The Supreme Court Sides with Mail-In Ballot Fraud

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updates aren't going to spoil you. But you will not
hear a single spoiler on this program. Spoiler alert. Ballot
fraud is apparently the order of the day. The United
States Supreme Court today ruling five to four in Watson v.
Republican National Committee that upheld Mississippi's law. It's a grace period,

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if you will, that allows mail in and absentee ballots
that are postmarked by election day but received up to
five days later to still be counted in federal elections. Now,
if I gave you a list of all of the
conservative justices and you had to pick two that would
have gone incided with the Court's three liberals, which two

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would you have picked. You're saying John Roberts and Amy
Comeni Barrett. That would be entirely correct. Roberts and Barrett,
who actually wrote the opinion of the Court, join the
Court's three liberals, in completely tossing out any semblance of
constitutional governance or adherence to the rule of law. In fact,

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election day is set by federal law two US Codes,
Section seven. It provided for the date of federal elections
for the House of Representatives back in eighteen seventy five. Remember,
under what's known as the Elections Clause of the Constitution,
the Congress has the power to set the times, manner,

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and places of elections in conjunction with the states. The
states ultimately administer the elections, but Congress is responsible for
determining the process by which all federal elections are held.
And federal elections are held not on election month, not
on election week, but on election day. To US Code

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Section seven, the tuesday next after the first Monday in
November in every even numbered year is established as the
day for the election in each of the states and
territories of the United States of Representatives and Delegates to
the Congress commencing on the third day of January next thereafter.

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What that means in plain English, every federal election in
an even numbered year, where we elect every single member
of the House of Representatives is to take place the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Election day very
clearly means a day when election day is over. The
election is over. To US Code Section one essentially ties

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senate elections. Remember, we didn't initially directly elect senators in
this country. State legislatures, which were elected by the people
would appoint US senators. But once we had the direct
election of senators, federal law basically made Senate elections tied
directly to House elections. Three US Code Section one, it
was called the Presidential Election Act. That determines the day

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of the presidential election same Tuesday, first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November. Now, those statutes don't just set
a day for voting to begin. They established the day
for the election itself. Now, that is the point under
federal law at which the choice of federal officers is

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made and finalized. If you allow ballots to be received
and counted days or even weeks later, it effectively extends
election day for some voters but not for others. This
creates an untenable situation which you have a rolling or
multi day federal election, which clearly violates the statute's plaining

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text and plane purpose. And the Supreme Court repeatedly upheld
this idea that election day means election day, and that
states looking at you California, can't simply say we're going
to do our own thing, going to accept ballots whenever
they come in. In nineteen ninety seven, there was a
very big case called Foster v. Love, and it was

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a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court. It was a
decision on an open primary system in Louisiana. What this
determined was Louisiana's system which could theoretically declare the winner
of an election in October. Say, if a candidate who
came out of the primary got fifty percent of the

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vote plus one, you could actually be named the winner
of a congressional election in October. That is, of course,
about a month before federal election day. The first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November. The Supreme Court was
unanimous back in nineteen ninety seven in Foster, and held
that Louisiana's open primary system violated those same statutes that

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I just listed, Just as David Suitor in his majority opinion,
writing again for a unanimous court, The court's liberals, even
Ruth Vader Ginsburg, held that quote, federal law requires the
combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a

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final selection of an office holder must occur on the
federally prescribed day. This doesn't just mean that voters cast
their ballots on election day. This also means that the
mechanism of counting the votes, the mechanism of determining which
candidate one. Now, yes, obviously there are reviews of the elections.

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The elections get certified a couple of weeks later, but
that's essentially a procedural issue. We know, barring something totally unforeseen,
if there is a recount, if there is enough fraud.
Fraud that is what's known as outcome determinative, meaning that
if there's so much fraud it actually did impact the
outcome of the election, then something can change. But in Foster,

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the Court was very clear. Quote. When the federal statutes
speak of the election of a senator or representative, they
plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials
meant to make a final selection of an office holder. Furthermore, quote,
the federal statutes plainly require the election of federal officers

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to occur on a federally prescribed election day. This doesn't
mean that if the ballots are postmarked by election day
and the voters filled them out by election day, we think,
we hope that they actually filled them out by election day.
We hope that the people who are accepting these ballots

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well after election day are going to be trustworthy enough
to say, oh, yes, yes, yes, they were postmarked by
election day. That ultimately doesn't matter because under federal law,
under the Foster v. Love precedent that was set nearly
thirty years ago. And remember, the same leftists who are

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cheering this decision today, we're the same one saying, how
dare you overturn settled precedent fifty years settled precedent in
Roe v. Wade, In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's health
decision of twenty twenty two that overturned row well Essentially,
what just happened today is that Foster v. Love was overturned,

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and the Supreme Court, a deeply divided Supreme Court, in
a very surprising ruling, overturned Foster by saying, yes, well,
as long as the ballots are postmarked by election day,
they can be received five days after the election, or say,
California could determine that a ballot can come in two
weeks after the election. Yes, yes, yes, obviously we're not.

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You can totally trust us, bro, This ballot definitely was
postmarked by election day. It doesn't matter because the voter
voted by election day. Just so long as that happened,
it doesn't matter whether or not the ballot was actually counted,
whether or not the election was actually finalized by election day.

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As you can imagine, Samuel Alito had something to say
about this in his Descent. If ballots received after election day,
he writes, are added to the set of ballots that
dictate the election's outcome, the electorate's choice does not occur
on election day, and the federal election day statutes are violated.

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He emphasized the federal statutes that I just cited that
would seem to be pretty self evident that Tuesday after
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is
the day by which we have to determine who's going
to Congress next January third. We have to determine who's
going to the United States Senate. We have to determine

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who the electoral college is going to meet in a
couple of weeks to vote for and select as president.
Alito emphasized those statutes and said, look, the final authoritative
choice of the electorate needs to be made on the
uniform federal election day quote. The collection of individual ballots
is the equivalent of a single document declaring the winner

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of each race. This expression of the electorate's choices is
conveyed to the responsible election officials when the collection of
individual ballots is completed. At that point, the electorate authoritatively
expresses its choices. If that doesn't happen on the prescribed
election day, if instead that happens sometime in the distant future,

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and in California, as we saw just a couple of
weeks ago in the Los Angeles mayoral election, that could
happen several weeks after election day. But even more egregiously
and even more relevant for the purposes of this decision.
In twenty twenty four, in the thirteenth Congressional District election,

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it was almost a month after the federal election day
November fifth, that the race was called. Would it surprise
you that a Republican incumbent by the name of John
Duarte went from a comfortable lead on election night to
losing very, very narrowly to a Democrat challenger by the

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name of Adam Gray, almost entirely on the strength of
ballots that arrived long after November fifth. There were several
races in California, another one where there was a Republican loss.
It was decided on November twenty seventh. Again, federal elections
that are decided after the federal election day. The Supreme

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Court's decision today was unconscionable because it takes the plain
meaning of federal statute election day and perverts it to
allow for a practice that is ripe for fraud, that
is ripe for abuse that we know is at the

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very least seeding the seeds of doubt in people's minds
that they can't trust federal elections, that they can't trust
any elections because no matter how big a lite is
and It should go without saying that those leads are
never safe for one political party. That there is one
political party that always seems to come back and always

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seems to make up nearly impossible ground by virtue of
mail in ballots that come in long after election day.
It's never is though Democrats are losing these races, Republicans
are coming back. It's Democrats always are winning races based
on the strength of votes that come in after election day.

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Then we have situation in which those same Democrats say, well,
you're just an election denier if you suggest that there's
anything untoward or anything suspicious about ballots that are allowed
to be counted five six, seven days, two weeks after
election day so long as they're quote unquote postmarked by

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election day, something that people might or might not even
be checking for, Well, then you're a conspiracy theorist. Do
you just have to trust the process, like we're some
brain dead Philadelphia seventy six ers fan trying to tank
our way to an NBA championship. There is no trusting
this process, and frankly, there is no trusting Chief Justice

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John Roberts or the incredibly disappointing Trump nominee Amy Coney
Barrett to actually get the constitution right. These are people
who fancy themselves strict constructionists. These are people who fancy
themselves the opponents of judicial activism. This is the worst
sort of judicial activism. Statute could not be clearer. Federal

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law says election day is when all election activities need
to end. Cony Barrett and Robert said, Nah, not really.
The elections end when the states say they do, and
really when we say the states can say they do.

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Why is this such a big problem. Well, coincidentally enough,
we just found out with another bit of election craziness
coming out of where else, the city of Green Bay.
We'll get to that next here on the Dan o'donald Show.
Welcome back. It is the Dan o'donald Show, heading into

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America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. We are going to
have specialty programming coming up in the five o'clock our
objective proof that America is the greatest country on Earth. Well,
the same day that the United States Supreme Court rules that, yeah,
you can just kind of keep collecting and counting absentee

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ballots until you darn well please. In federal elections, there
is no federal election day. This is a horrific ruling. Today,
the City of Green Bay proves why we do need uniformity,
both at the federal level and at the state level.
For the second time this year, the City of Green
Bay has admitted to potentially sending out duplicate absentee ballots.

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In a social media post yesterday, the city said it
finished sending out a total of five thousand, eighty four
absentee ballots for the upcoming August primary election this past Thursday.
According to Wisconsin Public Radio, over the weekend, city staff
became aware that some voters in seven wards and part
of an eighth may have received a duplicate ballotens about

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fifty voting wards. The city sends plans to send letters
to voters who received two ballots with instructions to only
return one. Stop me if you've heard this before. This
comes just a couple of months after more than one
hundred and fifty people in Green Bay received two absentee
ballots ahead of this year's April state Supreme Court election,

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prompting Republicans to file a complaint against the city with
the state agency overseeing elections. In a statement regarding the
most recent error. City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys said her office
tries to ensure green Bay voters receive clear, accurate, and
reliable election administration. She said, I regret the printing error occurred.

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I assure our voters that only one ballot per eligible
voter will be tabulated. I encourage any voter with questions
to contact our office directly. A spokesperson for the City
of Green Bay said officials are investigating the law of
the error and will provide updates as they become available.
The spokesperson declined to provide an interview. The city didn't

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provide an estimate for just how many duplicate ballots may
have gone out. The Republican Party has now, of course,
called for an election or an investigation into this election era.
The city made the exact same mistake back in April.
Now this morning, State Representative Shay Sortwell, a Republican from

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two Rivers, questioned Jeffrey's job security, just wondering when the
complete incompetence of green Bay municipal clerk to be able
to properly run an election will result in the mayor
doing his job by asking the city council to fire
his appointee now, of course, this being Wisconsin Public Radio.

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The story then goes on to say, well, Republicans have
tied this into their conspiracy theory that somehow the City
of green Bay was violating state elections law on the
way it ran the twenty twenty presidential election. The City
of green Bay actually violated several state statutes. I outlined
this extensively six years ago and don't really feel the

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need to do so again. Suffice it to say, they
turned over the administration of the election to one of
those people who was working with the Zuckerbucks organization. This
was Michael Spitzer Rubinstein, who was with the National Vote
at Home Institute. He was basically running the City of
green Bay's election. This is a huge violation of state law.

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Only the municipal clerk. Only the city clerk, who was
not Celestine Jeffries at the time. It was a clerk
who actually resigned just a couple of weeks before the
election because she was furious that she was not She
was distraught that she was not being allowed to run
anything and instead this was being outsourced to those private groups. Well,

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now for a second straight election, and I don't believe
that least I like to hope that there's nothing nefarious
going on here, that this isn't an intentional way of
getting multiple ballots out to the people who are much
more likely to vote absentee Democrats. I think this is
just pure bureaucratick incompetence. I'm going to join Shay Sortwell

(21:18):
in not just wondering whether the municipal court or when
the municipal clerk is going to be fired, but to
demand this woman who was essentially the mayor of Green Bay,
Eric Genrich's second in command during the twenty twenty presidential election.
This woman has been screwing up elections, either intentionally or

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by her sheer pure, unfiltered, unadulterated idiocy for six years. Now,
does she have like naked pictures of the Was he
doing one of those crazy nude bike rides that the
LGBTQ plus minus ampersand community can't stop taking part in
in major cities. It's just not a nude bike ride

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unless you're riding your bike nude in front of a
bunch of kids. Was he taking part in one of these?
And Celestine Jeffries has got the pictures? What is going
on here? This woman absolutely needs to be fired yesterday.
Just every election, we're gonna say, oops, we send out
a couple of absentee ballots that shouldn't have gone out.
Oh well, there's one hundred and fifty. There's two hundred

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and fifty spare ballots that are going out in the wild.
This is precisely what Democrats have or Republicans have been
saying for decades now that mail in ballots are the
easiest way to defraud elections because there is no chain
of custody with them. When you have ballots that are
just sort of sent out to everybody and anybody, and

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remember in California, that's the law. They just send out
ballots to everybody every address. You could be living at
an address, you'll get a ballot for somebody who hasn't
lived there in twenty five years. It's a relatively common
thing that goes up in California, and now it's apparently
a common thing if you live in Green Bay and
you sign up for absentee ballots, if you get mail
in ballots, you're just going to get two or three

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per election. Now, this doesn't per se provide evidence that
there's vote fraud going on, but let's see is it
easier to commit vote fraud or more difficult to commit
vote fraud when you have got a whole lot more
ballots out there in the wild, then there are people
who are eligible to vote using those ballots. This needs

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to be punished. And this is precisely why the US
Supreme Court made such a grave grievous error by allowing
these mail in ballots to come in well after the election,
because if these are ballots that are not properly filled out,
if these are ballots that aren't supposed to be filled out, well,
it just gives a whole lot more time for those

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ballots to keep coming in and the people who are
counting them, whether they're counting them upperly or not, to
add votes to the total, to keep the election going,
and to keep counting ballots until they get the result
people want. Look, if you don't want people like me
to constantly question what big Democrat cities are doing, and

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whether or not the people who are in charge of
counting the ballots and sending the ballots out are doing
so on the up and up, or are too incompetent
to continue to have jobs. Stop doing things that cause
any reasonable person to question whether or not you are
actually on the up and up. One time this happens. Okay,

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it's a printing error. Two straight elections where more ballots
are being sent out than there are people to cast them.
That starts to become a pattern, and that starts to
become incredibly suspicious. Coming up next here on the Dan
O'Donnell Show, in about twenty five minutes or so, Francesca

(24:57):
Hong finds someone to stream with who's even more nuts
than her. It's the Franny and Hassan Piker Show. We'll
get into that next All week long, a salute to

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these great United States, counting down the days until America's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Here on the Dan o'donald Show,
Welcome back to it. About twenty minutes or so from now,
leading gubernatorial candidate Francesco Hang here in Wisconsin is going
to join leading socialist whack job Hassan Piker on his

(25:42):
incredibly popular radical left socialist live stream. Now this comes
as the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary just might be the
single most watched in America. That is not hyperbole, that
is a fact. After the running sweep of socialists in

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New York's congressional and state legislative Democrat primaries last week
that had a lot of people on both the left
and right incredibly concerned about the direction of the Democratic
Party nationally and also the potential for socialists to actually
start winning in places other than what's affectionately known as

(26:23):
the commie corridor in New York City. Yes, New York
is a very, very liberal place, but if an outright
communist can win in a place like say Wisconsin, the
ultimate swing state, then communists can win anywhere. Now, this
s has been this appearance which is set to begin.

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Hong posted originally today that it was going to take
place sometime just before two pm. Shocker, a socialist is
late for something. Hassan apparently was well behind schedule, And
now Franny is not going to app here until about
four pm, so about seventeen minutes from now. Yes, we
are monitoring this at the Heartland Post and here at

(27:08):
the Dan O'Donnell Show, and we will bring you all
relevant craziness as it comes in. Just how nuts is
Hassan piker? This is the sort of stuff he says
semi regularly.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Those motherfuckers and mone of those motherfuckers in the street
let the streets, Let the streets soak in their fucking
red capitalist bloods, dude.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
So first of all, it's red capitalist blood. The plural
of blood is blood. But apparently you don't need to
be particularly bright to be the single biggest left wing
streaming star in the world. At the same time, left
wing talk radio is proving again and again and again

(27:53):
that it simply can't succeed. Civic Media, you might remember,
launched to great fanfare they are going to take over.
They are going to stop all of us evil capitalist
right wing radio hosts here in Wisconsin. Well, Civic Media
just announced Friday afternoon news dump they're shutting down a
number of their signals because they can't afford to keep

(28:16):
the lights on. Womp, womp, womp. I will never take
joy in somebody else losing their job, especially not in radio.
It's a very difficult business. As I think everybody knows,
our company, iHeartMedia is engaged in a massive round of layoffs.
It's it's a very tough business. But at the same
time left wing talk radio is failing. This guy is

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about as popular as it gets, primarily because you can't
just go on an FCC regulated radio signal and start screaming,
I want to kill all the capitalists, Let all of
the streets run red with their blood. He also said,
if you want to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid fraud,

(29:02):
you don't need to go along with Rick Scott, the
Senator from Florida's proposal. You need to kill Rick Scott.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you
would kill Rick Scott. Okay, you wouldn't make Rick Scott
former governor of Florida Rick Scott. You wouldn't make him
the current What is his current office?

Speaker 4 (29:24):
What is he?

Speaker 3 (29:24):
He's the Richard Lynn Scott as an American attorney, business
and politician Navy venteran serving is the senior United States
Senator from Florida.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
A seed he is helped.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Okay, is this what this guy's live stream is? He
just kind of goes on Wikipedia to fill in the
gaps of his own ignorance.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Since twenty nineteen, and also I believe this past election
cycle he was literally the head of the what was it, like,
the Senate Committee or something.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Okay, do people actually like find this entertaining? He was
just kind of going through Wikipedia because he wasn't right
sure what Rick Scott got? Like, why do we want
to kill Rick Scott? Let me look up what capitalist
position does he have?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, he's the senior United States said, yeah, it's okay,
we should probably kill him.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
He then goes in on Dan Crenshaw. You might know him.
He is the Texas Republican congressman. He lost an eye
in combat. He rips on him and said he lost
his eye because a brave mouja Hadeen fighter, shall we say,
did incredibly inappropriate things with it. And then he just

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drops in a yeah, you know what, America deserved nine
to eleven.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
This guy has the understanding of foreign policy of like
a twelve year old What the what the fuck is
wrong with this dude? Didn't he go to warre and
like literally lose his eye becaust the musa hadeen, a
brave soldier does eyehole with their Isn't that how he
lost his eye because he got a seaking iyehole? America
deserved nine to eleven, dude, thing.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I'm sorry did did a whole bunch of people not
want to fire me for making a tame joke? A
couple of months back that am I hallucinating that that
happened in the same universe that this is the most
popular left wing streamer on planet Earth. It folks, see,

(31:23):
I notice things like this. I also notice that the
Democratic Party of Wisconsin was trying to make Tom Tiffany's
connection to me politically toxic. You got Francesca Harn going
on this guy's stream that. Do you realize there is
a twenty minute compilation. I contemplated playing a significant portion

(31:46):
of this just to let you people know how dangerously
radical Hassan Piker is and how dangerous it is that
we have got people who are simpatico with him in
Francesca han that are dangerously close to winning incredible power
here in our state. Unless you think, well, Dan, this
is just hyperbole. He's not actually a bad guy. Uh.

(32:09):
Here is him using a shock caller to repeatedly shock
his dog while live on a street.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
All of America's much more consequential violence. Okay, it's the
same reason as to why America kaya please just skin gold.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
You stop? You hear that? How's him shocking his dog?

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Jesus Christ, what are you doing? You're being such a baby.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, because you just shocked the life out of her,
and he did so repeatedly. By the way, all of
you lefties who actually went to the Ridgelin Beagele farm
to protest so that the Ridgelin Beagles, how many of
you people are tuning into the Franni Hong Hassan Piker

(33:03):
Dog Shock Kill Capitalist fun Time Hour that starts in
about ten minutes. In another life, this guy would be
so toxic that there would be no chance that Francesca
Honk could ever appear on his program, ever appear in public.
But because we're apparently just fine with murderous psychopaths like

(33:25):
Hassan Piker and apparently the women who love him, like
Franni Hong, getting seats at the table of power in
this country. If you are an avowed crazy leftist, those
rules are just completely gone. Pardon me if I don't
take What is that hair lipped moron who is in

(33:45):
charge of the State Democratic Party? Now, seriously, it's it's
Timu ben Wickler. I don't even remember his name. Devon
Devin Devin Remicker, Devin Remicker for an entire week, an
entire week, using his impotent little delusion of power to
try to get me fired. That did a whole hell

(34:07):
of a lot of good dev Maybe work on shaving
yourself properly. While we have his leading candidate appearing on
This guy show. On This Guy's show, I it's hilarious
to me. Jay Weber makes a joke about Tim Walls's kid. Oh,

(34:28):
he needs to be fired, Dan o'doond he needs to
be fired. This is Hassan Piker's whole thing. Kill all
the capitalists, let the streets run red with their But
he might as well rename his show to that, and
Democrats are clamoring to appear with him. Who is it,

(34:50):
Philip Philip Fullman, Shulman Pullman's they're spokesman. He's the modern
day Graham Zolyinsky. Half of the cocaine abuse, twice of
the crazy. That's basically what it is. Oh, oh my god.
Tom Tiffany announced his candidacy on Dan o'donald's show. We're

(35:13):
gonna And then they get, Then they get Then they
get the single dopiest reporter in the history of the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, guy by the name of Drake Bentley,
who has now gone to something much more his intellectual speed,
a civic media owned rag And they try to run
this constant, constant thing. Oh, Dan o'donald, any story about

(35:38):
Franny Hong going on with the murderous socialist? Of course not,
of course not. We could have get Molly Beck to
email Franni Hong to see if she agrees with the
dog shocking violent fantasies about anybody who dares to participate
in America's capitalist system. Of course that. So spare me

(36:02):
your outrage about Donald Trump or Dan o'donald or any
Derek van Orden or anybody else. You people have forfeited
any right to say anything about anything that we say,
so long as you're totally cool with Franny Hong going
on with this literal piker. We named the Unhinged Liberal

(36:27):
of the day. When The Dan o'donald Show returns, Welcome back,
it is the Dan o'donald Show. I think we've got
time for a phone call before we get to the
unhinged Liberal of the Day. We go to John is
It in Mondoline, Illinois. Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show.

(36:47):
Happy two hundred and fiftieth sir.

Speaker 7 (36:50):
Thank you, thank you for taking my calling. Maybe you'll
decide I'm the unhinged liberal for the day.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Oh, probably you'd have to figure it out to go
real south, real quick. John, That's all right, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
I know you guys are really upset about Amy Coney
Barrett's vote in the Supreme Court on the date that
mail in votes can be postmarked. And I know that
the President, even at this hour, is saying that he's
far more interested in getting the Save Acts passed than
in affordable housing legislation. I was going to ask you, though,

(37:27):
I just it's a real simple question. I'm wondering if
you can tell me the name of any of the
fifty states, any state where the people with the legitimate
authority to assess the security of voting ever concluded that
the outcome of any election in their state was altered
by people lying about their identity at the polls or

(37:49):
by non citizens voting.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
I'll actually the name of a state. I'll actually do
one better. I'll give you a president of the United
States not named Donald Trump, and not even a Republican,
who determined that mail in balloting was actually the single
biggest four form of potential vote fraud in the country.
We are really running close to the top of the hour.
I'll try to get to this after the top of

(38:12):
the hour, Jimmy Carter in two thousand and five Bipartisan Commission,
John Hope. That helps. We'll get to this after the
top of the hour. News got to step aside for
the news. Look right back, man, I did goosebumps every
time I hear that, and I'm the one who made

(38:33):
that open Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show. Just
goosebumps hearing all of those great American speeches, all of
those great moments in American history. Ahead of our two
hundred and fiftieth birthday this coming Saturday, July fourth, twenty
twenty six, coming up on tomorrow's show. The single greatest

(38:57):
most American piece of writing ever didn't come from a president,
It didn't come from a great celebrated American author like
Mark Twain. It came from an everyday American, a lawyer actually,
but not writing in a court, writing home to his

(39:17):
wife while he was on a Civil War battlefield. It
tells everything about what it is to be an American,
what it means to sacrifice for this country, what it
means to truly put a love of who we are
as a people above everything, above every joy in life,

(39:38):
including life itself, the single greatest piece of American writing
coming up tomorrow here on the Dan O'Donnell's show, Special
programming Today, America is the single best country on earth,
and I can objectively prove it. Please understand, ladies and gentlemen,
that I can prove literally everything I say. We had

(39:59):
a caller John from Munda Line, Illinois. Right, is that? Yeah? Okay,
that's what I thought, John in Mundaaline, Illinois, very very polite,
very good question. Actually, and he said, name a state
where an election was actually overturned because of mail in
ballot fraud. Well, first of all, I said, I can
do one better. Completely lost track of time. We were

(40:22):
running up against the top of the hour. Have no fear.
We are still going to do the unhinged liberal of
the day because it is just so incredibly good, It's
so perfect for this fourth of July, America's two hundred
and fiftieth birthday week. First of all, I said I
would do one better. How about Jimmy Carter. The so
called Carter Baker Commission was called the Commission on Federal

(40:44):
Election Reform. It was organized by American University Center for
Democracy and Election Management, funded by a group of philanthropic organizations,
and they published a report quote Building Confidence in US Elections. Now,
this was bipartisan report co chaired by James Baker and
former President Jimmy Carter back in two thousand and five.

(41:06):
One of the key findings quote absentee ballots remain the
largest source of potential voter fraud end quote Voting by
mail is likely to increase the risks of fraud and
of contested elections in certain states. Well, Mark or John
or whoever our caller was actually went on the Facebook

(41:28):
feed to say, remember, Dan, I'm not talking about some
theoretical conclusion by Jimmy Carter. I want actual fraud again.
Please always, ladies and gentlemen, always, always, always, always understand this.
I can always back up what I say. My knowledge
of this stuff is much greater than you liberals give

(41:51):
me credit for. And it is much greater than you
liberals knowledge in the first place. It was, in fact,
the very first time a congressional election had ever been
overturned on fraud grounds. It happened in North Carolina in
twenty eighteen. Republican candidate Mark Harris, after the ballots were counted,

(42:14):
led a Democrat by the name of Dan McCrady by
nine hundred and five votes, but the North Carolina Board
of Elections would not certify the results because of a
whole lot of irregularities with you guessed it, mail in ballots,
primarily in one of the key counties in that congressional district,

(42:35):
Bladen County. There was also a number of problems in
nearby Robeson County. A Republican operative by the name of
mccrad doullas full name Leslie McCray Dallas. He went by
mccraid Dallas. He was hired by Harris's campaign, and apparently,
or at least he claimed it was without his knowledge,

(42:56):
he orchestrated an illegal ballot harvesting scheme in which he
and people who he hired paid workers to simply go
and collect absentee ballots from voters' homes. It was unclear
who was actually filling out those ballots, whether they were
the people who the ballots were addressed to, or whether

(43:16):
it was Dallas and his crew because they were forging signature.
They were absolutely caught filling in blank votes, sometimes with
matching pens, in a scheme to try to avoid detection.
They were falsely claiming to have witnessed ballots, signatures, and
actual voting. They mailed the ballots, apparently in ways that

(43:39):
were designed to conceal the fact that they had tampered
with the votes, and doubtless was apparently well known for
doing this exact sort of thing. There were allegations that
dogged him in twenty sixteen and also in twenty fourteen
before that, So the Board of Elections held hearings andanimously

(44:00):
voted just a couple of months later, February twenty nineteen,
that there needed to be a new election. The election
was actually vacated because of all of the mail in
ballot fraud. This was the first time in American history
that a federal election was actually overturned due to fraud. Now,
there's debate about whether it had happened before, suffice it

(44:24):
to say it was the first time in a long time,
first time in American history, that it was mail in
ballots that were the source of this fraud. Now, even
though Harris determined it was actually his son, weirdly enough,
who blew the whistle on all of the shady stuff
that McCrae Doublass was doing. But Harris actually withdrew. A

(44:44):
new election was held and a Republican still won because
it was a reasonably safe Republican district. Guy by the
name of Dan Bishop won in this do over number
of people were criminally charged, including he actually died in
twenty twenty two before his federal trial could begin. Number

(45:05):
of people pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, and Harris was never
directly implicated, but of course his political career was all
but over. So I believe that was the question, right,
when has mail in ballot fraud? Actually, when has any
actual decision maker in any state overturned an election because

(45:27):
of mail in ballot fraud? I believe that was the
specific question that was asked. It has happened, It's happened recently,
weirdly enough, when it was actually investigated, it was determined
that a Republican cheated or at least had cheating benefit him,
thus proving Jimmy Carter and James Baker from thirteen years earlier,

(45:52):
twenty one years ago now correct that mail in balloting
absolutely is the single easiest way to cheat an election.
We are in pre Nazi Germany. Oh wait, puff is

(46:12):
dangerous because he's evil America didn't get to it at
the end of the last hour. I want to get
to it right now. It is time now to name
the unhinged liberal of the day, and it is indeed
State Representative Lee Snodgrass. She would rather see a whole

(46:34):
bunch of pride parades instead of patriotic Fourth of July parades.
In a twenty eighteen Facebook post that our staff over
at the Heartland Post found in a group called Pride
Parade in the Fox Cities Make It Happen twenty nineteen, Snodgrass,

(46:54):
who's listed as one of the group's administrators, wrote, Appleton
has so many damn parades. I'm tired of parades with
patriotic pride and am itching for one with LGBTQ pride.
Who's with me? She then instructs members to research municipalities

(47:15):
and what it costs to host a parade, decide how
to fund it, decide the city route and date, partner
with area organizations, and start the fun stuff. She is
so so tired of all of these patriotic parades. She
just wants to see a pride parade. Lease Nodgrass, your

(47:38):
unhinged liberal of the day. We will get to the
daily Trump date coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Right now, we help you know the difference between financial advisors.
A financial advisor you can always have pride in because
he is working with and for you as a fee
only fiduciary. You like that transition there, day, Spawno. He

(48:00):
is Dave Spano, the CEO of AIX Wealth Management. I'm
a pro. I am a pro at these transitions here.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah, I know, I'd rather talk about the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary and what a great time it is
for this country and all the positive things that are happening,
and the positive things Dan that are happening in the economy.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
See, I've rubbed off on him transitioning from the positives
of America's two fifty to the positives in the economy.
That see. That is you don't even need to prope you.
You could be the CEO of the Dan O'Donnell show.
That's how that's how professional that broadcasting just sounded. You're right, though,
I mean, my goodness, the market completely brushing aside the

(48:42):
fact that the ceasefire isn't exactly ceasing any fire over
in Iran, although they agreed not to shoot at each other,
while there are more meetings taking place this week. A
strong day on Wall Street, insanely strong earnings. What a
thirty percent of the S and P five hundred this
past earning season, I mean GDP number is expected to

(49:05):
be through the roof in Q two. There is just
a tremendous amount to feel good about.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
And it really is. And that's that's where I was going.
It was a nice spin, thank you very much. But yeah,
I mean thirty percent earnings growth on the S and P.
I mean if you look on a list, I mean
that is near the top of expectations. And that's the
other thing. The expectations for next quarter are strong again,
so it's not wasn't just a one quarter thing. So

(49:33):
earnings growth will be good. Number two, you've got a
fed share in place, and all that consternation is behind
this really good stuff. Now with that, you're going to
have some volatility, there's no doubt about it. But inflation
expectations are coming down, rates are coming down, and you think,
why are people so crabby all the time, Well, you

(49:54):
know it's part of it is they get fed so
much negativity. When you look at your portfolio right now,
you have to think that you are on track, and
if you aren't on track, there's things that you can
do about it. But yes, earning's growth is good. You know,
crude oil crude oil now DAN is under where it
was when this conflict began, under seventy dollars a barrel.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Isn't that amazing that I'm shocked by that. I'm equally
shocked by the fact that we're not paying like two
dollars and fifteen cents the pump. It's making me question
could there be something else at play than maybe global
market dynamics here.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Do you remember back in the day when they actually
actually put the gas prices up and they'd have to
get the ladder out and right and and change the numbers. Now,
if oil prices used to go up, they were there
first thing, six am in the morning, But as they
went down the ladder, that ladder kind of hung back
for a little bit. But yeah, so when oil prices
are coming down, you're not seeing the gas prices come

(50:53):
down as much. You can probably argue that's because we're
in the middle of the driving season, especially over this weekend, DAN,
A lot of people will be moving around, so there's
a demand happening. But again, thirty percent earnings growth that
looks forward, that looks good going forward, fed share in place,
his expectations to try to get things under control. Inflation

(51:15):
expectations are coming down. Oil is good, GDP report is good.
All of this means as we get into the mid
part of the year, are you positioned correctly? And that's
what you got to think about. Folks. You know what
is in your portfolio now. As you and I talked
about earlier today, Dan, this is not a set it
and forget it now. There are things that are happening
in the portfolio that you can do. This halfway mark

(51:36):
of the year is probably the time to take an
assessment and think about where we go from here.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
It absolutely is. Hey, Dave, always appreciate having you on.
Have a wonderful fourth of July. Are you doing anything
special with the family for the two fiftieth or is
it just going to be a pretty typical fourth of
July for you?

Speaker 4 (51:53):
It's going to be typical. But we all recognize where
we are and you know some of the things that
we are doing, Dan, and I'm sure you're doing as well.
Think not about the last two hundred and fifty years,
but the last fifty years of where we were think
about you know, nineteen seventies when you know people were,
you know, pushing their cars into the gas stations and
the things that were different just in fifty years of

(52:13):
time in this country. So people should be far more
positive of what's going what's going to come than what
has been.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Happy Fourth of July to you and from everybody and
to everybody at Annex Wealth Management. They are the fee
only fiduciaries working with and for you to plan your
family's financial future. Get a free review of your portfolio
at annexwealth dot com. Coming up next, the Daily Trump Date,

(52:42):
We take a look at what is going on in
Donald Trump's Washington, the Great American State Fair, and much
much more. Stay tuned. We'll be right back in just
a second. I am hearing from our staff which is

(53:03):
monitoring the Hassan Piker Franni Hawk live stream going on
right now on the Hassan Pikers show on Twitch that
Franny is and I quote fan girling for the murderous
Kami Hassan Piker folks. Just to be clear, every single

(53:26):
Democrat in this state was calling for me to be
fired over a joke, But they are loving the fact
that Francesco Hang, they're leading gubernatorial Democrat candidate, is on
with a guy who sincerely calls for the homicide of capitalists,

(53:48):
not just his political opponents. He wants the streets to
run red with their capitalist blood, sort of like the
healthcare ceo who got murdered in the streets by a
Hassan Piker follower, Luigi Mangioni. While all sorts of Hassan

(54:09):
Piker followers cheered. Because Mangioni struck a blow against the
evil capitalists, and because the healthcare CEO was committing violence
against people by denying their healthcare claims, his murder was justified.
Just remember who these people are. Remember, you know, we

(54:34):
laugh at people like Lee Snodgrass who are tired of
all these patriotic parades and just want to celebrate a
gay Pride parade for once. But that sort of is
the mantra of the left. They'll salute any flag but
the American flag. They will support any parade save for

(54:54):
a Fourth of July parade. We are getting to the
point where they despise this country and they are perfectly
fine with violent revolution to take it down. Fortunately, we
do have a whole lot of forces standing in their way,
most notably one in the White House. Ladies and gentlemen

(55:14):
at his time. Now for the daily Trump day.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win more. President Trump posting on truth Social
today in response to the United States Supreme Court's shocking,
shocking decision. It was a shocking decision allowing election day
to just kind of stretch out as long as states
determine election day can stretch out for writing quote. In

(55:49):
light of the tremendous loss in the Supreme Court today
concerning voters' rights and the fact that people's votes are
allowed to be counted long after an election is over,
it is more important than ever to pass this DA
America Act, which is what all voters must show photo ID,
all voters must show proof of citizenship, and three no
mail in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel.

(56:13):
There is no excuse for a politician or otherwise to
be against the above three requirements, there is only one
reason to oppose cheating. The House of Representatives has approved
this vital act three times. The United States Senate seems
unable to do so in a time when there is
a powerful communist movement taking place in our country, one

(56:33):
more dangerous than World War One, World War two. Pearl
Harbor or September eleventh. All Democrats and our five Republican
Senate holdouts Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Tom Tillis, Bill Cassidy,
and Mitch McConnell must vote to save our country. There
can be no more excuses. Thank you for your attention
to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. The President is

(56:56):
this week turning his attention to the great America in
State Fair in America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Interior
Secretary Doug Bergham on Fox News this morning, saying that Washington,
DC is expecting record visitors this year.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
Here we are celebrating this remarkable, in some ways improbable,
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. I mean, you think about
how our country was started, those patriots taking on the
greatest military power in the world at the time, Great Britain,
winning that battle America. If we look down the mall
at the other end of the Lincoln Memorial, eighty years
after we signed the dect waste of independence. Country almost

(57:33):
didn't make it, almost fell apart during the Civil War.
But thanks to the leadership of folks like President Lincoln,
we made it through that. And then here we are
all the way up to our two fifty. And what
a remarkable country based on freedom and independent based on
fifty states. You'd like to think that every state would
want to put their best foot forward when we have
millions and millions of visitors coming to the National Mall.

(57:54):
We expect the record number of visitors this year, just
on the fourth of July with the Salute to America.
You know, it's going to be an amazing celebration.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
That Unfortunately, ten states are not represented at the Great
American State Fair. As you can imagine, all ten are
Democrat states, and all ten well just don't want to
be associated with anything having to do with President Trump.
It's remarkable this guy's ability to get Democrats to get

(58:25):
his political opponents to support the most asinine possible ideas,
the idea that we're not going to take part as
a state in America's celebration of its two hundred and
fiftieth birthday because we don't like the current president. Okay, well,
I guess at least we can be thankful that some

(58:48):
of those governors, most notably Illinois, some of those governors
like JB. Pritzker, they're not actively out vandalizing the national
reflecting pool outside of the Lincoln Memorial, but that is
exactly what is going on. Multiple arrests, including of a
former Olympic canoeist. An Olympic athlete was arrested for trying

(59:13):
to destroy the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool because they didn't
want President Trump to be successful in recoating it and
preventing the LG from growing. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jacksonville,
it is.

Speaker 8 (59:28):
Absolutely sick that these Trump deranged whack jobs are vandalizing
our beautiful national mall, our beautiful national monuments, all because
they hate President Trump. I mean, really, there is nothing
more to say other than it is sick. And President
Trump has made his message known loud and clear that

(59:48):
if you break the law, if you vandalize our monuments,
you will be held accountable.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
And I just think it.

Speaker 8 (59:54):
Is really sad to see that there is this division
amongst the left on our country at a time when
we to all be coming together to celebrate America's two
hundred and fiftieth birthday. Something this administration is doing making
DC safe and beautiful for everyone, regardless of their political affiliation.
There are sadly folks on the left who can't have
that same unified spirit that President Trump is projecting ahead

(01:00:16):
of our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
We are in fact going to get into that coming
up in the five o'clock hour as part of our
special America to fifty coverageat Ladies and Gentlemen, is your
daily Trump Day Coming up next here on the Dan
o'donald Show, the Milwaukee Bucks find themselves smack dab in
the middle of a massive sports betting scandal. Stay tuned.

(01:00:40):
Dan o'donald's show is coming back before you know it.
Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show. Coming up at
the top of the five o'clock hour, We have got
some I'm sorry, I'm getting a little distracted. My staff

(01:01:00):
over at the Heartland Post is watching the Francesco Hong
Hassan Piker live stream and apparently now they're getting into
the crazy socialist stuff. I would love to be able
to dip in live ladies and gentlemen, but we will have,
of course, as soon as we can. We'll have a

(01:01:21):
complete roundup. If they said anything nuts, as I assume
they're going to say a bunch of nuts stuff, we
will of course bring it to you here first on
the Dan O'Donnells show coming up next hour. America is
objectively the greatest place on Earth. I can prove it,
and will do so live on the radio. Huge huge

(01:01:42):
NBA gambling scandal that directly involves the Milwaukee Bucks. Malik Beasley,
a former guard for the Bucks, has been charged with
collaborating with former Minnesota Wolves teammate Ed Davis point shave
or to manipulate prop bets in the twenty twenty three

(01:02:05):
twenty twenty four season while he was with the Bucks.
According to the charging documents, Beasley owed millions of dollars
in gambling debts, Davis loaned him money to cover those debts,
and then Beasley allegedly repaid it by manipulating his on
court performance to help a gambling group win prop bets.

(01:02:29):
Several specific games were cited in that federal indictment, all
in the twenty three to twenty four season, all while
Beasley was a member of the Milwaukee Bucks. January twenty
sixth against the Cleveland Cavaliers, in which Beasley scored only
three points, well below his average of eleven point three
points per game that season. February twenty seventh against the

(01:02:52):
Charlotte Hornets. March tenth against the LA Clippers, and there
was a whole lot of online activity better celebrated Beasley
grabbing a key rebound in the final seconds to hit
the over. March twenty first against the Brooklyn Nets. This

(01:03:12):
is where the Feds got onto this scheme. Now, the
group allegedly placed a whole lot of money, tens of
thousands of dollars in betts, using inside information coming from
both Beasley and Davis. Texts in the indictment reference beating
Vegas through sports vetting. Now Beasley is, if he hasn't already,

(01:03:36):
expected to surrender voluntarily this week. His attorney, Stephen Haney said,
in a statement out this morning, we will vigorously defend
the charges. Beasley maintains his innocence. Beasley did sit out
this entire NBA season amid the investigation, which became public
about a year ago. He had signed or was expected

(01:03:59):
to sign a ajor contract with the Detroit Pistons, but
that didn't happen because he is obviously facing a very
very serious charges. Now, what's very interesting about the timing
of this. You might remember the twenty three to twenty
four season was a particularly tumultuous one for the Bucks.

(01:04:19):
On January twenty third, after just a not even a
half of a season, the Bucks fired their head coach.
Three days later, they hired Doc Rivers. Rivers, of course,
a Hall of Fame coach, a Milwaukee legend because of
his stardom with the Marquette Warriors back in the day,

(01:04:41):
held a press conference on the morning of January twenty sixth,
in which he said, what am I doing here? I
really don't want to be here, and you're making a
huge mistake. What are you all doing to me? According
to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article from late last week,
that was the that he lost the locker room in

(01:05:02):
his introductory press conference. That night, January twenty sixth, the
Bucks go out to play the Cleveland Cavaliers at Home
Adviser Forum and Malik Beasley, according to this federal indictment
is shaving points. What an incredible week. By the way,

(01:05:23):
his line that night twenty six minutes, three points, four
fouls and four turnovers. He absolutely did look like he
was tanking in order to hit an under on his
prop bets. Now why this keeps happening? This is part

(01:05:44):
of a much bigger problem for not just the NBA,
but college basketball has been hit very hard by prop
bet shaving scandals and even Major League Baseball, which just
suspended a pitcher for in game prop bet shaving in
which he was not throwing first pitch strikes and there

(01:06:05):
was an unusual amount of money being bet on this
pitcher throwing a first pitch ball. But in the NBA
we have seen players like Terry Rozier and Johntay Porter,
who pleaded guilty in a point shaving scheme and has
since been banned for life from the NBA. Beasley has
a long hissue, a history of financial issues. He has

(01:06:27):
faced a number of lawsuits over his debts, and he
is the perfect sort of mark that the mafia that
any sort of organized sports betting conglomerate or just group
of people will be able to take advantage of and say, Okay, well,
let's say you just fix it so that you don't

(01:06:50):
grab seven rebounds in this game against the Portland Trailblazers.
Easy enough, right. Betting, you might recall, was largely made
illegal in nineteen ninety two by a federal law that
grandfathered in Las Vegas and existing sports betting industries, But

(01:07:13):
in twenty eighteen that law was struck down by the
United States Supreme Court in a decision called murphyv. Incaa
something like that. The Murphy decision had an immediate impact.
When sports betting was effectively legalized across the States. You

(01:07:34):
saw total sports wagers in just five years jump from
about five billion dollars in twenty seventeen, the year before
sports betting was legalized by the Court, to one hundred
and twenty one billion dollars within five years. By twenty
twenty three, online apps handle roughly ninety four percent of

(01:07:58):
all sports bets now, because those bets are coming so quickly,
there is such a tremendous volume of bets, and because
there is so much money being wagered on every single game,
and because prop bets are so ubiquitous, because there are
just so many that you're able to bet on. It's

(01:08:19):
much more difficult to determine whether or not there's a
shaving scandal, or whether there's an unusual amount of action
on some random prop bet for some random player like
Malik Beasley. This is a big problem because roughly thirty
percent of all US sports bets are now props are not, Hey,

(01:08:44):
I'll take the Bucks to win by at least five
and a half over the Brooklyn Nets. No, thirty percent
of all bets, roughly three to ten are I will
bet Malik Beasley to have more than ten points. Now,
the apps themselves are aggressively promoting these as in game

(01:09:07):
real time bets. Why would they do this? Pretty obvious?
All Right, you bet on a game. Once the game starts,
you can't bet more on that game. You can bet okay,
after halftime, halftime plus you know, second half over under
of seventy five total points scored or something like that.

(01:09:30):
But there are way more opportunities okay, second half points
for Steph Curry plus minus fifteen. You can make a
ton of bets in game. So the apps, after you've
already bet on a game, they can assume, Hey, he's
probably watching this game, like, for example, right now, no spoilers.

(01:09:50):
Germany and Paraguay are playing in the World Cup Round
of thirty two. If my app, let's say I'm betting
with Draft Kings, right, if I've already put a bet
on Germany to win, taking them minus two point fifty
on the money line, and let's say we're now in

(01:10:12):
the second half, the app is going to send me alert, Hey,
we think you're probably already watching this game. How about
you put a little more action on it and bet
with this prop. Well, the more prop bets and the
more action that is placed on each prop bet makes
it much more difficult to find malfeasance, like in the

(01:10:32):
Malik Beasley case. Not only that, what we are seeing
is sporting events at a much greater level than ever
before tainted by corruption. I mean, it was a major scandal,
right the Chicago Black Sox allegedly throwing the nineteen nineteen

(01:10:53):
World Series by what is that Arnold mister Big. Rothstein
was apparently the mastermind of that, the big gangster mister Big.
They were all banned from life. Shoeless Joe Jackson is
still not in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame. Like
one hundred and seven years later because he was banned forever.

(01:11:17):
I think it was the commissioner Kennesaw Mountain landis if
I remember that this is like the basis of the
Field of dreams, like trying to clear Shoeless Joe's name. Well, okay,
in actuality, Shoeless Joe almost certainly did throw the nineteen
nineteen World Series. Well, you got Malik Beasley, in a

(01:11:40):
very small way throwing Milwaukee Bucks games, or at least
attempting to. If he's going to keep his scoring percentage under,
say ten, he's going to ensure that so his betters
will make money. He's not going to score ten points,
or maybe he trying to ensure that the game hits

(01:12:02):
the under. Doesn't that necessarily make it less likely that
the Milwaukee Bucks are going to win a game? This
is on a small scale. What we're seeing is the
Terry Rogier scandal. We saw Chauncey Billups, who was Chargio
Hall of Fame player and he was the coach of
I believe was it Portland. At the time. He was

(01:12:25):
more into the fixed poker games where you would go
and you'd play with celebrities like Chauncey Billups or sports
stars like Chauncey Billups, but he was allegedly manipulating lineups
so that he wouldn't play players to ensure that they
were not going to hit their over on rebounds or

(01:12:48):
points or assists or whatever counting stat that people could
be betting on. This is a massive, massive problem. And
this comes at the exact same time that Wisconsin just
voted to give a tremendous amount of power over these apps,
over online sports betting to the Native American tribes, to

(01:13:12):
essentially give a government backed monopoly on sports betting to
the Potawatamee and to the ho Chunk and to the Oneida,
and to the tribes that already have sports books that
already have the ability to take bets. We're, in other words,
expanding sports gaming sports gambling by allowing those apps to

(01:13:35):
come in. Now, they're going to have to put their
servers on the potawatam sports book property, and Potawataomey is
going to take basically a sixty percent fee for all
the profits of DraftKings and fan Duel and all of
them operating here in Wisconsin for the privilege of doing so.
To say nothing of the fact that a whole lot

(01:13:57):
of young people are getting into a whole lot of
trouble by betting way more money than they have the
ability to cover. You're also seeing because of the insane
rise of online sports bet because it is so ubiquitous,
because you can do it from literally everywhere. You don't
need to go to a casino and find a physical

(01:14:19):
roulette wheel in order to place a bet on a
sporting event. It is causing major corruption in professional and
college sports that I just don't see going anywhere. Good.
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(01:18:21):
asked about his reflection on America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

Speaker 9 (01:18:26):
I think this is about past president and future all
that America accomplished during a time period that we knew
absolutely nothing about this domain at all, and yet set
out to achieve grand, big, bold endeavors that no one
thought was impossible, no one thought was possible. The present
President Trump kicked off the Artemis program during his first term.
Now Here we are in business sending the big rockets

(01:18:47):
around the moon again. And then the future, what's the future.
We're returning to the moon to stay. We're building a
base on the moon where we are going to prepare
for where we go next, which is right back to
President Trump's inauguration speech where Americans will plant the flag
on Mars.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
So and in fact, does anyone have any doubt that
it will be America that plants its flag on Mars first,
of course, not we were the ones who planted our
flag on the Moon. In fact, we were the nation
that dominated space and has dominated space ever since. Our satellites,
our weaponization of the final frontier is unmatched, it's unparalleled.

(01:19:29):
In fact, the domination of space, the domination of exploration
more generally, is sort of a way that America has
over the past half century asserted its global dominance. But
it isn't the only way. Look, folks, last week the
country was reeling somewhat by the sudden and rather unexpected rise,

(01:19:55):
the quick rise. I think people always assumed that social
open America, hating communist socialism, was on the incendency, and
you were going to see communists win significant victories in place.
There is an area of New York City that is
actually called the Commie Corridor for that exact reason, because

(01:20:17):
you have got radical left socialists. So it's not really
much of a surprise that you see radical left socialist
candidates meet the demand of their radical left socialist voters.
But the speed at which this happened was something that
I think caught a lot of people off guard. Okay, yes,

(01:20:39):
this is going to be something when the millennials get
a little older, or maybe when Generation Z comes to
its own politically, we're going to see the rise of
the America hating left. The reality is, and we've been
discussing this on the program for the better part of
two weeks now, the American hating left has always been here.

(01:21:04):
Now it's just far more radicalized and far more open
about just how openly hostile to capitalism, the American ideal
and America itself this movement really is. So we're seeing
things like ten different states refused to take part in

(01:21:25):
the Great American State Fair, which was supposed to be
a celebration of all the states, all the states coming
together and showcasing their best on the National Mall for
hundreds of thousands of people to come. Well, the lefties,
the America hating socialist crazies, are so out there in

(01:21:45):
terms of their hatred for President Trump that not only
are they refusing to attend the Great American State Fair,
they basically threatened and bullied every musical act out of it.
That they're now celebrating the fact that, at least according
to them, it's sparsely attended. I think a lot of

(01:22:07):
the pictures and videos coming out of this are sort
of proving them wrong. But they're trying to make this
so that it's a failure of President Trump. In fact,
there was an article last week. I could not believe this.
There is an article last week about how Democrats are
struggling with how great the FIFA World Cup has been.

(01:22:28):
Just how incredible this tournament has been. People are saying
that this across the globe. They're saying this is the
best World Cup they've ever attended. It is so smooth,
it is so easy. Everybody who's coming to America is
loving it. Big article in Politico last week Democrats are
grappling with the success of the World Cup because they

(01:22:49):
wanted it to be a massive failure that they could
pin on President Trump. They really are rooting for America
to fail. They really are rooting for America to be
taken down a pagant. It's not even necessarily just because
they don't like President Trump. It's because a whole lot
of people on the political left really don't like this country.

(01:23:11):
They don't think it's the greatest place on earth. They
think it's one nation among many. What did Barack Obama
famously say, nearly a generation to go, yes, I believe
in American exceptionalism, just as I'm sure the Japanese believe
in Japanese exceptionalism, or the Brits believe in British exceptionalism. Well, no,

(01:23:33):
there's something a little different about American exceptionalism, and that
is the reality that this country really is the single
best place on Earth. And this isn't just boasting of
a proud American patriot, someone who is admittedly biased in

(01:23:53):
his pro American sentiment. No, America really is the best
country on Earth, and I can objectively prove it. Think
about it this way. Our economy is easily, and I
mean easily, the world's largest. Do you believe that America

(01:24:19):
accounts for roughly a quarter of the entire world's total
economic output a quarter. We have in this country the
most big businesses in the world, but also the most
small businesses. We have the most startups of anywhere on Earth.

(01:24:41):
In fact, so many people are successful here. We have
twenty three point eight million millionaires in the United States.
To put that into some perspective, if our millionaires were
their own separate country, that would be the forty seventh
largest country on Earth, just populated by American millionaires, and

(01:25:06):
Americans aren't selfish with our money. Our billionaires are millionaires,
They're not just hoarding it. America leads the world in
charitable giving by a huge margin. We lead in both
total dollars given every single year and in donations per capita,
meaning how many donations and how many dollars are given

(01:25:30):
per person. America is kind as well as intelligent. We
have more of the top universities in the world than
any place else by a factor of about ten. We
also have more than four hundred Nobel Prizes, far more

(01:25:51):
than any other country, and most of those Nobel Prizes
aren't in literature or aren't in peace, although we do
lead the world in those as well. We lead the
world in Nobel Prizes for chemistry, Nobel Prizes for medicine.
Total Nobel prizes, America leads the way, and it's not

(01:26:12):
even close. We also lead the world in scientific research
and development in terms of total dollars spent and among
total technological breakthroughs. Because we also lead the world in
technology patents, we also lead the world in major research publications. Basically,
if there's a major scientific breakthrough, you can pretty much

(01:26:35):
just assume that it's been made in the United States.
We are the world's top investor in space exploration. We're
the top investor in satellite technology. We have the world's largest, strongest,
and most technologically advanced military, and as the last six
months have shown, it's not particularly close. Athletically, we have

(01:27:01):
more Olympic gold medals and more total medals than any
other nation Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics combined. We dominate. Our
professional sports leagues are by far the best in the world.
Our college sports are unmatched anywhere. Athletes from across the

(01:27:21):
globe tried desperately to come play here. Baseball, basketball, American football,
even the world's game soccer. The top player in the world,
Lionel Messi, wanted to come to the United States. Culturally,
American movies dominate global theaters. American music is played everywhere,

(01:27:43):
American books are required reading in schools across the globe,
and American television shows and American players are reproduced and
performed everywhere. Culturally, athletically, intellectually, militarily, economically, In every area
on which countries can be compared, America leads the world,
and in almost every category there really is no close second,

(01:28:07):
and the rest of the world proves American greatness constantly
because for the past century plus there has been no
country on Earth that people have tried to move to
more than America. The rest of the world wants to
be here. The rest of the world wants to be us.

(01:28:32):
And really there's no greater testament to America's greatness than
that you're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show. Will be
right back in just a second. Before you ask, yes,
that list is going to be written out with every

(01:28:53):
single citation that I have. I try to do a
version of this pretty much a year, just to remind
people how great America is, not was not theoretically can be,
but is how much we dominate the nation or dominate
the world objectively, in every metric that you can rank

(01:29:18):
the nations, we rank number one, and in fact, in
quality of life, this is the one that I just
I always laugh at where it's like, well, America's quality
of life, it pales in comparison to Norway. Do you
know how many people live in Norway? Just take a
wild gas. Just take a wild gas. Do you think
there are more people or fewer people in the state

(01:29:39):
of Wisconsin than in Norway. There are more people in
Wisconsin than who live in Norway. It's close, but I
believe Wisconsin's about five point eight million, Norway's about five
point six million. So yeah, Norway, which is a petro state,
it is insanely wealthy with oil money. The quote unquote

(01:30:04):
quality of life for all people. You have three hundred
million Norwegians, take it a wild guess. They're not going
to live nearly as well as three hundred million Americans.
You take one reasonably sized state, you dump a bunch
of oil money into it. Yes, obviously it's going to be.

(01:30:25):
But in terms of the ability of everyday Norwegians to
purchase anything and everything, no comparison. Want me to prove
it to You want me to prove that the average
American lives better than the average Norwegian. And by the way,
we were just in Norway last a wonderful cut. I

(01:30:47):
could not possibly recommend Norway highly enough. The people are
insanely friendly, the country is beautiful, it is a fantastic place.
But to compare it in any meaningful way to the
United States, I can prove America is a better country
than Norway. In two words, two words. That's all it's
going to take. I want me to do it. Ready,

(01:31:09):
two words, here we go. Air conditioning. No, I'm serious,
air conditioning. Our poorest people in this country are far
more likely to have air conditioning than your average Norwegian.
Do you realize tens of thousands of people across Europe

(01:31:32):
die every single year, and Europe doesn't get anywhere near
as hot as say, Wisconsin is This week, we've got
that extreme heat warning. I believe pretty much through the
rest of the week feels like temperature is going to
be about one hundred and five hundred and ten degrees.
I was out mowing the lawn this morning, and this
was before the heat really set in, and it was

(01:31:53):
a hot one. Let me tell you that European summers
don't get anywhere near as hot as hours and tens
of thousands of people die because they don't have access
to central air. We do. But in a larger broader sense.
The thing that absolutely gets me, and this is something

(01:32:15):
that leftists will undoubtedly say, is not a testament to
American greatness. A we have by far the most billionaires
on earth. We have about nine hundred and eighty nine.
I believe that last count nine hundred and eighty nine billionaires.
We have one trillionaire. He's a South African, but he

(01:32:36):
is one hundred percent American. He loves this country more
than anyone and anything, it seems Elon musk We lead
the world in trillionaires and billionaires, but it's millionaires that
really sets us apart. Yes, we obviously have the super

(01:32:56):
rich having a million dollars not a million dollars liquid
i e. A million dollars in cash, but having a
million dollars in assets is no longer because of inflation,
the massive testament to unfathomable wealth. Being a millionaire does
not mean nearly as much now. The general consensus is

(01:33:19):
you probably need about a million dollars in assets to
comfortably retire, because the retirement age has not really gone
up all that much, but the average age has gone
up significantly. There are twenty three nearly twenty four million

(01:33:40):
millionaires in the United States. All of our millionaires, if
they started their own country, would be the forty seventh
largest country on Earth. We would have more people than Norway, Sweden, Ireland,
and Denmark. I believe combined total population of Norway, Sweden,

(01:34:03):
Denmark and Ireland I believe it's combined total people, we
have more millionaires in the United States. These aren't people
born with silver spoons in their mouth. These are people,
by and large who started well a heating and ac
business that you actually can make money off of in

(01:34:26):
the United States, as opposed to somewhere in Europe where
because of climate regulations you can't have literally life saving technology,
intellectually athletically Olympic medals. My producer Doug and I were
arguing about, oh, that even the soccer leagues, Well, yes, okay,

(01:34:48):
nobody's going to deny the top soccer league in the
world is the Premier League in England, there's just I
mean La Liga sure, in Spain that's basically that's Barcelona
and Ray Madrid. It's that La Liga is two teams,
the prem You've got that, you got the Big six.
Usually the eight eight to ten teams out of the

(01:35:10):
twenty in the Premier League have a legitimate shot of winning.
So okay, soccer what ebbs. Here's the thing about soccer, though,
The only reason America isn't the dominant force in soccer
is because all of our top athletes go to football, basketball,

(01:35:30):
and baseball. Because the top leagues are here in the
United States, and there's such an incredible financial reward, reward
in terms of fame and fortune alike. You see in
the person of Alex Freeman what America would be like
if our top athletes went to soccer instead of football.

(01:35:51):
Alex Freeman is the son of Green Bay Packers great
wide receiver Antonio Freeman. Could you imagine if, say, our
top wide receivers in the NFL, we're all soccer players.
Good luck keeping up with Tyreek Hill when he's got
the ball at his feet. Random Romanian defender. Do you

(01:36:16):
really think anybody is going to be able to keep
up with the size and speed of Justin Jefferson and
Jamar Chase on the soccer pitch? Of course not. But
the point is that in terms of the games that
America plays, those are the games that get exported to

(01:36:37):
the rest of the world. Soccer is the world's game,
to be sure, But is there a more uniquely American
game than basketball? I mean, you actually can trace baseball.
It's all right, Abner Doubleday probably did not invent baseball,
but basketball really can be traced to doctor James Nasmith

(01:36:59):
and spring Field, Massachusetts, putting up the old peach baskets
in the gym. American football, yes, it it sort of
evolved from earlier games, but it's a uniquely American game.
And look at how people wherever the NFL goes love it.
The only reason American football hasn't taken over is because

(01:37:20):
there's such a heavy bar. It costs so much for
the equipment, and it's it's sort of difficult to learn,
but really it's the it's the cost bar that the
world isn't playing it basketball, though all you need is
a hoop, all you need is a ball. The world
loves it in in in every sphere, America is just

(01:37:44):
the dominant nation. But wouldn't you know it, there are
a whole lot of people here who really don't even
like flying the flag. NBC News dives into how many
Americans say the stars and stripes is now a red flag.

(01:38:08):
That's right, flying the red, white, and blue is a
red flag to liberal Americans. We will dive into that
nonsense when the nan O'Donnells Show returns. So who doesn't

(01:38:32):
believe that America is the greatest place on earth? Probably
the people that NBC News is quirky Siemashko, that is
a real name, interviewed that say they don't want to
fly the American flag this fourth of July. The story

(01:38:52):
nbcnews dot com. As a nation turns two fifty, many
Americans say the Stars and Stripes is now a red
flag the American flag. To some, it's old glory, to others,
it's a mega hat on a stick. Can we talk
about the extreme mental illness of people who tie everything

(01:39:13):
in life back to Donald Trump? That's got to be
some form of unhealthy obsession, truly, truly hut, Like, how
are you unable to enjoy things because it might be
quote unquote Trump coded. Like I want you to. I

(01:39:34):
know there's a certain percentage of libs who are listening
to me right now. Just detach, just relax. Trump is
not going to get you. You can go out, you
can you can go to your local Fourth of July
parade and it is not going to be supporting Trump.

(01:39:58):
I promise you it be okay. You can go to
your neighbor's pool party and you can have fun, and
you can even wear an American flag swimsuit and nobody
will think you suddenly support Trump primarily because you are
so unhinged and obsessed. You will say repeatedly, just because

(01:40:20):
I'm wearing an American flag swimsuit, that doesn't mean that
I like Trump. Here is the story from Quirky Siemashko.
To fly or not to fly an American flag? That
was never a question for Bruce Watson, who has put
up his national pride on display for years and nudge's

(01:40:40):
neighbors in his small New England town to do the same.
I'm very proud of our flag, the writer said. It's
the symbol of we the people. But as the polarized
nation marks its two hundred and fiftieth birthday, Watson seventy
two worries his stars and stripes may now need an asterisk.
We do fly the flag, we will also put out

(01:41:02):
signs to make it clear that we are not maga,
he said. Again, Ladies and gentlemen, may I interject Bruce Watson,
seventy two years old, proving once again that the boomer
Libs are the single most cringe creatures that have ever
walked to the earth. I say, more cringe than even

(01:41:23):
like the dumbest dinosaur. These dinosaurs are absolutely the most cringe.
He's gonna put out a sign says yes, I am
flying the flag, but you know what he's actually saying. Please,
unhinged lefties, do not deface this house. Do not vandalize

(01:41:43):
my home. The American flag is a symbol striped with
many meanings, whether it's hung on front porches, waved in parades, protests,
and World Cup matches, or stamped on lapel pins and
boxing trunks. Like so much else in American life, it
has also been up in politics and the policies of
President Donald Trump. No, actually it hasn't. It really hasn't, folks.

(01:42:09):
I don't even know what to say to a political
movement that has abnegated the American flag to its opponents
like Democrats, you're just fine with the idea that you
are so anti American that the flag, the literal symbol
of America, is now associated with your opponent. NBC News

(01:42:35):
asked readers to share their feelings and practices around the flag.
In a moment, Poles suggest when patriotism, national pride, and
optimism for the country's future are all frame. Like Watson,
some say the flag can be taken as an endorsement
of the current administration. For others, it isn't tied to

(01:42:55):
any one party, but is a way of life. Rather
than fly the flag, several readers said they planned to
show their patriotism and protest Trump by flying it upside
down to signal that the country is in distress. Here
we go, another boomer lib, another book. Folks. I'm telling

(01:43:16):
you it does not get more cringe. Just no boomers.
You're fine. Libs, you're nuts, but you're fine. If you're
a boomer lib, you are the most cringe person on plants.
You are more cringe than Francesca Hong fan girling on
the Hassan Piker live stream. Like Franni Hong saying she's

(01:43:41):
going to make out with Hassan Piker because Piker just
said he was going to murder a bunch of capitalists.
That is less cringe than Donna Bannock sixty one lives
outside Des Moines, Iowa, and says Donald Trump has turned
everything upside down, so it makes sense our flag should
be upside down. It's a shame. We used to be

(01:44:01):
a proud nation. Now our country is in distress. Does
not get more cringe than that. How about this? Rather
than fly the stars and stripes, Master Sergeant Frank Chappel

(01:44:22):
of the Air National Guard has gone with an alternative flag.
Part of what makes us Americans, he says, is that
we can meet in the middle, we can come together
in the center and find things we can all agree on.
But what Trump has been doing through some of his
rhetoric and policies is driving a wedge between Americans, dividing
us even further. So when I bought my home, I

(01:44:44):
replaced the US flag with the state flag of Pennsylvania. Okay,
I guess that's fine. Aaron Beltel, twenty two, who lives
outside Philadelphia with her parents, said her father will be
flying the American flag, but if what were up to

(01:45:06):
me and my mom, she said, we'd be flying the
Pride flag or the Philadelphia Eagles flag instead. I love
our country, but I'm not feeling very proud of our
country right now. A Rhode Island teacher who asked not
to be identified to protect her family, said she too

(01:45:27):
is flying alternate flags, the rainbow Pride flag and the
banner of her beloved New England Patriots. I was always patriotic,
flew the flag, wore red, white and blue with flags
and fireworks all summer, she said. Now I've watched Trump
and MAGA turn the flag into a symbol of intolerance
and hate. The teacher said she hasn't flown the flag

(01:45:50):
since twenty twenty four, when Trump was elected for a
second term. I have a gay son and a transit
of course, she does. I have a gay son and
a son, and felt that the flag was now a
symbol flown by people who don't want my children to exist.
She said, the American flag, folks the American flag. Some

(01:46:15):
readers said they were motivated by peer pressure more than patriotism.
A woman from Newtown, Pennsylvania, who also asked to remain anonymous,
said I display my flag outside my home mainly because
everyone else around my neighborhood does it. Even though I'm
not one hundred percent proud to be an American, I
feel that if I don't have a flag displayed somewhere,

(01:46:36):
people will think I'm against our country or something. Then
there were readers like Rebecca Dyer, a mother of five
who lives outside Salt Lake City, who said she flies
to the flag no matter who occupies the White House
or how disappointed she may feel about the state of
the Union. I just want to say I love our flag.

(01:46:57):
I love our country. And I want people to realize
this is not about one party or one person. Tire
thirty eight said, yes, the last few years have been hard,
and sometimes it feels like our flag has been taken over.
But I'm flying the flag because I'm still proud of
our country, even if it's not where I think it
should be. Two hundred and fifty years after was founded.
Oh my god, it took twenty paragraphs, but NBC News

(01:47:19):
found a sane human being. They found a rational person
who can say, Hey, you know what, I don't totally
love what's going on in this country. You know what,
I didn't like the fact that for four years we
didn't actually have a president. We had a senile old
guy who is being taken advantage of, and the office

(01:47:41):
of the presidency was actually usurped by a nameless, faceless
cabal of thirty and forty something. They them's who are
actually wielding the power of the presidency in Joe Biden instead.
Guess what, I was still getting dressed up every fourth
of July. I believe I dressed up as I want
to say, Abe Lincoln. One year I was Hamilton from

(01:48:05):
the musical Hamilton. One year I did Let's see I did,
Uncle Sam. I have a nice red, white and blue suit.
I fly the flag regardless throughout the Obama years, hell
when I was a kid throughout the Bill Clinton years.
Why because this country is way more than its government,
and it is way more than any individual president. Did

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you know this is a fun fact that is going
to absolutely blow your minds. Did you know that we
elect presidents every four years and that no president can
actually serve more than two terms or eight years? Yes,
I know it's weird. A Democrat actually tried to serve
as president for life, but we amended the constitution so

(01:48:49):
that that couldn't happen again. If you don't like your government,
change it. That's kind of the motto of the United
States Democrats, though I firmly believe, lack the ability to
think beyond a the immediate and also lack the ability

(01:49:13):
to compartmentalize. You don't like Trump, we get it, we
get it. Everything is about Trump. You are obsessed with Trump.
Chances are all of the people who know you in
real life and love you, they are sick to death.
They are worried about your single minded obsession with Donald Trump.

(01:49:34):
The rest of us normis normal. Americans. We can say, yeah,
you know what, I don't particularly like some of the
stuff Trump does. You know what. I'm a big Trump supporter.
Didn't particularly care for Liberation Day or all of the tariffs.
I thought the economy would be going gangbusters, and we

(01:49:55):
could have tried to get fairer trade deals without going
to the mattresses, as it were, and to try to
levy in saying and what the Supreme Court found I
think correctly largely unconstitutional embargoes and tariffs that weren't approved

(01:50:17):
by Congress. We can get all of this without tariffs.
Guess what, though, that didn't change what I think about
this country. And this is what I think nobody quite
wants to admit.

Speaker 5 (01:50:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:50:30):
The Boomer Libs, they have been protesting against the evil
of America since Richard Nixon, and at some point, Boomer Libs,
please please, I need you to answer me who is
the worst Hitler president? Was it Nixon? Was it Reagan?
Was it H? W? Bush? Was it W? Bush? Or

(01:50:52):
was it Trump? Because every single Republican president is the
worst that is going to end the Old Republic, is
going to end democracy, and is in reality a neo Hitler,
which one is it which one was the worst Hitler?
Is it just the current guy? Because we had we

(01:51:12):
had one boomer lib who said the last great Republican
the only Republican president that was not a Hitler like
figure was Dwight D. Eisenhower. But the president when you
were what five, that's that's unhinged behavior. It also sort

(01:51:34):
of reveals you to have like the political acumen of
about a five year old. Everyone I don't like is
Hitler no ability to actually objectively measure American policy or
to separate the the the feelings for this country with

(01:51:54):
the feelings that one has for its current leadership. It
is absolutely unreal. This article we can't fly. I need
to put out a sign assuring people that just because
I am flying the literal symbol of all of us,

(01:52:15):
of all three hundred and thirty three hundred and forty
million people who live in this country who call ourselves Americans,
I need to put up a little sign that said, yeah,
you know what, I'm flying this flag, but I don't
really like Trump. That is mental illness. Ladies and gentlemen.
We will be back to wrap things up when the
Dan o'donald Show returns. Stay tuned welcome back. It is

(01:52:46):
the Dan o'donald show. Just a couple of minutes left.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. It sip of
a few days ago. Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success.
Big article in Politico. The World Cup has been a
phenomenal success. People are just absolutely loving the World Cup.

(01:53:06):
In the United States, Democrats can't handle it. The triumph
of the World Cup's first two weeks, boosting the US's
global reputation with sold out stadiums and few logistical complications,
has forced Democrats who had criticized President Donald Trump's role
in preparations to grudgingly reconsider. I think that there was

(01:53:27):
a little bit of like liberal wish casting that this
would maybe be a disaster to sort of stick it
to Trump, said Rob Flaherty, the digital democratic strategist and
soccer fan who attended the US group stage match with Australia.
It hasn't yet been. They wanted to be flarity. You
could hear. It hasn't yet been. It could still everything

(01:53:49):
could still be terrible. We might still get a defeat
for Donald Trump, which would be a defeat for America. Folks.
I was at the World Cup match. I was off
a couple of days last week because I took the
kids to the USA Turkey World Cup matching. Yes, the
ending of it was awful that I absolutely believe the

(01:54:12):
US got screwed out of a tie because A A
player was offside when he scored a goal. B. They
had way more time than they should have. But the
experience was incredible. Los Angeles, believe it or not, had
their traffic in check. It was easy to get to
the stadium. It was logistically spectacular. Security was a breeze.

(01:54:36):
We got there early enough. We were able to hang
out at the fan festival, walked watched the pregame show
on Fox Live being recorded live in front of us.
It was just it was an incredible time. La was
just alive. There was World Cup stuff to do. Every
It was an incredible success. Now just imagine you have

(01:54:58):
got a whole lot of people who are upset about that,
who are angry about that because they don't want America
to succeed because it would be seen as a victory
for Trump. All Right, we are out of time. More
celebrations of America, more of the Dan O'Donnell show, three
oh six tomorrow, A great night Wisconsin. Stay cool,

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