
I'm like, Megan, that's like, yes, I absolutely am serious
about that, because a it would be essentially criminal. B

(59:14):
I'm really really stupid with money. I see all the
Amazon boxes that show up at our house. If you're
going to spend, you know, thirty forty bucks on a
new bathing suit or dress, I'm going to spend fifty
thousand dollars taunting the Democrats by rubbing their noses in
their own corruption. Thank you very much. So yes, I

(59:36):
absolutely will pay for the Queers for Palestine to go
to Palestine wearing rainbow clothes that say Queers for Palestine.
In fact, in fact, I will pay for you to
meet some Palestinians and go up to the tallest building
in the Palestinian territories in Gaza and see what happens.

(59:59):
I am kidding about that part. We all know what
would happen, which is what makes this so ridiculous that
you have something called Queers for Palestine, but it is
the Omni cause. Yes, Eric, we have a sponsor who
says he'll make it a first class ticket.

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Do I have somebody who will pay for airfare or
excuse me, for for hotels for the Queers for Palestine?
Contact us by the Carpetland USA Flooring Center. Text line
The talk in text, maybe we could get like an
overall sponsor to send like queers for Palestine to Palestine.

(01:00:39):
Always been the most hilarious thing about this. But this
is the point. This is the point about the last.
It always comes down to this dichotomy that they think
in terms of morality as being not an individual concept,
but based on your belonging to a particular demographic group.
If you are a straight right Christian American male, that's me.

(01:01:04):
You are about the worst oppressor that there is, even
made worse by the fact that I am the most
prominent conservative talk show host in Wisconsin and one of
the more prominent in America. If you are in ISRAELI
doesn't matter. If you are the poorest dude in Jerusalem,

(01:01:28):
you've got privilege. You're an oppressor. You are personally victimizing
Palestinians by virtue of your belonging in the group that
we don't like. This is such classic Marxist thought. There
is the proletariat. There is the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie, the
owners of the means of production, the landed gentry, the nobility,

(01:01:48):
whatever you want to call them. They are always evil.
The proletariat, they are always virtuous. They are always to
be defended more accurately. They are always to be weaponized,
They are always to be brainwashed. They are always to
be used to get the socialist intelligentsia into power. This
is exactly how this all works. Believe it or not,

(01:02:11):
it's actually working here in the United States. The communists
have taken significant steps forward just in the last couple
of weeks in primaries in New York City and in Denver.
It is believed that Francesca Hong, with her victory in
a Wisconsin primary a little more than a month from now,

(01:02:32):
would catapult the gubernatorial race here in Wisconsin into not
just one of the most significant in our state's history,
but one of the most significant in American history, because
the damn man, Tom Tiffany would be the human damn
do you want to do you think it's an accident?
Why they're calling him the damn man? I have no idea.

(01:02:54):
I haven't talked to Tiffany or anybody from his campaign.
He did tend to damn but why do you why?

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
I think he also did a tour boat he did
like a river tour, a lake tour or something like that.
He's actually got really really cool background, a really nice
guy too. He'd be an incredible governor, and he's incredible mage,
he's a good man. But why are they calling him
the damn man? You have you thought that's a little awkward,
If you thought that's a little weird, it's because he
would be the human dam. He would be America's dam,

(01:03:22):
standing in the way of the flood of socialism into
this country. That is what would be at stake here.
Democrats understand that a Francesca Hong win, Francesco Hong becoming
the first socialist governor in America would actually be potentially

(01:03:42):
worse for them personally than Francesca Hong getting blown out
by Tiffany in the general election. People though, thinking that
Tiffany would be a shoe in if Hong is the nominee. Oh,
let's all switch party of let's just vote in the
Democrat prize. I'm Mary for Francesco Hong. Let's do our
own operation. I have been asked multiple times, Dan, can

(01:04:05):
you organize a concerted effort for all Republicans to cross
party lines. We don't have closed primaries in this state,
meaning you don't have to be a registered Democrat to
vote in the Democratic primary. We don't have registered Democrats
registered Republicans. That's what open closed primary system means. I'm
not going to do that because, as I'll explain in

(01:04:27):
the next segment, I think Francesco Hong actually is a
very very good chance of winning, and that is freaking terrifying.
But it's terrifying for Democrats because if she wins, or
even if she just wins the nomination and continues the
socialist ascendancy, those socialists aren't seeing as the immediate enemies

(01:04:48):
of liberation for the working people and the racial underclasses.
They see the Democrats as standing in the way first,
not conservative Republicans. They need to first take over one
of the two major political parties, and they sure as
hell ain't taken over ours. Once they take over the Devon,
once they replace the ben Wicklers and the what's TMU

(01:05:12):
ben Wickler's name? I always forget his name. He's the
guy who's got that wispy little mustache. He's the dude
who's in charge of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. What
is it, Devin Revin? Sorry about that, Devon, You are
a relatively forgettable dude. He's gone. Mark Coocan primaried gone,

(01:05:33):
David Crowley, Chris Larson most likely primaries him gone, Sheety Johnson.
Look out for Ryan Clancy, who Democrats are actively trying
to take out right now. Ryan Clancy member of the
State Assembly. He is an open socialist in Milwaukee. Democrats
are primary in him because they don't want open socialists,

(01:05:54):
not because they don't believe in socialism, but because the
true believers, the members of the Democratics Socialists of America,
will take out the pretenders. It's sort of like Baine
when he said to Batman in Batman the Third movie,
what was it Batman Forever? Batman, the Dark Knight, The
Dark Knight Rises? He said, you merely adopted the darkness.

(01:06:18):
I was born into it, raised by it, or something
to that effect. That's how the Democratic Socialists view the normy,
or as they call them, corporate Democrats, who they believe
are posers. The aim is to take them out. I
just don't think that the corporate Democrats the Democratic Party

(01:06:40):
of Wisconsin. I don't think they have the time and
I don't think regardless of how much money Sarah Rodriguez
spends between now in August eleventh, that she's going to
be able to overtake Hong and Barnes, and that one
of those two. Both of them are socialists, both of
them are despised by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Both

(01:07:02):
of them are feared because they would usher in a
new era of communism within the Democratic Party. I don't
think the Democrats have the ability to rig their primary
as they did four Barnes four years ago in the
Senate primary against Francesca Holm. I don't think you're gonna

(01:07:22):
get Joel Brennan and Crowley and kel de Royce and
all of those other candidates to drop out. The idea
here is that you get all of the also Ran
candidates to drop out of the race, so it's just
Sarah Rodriguez versus the two socialists. They split the socialist
votes to Hong and Barnes, and Rodriguez cruizes to the victory.

(01:07:44):
I don't think that's necessarily likely, and I also don't
think that it's a shoe in that Tom Tiffany is
great candidate as he is would beat Hong in the
general election.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
Is here you're listening to the Danow conservative thought.

Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
This is the dan o'donnald show.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Democrats and Republicans alike seem to believe that Francesca Hong,
the socialist who has been along with Mandela Barnes, another socialist,
leading pretty much every poll throughout this gubernatorial cycle, at
least amongst Democrats. They their belief that she can't possibly
win a general election is misguided at best, and terrifyingly

(01:08:37):
wrong and dangerously naive at worst. She absolutely can win. She,
in fact, by virtue of having a D next to
her name in this electoral environment, is probably going to
be a favorite. Would Sarah Rodriguez be a bigger favorite? Maybe,

(01:08:58):
but nobody in the Democratic Party seems to actually like
Sarah Rodriguez. We're going to find out where things actually
stand with this Marquette University Law School pool coming up
on July twenty second. Was announced today that that's when
that's going to be released. My very strong suspicion is
just like in the Senate primary in twenty twenty two,

(01:09:20):
when both Alex Lazrie and Sarah Godluski were forced to
drop out within a day of each other. I believe
it was July twenty eighth and July twenty ninth, even
though absentee ballots had already been mailed. Out. You're going
to see that poll push a lot of those candidates
out of the race as Democrats offer them anything and

(01:09:40):
everything they can in a Sarah Rodrigez administration to make
this a three horse race between Rodrigos and the two socialists.
Here's the dangerous miscalculation that Democrats are making that all
of the Kelder Roys and Joel Brennan voters are naturally
going to go over to Sarah Rodriguez. They're not. What

(01:10:01):
if all of them go to Francesca Hong. Mandela Barnes
would probably be slightly more palatable to Democrats because, I mean,
Republicans can't have that much more opposition research against him.
It's like we pretty much knew everything there was to
know about Mandela as I call him, man deadbeat Barnes.

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In twenty twenty two, the Manchester refused to pay his
property taxes, refused to pay his parking and speeding tickets,
got driven around by the what was it? State troopers.
He used the state troopers as his own personal Uber service,
driving him back and forth from Madison to his condo
in Milwaukee pretty much every day instead of driving himself.

(01:10:48):
At the Mandela the Lieutenant governor. He was worth it,
so we taxpayers had to foot the bill for this,
of course. But because he couldn't drive, wouldn't drive, he
wanted to have his own personal National Guard escort. You'd
better believe that Mandela Barnes is a beatable candidate. First

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of all, it's very difficult to win once you have
already lost. It's probably why it's only happened what once
twice in American presidential history that a president has served
non consecutive terms, first Grover Cleveland, now Donald Trump. It
doesn't happen. Once voters reject you, they generally don't give

(01:11:33):
you a second look. However, what is going on right now?
The generic ballot does seem to poortend that Democrats are
going to have a good election. Maybe not a deep
blue wave like they're hoping for, but they are going
to win a lot of races. Now, A part of
that is just the cyclical nature of politics. The party

(01:11:56):
that doesn't control the White House usually does very good
because the out party is more motivated to vote. Big
problem for Trump and Republicans, though, is that Generation Z
younger voters who actually did move from Biden to Trump
because Biden was such a disaster, and they didn't like

(01:12:16):
Kamala Harris. They said, you know what, We're going to
go to Trump. They are ticked off right now that
Trump did not immediately lower prices on everything. You and
I both know, of course, that the president can't just
wave a magic want. There's a lot you can do
to reduce the rate of inflation, but that just takes

(01:12:36):
down the rate at which prices rise. Unless you have
essentially a recession, unless you have some sort of catastrophe
like COVID nineteen, prices don't drop. But it doesn't matter.
Gen Z is dropping their support of Trump and Republicans.
If they turn two Democrats, they are much more likely

(01:12:59):
not just turn to normy Democrats. They're likely to turn
to socialist Democrats. That would be a disaster for Tom
Tiffany and Republicans. The socialist message is a siren song
for young people because it casts them not as victims
of their own personal failures. They don't work hard enough,

(01:13:21):
they smoke too much weed, they got a queer studies
degree in college instead of going into stem but it
casts their inability to live the American dream as the
fault of America itself, and they offer the promise that
we'll hand you the American dream, at least the scraps

(01:13:43):
that we deem you worthy of receiving. And all you
got to do is vote for us. Coming up next
here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, a very special Unsung
Hero of the Day that I can't wait for you
to meet. Democrat primary is August eleventh. Big news today,
Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez is getting a major pack ad

(01:14:08):
buy the American I want to make sure I get
this right. The Wisconsin Forward Fund, which supports Rodriguez, this
is her super pack. They have announced a million dollar
ad buy for TV ads in the Green Bay, Madison
and Milwaukee markets aimed at boosting her. But is it

(01:14:28):
too little too late? We shall see. Primary is August eleventh.
It is time now today a very special edition of
the Unsung Hero of the Day. Today's Unsung Hero of

(01:14:52):
the Day is Loela Adams. She turns one hundred years
young today. She also happens to be my sister in
law's beloved Grandma Adams. She was born on seven seven,
nineteen twenty six. Well today she went fishing on Pewaukee

(01:15:16):
Lake and according to my sister in law caught seven fish.
Yes on seven seven Now, Grandma Adams had seven children.
She was working as a forklift driver and in fact

(01:15:38):
was the very first female fork lift driver at J. C.
Penny's Catalog Warehouse for not seven, but seventeen years. Suffice
it to say, for Grandma Adams born on seven seven
seven is certainly a lucky number. I am privileged enough

(01:15:58):
to know Grama Adams and see her whenever there are
extended family functions. She is an incredibly sweet lady. She
is still baking Christmas cookies with her daughter Anita, and
granddaughters Jenny and Katie, and eleven total grandchildren. She has

(01:16:21):
twenty three great grandchildren, and today a whole lot of
them are celebrating her one hundredth birthday. Grandma Adams, Loella Adams,
your unsung hero of the day and from all of
us here at the Dan O'Donnell Show. I am told

(01:16:41):
she is a big, big fan, and she always gives
me a big hug when I see her at family
functions and tells me that she's listening. We wish you
a very special happy birthday, Grandma Adams. If you know
somebody who is worthy of being the unsung Hero of

(01:17:03):
the Day. Email me DoD at iHeartMedia dot com. We
try to highlight everyday people in our listening audience or
around the country, around the world who do extraordinary things
in order to celebrate all of us as Americans. As
we celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, we recognize

(01:17:25):
that America is great because Americans are good. We're going
to step aside for the five o'clock news, more of
the Dan O'Donnell's show, and a troublingly chaotic Fourth of
July and Milwaukee coming up next. Stay tuned.

Speaker 6 (01:17:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Everybody always asks would you want to live to one
hundred years old? I'm telling you if I could have
the quality of life and be as spry, as witty,
as energetic, and as strong as our unsung hero of
the Day Adams. She's my sister in law, is my

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brother's wife's grandma. She is my niece's great grandmother, and
she turned one hundred years old today. If you missed
the last segment, she was born on July seventh, nineteen
twenty six, seven seven twenty six. She went fishing today

(01:18:23):
on Pewaukee Lake. I'm going to take a wild guess.
I know exactly the fishing spot they went to, and
it's ripe for catching bluegills, for catching all sorts of fish.
We have seen some absolute monsters down there, a whole
lot of snapping turtles. Weirdly enough, she caught seven fish

(01:18:44):
on seven seven. She had seven children and worked at
the J. C. Penny Catalog factory or whatever for seventeen years.
The warehouse where they stored all the catalogs, well back
then I think it was just a warehouse at distribution center.
Whatever it was. It was described to me as a warehouse. Eric.

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She was the first female forklift driver at the J. C.
Penny catalog warehouse. That had to be something of a
site because you know, this is in like the nineteen forties,
and she's like a Rosy the Riveter or something like that.
Rosie the forklift driver, Loela the forklift driver. It's just

(01:19:30):
awesome and she is so I say, absolutely, I would
want to live to one hundred. You know. The flip
side of that is I have seen, you know, my
own grandmother years in year, twenty years ago, she had
a horrible stroke and she just she wasn't herself for

(01:19:53):
the last three four years of her life. You wonder
what I want that? Or would I just want to
go home to chill with Jesus and my deceased family members,
just kind of wait for everybody else to join me,
have a beer waiting for him. I don't know. I

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in case you can't tell, I really like this life
and I would very much like to have as many
more years of it, happy healthy years as possible. I
could see why Willard Scott wished Happy Birthday to one
hundred year olds every single day for several decades. It's fun,
it's awesome. It's like, yeah, you know what, it's very cool.
We we respect our elders here on the Dan o'donalds Show,

(01:20:38):
except of course, for the boomer lips. All right, If
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(01:20:59):
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listen to the Dan O'Donnell show podcast on iHeartRadio or
wherever you listen to podcasts. Obviously, it was a chaotic
Fourth of July in downtown Milwaukee on Brady Street and

(01:21:21):
at Summerfest there were brawls that marred the final night
of the Big Gig. But on Brady and Water Street,
this has been an ongoing issue. In fact, after talking
about this yesterday and taking a number of phone calls
from people, I have been delused with emails from people
who either live on Brady Street or used to live

(01:21:42):
on Brady Street saying, Dan, it's terrible. You can't fathom
how bad it's gotten. Now. A number of these emails
I wanted to read, but they get into very specific
incidence where I'd just be a little nervous that somebody
would be able to identify them. And I'm fanatical about
keeping my sources confidential, but some of the stuff I

(01:22:03):
read that just kind of goes on on Brady Street
on the regular is deeply disturbing. On the fourth of July,
there were people lighting off illegal fireworks, not exactly a
surprise on the Fourth of July, but on Brady Street
they were doing it in the Walgreens parking lot, and
it appeared as a Milwaukee police officer was running towards

(01:22:28):
the people who were lighting them off to stop them
to potentially make an arrest. It did look like a
firework was shot in her direction. There is video that
is all over social media. I can't say for certain,
but what I can say is another firework which did
not appear to be intentionally set for her. It was
already lit and it was already about to go off.

(01:22:51):
When it did, she I don't think saw it and
got hit not with debris, fortunately, but with the concussive
force of blast itself. She was just sort of knocked
backwards by the force of the explosion, and I am
told she suffered a concussion, but is otherwise okay. I
got this from multiple law enforcement sources. The Milwaukee Police

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Department has really not said anything about this issue. We
have very little information about it. There was another incident
in which a Milwaukee police officer, another woman, a twenty
year old who a twenty year old twenty eighty five
year old woman in her twenties with less than a
year of experience on the force, was doing beat patrol

(01:23:36):
on Water Street, the downtown bar and entertainment district, which,
as you can imagine, on the fourth of July, especially
when the fourth of July is a Saturday night, very
very busy. But there were also mob takeovers going on.
Now the media wants to call them team takeovers. This
is a mob. This is a mob that is getting

(01:23:58):
organized on social media and is going to a spot
specifically to cause problems. A car was driving very recklessly
in an attempt, I think, to get away from a
shooting that the driver might have been responsible for. There
were multiple brawls that started, shootings, fights, vandal it, you

(01:24:21):
name it. It was just classic mob activity. Guy was driving
and multiple people on the scene I am told by
law enforcement sources said that driver sure looked like he
was trying to hit that cop. He did strike her.
She was able to draw her gun and shoot at
the car, so did a number of other officers to

(01:24:43):
try to get him to stop. He takes off. Officers pursue.
They eventually get him into custody, arrest him, realize that
he's been shot. Very likely. It actually isn't determined yet
whether he was shot by the officers or whether he
had already been shot during the mob chaos on water
stream today. Alex Ayala, the president of the Milwaukee Police Association,

(01:25:09):
in an interview with Ryan Jenkins of Today's TMJ four,
said a big reason that a lot of the chaos
is going on not just on the Fourth of July,
which obviously was going to be there were going to
be a ton of people out. Fourth of July one
of the biggest party nights of the entire year, America's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Obviously it gets even bigger

(01:25:31):
than a normal Fourth of July. But we have seen
mob takeover events before that, street takeover events. Literally, this
has been going on for about a decade plus, but
it's really come back with a vengeance over the last
couple of years. The city seems wholly unprepared or wholly

(01:25:53):
uninterested in stopping this. Ayowa says, well, that's because we
are roughly two hundred officers short of where we should
be in terms of our staffing levels on the Milwaukee
Police Department. Now, I find this to be impossible because

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I was told specifically for years and years and years.
In fact, I'm pretty sure I was fact checked by
some publication or another Milwaukee did not defund the police
It is a myth that Milwaukee defunded the police in
the post George Floyd era of twenty twenty, and in

(01:26:37):
fact that Milwaukee has actually increased its funding for the
Milwaukee Police Department since then. Yeah, what they're not spending
the budgeting for police on is actual police. In twenty ten,

(01:27:00):
the sworn strength, which is the number of actual sworn
officers who are on the streets, not support staff dispatchers.
I don't believe are included in that actual police officers,
actually people who wear the badge, who patrol the streets

(01:27:21):
of Milwaukee. Sworn strength in twenty ten one thousand, nine
hundred twenty four officers. That number remained remarkably consistent for
about a decade until guests which year we just happened

(01:27:42):
to have a dramatic reduction in the number of sworn
police officers on the streets of Milwaukee. In twenty eighteen,
there were one nine hundred and seventeen sworn officers on
the streets. There were still in twenty nineteen one thousand,
eight hundred and fifty four twenty twenty one thousand, seven

(01:28:07):
hundred and fifty In the first budget after the George
Floyd death, the defund the police era, the sworn strength
got all the way down to one thousand, six hundred
and thirty, but the actual number of police officers who

(01:28:28):
were employed and patrolling the city was as low at
one point as one thousand, four hundred and fifty five.
We were down five hundred officers in just four years.
That just happened to coincide with the George Floyd peak
Woke era. Increases in state aid in twenty twenty four

(01:28:51):
as part of a new shared revenue agreement, boosted that
number to about sixteen hundred, where right now we sit
at an estimated one thousand, six hundred and forty five
sworn officers. Yes, it is true the budget has gone

(01:29:11):
up very incrementally for the Milwaukee Police Department. As I
have demonstrated repeatedly on this program, the increases in funding
for pretty much every other department in city government has
gone off exponentially accept the police department, and as I
have also repeatedly pointed out, the one thing that did

(01:29:35):
not go up even though everything else in the police
Department's budget went up During the latter part of the
Tom Barrett and current Chevy Johnson mayoral eras the one
thing that didn't go up officers' salaries. Oh sure, command staff.
The chief's salary went up. Also, can we like put

(01:29:59):
a bell on Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman like you
do with a puppy. How do we never have any
idea where this guy is? He's like Waldo. You gotta
sort of find him in a crowd to figure out
where the Milwaukee police officer, the chief actually is the same.
This is the same guy who has missed I don't

(01:30:21):
know how many press conferences after horrific crimes because he
was actually out of state interviewing for other chief jobs.
Poor Jeffrey Norman, the guy who interviewed for every job
outside of Milwaukee made it no. The only guy who
wanted to be in Milwaukee less than Chief Jeffrey Norman

(01:30:43):
was Yannis. And yes, I saw a very nice, I'm
sure heartfelt video a thank you to Milwaukee. People were
wondering why did Yannis wait that long to post it. It
was because the trade was finally made official. All league
business was not made official until July sixth, which I
believe is the beginning of the new League year. Whatever reason,

(01:31:06):
every trade became official, every move became every roster move
became official, they were just reported before that, so Jannis
just waited until it was finally official. Bobby Portis also
traded in that mega deal that sent Jannis to the
Miami Heat last month, also penning a very heartfelt thank
you to Milwaukee. But jeff Norman, man, this guy wants

(01:31:30):
to be out of Milwaukee, and it shows in just
how lackluster the leadership of the Milwaukee Police Department has
been us not to say the guys and gals out
on the streets, these are some of the bravest people
in the state to deal with how badly things have deteriorated. Tomorrow, though,

(01:31:54):
we are told, we are told that Jeffrey Norman is
going to come out of hiding, like sort of imagine
him as like Saddam Hussein. He's like in a little
spider hole and there's gonna be a couple of cops
that lead him out, and he's like squinting in the
white and then delivers a press conference about how crime
in Milwaukee is down thirty percent. He and Mayor Chevy

(01:32:16):
are gonna do their big uh uh. They're gonna do
their big celebratory press conference because crime is down guess
what crime is of course going to go down when
A there are no police officers on the streets to
make arrests, and b when there are arrests, the prosecutors

(01:32:38):
in this city just dismiss the charges or no process them. Yeah,
so there's two three hundred fewer officers on the streets
than there were just five years ago because we totally
didn't defund the police. And this totally isn't a concerted
effort to essentially get rid of policing, get rid of

(01:33:01):
the actual enforcement of laws, because it's apparently a racist
endeavor in our new socialist utopia of Milwaukee. But we're
now going to celebrate the fact that because there are
no officers out there to make arrests, we're gonna say, yes,
crime is down, folks. This is not a new problem.

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It's not a new problem. Last year at the end
of July, major controversy when it was finally reported first
by Fox six. I believe our good buddy Brian Poulson,
the investigative reporter there July twenty eighth and twenty ninth,
for all of District one, the Milwaukee Police District from

(01:33:44):
the midnight to eight am shift guess how many cops
were on the streets of Milwaukee patrolling District one overnight
where you would think there's probably, you know, good amount
of crime going on. How many officers? Twenty thirty? I

(01:34:06):
think that's probably fine, right, fifty you said fifty three?
Three there were three cops on duty for a major
part of the city. Three. Still completely flabbergasted that that happened. Three. This,

(01:34:32):
by the way, is like State Street. It's uh. I
believe part of downtown. Three that there are more police
officers I dare say on the streets of Hales Corners,
a suburb of like seven thousand people, than there were
for a city of five hundred and ninety thousand and

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a major part of it. Now Democrats will constantly say, well,
we're not getting enough shared revenue, We're not getting enough
money from the state for more cops. Remember that deal
I told you about in twenty twenty four that got
more cops into the Milwaukee Police Department. That money came

(01:35:19):
directly from the state. The state the Republican legislature cut
a deal with Mayor Chevy and with County Executive David
Crowley that they would allow the City of Milwaukee to
institute a new two percent city sales tax, and Milwaukee
County would be allowed to up its county sales tax
by a half a percent, and there would be more

(01:35:41):
shared revenue going to the state. And in exchange. Do
you know what the Republican legislature. The only thing they said,
the only thing you got to do in order to
get this money, put more police officers school resource officers
in Milwaukee public school That's it. After the George Floyd debacle,

(01:36:06):
MPs terminated its agreement with the Milwaukee Police Department for
school resource officers. State legislator says, hey, you want to
get the money, you want to live up to your
end of this bargain, we'll give you your money. Put the
officers back in the schools. City of Milwaukee had to
be sued before they put officers back in Milwaukee public schools.

(01:36:30):
There was a lawsuit that was filed and a Milwaukee
County judge actually threatened to hold MPs in contempt if
they didn't allow officers back in the schools. You're telling
me that it is not a concerted effort to get
rid of as many cops. And by the way, the
way that MPs is seeing these huge reductions. Is it's

(01:36:55):
not their firing officers, it's when officers reach retirement age,
they're just not being replaced. The position is just not
being replaced. A lot has been made about how few
people actually want to be police officers, but I think
not enough is being made about the fact that there
is a concerted effort to ensure that there are fewer

(01:37:17):
police officers on Milwaukee streets. When there are fewer police officers, there, yes,
are fewer crimes reported to police officers because again there
are fewer of them to take the reports and make
the arrests. But there is also a less far less

(01:37:40):
visible presence at the times at which people who thrive
on the absence of law enforcement and authority and use
that vacuum in order to create chaos. That's what happened
on the fourth of July, and that's what's going to
continue happening every nice summer weekend night until the liberal

(01:38:05):
leadership of this city understands that the only way to
crack down on lawlessness is to enforce the laws. Oh wait,
what am I saying? Milwaukee crime is down thirty percent
this year? We're gonna celebrate that. Well, here's why they
need to thank President Trump and Ice for that decline.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
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(01:39:04):
Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman, the Where's Waldo? Of Philip?
Can somebody please do some ai art of Jeffrey Norman
as Where's Waldo? In a Where's Waldo? Picture book? I
would very much like that. The guy, what does it

(01:39:24):
say to the officers who serve you and who serve
this city and are some of the braak Like I'm
not just saying this to like, hey, I'll blow smoke,
you know, up the butts of those who serve you know,
Like sometimes I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this.
I'm just gonna say it. Sometimes I feel like us

(01:39:48):
on the right are a little performative in our thinking
of the troops. And I'll never forget this. A couple
of months ago, I think it was right before Mamre Day.
It was a month ago or so, I don't it
might have been at the start of the Iran War.

Speaker 9 (01:40:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Will Kine on Fox News was doing a segment on
Iran and who is that crusty old general that they
bring on? You know who? I'm talking about, really good
military mind. He's on. Gosh, he's on like every segment

(01:40:27):
during the day on Fox News. You know what, I'm
just gonna google it Old General Fox News. Yep, Jack Keane.
I'm like I knew it if I just google old
General on Fox yep, Jack Keane. So Will Caine is
going to Jack Kean, and you could tell this poor
guy has probably been on every Fox News show since

(01:40:49):
five am. It's now three point thirty PM, and god
love Will Kine. Keen is like, I just want to
get a snack, drink some bourbon, and watch football. So
Cain opens up this segment by saying, General Keen, I

(01:41:10):
just want to sincerely thank you for the service to
this country that you and Keen interrupts him and goes,
you don't need to do that, you don't need to
thank me, just ask me the question. It's like, oh
my god, if someone could find that video too, because
it was the most hilarious thing. So I'm not trying
to be like Will Cain to like Milwaukee police like, oh,

(01:41:31):
you are the bravest that this civilization has ever seen.
You're not, but you're like top fifteen to twenty percent. No,
I'm serious. These are the people like I always, I
really do think about this, Like, especially Milwaukee police officers.

(01:41:53):
You are going into some of the most dangerous neighborhoods
in three states. No idea when you knock on a
door if somebody's gonna just open fire. And I mean,
how many different Milwaukee police officers over the past decade
have been killed in ambush attacks, have been killed by

(01:42:15):
suspects attempting to get away, or badly injured. We went
decades without an office or death, and then there was
a ration. It's not just the death, it's just that
the trauma of seeing the parts of society that the
rest of us try like hell to avoid. I've got
some serious respect for the people who do that. I'm

(01:42:39):
not sure Chief Norman does, because, yeah, okay, we get it.
You want a different job to interview and very publicly
interview for every job in every state that opens up.
What was it san Antonio. I believe Seattle he interviewed for.

(01:43:03):
Is there like a Rooney rule for hiring that, like
the NFL you gotta hire? Are you got to interview
a black coach? Well, it's not race based for police,
you just got to interview Jeff Norman. Jeff Norman gets
an interview, and then you can hire whoever it is
you really want to hire. I mean, I do feel
bad for the guy. If I was that desperate to

(01:43:25):
get out of the Milwaukee police Department, I'd want to
get out. Maybe they could bring back al Morales. Oh No,
can't do that. He was too effective and too republican.
Jeff Norman is apparently going to be seen. He's going
to take off his cloak of invisibility that he apparently
wears while partying downtown in Milwaukee. I honestly, I don't

(01:43:50):
know where this guy is. And you know who's even
worse to need a ball? If you put like five
how old is ton't need a ball? Mid fifties early
sixties black women in a police lineup and told me
one of them is Danita Ball, I would have to guess.
I would honestly have to guess. And I cover this

(01:44:12):
stuff probably closer than I'm going to say ninety nine
percent of human beings in the world who cover Milwaukee
law enforcement. She has seen so little, so little. I
actually for Heartland Post when she announced that she was

(01:44:33):
running for reelection, I did not know. I'm looking up
pictures of her, and we of course have subscription services
like Getty Images where we use pictures and the campaigns
put out pictures. I actually was thinking about it. They
put out a picture. I'm like, is this the most
recent picture? I have no idea what she looks like
right now. They could put out on her campaign, her

(01:44:54):
reelection campaign, they could use a prom picture, and I'd
have no idea because this woman has never seen But
tomorrow all of the powers that be in Milwaukee are
going to come together and they are going to celebrate
the fact that homicides are down thirty percent so far
in Milwaukee in twenty twenty six. We are on pace

(01:45:16):
for only one hundred and fifty murders this year, as
opposed to one hundred and seventy which we had last year.
We keep comparing year over year homicide numbers as if
we can't go back to the year before George Floyd
and the defund the police and decriminalization of law movement

(01:45:39):
took hold. And see that the murder rate and the
crime rate were markedly lower than the baseline of comparison. Therefore,
is not last year or twenty twenty three, it's twenty nineteen.
That was the last year of normalcy before wokeism destroyed
the criminal justice system, not just in Milwaukee, but in

(01:45:59):
cities like it all across the country. But do you
know why cities, in spite of woke leadership and invisible
law enforcement leaders have seen their crime rates dramatically decline,
And not just over the course of the twenty twenties,
but there was a precipitous one year decline, in fact,

(01:46:23):
the single biggest decline in the national homicide rate since
record keeping began in nineteen hundred. That just happened to
be from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. Now,
what significant happened in late twenty twenty four. I'm gonna
say early November of twenty twenty four. I feel like

(01:46:45):
there was a big event. And then there was another
big event on January twentieth of twenty twenty five. Oh yeah,
A new president and a new immigration policy. The only
major national law enforcement change that could possibly explain not

(01:47:10):
just a steady decline in the homicide rate and the
total crime rate nationwide. The only policy change was immigration enforcement.
Not only that, a policy of mass deportations specifically targeting
criminal and drug dealing gang elements of society. We got

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them out of there, and we closed the border so
that they could not sneak back in. And once those
people were gone, what do you know, the crimes magically
stopped happening. When the people who were doing the crimes
could not do the crimes, there were fewer crimes. Huh.

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I would have never guessed that those two things were correlated.
Milwaukee was sort of immune to this. But what just
happened in Milwaukee that liberals, including Chevy Johnson and David
Crowley and elected officials who can't possibly say anything else,

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they condemned the law enforcement agency that was rounding up
people ice because it is believed that there has been
more ice activity this year than last in Milwaukee and
across Wisconsin. And most of that activity, folks, you do
not hear about. Do you know why? Because of two

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to eighty seven g agreements and immigration holds that are
honored by sheriff's departments who operate jails that take in
illegal aliens. There is a national law enforcement database that
pings ICE, Hey, we've got a new illegal. ICE calls
up the jail and says, hey, would you mind holding
this guy for a little bit. We don't want him

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to make bail and disappear. We're just gonna take them
and we're going to get him out of the country.
That has been happening more often than you think, and
it has resulted in fewer people who we know are
committing crimes because remember, they're being picked up from jail.

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That is one of the big reasons that there is
a lower crime rate across Wisconsin. Now, of course, the
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department really doesn't do a whole lot
of cooperation with ICE, so ICE in order to get
the people committing crimes in Milwaukee getting locked up in Milwaukee,
they occasionally will have to conduct targeted raids like those

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that took place a couple of days ago. Do you
know what the big the big law enforcement push is
for the left in the city of Milwaukee with these
ICE raids. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just did a big story
on how no ICE agents have yet been sighted for
violating the city's new mask ordinance that law enforcement officers

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within the City of Milwaukee's limits are not allowed to
cover their faces. Do you know why no ICE agents
have been sighted Because there's not a Milwaukee police officer
in the city or possibly the world, that is going
to cite an ICE agent for wearing a mask. It's

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the most asinine thing I've ever heard. These people want
the anti mask ordinance specifically so they can docks, they
can intimidate, and they could potentially target for violence law
enforcement agents who they consider to be Trump's brown shirts

(01:50:56):
and the greatest evil in society next to Trump himself.
How many it's not just the far left communist wackos
like Francesca Hong and Graham Platner calling for ICE to
be abolished. That is a major plank of every state
Democrat Party's platform, including here in Wisconsin. Abolish ICE. They

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don't want immigration enforcement. They want as many people as
possible in this country who aren't supposed to be here
here because they see them as political power for themselves.
Even if they never cast a single vote, they're counting
in the census every ten years delivers political power for

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Democrats in both the federal and state legislatures by virtue
of the fact that we count every single person that's here.
And by the way, since we didn't do away with
birthright citizenship, which by the way, did you know it's
a recent thing that we say, Okay, if you're here temporarily,
you get to be an American citizen if you're born here.

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Immediately after the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in the eighteen sixties,
nobody thought that someone who was not domiciled in the
United States who popped out a kid would be able
to have American citizenship for that kid because they had
no tie to the United States, i e. They had
no the United States had no jurisdiction over them. They

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were citizens of say China, ergo, China had jurisdiction. Now
we are going to have to go to break too. Yeah,
Eric said, we're gonna have to go to break two
pretty soon. Let's go to break two now, because unfortunately,
I could talk about this stuff all day long. Trump
and Ice are the reason for the decline. Welcome back

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to the Dan O'Donnell show. Congratulations to everyone who does
not like soccer, you do not have to pay attention
to it for another four years. Team USA knocked out
of the World Cup up last night four to one win,
four to one win by Belgium, four to one loss
by Team USA, who just looked terrible ladies. And I've

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been playing and coaching this sport for my entire life.
It is, yes, my favorite sport. I love it. I
love foot Don't get me wrong. I'm a die hard
Packers fan. I just love watching sports. I love playing sports.
This is why I know I've been something of a
baby about this torn acl but I live an insanely

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active lifestyle. I love nothing more than you know, going
in the backyard and kicking a soccer ball around, or
throwing a football with my kids, or you know, playing
old man's soccer on Sunday night with my buddies. It's
my life. Team USA looked like every Team USA national
soccer team that I've been watching with very few exceptions,

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since the Cup was last year and I was twelve
years old in nineteen ninety four and really fell in
love with the professional game. They looked scared, They looked
out of sorts. Belgium, which has a very talented, but
old roster just looked like the better team they put
pressure on from the very beginning. Team USA's back line

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has been suspect all tournament. It's been masked by the
fact that the midfield and especially the wings have been
dominating possessions, so they have not allowed a whole lot
of chances. But when you have got old and slow backs,
it offers the opposition a whole lot of free crosses.

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And if you've got a center back that just can't mark,
like Tim Reim had a horrible game. Horrible, one of
the worst games I've ever seen a central defender play.
That's what happens.

Speaker 6 (01:54:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:54:46):
My producer Eric Paulson has a very interesting question about soccer. Eric,
I can't hear you, buddy, Oh you want to be
on the air.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
Okay, yeah, the air's son of you were talking about
the marks and all that. I'm like, I understood about
thirty percent of what you said.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
So see, that's why that's also a part of the
reason that I'm not really you know, talking about the
matches today. I will say Argentina and Egypt was one
of the best matches I have ever said. I'm still
not given a spoiler because there's probably somebody who's watching
it right now after work. Absolutely incredible. But your question

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is a good one, I think one that most people
are asking.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
Yeah, we got to hurry, I gotta play you out
in just about one minute here. But soccer is a
ninety minute game. They always add on time. I can't
figure out the rationale behind some of that. How does
that all work because we have to do timing down
to the second. On this show, they'll add nine, ten minutes,
and it's like, eh, more soccer, Okay, fine.

Speaker 1 (01:55:45):
This is actually a continuing tradition of soccer was played
in very very poor countries oftentimes that couldn't afford scoreboards
that would count down to the exact second, So you
would have somebody who would have watched that would be
the setter referee. The idea was it wouldn't be fair
if you stopped and you had no idea how much

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time is left, So the clock was just allowed to
continue running, and the referee, if there was a protracted
stoppage in play, like an injury or a goal celebration,
would in his head just kind of think, okay, we
got to add three minutes to the end of the
forty five minute half. That became a tradition. And that's why.
It's because for so long games were played in places

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where literally only the referee would know the official score.
You would think we could change it now that we
have scoreboards, but hey, it's tradition. A lot of time
for today's show. Back tomorrow three h six. Dan O'donnald's show.